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| Alabama stifled Arkansas’ offense the entire game, not allowing the Razorbacks to score a single point. It marked the first time Arkansas was shut out since 1995 (LSU) and the first time at home since 1966 (Baylor).
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| Arkansas’ offense struggled to pass and run, totaling 137 yards of offense compared to Alabama’s 438.
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| Alabama’s defense forced Arkansas to turn the ball over five times, bringing the Tide’s season takeaway total to 12.
When Stephen Gatti was a University of Alabama freshman in 2005, he wasn’t sure whether he would live or die. “It was in 2005, one week into my freshman year of college,” he said. “I was actually driving back home for the weekend when it happened.” Gatti suffered a car accident that nearly killed him and, among a large number of other injuries, broke his back. For three years, he found himself on the operating table again and again. It took four years for Gatti to resume full time studies at The University of Alabama. Part of this time he was uninsured. Forced off of his parents’ health insurance policy, Gatti dealt with When I was uninsured, life uncertainty. was complex... You become “When I was uninsured, afraid of the smallest things life was complex. You have out of fear of injury a new outlook on things,” Gatti said. “You become or illness. afraid of the smallest things out of fear of injury or ill— Stephen Gatti ness. Every time you sneeze, you’re on pins and needles.” Gatti said he often couldn’t afford treatments he needed. This all changed with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare. The act allows children to remain on their parents’ health insurance policies until they turn 26. With the Affordable Care Act, Gatti was insured again under his parents’ policy. The result is relief for him and his family. “When I was off of their healthcare plan, I was forced to lean on them for support when I had a need to see a doctor or was in need of a medication, and this caused them additional financial burdens that they were not necessarily prepared to incur,” Gatti said. “So, when ACA allowed me to return to their healthcare plan, that fear of illness and potential burden was lifted [from] not only my shoulders, but theirs, as well.” According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, Gatti is part of a national trend. The New York Times reports that the Sept. 12 study shows the number of young adults without health insurance fell by one-sixth in 2011. This decline is the largest annual drop for any age group since 1997.
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ing in the first quarter only after way to stop it. a botched snap on an Arkansas It didn’t matter who played punt gave Alabama the ball at the quarterback for Arkansas six. It committed an uncharacter- Saturday. Tyler Wilson sat on the istic seven penalties for 74 yards. sidelines with a concussion, but “This group was likely thankhas to continue to ing his coach challenge themfor keeping him This group has to continue selves to demand off of the field to challenge themselves to more,” Saban as he watched demand more. said after the Alabama’s game. defense swarm — Nick Saban The slow starts his two replaceand penalties will ments. The Razorbacks be Saban’s focus used a combinain the coming week, but the rest of the country tion of Brandon Allen and conwill admire the way Alabama put verted wide receiver Brandon away its first SEC opponent with Mitchell to run their offense. ease, while attempting to find a Neither were able to establish
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Alabama’s 52-0 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks won’t shock many people, a byproduct of the machine head coach Nick Saban has built. What was supposed to be a top-ten matchup before the season started turned into a blowout all too familiar to the Crimson Tide and its fans. But even still, Alabama remains unsatisfied. The Tide got off to a slow start on offense for the second week in a row, scor-
any sort of rhythm. Arkansas head coach John L. Smith used Mitchell to run an option offense, but was stymied for just 29 yards on six carries. Meanwhile Mitchell, a more traditional, drop-back passer, was under fire all afternoon. Alabama was finally able to unleash its edge rushers after facing two teams that demanded a more conservative approach, and Mitchell was intercepted twice in the first half under the pressure. Alabama turned both into touchdowns, and the fans at Razorback Stadium streamed out of the exits with 30 minutes still left to play.
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Teams of students to square off on subject of HB 56’s constitutionality By Mollie Beth Wallace Contributing Writer In honor of Constitution Day, two teams of UA students will debate the merits of Alabama’s immigration law, also known as HB 56, in the Ferguson Center Theater at 3 p.m. The debate will focus on the issue of the federalism in enforcing immigration law and whether Alabama’s authority is preempted by the national government’s power over immigration. Political science professor Joseph Smith said the sponsors chose HB 56 because it is contro-
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versial and relates to the important constitutional issue of federalism. “This is a great introduction to the legal issues surrounding federalism and national preemption of state laws,” Smith said. The debate will specifically focus on section 27 of the law, which prohibits Alabama courts from enforcing any contract made by someone in the country illegally. “This provision is important because it means that if an undocumented alien signed a rental contract, a work contract or an agreement to purchase something, and the other
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party to the contract didn’t fulfill their obligations, the alien would not be able to use the state courts to have the contract enforced,” Smith said. “The provision makes it much easier for unscrupulous people to disregard the promises they make to undocumented aliens.” A team from Smith’s Constitutional Law course will argue that Alabama has overstepped its authority in passing section 27, while a team of students from UA’s Mock Trial team, coached by lawyer and political science doctoral student James Todd, will argue that section 27 is a proper exercise of state police authority. SEE CONSTITUTION PAGE 6
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ON CAMPUS Tide men’s tennis sweeps matches on Sunday at Duke Fab Four Invite
Tide women’s tennis earns two win to close Duke Fab Four Invite
The Alabama men’s tennis team had a solid final day of play at the Duke Fab Four Invite, coming away with four wins in four matches at the Sheffield Tennis Center. Overall, the Crimson Tide collected 15 wins in its first tournament of the season. “The Duke Fab Four Invite is an ideal event,” head coach George Husack said. “The for-
The Alabama women’s tennis team earned two more wins on the final day of play at the Duke Fab Four Invite, which was moved to North Carolina’s campus on Sunday due to weather. With the two wins, the Crimson Tide’s three-day total reached 14 victories. “This was a great learning weekend overall and a good starting point,” head coach Jenny Mainz said. “There were several top 100 players in this tournament. We have a lot of work in front of us, and right now, we really need match play. To be able to jump in and play the caliber of players at this tournament provided great exposure. We won some matches and lost some matches, but I think we will take a lot from this weekend. This is a devel-
mat challenges players physically and mentally. We will take several things back with us to work on and prepare for our next tournaments.” Daniil Proskura cruised through his match, beating NC State’s Sean Weber, 6-0, 6-2, while Carlos Taborga also won in dominating fashion, posting a 6-2, 6-1 victory over North Carolina’s James Coxe.
Becker O’Shaughnessey took down Duke’s Daniel McCall, 6-3, 6-2, and Jarryd Botha capped off the tournament with a 7-6(4), 6-3 win over Radford’s Stijn Meulmans. Alabama returns to action on Monday, Oct. 1, when it takes part in the qualifying round of play at the 2012 D’Novo/ITA AllAmerican Championships in Tulsa, Okla.
opmental part of the season, and it’s important we toughen up for our dual-match season.” No. 10 Mary Anne Macfarlane and Emily Zabor came away with the two wins for Alabama as Macfarlane took down Yale’s Madeleine Hamilton, 1-6, 6-0, 10-5 and Zabor outlasted Texas’ Juliana Gajic, 6-3, 7-5. Both of the Tide’s freshmen were topped on Sunday by a 6-3, 6-3 score. Natalia Maynetto lost to Furman University’s Lauren Kline, and Maya Jansen lost to no. 17 Cristina Stancu. Alabama tennis returns to action next weekend as they travel to Greenville, S.C. to take part in the 2012 Furman Fall Classic. Matches begin on Friday, Sept. 21 and conclude on Sunday, Sept. 23.
