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Does not offer an all-vegan station

Does not have an allvegan dining facility

Includes es a vegan member on udent advisory board its student

Does not label vegan desserts

Offers nondairy milk

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Does not partner with students to distribute vegan food

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NOT JUST A DIET The University niversity of Alabama receives ‘B’ on Peta2’s 2013 Vegan Report Card for campus dining halls

By Alexandra Ellsworth | Staff Reporter When Julia Whitten walks into the Ferguson Center to eat lunch, she does not join the long line of students waiting for Chick-fil-A or Subway. Instead, she fixes a salad or grabs vegan noodles from the refrigerated section in the food court.

Whitten, a sophomore majoring in environmental science and Spanish, is one of 2.5 percent of Americans who are vegan, according to statistics reported by PETA. She has been a vegan for about two years.

“At this point, I really love it,” she said. “It’s

been really awesome and very worthwhile when I think about how what I do impacts the environment.”

Though 2.5 percent may seem like a small percentage, the Huffington Post reported that interest in veganism may in fact be growing.

According to the article, the number of Americans who are vegan has more than doubled in the last three years.

Veganism, which is refraining from using or eating animals or animal products, is becoming more popular on college campuses as well, according to PETA. Peta2, PETA’s youth division, surveyed more than 2,000 colleges

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and universities and ranked them on veganfriendliness. The University of Alabama scored a B, one of four schools in the state to do so out of 24 ranked. The University met six of the 10 requirements.

The scores were based on whether the school offered at least one vegan entree at every meal, offered nondairy milk, labeled vegan entrees, included a vegan member on its student advisory board, promoted vegan options, participated in Meatless Mondays, labeled vegan desserts, partnered with students to distribute vegan food, offered an all-vegan station and had an all-vegan dining facility. The surveys

WHAT: Student Recital feat. Matthew Chambless, trumpet WHEN: 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Moody Music Building

City Council votes to pause rezoning Student Housing Task Force request approved Tuesday The Tuscaloosa City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to temporarily pause all residential rezoning and construction projects in the area surrounding The University of Alabama campus.

The council approved the initial

of no construction until the task force releases its final recommendations.

“It is a positive step in the right direction,” Mayor Walt Maddox said. “But we have to look at this as a beginning.”

Other recommendations approved in the resolution were to update the comprehensive plan, study the potential use of impact fees, eliminate a provision in the landscape ordinance that interferes with parking in SEE CITY COUNCIL PAGE 2

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You can’t tell by looking at her, and she probably won’t tell you, but Ashley Combs is living with cystic fibrosis. She lives her life just as any other college student would, and she doesn’t let her illness stop her from achieving her dreams.

“It’s definitely shaped who I am.

It’s given me a lot of wisdom beyond my years, and it’s put my family and I through challenges that most

people don’t face, so that’s made me extremely goal-oriented and relatively focused,” Combs said. “I have a lot that I’ve realized that I want to accomplish because of what I’ve dealt with.”

The Colorado native, a sophomore majoring in psychology, is a member of the water ski team, SkiBama. At the team’s most recent competition, Collegiate Nationals, Combs was SkiBama’s top jumper.

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recommendations of the Student Housing Task Force, which included a pause approval of rezoning or construction for any areas outside of “the box,” which is the area bordered by Queen City Avenue on the west, 15th Street on the south, McFarland Boulevard on the east and the Black Warrior River on the north – essentially the immediate area surrounding The University of Alabama campus. The City Council voted unanimously to amend the resolution to include “the box” in the area

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were sent to four-year public and private colleges and universities with a dining program.

Kenneth Montville, colleges campaign coordinator for Peta2, said the goal of the survey was to encourage colleges and universities to think about what they were offering vegetarians and vegan students.

“In past years, we’ve given awards to schools promoting the most vegan food options, but this year we decided to go one step further and look at every school in the country,” he said.

“Not only we are showing the top schools, but

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Agent says Saban under pressure Alabama football coach Nick Saban would only leave Alabama for the Texas job, according to an Associated Press report Tuesday night. The report also stated Saban’s success with the Crimson Tide had put him under “special pressure.”

The comments were made to two Texas regents by Saban’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, in a phone call. The call was detailed in an email, which was obtained by the AP through an open records request.

