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CHANGING TIDES

Football success tied to campus growth

Monday, October 25, 2010

Tide finishes fall season undefeated

Serving the University of Alabama since 1894

Vol. 117, Issue 49

Julio Jones breaks loose from defenders on one of his 12 catches of the night.

He finished with 221 yards, the most in Alabama history.

CW | Sara Beth Colburn Throughout the years, students have protested many issues at the University.

Political turmoil rocked ‘70s UA

CW | Jerrod Seaton

By Amanda Sams Senior Staff Reporter alsams1@crimson.ua.edu

have any touchdowns against Tennessee, he made 12 catches for 221 yards. His performance ranks second in Alabama history for most

Along with sex, drugs and rock and roll, tensions roiled in Tuscaloosa in the 1960s and early 70s. Beneath an apathetic veneer laid pockets of political unrest.

The anti-war movement was the unpopular elephant in the room that fueled police brutality towards students and erupted on campus as explosive dynamite. Former student activists served as panelists reliving the events of their youth in the Days of Rage Conference at the Capstone Hotel on Friday.

Roundtable participants included Tom Ashby, Eugenia Twitty Croshack, Jack Drake, Billy Field, Wayne Greenhaw and

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Jones grabs record yards

By Laura Owens Assistant Sports Editor crimsonwhitesports@gmail.com

fourth quarter, Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones made another catch, his 12th of the night, good for 47 yards down the field.

The Alabama fans took the As the Tennessee crowd filed out of Neyland Stadium in the stadium from the home team fans,

cheering out Jones’ name.

“They weren’t booing me,” Jones said. “They just call me, ‘Juuuu.’”

For the junior out of Foley, it was a record night. Though Jones didn’t

Students profit Housing grows with enrollment from surplus scholarships CHANGING TIDES

By William Evans Changing Tides

UA policy allows students money beyond educational costs

By Charles Scarborough Staff Reporter cjscarborough@crimson.ua.edu According to UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen, in some instances, students who have received multiple scholarships are able to place excess funds in their student accounts.

“Scholarships, as well as any other kind of financial assistance, are applied directly to students’ accounts,” she said. “Any excess funds, amounts over and above the students’ charges, are refundable to the student in most cases.”

Andreen said students are not able to receive more money in scholarships than the costs of housing, tuition, and books combined from the University. External scholarships, she said, can be combined with university-sanctioned grants to place excess funds in students’ UA financial accounts.

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By Jordan Staggs Senior Staff Reporter jlstaggs1@crimson.ua.edu The typical UA student rarely has to worry about whether he or she will have clean drinking water. Chances are all one has to do is walk over to Publix and grab a 24-pack of Dasani for about $5, but this is not the case for everyone.

According to charitywater. org, nearly 1.1 billion people worldwide do not have the luxury of clean drinking water.

Many are forced to trek for miles just to pump about 20 liters of clean water to haul back to their homes.

But there is something you can do about it.

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• What: Rock the Runway fashion show

• Where: Bryant Conference Center • When: Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Bryant Conference Center, Fashion Inc. will host the fourth annual Rock the Runway fashion show. The event is free and open to the public, but donations of any amount are highly encouraged. All benefits will go

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CW File Models walk the runway in the Ferguson Center Ballroom in January’s Rock the Runway event.

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graduate student in the physics department, said he received in excess of $32,000 from the University to use at his own discretion as a result of receiving multiple scholarships during his four years as a UA undergraduate.

Lovorn received a tier one scholarship, the precursor to the Academic Elite scholarship the University has awarded since 2007, fully covered tuition and housing and also provided him a $1,000 stipend each semester. Lovorn also received a National Merit Finalist scholarship, which was intended to go toward his tuition.

As a result, the additional money went into his student account, enabling him to use it at his own discretion, Lovorn said.

“This happened every semester, [totaling] $4,000 a semester,” Lovorn said. “It was the same process as all refunds. It was put in [my]

Next to Rose Towers, construction has begun on the new North Bluff residence hall.

cent increase in enrollment since fall of 2002.

To accommodate this influx of As the economy stagnates in students, housing on and off camthe slump known as the Great pus has proliferated with the conRecession, the University has struction of residence halls such been experiencing a remarkable as Ridgecrest South and housgrowth in its student population. ing complexes like the Retreat at According to a UA News release, Lake Tamaha.

Rhonda Smith, director of enrollment has topped 30,000 for the first time in the University’s history. This growth is a 54.1 per- See HOUSING, page 10

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Lunch Hot Dogs Roasted Top Round Beef Herb Roasted Potatoes Seasoned Carrots Vegetarian Burger

What: Wonderful Life: Works Inspired by Biological Entities - Andrew Toth, graduate student in ceramics, presents work for his MFA Thesis Exhibition

Dinner Char-Grilled Rosemary Pork Macaroni and Cheese Fried Okra Corn on the Cob Vegetarian Fajita

Where: Alabama Museum of Natural History, Smith Hall

When: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

BURKE Pepper Steak Montreal Roasted Pork Loin Mashed Potatoes Peas & Pearl Onions Asian Sesame Pasta (Vegetarian)

BRYANT Baked Chicken with Apricot Sauce Beef Burgundy Seasoned Broccoli Yellow Squash Alfredo Summer Vegetables

What: Negotiating

What: Student Recital featuring Dawn Neely, soprano

Where: Moody Music Building

When: 5:30 p.m.

What: Alabama Jazz Ensemble

Where: Moody Concert Hall

“Authentic” Buddhism film screening of “The Matrix”

When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Alston Hall 10

What: Rock the Runway

When: 7 - 9:30 p.m.

Where: Woods Hall

What: Matt Wilson Quartet

When: 8 - 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY What: Reading College Textbooks workshop

Where: 230 Osband Hall When: 4 - 5 p.m.

What: Candlelight Vigil Against Domestic Violence

Where: Denny Chimes When: 6 - 8 p.m.

What: The Third Riverside Bollywood Film Festival

Where: Riverside Community Center

When: 7 - 10 p.m.

Where: Moody Concert Hall

FRESH FOOD Lemon & Pepper Rotisserie Chicken Okra, Tomatoes and Corn Tortellini al Pesto Spinach and Bacon Panini Eggplant Parmigiano (Vegetarian)

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HCA seeks Honors College unity

By Brittney Knox Staff Reporter bsknox@crimson.ua.edu A fourth of the way into their first year, the Honors College Assembly has accomplished several service projects, socials and numerous other things to try to create more interaction among students in the Honors College.

HCA President Hallie Paul said there are two big-picture goals HCA seeks to accomplish.

“As the college continues to grow, we want to facilitate a greater sense of community for students within the Honors College,” Paul said. “We also want to continue to create more leadership opportunities for students.”

Even with all the ideas and projects the HCA wants to get

done, Paul said, they must also remember to start with baby steps.

“We can’t do everything right now; there are some things we have to put off and master the current projects we have going on right now,” she said.

Jackie Hurt, the adviser for HCA, said she’s proud of the dedication and entrepreneurial spirit of the students.

Another positive, she said, is that students who come to the Honors College are able to participate in events that promote scholarship, cultural activities and community service.

Through these events, students can mingle with others and possibly meet friends who they can have for life, Hurt said.

One component of HCA is that it is set up to be able to change with time, Hurt said.

“Five students can come up with an idea and submit a committee proposal form to start a project with HCA,” she said. “For example, if a student wants to promote political awareness or help with disaster relief, then this is a mechanism for the HCA to remain an evolving organization.”

Jacqueline Koncsol, the HCA director of civic engagement, said some of the mentoring initiatives the HCA has started included work at Hillcrest High School, where students work with members of the football team on study sessions, Matthews Elementary School, where they mentor kindergartners by working with art, and a program in conjunction with the Student Government Association called Blueprint at Central High School. The

Blueprint program guides students in talking about college and planning out their life after graduation.

“A new program that is in progress is at Hillcrest Middle School where students will help sixth-grade students with reading,” Koncsol said.

She said there is also Honors College mentoring, and she’s excited by the initiative the students have taken.

Other accomplishments under the civic engagement branch of HCA include the Riverwalk clean up and their participation in the Easter Seals “Walk With Me” event to promote awareness for persons with disabilities.

The Student Life branch is also prospering. Director Michael Forst said he is excited to see the people in HCA are

collaborating to make things happen.

They’ve had bands at community service events, tailgates for the past two home games, teams in the SGA’s homecoming activities, participation in block seating, intramural sports teams and are forming a Quidditch team with the Creative Campus initiative.

“We also are planning for next week, as it leads up to Halloween, some game nights and socials,” Forst said.

Plans for collaboration with the Black Student Union in an event called Express Night at Command Ground are underway, Paul said. “[It] will combine Honors College students and student performances at an open mic night,” she said.

PLSA preps students for law school

By Bethany Blair Contributing Writer For students with hopes of attending law school, the guest speakers, mentorship and leadership opportunities provided by the Pre-Law Student Association can make all the difference, Nick Lambert, president of the PLSA said in an e-mailed statement.

“The PLSA provides students who wish to enter law school an opportunity to interact with other students who share the same intentions of attending law school,” Lambert said. “Students can come together, share information about their experiences, and participate in a community of people who have the same goals and interests.”

Those goals and interests include taking the LSAT and

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directly to Charity: Water.

“Our goal is to raise $5,000,” said Liz Lane, a senior majoring in apparel and textiles design and the president of Fashion Inc. “We’ve already raised over $2,100. We will be donating to build a well in Central Africa.”

Lane said one of the main focuses for the fashion show is

applying to law school, Lambert said. The PLSA hosts guest speakers, practice LSAT sessions, application workshops and offers students leadership opportunities that will ultimately make them more competitive in the law school application process.

