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9 Edelweiss Cafe

Running, swimming and biking back-to-back for miles on end might sound like a task fit only for the most hardened athletes, but students with a range of athletic skill can join the Alabama Triathletes club to do just that on weekends.

Students don’t always have to look off campus to make some extra cash.

Read our campus jobs breakdown to find out where students work, what they do and how much they’re paid.

Edelweiss, one of the few non-chain coffee shops left in Tuscaloosa, doesn’t just offer a hot cup of Joe. Owner Ester Scheeff also brings the flavors of Germany, her home country, to the table.

CULTURE | GENDER

‘The Person I was Born to Be’ Facing daily challenges, UA transgender students find support from one another

By Francie Johnson and Hannah Widener | CW Staff

Like many young boys growing up, Evan Higginbotham used to watch his father get ready for work in the morning.

“I watched him get dressed and put on his tie and shave, and I thought that that was going to happen for me,” Higginbotham, a junior majoring in psychology, said.

“I thought that eventually that would happen, and when puberty set in and it didn’t, it was like, ‘This is wrong. This is totally not okay.’”

From the age of 3 or 4 years old, Higginbotham knew he was male, but his body was biologically female.

Higginbotham is transgender, a term used to describe people whose gender identity does not match their sex at birth.

“The way that I think doesn’t line up with my sex,” Higginbotham said. “Gender and sex are two different SEE TRANSGENDER PAGE 8 Evan Higginbotham, a junior majoring in psychology and a transgender man, holds up a Transgender Pride flag in front of Gorgas Library. CW / Pete Pajor

NEWS | OBITUARY

UA student found dead in Theta Chi house Parker Jordan died on campus early Monday

By Rachel Brown | News Editor

Parker Alexander Jordan, a University of Alabama student, died Monday morning at the Theta Chi

fraternity house on campus. Jordan, 22, was a junior from Fort Worth, Texas, majoring in accounting.

“The University extends its deepest sympathies to Parker’s family and friends,”said Steven Hood, interim vice president for student affairs. “Parker was a valued member of our campus community, and

he will be missed.”

Parker was an active member of the Theta Chi chapter at the University.

“Theta Chi extends its heartfelt sympathies to Parker’s family, friend, and all those affected by his loss,” said Mike Mayer, executive director of Theta Chi Fraternity

International Headquarters. “Our entire membership mourns his passing and will greatly miss him.”

The Alpha Phi Chapter of Theta Chi at Alabama has been in communication with Theta Chi headquarters as well as campus officials to provide support to those mourning Parker’s loss.

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Alabama football will take on Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday. The game will be televised on ESPN with kickoff at 5 p.m.

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televised on CBS. The Saturday, Oct. 18, matchup against Texas A&M will kickoff at 2:30 p.m.

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The Alabama football coaching staff recognized six players following Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss. True freshman left tackle Cam Robinson and junior running back T.J. Yeldon earned honors for the offense. Yeldon ran for 123 yards on 20 carries. It was his 13th career 100-yard rushing game.

Xzavier Dickson and Reggie Ragland received accolades for defense. Alabama’s defense held Ole Miss to 323 yards with only 72 coming on the

ground. Dickson had six tackles with 3.5 for loss and two sacks. Ragland had three solo tackles and nine total.

A’Shawn Robinson and JK Scott earned honors on special teams. Scott averaged 51.8 yards per punt on six punts and hit a career-long 64-yard punt in the second quarter. Three of his punts were inside the 20-yard line.

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The Crimson Tide volleyball team remains outside the top 25 after a split weekend where it lost to No. 13 Kentucky on Friday before beating Tennessee. Last week, the team had 11 votes. This week it earned 18 and remains five spots outside

the top 25. Alabama travels to No. 19 Texas A&M on Friday.

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Men’s golf team leads after two rounds The No. 14 Alabama men’s golf team shot 7-under 553 at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate and has a 10-stroke lead over No. 2 Georgia Tech and No. 4 Florida State. The Crimson Tide

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SPJ hosts National News Engagement Day The Society of Professional Journalists and the UA communications department will host National News Engagement Day Tuesday. This event is to encourage students to stay current on local, national and worldwide news.

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Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Alabama researchers make fibers conduct electricity

By Heather Buchanan | Staff Reporter

A T-shirt that conducts electricity sounds like a product of the future, but five researchers at The University of Alabama are bringing it closer to reality.

A University of Alabama research team was issued patent number 8,784,691 on July 22, which covers their newly discovered process of making certain fibers conductive. The team includes Scott Spear and Rachel Frazier, research engineers for the Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs center; Robin Rogers, the Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry at the University and director of the University’s Center for Green Manufacturing; Anwarul Haque, associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics and Dan Daly, director of AIME. The process utilizes ferric chloride instead of harsh chemicals like methanol. Methanol is volatile and toxic to humans, so using ionic liquids instead is safer and allows the fibers to retain much of their original strength. “[Ferric chloride] can coat surfaces or fibers such as cellulose or cotton fibers very well,” Spear said “That iron can then be used to polymerize pyrrole, so then you get a nice coating on the cotton fiber. Polypyrrole is a conductive material.”

Rogers said the team is also looking for other ways to use cellulose via the patented process.

“We were looking for – and still are – new materials from cellulose,” he said. “We would like to develop a range of new functional materials from cellulose that will replace the common plastics and polymers of today, because today’s polymers are typically made from nonrenewable resources such as oil. Thus we wanted new functional polymers for everyday life that

It opens up a whole new realm of opportunity, things that we can’t imagine right now.

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would be renewable and sustainable.”

The full implications of this technology are currently underdeveloped. Frazier said the ability to essentially have a circuit board on one’s chest via smart textiles is one of the exciting possibilities of the research.

“To be able to sense when things happen, and to be able to have it so close to you, that it can tell when something happens to you … it opens up a whole new realm of opportunity, things that we can’t imagine right now,” Frazier said. “That’s really the exciting thing.”