Current Texas coach Mack Brown has been under intense pressure after 8-5 and 9-4 seasons the last two years. The Longhorns dropped games to BYU and Ole Miss at the beginning of this season, but are since on a five-game winning streak. Brown’s contract at Texas runs through 2020.

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Sales program hosts career fair The University of Alabama’s sales program will host Connect 2013, a sales and marketing career fair, in the Ferguson Center Ballroom from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday. Representatives from more than 40 companies will be in attendance to hire students for full-time positions and internships in sales, marketing and management. For more information or to see a list of companies in attendance, visit CWwww.uasalesprogram.com.

Tuscaloosa action plan approved The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development approved a $12.8 million action plan for the City of Tuscaloosa, according to a press release from Deidre Stalnaker, public relations coordinator for the City of Tuscaloosa.

Funding will be split between eight different recovery effort projects. $150,000 will go toward housing assistance, $200,000 will go toward neighborhood lakes cleanup, $952,247 will go toward Hargrove Road and Hackberry Lane, $1 million will go to Habitat for Humanity, $1.71 million will go toward Rosewood sewers, $2.2 million will go toward Cedar Crest drainage improvement, $2.8 million will go toward public library technology and $3 million will go toward University Place and Forest Lake infrastructure and City Walk. About $800,000 will go to program administration and planning.

The funds are part of the 2013 Community Development Block Grant for Disaster Recovery, totalling $43.9 million.

Projects funded under the action plan must be completed within two years.

CW | Austin Bigoney Members of the Association of Residential Communities hand out candy to students as part of “Beat LSU” week.

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Student manages CF with sports, school COMBS FROM PAGE 1

system and creates thick mucus that clogs the lungs and pancreas. Combs’ mother Shannon Pelletier said Ashley was not actually diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis until she was 2 years old. At that point, the doctors told the Combs their daughter wouldn’t make it past the age of five, and if she did, she would be on a feeding tube and require oxygen. Combs is now 19 and living a normal life.

“I think what’s most important about Ashley is not that she has CF, but that she lives every day to overcome how she feels with CF,” Shannon said. “She just gets up every day, and she hikes through not feeling good, and she puts on a brave face.”

Water skiing has been in Combs’ family for four generations. Her dad, grandfather and great-grandfather all water skied and passed the sport on to her when she was 3 years old.

Water skiing is Combs’ passion, she said. It’s something that helps her get through her day and gives her something to look forward to.

“She loves every minute of what she does, and you know it’s very important to her, and it’s a lot about who she is,” Pelletier said.

“It makes me feel like I’ve

surplus of off-campus student housing in the city.

“I look forward to having the final recommendations from the Student Housing Task Force in two weeks,” Councilman Matt Calderone said. “I think it is important to move forward because this is a time-sensitive issue. We have a lot of developers outside

the state of Alabama, outside Tuscaloosa and in Tuscaloosa that want to develop, to put businesses here, to put developments here. We don’t need to hold them up longer than is necessary.”

The task force is expected to release its final recommendations in two weeks.

The council voted unani-

mously on four other resolutions and ordinances in addition to the recommendations, including the approval of liquor and beer licenses for Kozy’s – a Tuscaloosa restaurant that was forced to close in June. The new owners were present at the meeting and said the restaurant is set to reopen in a few weeks.

actually gotten to experience a lot, and it’s due to human interaction, and it’s due to that fact that I get to travel.

And you know, it’s a release of endorphins so it just makes me happy in general, and it’s just given me something to look forward to the next day or a month from now,” Combs said.

SkiBama is a very tightknit group, and Combs said she would do just about anything for her teammates, and her teammates feel the same about her. Combs said she was immediately able to bond with the group.

“She’s an asset to the team,” SkiBama faculty advisor Gregory Goldstein said.

“She’s very positive and brings a lot of positive energy to the team.”

Despite Combs’ disease, her family wasn’t worried about her competing in a sport like water skiing. They support her through all of her challenges and successes.

“We focus as a family on quality versus quantity. I think the water skiing component has always kept her fighting because she loves it so much,” Shannon said. “Water skiing gives her an ability and an outlet to be successful and competitive in a sport without feeling that she can’t.”

Combs chose The University of Alabama not only to experience life in the South and to join a nationally ranked water ski team, but also because Birmingham

is home to the largest cystic fibrosis clinic in the nation.

