THURSDAY OCTOBER 17, 2013 VOLUME 120 ISSUE 43 Serving The University of Alabama since 1894
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Effects of 16-day government shutdown echoed from Capitol Hill to campus, leaving some with few options By Mark Hammontree and Anna Waters | CW Staff
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ne would think that rocket scientists would never find themselves out of work, but during the recent government shutdown, University of Alabama student and NASA employee and intern Liz Bowman struggled to come up with a backup plan. “We were at work the day before the shutdown, and nobody actually expected it to shut down,” Bowman said. On Oct. 1, the federal government entered a shutdown after Congress failed to pass appropriations legislation to ensure government operations could remain funded. The shutdown, which furloughed all federal government employees deemed nonessential, resulted from the failure of Democrat-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reach a compromise on a continuing resolution, with
Photo Courtesy of MCT Campus, Photo Illustration by Austin Bigoney The effects of the government shutdown trickled down to Tuscaloosa as students suddenly found themselves having to improvise life without the services they depend on.
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SPORTS | VOLLEYBALL
NEWS | RESIDENCE HALLS
Volleyball team ready Palmer Hall to be torn for Power of Pink match down, Malleteers displaced Alabama to trade in crimson for pink to raise awareness
Honors residence program to move from aging dormitory
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By Rachel Brown | Contributing Writer
The University of Alabama volleyball team is temporarily abandoning its traditional colors – one of them, that is. The team is trading in crimson for pink on Friday for its fifth annual “Power of Pink” match. The initiative was started in 2004 by gymnastics head coach Sarah Patterson to spread breast cancer awareness. “I’m proud to be a part of a schoolwide event along with a lot of other teams who are having pink events to raise awareness, and it’s just a fun way to give everyone more information on how to see the signs early and really to get checked,” sophomore Sierra Wilson said. “It’s a good way to keep a little more lighthearted on what the subject is.” The volleyball team started participating in the Power of Pink in 2009. This weekend, it isn’t the only team involved; cross-country
On a cool afternoon, students are found sitting on the porch outside Palmer Hall that residents have deemed “the stoop.” The window in the drawing room on the first floor is open to let in the fresh air. Walls are embellished with original paintings and designs. Students sit around the community room playing guitar, eating dinner, catching up on work and enjoying each other’s company. It is a place that fosters community. Palmer is home to The Mallet Assembly, an honors residence program at The University of Alabama. Mallet has been housed in Palmer since 2007 but will be moving again because the building is slated for demolition come next summer. Members of The Mallet Assembly, or Malleteers, said the demolition has been a topic of conversation for many years. “We’ve been aware of Palmer Hall’s demise for a while now,” Brandon Izor, a sophomore
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CW | Pete Pajor Volleyball renews its tradition of joining other UA sports in raising awareness for breast cancer.
We’ve been aware of Palmer Hall’s demise for a while now. But every year it seems to get pushed back further and further. — Brandon Izor Malleteer majoring in computer science, said. “But every year it seems to get pushed back further and further.” This summer it became clear Palmer would be torn down soon after the spring 2014 semester, Izor said. Despite the coming move, members feel certain a change of venue will not affect the organization. SEE MALLET PAGE 13
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Food drive kicks off The 20th annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive began Monday with a kickoff event at the Ferguson Center. Students were able to purchase T-shirts and donate to get their favorite contestant a pie in the face. Last year, Auburn claimed the contest’s Can Trophy, a trophy topped by a can of soup, by collecting a total of 273,650 pounds of food, compared to Alabama’s 266,737 pounds. This year, Alabama’s team is hoping to defeat UA’s cross-state rivals in food collection.
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Free flu shots offered Free flu shots will be available to University of Alabama faculty, staff and students on Friday, October 18, from 12:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Ridgecrest East. The shots will be available during all shifts and are being offered as part of a University effort, led by the College of Community Health Sciences, to vaccinate UA employees and students against the flu this year. University insurance or other forms of insurance are not required. Throughout the month, nurses from the College’s University Medical Center and Student Health Center, as well as from the UA Capstone College of Nursing, will be located at sites across campus to provide the free flu shots. For additional flu shot dates, times and locations, check the college’s facebook at Facebook.com/ UAFluShot and Twitter at Twitter.com/UAFluShot or contact acsaxby@cchs.ua.edu.
CW | Pete Pajor Julianna Waynick and Jennifer Hodnett hold signs of encouraging words in front of Gorgas Library Wednesday morning.
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Republicans seeking provisions meant to defund and delay key elements of the Affordable Care Act that was to go into effect on Oct. 1. Democrats pushed for what they called a clean continuing resolution, but the two chambers and the two parties were unable to reach a deal. As a result, roughly 800,000 federal emplyees were furloughed. For the past two weeks Republicans and Democrats have swapped blame while passing legislation to end furloughs for certain parts of the government, including the military’s civilian personnel through the Pay Our Military Act. Neither party seemed to be budging as the shutdown drew on and the country inched ever closer to the debt ceiling. Late Wednesday night, hours before the debt limit would be reached, a bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling passed with bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. The bill was sent to the White House where President Obama signed it. The government reopened Thursday morning. For many people, families and even students, the two weeks of furloughs and shutdown had noticeable effects.
Mission: Grounded Bowman, a UA senior at the University, was accepted for an internship position working on the programming for the firing room of the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The firing room is where NASA aerospace engineers control a rocket’s launch. The day after finishing her training for the position, the government shut down, and Bowman was told to stay home. “We were told to absolutely do zero work,” Bowman said in an interview with The Crimson White Tuesday. “If you do any sort of work, they might put you in jail. They’ll fine you. We were told we can’t even look at our email.” Bowman said she was not even able to contact her advisors at other offices to ask them questions, and whenever
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she did hear from colleagues or advisors, there was no information on when work would resume or when she would receive her stipend payments. “What we’ve been told is that if the shutdown lasts more than two weeks, [the date of our pay] would be affected,” Bowman said Tuesday. “I heard that the day before the shutdown. I haven’t heard from anybody since then because they can’t use their email. We’ve gone a good percentage of this internship without doing any work. I want to get paid, but honestly, everybody’s in the dark. I have my mentor’s cellphone [number], and she’s as in the dark as I am. And she’s the branch chief.” Bowman said in situations similar to the government shutdown, organizations like NASA are often the first mentioned when the government talks about cutting programs and said during the shutdown she was not sure what her plans would be in the event that NASA closed permanently. “Once I finish school, I would go work over there,” Bowman said. “But if there is no NASA, I guess I would have to go to school and maybe try to work for a commercial company. Everything would be way different. It would ruin my plans.” With the shutdown lifted, Bowman may soon be able to return to work. For her, that work is part of larger dreams of working at NASA, dreams of worlds far away from government shutdowns. “Being the first person on Mars would be my ultimate goal, but I feel like when I’m the right age, I wouldn’t really want to go through a commercial company,” Bowman said. “NASA is what feels right to me. They’re the ones actually doing stuff. They’re not going just for the hell of going. They’re going for missions, to discover things and to do experiments.”