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Outrage over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ puts low-budget films in skeptics’ spotlight From MCT Campus Last summer, Tim Dax answered an ad on a casting website to costar in what was described as a desert adventure film. This week, the Los Angeles actor learned that his work on the low-budget “Desert Warrior” had turned into the inflammatory 14-minute trailer for “Innocence of Muslims.” Dax and his “Desert Warrior” costars are in the centerof attention after violent outbursts across the Middle East erupted when their work was repurposed into an anti-Muslim movie that caught the world’s attention after it appeared in an Arabic-language on YouTube. Dax’s experience is an extreme example of the vulnerability of actors and crewmembers trying to cobble together a living working on ultra low-cost productions. Millions have seen his work, but it is otherwise no different from the work done by hundreds of other actors and crewmembers taking jobs like the one Dax took on “Desert Warrior.” Local actors and technicians find themselves with fewer opportunities as the economy has slowed, studios have begun producing fewer films and TV shows, and more production work has fled California for states with better tax breaks. That has meant a rise, though, in the number of movies produced under the Screen Actors Guild’s “ultra low-budget” category for films under $200,000. Many low-budget movies, like “Desert Warrior,” are made outside the jurisdiction of the industry’s labor unions and cast not through
Beverly Hills talent agencies, but via online services such as Craigslist and Backstage.com. “This is one of the textbook examples of why it’s important to work under a union contract,’’ said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief administrative officer and general counsel for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. “Actors are not lawyers. They don’t necessarily think about every possible way in which someone may misuse a performance.” The proliferation of cheaply made features has been accelerated in part by the increasing availability of digital equipment, which makes it possible for producers to shoot their own movies with small crews. In 2005, in response to growing demand from their members, the guild created the ultra low-budget category. According to SAG rules, producers must pay actors on such a film $100 a day, provide meal breaks and adhere to standard union agreements about issues such as nudity and access to a full script. Two people who worked on “Desert Warrior” have said that they were given a few script pages at a time, and that they thought they were making a harmless historical drama. “It was supposed to be about ancient warriors,” said Dax, who worked for a week and half, at a rate of $75 a day on an amateurish low-budget set tucked into a Monrovia strip mall, on what was described as a desert adventure film. “I was just happy to be involved with anything that has to do with acting, even though it was horrible.”
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Page 3 Editor | Melissa Brown newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Monday, September 17, 2012
Students mentor youth at MLK Honors claims one By Madison Roberts Contributing Writer Continuing their traditions of mentoring young people this year, two UA student groups are teaching girls how to respect themselves and boys how to respect each other at an elementary school in Tuscaloosa. The Young Women’s Leadership Program, which is over a decade old, focuses on the three pillars of competence, connection and autonomy. The Men’s Leadership Program, which is entering its sixth year, instead instills respect, authenticity and strength. Both groups work side by side in mentoring fifth and sixth grade students at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Tuscaloosa. Although the two programs are closely related, they focus on different curricula and objectives to teach the students. “To sum up the differences, the women’s program focuses on internal issues such as body image, self-worth and self-confidence,” Holli Frey, a senior majoring in human development and family studies, said. “The men’s program focuses on external issues such as respect and positive views of others.” Jessi Hitchens, the associate director of the Women’s Resource Center, said for the most part, they are separate entities that are living along-
Students visit swing states to campaign CAMPAIGN FROM PAGE 1 Florida has been classified as a battleground state by realclearpolitics.com, meaning it is a state that could go either to the Republicans or the Democrats. A Sept. 13 poll by Rasmussen Reports also shows President Barack Obama leading in the state by two percentage points over Romney. Williams said the College Republicans chose to go to Florida because it is the closest swing state to Alabama. However, the group is also considering other trips to other swing states like North Carolina and Ohio.
simply being there for them, listening to what they have to say and encouraging positive and constructive behavior, we are able to make a huge impact on the kids for the better.” Frey is now entering her third year as a mentor and said the program has completely changed her future. “The program has taught me how much I enjoy being there for others,” Frey said. The program has altered Frey’s career path, as well. “I came to college wanting to be a family law attorney,” Frey said. “After the impact the girls made on me and the difference I made in their lives, I realized my life calling was to be a social worker to help people to the best of my ability.” Pearce is returning to the YMLP as a mentor this year because of the positive impact he thinks he’s had on the kids he mentors. “This program has impacted my life by showing me that I can make a real, positive difference in someone’s life,” Pearce said. “When I saw my little brother change for the better and knew that I had helped him to do so, it made me very proud of what I had accomplished.” Although the programs use the terms “big brother” and “little sister,” the participants believe they are different than the actual Big Brother and Big Sister programs. “I would say it’s different
in the sense that [we follow] a very specific curriculum,” Hitchens said.” These children bring a myriad of very wonderful experiences, and our program celebrates their experiences in a very different way than Big Brother Big Sister because you do a lot of training prior to going into the school,” Hitchens said. The participants in the program are required to complete 20 hours of training before entering the school. Each program follows a specific curriculum during the training sessions. After these 20 hours of training, each mentor is paired with a student to work with for four months during the spring. “We don’t want [the mentors] to just sit there and look at the kids. We want [them] to actually interact with the kids and help them,” second year graduate student Terrence Merkerson said. Pearce said his work with this program has paid off, but it has its challenges. “It is, admittedly, a bit frustrating sometimes, as they are very energetic, and we have to do our best to keep them from goofing off,” Pearce said. “However, there is a very important reason that the program targets this specific age group, as they are at the crucial point in their lives where the life choices they make now will have a huge impact on the person they become.”
Connor Cook, director of future security.” L o c a l l y, the UA external affairs in the UA College Democrats, said the Democrats are working group currently plans to work with the Tuscaloosa County with the Obama campaign Democratic Party to elect in swing states like Florida. Daniel Bowman to the 4th Congressional However, that D i st r i c t in trip depends on A l a b a m a , the memberWe plan on phone banking, according to ship and interest knocking on doors and getting Cook. And, on level. our membership involved in the a statewide “We plan on thick of the action level, they phone banking, are working knocking on —Robert Christl with the state doors and getDemocratic ting our memParty to elect bership involved Bob Vance as the in the thick of the action,” Robert Christl, chief justice of the Alabama the president of College Supreme Court and Lucy Democrats, said. “We also Baxley as the president of the plan on spreading awareness, Public Service Commission. Both the Republicans and informing students of all the good President Barack Obama the Democrats are getting has done for them and their involved with the Tuscaloosa
County probate judge race. The Democrats are supporting Hardy McCullom, while the Republicans are supporting Ted Sexton. On a local basis, in addition to supporting Sexton, the College Republicans are looking to promote the Romney/Ryan ticket on campus, Williams said. Cook said student engagement in the campaigns is important because it gets people involved in the campaign process and gives them the experience of working in a campaign. Students participating in the campaigns will learn more about what they believe, Williams said. “They will also be helping in the civic process, and [that] is crucial to be able to truly appreciate their rights,” he said.