“That gave way for a lot of opportunity with that part of my life,” Combs said. “When I found that out, it all just kind of fell into place.”

Besides their daily at-home routines, Cystic Fibrosis patients make frequent visits to the hospital to receive important treatments they cannot get at home. Some people may find it hard to find a balance between attending a major university, competing in a sport and attending regular doctor appointments, but Combs has found the perfect balance. She said because she has done this her whole life, it’s much easier for her.

“It is just a lifestyle. If I had to wake up one day and just do it, I can’t. It’s all I know,” Combs said. “Professors are relatively understanding about it. I am definitely no straight-A student, but I get by. In the long run, it doesn’t affect my school work as much as it could.”

With a degree in psychology, Combs hopes to work with children that are living with chronic illnesses. Because water skiing has helped her cope with Cystic Fibrosis, Combs hopes to create a program that will allow other children to experience the same opportunities she was able to experience.

“I want to be able to integrate activity into children’s lives because I think that is one of the huge reasons that

I am doing as well,” Combs said. “It’s not just the CF. It’s the water skiing, because that was something that always drove me to be better, and it was so much fun as well. I was exposed to amazing people, and I want to be able to give kids the opportunity to try that stuff out as well, because I think even if you’re practically immobile, there are ways, there are things that you can do to make you feel the way water skiing made me feel.”

Combs said she also believes that by creating a program that will allow children to do things they didn’t think were possible, she can create role models for younger patients to look up to.

“I feel like if I had an example of someone who was in my position, who had to fight for their ability to live and then was relatively successful at it, that would motivate me so much to just work harder, and I want to do that, and hopefully one day I will be successful enough to do that,” Combs said.

Combs said she is grateful for her experiences and opportunities thus far, and instead of feeling sorry for herself for having a terminal illness, she is grateful for it.

“I think that the cystic fibrosis in itself gave me the opportunity just to appreciate and remove myself from the situation momentarily to see what I have and just love it,” she said.

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CW | Austin Bigoney A crime report listed The Retreat at Lake Tamaha as one of the highest crime-abundant student living communities, including calls to police for barking dogs and fire alarms as criminal instances.

Retreat declares high crime rate report false

By Jessica Smith | Staff Reporter The staff of The Retreat is seeking to set the record straight after a recent AL.com article detailed crime statistics released by the Student Housing Task Force that pointed to a high amount of crime at the off-campus student apartment community.

The Retreat, a gated community off Jack Warner Parkway, was said to have the most crimes reported out of the eight complexes examined by the task force: 464 in total for the 1,300-bed community. The directors of the community said in reality they had less than half of that number when the call log of 464 incidents was reviewed with the Tuscaloosa Police Department. It was found that at least 226, or 49 percent, of the incidents were not actually crimes.

James B. Whitley, vice president and chief operating officer of Landmark Properties and the owner and operator of The Retreat, said the AL.com story put unwarranted fear in students and that The Retreat actually has a low rate of crime.

“About 50 percent of those incidents were

not crimes at all,” Whitley said. “They listed things like dogs barking, fire alarms going off because students were cooking, lockouts, noise violations, parking issues and traffic stops outside of the community where The Retreat was identified as the location marker on the report.”

Whitley said Landmark Properties understands students can be an easy target for crime and that The Retreat has three resident police officers who patrol the property, security gates, three police cars parked regularly and 24/7 security coverage around the community to ensure students’ safety.

Elizabeth Manning, a first-year graduate student in the community journalism program, has lived in The Retreat for three years.

She said even though the community is advertised as gated, the security gates are open most of the time.

“It’s kind of a joke in The Retreat – for people who live here,” Manning said. “They say all of [these security features are being added], but then they don’t really do anything about it to make us feel like they’re doing anything.”

Whitley said concerned residents can research the facts themselves.

“Students and parents should go directly to the police department and ask to review the report. It is all public record,” Whitley said.

“We want to encourage parents and students to access the facts, and they can do that by speaking with The Retreat property manager or with the police department directly.”

Keli Middleton, property manager at The Retreat, said the apartment complex implements a very high level of security because safety is its main concern for parents and students.

“We definitely don’t want misleading information getting out for students and parents to read,” Middleton said. “Our residents say they feel comfortable and safe living here, and that’s the main message we want to get out.”