Contingency Plans Those with internships at government agencies were not the only UA students affected by the shutdown. Cadets and citizen employees of the University’s ROTC programs also faced fallout from the government furloughs. Dan Gronke, Alabama ROTC’s human resource and recruiting operations officer,
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said the civilian Army employees, including himself, at the ROTC had to stay home when the shutdown first took effect. “Initially, when the furlough went in, there was about a four-day period where everybody in the government was furloughed, but then they did the Pay Our Military Act, and that brought all the department of defense workers, and that’s what we are. It brought us back,” Gronke said Wednesday. Gronke and Capt. Jack Benford, an assistant professor of military science, said the stipends that ROTC cadets receive from the Army come in twice-monthly payments, the next of which was set to be issued around Oct. 15. If the shutdown had continued, the cadets would not have received those stipends, but Gronke said he was hopeful that Congress would pass the deal. “If the furlough and the shutdown went on further, there was a higher possibility of a negative effect,” Gronke said. Even if cadets’ payments were delayed, however, Benford said the students would receive the full amounts when the furloughs ended. “All these benefits and payments are retroactive,” Benford said. “They’re going to pay them back, so it’s not like they won’t get paid ever.” In the meantime, Lt. Col. Ken Kemmerly, professor of military science, said the ROTC had drawn up creditors’ letters to send to any landlords or creditors to which cadets may owe payments. Kemmerly said the letter essentially informed the creditor of the potential delay in the cadet’s stipend payments due to the shutdown and asked that the creditor accommodate the student to be able to pay any bills once stipends are received. Kemmerly said he wanted to be clear that the ROTC had no special fund to help students pay bills during the furlough. A similar letter was sent to the UA Office of Student Receivables in the event that the cadets’ scholarships, paid by the Army, were delayed. Kemmerly said student receivables has worked with cadets in the past when scholarship payments were delayed for reasons beyond the cadets’ control.
“Student receivables has historically been very accommodating and understanding, as long as we’re keeping them informed,” Kemmerly said. Separate from the scholarships and stipends that cadets receive, but still affected by the shutdown, was the Army funding for training operations for ROTC. Kemmerly and Gronke said a contingency plan was in place for a training exercise scheduled to at a military camp in Mississippi with 17 or 18 other schools. The costs of the training exercise, including meals, travel expenses and costs associated with using the facilities, would normally be federal funds from the Army, Kemmerly said. Should the shutdown have continued however, the ROTC battalion would not have had access to the federal funds needed for the trip and had an alternate plan in place to do similar training exercises on land located closer to campus that is owned by the University. Kemmerly said the alternate plan would have allowed the cadets to still receive the training. The environment would just be a little different. “We said, ‘Hey, we will continue to train. We will just have to modify the training,’” Kemmerly said. “It would be like if the football team didn’t have their practice field available, so maybe they go inside the gym, and they continue to practice and train.” Kemmerly also said ROTC was not able to contract new cadets or grant scholarships during this period but, they worked with any interested students. He also said once the appropriations bill was approved by Congress, ROTC would move forward finalizing contracts and scholarships. Benford said it was important to understand it was neither UA ROTC nor the Army that was withholding funding or stipends or scholarships. “It’s a top-down funding approach, so it’s not like we have to hold this money; they have to give it to us, the federal government,” Benford said. “It starts at Congress. That’s really where all this stuff is pent up. So it’s not the Army. It’s not the University. It’s actually Congress. That’s where it starts.”
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Students awarded prizes for proper parking By Alex Swatson | Contributing Writer It pays to follow parking regulations at The University of Alabama. In 2011, the judicial branch of the Student Government Association partnered with UA Transportation Services and created a positive parking incentive to encourage students to park appropriately. “During the 2012-13 year, more than 50,000 citations were issued,” Chris D’Esposito, assistant director of transportation services, said. “The good news is that issued citations have dropped each and every year since 2008 from 80,000.” D’Esposito said he believes transportation services like CrimsonRide, the variety of parking options on campus and parking inventory utilization have led to the decline of citations issued. To be eligible for the incentive, students must have an active permit and not have received any citations or warnings for the current semester. At the end of each semester, the names of eligible students are placed in a random
drawing to receive one of five $100 scholarships, and the award is credited to the student’s account. D’Esposito said students should make a conscious choice that positively impacts our campus. “That is actually how I describe a parking citation: A citation is a choice, not a fee,” he said. “Individuals who choose to park in a manner that is either unsafe or not within their zone are potentially denying a place to park to their fellow student.” Ally Zarcone, a senior majoring in restaurant and hospitality management, said she has never received a citation and was unaware of the incentive. “The worst parking experience I had on campus is every time I try to park on campus,” Zarcone said. “You pay so much for a permit, but you aren’t guaranteed a spot. This morning, I got here at 10 o’clock, and there were no spots in either of the West Commuter lots.” Zarcone said if parking decks were built upward instead of outward, the University would have more space for parking.
When it comes to parking on campus, students have options. Students residing on campus receive residential decals. Students who live off campus can rely on the shuttle from their apartment or purchase a commuter decal. The commuter areas are divided into geographical zones on campus: Northeast, Southwest and West. Students can pay extra to have access to certain parking decks. Hamilton Bloom, vice president of Student Affairs, said it is important to provide positive incentives for doing the right thing in terms of parking. “Most students try to follow proper parking regulations,” Bloom said. “Although the SGA cannot build new parking facilities, we can reward those who obey parking regulations.” Bloom said students should arrive to their parking areas with enough time to find a spot and get where they need to be. “There are many open spots in specific zones, so know which lots are for your zone,” he said. “The key is planning ahead.”
CW | Austin Bigoney The Student Government Association in partnership with UA Transportation Services offers incentives for a lack of parking citations.
NEWSIN BRIEF Students, grads offer internship advice By Alyx Chandler | Contributing Writer Recent University of Alabama graduates and students who have accepted or completed an internship will be available from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday in the Rotunda of Reese Phifer to advise students in the College of Communication and Information Sciences on job experience and how to work their way up to securing an internship. The internships presented include The Tuscaloosa News, internships in Washington, D.C., Disney World and at Guy Harvey. This informational opportunity is being brought back to give C&IS students the chance to get a head start on real-world experience. Jim Oakley, career counselor and recruiter for C&IS, and Carol
Mills, associate dean for undergraduate studies, will head the event. Approximately four to five of the 20 students involved will be spread out at different times during the day to answer questions about personal experience leading up to their internships. On-the-job questions will be answered as well. Mills said she encourages students to bring practical experience back into the classroom to further enrich the college. From 9 a.m.-12 p.m., the UA Career Center will have a representative to help critique resumes and give tips. Students can also learn how to properly present their resumes for applying to internships. All C&IS majors are encouraged to stop by.
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An open letter to the boys of the street Editor’s Note: The following column contains language that may be offensive to some readers.