Their patent gives the research team exclusive rights to their process. The team can decide to license the process to companies to make new fiber products.

“Patent protection is important in the US if one wants to develop and sell a chemical product,” Rogers said. “Without this, the company’s investment in developing something new might be lost as cheaper competitors step in by essentially using what the company learned in development. In the chemical industry, patents often protect innovators to allow them a grace period where they can take advantage of their invention.”

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Scott Spear, a research engineer for the Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs center, demonstrates the conductivity of the fiber they produced.

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Grace Guin (left) and Lexi Romine (right) were recently selected to receive nationally competitive awards by the Society of Women Engineers. Photo Courtesy of Grace Guin

UA engineers earn SWE awards

By Elizabeth Elkin | Contributing Writer

Grace Guin and Lexi Romine, two University of Alabama graduates, were recently selected to receive nationally competitive awards by the Society of Women Engineers.

Ten members of SWE collegiate chapters will be honored as recipients of the Outstanding Collegiate Member Award this year.

“One of the most appealing aspects of engineering to me is the opportunity to help the community,” Guin said. “Because engineers are essential to almost every industry, society benefits from the contributions of engineers every day. It’s exciting to be on the forefront of new ideas and creative solutions to society’s current issues.”

SWE grants the award through a nomination process. Beth Ann Todd, the faculty advisor for SWE at the University, and several officers of the organization put the nomination package for Guin and Romine together. The selection criteria for the award include SWE participation,

campus and community involvement, and academic standing.

“I am really humbled to win this award,” Guin said. “However, this award is much more a reflection of the achievements of our entire SWE section. Our section has steadily increased its membership over the last few years and contributed so much to the success of numerous women in engineering.”

Guin currently works as an engineer for Southern Company in Birmingham.

Romine works in Pennington as an Entry Level Process Engineer for Georgia-Pacific. Both women graduated from the University with degrees in chemical engineering.

“Many times at work I am the only woman in a meeting with 20 people in it,” Romine said. “I think I have to embrace being in a male-dominated field and learn from the successful women engineers in my industry.”

Guin and Romine will be honored this month at the WE 2014 conference in Los Angeles, California.

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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, October 7, 2014

COLUMN | ABORTION

Abortion laws show state legal problems MATTHEW

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GUEST COLUMN | RELIGION

Scripture should be cited in context

By Danielle Waddell | Guest Columnist

Michaela Thurston’s recent guest column “Following all of Christ’s teachings” revealed some common flaws in the way people read and interpret the Bible.

It is important when citing Scripture to contain the entirety of the passage to keep the true meaning visible. It is known that everyone does not, and will never, completely agree on Christ’s teachings; however, in order to be sure confusion does not occur, it is imminent that truth is properly delivered.

The Bible states: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22, ESV). Notice the verse states ‘it,’ homosexuality itself is an abomination; people who practice homosexuality are not directly condemned. The truth is, if Christians are doing their job, which some are not, this verse will not be used as a p l at f o r m for bullying, discrimination and hatred, but instead, it will be used as a way of witness to unbelievers

in a loving way.

Jesus himself comes back to set We are called to hold our loved up his earthly reign. However, ones accountable for their sins there is beauty in God’s grace of while repenting for our own giving his own son, who died to (Matthew 7:15). Christians are take all the sins of the world as not perfect; we are no better than if they never happened. It is up those who are to us to put that considered the faith into Christ dirtiest sinners and take his gift – “for there is no of grace. distinction: for “Therefore I all have sinned tell you, every sin and fall short of and blasphemy Christianity is not the glory of God, will be forgiven, filled with condemnation, and are justified but the blasby his grace as phemy against but instead, hope. a gift, through the Spirit will the redemption not be forgiven” that is in Christ (Matthew 12:31, Jesus, whom God ESV). No one will put forward as a go unforgiven propitiation by unless they take his blood to be received by faith” God’s rightful glory and give (Romans 3:22-25, ESV). it to his enemy. Christianity is Granted, there is a “pleth- not filled with condemnation, ora of sins defined in the but instead, hope. Our salvation Bible,” as Thurston points out. is not based on our own works, Homosexuality is not a death sen- but rather, the power of God tence or the worst sin to ever be. (Ephesians 2:8-9). That is the However, according to the Bible, reality of Christianity. it is a sin.

The reality of Christianity Danielle Waddell is a freshman is, sins will be committed until majoring in journalism.

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In Alabama, the current laws on abortion require an insane parental consent law to be followed.

Under HB 494, minors who are seeking an abortion without the consent of their parents will now essentially be put on trial. The state even has the ability to appoint a lawyer for the fetus and can call witnesses to argue the teenager’s character, which is something typically not allowed in a trial. The state of Alabama has huge issues with employment and taxes, but they would rather continue to attack those who can get pregnant and give more money to lawyers and activists.

Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama, Attorney General Luther Strange and Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey over the alternative parental consent requirements. Whether a lawsuit would be filed was not a question in any of the reasonable state representatives minds when they passed this bill. But it’s probably fine with them because they’re providing more money to the lawyers in the state of Alabama and their ideological friends.

The state will have to spend money by hiring experts and the lawyers on both sides will be able to bill their hours defending or attacking the bill. One example of the type of experts called or paid by Alabama is Vincent Rue who was paid $79,087.50 to help defend the admitting privileges law. He is also a man whose anti-abortion testimony and works have been disregarded by courts going all the way back to the 1980s.

The law allowing the court to appoint lawyers to argue on behalf of the fetus would certainly help line some lawyers’ pockets as well. The case will result in the state spending more of its increasingly thin resources on cases that will not be upheld in the long run. It’s sad to see the state of Alabama spend its already meager budget on what amounts to a nice payout to lawyers and anti-abortion activists, but that is exactly what has gone on in this state.