Manning said she has never felt threatened but must take extra precautions because of the neighborhood’s location.

“You kind have to be a little bit safer, because [the nearby neighborhoods are] where crime is going to happen, and I just don’t really feel like The Retreat has done a lot to make us feel

safer about that,” Manning said.

Mary Kathryn Doggette, a resident employee at The Retreat, said she has lived there for four years and hasn’t had any problem with crime.

“I’ve felt completely safe living here,” Doggette said. “In the first two years, I lived next door to three members of the Tuscaloosa Police [Department]. I’ve never needed their assistance, but it’s nice to know they are there.”

Doggette said The Retreat also has security guards at the gates and around the property on the weekends. She said she was not aware of the statistics that came out but that The Retreat has become her “home away from home” since she moved out of the on-campus dorms in 2009.

While The Retreat should maintain a safe environment for students, Manning said students should also take precautions to lock their houses and keep their valuables safe.

“I think the students could be a lot more careful. We don’t think about the fact that you can be an easy target,” Manning said.

NEWSIN BRIEF UA professor receives awards for book on slavery something that you can anticipate, and to have it happen twice is really unexpected but quite The Southern Historical Association awarded gratifying.”

Joshua Rothman, a professor in the UA Rothman’s book addresses the history of department of history, the Frank L. and Harriet slavery during a time when the South’s economy C. Owsley Award for best book in Southern was rapidly expanding, thanks to the booming history this past weekend for his book “Flush cotton industry.

Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism “[The book is about] the expansion of the and Slavery in the Age of Jackson.” Rothman cotton South and uses a series of stories to was also awarded the Michael Thomason Book make the case that the growth of slavery in the Award for best book on the history of the Gulf Deep South, and the development of South by the Gulf South Historical Association. opportunities for common white men not only Rothman said he was very surprised by the happened simultaneously, but did so in ways awards. that produced tremendous amounts of violence, “There are tons of scholarly works that are conflict and economic instability,” Rothman very smart and of high quality in any given said. year,” Rothman said. “To have your book Rothman said he hopes to publish another chosen as the best among all of them is never book on the slave trade in the future.

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COLUMN | SPORTS

NFL needs major shakeup in wake of bullying scandal

By Amber Patterson | Staff Columnist

country will be watching.

I would say there is no greater time than now, and I think a huge showing on Saturday morning as those cameras turn on will only assert our dominance further and put all the questions to rest.

Both on the field and off, it’s time to show the country who is king, and that starts with us.

Basically, the numbers on Saturday have to be huge.

We have to have the best signs and the greatest fans. We have to put Texas A&M, Florida State, Oregon and everyone else to shame with our volume, just like our boys do on the field day in and day out.

“College GameDay” is a battle of dominance. It’s an opportunity for The University of Alabama to prove itself once and for all, and it is the least that we can do to pay back the Crimson Tide for all they strive for.

People have been calling us out. From Oregon to Florida State, signs reading “We Want Bama” are blatant.Now’s our chance to give it right back. After all, so did Texas, LSU, Georgia and Notre Dame.

So remember to set that alarm. Grab that sign.

Get up. It’s gameday.

It has been a rather scandal-free football season in my eyes. It seemed to be smooth sailing after Aaron Hernandez went on a killing spree back in preseason, but then the name Richie Incognito made headlines. I first assumed it was a failed drug test or maybe a bar brawl that ended badly, but I came to find out Incognito made headlines for being an extreme bully to teammate Jonathan Martin.

To be clear, two grown men are shaking up the NFL because of bullying.

I will be the first one to say bullying is an extreme problem in middle schools and high schools.

Amber Patterson It does deserve national attention to protect the younger generation that does not feel safe to walk school hallways – not grown men who run into each other like trucks for a living.

I do not want to seem insensitive, and I am definitely not blaming the victim. I put all the blame on the NFL and Incognito. The culture of hazing on football teams in the NFL has been kept behind closed doors. It’s known that rookies are usually the victims of pranks at training camp or get their heads shaved for a few laughs. Pranks can be forgotten, and hair grows back, but, according to news reports, Incognito and other veterans have reached beyond that. They have forced rookies to pay for expensive trips and dinners totaling up to $30,000. Messing with the money somebody feeds their family with is serious.