“At our meetings, we have a speaker every week that informs us about various components of the legal field,” Lambert said. “This includes current law students, law professors, attorneys, judges, admission deans from various law schools around the country, and UA professors that possess knowledge on topics that involve the legal profession. Each provides a different insight and allows us to know the inner workings on life before, during, and after law school.”

But the PLSA isn’t just about

enriching its members, Lambert said. Students participate in three to five philanthropy projects annually, including Relay for Life. Members also team up with current UA law students to educate local high schools about the dangers of drinking and driving during the spring semester.

Students can also participate in the PLSA’s subset group, the Mock Trial Team, Lambert said. The team allows students to act out court cases, portray lawyers, witnesses and defense attorneys. Although the team was restarted last year, it won its first competition and plans to enter two to three national competitions this year.

Wendy McMillian, staff advisor for the PLSA, said students involved in the PLSA gain significant knowledge and advantages through their peers.

“Students do learn to work as

part of a group, they also have a lot of opportunities for leadership positions,” McMillian said.

“A lot of it, too, is creating relationships with other students who are on the same path they are.”

Christian Holston, PLSA Chairman of Recruitment and Membership, said in an e-mailed statement that the leadership opportunities provided by the organization will help students be successful in the future.

“Holding a position in PLSA will help build your resume and allow you to become greatly involved with the organization,” Holston said. “After graduating, jobs look for this type of involvement.”

Holston said he hopes to attract new members by simply getting the PLSA’s name out there on campus.

“In order to recruit new

members, I try to get as much information about PLSA to the student body as I can, in various different ways,” Holston said.

“Members of PLSA have created flyers that we post in popular locations around campus.

Right now we are hoping to put together a T-shirt design.”

Undergraduate and graduate students from all majors are welcome to join the PLSA, Holston said. Membership for the year costs $10 and members must attend six or more meetings.

The PLSA holds an annual Law School Fair in the Ferguson Ballroom where students can talk to law school representatives and gather information about law school and its application process. For more information on PLSA, its event schedule, and the Law School Fair, visit prelaw.ua.edu.

the jerrycan. These containers, similar to those used to carry extra fuel for your car, are used for lugging water to areas with no access to a well or other clean drinking sources.

“All of our advertising and décor for the show revolves around water,” Lane said. “We also have one Charity: Water collection.”

Maryalice Lazarus is the designer of the Charity: Water collection. She is also a senior

majoring in apparel and textiles design and is the treasurer for Fashion Inc. Lazarus said she changed the idea for her fashion line only a couple months ago and decided to create a collection of 11 pieces inspired by Charity: Water instead. “[My collection] is all about extremes and overcoming issues,” she said. “There are a lot of exposed zippers and combat boots, as well as some seethrough, sort of edgy pieces.”

The goal of Rock the Runway is to give exposure to student designers and show the Tuscaloosa community what students at the University can do, Lane said. She and Lazarus agreed the show is about allowing the designers to seize inspiration and create whatever they want.

“We don’t want to hinder the designers’ visions at all,” Lane said.

“We have all levels designing for us,” Lazarus said. “So there

are freshmen to seniors, and designs anywhere from one piece to an entire collection.

It’s more an individual project and we all come together in the end.”

Clothes are not the only thing the designers have to coordinate. They are each in charge of creating the hair, make-up, music, lighting and timing of everything to make sure their models are strutting the catwalk and looking exactly as they need to look.

This will be achieved with the help of some community sponsors, Lane said.

“It’s been a community effort,” she said. “It’s a fun process, but it takes someone who likes planning events and keeping up with people.”

Of course, you can’t have a fashion show without models, and with 27 designers presenting their work, more than 150 models will be performing, making this year’s Rock the

Runway the biggest one yet.

Katie Parker, a senior majoring in musical theater and Italian, is one of those models.

“It’s difficult for me to feel comfortable as an extremely petite model,” Parker said. “I’m only 5-foot-1.”

Parker is modeling a dress designed by senior Alison Tucker.

“It’s going to be a fantastic show,” Parker said. “It’s a great opportunity to support our peers as they step out of their comfort zones to show the world what they are capable of.”

“The best part would have to be the final result,” Lane said, “seeing everyone’s designs come down the runway. It’s hours and hours of hard work in just a couple minutes, but it’s totally worth it.”

For more information about Charity: Water and how to donate, visit mycharitywater. org/UA.

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HALLOWEEN AT UA

Students host Halloween Sorority row invites kids to festival for community

By Melissa Brown Contributing Writer The Student Alumni Association will host a Halloween Festival for children, the community and anyone willing to have some Halloween fun on Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. on the lawn in front of Alumni Hall. The event is open to any community members, free of charge.

“It is something we put on annually for the children of the community, providing a safe and fun holiday environment for them,” said Jennifer Strack, vice president of Student Alumni Association Community Service.

Children are encouraged to come out dressed in their Halloween best for some fun games and candy. Activities on the schedule for Tuesday include a moon bounce, carnival-style games and a

IF YOU GO ...

• What: Halloween Festival

• Where: Alumni Hall lawn

• When: Tuesday, 5 to 8 p.m.

cookie and cupcake decorating station. SAA members will be dressed up as well, overseeing the different activities.

The SAA serves as a support group for the National Alumni Association. Made up of around 80 members, it is a student organization that serves as an ambassador between the student body and alumni, according to Vice President Luke Brechtelsbauer.

“We feel that it is important

to make sure there is a strong connection between the two groups because there is a lot that students can learn from individuals who have already experienced four years at the Capstone,” he said.

Not only does the organization work to create bonds between the students and alumni, but SAA also hopes to build relationships between the University of Alabama and the Tuscaloosa community.

“One of the goals of SAA is to reach out to the community, and the Festival allows us to do this while giving back to the community via the children,” Strack said.

SAA reaches out to various facets of the Tuscaloosa community. According to their website, SAA sponsors events such as the Halloween Festival, as well as participating in Relay for Life and making frequent visits to

Capstone Village, a local retirement community. SAA has held a “Senior Prom,” an evening of dancing and playing games, at Capstone Village in the past, as well as holding game nights at other Tuscaloosa area retirement homes.

“As a student ambassador group, we feel that it is important to give back to the people of Tuscaloosa. After all, the University of Alabama wouldn’t be as great as it is without receiving all sorts of support from the surrounding community.”

The Halloween Festival is free, funded by SAA through yearly fundraisers and outside donations, Strack said.

According to the SAA website, saa.ua.edu, the organization designs and sells T-shirts around campus and plans events like dodgeball tournaments to raise money.

SAAC event invites kids, athletes

By Jasmine Cannon Contributing Writer The Student Athlete Advisory Committee will sponsor their eighth annual Halloween Extravaganza tomorrow at the UA Indoor Football Facility from 6:30-8:30 pm.

“Every year, SAAC hosts the Halloween Extravaganza, inviting faculty, staff and people of the Tuscaloosa community to come out,” Life Skills and Community Outreach intern Emily Screws said. “It’s a really good opportunity for the student athletes to give back to the community and thank them for all of their support of all Alabama athletics.”

Children, typically age 13 and younger, are invited to wear costumes and participate in different activities put on by athletes from the University’s different sports teams.

“The athletic teams, we all set up games,” said Calli

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myBama account, and I either came down to financial services and requested the refund, or they eventually mailed it to me. Because I had the tier one, it was just extra money.”

Andreen said, “The University does not give scholarships that would allow a student to make money; however, if a student received external scholarships above the cost of tuition, housing, meals, books, etc., and the student put any extra funds in the bank, then they could potentially have money in their bank account for future use.”

Calvin Bryan, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering, received a full scholarship in addition to a laptop and a stipend.

“It did not pay for food, but it paid for pretty much everything else,” Bryan said. “It paid for tuition, for my room, my laptop and paid for several other miscellaneous things. I also get 500 dollars a semester.”

Bryan said this scholarship offer was the reason he decided to attend the University.

“I knew I wanted to go to a big school and I knew I wanted to go to a school with a good engineering program, but beyond that I just wanted to go to the school that gave me the biggest scholarship,” Bryan said. “It was the deciding factor between Alabama and the rest of the best schools in the nation.”

Andreen said how a stipend can be used is determined by the scholarship, and not all stipends can be used at the student’s discretion.

“A stipend that is designated for a specific purpose, such as study abroad, must be used for that purpose,” she said. “Other stipends may be used at the student’s discretion, but are generally used for educational expenses like internships,

Johnson, SAAC vice president who is on the volleyball team. “Each of the teams does a game or activity and at the end the kids get a bag of candy.

“There will be games and activities, such as mini basketball, dodge ball, face painting, accuracy throwing, bowling and an obstacle course,” Johnson said.

Johnson said there will also be different activities for each sport. One year, the volleyball team monitored an inflatable activity provided for the

participants. In past years, the track team has come up with events such as relay races.

The Halloween Extravaganza gives athletes a chance to do something for employees of the University and their children.

“It’s a fun thing we can do to help the kids,” Johnson said. “A lot of it is for the staff here at the University who can bring their kids. It’s a fun and safe environment where they can enjoy Halloween, dress up and get some candy.”

Johnson said the event may have an effect on the city of Tuscaloosa as a whole.

“For us it’s another way we can make an impact on the community and make an impact on young kids, showing them there are good role models out there,” she said. “It’s a good way to show we really do care. I hope that all the kids coming have a good time and enjoy themselves, mingling with the athletes and to have a

study abroad and research opportunities, as well as costs of attending college such as books, transportation and personal expenses.”

Ryan Ely, a senior majoring in advertising, said he believes allowing students to receive excessive amounts of money from multiple scholarships is immoral.

“When scholarships become so excessive that funds aren’t used toward things that are just school related, then it becomes unethical,” Ely said. “There are plenty of kids here who are deserving of scholarships or really need the scholarship money to get by but can’t because there isn’t enough to go around.”