Rather than focus on getting jobs, which the state legislature and Bentley have done a terrible job of, or getting together a sustainable tax structure for the state, they would rather continue to bail out lawyers and anti-abortion activists while attacking those who are pregnant. We should keep that in mind whenever people make fun of this state for being backwards, because those gifts to the lawyers and activists in Alabama certainly aren’t helping the average Alabamian.

Matthew Bailey is a third-year law student. His column runs biweekly.

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OPINIONS Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Uber service should stay in Tuscaloosa despite lawsuits in other cities JACKSON

Poe Staff Columnist

By now, most people have heard of Uber. The ride sharing service has exploded in the past few years and now operates in 45 countries. Uber started off in major markets, but this school year, Uber decided on a new market: college towns. On Labor Day weekend, Uber arrived in 22 college towns throughout the United States, including Tuscaloosa and Auburn.

Uber has received praise for its innovation, but has also received much criticism. Traditional taxi services claim Uber steals market share while not adhering to the same rules and regulations as traditional taxicab companies. Uber contests that it operates as a ride sharing service, not a taxicab service, so it should not be held to the same standards.

There is pending litigation in many major cities in the U.S. as well as other countries about Uber’s operations, the majority of which come from taxicab and

transportation companies. Local having to walk home late at night. governments support traditional cab Another issue at play with Uber services because they promote local is safety. Part of the reason Uber business, which adds to Uber’s prob- is being driven out of Tuscaloosa lems. In many big cities with well- is bad press because of a drug and established cab companies, Uber alcohol related arrest of an Uber may be fighting a losing battle. driver. That is unacceptable, but it But in cities like Tuscaloosa, is more of a reflection of the driver these arguments are completely than the company. Most people who irrelevant. Big cities have the funds have used Uber would say it has a and interest in promoting the local much safer feel than a traditional regulated taxicab sertaxicab service. Uber vices. Tuscaloosa, howprovides safety to the ever, does not have any city and especially Uber’s strategy is perfect to UA students. Uber local cab companies to promote or the money for college students. It makes things easy for needed to fight Uber. the user, and students reduces drunk driving are much more likely There may be a few cab companies registered check their phones and it keeps students to in Tuscaloosa, but in for an Uber driver than from having to walk reality they are not a call a cab and hope one viable transportation is near Tuscaloosa. home late at night. option for students.

This is one battle There are no cabs to the city of Tuscaloosa call at 2 a.m. when the should not be fighting. bars close. There are no cabs to call Uber should be regulated, but not to drive you a mile closer to the sta- targeted. The benefits of having Uber dium on game days. Uber can pro- in Tuscaloosa are unlimited and it is vide this type of transportation, and absurd that the city of Tuscaloosa they can do it through a medium we would spend funds and time to force all use on our smartphones, while Uber out. also keeping prices low.

Uber’s strategy is perfect for col- Jackson Poe is a senior majoring lege students. It reduces drunk in accounting. His column runs driving and it keeps students from biweekly.

WHAT I THINK

• Uber is currently expanding to mid-sized American cities, particularly college towns.

• Uber offers a viable alternative in places where there are few local taxi services.

• Uber is a more viable transportation option late at night and on gamedays.

• Uber reduces drunk driving and allows students to avoid walking home late at night.

• The recent arrest of an Uber driver reflects on that person, not the company as a whole.

• Uber should be regulated, but not targeted by the city.

• Tuscaloosa should welcome Uber instead of fighting it.

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Editor | Reed O’Mara Culture@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Class learns South’s ecology

COLUMN | TV

By Drew Pendleton | Contributing Writer

For 75 minutes every Monday and Wednesday, Ellen Spears, an assistant professor of American studies at The University of Alabama, instructs students on a new perspective on Southern history: its ecology.

The course, cross-listed in the departments of both American studies and New College, is titled Landscapes of the South. Spears said it focuses primarily on the ecology, culture and environmental issues surrounding the Mississippi watershed, from St. Louis, Missouri, to the river’s end at the Gulf of Mexico, just east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

“I taught courses in the past about the Mississippi, and students were interested in studying places where they were born or where they had relocated,” Spears said. “There are many different ‘souths,’ so it was logical to broaden it to include the entire South.”

First taught in Fall 2010, the course looks at the impact of events such as the 1927 flood and hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and examines human interventions and historical aspects of the Delta region as a whole.

Timothy Ficken, a junior majoring in American studies, previously took Spears’ Urban Spaces course and said the two classes are similar in some aspects.

“It’s the same kind of class as Urban Spaces, but with more focus on nature rather than cities,” he said.

“It’s more about the environment and how we interact with it.”

Spears said the course includes several books, including Jack Temple Kirby’s “Mockingbird Song,” and delves into the river and Gulf Coast areas while also providing insight into the Southern ecological landscape.

“It’s a very writing-intensive class, but students get to write about places they know,” Spears said.

“Students have looked in at anywhere from the Gulf Coast to southern Louisiana, all the way up to the Tennessee Valley Authority.”

Ficken said the class provides good opportunities for discussion, with reading and papers intermixed.

RIVERBASINS

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“It’s a different kind of class,” he said. “There’s lots of reading and lots of theoretical-based discussion.

We look into the reasons why we’ve tried to manipulate the landscape and what happens because of it.”

Spears said the course has received positive feedback since its inception.

“Students are really interested in learning about the ecology and land of these areas, regardless of if they’re from in-state or out-of-state,” Spears said. “We also look at how they’ve been portrayed in art, film and photography.”

Ficken said the course offers a different perspective on the region.

“We read a piece on the different ways we were trying to manipulate the Mississippi, how it worked and how it didn’t,” Ficken said. “It shows how when we think we can try to control something like the Mississippi, we end up changing the landscape.”

Spears, who recently published “Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town,” said the course’s success is due to the experiences students can bring.