Many speculate that Incognito has a pattern of this behavior. Some are not even surprised by his actions. My question is: If this behavior was foreshadowed, why didn’t anyone say anything? This happens regularly in organizations around the country. It has even happened at our university. Problems do not just turn into scandals overnight; When they are constantly ignored while they are small, eventually they get so big it becomes hard to cover them up or even fix them.

I will admit that it’s hard for me to feel sorry for Martin, simply because he is a grown man who let another grown man treat him as sub-human.

When looking at pictures, they are about the same size, so Incognito did not have a physical advantage over him, but I cannot speak on the mental state of both players. However pushing my feelings aside, the league did Martin an injustice.

They failed to protect him as a player, an asset that drives their industry.

They do have a chance to redeem themselves in the aftermath of this situation, but that seems unlikely. The NFL always seems to drop the ball when it comes to protecting the right player.

They will defend a player like Ben Roethlisberger, who has been accused of sexual assault on two occasions, but let a player like Jonathan Martin fall through the cracks.

Maxton Thoman is a sophomore majoring in biology. His column runs on Wednesdays.

Amber Patterson is a junior majoring in public relations. Her column runs biweekly on Wednesdays.

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It’s time for fans to get up for GameDay

By Maxton Thoman | Senior Staff Columnist On Saturday, in the midst of a hectic weekend of football, @ C o l l e g e G a m e D ay m a n ag e d to tweet out, “LSU vs Alabama!

GameDay is heading to Tuscaloosa. #GetUp4GameDay.” The No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide vs.

No. 13 LSU Tigers classic was too much for “College GameDay” to pass up, and – to the glee of Alabama fans (everywhere) – hopefully we will get to see Lee Corso don Big Al’s famous head live from Tuscaloosa.

Personally, I believe the ESPN favorite selected Tuscaloosa for this weekend’s festivities for a reason.

Ultimately, their decision was made based on the Tide’s ranking and our past battles with LSU, but one can’t help but think that our fan base had something to do with it as well.

Alabama football is something of a legend, and now, as we sit poised to make history, our fan base is expected to be on the edge of its seat. We are expected to be loud, proud and relentless. We have a reputation for this, and now that we are knocking on the door of a three-peat, there should be no question of our absolute devotion to our team.

Of course, this fantastic opportunity comes merely two weeks after head coach Nick Saban scolded

Maxton Thoman Alabama fans for their attendance during the Arkansas blowout, asking us specifically to stayfor all four quarters and to represent our team and our University regardless of the score.

Granted, during the following week’s battle against Tennessee, the student body showed up in huge numbers and was truly represented well. Yet, the sustainability of this crowd was still somewhat of a concern.

It seems to me, however, that there is no better possibility for redemption, no greater way to put the concerns to sleep than this Saturday. We have a behemoth of a game at our doorstep, as our Tide faces one of its final hurdles as it rolls ever closer toward the 2013 BCS National Championship in Pasadena, Calif., and believe me, the

COLUMN | IMMIGRATION

The time is now for complete reform of U.S. immigration laws

By Victor Cuicahua | Staff Columnist The debates on immigration seem to never end, and discussions dealing with it orbit around policy but rarely around the lives of those affected by it. Illegal immigrants and their stories are often relegated to the shadows of public consciousness and discussion all while immigration remains one of the most polarizing social issues of today. I am undocumented, and I am unafraid.

My family brought me and my brother and I to Alabama in search of a better life when we were both infants. Growing up, I was aware that I was living in the country without legal permission, but wasn’t able to understand what it meant. It wasn’t until I was 13 years old that my lack of legal status caught up with me. My friends were eagerly

beginning to prepare for college, and I was waiting outside a counselor’s office to see how she could help me do the same.

My meeting was brief, and she crisply told me there was no route to college for me because I was undocumented, that I was facing a brick wall I would never manage to break.

Around the same time, talks of immigration reform began to spread. I remember reassuring undocumented friends that we shouldn’t have to worry about being able to go to college because immigration reform was going to pass before we graduated. It didn’t. Graduating high school was truly one of the emptiest moments of my life.

During the past decade, immigration reform has been discussed by different

administrations yet has little to show for it. In the past years, federal stagnation has emboldened some states to pass anti-immigrant legislation, and it seems that immigration reform is continually shelved.