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Machine’s silence worth a thousand words By Asher Elbein | Staff Columnist On Monday, the very day when Kelly Horowitz filed a brief alleging fraud in the Tuscaloosa municipal elections, we woke to find our residence halls covered in fliers. Each purported to be an announcement for a public meeting held by Theta Nu Epsilon, and each was emblazoned with a pair of crossed keys and a grinning skull. The Machine apparently was going on a recruitment drive, and the whole campus was invited. Honestly, that’s what should have tipped everybody off that it was a hoax. The free pizza and beer was pretty obvious, sure, and the UA Still Stands hashtag was a dead giveaway. But the real sign was the laughable idea that the Machine has any interest in mixing with the rest of the campus. The Machine reacts to inclusivity like a cockroach reacts to the bathroom light: a hurried dash into shadows
Asher Elbein and a frantic squeeze into the slimiest crack it can find. Theta Nu Epsilon doesn’t hand out refreshments unless you buy them with votes. Theta Nu Epsilon doesn’t want the whole campus to show up to anything. Theta Nu Epsilon doesn’t care about what you have to say. Here’s what Theta Nu Epsilon does care about: In 1976, cloaked men burned crosses on sorority lawns after Cleo Thomas – to this day our only black SGA president – beat the Machinebacked candidate. In 1986,
members of the Machine broke into an independent candidate’s office and left one of his staffers in the hospital after he was allegedly jumped outside his dormitory. In 1993, a candidate running against the Machine was attacked with a knife. In 2004, a freshman from a Machine sorority was driven off campus by threats, including a warning she related to The Crimson White: “You ****ed up the day you decided to start thinking against us.” In 2013, a formerly Machine-backed candidate for the Tuscaloosa Board of Education elections won with an overwhelmingly greek vote – votes that are now being challenged as coerced at best and fraudulent at worst. Much of the above isn’t proven, of course. It’s hard to make things stick to the Machine. It’s hard to get them to even acknowledge their own existence. Theta Nu Epsilon is, after all, a secret society. It works best in the
dark, with secret meetings and secret ballots and secret emails. If the Machine were real, its members would have to account for their behavior. They would have to take responsibility. You know, I was going to write something sarcastic this week. I was going to have a little fun with this. But this is both too serious and too pathetic to make fun of. Our campus is run by children playing at cloak-and-dagger politics. They will go off into the world having learned that corruption is acceptable, accountability is for other people and you can get away with anything if you just keep quiet whenever you’re caught breaking society’s rules. So we wake up in the aftermath of a stolen election with fake fliers everywhere. Theta Nu Epsilon says nothing. But its silence says everything. Asher Elbein is a senior in New College. His column runs biweekly on Thursdays.
This is a letter to the boys who helped me parallel park only to say, “Now we flip a coin to see what we get.” Who said, “Heads we get head, tails we get tail.” I envision a world where I can walk past fraternities without someone screaming sexual obscenities repeatedly in a high pitch as one would a pig. Where women aren’t berated for ignoring the advances of drunken strangers. Where does your entitlement come from, that you cannot see that our silence is a kindness? Perhaps it is unthinkable that we resist you. I’m sorry, did I cast a chink in your manhood? It is so small, I did not see it there. Are you so bowled over by your own wit that this failure of empathy seems warranted? This is a letter to boys insisting we smile when years of street harassment teach us to empty our faces, avoid eye contact and walk quickly. Is it such an affront to be anything other than pretty and receptive? Did you know women walk down streets for reasons other than aesthetic appreciation? What invitation would you read if we smiled? The calls move quickly from admiration to degradation. It is rarely the space of six paces. In 2008, the nonprofit organization Stop Street Harassment conducted a survey of 811 women. Three women reported no harassment. Three. Ninety-five percent experienced leering/excessive staring, with 68 percent reporting at least 26 instances in their lives. Ninety-five percent were honked after, with 40 percent reporting at least a monthly occurrence. Eighty-seven percent experienced sexist comments, 82 percent vulgar gestures and 81 percent sexually explicit comments. Apparently, this is a given if you are a woman. Seventy-five percent were followed by a stranger. Fifty-seven percent were touched or grabbed sexually. More than 37 percent admitted that yes, a stranger had masturbated at or in front of them in public. I fear what statistics look like for the LGBTQ community. I fear all the evidence will state unambiguously, “If you are not a hetero-normative male, then public space is not yours.” This is a letter to the boys who don’t do these things but stand silently by their embarrassing friends; I sense your deep unease. You look away, but you could do more. You could shame your friend in a way that we cannot. Your friend already concluded that women have less personhood than him. Our words don’t touch him. You could point to the thing that makes him harass women, the thing he is desperate to hide. Maybe he’d stop, knowing the spotlight will turn on him. Think how much better you would feel. This is a letter to myself saying, “Stop imagining what you should’ve said.” Accept that you kept walking. There is something in him, and you don’t need to know what it is. Might the University create a better environment? This is more than boys being boys. It is entrenched behavior that simultaneously reduces women to objects of sight and makes them wish not to be seen. The best possible outcome is that she is flattered. That she finds her worth in this. And that is just deplorable. Given that my examples happened on campus or immediately adjacent, should female students accept this is a price they pay for going to school? I was outside the Blount dormitory when someone in a car shouted, “Hey girl, let me play with that asshole.” They drove away from any repercussions. I was humiliated. If you think this is not a University problem, consider that no one associated with the University ever said, “You don’t deserve this.” Or better, “You deserve so much more than this.” Women do not hear that because street harassment is seen as absurd or humorous rather than belittling. We are taught to laugh even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts. “Smile,” they say. Note that this is a letter to boys, not men. Amanda Moore is a graduate student in library sciences.
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Women’s body issues dominated by insecurities, not children’s toys By Erynn Williams | Staff Columnist In today’s society, subliminal messaging is almost expected from many different sources of media. But sometimes I think we should take a second to look at things at face value. Recently, I came across an image consisting of two “Barbie dolls.” One, the Barbie that would be seen on the shelves of just about any major retail toy store and the other, being referred to as “Average Barbie,” which is shown to have fuller features and a shorter stature. Instantly, I was bothered by this image. I can understand why
Erynn Williams someone would feel as though this would be a great solution to body image issues within women of all ages; however, I choose to take a different stand on the issue. As a child I played with plenty of Barbie dolls. The thought never struck me
that I had to look just like the mass manufactured doll that I enjoyed playing with. I realize that I am one person out of many on this planet, and also my upbringing was very different from others. But again, I never felt as though a plastic doll was the model for the ideal woman. So this brings about my question: Why change the way Barbie looks? Many would argue that Barbie’s features are unattainable, that her dimensions could never exist because her body would collapse. But what if that was the point? What if Barbie was created to be unattainable so we would
look past her dimensions and proportions to enjoy her for simply what she is: a piece of plastic molded to look like a woman intended for the use of children. Body image issues are prevalent in people of all ages, shapes, sizes and colors. But often I feel as though people interpret images in light of their own issues. What’s wrong with being “skinny” or being “little”? What’s wrong with being “fat” or “big”? If you are living happily and healthily in your own skin, no one else’s body image will cause you any grief. Two days ago, I saw another controversial photo: an image of a “fit”
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mother, Maria Kang, with her three children. Above her head the question “What’s your excuse?” was displayed. It has been a year since the original post of this image, however Kang is still receiving negative feedback. Comments have included calling Kang a bad mother and accusations of “fat shaming.” At face value, this is just an image of a smiling woman who appears to be in shape posing with her three sons. For all we as the audience can tell, Kang may simply want to send the message that “If I can have three children and look like this, then you can,” or maybe, “If I can do it, then there is no excuse for why
you cannot.” But as with the image of Barbie, some have decided to take their grief with their own image to portray the image as negative. I think it’s time we realize our own insecurities and stop allowing them to influence the way we view the world. It’s time to stop looking for excuses and people to blame, and own up to our own flaws and learn to love ourselves. This is not the easiest thing to do, but realizing this happens is the first step to fixing the problem. Erynn Williams is a sophomore majoring in dance and international studies. Her column runs biweekly.
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CW | Lindsey Leonard The University of Alabama’s first Fossil Day unveiled remains of the elasmosaurus plesiosaur, discovered on accident by a middle school student last summer.