Casey Carr, a senior majoring in civil engineering, said if

students are capable of receiving large amounts of money to use at their own discretion, then that corrupts the true purpose of a scholarship.

“Getting a scholarship is not winning the lottery,” Carr said. “Getting multiple scholarships shouldn’t be winning the lottery. Scholarships are supposed to go towards your education.

“I understand that these days, books and other day-today things can be expensive, but students shouldn’t be able to get several thousand dollars to use however they want. That should go toward financial aid or scholarships to other students who have worked hard and might not be coming to Alabama because they couldn’t get a scholarship.”

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• What: Halloween Extravaganza

• Where: UA Indoor Football Facility

• When: Tuesday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

happy Halloween.”

For more information on the Halloween Extravaganza, Screws can be contacted at escrews@ ia.ua.edu.

“It’s something the athletes and the kids look forward to each year,” she said.

“The athletes see it as a way to show their appreciation and to have fun.”

The main goal of SAAC is to be a voice for Alabama’s student-athletes while they strive to achieve greatness in the classroom, playing fields and throughout the community, Screws said. The Halloween Extravaganza is one of many events SAAC conducts each year.

trick-or-treat

By Hailey Grace Allen Contributing Writer The UA Junior Panhellenic Board will host the annual Sorority Row Trick-or-Treat on Tuesday, Oct. 26 from 6 to 8 p.m.

The event is open to all area children 12 and under.

Children are invited to dress up in Halloween attire and trick-or-treat at sorority houses located on Magnolia and Colonial Drives. Women from the sororities will be set up outside of their houses with candy and games.

“We’re really hoping this will get the people of Tuscaloosa involved with our campus. We just want to reach out to the community and provide a fun way for kids to trick-or-treat for Halloween,” said Caroline Meyers, a freshman majoring in engineering and the president of the Junior Panhellenic Board.

The Junior Panhellenic Board is a philanthropic program composed of freshman delegates serving as understudies to the Alabama Panhellenic Association delegates and executive board members.

Meyers said people can expect elaborate costumes, tons of candy, fun games and a friendly, family-oriented environment.

She said the members of the Junior Panhellenic Board began planning for the event in September. Members of each sorority were asked to bring candy and to dress in costume for the trick-or-treating. More than 25 organizations will have games and candy set up on the

IF YOU GO ...

• What: Sorority Row Trick-or-Treat

• Where: Magnolia and Colonial Drives

• When: Tuesday, 6 to 8 p.m.

lawns of the sorority houses.

“This is a really big event to take on,” said Megan Hayes, director of programming for the Alabama Panhellenic Association and overseer of the Junior Panhellenic Board.

“I get to see [the members of the Junior Panhellenic Board] step into a leadership role and work for the betterment of the greek community altogether.”

Hayes said last year, the event hosted approximately 900 members of the Tuscaloosa community. This year, the Junior Panhellenic Board has posted flyers around town, given flyers to local churches and businesses and sent press releases to many newspapers and radio stations.

“It’s touching to know that the Tuscaloosa community is going to come out and not only have a good time, but support us,” Hayes said.

Hayes said she feels it is important for the greek community to give back to the people of Tuscaloosa.

“There is so much support from the community,” Hayes said. “This is just something we can do to give back to them.”

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OPINIONS

Evolution alternative should be taught

By Ben Friedman

MCT Campus

Would you elect a puppy killer?

Monday, October 25, 2010 Editor • Tray Smith letters@cw.ua.edu Page 4

{ YOUR VIEW } WEB COMMENTS “I would say that this is indeed a crimson classic performance if Coach Joe Walkerʼs team will outperform at least several tops of the top 30 that they would go against.

Good luck guy.”

— Edgar, in response to “Tide prepares for Notre Dame Invitational”

“I have learned much from the different people I have met at UA. Each person walks a different path. It is good to meet different people while in college because it prepares us for life. We are a great international university. I treasure the different cultures and faiths that grace the Capstone.”

— Beverley, in response to “UA lags peers in diversity”

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By John Brinkerhoff If someone were to support turning rape victims away from hospitals, letting men beat their wives, or allowing repeat sex offenders to teach in elementary schools, then their mental stability would probably be in question. If that person were a congressman, voters would boot him or her out of office at the first possible chance.

Fortunately for elementary school students everywhere, no such sociopath currently serves in any elected position on Capitol Hill.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, these claims are actual accusations leveled at candidates on both sides of the aisle during this election season.

Granted, political attacks of questionable accuracy have been a major staple of competitive campaigns since the Whigs ridiculed President Martin Van Buren as “Martin Van Ruin” in response to the economic depression during his term. However, there is a line that can be crossed where negative campaigning goes beyond informing voters of a candidate’s flaws and into the realm of ridiculous attempts at character assassination.

In this election cycle, that line has not only been crossed, but is now barely visible at the horizon.

The current electoral climate is very much based upon anger and disgust at status quo politics. While it can lead to an energized voting base eager for change, this anger has also found its way into the candidates themselves.

With lips trembling and fists clenched, they level irrational accusations against their opponents in

comed treat for students. Spending four days at home, going to the beach and even taking trips to places such as Las Vegas allow students to get away for a few days.

But with the break split into two different times, planning trips becomes a bit more difficult. A whole day of traveling or relaxation is lost.

This year, the University scheduled a football game at home on Nov. 18. It also scheduled for that Thursday to be the second day of “fall break.” But it seems that no one took into account that students would have school the next day. Why would the University schedule a day off in the middle of the week? The game will most likely be at night, so what students are going to want to go to

class after a football game the night before? The University should have given students Friday off instead of Thursday.

Students will undoubtedly be grateful for the break from classes, but they will not have the proper break students have had in the past. The new schedule limits what students can do during their time off. Although any day classes are cancelled is a good day for college students, giving them a day off in the middle of the week seems ridiculous and inconvenient.

The real trick will be on the University when the majority of students skip class on Friday, Nov. 19.

This would require subsidies from the federal government, which is already deeply in debt. The environmentalists may not fully support this plan, as it will require disturbing local wildlife. However, it does provide an alternative source of energy and much needed jobs for our citizens While not a permanent solution to our energy crisis, the Pickens Plan will definitely help the U.S. to rely less on foreign oil and will help reduce the large trade deficit that the purchase of foreign oil is partially responsible for. The cost savings will give us the time to develop new alternative energies and allow us to restore our competitive edge.

For engineering students at the University, whether they agree with Pickens Plan or not, this movement will open up many new opportunities in a struggling job market.

Areas of development Americans never dreamed would exist will begin to emerge, and this next generation of scientists and engineers

will be in a perfect position to guide the process and play a key role in shaping our country.

As new challenges arise pertaining to alternative energy sources, they will be required to use creativity and problem solving skills to create sustainable energy systems.

Their opinions and expertise will be invaluable in allocating investment resources and creating new technology. Because future obstacles cannot be predicted, it is important that students not just be taught the basics of their disciplines, but must also be taught how to analyze and apply critical thinking skills which will aide them as they begin to exert influence on the world.

Through movements like Pickens’, America is beginning a new stage of development that leaves an infinite number of opportunities open for exploration by graduating students.

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There is certainly a great deal of evidence that can be interpreted to support evolution, and evolution itself is an inherently secular idea surrounded by no real legal qualms.

If one supports teaching creationism in public schools, however, he or she must prove that such teaching a) is both a desirable and constitutional educational goal and b) meets some minimum amount of scientific backing to even qualify it as discussion-worthy.

This column will discuss the constitutional and educational reasons why creationism should be taught alongside evolution, whereas next week’s column will discuss the hard science that makes creationism a plausible theory.

A 2004 Gallup Poll indicated that 45 percent of Americans held a Biblical view of creationism.

When almost half our population believes in creationism, it can hardly be considered a fringe belief. Though popularity in no way correlates to truth (after all, majorities used to believe in a geocentric universe), when such a belief is that popular, it should at least earn the right to be discussed academically alongside evolution.

At the first mention of teaching creationism, opponents will undoubtedly yell “separation of church and state!” This knee-jerk reaction is inconsistent with the meaning of separation of church and state. Though this phrase can’t be found anywhere in the constitution, “separation of church and state” refers to the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment, which state, respectively, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or promoting the free exercise thereof.”

If the theory of creationism is to be taught in public schools, it should be presented as just that: a theory, and the same should be true of evolution. If creationism were presented as a theory, one could opt to follow if he or she judged the evidence to be sufficient, it would hardly violate the establishment clause. Presenting students with an option is a far cry from pressing unwanted religious beliefs upon them.

Even if these teachings lead some to start believing in a God-created earth, this hardly equates to a religious conversion. One can easily believe the Deist notion that God created the Earth, then stepped out of the picture. Ironically enough, the most famous Deist (Jefferson) was the very man who coined the phrase “separation of church and state.”

The creation versus evolution debate is one with great consequences on our lives. Though publicschool students can certainly choose to reject evolution, their academic inquiry will likely stop there if they are not given the opposing theory to consider as well. Public schools should promote these debates that will affect our major life choices, not avoid them. By teaching evolution only, debate is avoided.

Political science classes are the perfect example of this. Professors present the merits and downfalls of both liberalism and conservatism without openly endorsing either, thus allowing students to draw their own conclusions.

Some might argue that if we are going to scientifically examine anything other than evolution, we should examine all religions’ origins accounts, yet with more than 100 different religions in America, this isn’t plausible. It makes most sense to examine the religions (Judaism and Christianity) that represent more than 80 percent of Americans today.

We already accept this type of majority catering in every other subject. Though public school gave me a cursory knowledge of Japanese history and culture, I was taught much more about American history simply because I, and the overwhelming majority of my classmates, had lived in America my entire life.