In 2011, Alabama passed HB 56, the harshest anti-immigrant law in the nation, which aimed to make life so miserable for illegal immigrants that we would willingly “self-deport.” Whenever my mother left for work, I wondered if that was the last time I would see her. My story is not unique. When HB 56 passed, I and other illegal immigrants had a choice to make: leave or fight.

With HB 56’s passage, I prayed to be a stronger person and reveal a secret I had hidden for years. I decided to come out as an illegail immigrant during a time

when doing so could lead to my deportation, but I realized there was no reason to hide the sacrifices my parents made to give me a brighter future. I realized being undocumented would no longer be my scarlet letter, so I came out to add a human face to one of the most fundamentally misunderstood issues in America.

When we speak of illegal immigrants, we discuss legality, overlooking the humanity of those involved. Many are quick to snap that illegal immigrants undermine the system by “cutting in line” but are unaware that, for millions, there is no line for us to get into. Criminalizing and generalizing dehumanizes millions and ignores the complexity that we’re not always who you think we are. Illegal immigrants

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could be migrant workers, university students or Pulitzer Prize-winning j o u r n a l i st s .

Some of them might be your friends and some might be writing columns in university newspapers you read.

The clock is ticking, and we are at a turning point. Last year, a program known as Deferred Action was announced that granted a two-year work permit to illegal immigrants who met stringent requirements.

I would be banned from public universities in Alabama were it not for this program, but the lack of comprehensive immigration reform leaves millions in limbo. The time is now for immigration reform.

Victor Cuicahua is a freshman majoring in journalism. His column runs biweekly on Wednesdays.

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Scavenger hunt encourages UA students to use academic resources

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By Morgan Funderburk | Contributing Writer The Student Government Association will host an Academic Scavenger Hunt with a number of prizes available to encourage students to take advantage of academic resources available on campus. “This is a great opportunity for students to get to know their teachers and what resources they have on campus,� Allison Montgomery, SGA vice president of academic affairs, said.

The scavenger hunt will also provide an opportunity for students to be entered to win one of two iPad minis, an Alabama spirit pack or a

$250 scholarship.

Students interested in participating can pick up an Academic Scavenger Hunt passport in the SGA Office, the Writing Center or any of the libraries on campus.

The tasks outlined on the passports include meeting with two professors outside of class, meeting with an academic advisor, scheduling an appointment with an academic resource professional and making a DegreeWorks plan.

Although these activities can help students improve their chances for academic success, they may lack the proper motivation to complete them. William Hart, a professor of psychology, said

procrastination could be the culprit. “Students may see the relation and care about academics but procrastinate because the tasks are not very fun,� Hart said. “The prize may be [a] sufficient incentive to motivate these folks to action.�

Each task is designed to encourage students to take advantages of opportunities to boost their grades and build better relationships.

Professors on campus, especially in large classes, face difficulties getting to know their students.

Meeting with them outside of class can help develop solid relationships, which can eventually help when trying to find a career.

“If you have taken the time to get to know a few of us, then it will be a lot easier for you to ask and for us to write a good letter that speaks to your character as well as your grades,� Eric Giannini, a professor in the College of Engineering, said.

Each task requires a signature from University of Alabama faculty or staff, except for the DegreeWorks plan stamp, which requires the participant’s signature after making a class outline for the two upcoming semesters. Allison Montgomery then validates the signatures. “[We are] essentially working on an honor system, but if she found anything suspicious, she can

contact those teachers,� Leela Foley, director of media relations for the SGA, said. “But we are trusting students to be honest.�

By completing the scavenger hunt, students can become better acquainted with academic life at the University. “We wanted all students, and especially freshmen, to be more aware of resources on campus.�

Montgomery said. “We also wanted to encourage students to forge relationships with their professors and advisors.�

Passports are due back to the SGA Office by Friday in order to be entered in the drawing to win one of the three prizes.

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Tell me about the Tinker Tour.

The Tinker Tour was an idea we came up with last year when we decided civic education was not getting a fair shake in our culture right now. Students are not getting a solid civic education in the basic workings in democracy. We have a lot of issues in our country very much like the 1960s. It’s a very important time in our history – we’re seeing growing equality issues, like racial issues and war. We have huge expenditures on war that is being taken away from schools. All of these things are policies that students are being affected by but don’t have a say in them. Don’t you think you should have a say in the policies that affect your life? In Brazil, they have child-friendly school boards where students would decide how money would be spent in their community. I think we should do that again. Even with small things like school-dress policies, you have to abide by them, so you should have a say. With the air getting [polluted], you’re going to be dragging inhalers around like my patient, but you don’t have any say in that. Is that fair? I also think the voting age should be lowered.