Fossil Day showcases local student’s discovery By Jason Frost | Contributing Writer More than 80 million years ago, an elasmosaurus plesiosaur died navigating through the ancient waters of what is now the state of Alabama. And thanks to the effort of The University of Alabama paleontology department and the middle schooler who discovered it, the elasmosaur now rests peacefully in Smith Hall. Noah Traylor made headlines last summer when he accidentally stumbled upon the remains of the creature during a UA event. “Every year, the museum does a field expedition,” naturalist Todd Hester said. “We take middle school and high school students to a camp in the field. We stay in tents, we have camp showers, and we do either paleontology or archaeology, depending on who we are working with that year.” Noah has been attending the camps since sixth grade at the behest of his mother, assistant professor Amy Traylor of the social work department. “He thought it was a rock,” Hester said. “Just took it to our paleontologist and asked, ‘Hey is this something?” And we were like, ‘Yeah, that’s something!’” Noah’s work does not end there. He has been coming to the University on Fridays to help prepare the skeleton – so far only a collection of vertebrae – for use.
“I’ve been cleaning the fossils,” Noah said. “So far, it’s only the stuff I found, but eventually I’m going to move on to the rest.” Though Noah does not plan to go into paleontology as a career, looking instead to the military and medical fields, he said he does enjoy his monthly visits and has taken to it as a hobby, joined by five other volunteers from around Tuscaloosa. “I would like to know more about fossils – how they were before they were fossilized. And I just like going out in the field,” Noah said. The completed elasmosaur exhibit was unveiled Thursday at the University’s first Fossil Day exhibit. Sponsored by the National Park Service, which was able to contribute despite the government shutdown, the third annual Fossil Day aims to “promote public awareness and stewardship of fossils,” according to its Facebook page. Dana Ehret, curator of paleontology, attributes his inspiration for starting the event to his college experience. “I try to include outreach in all my programs,” Ehret said. “I had a lot of teachers inspire me to be a professor, and I want to give back as much as I can.” Fossil Day, held from 4-6 p.m. in Smith Hall, featured representatives from the departments of paleontology and archaeology, as well as members of the marine science club, all of whom pulled
NEWSIN BRIEF College of Arts and Sciences sponsors ‘Class with the Dean’ contest Students in the College of Arts and Sciences have until Friday to go on Facebook or Twitter and tell the dean about their favorite class in the college. One student will be chosen to receive a $100 scholarship and have Dean Robert Olin accompany them to the class they wrote about. The professor of the class will
also receive a $200 research stipend. Two runners-up will receive $50 scholarships for participation. Students who plan to enter via Twitter should use the hashtag #CWTD, for Class with the Dean, in their post. Entrants must be 18 years or older and a student in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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out some of their best fossils to show to the public. The astronomy department also donated footprint specimens from a local mine. “The engineering department [brought] their 3-D printers, which are available to anyone for research or other purposes, so Fossil Day is also about promoting resources on campus,” Ehret said. “I use the prints when teaching fossil clubs.” Sharks’ teeth, 3-D printed souvenirs and refreshments were also given away. Immediately after the event, Jim Lacefield, adjunct professor of biology and earth science, discussed his new book, “Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks,” which is now available on Amazon. The museum isn’t done yet. A larger event is currently in the works for Jan. 26, led by Ehret, who is looking to make the Museum of Natural History much more public and exciting. “[We are] also considering longterm, changing exhibits to show off what we have,” Ehret said. “We have dinosaur fossils in Alabama, but nobody really knows about it. And we’ve got crocodile remains from the Cretaceous Period we’re looking to display.” Noah, who was present for the opening, said he “likes what he does in paleontology” and hopes to continue helping the school polish up the elasmosaur. “When I found out about the opening, Dr. Ehret called me up and said I should be there,” Noah said, “…and my mom said I had to go.”
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Apwonjo plans Human Rights Week
NEWSIN BRIEF Campus group fosters respect One Team. One Bama. will be in the Ferguson Center Friday, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. encouraging students to pledge to be more respectful of one another. After students make their pledge, they will receive a free “Hey Y’all” T-shirt. Students who wear their T-shirt to the Alabama vs. Texas A&M soccer game at 6:30 p.m. Friday will be eligible for prizes. One Team. One Bama.’s goals include fostering a sense of community at the University and encouraging civil behavior. For more information about the organization, visit its website at oneteam.ua.edu.
Student group hopes to shed light on global humanitarian issues
Students prepare for graduation The University will host a graduation celebration in the lobby of the Ferguson Center From 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18. Students who plan to graduate in December can order class rings, graduation announcements, caps, gowns, diploma frames and other memorabilia. Master’s and doctoral students can also purchase hoods and other regalia. There will be a 10 percent discount for gown packages and a 20 percent discount for diploma frames during the celebration. Free food and drinks, as well as door prizes, will be available.
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Submitted Apwonjo encourages students to make a difference in third-world nations at part of Human Rights Week. By William Barshop | Contributing Writer
of that,’” Siglet said. “But every time we set up a table someone will come up who’s The University’s sub-Saharan Africa never heard of the issue before. We love to advocacy group, Apwonjo, will be spread- see those people who don’t know anything ing information on the Quad about global about it become the people who will be the human rights issues from Oct. 21-25 for its next leaders.” annual Human Rights Week. Sigler said one of the advantages of Apwonjo’s Human Rights Week 2013 will Human Rights Week is that it addresses explore a different human rights issue each enough issues that anyone can be inspired day of the week, with members speaking to to take action or learn more. passers-by outside Lloyd Hall. The week’s “The hope is at end of the week, no one themes will address topics from govern- will have an excuse to not take care of the ment corruption to human trafficking. oppressed and fight for something bigger “We want to start a conversation about than themselves,” Sigler said. “I think peothese injustices and know more than what ple forget it’s not just one issue, one injusthe media feed us,” Apwonjo tice, one calamity.” president Ruth Bishop said. Wednesday at the Ferg, “This is a way to start as the University’s Muslim many of those conversaStudents Association pretions as we can.” sented information about the For the day focusing on recent conflict in Syria. Sehar malaria, Apwonjo will let Ezez, a sophomore majoring students fly kites while in history and social welfare, they learn about the Kite said the group wants people Patch, a sticker which is to understand the scope being tested in Uganda to of the damage outside of prevent disease-transmitjust what affects American ting mosquito bites. Bishop politics. said these kinds of physical — Ruth Bishop “I think people do know associations can get people about the conflict there,” to remember the inforEzez said. “I don’t think peomation they’re trying to ple know what the humanicommunicate. tarian effect is. You don’t think about the “We try to incorporate some kind of activ- economic effect of the displacement. You ity,” Bishop said. “There are people who don’t think about the countries around could get really, really passionate about Syria as well.” these things and we want to draw them in.” Bishop said Apwonjo’s goal for the week Josh Sigler, a senior majoring in commu- isn’t to get donations, although they are nications studies and German and president welcome, but the goal is to make students of Alabama’s International Justice Mission, think of themselves as global citizens and said he’s seen the effects of events like these branch out of their own communities. “If in the University’s awareness of worldwide they hear about it now, maybe later down slavery. the road they’ll be able to [make] a bigger “We’ve definitely seen an increase; peo- impact,” Bishop said. “Right now I just want ple will come up and say, ‘Yeah, I’ve heard us to realize the place we have in the world.”
We want to start a conversation about these injustices and know more than what the media feed us.