“Student involvement is what really makes this class,” Spears said. “It’s when students bring in their own experiences and research that the class is really succeeding.”

Ben Rector to play Bama Theatre

By Luisa Sanchez | Contributing Writer

Nashville-based singer and songwriter Ben Rector will perform Wednesday at Tuscaloosa’s Bama Theatre as part of his Fall 2014 Tour.

The tour includes 10 different college towns across the Southeast in states such as Missouri, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia.

Having toured consistently since his junior year at the University of Arkansas, the 27-year-old Oklahoma native has spent the past six years building a fan base that enables him to routinely sell out clubs and theaters across the United States.

“Ben has an audience base that skews from high school age through college and late twenties,” David Allgood, executive manager at the Bama Theatre, said. “Tuscaloosa has a good demographic for that.”

The concert is produced and promoted by Red Mountain Entertainment, a Birminghambased company that focuses on the production of music festivals and events in less traditional venues, such as outdoor city centers and parks.

PLAN TO GO WHAT: Ben Rector WHEN: Wednesday, 8 p.m.

WHERE: Bama Theatre

Singer and songwriter will perform at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa Wednesday night with special guest John McLaughlin.

Photo Courtesy of Betsy Kiser

Allgood said Red Mountain has plenty of experience in Tuscaloosa, since they have produced a wide number of shows at the Bama Theatre and the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater over the years.

“We just rent the theatre for them,” Allgood said. “They are in charge of producing and putting everything together.”

Betsy Kiser, marketing director at Red Mountain, said the Bama Theatre has a full capacity of 1,064,

and it is expected for the show to sell out.

“We felt that the intimate setting of the Bama Theatre would be a better experience for Ben Rector’s fans to get up close and personal with his energetic live performance,” she said.

“The Walking in Between” is Rector’s fifth and most recent album, released in August 2013. That same year, he sold 100,000 records and two million singles online.

Tickets for Ben Rector’s Tuscaloosa concert can be found on Ticketmaster for $20. The next concert of his Fall 2014 Tour will be at The Lyric Oxford in Oxford, Mississippi, followed by a stop in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Friend and fellow musician John McLaughlin will be accompanying Rector as special guest.

“Gracepoint,” an American remake of “Broadchurch,” follows a murder investigation in a small town in northern California. Rotten Tomatoes

‘Gracepoint’ trapped in shadow of predecessor

By Noah Cannon

Television dramas chronicling the mystery behind a tragic homicide are by no means a recent invention.

David Lynch’s 1990 masterpiece “Twin Peaks” turned the identity of Laura Palmer’s killer into a national obsession, while AMC’s flawed but admirable “The Killing” earned a slew of Emmy nominations, including one for Mireille Enos’ revelatory lead performance. Each new iteration of this trope suffers from a barrage of comparisons to similar, earlier works.

Fox’s new whodunit limited series “Gracepoint” boldly attempts to forge new territory in this tired genre, with the added disadvantage of being a remake of “Broadchurch,” a massively popular and acclaimed UK series.

The show follows the investigation of the murder of Danny Solano, a young boy in Gracepoint, a tight-knit small town in northern California, as detective Ellie Miller (Anna Gunn) balances her professional duty and friendship with Danny’s family. She is joined in her investigation by new hire Emmett Carver, played by David Tennant, in the role he also played in the original series.

As the police conduct their Viewers would be much work, the townspeople of Gracepoint grow nervous as better served in finding a the town’s dark secrets, and copy of ‘Broadchurch.’ suspicious residents appear.

“Gracepoint” is a handsomely shot series, but ultimately fails because it cannot move out of the looming shadow of “Broadchurch.” The newer show’s first episodes are nearly shot-for-shot remakes of the original, with minor changes to somewhat convincingly portray a Californian town instead of an English one.

In terms of subject matter, “Broadchurch” was far from groundbreaking television, but it was elevated immensely by the strength of its lead performances. Played by Olivia Colman in the original, Ellie Miller’s anguish, determination and prickly wit made for a rich, immediately believable protagonist.

Gunn, a two-time Emmy winner for her work on “Breaking Bad,” makes a valiant effort to fill Colman’s shoes, but struggles to provide the same level of nuance to her character, often painting Ellie’s sadness with too broad a brush.

Tennant, electric in the original, is hampered in Gracepoint by his awkward, consonant-heavy American accent. His performance would be perfunctory if it didn’t feel like a light, uncanny-valley version of his stronger work in the first go round.

Academy Award nominees Jacki Weaver and Nick Nolte add clout to the show’s solid supporting cast, but unfortunately they cannot jolt enough life into the proceedings to justify the existence of a remake at all.

“Gracepoint” is well-intentioned and may very well find an audience, as murder mystery shows so often do in the U.S., but viewers would be much better served in finding a copy of “Broadchurch” and getting swept up in its secrets instead.

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CULTURE Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Students can find jobs on campus

COLUMN | FOOD

By Lindsey Parrish | Contributing Writer

For many students, finding a job is a necessary part of the college experience. When considering a part-time job, there are advantages to taking an on-campus job. The University of Alabama offers an array of job opportunities for students at some of their favorite locations.

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Wilhagan’s offers alternative venue, homemade food

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Circulation Desk at Gorgas Library

Intramural Referee

Employees at the circulation desk are responsible for collecting, shelving and locating books for anyone in need of assistance. Employees must become familiar with the library and master the call number system of the Library of Congress. The work hours are flexible, but employees may have to work early in the morning or late into the night.

The wages are $7.50/hr.

Intramural referees can referee any sport offered through intramural organizations on campus. They are responsible for enforcing rules, but they can still engage in every sport. Employees choose their shifts and are paid $7.25/hr.