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side each other. “They complement each other,” Hitchens said. “They are both working toward gender equity in different ways.” The YWLP focuses on mentoring girls about “girlhood” and what challenges they will face being a woman in the coming years. They talk about inner beauty and confidence, as well as how to be independent and a leader in society. “We mentor the girls about body image and how [they] are beautiful,” Frey said. “We try to get the girls to understand that being different is good and that we should appreciate each other. We should look at people’s strengths, not flaws.” The YMLP focuses on mentoring the boys on how to define masculinity and helping them through their transition from boy to man. “We provide a positive male role model for them to look up to. Many of us got this from a father, older brother or possibly even a friend, but most of these kids lack this,” Roberson Pearce, a senior majoring in biology, said. “By
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fourth of freshmen By Ashley Tripp Contributing Writer With one in four incoming freshmen enrolled, the Honors College is poised to become one of the largest student communities on the University of Alabama campus. Based on four pillars – innovative scholarship, advanced research, cultural interaction and civic engagement – the College offers both academic and social opportunities for students. “Being a member of the Honors College has positively shaped my experience at The University of Alabama, both academically and socially, through gaining new friendships and becoming more involved on campus,” Morgan Canada, a junior majoring in nursing, said. “My advice for students is to take full advantage of all the opportunities the program offers, including scholarship, honors abroad courses and service opportunities.” The Honors College offers the University Scholars program, an opportunity that allows Honors students to work ahead in graduate studies, in addition to offering research opportunities in topics ranging from Parkinson’s disease to historical social trends. To receive an Honors designation on a diploma, students must complete 18 credit hours worth of seminars and honors departmental courses, as well as maintain a 3.3 GPA in all programs. Departmental honors courses typically feature smaller enrollment, a contrast Canada said she appreciates over large lecturestyle classes. “Because the Honors College offers smaller classroom sizes of no more than twenty people, I have gained personal relationships with my professors and classmates,” Canada said. “I am able to effectively communicate with my professors by having one-on-one relationships and
forming study groups with my classmates.” Ellen Fine, a junior majoring in fashion retail, said managing her classes required for her major with honors classes can be difficult sometimes since there aren’t a lot of honors courses associated with fashion retail. However, she has managed to merge the two by utilizing honors-by-contract courses. Through the contract, a student agrees to do extra work to receive honors credit for a departmental course. “Since I had so many hours, I didn’t have time to fit in honors classes with my schedule, so I filled out an honors contract in one of my fashion retail classes,” Ellen Fine said. “I had to complete extra work, which included writing a paper.” Fine’s twin sister, Jennifer Fine, said she feels her honors classes helped prepare and challenge her writing skills as a public relations major. “My writing class has helped me see literature in a different way,” Fine said. “Once you read the books, it actually makes you want to purchase them. They really try and engage your interest in a stress-free environment.” According to the Honors College website, entering freshmen must have an ACT score of at least 28 or an SAT score of at least 1250 in addition to a 3.3 high school GPA in order to be invited to apply. However, if you missed the mark in high school but want to join as an upperclassman, rest assured that current UA students with a 3.3 GPA are accepted upon submission of an application. Junior Jennifer Fine applied to the College the second semester of her freshman year. “When you hear the words ‘honors,’ it sounds intimidating, but it’s actually a really great social and learning experience,” Fine said. “Even though it’s at a fast pace, it’s well worth it.”
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Page 4 Editor | SoRelle Wyckoff letters@cw.ua.edu Monday, September 17, 2012
This year, choose to focus on the real issues By Brad Tipper Staff Columnist
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Julia’s Market in Tutwiler Hall improves with health, fails with price By SoRelle Wyckoff Opinions Editor I survived off of anything microwavable my freshman year. I lived on the top floor of Tutwiler, and options were limited to anything that could fit in the three-by-six-bythree refrigerator or anything that could be heated up in the microwave. Macaroni and cheese, Lunchables and hummus/pretzel packages were consistent in my diet. These highsodium and processed solutions to food, along with a fair amount of Aristocrat, led to a solid freshman 15 and some terrible eating habits. But despite the limited choices at the Tutwiler convenience store, Julia’s, they accepted Dining Dollars, were convenient and were open until 2 a.m., a key factor of success in college student business profits. If you went in late enough post-
swap, there were R&B dance parties. Last weekend, my roommates and I attempted to take advantage of our untouched pile of Monopoly-money Dining Dollars. On a Saturday night, our options were limited to Domino’s and Buffalo Phil’s. Greasy, fried food. We chose instead to visit our old stomping grounds in Julia Tutwiler’s convenience store. There was a produce section with salads, sandwiches, dips and salsas made by Bama Dining only a day or two earlier. There were fresh fruit cups, vegetables and cheese. The Boar’s Head sandwich shop that I so often frequented was still there – and still delicious. And while there was a lack of soy milk, overall, there was a greater selection in the frozen food, organic and snack section, all of which included healthy options. Not to mention the glow-in-thedark iPhone cover my roommate found. These products were not available when I lived fourteen flights up, but I wish they had been. Sure, the Pop-Tarts and barbeque chips were still there, but they were also next to other breakfast bars and Baked Lays. Admittedly, it was exceptionally overpriced; a $3 box of cereal cost closer to $7, and laundry detergent and peanut butter were too ridiculously priced to even be considered for purchase. But unfortunately, this is to be expected. Dining Dollars are not accepted very many places,
especially those where you can buy grocery-like products. So, Bama Dining takes advantage of that. Also, for most of the patrons, they are paying for convenience, seeing as they live in the same building as the store. I would be more willing to pay higher dollar if I were only an elevator ride away, too. Still, taking advantage of the fact that the above is true is not very nice. By using UA Dining Dollars to purchase UA Bama Dining products, our dollar is making a full circle of chaching for the University. If the University is not going to be able to offer us more options, they should not make the only options available overpriced. After checking out with a sandwich, fruit, a frozen dinner, a small bag of pretzels and some Listerine, my total was $44. Ouch. Overall, though, I left Julia’s pleasantly surprised. Yes, taking advantage of our Dining Dollars situation is not admirable, but I was appreciative of the fresh fruit and Lean Cuisine I could buy. Bama Dining has taken health into consideration, an important step towards a healthier, and therefore happier, campus. As we increase in population, I expect to see an increase in the quantity and quality of our amenities. I have chosen to assume that Julia’s Market symbolizes the first improvement of many. SoRelle Wyckoff is the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White. Her column runs on Monday.
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Remember that when you tweet, you’re sharing that information with the public By Tori Lee Staff Columnist “At first, I thought it was a sad, handwritten book. I did not know it was your diary.” This is one of my favorite quotes from the very entertaining and well-known movie “Bridesmaids,” and it’s pretty similar to how I feel about Twitter. I use Twitter to keep up with friends, read witty banter from anonymous accounts and, most importantly, to keep up with the news. For some, however, this is not the case.