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Apwonjo Human Rights Week WHEN: Oct. 21-25 WHERE: The Quad (in front of Lloyd) and the Ferg TIMELINE OF EVENTS MON: Global health, with free bubbles on the Quad TUES: Human trafficking, with IJM on the Quad WED: Corruption, on the Quad, and the crisis in Syria, with the Musilm Students Association in the Ferg THURS: Malaria, with kite flying on the Quad FRI: UN millennium development goals with ONE in the Ferg
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Transportation services offers ways to get around By Alex Swatson | Contributing Writer Students without a car on campus have a friend in the University of Alabama’s Transportation Services, which provides several auxiliary services in conjunction with the city of Tuscaloosa for students needing to get around town. The CrimsonRide transit system has been on campus since 2007 and continues to expand. “The University of Alabama has some type of transportation services operating 24 hours a day except when school is officially closed,” Director of Transit Ralph Clayton said. “The system has expanded
services to include 348-RIDE ondemand vans, 348Express Route, Downtown Express, Shopping Shuttle, Airport Shuttle and charter services.” Transportation services tries to distribute information to students during orientation and keep updated information on its website and social media. The Downtown Express operates Thursdays through Saturdays from 9 p.m.-3 a.m. with seven stops, including Jefferson Avenue behind the Pi Kappa Alpha house, Colonial Drive beside Reese Phifer, Publix, Mellow Mushroom, Innisfree and the Walk of Champions.
Shuttles to the Birmingham Airport from campus are available during specific times during the fall and spring semesters, most notably the Thanksgiving holiday and spring break. Another service, GOTCHA Ride, operates day and night, and its goal is to provide students, faculty and staff safe transportation free of charge, Susan Caples, assistant director of transportation services, said. “GOTCHA Ride is an open-air electric vehicle that seats six people,” Caples said. Ride sharing is also becoming a popular form of transportation on
the UA campus. Since March 2011, Zimride, the University’s network for ridesharing, has had 1,731 cumulative users, and in the last 90 days, 103 people have used the service. Additionally, the car-sharing service Zipcar now has two cars on campus since launching at the University. “Zipcar has been really convenient,” Kindle Williams, a sophomore majoring in chemical engineering, said. “I have a bike on campus, and that can only get you so far. So if we want to do anything out on the town, we’re very limited to friends with cars. It’s a way to have access to freedom without having to buy a car.”
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CW | Hannah Glenn
‘Three Days at Foster’ to examine history of race in athletics By Ellen Coogan | Staff Reporter
to The University of Alabama for the first time through his documentary “Three Days at Foster” Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater. “I don’t want to give away what it was because it’s kind of an ‘a-ha moment’ in the film, but it was a moment that really just hit me like a thunderbolt that was so powerful in terms of
Keith Dunnavant had Wilbur Jackson’s story on his mind the whole plane ride back to New York in 1999. More than a decade later, Dunnavant will present the story of Jackson – the first black scholarship football player – taking his daughter
demonstrating how far we have come as a culture,” Dunnavant said. At the time of the plane ride, Dunnavant was working as a magazine editor and did not have time to create the documentary. Later when he began making documentaries, this story was at the top of his list, he said.
‘Three Days at Foster’ is about the athletic pioneers who shattered the color barrier at The University of Alabama, including Wilbur Jackson, Dock Rone, Wendell Hudson and several others,” Dunnavant said. “It’s a film about what happened in the shadow of George Wallace’s infamous Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.”
Dunnavant will introduce the film and answer questions following the showing. “Our history certainly shapes who we are today,” Calvin Brown, director of Alumni Affairs, said. “The documentary shows how athletics played a key role in integration and helped the University evolve over time.”
Sports are often the nation’s first introduction to the University, and the film will explore the role of sports in UA history, Brown said. “Sports are passion – it reflects our sense of self. At the heart of sports is competition,” Dunnavant said. “It’s measuring yourself against another person on the field of play.”
NEWSIN BRIEF SGA holds academic scavenger hunt The Student Government Association is holding an academic scavenger hunt during the month of October. The scavenger hunt is meant to encourage students to meet with their professors and to use the academic resources on campus. Students can pick up an
academic scavenger hunt passport in the SGA office, the Writing Center or any of the libraries on campus. To complete the hunt, students will have to meet with two professors, make an appointment with their academic advisor, create an educational plan on
UA alumnus to discuss cybersecurity DegreeWorks and meet with an academic resource professional. Students who fill out their entire passport by the Nov. 8 deadline will be entered for a chance to win one of a number of prizes, including two iPad Minis and a spirit pack from the ¦SUPe Store.
Gary Fowlie, a University of Alabama alumnus and an information specialist for the United Nations, will deliver a lecture on cybersecurity Thursday, Oct. 24, at 11 a.m. in Room 120 of Farrah Hall. Fowlie’s lecture, titled “Cybersecurity or Cyberthreat? – Balancing Human Rights and Economic Growth in our Virtual
World,” will discuss how the Internet is affecting the relationship between individuals and their government. Fowlie is the head of the Liaison Office of the International Telecommunication Union to the UN. The ITU is a UN agency focusing on information and communication technology.
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Local author writes about Southern women, football, Tuscaloosa By Lauren Davis | Contributing Writer
Submitted Tuscaloosa native Beth Albright is the author of the new book series, “The Sassy Belles.”
As the old saying goes, “authors write what they know.” This could not be more true for Beth Albright, Tuscaloosa native and University of Alabama graduate, whose new book series “The Sassy Belles” depicts life in Tuscaloosa, from its glamorous Southern charm to Crimson Tide football. “I grew up in Tuscaloosa and graduated from The University of Alabama,” Albright said. “I wrote the first book of the series during a nostalgic time in my life. I had followed my husband to a job out of state and had to close my acting school, and I found myself homesick for Tuscaloosa and the smart, sassy women who raised me.” Albright’s brother, Bruce Albright, said she always had a “flair for drama and telling stories.” Not only is “The Sassy Belles” based in her hometown, but the books are littered with influences from Albright’s own life. Several of her characters are based on her own family, friends and old boyfriends, while some of the funny scenes in the books are flashbacks and anecdotal stories from her own life, she said.
“My mom is kind of crazy and unconventional,” Albright said. “One time when I was in seventh grade, I was eating a piece of toast in the car, and the crumbs were going everywhere. I told my mom that I wished I had a plate, and she just pulled one out of her purse. Looking back, it was such a funny, unique experience, so I included it in my book.” Albright’s mother did more than simply inspire a scene in her daughter’s book. Albright attributes her mother’s encouragement as the impetus that inspired her to finish the first installment of the trilogy. “I began writing ‘The Sassy Belles’ in 2004 simply for my own sanity,” Albright said. “I would email parts of it to my mom, but I wasn’t serious about finishing it. Eventually, she told me that if I would finish the book, she would pay to send me to the writers’ conference, which is the best way to get books published. I couldn’t afford to go on my own, so I finished the book as my mom’s Christmas present in 2010.” Now, her books are representing a lesserknown genre in modern literature. “I would describe ‘The Sassy Belles’ as ‘Sex and the City’ meets ‘Steel Magnolias,’” Albright
said. “The books feature strong, employed women who are fashionable and glamorous, yet funny and relatable.” Albright does not only cater to the female audience with her trilogy. Albright, whose grandfather was a play-by-play announcer for Crimson Tide football, said she could not write books set in Tuscaloosa without including one of the most prevalent aspects of its culture: football. Growing up in Tuscaloosa and attending the University, Albright is no stranger to football culture. One of her favorite aspects about Tuscaloosa was seeing the town come alive on game day, she said. All in all, Albright said her main goal with the books is to make people laugh. “The country is in a state where we really need to laugh,” Nancy Berland, Albright’s publicist, said. “We’re fed up with the government and financial hardship. We need books that will make us laugh, and [Albright] definitely provides that.” “The Sassy Belles,” “Wedding Belles” and “Sleigh Belles” can be purchased from Barnes & Noble, Amazon and eReaders.