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The Student Recreation Center Employees at the Rec Center are responsible for swiping in guests and handling sports and workout equipment. The employees get to interact with students, faculty and community members that visit the Rec Center. The Rec Center offers flexible work hours, and the pay is $7.25/hr.

Peer Tutors at the Center for Academic Success Peer tutors help struggling students in both one-on-one and group sessions. Many students find teaching subjects they are passionate about to be incredibly rewarding. Tutors are selected by staff and are paid $8.25/hr.

Situated in the heart of downtown Tuscaloosa, Wilhagan’s Grille and Tap Room fills a different niche than many of the other well-known establishments in town. For those who find wall-to-wall crowds on the Strip a bit immature and congested, Wilhagan’s offers a more comfortable atmosphere.

The restaurant offers a wide variety of entertainment, including a pay-by-thehour pool hall, free darts, trivia nights, poker tournaments and sporting events displayed on big-screen TVs scattered throughout the restaurant.

Wi l h ag a n ’s owner Bill Lloyd said the restaurant is set apart The restaurant is set by the freshness of its food apart by the freshness – everything of its food. is homemade, from the chili to — Bill Lloyd — the ranch dressing. Wilhagan’s wings are large and meaty, and the teriyaki sauce offers a surprising mix of sweet and smoky. The pulled pork nachos are reminiscent of gamedays in the stadium, and the homemade honey-battered corndogs are the best since the state fair. Order a basket with fries and let the deep-fried goodness take you back to childhood.

Another specialty are “queso sticks,” a warm, gooey mix of cheese and jalapeños inside a crushed tortilla chip crust.

For those who drink, Wilhagan’s offers a large array of options. The restaurant boasts a full bar along with one of the most extensive craft beer selections – draft or bottle – in town. Wednesday night’s special is $3 pints of a selection of craft beers and any domestic beers. Sunday is a mix of $3 mimosas, $4 Bloody Marys and $5 Bud Light pitchers.

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Not all transgender people share similar backgrounds

WHAT TO KNOW

TRANSGENDER FROM PAGE 1

For more information about the transgender support group, contact the Counseling Center at (205) 348-3863.

things. My sex is female because I haven’t gone through any of the surgeries, [but] my gender is male.”

Throughout his childhood, Higginbotham suppressed his identity for fear of being ostracized by his conservative, religious parents. With no one to turn to, he eventually began self-harming and abusing drugs. Now 31 years old, Higginbotham said he is sober and no longer has a relationship with his parents because of their unwillingness to accept his transition.

Although Higginbotham identified as a male from a young age, he said every transgender person’s experience is different. Some do not realize they are transgender until puberty, or even later. Others may feel something is wrong early on, but are unable to put a name to their sense of disconnection until later in life.

Anna Shutter, a transgender woman and a senior majoring in art, began her transition during college. She identifies as female but usually presents in public as male, and said she has not come out to her family.

“I don’t have the typical trans narrative where people say, ‘Oh I always knew,’” she said. “That’s not always the case. I didn’t figure it out until I was 12 years old.”

Higginbotham and Shutter belong to an anonymous transgender support group on campus, which Shutter said can provide an environment for trans students to speak openly and connect with other students who understand them.

“At the very least, this group gives me other people who know what I’m going through,” Shutter said. “It makes it a little easier to relate to somebody.”

Students in the support group said they face varying degrees of harassment and discrimination on campus, and it isn’t always as blatant as name-calling or physical force. Sometimes, Higginbotham said, it can be a glance that lasts one second too long, a misinformed comment or a whispered conversation.

“I think the thing that gets me is the way that people talk, the conversations that people have that they don’t know that there’s a transgender person standing right next to them,” he said.

The University has policies in place to combat discrimination and harassment of transgender students and faculty.

The school complies with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits gender-based discrimination for federally-funded educational institutions.

“Title IX protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and employees from discrimination, harassment, sexual assault and sexual violence based on sex, sex-stereotyping or failure to conform to stereotypical gender norms,” Beth Howard, the University’s Title IX coordinator, said in an emailed statement.

“Gender identity was included under the umbrella of gender/sex discrimination and protected specifically by University Title IX policy.”

While some of the University’s policies include explicit language to protect transgender individuals, others do not.

For example, the University’s harassment policy states that it protects against

patients. Garner declined to comment on the past or future availability of similar services at the SHC. Finding a doctor willing and qualified to prescribe hormones is only part of the process. According to WPATH’s Standards of Care, a document providing clinical guidelines for health professionals to assist transgender, transsexual and gender-nonconforming people, transgender individuals need a recommendation letter from a qualified mental health professionEvan Higginbotham belongs to an anonymous transgender support group on campus. CW / Pete Pajor al before they can be prescribed hormones. “illegal harassment based on race, color, Multiple support group members said Shutter attends counseling at the UA religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, they have successfully worked with the Counseling Center, but she cannot get sexual orientation, age, disability or veter- HRC to amend their housing situations. a recommendation letter for hormone an status,” but does not explicitly mention “Once I told them ‘Hey this is why I don’t replacement therapy. gender identity or gender expression. feel comfortable living with other males “My therapist said she’s comfortable A March 2013 reaffirmation of the or females, because I’m kind of in an in- writing me a letter, but it wouldn’t really University’s nondiscrimination notice, between stage right now,’ they worked with be credible because of the type of therapy sent by UA President Judy Bonner, did me very well and got my housing issues that we do here,” Shutter said. “I have to not include any specific language relat- resolved,” said the anonymous member. “I go somewhere off campus and find a whole ing to discrimination against transgender feel comfortable where I’m at right now.” new therapist to convince that I’m trans to students, faculty and staff.

Even if their housing concerns have write me a letter.”