While telling the public about how terrific and/or terrible your life is from minuteto-minute is amusing at first, it leads readers to do the Internet unthinkable: click the “unfollow” button. As delicious as your diet might be, is it absolutely necessary to update us on every pound lost? The aspect of these tweets that gets to me most is that the guilt, offenders don’t seem to realize that future employers have the opportunity to look at social media before hiring. All it takes is a Google search of your name, and anyone can
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see that you were #druuuNnkkkkkk. And, for those senseless folks who say derogatory things about other races, genders and lifestyles, or use words that would require censorship in the media, the public can see this too. And more than likely, they’re judging you. My favorite examples of what not to tweet includes, but are not limited to: “about to shower,” “so hungover xoxo #redshed (insert emojis here),” “I wish he would reply to my text :/,” as well as anything with inappropriate lan-
guage you wouldn’t use in a conversation with your grandmother. Though this is entertaining to some, it is insulting to one’s intelligence. Admit it: you know better. Save it for your lunchtime conversation, not your followers’ twitterfeeds. First, do yourself a favor and make your account private. This will help the hiring process, as well as your dignity. Secondly, if you feel the need to have a diary-like outlet, blogs are back in style! If blogging is not really your thing, I am sure you can still find those super
cool 1990s fuzzy diaries that require a spoken password to open. I’d look on eBay. Don’t be one of the people who gets (gasp!) unfollowed. In the meantime, find your local, national and international news sources in the Twitterverse and learn something new! Twitter is your friend and can be an excellent source of news. Next time you press the little blue bird, think before you tweet. Tori Lee is a senior majoring in dance and public relations. Her column runs biweekly on Monday.
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With a new school year comes many new exciting events. The startling reminder that the beginning of classes means a new mountain of schoolwork to climb is attached to the weekly anticipation of another opportunity to watch our football team take the field. Every year has its own set of new challenges and sources of excitement across campus. But what I’ve also come to learn in my time at The University of Alabama is that a new fall semester also brings a fresh set of criticism from anything to everything around campus. Whether it is the yearly complaints about the unfairness of block seating at football games or the shortcomings of Bama Dining, many complaints have very little to do with the general well-being of our student body. More pressing matters are rarely, if ever, addressed. Topics that truly matter include the safety and security of our community after multiple shootings just a short walk from the Quad, the seemingly endless increase in the cost of our tuition and books and the use of the plus/ minus system in grading (which has the ability to cheat our all-important GPA out of precious points). Issues such as these affect every student on this campus and are a bit more serious than where we sit at football games. The problems that are too often exaggerated and endlessly debated by so many are completely irrelevant to our fellow students, some of whom may not even be able to afford to attend our University after another increase in tuition cost. I’m sure all of those students would love to be sitting anywhere in Bryant-Denny this fall for $5 a ticket. It has also been too easy for us to forget about the neartragic incident in downtown Tuscaloosa that happened a mere two months ago, but we vividly recall all those average meals 0we were so unjustly forced to endure at Lakeside Dining as a freshman. While I am not questioning the legitimacy of complaints against matters such as political views expressed on the Quad in chalk, some issues seem superficial and irrelevant in the true scope of our community. Instead of worrying about student groups getting slightly better seating at games, we should be more interested in the student sitting next to us in class who has to work every football game so that he can pay for his books and provide for himself. It has become way too easy for us to find problems with the great opportunities we have every day instead of identifying important issues, addressing them and calling for changes to be made. As a new school year starts, along with the inaugural year of a new University president, I hope we can all take a step back, focus on what truly matters on our campus and work towards changing more than just the menu at Fresh Foods. Brad Tipper is a junior majoring in political science and economics. His column runs biweekly on Monday.
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UA labs testing patient tissue in move toward FDA approval By Sarah Elizabeth Tooker Contributing Writer This fall, The University of Alabama’s Department of Biological Sciences will begin research to prove a treatment of chronic pain in patients with gastrointestinal disorders and fibromyalgia. Carol Duffy, an assistant professor in the department with a research concentration in the herpes simplex virus type one, will head the research side of the project alongside William Pridgen, a private practice general surgeon at Tuscaloosa Surgical Associates. Pridgen said he began working on the clinical side of a hypothesis 12 years ago, when he could not successfully treat several of his patients’ chronic pain problems.
“I did a lot of reading, try- the two pills had much beting to find the culprit, and I ter results, which led him to came to the conclusion that it patent the drug combination, must be something viral that Pridgen said. Duffy said she knew he was stays in all of us and acts up onto something, with stress, and but while his then I came to hypothesis is the herpes famsound, it has not ily,” Pridgen Before we can get FDA apbeen proven. said. proval and for the medical “Before we To see if the community to start precan get FDA herpes virus scribing this diagnosis, the approval and was a causative hypothesis has to be tested for the medical agent, he startseveral different times and community to ed treating 74 ways. start prescribpatients with ing this diagnothis diagnosis — Carol Duffy sis, the hypothin two ways. esis has to be Pridgen gave tested several the first group a different times drug that would treat HSV-1 and treated the and ways,” she said. Duffy has begun collecting second group with the same drug, in addition to a pill typi- tissue samples she will examine in University labs for the cally used to treat arthritis. The patients who took HSV-1 virus from Pridgen’s
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diagnosed patients and a control group made up of people with unrelated GI problems. “Hopefully, by quantifying the amount of the herpes virus present in these patients, it will prove that it is causing the fibromyalgia and chronic GI problems, and then we can prove his drug prescription treats it,” Duffy said. The pair is also in the process of raising funds to hire a company to clinically test the drug combination in 10 randomized sites across the country, which is another step required for FDA approval. “The company, which costs about $3 million, will track the patients’ progress with both pain scores and blood samples,” Duffy said. “This drug trial will start in February 2013 and will take around a year.”
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Duffy, left, and Pridgen in Duffy’s UA lab. Pridgen said if all goes well in this step, they will be able to license off of different portions or even all of their findings to sell to a larger company who will be able to make the drug combination an effective prescription to this diagnosis for all doctors
to use. “My primary goal is to make patients better, and the patent gives me the power to influence what happens from here with this drug,” Pridgen said. This important research being done on campus serves to remind Lindsey Cobb, a junior majoring in pre-med and chemical engineering, about the dual role professors serve on campus. “Hearing about this exciting research campaign not only looks great for the prestige of our University, but also should remind students that professors are responsible for a lot of interesting work other than teaching, and their research can provide great opportunities for student involvement,” Cobb said.
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Study abroad fair in Ferg Tuesday Tattoo parlor in By Morgan Taylor Contributing Writer
The Capstone International Academic Programs will host their Study Abroad Fair on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Ferguson Center. The fair is an opportunity for UA students to learn about the possibilities and benefits of studying abroad. This semester’s fair is primarily for the Capstone International Center’s affiliates, so they can showcase all of the programs that are offered by their company to UA students. “We have a lot of students who don’t want to do an exchange or a faculty program because maybe we aren’t offering a program they are interested in, so they would go on an ‘affiliate program,’” Holly Hudson, the director
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Traveling abroad isn’t a once in a lifetime experience, but studying abroad isn’t something that should be missed. — Holly Hudson
of Capstone International Academic Programs, said. The third party affiliates have been approved and vetted through the Capstone International Program so students who go on these programs are able to receive UA credit. There are hundreds of affiliate programs, but the international program is only partnered with 15, Hudson said. “We would like for UA students to know there are all sorts of options for studying,
volunteering and interning abroad while also getting credit for it,” Hudson said. “We just want the students to know we exist.” Students will have the opportunity to win a free iPod Shuffle by swiping their ACT cards at any of the study abroad desks. “Our mission is to have UA students become global citizens, become more aware of other cultures, become more aware of themselves, more aware of our place in the world, their status as Americans and how it affects their lives and the lives of others,” Hudson said. Although the fair is meant to target only UA students, the affiliates also travel to other schools. Despite the fact that they do indeed visit many other schools, Hudson said the affiliates report back
year after year that the UA fair always has the best turnout. Academic advisor Amy Linden said studying abroad has many benefits for students, in addition to academic benefits. “Students are able to get a better understanding of themselves by going out of their comfort zone, and I think students come back knowing themselves and more about their home country than they ever thought,” Linden said. There will be another fair in the spring. If you are unable to attend the fair, you can also visit the website at www.studyabroad.ua.edu for any other information. “Traveling abroad isn’t a once in a lifetime experience, but studying abroad isn’t something that should be missed,” Hudson said.