CULTUREIN BRIEF Hair and Fashion Show comes to Bama Theatre Renew U Studios will be debuting its Blackout Hair and Fashion Show Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Bama Theatre. The theme for the show is “Severe Society.” “It’s sort of a pop/rock style,” Natasha Alford, a Renew U Hairstyles stylist, said. Renew U Studios has recruited a lineup of 10 stylists from different areas of expertise. The studio has worked to make the event an entirely local production, with sponsorships from local businesses Catfish Heaven Restaurant and Rainbow Clothing Store as well as models recruited through local auditions, including several University of Alabama students. Clothing for the show was also provided by local business CoCo Mink Boutique. The Hair and Fashion Show is an annual event, geared towards showing off local styles as well as providing a night of entertainment that all fans of fashion can enjoy. Advance tickets are $10, though you can also purchase tickets at the door for $15 as well as VIP tickets for $20 and backstage passes for $50.
Druid City Garden Project to host farm stand Tuscaloosa’s Druid City Garden Project will teach students at University Place Elementary School the “business of plants” as they host their first student-run farm stand, according to a press release. “The student-run farm stand is an invaluable opportunity for students to gain practical, hands-on entrepreneurship skills while also instilling in them the concept that fresh food has value,” said Lindsay Turner, executive director of Druid City Garden Project. “It also gives community members an opportunity to purchase healthy, affordable vegetables directly from the school garden.” The farm stand will also feature recipe cards provided by University of Alabama nutrition majors. The stand will be hosted at University Place Elementary on Friday from 2:45-3:30 p.m.
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Local band The Doctors and The Lawyers to play at Jupiter By Raiha Bajwa | Contributing Writer Starting as a group of pre-med and pre-law students with a passion for music, local band The Doctors and The Lawyers is now headlining at area bars and about to record its second EP. The Doctors and The Lawyers will be playing along with local band Motherfunk for a benefit show for 90.7 The Capstone at the Jupiter Thursday, Oct. 17. “It was kinda cool because we all kinda started playing together, and it started off as just jamming and playing around a little bit, and then we realized we were all on the same page,” lead guitarist Chris Wilhelm said. “We realized this is what we wanna do if we can, and we wanted to do it right.” Saving up their money from gigs, the band members recently bought a trailer and plan on touring and expanding their fan base. “Every semester has been a step,” Wilhelm said. “At first we were just practicing and playing at Sigma Nu, and now we have fives gigs this week, and we are going to step up to traveling.” The band’s sound is a product of the different music tastes of all the members. From classic
CW | Austin Bigoney The Doctors and The Lawyers will perform in a benefit show for 90.7 The Capston on Thursday, Oct. 17.
rock to Southern rock to electronic, everyone, Wilhelm said, “brings something different to the table.” Wilhelm describes the current EP as a blend of Southern rock and alternative rock but said the sound is always changing. “We are constantly defining our sound, and every time we write a new song, it has something new in it,” he said. “We don’t really want to define what we want to write in the future because I feel like that would limit us.” Jordan Kumler, the band’s drummer, said he is excited about recording the new EP over fall break. “There’s going to be a bit more electronic vibe to it,” Kumler said. “We still have a ton of songs we haven’t recorded.” Both Kumler and Wilhelm agree the work that goes into getting a band off the ground in a college setting is tough but definitely worth it. “We realize that nothing that we will ever ever have will be given to us,” Wilhelm said. “Really anything we’ve ever accomplished, it’s because we put our mind to it and decided this is what we wanna do, this is how we wanna do it and this is how we’re gonna get there.” The show starts at 10:30 p.m., and cover charge is $5.
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CULTURE | GUEST COLUMN
Study abroad experiences teach life lessons By Matthew Issa | Guest Column In June of this year, I returned from a semester of study abroad in Madrid, Spain. It might sound somewhat cliché, but those six months in Europe were the most transformative time of my life. Not only did I gain academic diversity by taking classes in a different country and learning from a different perspective, but also it offered an unparalleled chance for personal growth. The day after I arrived in Spain, my aunt passed away after a four-monthlong battle with cancer. This shook my world. Not only did I have to deal with the death of a loved one, but I had to do it alone. There was no support system; there was no one there who was obliged to help me. I was in a country where all I had was my host family and my program directors. After realizing this, I began to grow more than I thought I ever would. I had to find my own support system. I eventually made friends, built relationships and got an internship to keep myself busy. This would become my support system. Now, you may be asking, what does this have to do with studying abroad? Let me explain. Having to find your way in a foreign country where you have no family is tough, but it provides a golden opportunity in that it gives one the opportunity to learn so much about oneself. I can certainly say that
is what happened in my case. Studying abroad allowed me to figure out how to deal with less-than-ideal conditions and turn them into an advantage. I learned so much about myself in carving a way out of the mess that I was in. This is a crucial life skill that any successful person must learn, because life does not always go how you may plan it. Studying abroad turned into a life lesson for me. While I certainly hope that none of you who may be reading this will have to go through something like what I did, I can assure you that studying abroad will be the best decision I ever make. During my time abroad, I did the “normal” studying abroad things. I traveled to 11 countries in those six months. I made really, really good friends who I still talk to. I exposed myself to more diversity than I could have ever imagined. In addition, I lived in one of the best cities in the world. Madrid not only has an amazing home soccer club – Real Madrid for those of you who don’t know–but it has a killer nightlife, some of the best urban parks in the world and a plethora of museums that would satisfy any lover of the arts. Studying abroad provided me with these opportunities that some only dream of. While the benefits to studying abroad are numerous, there are still many obstacles. For example, about half of entering freshmen claim to
have an interest in studying abroad, but only 1-2 percent of them actually do so throughout their college career, according to NAFSA, the Association for International Educators. There is also the concern about how studying abroad will fit into certain academic programs. Many students have reservations about how study abroad will affect their scheduled graduation date. These are all valid concerns, but they all have solutions. The University of Alabama’s Studying Abroad office is very good at answering any questions related to studying abroad. The office is located at 135 BB Comer Hall, and I encourage anybody with questions to stop by their office and they will be glad to assist you. As for me, I work for Academic Programs International (API) while being a full-time student at the University. API is a program provider that UA students can use to pick certain study abroad programs that may fit their needs better than the programs directly offered by the University. You can contact me at maissa@crimson.ua.edu with any questions about the study abroad process here at the University that you may have. I sincerely encourage anyone that is on the fence about study abroad to email me or stop by the studying abroad office. If you don’t know what to do about going abroad, go. It will be the best decision of your life.