Some might also argue that it’s unnecessary for creationism to be taught in science classrooms because it’s already taught in church services and Sunday school. This method of teaching, however appropriate for the setting, only seeks to notify the students that the Earth was created in seven days, not why they should believe it.

Though collegiate religious studies classes may explore creation with a more objective and academic mindset than Sunday school classes, such classes still merely serve to match a religion with a belief. There is understandably no room in their syllabi for the type of inquiry into the natural sciences that might give such creation theories their oomph.

It is only in the science classroom, where students are forced to examine hard evidence from both sides, that they can take the debate seriously enough.

Whether the creationism theory can hold up in such a setting is the debate for next Monday. I’ll see you there.

Chelsea Lucas is a freshman majoring in chemical engineering.

Ben Friedman is a sophomore majoring in social entrepreneurship.

an attempt to win at all costs. It appears this practice has derailed campaigning off of the tracks of debating about the actual issues at hand and into the ditch of competing for the coveted most outlandish claim award.

For instance, Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle recently released an ad claiming that her opponent, Democrat Harry Reid, has “been in a conga line” while his constituents are “in the unemployment line” and has “been hanging out with supermodels” while “Nevada families are barely hanging on.” It would appear that campaigning has reached rock bottom.

Seriously, the only way that it could get any worse is if someone accused an opponent of being a puppy killer.

Oh wait, Pat Quinn, the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor in Illinois, already has that one covered. In an ad that featured a woman holding a cute puppy, he accused Republican opponent Bill Brady of wanting to “mass-euthanize sheltered dogs and cats in gas chambers.”

Both of these cases are obvious distortions of the truth. Even when the ethical implications of lying to attain public office are completely disregarded, the lack of effort exerted by candidates in creating their lies is, quite frankly, disrespectful to the American public.

If these slanderous ads were well-crafted, it would at least show that candidates feared the possibility of voters seeing through their deception. When poorly constructed ads that border on insanity are released, candidates are essentially stating that the voting population is too stupid to see anything

other than a race between a glorious knight in shining armor and a maniacally evil, bunny-stomping dictator who hates Christmas.

In response to these attack ads, a simple question needs to be raised.

Which is more probable: that a well respected politician “wants to inject 11-year olds with a controversial drug for sexually transmitted diseases” or that a candidate is twisting an opponent’s voting record in order to get elected?

Fortunately, voters have, to some extent, been able to cut through this emotionally charged climate.

Both Florida Democrat Alan Grayson’s ad that called his opponent “Taliban Dan” for wanting to impose his “religious fanatic” views upon America and New York Republican Carl Paladino’s accusation that his opponent had an affair, neither of which came with a shred of evidence, have backfired. These two candidates almost immediately experienced a drop in the polls and are now struggling to overcome the negative perception that they are, in fact, bombastic buffoons.

It is time for candidates to stop this constant barrage of fallacies in campaign ads. It does not take a genius to understand that neither Republican nor Democratic politicians support turning rape victims away from hospitals. In order to end this cyclic clown circus, both voters and politicians, regardless of ideology, must demand accountability from those who want to lead this country. After all, they are public servants.

John Brinkerhoff is a freshman majoring in political science and communication studies. His column runs biweekly on Mondays.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Is fall break a trick or a treat?

By Paige Ryan The University scheduled its fall break for Oct. 29-31, which happens to fall on Halloween weekend.

Students will also receive a day off on Nov. 18 for the Alabama v.

Georgia State football game.

In years past, students have been allocated a Thursday and Friday off to have a four-day-long break.

This year’s schedule gives students a Friday in October and then a Thursday in November. One has to wonder if fall break this year is a trick or a treat.

Fall break normally falls after midterms, which comes as a wel-

Energy creates new opportunities for students

By Chelsea Lucas Last Monday evening, entrepreneur and alternative energy proponent T. Boone Pickens visited Tuscaloosa to promote his alternative energy movement. The “Pickens Plan” is a coordinated, comprehensive plan to use natural gas to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, especially the oil we buy from OPEC. The major thrust of Pickens Plan is to convert our commercial transport from diesel fuel to natural gas.

The U.S.A. has 98 percent of the world’s resources in natural gas, which is also a clean burning fuel.

Mr. Pickens also wants to use the “Wind Corridor” that stretches northward from Texas through the Great Plains for a wind farm.

In a country that is becoming more secular, the thought of teaching Judeo-Christian creationism in public schools often seems ridiculous and outdated. As a former atheist, I once believed the assertion that God created the Earth in seven 24-hour periods to be as laughable as the long-discredited assertion that the Earth is

Paige Ryan is a senior majoring in journalism.

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Carol Ann Self. Each contributed his or her personal recollections of a different era at the University.

Greenhaw, a former reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser, recalled a time when he personally encountered violence with the police on campus.

“A city bus pulled up in front of the Union building, and city policemen filed off with black tape over the numbers on their badges,” Greenhaw said. “They carried no side arms, and they all had billy clubs.”

Greenhaw said he recognized that this was news, so he said he stepped off the curb to call his editor from a telephone booth.

“A policeman grabbed me and pushed me back,” Greenhaw said. “I heard a cry of anguish as they pulled a girl by the hair out in the middle of the street. Then I took off running to the phone booth to call my editor.”

That was when Greenhaw said he saw a policeman coming with a billy club toward his head.

“It scared me to death,” he said. “I took off running again, and the kids at the DKE house pulled me in and got me a phone to call the newspaper.

My editor didn’t believe me at first, so I held the phone out the window so that he could hear all the screaming.”

Field, who came to the University in 1967, also tells of how the police behaved violently toward students.

“One night, we gathered at Quick Snack where the Sigma Nu house is now, and we were planning a peaceful march to the president’s mansion,” Field said. “We got to the Union building, and police officers with Confederate flags on their shoulders ordered us to ‘disperse.’”

When the University attorney leading the march tried to explain that the march was peaceful and constitutional, “the cop reared back and hit the guy over the head,” Field said.

“The guy crumpled to the ground, and we all ran,” Field said. “I climbed to the top of a column and watched them beating kids like watermelons.

‘Thud, thud, thud.’”

Keynote speaker Earl Tilford said he believed the police brutality was caused in part by the city police feeling undermined by the University police department.

Tilford said Tuscaloosa was also the Ku Klux Klan national headquarters, which helped stir up further political dissent. People could buy hunting licenses for black Americans and caricatures of Martin Luther King Jr. could be found in barbecue joints past 14th Street, Tilford said.

Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who was president of the Student Government Association during this time, remembers challenging University administration about playing “The Plague of Dixie” at football games.

“There were a number of us who felt that the song was an affront to African American students and that it wasn’t what we should be doing for successful integration,” Siegelman said.

Crosheck said she was involved in the first civil rights demonstration on campus.

“There were only two

CW | Sara Beth Colburn History professor Andrew Huebner lectures about the “Antiwar Protests Across America” during the Days of Rage Conference at the Hotel Capstone Oct. 22. people,” Crosheck said. “After Martin Luther King had been assassinated in Memphis, an African American student and I walked around the quad together in memory. It was an awakening for me.”

Blacks and hippies were both stigmatized at the time. Ashby, a Vietnam vet, recalls returning from the war and recognizing the prejudices of society.

“Vietnam did not make me an activist, because I was an unwilling participant, but it did open my eyes to certain things,” Ashby said. “I fought beside men of all races and color didn’t matter because we had a common enemy.”

When Ashby wore his fatigues to a candlelight vigil, an Alabama linebacker came and stomped out the candles, staining his jacket with wax.

He said he knew the anti-war

position was not a popular one, but he felt it was his responsibility to the country to make known what was happening in Vietnam.

Drake, a former rebel who was often known to be in the center of any protest, and Self, a self-proclaimed sorority girl turned radical, also had exciting stories to tell regarding this period in history.

“Having been a photographer for The Tuscaloosa News during those fateful days in May, I was interested to come back and see what people had to say 40 years later,” said Daniel Meissner, a UA journalism professor. “Some stories have probably been embellished over time, but those were heady days. It is instructive to see where we are and how those events shaped the University today. ”

CW | Sara Beth Colburn The Days of Rage event featured photographs and descriptions of tumultous happenings in the 1070s.

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‘Hereafter’: Eastwood’s latest triumph

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Clint Eastwood the director has nothing to prove to audiences anymore. Even when his latest film was in unfamiliar territory for both him and his audience, I never once felt the insecurity that would most likely accompany the same material in the hands of less experienced directors.

“Hereafter” is being described as Eastwood’s “French film,” but I am not so quick to deem it as such.

Instead, this may be best described as Eastwood’s most “adult” film, if only because of its laconic style. This characteristic combined with the subject matter further reinforces this claim.

This film requires the patience of our attentiondeficient culture. Some may argue this is a weakness that ultimately brings down the film, despite its visual strengths and wonderful acting. To those people: you are missing the point.

This film consists of three tightly woven narratives.

One involves George (Matt Damon), a man who appears to be an actual psychic, although he has given up this practice. Despite this “retirement,” he is constantly called upon by both strangers and those close to him to do readings. Throughout the film, George maintains that this connection with the dead is a curse, and it is not too hard to see why – it impacts his ability to foster new relationships.

The other two threads involve French television

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Bottom line: Although the plot will tax the patience of an attentiondeficient culture, it is a moving story that will satisfy, regardless of your belief in the hereafter.

journalist Marie and a young English boy named Marcus.

Marie, while abroad, becomes a victim of a destructive tsunami. She appears to be slipping into death, only to be resuscitated. This near-death experience, which Eastwood leaves ambiguous, consumes Marie upon her return to her life as usual.