City orchestra to open season at Moody By Lauren Carlton Contributing Writer Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra will open its season this year with “Pictures at an Exhibition,” a collaboration of students and teachers performing professional classical music. The concert will be held in Moody Music Hall’s Concert Hall Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. Audience members will hear the works of two Russian composers: Sergei Prokofiev’s “Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25,” also known as the “Classical Symphony,” and Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” as well as the “Clarinet Concerto” by American composer Aaron Copland. Osiris Molina, assistant professor of clarinet at the University, will be the soloist in the Copland piece. “Pictures at an Exhibition” will include both faculty and student musicians from The University of Alabama’s
School of Music. One such member is Cynthia Simpson, a senior majoring in music performance who plays the French horn. Simpson is the assistant principal horn at the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. This upcoming concert marks her first subscription show with the company. “At first, I was really nervous,” Simpson said. “In most ensembles, I’ve been in here, I’ve been playing with people my age, but in this, the faculty is surrounding me on stage. I’m the assistant to my own teacher. He’s sitting right next to me as I play.” The blend of faculty and students is nothing new to TSO, which has been working with students who have a high caliber of musicianship for years, most frequently placing them as substitutes for regular orchestra members. With the exception of voice and piano, most music performance department faculty members are in TSO, provid-
ing students an opportunity to hear their own teachers play in an orchestral setting. “I encourage students, especially music students, to come to this because there are so many faculty members. It’s like hearing a history teacher give a lecture about their area of expertise. This is a chance to hear our own teachers really play together,” Simpson said. Heather Jacques, a master’s student in vocal performance, performed with TSO last spring as a soloist in “Let’s Fall in Love” with the UA Opera Theatre and in Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” with University Singers. “You would expect an orchestra of this caliber in a larger city. To have it in Tuscaloosa is really special,” Jacques said. “The University is really lucky to be affiliated with them the way we are.” Jacques encouraged students to take advantage of the TSO concerts as much as possible.
“People in our age bracket don’t often take advantage of it enough,” she said. “It’s right on campus, so it’s honestly perfect.” Currently, in addition to local faculty and students, TSO includes members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and professional musicians from Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. The orchestra is under the musical direction of conductor Adam Flatt. The Tuscaloosa Symphony Guild will be hosting a “Cheers ‘n Chat” event at 6 p.m. in Moody before the concert. The event will feature a speaker who will address specific elements of the works being performed and offer light refreshments to attendees. TSO will be hosting five subscription concerts during its 2012-2013 season. Tickets are currently available online at tsoonline.org/tickets. Ticket prices range from $10 to $20.
battle for building By Mollie Beth Wallace Contributing Writer
tell businesses what they can and can’t do.” The battle stems from an The community of Alberta institutional attack on tattoohas yet to complete the ing in general, Boling said. rebuilding process necessi“I had to listen to [the City tated by the EF4 tornado that Council] say that my busidevastated the city on April ness was undesirable,” he 27, 2011. said. “They don’t realize this City Councilman Kip Tyner, is how we support our famiwho represents the Alberta lies.” district, said he wants to Tyner said he drew his plan rebuild the community to its from other areas of the city former glory, but one busi- with similar zoning codes, ness on University Boulevard and it is an issue of bettering is having to fight to remain a the city rather than attackpart of the community. ing tattoo parlors. While Todd Boling and Jason the zoning code currently Lightsey, owners of The place restrictions on where Tattoo Experience, located at tattoo parlors can do busi2703 University ness, Tyner Blvd. East, said he wants are fighting to to prohibit I had to listen to [the City keep their tattheir operation Council] say that my business too parlor up entirely since was undesirable. They don’t and running. they could turn realize this is how we support The shop has away potential our families. operated from developers. its current “The prob— Todd Bolling location for 21 lem with tattoo years, but due parlors is just to structural the stigma,” damage wrought by the tor- Tyner said. “Tattoo parnado, Boling said he fears the lors are just associated with landlord will sell the prop- areas of high crime and low erty. income.” Though the owners found Despite the option to take a new property on University his business to another part Boulevard, Boling said due of town, Boling said his locato the new zoning code, they tion in Alberta is a key part of would not be able to open a his business. business there. “I have put so much into According to the zon- making this a successful ing codes passed by the building in this part of town,” City Council in January, Boling said. “Our plan now is the stretch of University to do everything we can.” Boulevard running through Boling started a petition Alberta is a mixed-use zone. and is relying on the support This means that certain of the community to change businesses – including tat- the minds of the City Council, too parlors – are restricted he said. The city’s legal to one per block front or 300 department said the city is feet apart from each other. completely within its legal Boling said these restrictions rights, Tyner said. are in violation of his First The City Council will vote Amendment rights. on the issue in October. A “It just doesn’t seem public hearing is scheduled American to me,” he said. for Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. at City Hall. “They don’t have the right to
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Students reflect on experiences studying abroad after 2011 tornado By Ashanka Kumari Chief Copy Editor At The University of Alabama, April 27, 2011 marked more than the date of a natural disaster. It became the last day of school, the end of the spring semester and, for two UA students, the start of a year-long adventure. Bentley Brooks Rodrigue, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, and David Vogt, a senior majoring in German and history, left the devastation in Tuscaloosa, went home and prepared to spend the 2011-2012 school year overseas. Vogt, who spent a year in Erfurt, Germany, left Tuscaloosa on April 28, 2011 and flew to his home in Phoenix, Ariz. a few days later. “The day after the tornado, I went on a short camping
Student groups to debate HB 56 legality CONSTITUTION FROM PAGE 1 “Section 27 was selected because it raises interesting questions of how far the states may go using their police powers over contracts to regulate the activity of illegal aliens,” Todd said. The police powers of the states are recognized under the 10th Amendment of the
Affordable Care Act insures more students HEALTHCARE FROM PAGE 1
Though it’s too early to see any significant impact, effects of the Affordable Care Act are already being seen in the Druid City Hospital System. Since the federal health reforms went into effect in 2009, DCH has seen a decrease in uninsured 22-26 year olds from 20.77 to 15.32 percent. As a community-owned, non-
trip to the Gulf Coast, so I was Tuscaloosa needed help. “I hated that I wasn’t there able to escape the immediate chaos of not having power or to help out,” Rodrigue said. “I came back a few hot water,” Vogt weeks later to said. “However, get my things it did feel strange and get ready since I had known One of the hardest things for me was realizing that I had to go abroad, that, when I left been out of my friends’ lives and it was heartTuscaloosa, I for a whole year, missing out breaking to see would not see it on new friends they had made, the aftermath again for a long inside jokes, dramas, memories of the tornado. time, and for it and experiences. I find I’m a So many peoto end on such a completely different person ple had come powerful and cliffthan when I left, and Tuscaloosa together to help hanging note was is a completely different city out during the indeed odd.” as well, so I think it’s rather disaster, but the Rodrigue, who fitting. city had been spent the next torn apart in year in London, —David Vogt some areas.” England, went Both students to her home in were part of proCincinnati, Ohio immediately following the grams that did not include other tornado and said she felt hor- UA students, and went abroad rible for leaving at a time when knowing no one with whom they could relate their tornado experiences. Constitution and traditional“Since there are almost no ly extend to subjects involvtornadoes in Germany, no ing public health, education, one really understood what welfare and safety, Todd Tuscaloosa had gone through,” said. Vogt said. “I told my story and “The question of who may showed them pictures, and enter into a contract has they were naturally shocked, been recognized to be part but it didn’t go much further of traditional state police than that. While in Germany, I power,” Todd said. received a copy of The Crimson The debate will begin at 3 White commemorating the sixp.m. in the Ferguson Center month anniversary of the torTheater and is sponsored nado, and it was just surreal.” by the College of Arts and For Rodrigue, returning Sciences and the Department to Tuscaloosa after a year of Political Science. was exciting because she had
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profit organization, it is DCH’s policy to provide care to all patients, including the uninsured. To cover the cost of uninsured patients, DCH receives 10 percent of the money raised by the two cent Tuscaloosa County sales tax. According Bradley Fisher, communication director at DCH, this tax does not cover the entire cost of caring for the uninsured and the rest of the cost is absorbed by the hospital. “The true impact of ACA won’t be known until the regulations are written, so it’s too
early to state an opinion. We can say that hospitals must have adequate margins to stay open,” Fisher said. “If healthcare coverage isn’t expanded, hospitals and providers must be compensated somehow for caring for the uninsured.” Joseph L Smith, an associate professor of political science, said hospitals will see a decline in the cost of caring for the uninsured because the Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to have health insurance or otherwise pay a financial penalty.