In the 2013-2014 school year, an SGA been resolved, transgender students can Higginbotham had been living as a man Senator proposed Resolution R-30-13, have trouble finding bathrooms to use for several years before taking hormones, which encouraged the “adoption of an on campus. Group members said not all so he received his recommendation letter inclusive nondiscrimination policy by add- University buildings are equipped with after one therapy session. Although he ing ‘gender identity and gender expres- gender-neutral bathrooms, and said they legally changed his name, currently lives sion,’ which would create a more welcom- prefer to avoid using gendered bathrooms. as male and has been taking hormones ing campus for future students, faculty, “I still don’t feel comfortable going into since 2013, Higginbotham is still legally a and staff.” the men’s bathroom, and obviously not female in the eyes of the state of Alabama.

The University’s nondiscrimination the women’s bathroom, it just doesn’t feel In Alabama, gender on a birth certifinotice has since been updated to include right,” Shutter said. cate cannot be changed until proof of surthe terms “gender identity” and “genTransgender students can also have gical treatment has been provided. Even der expression,” although Howard did trouble finding appropriate medical with proof, the updated birth certificate not specify when the change occurred. care in Tuscaloosa, Higginbotham said. will indicate the name and gender have Higginbotham said he was not aware of the Hormone replacement therapy can be been changed. change until mid-September. an important step in the This creates the potenBecause he presents as male, transition process for tial for transgender people I don’t have the typical Higginbotham said he generally blends many transgender people. to be outed on their birth in with other students. For students who According to the World certificates and through trans narrative where adopt a more androgynous gender presen- Professional Association background checks, people say, ‘Oh I tation, harassment can be more prevalent. for Transgender Health, which can affect their One member of the support group, who hormone therapy “is ability to find employalways knew.’ That’s asked to remain anonymous out of con- a medically necessary ment, Higginbotham not always the case. cern for his safety, said he has been verbal- intervention for many said. According to the ly harassed by male students on campus. transsexual, transgenAmerican Civil Liberties “I don’t [feel safe on campus],” he said. der and gender-nonconUnion, Alabama is not one — Anna Shutter — “I don’t really go out that much because forming individuals with of the 17 U.S. states that I’m afraid something is going to happen gender dysphoria.” has laws prohibiting disand there’s not going to be anyone to do Higginbotham was initially prescribed crimination against transgender people anything about it.” hormones by a doctor in Montgomery, a in employment, housing, public places For some transgender students, the two-hour drive from Tuscaloosa. He said and schools. discomfort encountered on a day-to-day the University Medical Center would “I haven’t gotten a job interview since basis begins before ever stepping out of not prescribe hormones to him as a new [May 2013],” Higginbotham said. “I their front door. Living in an on-campus patient, but once he had seen the the doc- have tried over 150 places to get a job in housing assignment opposite to one’s tor in Montgomery, the UMC agreed to Tuscaloosa, and I have to [answer ‘yes’ to gender identity can turn what is supposed continue filling his existing prescription. the question], ‘Were you known under a to be a safe haven into a source of stress, Margaret Garner, interim executive different name?’ Nobody has called me Higginbotham said. director of the Student Health Center, back, even for an interview.”

“Housing has been an issue,” he said. said the SHC does not provide in-house Despite its challenges, group mem“That’s why I didn’t come to University services for transgender students. bers said transitioning is ultimately right out of high school, because I was “While the Student Health Center does what’s right for them. Higginbotham like, ‘I am not going to be with women on not currently employ providers who have said he hopes to influence change at the campus in dorms.’” experience in trans health issues, the staff University and encourage a level of openLaura Sanders, director of residen- will assess medical needs as they are pre- ness and understanding about what it tial communities, said HRC is can make sented and will refer the student to outside means to be transgender. adjustments for transgender students services that meet their needs.” Garner “If you’ve never questioned the ‘F’ or the who are uncomfortable with their said in an emailed statement.

‘M’ that’s on your birth certificate, then you housing assignments.

Higginbotham said the UMC used to truly don’t understand how difficult it is to “Residence halls or suites or apartments employ a team of three medical profes- know that it’s wrong,” Higginbotham said. are assigned by biological gender,” she sionals, including a psychiatrist, a general “I’m not making a choice to do this. This is said in an emailed statement. “HRC works practitioner and an endocrinologist, who what I have to do because if I don’t, I don’t with transgender students on a case-by- would work together to oversee hormone want to live. I don’t want to be on this earth case basis.” replacement therapy for transgender if I can’t be the person I was born to be.”

9 German bakery provides quiet atmosphere CULTURE Tuesday, October 7, 2014

By Laura Testino | Staff Reporter

Just before 5 a.m. every Monday through Saturday, the block on Fourth Street, sandwiched between Greensboro and 23rd Avenue, smells a little more like Germany than Tuscaloosa. The scent escapes from Edelweiss, a German bakery and coffee shop nestled on a corner of the street underneath a green awning.

Ester Scheeff, owner of Edelweiss, moved from Germany to Alabama in the late 1990s, and opened the bakery in 2007. The streets outside her shop are wider than the streets of Germany, and the temperatures are much warmer, but the tastes of her food closely resemble her favorite German flavors, she said.

“I like to cook and bake – I’ve always enjoyed it,” Scheeff said. “I have three kids, so I was always cooking a lot.”

Although the menu at Edelweiss includes mostly German cuisine, not all of the patrons have a strong relation to the German culture, Scheeff said. Between the regular customers and other visitors, the most popular food items vary from week to week.

Ian Toy, a junior majoring in music therapy, stumbled upon the bakery

Alabama student Grace Friday, a senior majoring in Spanish, checks out the selection at Edelweiss, a German bakery and coffee shop located downtown. CW / Lindsey Leonard

over a weekend his parents were visiting and has been returning with friends to study ever since. Toy said he finds comfort in the quiet and inviting European atmosphere. He said he enjoys the breakfast sandwiches, bratwurst lunch and chocolate cappuccino muffins and can hear the occasional German words.

“It’s my favorite corner of the universe,” he said.