Marcus has a twin brother, Jason, who is killed trying to escape a violent group of bullies. Marcus is sent to foster care because his mother is a heroin addict and an alcoholic. The two people he most loves are taken away from him, and Marcus struggles to cope with the reality of his new circumstances.

Although these three narratives are concerned with themes of death, the movie is

about life. It deals with life’s possible connection with the spiritual.

It also shows how life can connect us all, even through death. Through the roles that death plays in these characters’ lives, we are brought to the singular moment where their lives are intertwined.

This is precisely why I claim that critics of the film are missing the point.

This movie is all about the emotional journey of the characters. In turn, these emotions lead them to make choices that will ultimately bring them and the film to their ultimate yet seemingly inevitable conclusion, despite how coincidental things may seem (How fitting it is, then, that George’s literary hero is

Charles Dickens.)

Maybe it is these coincidences that are our connection to whatever concept, notion or reality of the hereafter exists in this film. The subway sequence involving Marcus and his hat and the final scene of the movie suggest that I am not far off in my understanding.

The payoff of this movie depends upon the tedious setup, which is why I dismiss the aforementioned critical response to the film’s pacing and length. I think any cuts in the film weaken the emotional threads of the movie. And for the conclusion to work (as in any movie), these threads must remain intact.

If my above analysis sounds hokey or confusing, it is

because the film is dealing with something so uncertain and divisive; after all, consideration of the idea of an afterlife is no picnic.

Despite all of this, skeptics of the hereafter or life after death will find this movie satisfying. This film connects itself to possible “spirituality” and the afterlife without being overtly spiritual.

It is a moving story, regardless of one’s belief about the subject matter. This universality, besides echoing the themes of the movie, is what makes it such a wonderful film. If I am wrong about this, though, at least we are all left believing in one thing at the end: the status of Clint Eastwood as one of America’s finest filmmakers of all time.

COLUMN | VIDEO GAMES

RPG’s pioneer player’s choice for gamers

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What, then, is the role of choice in video games?

In the beginning, by which I mean we’re skipping gaming’s earliest manifestations and heading straight into Pong, the concept of choice in gaming was strictly binary: turn the game on or turn the game off. From there, we moved on to Mario’s interesting moral dynamic of “Continue to move right or be murdered by turtles.”

In all sincerity though, it would take a few more years for the player’s actions and decisions to have a larger impact on the game’s story and environment. One of the earliest games I know of to function in this way (and there may, in fact, be several PC games that predate it with this kind of functionality; my PC gaming experience is admittedly limited) was Square Enix’s, then Squaresoft’s, SNES role-playing game “Chrono Trigger.”

The game’s plot was focused on time travel, and actions undertaken by the characters in the past could affect both the plot and environment found later in time.

Role-playing games have good reason to be pioneers in introducing choice to gaming. Modern RPGs owe their existence to the tabletop granddaddy of the genre: “Dungeons & Dragons.”

“Dungeons & Dragons,” being a tabletop game where players created their own characters and stories and used the game’s rules as more supporting system than gospel, was naturally all about choices: should I be a human or an elf? Should I be a Paladin or a Barbarian? Save the town or burn it down? The game was nothing but choice.

This legacy of choice is readily apparent in the works of developer BioWare, now owned by Electronic Arts.

The studio, founded by two doctors, achieved prominence through the creation of RPGs that, when they weren’t directly licensed D&D products, drew heavily from its systems and settings. They continue to draw on this legacy: the fantasy trappings of D&D are all over the choiceladen Dragon Age series.

However, BioWare has also stepped away from D&D thematically while maintaining their philosophy that players’ choices should always be important within the game. The fate of the titu-

platformnation.com Role-playing games like the Dragon Age series developed by BioWare spaked an increase in players’ choice within games. lar kingdom was in the players’ hands in their Kung-Fu/ Mythology action RPG “Jade Empire,” the galaxy far, far away hung on their decisions in “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” and decisions made in one game can have far-reaching consequences in the next in their space opera, “Mass Effect.”

However, this design philosophy of “Player Choice above all else” is not always the optimal way to create a game.

It doesn’t work for every kind of story. For comparison’s sake, consider Naughty Dog’s “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.” The game is a thirdperson action-adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones that guides the protagonist, Nathan Drake, through set piece after set piece as he chases down the fabled city of Shangri La. Uncharted’s witty characterizations and excellent acting could certainly work in a less linear space, but its cinematic flare and breakneck pace would suffer for it.

Of course, it would be foolish to assume that choice only functions within the role-playing genre. Take “The Force Unleashed,” a Star Wars game set between Episodes III and IV. At the end of the game, players must choose if they will forsake the light or become a Jedi (adding “Like my father before me” is

optional), and the game has an ending prepared for either choice.

This notion of choice peppered at key moments is nothing new: the original PlayStation’s “Metal Gear Solid” had an ending dependent upon how well you resolved a key sequence. Even shooters can put a twist on the notion of choice – one of the major points in BioShock was the illusion of choice, and how the context of “I need to finish this game” affects it (and yes, BioShock had multiple endings as well).

Interestingly, as choice becomes even more prevalent in other genres, one of console gaming’s earliest champions of it has been accused of shying away from it. Square Enix’s “Final Fantasy XIII,” the latest entry in the hugely popular series, has received some complaints of removing much of the earlier games’ freedom.

It becomes clear, then, that the role of choice in games is itself a choice. Some developers believe deeply in the immersive abilities of choice in games. Others see it as possibly being a distraction that can hurt a game’s pacing and narrative. Luckily, games following both philosophies continue to be published, meaning that, in the end, the real choice is yours.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

By Chad Troyan Contributing Writer Though LSU came to town, there were no signs of the team’s purple and gold. Instead, Saturday’s color was pink, in support of women’s breast cancer. The UA men and women’s swimming and diving teams came in prepared for another tough conference rival.

The men entered this meet coming off a 133-110 victory against in-state rival Auburn, while the women looked for a bounce-back performance after a 169-74 loss to Auburn Oct. 9.

It took a team effort for the men beat LSU 161-139, improving the team’s season record in dual meets to 2-0.

Senior Catalin Cosma once again put up good performances, taking first in the 500-meter freestyle (4:32.02) and the 1,000meter freestyle (9:20.38) while finishing second in the 200 IM [individual medley], posting a time of 1:54.62.

Cosma received help from teammate junior Joe Ziegler, who placed first in the 200meter freestyle (1:36.76), fourth in the 50-meter freestyle (21.46) and first in 200-meter backstroke (1:49.76).

After beating Auburn and now LSU, the men seem to be on a roll, but they know it’s

CW | Megan Smith Junior Cameron Bass swims the freestyle at Alabamaʼs Power of Pink Tournament against LSU Friday. Their next meet is November 18-20, at the UT invitational in Knoxville. not going to be an easy task to keep their momentum going throughout the season.

“I feel if our team goes into the water knowing they can improve, we can keep the momentum,” Ziegler said.

“We have a lot of strengths. It seemed our strengths were their weaknesses, but at the same time, they did show us what some of our weaknesses were.”

Ziegler could not deny he was happy when he saw the 133-110 score, in their favor, posted on the scoreboard after the meet.

“I’m happy we won,” Ziegler said. “Now we’re 2-0. I’m excited about where we’re headed and how everyone could contribute, but we still need to improve.”

The men also received some help from senior diver Adam Booher. Booher won the 1-meter diving with 352.0 points and the 3-meter diving with 389.40 points.

While the men squeaked by LSU, the women struggled to be consistent against a strong LSU women’s team, losing 198-101.

Freshmen Lauren Piper

came out and posted some good times, finishing first in the 100meter backstroke (57.01), second in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:03.71 and fifth place in the 200 IM with a time of 2:10.65.

The women also got help from freshman diver Callan Buck who won the 3-meter diving, scoring 310.5 points.

Despite what the scoreboard read after the meet, Buck assures their hard work paid off, but there is still more to improve on.

“We still have a long way to go to get where we want to be,”

Buck said. “If we start working together as a team we can improve for the next meet.”

Head coach Eric McIlquham was pleased with the performance by the team against LSU. “We did a nice job,” McIlquham said. “We had nice finishes, but we need to swim more aggressively.”

The Tide will have plenty of time to practice and try improving on their weaknesses, as the team will resume swimming at the UT Invitational in Knoxville, Tenn., on Nov. 18-20.

Triathlon club appeals to everyone

The University offers a wide variety of club sports for students to compete in. Whether you want to stay in shape coming out of high school or just want a way to get involved around campus, the triathlon team is a sport anyone can jump into.

“There’s different levels [of competition],” founder and head coach Kendrick Gibson said. “You have some people that will train five to ten hours a week, others who train 15-20. The triathlon team is a sport for everybody. It’s something you can excel at. Among ourselves, everyone’s pretty relaxed. It is competitive, but everyone gets along great.

There’s a real camaraderie.”

Anna Woods, a freshman and new member to the club, said she feels joining the club has been a great way for her to meet people.

“I love it,” Woods said. “It’s just a good thing to do. The people on the team are great.

It’s really fun. I’ve met a lot of great friends that are upperclassmen. They’re really good for people that are beginners.

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Despite the relaxed atmosphere, the sport is challenging. It involves racing in an Olympic distance, which includes a 1500m swim, a 40k bike and 10k run. Woods noted the difficulty of competing in such a challenging course.

“Well, discipline is definitely one [of the hardest parts],” Woods said. “It’s hard. It’s hard to have motivation to work out on your own. That’s one of the biggest things.”

Gibson founded the Alabama triathlon club in 2006. He has been coaching individuals on the team for three years. He has been the overall head coach, however, for only two.

Alabama competes in the USA Triathlon South Eastern Collegiate National Triathlon Conference, against all universities in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee,

South Carolina and Florida.

In 2007, Alabama hosted the USAT Collegiate National Triathlon Championships, finishing 16th in the nation.