missed her friends, many whom she had never had a chance to say goodbye to following the storm. “As we drove into town and down 15th Street, all the memories came flooding back, but it was so uplifting to see how the city has risen from such a sad time,” she said. “The campus had grown, and the city is slowly putting itself back together. I know these things take time, but I’m already so impressed with the progress.” Although the benefits of studying abroad are endless, Vogt said coming back to the United States and Tuscaloosa can be tough. “I came back and was completely out of the Submitted loop; it was like I was a ghost,” he Bentley Rodrigue, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, was studying abroad said. “One of the in London, England when an EF4 tornado struck Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011. hardest things out on new friends they had person than when I left, and for me was realizing that I made, inside jokes, dramas, Tuscaloosa is a completely difhad been out of my friends’ memories and experiences. I ferent city as well, so I think it’s lives for a whole year, missing find I’m a completely different rather fitting.” “The ‘individual mandate’ is controversial because it is unusual for the national government to require consumers to purchase something from the market, but is necessary in order to maintain the economic viability of the [healthcare] system,” Smith said. Smith said the Affordable Care Act is a reform of the health insurance industry, not healthcare itself. The individual mandate is a part of the reform and does not create a new health insurance plan itself.
Dana Patton, an assistant professor of political science, said the United States is the only industrialized democracy that does not provide health insurance for all people. “In most other industrialized democracies, the right to quality healthcare at free or low cost is considered a human rights issue,” Patton said. “The point of this is that no one goes bankrupt because of a hospital or doctor bill. No one puts off going to the doctor because they don’t have financial means to pay or health insur-
ance.” Gatti said his experience without health insurance was complex. “I restricted myself from living a carefree life because I didn’t want to be in a position where I had to decide between food and gas or doctor and medicine,” Gatti said. “The only thing worse than being sick is being broke and sick.” Today’s story is the first part of a continuing series on the Affordable Care Act and its effect on college students.
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Alabama natives strive to break into rap industry By Deanne Winslett Staff Reporter In a state known for dominating in football and a culture founded on Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics, up-and-coming Alabama rappers often go under the radar. But for Bo Latham and his band The Bad Crowd and UA student Ryan Davis, this is a movement worth embracing. Rap had always been a hobby for UA alumnus Bo Latham, but when he was given the opportunity to expand it into a career, he did not hesitate to take it. “Once I got a job offer after graduation, I had to make a decision on whether I was going to take that, or whether I was going to try to build something off of a dream,” Latham said. “I had a good group of guys around me that I liked to work with and who believed in what I was doing, and I wasn’t going to let them down.” The Bad Crowd has held multiple shows in Tuscaloosa, building up a fan base, but they learned that in order to spread their music, they were going to have to travel out of state. The group has traveled to music-based cities such as New Orleans and Atlanta to spread their sound. “At first, we had this dream of coming from Tuscaloosa and starting it all here, and we didn’t really know all about that,” Latham said. “We found out that you have to leave here to spread it. This city isn’t big on original music, for whatever reason. This is kind of a cover music city.” While touring, the group has managed to collect a variety
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I think people are closedminded here in how they think about hip-hop. I think it’s something that is very unorthodox. It’s very abnormal. It’s not like what a hip-hop scene would be anywhere else. It’s not very extensive, but the culture is there. It’s just different. — Ryan Davis
of contacts and expand their fan base. But the group is still hopeful for Alabama’s rap potential. It may be a niche culture now, The Bad Crowd members said, but it is constantly growing and developing momentum in this state. After touring, the group went on a brief hiatus, but they are back now and excited to travel to other Alabama cities to further promote their group. “Alabama is developing a sound of its own,” Bad Crowd artist Juwuan Rainey said. “It’s a good look for the state as a whole. There are a couple teams out there making noise. Bad Crowd Music Group, BMB down in Mobile and LDLR in Huntsville. All of us are all coming with different styles, which makes it so dope.” The Bad Crowd intends to stick to their original music and original sound and not stray from their roots. “We put our time and effort into putting our feelings into audio form for people to listen to, and sometimes, it gets overshadowed by mainstream artists, or sometimes, people don’t take time to just check us out. That’s slowly
changing, though,” Rainey said. The group has a strong hope for the future of the Alabama rap culture. They said the genre expands a little further everyday and they hope to see Alabama, as a state, stick to its original sound instead of joining along with the mainstream rap stereotypical sound. “People are really starting to just now get hip to Alabama and our whole hiphop scene,” Rainey said. “I feel like we have lots of talent to offer, and I’m just excited for people to just hear everything that we’re working on. It takes time, and I think it’s our time to shine.” Second-year MBA candidate Ryan Davis found his place in the rap culture after beginning to rap and play trombone at the age of 11. He refers to his music as a rock, hip-hop, funk type of mash-up. Davis has played at various venues and said it is not the culture of hip-hop in Alabama that is the problem, but rather the way in which people regard it. “I think people are closedminded here in how they think about hip-hop,” Davis Submitted said. “I think it’s something The Bad Crowd and Ryan Davis are working to get their names into the rap industry. that is very unorthodox. It’s very abnormal. It’s not like what a hip-hop scene a solidified musical identity to promote his music to hopefuls, both Davis and audiences that he may not The Bad Crowd are staying would be anywhere else. in any genre,” he said. However, Davis does have otherwise reached. true to their music. By putIt’s not very extensive, but “I think the challenge for ting more of their music out the culture is there. It’s not believe rap culture in Alabama has plateaued. He people now is to look at it there and constantly expandjust different.” Although Davis believes said he definitely thinks it from more of a marketing ing their audience, they that Alabama does have can grow if given the right perspective and see what hope to take their music to a different rap culture, he opportunities. Using tools they can make happen via new levels. “We’re just kids from said he does not ever see such as the Internet to ensure the Internet and then findAlabama as having its own the music gets around to ing a way to unify the online Tuscaloosa who believe in cultural identity within wider audiences is a must, audience with the local audi- something,” Latham said. Davis said. He himself has his ence,” Davis said. “And we’re actually going the genre. Despite the challenges that after it and trying to make “Realistically, I don’t own YouTube channel under expect Alabama to ever have his artist name KadeshFlow Alabama presents to rap something original.”