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Ivy Leagues offer free classes
Submitted Through EdX.org, students can receive certificates of achievement to build their resumes. Classes require no prerequisites but do not offer course credit. By Dylan Walker | Contributing Writer It is now possible for anyone with Internet access to be an Ivy League student. No applications are required, there are no prerequisites, and all of the classes are free. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by universities internationally, are opening up higher education through online lectures and coursework. In May 2012, Harvard and MIT launched EdX.org, a collaboration between the two universities to offer these types of free courses. The site has gained popularity across the globe and now has 1.3 million registered students and 29 university partners including Cornell, University of Texas and international partners such as The University of Queensland and Peking University. “Harvard and MIT decided to fund and start a nonprofit opensource online learning initiative with the best professors all over the world. The technology has evolved where massive open online courses have become very available,” Nancy Moss, director of
communications for EdX.org, said. Other websites like EdX include Coursera, Udacity Udemy, and iTunesU Free Courses. These websites use a module system where students and professors upload work and assignments. MOOCs do not provide eligible credit hours from the institutions involved, but students may complete an XSeries and earn a certificate of achievement to build their resume. “Students tell us their employers do respond to the certificate, especially when it has the Ivy League seal or an international university’s name on it,” Moss said. EdX is not yet 2 years old, but Moss said MOOCs are causing change worldwide and across educational platforms. A lot of their campus partners are excited about blended learning, she said. Professors are combining pieces of a MOOC, such as an online lecture, and then have students do work in a class in a more interactive setting. “You can’t generalize the effects of this. We’ve had stories about students in Mongolia who have taken courses that help them get into
better universities or even American universities,” Moss said. “Online learning has been around for a long time, but what we’re most excited about is how MOOCs can improve on campus education.” Moss said he believes that MOOCs can add to, not take away from, the classroom. However, Cameron Lacquement, a professor at The University of Alabama who teaches an online anthropology course, said the open appeal of MOOCs also hinders their effectiveness. “I teach online and also in the classroom, and what we’re trying to do is replicate the classroom online. Most of our classes are around 60 students maximum, and MOOCs get into the thousands. There were 100,000 students in one of the first courses offered through Harvard. We are trying to keep interaction, communication and frequent feedback between students and professors, and students and other students,” Lacquement said. Lacquement said educators have reached a fork between availability and professor-student relationships. He questions the ability of a MOOC to effectively reach students with such large class sizes. He said he thinks that the University could incorporate the same kind of MOOCbased learning without losing the integrity of the material. “I think they have the right idea, but they’re trying to make the classes too big, and it may be harder to update them. The MOOCs are designed differently than our online classes that we update all the time. Lectures and assignments are constantly improved and updated, which MOOCs can do but not if they play the numbers game,” Lacquement said. Though courses are self-paced, EdX does update modules through institutional partners’ versions of the site. Universities upload and maintain information through their version of EdX. For students in 2013, education can be online, in a classroom or a blend of the two. Class sizes range from fewer than 30 on campus to thousands online. While MOOCs and campus universities teach students through different platforms, according to the EdX website, they are ultimately partners.
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New Nintendo struggles to captivate audiences By Matthew Wilson Nintendo saw much praise and success with Wii, the top-selling console of the last generation, and Wii Sports, the highest-selling video game of all time. But Nintendo’s infallibility crumbled with the release of the 3DS portable gaming system. While critically praised, the 3DS struggled to find a captive audience due to lack of video game software. Consumer confusion with the title also caused problems. Many assumed it was just an upgraded model of the 3DS predecessor, which in the past Nintendo has been known to do. This mass confusion cost Nintendo valuable sales, dropping the price a few months later. Bouncing back from this disastrous shortcoming, Nintendo put much of their stock into Wii U, launching a year and a half ahead of its competition, Microsoft and Sony. However, the Wii U has stumbled out of the
gate, and so far Nintendo’s flagship console has been failing in sales. That Nintendo could go from being a leading revolutionist of the industry to struggling in sales in a matter of years is because of a series of miscalculations on the company’s marketing and promotion team. Not once, but twice Nintendo’s titles for its consoles caused confusion for the general population, a serious complication when trying to sell a product. At Wii U’s announcement at E3, they showed off the 3DS’ controller rather than the entire console, leading some to believe that it was an expansion of the current generation Wii. Nintendo made steps to correct this problem with a new release, “Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD,” but moving forward, the company must tread carefully. In the future, a better marketing strategy could mean the difference between disaster and s u c c e s s .
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Mallet to move to temporary location MALLET FROM PAGE 1
“I think it will be okay,” Izor said. “The common theme of all the buildings that Mallet has been in is community.” Izor said it is the organization that shapes where they are housed. During their time in Palmer, Malleteers have created a drawing room and personal library among other things. Mallet focuses on getting people out of their rooms and interacting with each other, he said. The organization will be moving into a section of the Highlands on Hackberry Lane early next summer. “It will be a little different,” Izor said. “But the community is a byproduct of the organization regardless of where we are put.” H oweve r, Th o m a s Frederick, a sophomore Malleteer majoring in biology, said the move could potentially hurt Mallet’s recruitment. Many members stumble upon Mallet when they walk by Palmer and see students on the
stoop. That is when they come to ask more questions about the organization, he said. “People are just curious,” Frederick said. “With other dorms, people are hardly ever outside.” Other members and students said Palmer is truly a safe haven for them. Ashley Wear, a sophomore majoring in management information systems, although not a member of Mallet, spends most of her time in Palmer with her friends. “Palmer as a building is a home away from home,” Wear said. “It’s central. You go inside, and you just feel safe.” The Highlands will only be a temporary location, Mallet president Issac Bell said. The organization will reside there only for the next three to four years. “Right now we are working with housing to iron out the details for a dorm that we will share with the ELI program,” Bell said. Most members expressed a positive outlook on the transition. “I think that it will be a good move,” Izor said. “But it is sad to see Palmer go.”
Annual Kentuck festival returns By Cole Booth | Contributing Writer
CW File Kentuck Festival of the Arts features activities for guests of all ages. Arts are created, sold, and showcased.
Kentuck Festival of the Arts, named by American Style magazine among the top 10 art fairs and festivals in the United States, will return to Kentuck Park in Northport this weekend for its 42nd annual festival. An array of vendors and entertainment will be set up in the park adjacent to downtown Northport to advertise different wares and artistic talents. “We’ve got artists coming this weekend, bands coming to play, musical groups, storytellers, artists that are actually selling their work, songwriters from Birmingham,” Amy Echols, executive director for Kentuck, said. “There’s just so many interesting things going on this weekend at the park.” Hallie O’Kelley, a local artist, has been a part of the fabric of the Kentuck Festival. for 30 years. O’Kelley has hand made a new quilt for the festival for the last 15 years, said Kentuck Interim Director Emily Leigh. “She started out screenprinting posters 30 years ago,” Leigh said. “And then, back about 15 years, she started making actual fabric quilts. They are on display at our offices. This year’s quilt will be on display at the festival itself. We even use the quilt as the festival logo.” The University of Alabama’s own students and faculty are heavily involved in the festival’s activities, Leigh said. While it may be too late to volunteer for this year’s festival, she said interested parties should keep an eye out next October. “It’s amazing; it’s so great that these wonderful volunteers show up for the festival and throughout the year,” Echols said. “I feel like I’m this one tiny part in this universe of all of these wonder-
ful people.” Leigh said she expects presentations from Marr’s Field Journal, the Black Warrior Review and UA Ceramics. Kirby Johnson and Amber Brown, of the Journal and the Review, respectively, will be doing activities with some of the children at the festival. Echols said faculty involved in the College of Arts and Sciences and New College will also be assisting in the festival’s events. “We have artists from California, from Wisconsin, from all over the United States. The part I’m most excited about is seeing what’s new on the art scene in the U.S. That excites me more than anything,” Echols said. The festival has deep roots in the Tuscaloosa community as well, Leigh said. “In the first year, [Kentuck Festival] was the Northport Heritage Festival - Georgine Clarke, it was her vision to bring in all of these artists,” Leigh said. “A lot of outside artists who don’t have a connection to the commercial world, people who are making art for God, those kinds of artists, we bring them all together in this beautiful shady setting in Northport every year. [She made a] place to see not only trained artists, but people who are just inspired by God or by life circumstances and who just have to create.” The 42nd annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts is set to return to Kentuck Park Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19-20 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets are $10 for a daily pass, $15 for a weekend pass and can be purchased at the Kentuck Gallery Shop or online at kentuck.org. UA students interested in attending the festival can take the CrimsonRide shuttles that will be running Sunday from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. out of the Ferguson Center Plaza.