For Mandy Wilk, hearing German and eating currywurst as a cuckoo clock ticks back and forth on the wall

is the ultimate reminder of her recent study abroad trip to Germany. Wilk, a senior majoring in German and music therapy, said she frequents the bakery as often as she can, which during the school year is about half as often as her two or three weekly visits during the summer. “[Edelweiss] is very quaint and small, and it usually isn’t crowded,” Wilk said.

Wilk’s favorite pastry is the bienenstich, or a bee sting cake, which is a dessert filled with custard and coated

with caramelized almonds. Friends who aren’t familiar with German cuisine enjoy the pastry, as well as the coffee, which can be refilled once per customer while in the bakery, Wilk said.

Alex Fraser, a senior majoring in civil engineering, said he visited Edelweiss every day or every other day over the summer to enjoy a refillable coffee and his favorite chocolate cappuccino muffin or orange blossom muffin.

“You can go there, sit down, read a book, and there’s hardly anyone there.

It’s not complete chaos,” Fraser said.

“You get there and have great coffee.

And their pastries are to die for.”

The typical crowd includes students, families, professors and other business people, Scheeff said. The typical German food Scheeff prepares each day includes pastries that have a distinct texture and aren’t as sweet as American pastries, she said.

The coffee menu includes plain coffee, as well as cappuccinos, lattes and tea with several options for additional flavors.

Edelweiss is located at 2324 4th St. and is open from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday until Saturday, and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays.

Group seeks to encourage female leadership on campus

By Cokie Thompson | Contributing Writer

In late September, actress Emma Watson gained public attention by speaking out for gender equality after her speech to the United Nations General Assembly launching the #HeforShe campaign. She told delegates she prepared for her role in the campaign by asking herself “If not me, who? If not now, when?” This year, a group of women at The University of Alabama asked themselves the same questions.

In doing so, they started the University’s chapter of The American Association of University Women, a women’s advocacy organization founded in 1881. Brielle Appelbaum, a senior majoring in communication studies, serves as the chapter’s president.

“We needed a platform that encourages sustainability, education, scholarship and research and the AAUW nationally provided that ten-fold,” she said.

Sarah Long, a senior majoring in public relations, is the group’s vice president of media relations and communications. As a non-partisan advocacy group, AAUW is open to anyone who supports the cause.

“Women’s issues are everyone’s issues, so we are reaching out to all students, faculty and staff on the University of Alabama campus,” she said.

Elizabeth McDonald, a graduate

advisor at the University, is one of the organization’s advisors. She said when she first heard about the group, she was eager to get involved.

“I have always been incredibly passionate and tenacious for women’s issues,” she said. “As a new professional, I want my career and activities to parallel my personal passion.”

McDonald said the chapter has the power to do a lot of good in the UA community and beyond. Although she was not involved in the national organization before the chapter at the University, she sees potential in the organization’s mission to empower and educate students to take an active role in local and national discussions.

“I really see this student organization as translating national women policies to a micro level here at Alabama, helping students understand the impact of these issues on their level, really meeting the students where they are at,” McDonald said.

Appelbaum said the group advocates on behalf of women as a whole, rather than one particular field or subgroup.

“We have a responsibly to ensure that all women from every discipline can be a strong leader in all fields,” Appelbaum said. “The AAUW is a sustainable answer from a policy and educational standpoint to continue this legacy.”

Although the chapter is in its first year, Appelbaum said they have had success in their efforts thus far.

Brielle Appelbaum, a senior majoring in communication studies, serves as the president of the University’s chapter of The American Association of University Women. Photo Courtesy of Sarah Long

“It was imperative that we had a purpose and served a need in the community, and based on the overwhelming support from across campus, I’d say we found it,” Appelbaum said.

Because the organization’s goals are so broad, the efforts vary Appelbaum said the chapter is currently working on a non-partisan midterm policy brief for

the upcoming elections.

McDonald said she envisions the chapter reaching out to first-year students through similar programs.

“So by the time they are seniors, they are well-educated in these matters and are actively participating in local and national discussions,” she said.

10 Alabama Triathletes club trains to compete Editor | Kelly Ward Sports@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, October 7, 2014

By Tyler Waldrep | Contributing Writer

Athletes transition between different stages of a triathalon. CW / Lindsey Leonard

Some students at The University of Alabama say they have broadened their horizons by running, swimming and biking as part of the Alabama Triathletes club.

“It has definitely improved my time here,” senior club member Shay Brown said.

Brown, like many other members, participated in track and cross country in high school and said he saw Alabama Triathletes as the perfect way to continue competing. Although many members join the club with similar backgrounds to Brown, Alabama Triathletes welcomes anyone regardless of ability or experience level.

“Half of our members join and have

never done anything before,” club president Taylor Wood said. “They are looking to get in shape and they are looking to challenge themselves.”

Triathlons by nature are competitive, but Wood said lack of ability should not deter beginners from joining the club.

“We don’t define a member’s success by how they are performing,” Wood said. “For a lot of people it is just about finishing a triathlon in the first place.”

Many club members said they enjoy the thrill of competing. Andrew Zeller, a recent addition to the team, said he relishes the competitive opportunities club membership provides.

“You just have a little sense of pride that you are racing for Alabama and that you are representing the school,” Zeller said.

The club recently competed at Lake Lanier in Georgia and now looks ahead to Oct. 12, when the team travels to compete in the Rev3 Anderson in South Carolina.

This will be the club’s last official event of the semester, but it does not mean the club members will be taking it easy.

Many of the members will compete as individuals in various events as they attempt to prepare for collegiate nationals, which will require the team to return to South Carolina next semester.

Students are able to take advantage of minimized lodging and travel expenses as members of the club. “[Competing in triathlons] will never be cheaper than to do it as a student,” Zeller said.