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Director, Benh Zeitlin, exemplifies hope in face of adversity in debut film By Matt McGrath Contributing Writer Most directors can only dream of touching what Benh Zeitlin manages to achieve with his debut film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” It is a industry appearance as daring and ambitious as the Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple,” Terrence Malick’s “Badlands” and John Cassavetes’ “Shadows.” None of these groundbreaking films played it safe when they were released, and all three challenged and captivated their audiences, bringing a fresh new style and innovative directorial talent to the screen. Premiering earlier in the year at the Sundance Film Festival, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” won the Grand Jury Prize, Sundance’s highest achievement, cementing it as one of the most hyped and anticipated features of 2012.
Despite the high expectations that are tied to the film, it does not disappoint. Zeitlin’s low-budget debut is so invigorating because it manages to tell a personal story about a father and daughter attempting to cope with the tragedy of a storm reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina, but also zooms out and takes in a national scope of dealing with the same devastation. Set in a fictional bayou inspired by Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana, Zeitlin follows a six-year-old girl, Hushpuppy, and her unpredictable father, Wink, as the extreme flooding forces their community to vacate their makeshift houses and try to survive as their homes are destroyed. Less than one year after Hurricane Katrina, Spike Lee released his evocative four-hour documentary “When the Levees Broke,” a film which addressed many of the questions raised during the aftermath of the storm.
Zeitlin addresses some of the same issues in a less direct fashion and in a fictional setting. His short, character-based film manages to present a loud social criticism of the class divide, an issue brought to the center of the nation’s attention in the wake of Katrina. Because films often fail if their star, be it a child or an adult actor, is unconvincing, there is a lot riding on the performance of sixyear-old Quvenzhané Wallis, who plays the protagonist Hushpuppy. Wallis displays a confidence and maturity I have never seen by an actress so young and with no experience though, and her breathtaking performance is crucial to the film’s success. Her role is a challenging one, as the film revolves around her survival and newfound independence when her father goes missing. Zeitlin asks a lot from Wallis, but she responds brilliantly, providing a realistic
sense of character development during the 90-minute film. Wallis’s performance is matched by another newcomer, Dwight Henry, who takes on his first film playing the role of Wink. He provides the film with a harsh sense of realism, a stark contrast to the innocence and naivety of Hushpuppy. As it is a debut film, there are bound to be some minor flaws – primarily the fantasy element provided by the titular “Beasts.” This feels unnecessary and adds a metaphorical weight to the film which is not needed. Also, some of
the supporting performances feel lifeless, but this is bound to happen with so many amateur actors, especially when they are sharing the screen with two of the most impressive debut performances in recent memory. Zeitlin’s inexperience does not slow him down. His film displays stunning imagery and proves he possesses a natural visual flair as he captures the magical Louisiana setting in all its beauty. Watching “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is a thoroughly cathartic experience, helped in
part by the tremendous score that Zeitlin created with with Dan Romer. Most importantly, though, provides a firm message of hope. In the face of adversity, a young child comes of age as she fights to keep her community together in a time of despair, despite being completely inexperienced and unprepared for this situation. Throughout the film, Wink repeatedly reminds his daughter not to cry and to stay strong, a message that resonates just as powerfully with the audience.
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Documentary shows reality on June 24, 2010 By Dana Woodruff Some of the greatest treasures in life can be unearthed purely by accident. This is the way I happened to stumble upon one of the most inspirational films I have ever seen. One night, I happened to be sifting through the vast cinematic archive known as Netflix, absent-mindedly clicking through the endless categories, when I struck a gold mine disguised as a documentary. “Life in a Day” is not your average documentary, to say the least. It is a compilation of video clips submitted by ordinary people all across the world who were asked to film their daily routines on a single, randomly chosen day – July 24, 2010. There were over 80,000 videos sent to YouTube and over 4,500 hours worth of raw footage containing everything from a young boy learning how to shave to an older man in a hospital bed, recovering from a major openheart surgery. “Life in a Day” is the product of an unusual partnership between YouTube and filmmaker Ridley Scott, but the footage was sorted, trimmed and pieced together by the film’s editor, Joe Walker. The remarkable thing about
this 90-minute movie is its unexpected profundity, hovering slightly beneath the surface of the mundane activities of a seemingly narcissistic world. The aim of the filmmakers was to tell the story of a planet, but the results were far more meaningful than anyone had predicted. Although much of the film’s introductory scenes consist of people being filmed waking up, brushing their teeth, and even shots of nothing but their own two feet walking, it is interspersed with heartfelt personal moments: a mother cradling her newborn child, a man from the Middle East describing his role as both a father and a mother to his several motherless children in a destitute situation, a young gay man coming out to his grandmother on the phone (and her unconditional love and acceptance), a woman trying to explain cancer to her young son. Some of the people are only seen once, their stories never to be finished or heard of again; others are followed throughout the entire film, such as a Korean man traveling around the world by bicycle for no particular reason. I think what makes this documentary so unique is that it
offers so many different perspectives of life, values, morals and beliefs. There are sections of the film devoted to people from all corners of the world explaining their inner hopes, dreams and fears; people who have found true love and others who haven’t; people who are ultimately satisfied with their lives; and those who suffer from the thought of a meaningless existence. “Life in a Day” is really just a cinematic collage of people’s lives, and that is what is so beautiful about it, I think. You can watch it and think of it as nothing more than that, or you can see what you want to see and take away a different meaning from it. For me, “Life in a Day” revealed that life is so simple and complex all at once, and so very, very short. There was a scene near the end of the documentary that was exceptionally aweinspiring to me. It was just of a group of people lighting paper lanterns and sending them up into the sky, but caught up in the moment, it appeared to resonate with a deeper meaning, and it was breathtaking. I would highly recommend this documentary if you’re feeling blue or downtrodden; in its own strange way, “Life in a Day” is uplifting.
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“It’s exciting to get [the offense] crunk, to get them turned up,” said safety HaHa Clinton-Dix, who returned one interception 46 yards to the one-yard line.