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Tide golf team remains No. 1 By Nick Sellers | Staff Reporter Ask men’s golf coach Jay Seawell to describe his defending national champions, and he’ll start with one word. “Focused, with an understanding of what’s ahead of them and what they can do now to put themselves in good positions later,” Seawell said. “They’re focused, but they also understand the big picture.” The big picture for the nation’s current No. 1 men’s golf team is to get back to SEC and national championship play this spring. Wins in the Crimson Tide’s first two fall tournaments mean the team has momentum on its side as it heads to Windermere, Fla., for its third event of the fall season. The Isleworth Invitational, a three-day ment starting Sunday at the Collegiate tournament th Country Club, Club b, w ll wi Isleworth will be mson Tide’s fifth h the Crimson tive trip there. there re. consecutive Whit Wh itse sett Senior Cory Whitsett ama to vic i tory led Alabama victory shman in 2010 as a freshman with his fifth-place pere. Whitsett willl formance. ed this year by y be joined seniors Bobby Wyatt and ullinax, sophoTrey Mullinax, y more Tom Lovelady shman Robby y and freshman n Shelton,, who won e his firstt collegiate ment in n tournament ber. September. UA Athletics The last Trey Mullinax n to o freshman f r fo do that for A l ab a m a w a s
Justin Thomas, who finished with the top individual score for the Crimson Tide both times in his career at the Isleworth Invitational. Even with Thomas turning pro in early September, Seawell said the team hasn’t missed a beat, especially with the emergence of Mullinax. “Trey has worked very hard,” Seawell said. “He has a very teachable spirit. I know personally it’s fun as a coach to see a mind catch up with talent, and that’s exactly what we’ve gotten with Trey.” Mullinax, a Birmingham native, is second on the team with a 69.5 strokes-per-round average. Teammate Bobby Wyatt said he sees the same things in Mullinax as Seawell. “He’s a hard worker, always has been,” Wyatt said. This y year,, the Isleworth Invitational will fac for the Crimson feature some familiar faces Tide as well as three toptop-10 teams and three conference opponents. Th The winners from last year, No. 5 California Gold Golden Bears, will bring a team, as well as No. 3 T Texas and No. 9 New Mexico. the fall season draws to a close, Seawell As the cont co n in inue to shuffle personnel pe continue and decide o which five golfers g on will best suit the demanding spring schedule. the i “The most important thing is preparation in the fall,” Seawell said. an always the goal, “Winning is nice and b t good preparation bu preparati gives you confibut dence going into the spring.” After the Isle Isleworth Invitational, the Crimson Tide will have one ffull fu ll week of practice before the llast la st tournam tournament of the fall season, the Gifford Collegiate Pelican Hill in Newport B Be ach, Ca Beach, Calif., on Nov. 4.
Walk-on Dani Herubin shining this season CW | Fifi Wang Former club team player Dani Herubin makes an immediate impact for the Tide. By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter Dani Herubin didn’t plan on a collegiate soccer career. In fact, she gave up that dream before ever graduating high school. Her friends called her crazy; they said she would play again. And now that she is, she couldn’t be happier. “When I chose not to play, my whole [club] team thought I was crazy,” Herubin said. “They got so excited when they found out I was coming back to [play] soccer.” Herubin was invited to walk onto the Crimson Tide this past spring after playing for Alabama’s club team. “It’s been an amazing experience,” Herubin said. “Obviously I love the game. It’s been great to compete and play with the team. The team was so welcoming.” Coach Todd Bramble said Herubin didn’t expect his phone call. He said it shook up all
of her plans. “The phone call that she got from me took her by surprise,” Bramble said. “I don’t think she was expecting to hear from us at that point.” Herubin, a junior majoring in chemical engineering, decided her sophomore year of high school that she wanted to be a regular student. So far, this season has seen a lot of her. The first-year walk-on made her collegiate start in September against Denver. Herubin scored her first goal just before halftime at the Georgia game. She also helped assist the game-winning goal against the Bulldogs. “It’s been great to actually have a positive impact and show that I can play at this level,” Herubin said. The Crimson Tide will host Texas A&M Friday and Kentucky Sunday, which will also be the Power of Pink game for the Crimson Tide.
SPORTSIN BRIEF Playoff committee announced The 13-member College Football Playoff selection committee was announced Wednesday, with three NFL quarterbacks and three former college football head coaches making the cut. Chair: Jeff Long Members: Barry Alvarez, Michael Gould, Pat Haden, Tom Jernstedt, Oliver Luck, Archie Manning, Tom Osborne, Dan Radakovich, Condoleezza Rice, Mike Tranghese, Steve Wieberg and Tyrone Willingham
Releford on SEC First Team Senior guard Trevor Releford was selected to the Preseason All-Southeastern Conference First Team, the league announced Wednesday. This is the second consecutive season he has been named to the first team. He is joined by Kentucky’s Julius Randle, Tennessee’s Jordan McRae, LSU’s Johnny O’Bryant III and Ole Miss’ Marshall Henderson.
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Volleyball team to wear pink in match VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 1
Submitted After last year’s season record of 9-3, the women’s lacrosse club team’s goal is to win the championship this year.
Lacrosse team looks to take title By Alex Accetta | Contributing Writer Returning from a solid season last year with a record of 9-3, the University of Alabama women’s lacrosse club team returns with a new hunger this season. Its goal for this year is to win the championship. “We had a very successful season last year and we’re taking the things that worked and capitalizing on those successes this season,� junior Kaitlin McLhinney said. “We’re adjusting our style of play to a more advanced scheme this season, adding more plays on offense and a different set up on defense. It may take some work in the offseason, but it will make us one of the stron-
gest teams in our league if we perfect it by the start of the regular season.� With the new opportunity and fresh start ahead, the team has already started its preseason practices four days a week in preparation for the new schedule planned for spring. “The expectations for this year are a lot higher and we’ve definitely improved a lot just seeing the first couple weeks of practice,� said Caley Curtis, UA junior and lacrosse club president. “I’m expecting us to make it further than we did last year and I’m hoping we make it to the finals.� Last season’s team ended its run in the semi-finals during the Southeastern Women’s Lacrosse League tournament.
“There is a sense of pride when you step onto the field with “Alabama� written across your uniform and we have that sense of pride for ourselves,� McLhinney said. Lacrosse clubs have are beginning to see growth in the South, even though the sport is mainly seen in the Northeast, East Coast and Midwest. “We have continued to build this team over the past few years and we’ve made a lot of progress since my freshman year,� McLhinney said. “It’s a good feeling to take a step back and look at how far the team has come.� With the new season on their horizon, the women’s team is more ready than ever to get started and take the title.
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ing which Alabama split its matches against Arkansas and a then-No. 25 ranked Missouri. The atmosphere of the match is a needed break for the team, McQuaid said. “[The jerseys] are pink so it’s fun,� McQuaid said. “It’s good for the team because it’s something light and fun, and it’s a little break in what we’ve been used to so it’s just something that we all get to be a part of together, and it’s different so it’s neat.� The team is not just excited for the pink match, but also the chance to improve on the season, Wilson said. “Two very big games for us,� Wilson said. “We’re moving up in RPI. We want to continue to so Texas A&M and LSU are going to be challenging matches that we can take; we just have to work hard in practice this week. I’m excited. I know the team is too.�
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