In 2008, Alabama hosted the Championships again and improved its standing, moving up to 14th.

In the 2008-2009 season, the Tide had huge success. The male division of Alabama Triathletes finished first at the end of the season with a total of 400 points. The female division placed third, and the coed division placed first as well.

“Everybody has improved,” Gibson said. “As for individuals, they’ve been training very hard, and improving across the board.”

The Tide looks to continue that success as it is set to host the Championships again in the 2010 and 2011 seasons, using Tuscaloosa to its advantage.

“It’s actually a pretty big

deal,” Gibson said. “We hosted it in 2007 and 2008. In [09-10 season], it was in Lubbock, Texas. [It’s] very convenient for Alabama to run through campus and downtown.”

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continues to strive for success as a club team, Gibson noted the importance of this club.

“I founded the team at Alabama, so it’s pretty close to heart,” Gibson said. “I have strong ties at Alabama.”

VOLLEYBALL

Tide falls in close match against Ole Miss

By Jordan Bannister Sports Reporter jmbannister@crimson.ua.edu There was unbelievable energy in The CAVE on Sunday when the Crimson Tide met the Ole Miss Rebels for Alabama volleyball’s Alumni Weekend match.

The energy was not enough to keep the Tide from a 2-3 (26-28, 25-19, 25-23, 19-25, 10-15) loss to the Rebels. Alabama stands at 9-12 this season and at 1-10 in the conference.

The first moments of the first set of the game introduced what would be an intense matchup for the Tide. Ole Miss took the first timeout when the Tide led 8-4, but the break didn’t shake Alabama, and the team kept a comfortable lead throughout the set.

In the last half of the set, an

error from the Tide would bring Ole Miss ever closer to catching up, and Ole Miss pulled the set out 26-28. Alyssa Meuth led the set in kills with seven, while Ole Miss’ Allegra Wells had six.

After set two, which the Tide lost 19-25, Alabama introduced an array of Tide volleyball alumni. From managers and coaches to all-star players, more than 25 past members of the Tide’s volleyball program were given special recognition at Sunday’s event.

One of the participating alumni, Jennifer Bibber, said the recognition was special and that it brought back a lot of memories of the great times she had at Alabama.

“It was really great to see everybody, and it was nice to meet some of the players from over 20 years ago,” said, Bibber,

who played for the Tide from 2000-2003.

Fresh into the third set, Ole Miss led the match with Alabama hot on its trail. For the rest of the set, the Tide would fight to catch up, staying just one or two points behind.

Alabama gained the lead 11-10, but an error tied the match soon after. Fitterer and Leigh Moyer both stung Ole Miss with deadly kills for another lead change, and a final kill from Fitterer ended the set 25-23 in the Tide’s favor.

The fourth set started with three consecutive Tide points, but Ole Miss led 13-10 when Alabama called the first timeout of the set to strategize. An impressive dig from the Tide’s own Mary Catherine Aune brought Alabama one point from catching the Rebels 16-15.

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Fitterer brought the score 18-all with a speedy attack on the Rebels, but Ole Miss did not bow.

They broke the tie with four points gained.

The Tide couldn’t catch the Rebels after their run and the set ended 19-25, Ole Miss.

“I think that was the best we’ve played as a team this season,” Meuth said. “We were competitive for every point and we were finally able to take control of the game ourselves rather than follow the other team’s rhythm. It was unfortunate that it didn’t fall in our favor, but Ole Miss is a great team.”

In the fifth and final set, the Tide took the lead by breaking two consecutive ties. Ole Miss took their turn at the lead at 5-6, but Alabama quickly tied it back up.

Later, trailing by three, Meuth

picked up her 23rd kill of the match. However, no matter how hard the Tide fought for points, Alabama fell 10-15 in the final, tiebreaking set. Though the Tide out dug (102-91), out hit (.227.226), and out killed (70-67) Ole Miss, the Rebels organization halted Alabama’s new lineup.

“We played with a different lineup today that we’ve only had two days to practice with,” said head coach Judy Green. “When you’re trying to climb the mountain as high as you’re trying to climb it, you get breaks that go your way, and I told them in the locker room, ‘We have to create our own luck.’ We have to find a way to be able to get at it next time.”

Alabama will play again on Oct. 29 in Fayetteville, Ark., against the Lady Razorbacks at 7 p.m.

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Crimson Tide’s best is yet to come

By Jason Galloway Sports Editor crimsonwhitesports@gmail.com Alabama has been pushed to the limit this season, even overmatched at times.

The Crimson Tide’s 41-10 victory over Tennessee was refreshing – its first comfortable road win against a Southeastern Conference opponent – but heading into the regular season’s final four games, the Crimson Tide’s biggest tests are yet to come.

While Arkansas and South Carolina are now hovering around the bottom of the top 25, LSU and Auburn were both undefeated and in the top 6 heading into this past weekend.

LSU, Alabama’s next opponent after its bye week, lost in Auburn on Saturday, but still has a dangerously talented team.

Although LSU has had more than one stroke of luck to get where it is, the Tigers have still won those games. I’m a believer that Les Miles holds that team

back, but they still certainly have the talent to defeat Alabama, especially under the lights in Baton Rouge.

Then a surging Mississippi State team comes to Tuscaloosa.

I can’t see the Bulldogs beating the Tide in Bryant-Denny, but their only two losses are to LSU and a close loss to Auburn, two teams that Alabama has not played yet and probably the best two teams on the Tide’s schedule.

Mississippi State is no slouch like in most years, and the Tide is lucky to have them at home.

Then, the toughest game of the season: Auburn. I know most Alabama fans reading this are still under the delusion that Auburn is significantly inferior to Alabama. From an overall talent perspective, maybe that’s still somewhat true. If Cam Newton didn’t steal a laptop two years ago, the Tigers would have at least three losses right now.

But they do have Cam Newton, and he has been the best player in the entire country this

season. He has already broken the Southeastern Conference record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in a season with four games to go, and he is the clear-cut favorite for the Heisman Trophy.

Alabama’s defense has the capacity to stop Newton and the Tigers’ offense, but some of the Tide’s young defensive players are still making inexperienced mistakes and missing tackles that would cost Alabama major yardage against someone like Newton.

Saying that, I do believe Alabama will win the Iron Bowl.

Auburn’s only two road games this season have been threepoint victories over Mississippi State and Kentucky. The Tide’s defense must continue to mature, though.

I believe Alabama will win the rest of its regular-season games, but I cannot be nearly as confident in this team as I was in last year’s team, and LSU and Auburn are the best two teams on the Tide’s entire schedule.

CW | Jerrod Seaton Tide running back Trent Richardson dives for the end zone over Tennessee linebacker Nick Reveiz in Alabama’s 41-10 victory Saturday.

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1963 | The last time Alabama beat Tennessee by such a large margin.

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41 | The streak of games CW | Jerrod Seaton Alabama running back Mark Ingram celebrates a touchdown in the Tide’s victory over Tennessee.

Ingram scored two touchdowns, his first since the Tide played Florida three weeks ago.

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2 | Touchdowns Mark Ingram ran for, both of them 1-yard runs. The first touchdowns he’s had since the Florida game, in which he also ran for two touchdowns.

Offense: 3.9 Cumulative: 3.6

Defense: 3.8 Cumulative: 3.5

aPutting up 41 points against a road SEC opponent was very impressive for the offense. Also, Greg McElroy did a better job of getting rid of the ball. The only complaint from the game is that the offensive line gave up a sack.

The first half was difficult to watch after Tennessee’s Tauren Poole came out with a 59-yard run for a Tennessee touchdown. Tennessee jumped to an early lead, and Alabama’s defense let a rusher gain more than 100 yards for the first time in 41 games. The second half was a shutout though, and it redeemed the defense.

Special teams: 3.6 Cumulative: 2.9 Kicker Jeremy Shelley made two field goals, one from 36 yards and the other from 42, but then he missed one from 25. On punt returns, Marquis Maze only had one return for -4 yards. Special teams didn’t have to play a big role in this game because the offense took care of most of the scoring, but what little the special teams did do wasn’t very spectacular.

Coaching: 4.0 Cumulative: 3.8 After a flat game against Ole Miss, this Alabama team was clearly coached up for the rivalry game. The players were executing well and playing hard, especially in the second half. Coaching gets a perfect score because Saban talked about the team playing to a higher standard, and the team certainly did.

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By Jason Galloway Sports Editor crimsonwhitesports@gmail.com Alabama caught a bit of bad luck when Michigan State used a comeback to avoid an upset to Northwestern Saturday, but the No. 7 Crimson Tide’s national championship hopes

still got stronger over the weekend.

N e b r a s k a ’s victory over Oklahoma State and Missouri’s upset of Oklahoma eliminated two undefeated teams that Alabama was chasing.

There are now four major conference undefeated teams remaining: Oregon, Auburn,

Michigan State and Missouri.

If the Tide were to win out, Auburn would be eliminated, and Alabama would need at least two of the other three to lose a game.

The Tide comes into perhaps the toughest part of its schedule after its bye week.

Three of its four remaining opponents are in the top 25:

No. 12 LSU, No. 21 Mississippi State and No. 1 Auburn. If Alabama survives a schedule this rough, it is highly likely the Tide will be ranked ahead of Boise State, TCU and Utah if they remain undefeated.

Alabama likely needs just two more teams to lose to control its own destiny for the national championship.

Alabama Football National Championship checklist: Eliminate undefeateds LSU and a Auburn.

Win the rest of the regular season.

Win the SEC Championship game.

Convince voters that the Tide is is more deserving than an undefeated mid-major (Boise State, TCU, etc.).

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CW | Jerrod Seaton Above: Quarterback Greg McElroy throws a pass in the Tideʼs victory over Tennessee Saturday. McElroy and receiver Julio Jones combined to light up the Volunteer secondary en route to a Tide victory.