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On offense, Alabama’s offensive line, which gave up six sacks a week before, established the line of scrimmage early, giving quarterback AJ McCarron plenty of time to throw for 189 yards and a touchdown. But the running backs were the primary beneficiaries, of Alabama’s offensive line play. Starter Eddie Lacy ran as well
Monday, September 17, 2012 | Page 9 as he has all season after dealing with ankle and toe injuries during the offseason and fall camp. He found the end zone three times, while true freshmen T.J. Yeldon and Kenyon Drake as well as junior Blake Sims all added scores on the ground. “They were locked in, all of them,” Lacy said of the offensive line. “They came in with
the right mindset and dominated the whole game.” It seems as if No. 2 LSU is the only team left on Alabama’s schedule that can match the Tide blow-for-blow on the field. Michigan and Arkansas were supposed to be early tests for this young team, but instead turned into mismatches before halftime. But Saban won’t tell you that;
this is, after all, the coach who challenged a fumble while up 38-0 in the third quarter. Instead, he and his players will turn their attention to Florida Atlantic. A 35-0 win against Western Kentucky two weeks ago was considered a letdown week, and Saban is expecting more against a similarly-matched
opponent. “We’ve really been fighting with this group ever since the Michigan game, about allowing ourselves to accept average, and getting them to believe more in themselves,” Saban said. “This group is still learning to motivate themselves every week and demand to be the best that they can be.”
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Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron was surgiThe running back core had a bounce-back game, cally efficient, completing 11 of his 16 passes for 189 punishing Arkansas defenders for 225 yards and six yards and a touchdown. touchdowns, averaging five yards per carry.
Wide receivers Nine different receivers caught at least one pass, showing depth Alabama hasn’t had during Nick Saban’s tenure.
Offensive line The line played its best overall game, creating holes for the running backs and giving McCarron time to find his receivers.
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The Tide defense hasn’t allowed a single point in Saban’s message was heard loud and clear after nine quarters and is forcing turnovers at a very high the team’s lackluster performance against Western rate. Kentucky. Alabama had a near flawless game plan and dominated a quality SEC opponent.
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Volleyball team finishes weekend of SEC play 1-1 By Mary Grace Showfety Staff Reporter Alabama volleyball opened its first weekend of SEC play with two teams that any Crimson Tide fan would call major rivalries. Entering into the weekend of conference play, the Tide held the No. 1 spot in the SEC West. Friday, the Tide commenced SEC play against LSU, beating the Tigers 3-0. The Tide’s win over LSU marked the end of an 11-match losing streak, not having won a match against the Tigers since 2006. Head coach Ed Allen called the win one of the Tide’s best performances to date. It was when the Tide
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I think it’s a little bit frustrating for everybody because we knew we could have played a lot better than we did, and we had so much more that we could have given and shown. — Laura Steiner
went up against 2011 SEC champion, Tennessee, that its luck took a turn for the worst. The team posted its first loss in conferenceplay to the Vols 3-1. The first set belonged to the Tide as it overpowered the Vols 25-19 with a hitting percentage of .373, starting off the match with a bang. Until then, the Tide had not won a set against Tennessee since 2009. But the Vols turned up
the competition in the second set, posting a .405 hitting percentage and leading the Tide by as much as nine points. The Vols took the set 25-17. After feeling a bit defeated, the Tide knew it had to push forward, but there seemed to be a slight disconnect after the third set. Allen had a quite simple explanation as to where the team went astray. “I’d say somewhere
between our shoulders and the top of our cranium,” Allen said. Tennessee continued to dominate with a lead of 11 points for much of the third set and eventually overtook the Tide 25-15. “We just knew that it was us,” freshman Laura Steiner said. “We weren’t putting pressure on them, they were putting pressure on us.” With a hitting percentage of .290, 13 kills and two digs against Tennessee, Steiner compared her t e a m ’s p e r fo r m a n c e against the Vols versus LSU. “I think it’s a little bit frustrating for everybody because we knew we could have played a lot better than we did, and we had so much more that we could
have given and shown,” Steiner said. “I think we showed it the first game though. We were talking about today how we really had an opportunity to do good things and we just didn’t really pound down on it.” Setter Sierra Wilson said the team did not have same emotion against Tennessee as it did against LSU. “We didn’t play our own game and we played according to them, and we really have to focus on our side in order to come up with wins,” Wilson, who posted 35 assists against the Vols, said. Alabama (12-2, 1-1 SEC) hopes that Friday’s road match against Georgia will put it back on the winning track.
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Too early to tell if 2012 Crimson Tide team Nick Saban’s best at Alabama By Marquavius Burnett Sports Editor We’re only three games into the 2012 football season and the comparisons have already began to fly about this version of Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide. Because this reloaded version has been so dominate, you can’t compare it to other teams in college football and must settle for comparing it to other versions of itself. Is this the best Alabama team Saban has had during his tenure as the Tide’s head football coach? In short, the answer is to be determined. Ultimately, the 2012 version of the Crimson Tide will have to qualify for and win the big
game in Miami in order to truly measure up. The jury is still out on this year’s team as they have yet to prove anything other than what everyone else already knew: Alabama has a pretty damn good football team. After the Western Kentucky game, Coach Saban and the team were upset with the overall performance. Now another week has passed and Alabama has dominated another opponent, pitching a shutout against SEC foe Arkansas. Saban and the team were a little more pleased, but they know winning three games and outscoring your opponents 128-14 isn’t the goal. “We’ve really been fight-
ing with this group since the Michigan game about allowing ourselves to accept average and getting them to demand more of themselves,” Saban said. Get this: Alabama didn’t play anywhere near its potential and still drug the Razorbacks through the mud - literally. Yes, Arkansas was banged up. Yes, they were without starting quarterback Tyler Wilson. But Wilson can’t block for himself. Wilson doesn’t tackle. Wilson would not have made up for the 52 point crater that separates Alabama from Arkansas and most other teams of the college football world. Can anyone beat this Alabama team? Is anyone
even close to the Tide’s level? Those questions may not be answered until Nov. 3 in Death Valley. The schedule between now and then has what would be considered trap games for most teams (Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi State) but not this Alabama team. Maybe in 2010, but not in 2012. This team is so balanced offensively that nine receivers caught passes on Saturday. The rushing game produced six touchdowns. The kicker made a 50-yard field goal. The defense forced five turnovers. Got the point yet? No single player had a breakout game against Arkansas. In simple terms, the collective
group of talent completely schooled the Razorbacks and their (temporary) head coach John L. Smith. Why is Alabama so good? What makes them different from other programs that consistently bring in four and five-star recruits? Look no further than the headman leading the team out of the tunnel every Saturday. Saban holds everyone on the team and his staff to the same standard. “I yelled more at the second team than I did at the first team because we practiced all that stuff and they don’t go out there and do it right in the game,” Saban said. “They don’t think they’re going to play. Well you’re one play
from playing and then we got to count on you. Can we count on you? And if you have no other motivation in the world, your motivation should be ‘I don’t want to be the guy that screws up.’ “It does them good when they get their butts chewed out a little bit, it helps their mental toughness, I think.” But Alabama isn’t perfect (yet). The Tide still has yet to play its best football. That’s the part that should scare the rest of the nation. “There’s always room for improvement and the sky is the limit for this team,” offensive lineman Chance Warmack said. World, you have officially been warned.
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ALABAMA VS. ARKANSAS DONALD W. REYNOLDS RAZORBACK STADIUM • SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 ALABAMA 52 – ARKANSAS 0 Alabama killed a 30-yard Arkansas drive when Vinnie Sunseri intercepted a pass early in the second quarter. The Tide then went 67 yards in six plays and scored, effectively silencing Arkansas for the rest of the game. | Shannon Auvil