More information about the club can be found at bamatri.com

UA faces Title IX complaint Saban talks problems, injuries

By Nolan Imsande | Staff Reporter

By Sean Landry | Assistant Sports Editor

Attorney Don Jackson has filed a Title IX complaint against the University of Alabama on behalf of his client, former Alabama women’s basketball player Daisha Simmons.

“Information has come to my attention that strongly suggests that your Women’s Basketball coaching staff has utilized student-athlete athletic financial aid to engage in a fairly broad and comprehensive pattern of bullying, harassment, retaliatory conduct and institutional hazing,” He said in an email published by swishappeal. com, a subsidiary of Vox Media. “Further, in light of the manner in which athletic financial aid is administered by this coaching staff, there are strong implications of conduct that violates Title IX.” Simmons transferred to Alabama from Rutgers University and played for the Crimson Tide for two years, graduating with one year of eligibility remaining. With a mother in failing health and a brother on dialysis and unable to get into Alabama’s MBA program, Simmons sought a transfer to Seton Hall, where she planned to play in the 2014-2015 season, according to Swish Appeal. Since the transfer would be her second, she needed a waiver from the NCAA, which required the University’s endorsement. Jackson said athletic director Bill Battle and the University blocked the waiver, at women’s basketball coach Kristy Curry’s insistence. According to Swish Appeal, Curry told Seton Hall coach Tony Bozzella that the coaching staff would not block the appeal.

“In this situation, rather than supporting the waiver, the University athletic department, apparently at coach Curry’s urging, went one step further and intentionally blocked the waiver,” Jackson said.

“Had they simply said, ‘We support this waiver,’ the NCAA would have immediately declared her eligible. Even now, notwithstanding the fact that the University’s president’s position was that the case was closed, it’s not closed because the truth of the matter is with any waiver request, if any new information is presented, that waiver

Daisha Simmons has filed a Title IX complaint against The University of Alabama saying Athletic Director Bill Battle and the University blocked her request for a graduate transfer waiver. UA Athletics

application can be reopened, resubmitted to the NCAA staff and the waiver will still be granted based on that new information.

That new information here would be the University’s support of her play.”

The Alabama Athletic Department, in a letter to the NCAA obtained by AL.com, claims Simmons did not offer enough notice of her desire to transfer when she informed them on May 26, when the program would be unable to replace her.

One of the requirements of a graduate transfer waiver is that the athlete transfer to an institution that offers a graduate program not available at the prior institution, according to athleticscholarships.net. In Simmons’ case, the University doesn’t offer a graduate business program in sports management, but it contends it offers qualifying programs – one in the department of kinesiology and another in the College of Human Environmental Sciences.

Jackson said the University’s treatment of Simmons is a symptom of an organizational philosophy that violates the federal law commonly referred to as Title IX. The University is required to respond to the complaint with an internal investigation.

Jackson said his expectations for the complaint extend beyond the restoration of Simmons’ eligibility.

“It’s my expectation that this case is likely to wind up in federal court,” he said.

After losing to Ole Miss 23-17 on Saturday, Alabama will have the unusual task of having to figure out how to recover from an early season loss. In a tough road game that was marred by injuries, penalties and special teams errors, the Crimson Tide could not do enough to beat the Rebels. Alabama coach Nick Saban addressed his team’s problems during his Monday press conference.

“It is important when you play in difficult games against good opponents on the road that you finish plays, finish drives and that you finish the game,” Saban said. “We did not do that very well in this game.”

The last time that the Crimson Tide lost this early in the season was in 2007, Saban’s first year as head coach, when the team lost to Georgia in a late September home game. Saban said the attention would now be on how the team responds to this loss.

“Everybody has got to ask themselves the questions, from the coaches right on down starting with me, who is making this team better?” Saban said. “How do we get more players involved in being able to play winning football?”

During the press conference Saban also addressed injuries sustained by linebacker Denzel Devall and center Ryan Kelly. Devall, who suffered an ankle injury on the first series of game, had surgery and will be out three to four weeks. Kelly, who sprained his knee during the game, did not need surgery but will miss some time. Saban said Kelly’s injury will take “at least a couple of weeks” to heal.

Senior linebacker Josh Dickerson runs a drill at practice Monday. CW / Shelby Akin

WHAT TO KNOW • Offensive lineman Grant Hill was not at practice. Hill was not at practice at all last week and Saban said he is ill.

• Running back Tyren Jones rode the stationary bike during practice. He was wearing a cast on his left hand.

Jones had surgery on a torn finger ligament last week.

• Center Bradley Bozeman practiced with the first team offensive line.

Bozeman replaced Kelly when he came out of Saturday’s game with a knee injury.

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Drake out for at least 8 to 10 weeks after injury

By Kelly Ward | Sports Editor

Junior running back Kenyan Drake broke his left leg in the second quarter of Saturday’s 23-17 loss to Ole Miss. He had surgery in Birmingham.

“I think probably eight to 10 weeks before he really can start doing things that would allow him to be able to even think about being able to play football again,” coach Nick Saban said.

Drake’s teammates said they were sad to

see him injured because they knew how hard he worked during the week and how much he contributed to the offense. “[His injury] makes you want to go harder and do better for that one person after they get hurt,” senior running back Jalston Fowler said.

The team will be able to look to other running backs like Fowler, but Drake provided a threat in the air. He had 159 yards receiving.

Last season, Drake had eight touchdowns and rushed for 694 yards on 92 carries. He had

12 receptions for 135 yards. As a freshman, he had five touchdowns and 281 yards on the ground off 42 carries.

Through five games, Drake leads the team in touchdowns with six.

“You just put somebody else somewhere else, like another player,” Fowler said. “You could put me in there and let the other running backs do what they do, you could put a tight end and let them do what they do. It won’t be hard, but it’s a big loss to our offense.”

Running back Kenyan Drake broke his left leg during Saturday’s loss to the Ole Miss. CW / Pete Pajor

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