Right: Safety Robert Lester intercepts the ball against Tennessee. The Tide defense held the Vols to only 10 points, and shut them out in the second half.

Far Right: Tennessee tight end Luke Stocker is tackled after a catch. The Volunteers passing attack struggled as two quarterbacks failed to figure out the Tideʼs secondary.

CW | John Michael Simpson Running back Mark Ingram carries the ball against Tennessee. Ingram scored twice in the game.

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catches in a game. Former wide receiver D.J. Hall holds the record with 13.

Jones now holds the record for the most yards receiving in a game, breaking David Palmer’s record of 217 yards against Vanderbilt in 1993.

Jones said breaking the record felt all right, giving credit to the offensive line and quarterback Greg McElroy.

“It’s just a goal, but now I just have to try and match that, just week in and week out,” Jones said.

Two weeks ago against South Carolina, Jones broke his left hand early in the game and had surgery on it the next day. The next Saturday against Ole Miss, Jones was back in the game for a bit.

After the Tennessee game, Jones said his hand hurt, but he played through it.

“It hurts,” he said. “Everybody hurts. It’s football. So, you just have to be a man and go out there and play. It’s just something you have to block out. It isn’t only me out there playing.

Ten other guys are out there counting on me to make plays.”

Head coach Nick Saban said Jones did a fantastic job against the Tennessee defense.

“They were playing him manto-man,” he said. “They were helping in the middle with a

safety. They did a really good job at times, but they were really kind of squatting on the routes, so we had no choice but to try to throw it over their head. Greg made some great throws, and Julio made some great catches.”

For most of the night, the Tennessee defense was playing man-to-man coverage, and Jones said coming into the game, the Tide was expecting it.

“They played man on [Georgia wide receiver] A.J.

Green, so we figured they’d play man on me,” he said.

Safety Robert Lester, who graduated with Jones from Foley High School, said he’s always expected great things from the wide receiver.

“Julio has been a great athlete,” Lester said. “Me and him playing at the same high school, I was just waiting for him to have an outbreak like that because I know he’s capable of it. I was just sitting there waiting for it to happen.”

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By Kayla Hare Changing Tides Imagine doing homework while sitting in the shadow of the beautiful Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, sipping an espresso from a local cafĂŠ, warmed by the mild Italian sun.

This scenario is possible for any UA student with a 3.0 GPA who has been enrolled at the University for at least one semester and who has met the language requirement.

Even for those students who speak only English, international opportunities abound.

Students can study abroad anywhere from England to the Himalayas with a variety of programs that include faculty-led summer excursions, competitive exchange programs, and direct enrollment programs.

Capstone International offers more than 100 study abroad options to interested students.

The University is constantly growing, and its growth is not limited to the United States.

Nor is its international expansion limited to study abroad.

According to Jane Stanfield,

associate provost for international education and global outreach, the University is taking other steps to promote its development internationally, which includes drawing international students to the Capstone. “One of our more recent endeavors has been the Cooperative International Undergraduate Degree Program,� Stanfield said. “This program allows international students from sister institutions to obtain a degree from both their home university, in this case specifically Ocean University of China and the University of Alabama. Ideally, this program will blossom into a cohort of international students from various countries along with UA students.�

Additionally, international students can study at the University via exchange programs or by taking classes at the English Language Institute, where classes are geared toward students with almost any level of English proficiency.

The main international focus for UA students, however, remains studying abroad.

The University offers a study abroad program to fit the needs of almost any student, with opportunities still growing.

One of the more recent study abroad additions is a semester-long exchange program at the University of Leicester in Leicester, England.

Kelli Abernathy, a senior majoring in finance and world business, studied at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan for a semester. “I think I really benefited from studying abroad,� she said. “Studying a language is one thing, but it is something entirely different to immerse yourself in another culture. I was lucky enough to be part of a home-stay program, so for my semester I was able to live with a Japanese family and really see how life is different in their country. It really opened my eyes, I think. And of course my language and conversation skills greatly improved.�

Abernathy said she recommends the experience of studying abroad to all students. “I would definitely recommend studying abroad to other students, even if it’s not

Changing Tides | Whitney Wash BB Comer is home to Capstone International, where UA’s international expansion is seen ďŹ rsthand. required or suggested for their major,â€? she said. “It’s an experience that can really open your mind to the rest of the world and how they live.â€?

Faculty, too, can benefit from the University’s international expansion.

Over the summer, faculty-led groups travel to Spain, France, Turkey, Japan, Greece, New Zealand, the Bahamas and

more. This gives faculty the chance to visit foreign countries and to enrich both their own teaching experience and the learning experience of students.

The University also sends professors to teach at universities abroad. “I am aware of professors in the business school teaching at universities in France, Italy,

and Belgium,� Stanfield said.

The University aspires to continue its expansion abroad and encourage its students to study in foreign countries. “We are seeing our undergraduate students becoming more involved in research and it is my hope that we can encourage and support more students in doing research abroad,� Stanfield said.

Honors College sees growth in short history

By Chris Izor Changing Tides One of UA President Robert Witt’s crowning achievements in his time at the University is the creation of the Honors College, whose members now comprise more than 10 percent of all UA students.

The Honors College has increased its membership tenfold in the seven years since its creation in 2003, and many areas in the north campus residential communities are exclusively for Honors students.

Witt created the Honors College in September of 2003, and in its first year, the program

had just 323 students. Before the Honors College, three individual programs existed on campus: the Computer-Based Honors Program, the International Honors Program and the University Honors Program, all of which are components of today’s Honors College. “Dr. Witt’s vision was to expand the University by emphasizing ‘the best and the brightest’ and recruiting more and more honors students,� said Robert Halli, who became the first dean of the new Honors College in November of 2003. “He believed that an ‘Honors College’ provided a better focus for honors than a collection of

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All Honors students on campus, regardless of their level of involvement in the Honors College, are required to complete at least two 15-person University Honors seminars in their time at the University. Morgan emphasized that this is the best opportunity to reach each Honors student. “One of our biggest keys is the 15-person seminar,� she said. “It’s a good way to get personally connected to the Honors College.

We orchestrate UH seminars, and we work in partnership with other departments to have departmental honors programs as well.�

With the expansion of the Honors population, though, these seminar offerings have had difficulty keeping pace with the needs of the students.

Morgan said beyond adding more of these seminars to match the number of students, the Honors College aims to diversify its offerings. “We’re looking at the gaps

that we have, particular in the math and science area, and strategically going after faculty members that can offer something unique,� she said.

Hallie Paul, a junior majoring in education studies through New College, appreciates the way the Honors College has handled growth in her time at the University. “Since the moment I came into the Honors College, I felt like the faculty always had the mindset of looking at what we were doing with a critical eye,� Paul said. “They were constantly assessing what we were doing. Planning, making things happen, then assessing where we are and getting input from students to see where we can improve.�

Paul is the first president of the new Honors College Assembly, the student organization for the Honors College. The HCA looks to give more chances to get involved through the Honors College and to help foster a sense of community among Honors students. “There is a need that a lot of students and faculty realize, that

we have thousands of students in the Honors College, and so many of them came out of their high schools involved and at the top of their class,� Paul said. “They want to do the same thing in college, but on a large campus they don’t know how. The leadership opportunities ideally would grow with the campus.�

According to Paul, the goal of the Assembly is not to reach and involve every honors student, but instead to allow interested students an opportunity to try their own ideas. “It’s more about creating the option for those who want it and who would take advantage of it,� she said, “and people who, like me, freshman year, wanted to get involved but weren’t sure who to talk to or where to go.�

Halli agrees that much of the success of the Honors College is up to the individual, particularly as campus continues to grow. “Right now,� he said, “there are many more ways to be involved in Honors College than there were when I came to Honors in 2002 and when I retired in 2009.�

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Landmark Properties invesContinued from page 1 tigated into the viability of the operations for Landmark student market by looking into Properties, said the company enrollment and conducting maropened communications with ket research, Smith said. “Anybody in the development business does extensive market surveys,� Smith said.

The Retreat is one among many of off-campus housing complexes in Tuscaloosa, such as University Downs, University Village, and the Woodlands.

Smith said the boom in offcampus housing has been galvanized by increases in enrollment due to economic downturns and a sluggish job market. “Enrollment is picking up,�

Smith said. “People are going to school or staying in school, and that’s what brought the Woodlands as well as the Retreat to Tuscaloosa.�

Steven Rumsey, owner of Rumsey Properties, said the boom in enrollment has glutted Tuscaloosa with rental property. “There is too much rental property in Tuscaloosa,� he said. “In fact, Tuscaloosa is over-built.

Developers are looking for projects to build and are looking for hotspots‌.Mega-developers are coming in and building big projects.�

Rumsey said President Robert Witt has been instrumental in attracting these developers to Tuscaloosa due to his travels

around the country to extol the growth in quality and numbers of the student demographic at the University.

As for on-campus housing, the campus master plan has been guiding the physical development of the Capstone, said Dan Wolfe, University planner.

Wolfe said the University has contracted with KPS Group, an architectural and planning company in Birmingham, to develop the future look of the campus.

Wolfe said the physical development of the campus will enhance students’ experiences at the Capstone. “I think what they can experience is a better academic environment,� Wolfe said.

In addition to an enhanced beautification of the campus, Wolfe said the University hopes to see a more pedestrian-friendly environment created by diverting cars and traffic from the campus core.

Alicia Browne, associate director for information and communication with housing and residential communities, said residential housing is taking a direction towards suitestyle housing that has private bedrooms.

Browne said the University has started the construction of a new residence hall next to Rose Towers, and in place of Rose Towers, a new space for a satellite recreation center and dining hall will be erected.

honors programs, and that an Honors College would make it easier to recruit these top students he wanted. Obviously, he was right about this.�

In its seven-year existence, the size of the Honors College has increased to more than 4,000 students, as of fall 2010. This increase has bred a variety of new programs aimed at connecting with students. “We’ve begun a very comprehensive program called the Freshman Year Experience,� said Jacqueline Morgan, the associate dean of the Honors College and also the director of the University Honors Program and the University Fellows Experience. The Freshman Year Experience is designed to give Honors College freshmen opportunities for involvement immediately. The program offers academic opportunities, social events, cultural experiences, and engagement with Honors upperclassmen and is open to all Honors students during their first year at the University.

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Graduate school sees expansion

By Jasmine Cannon Changing Tides While many of the University’s undergraduate programs have earned recognition for being ranked highly among public universities, the UA Graduate School has numerous programs ranked among the nation’s best as well.

David Francko, dean of the Graduate School, said its administration set a goal this fall of 4,700 students for the near future. He said this number is an “ambitious goal,” but based on growth and other achievements in recent years, he said the original goal might be surpassed.

Additionally, Francko said applications have risen to nearly 8,000 per year, unlike any number seen in the past.

“Applicants are way up by about 3,000,” Francko said. “One way we are growing and becoming more successful is because we are getting people to apply.”

So, why are people choosing to come to Tuscaloosa to pursue their graduate degrees?

Recruiting fairs, workshops, fellowship programs, campus visits and McNair scholars have contributed to the attraction to UA for graduate degrees.

Daniela Olszewska is a graduate teaching assistant who decided to pursue her Masters of Fine Arts in the Creative Writing graduate program.

“Acceptance, financial support and the opportunity to teach contributed to my decision,” she said. “People come [to creative writing graduate programs] for different reasons. I came so I would have time to write; I was offered full funding, and it is a great program.”

Graduate teaching assistants, along with all other assistantships and fellowships, come with

the perquisites of health insurance, tuition scholarship and a stipend.

Francko spoke on the importance of recruiting and supporting students.

“We have to continue to grow in the right way, with quality and diversity,” Francko said. “We have to continue to recruit and support our students with our innovative programs.”

Natalie Adams, assistant dean for graduate admissions and recruitment, said, “We have a national reputation for creating a diverse and welcoming atmosphere for students, as evidenced by the 2008 Council of Graduate Schools/Petersons Award for innovation in creating an inclusive graduate student community.”

Though growth has increased in every college at the University, the College of Nursing and the College of Human Environmental Sciences have seen some of the highest growth rates.

The graduate program at the College of Nursing began in 1999 with a first class that included only six students. This past August, the college graduated 81 students.

Marietta Stanton, assistant dean of the graduate program, spoke about the growth in the nursing school graduate department.

“Our overall enrollment has grown,” Stanton said. “In 2008 it was 113, in 2009 it was 107 in the fall and this fall is it 215. That’s not even counting our nurse educator students.”

Graduate programs from the three campuses of the University of Alabama System, which include the campuses in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Huntsville, collaborate with each other. For instance, the school of

nursing has a program in partnership with UAB. The College of Human Environmental Sciences has 13 graduate programs, including two that are available for doctoral studies. Like the school of nursing, HES collaborates with UAB with their doctorate in health promotion and nutrition.

Milla Boschung, dean of the School of Human Environmental Sciences, spoke on the growth of the HES program.

“What we have are stronger programs,” she said. “Every year they become stronger. In turn they recruit more and more students. We continually revise our course offerings and continue to keep it as up-to-date as possible. We know that students want and deserve the very latest in theory and technology.”

To accommodate the growing student population, funding in some areas has increased.

Stanton said the University has expanded its sources of funding and that the school of nursing has been able to allow more financial support for students.

“The University has added more than 200 internally-funded graduate assistantship lines in recent years and faculty have attracted more than 100 additional externally funded assistantships on their grants,” Adams said. “The Graduate School has added approximately 25 fellowship positions, and other sources of funding such as contracts and internship positions have been created.”

According to Adams, roughly 400 more students are funded on these sources of support than in 2006.

The percentage of funded students has grown from less than 36 percent in 2006 to nearly 39 percent. Adams also said the Graduate School partners with

Changing Tides | Whitney Wash The graduate program at the College of Nursing has grown from a fledgling six student in 1999 to eighty-one students and a brand new building. departments to fund a graduate research and travel program that has quintupled funding from $75,000 in 2005-06 to a projected $400,000 in 2010-11.

Along with students, the number of faculty and teachers has increased as well.

Stanton said the faculty is committed to catering to the needs of students.

“We are very student friendly,” she said. “We are very committed to making sure that the students have a good experience and faculty contact.”

The importance of research opportunities has been a factor pertaining to growth as well.

“Strong research programs are very important in deciding where to get a graduate degree,” said David Shankman, professor in the geography department. “[The geography department] is much more active in research than 24 years ago when I first

came here.”

Distance learning has been a chief contributing factor to the growth of the Graduate School.

“Distance learning is more popular and is of higher quality,” Francko said. “Half of our growth over the last two years has come from distance learning students.”

When Boschung began working for the University, the Distance Learning Program was nonexistent.

“Distance education or online programs came about because many people can’t leave their jobs or their families and come here, but they want a University of Alabama degree,” Boschung said.

According to Stanton distance education has contributed to growth in the nursing school graduate programs.

“Because most of our courses are online, it is very attractive

to students all over the world,” Stanton said. “Military students [in particular] are attracted because, as they go from station to station they can access the program from anywhere.”

The graduate school has more than 120 master’s, educational specialists and doctoral degrees.

There are currently 4546 students in the programs, with the school having aspirations of 5,000 to 5,300 students.

Francko said the Graduate School will continue to strengthen its quality and reputation.

“We want to continue to grow, but in the right way, first in quality,” Francko said. “We have stronger students and a more diverse student body. Recruiting and supporting are two of our main goals. We will continue to grow because of the good experiences our students have and the likeliness of being employed after graduation.”

Rise in football program has spurred UA growth

By Colby Leopard Changing Tides

Regardless of how hard the administration fights the stigma of being a “football school,” students at the University of Alabama will never cease to find pride in the tradition the football program brings to campus. Students have more reasons than ever to sing “Yea Alabama” traipsing across the quad as the trophy case reached capacity during the offseason.

Many students and alumni warmly welcome the success of the last few seasons, having lost only one regular season game in the past three years and, moreover, credit is due where it is deserved: to Nick Saban.

The reputation, achievements and national publicity Saban has garnered for the University have brought millions in revenue, a sated fan base and the attention of prospective stu-

dents from all over the world.

Of those merits and benefits that come with having Nick Saban as Alabama’s head football coach, it seems Athletic Director Mal Moore and UA President Robert Witt planned all along for Saban to be fully utilized as a recruiting tool to boost enrollment.

“When talking with prospective students and their families, the topic of football is rarely overlooked. Some families even plan their trips around game day weekends in order to experience Alabama on Saturdays firsthand,” said Alex Murray, an Honors College Ambassador.

Honors College Ambassadors are responsible for meeting with potential UA Honors College students during their visit to campus, escorting them around campus, and informing them of the various opportunities the University offers.

“Football talk ranges from small filler talk during lunches,

to full-blown conversations and analysis of the next game and the season,” he said. “The conversations are not exclusive to in-state or out-of-state students.

In fact, the topic of football has come up with students from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, and even California.

It’s just hard to go a day in Tuscaloosa without at least mentioning the game of football.”

Murray said Witt’s efforts to improve the academic standing and other programs and facilities have begun to play a more active role as students consider the University of Alabama.

“I have yet to hear a student say football is the sole reason they are looking at Alabama, but I have not heard a student say that football is entirely unimportant either,” Murray said. “Many view it as a crucial component of their college experience and truly enjoy talking about it. Having a win-

ning team definitely brings an added excitement to football discussions with prospective students. It’s easier to sell 12-0 than 6-6. I think we can thank Nick Saban for that.”

Taylor Collins, a senior majoring in Spanish and president of Capstone Men and Women, agreed that Saban and the football program have at least sparked interest in students around the country.

“I would say that Nick Saban and our football program bring a lot of attention to the University,” Collins said. “More students, especially out-of-state students, have decided to visit and tour campus because of the media our University receives from our incredible athletics.

However, students who are here to visit are more focused on our academics and what Bama has to offer them. Most prospective students are interested in classes, campus life, and getting involved. The only

question I really get about football is ‘How do I get tickets?’”

Collins went on to say that he thought, although Saban has been a huge aid in the growth of the University and putting its name in the national spotlight, the real credit is due to Witt.

“Dr. Witt has actually had a planned renovation and growth for Alabama. His expectation was to reach 30,000 students around this time,” Collins said.

“My freshman year and Saban’s first year here we had around 25,000 students already. So, I believe Dr. Witt would have still reached his goal even without Saban. Although I am sure glad Saban is our coach, and Alabama football definitely does not hurt recruitment at all.”

Brian Wasige, an exchange student from the University of Glasgow majoring in mechanical engineering, attended his first Alabama football game against Ole Miss. Wasige was

very impressed by the charged atmosphere Alabama football provides, especially in the stadium.

“Before coming to the U.S. in early August, I had never given football any thought other than watching ‘The Longest Yard,’” he said. “It is just not a part of our culture. However, I had barely been here before I knew exactly who both Nick Saban and Mark Ingram were.”

Wasige clarified that The University of Alabama had not been his first choice for exchange programs, but he was very glad that he ended up here anyway and the football has enhanced his experience in the U.S. “Even though I didn’t know anything about football until I got here, I enjoy game days and all the experiences that come with it. I’ve learned how important Coach Saban is to the school and we all benefit from his being here,” he said.

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