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By Jason Frost | Contributing Writer

Fifty years after the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of students’ First Amendment rights, Mary Beth Tinker stopped at The University of Alabama to share her story and speak about the importance of the First Amendment to students. Her visit to campus was part of the “Tinker Tour,� which is sponsored by the Student Press Law Center. Tinker spoke to a large group of middle school, high school and college students Tuesday morning in the Ferguson Center Theater before heading to Birmingham to speak to students at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute that afternoon.

In Birmingham, Tinker took the time to answer some questions for The Crimson White.

When did you start the tours?

How has the Tinker standard changed since your court case?

The rights of students have been cut back drastically since the Tinker decision. They were cut back by Bethel v. Fraser in 1986, that said students can’t have speech that is lewd and obscene, and that’s how they took speech in that case. Then Hazelwood was major in 1988, which said school-sponsored speech could be censored, including school papers. We’re actually giving out bracelets today that say “cure Hazelwood.� There are so many educators who teach journalism who have tried to reverse that decision, like the Journalism Education Association, because they know it’s not education. Students should have freedom to write good, quality articles in their newspaper without having to fear being checked by their principle.

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Why is it important for young people to know their rights?

Just like everyone in our country, if you don’t know your rights, you can’t stand up for them and use them. For example, sometimes I ask students if it would be okay for students to strip search you because they claim you have meds you don’t have, or contraband, and a lot of students don’t know. It’s like muscle. If you don’t use them, you lose them.

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We kicked off the day of the Birmingham bombing, the day the Birmingham church was bombed to punish those kids from the Children’s Crusade. It was Sept. 15, exactly 50 years ago. That was the day we gathered in Philadelphia to start the Tinker Tour. Our official kickoff was on Constitution Day because we thought young kids should have a voice in the Constitution, and that is our continuing message to this day. Young voices shouldn’t fail to express themselves.

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Why focus on college students as well as high schoolers?

All young people have these great qualities that take democracy forward, throughout history. They have energy, creativity, a sense of fairness and the important one: a desire for action.

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Find something you feel strongly about and feel passionate about. Join with others and take action on that issue. When you do, life is meaningful, and you [meet] interesting people. It’s even fun. The world needs your voice, your ideas, your creativity, and you can give yourself a good quality of life by speaking up and sharing.

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Financial literacy program to help students manage debt

By Karly Weigel | Contributing Writer College students often leave their families and homes with little knowledge about personal finance, but a new online program is being implemented to help students at The University of Alabama learn how to budget and plan for the future. “Transit� is a new program that focuses on college students’ financial well-being.

The program, entering a pilot status at the University, has been effectively implemented at Louisiana State University and Ohio State University. The all-online course takes at most 1 1/2 hours to complete.

After successfully completing multiple modules, the student is presented with a certificate of completion 45 days after finishing.

Regions Bank, headquartered in Birmingham, funds the program, while software company EverFi is credited with designing it. The two companies work to provide all SEC schools with the program

for a three-year period. The University has benefited from the partnership, as the program comes free of charge.

The University is working to determine the group of students that will be best served by completing the program. At LSU, freshmen in their second semester are targeted. At OSU, sophomore students are encouraged to complete the online course.

According to EverFi, financial pressures are one of the top three reasons a student will drop out of school, and the average college student graduates with $26,600 of debt.

The Transit program works to alleviate the stress students experience when dealing with money.

Suzanne Henson, assistant director of health promotion and wellness in the College of Community Health Sciences, said she would love to see the program lead to the creation of other financial resources for UA students and faculty in the future. “Ideally, I would like to see UA create a financial wellness center,� Henson said.

“You can put in your budget and debt in a program and have an advisor go through it with you.�

Henson outlined a greater need for financial well-being nationwide. She said debt, combined with rising student loan interest rates, is worrisome for many students.

For the time being, students are encouraged to contact the UA Counseling Center if financial strains are weighing them down.

Two hundred UA students have been selected for the pilot program. The pool of participants includes individuals from all areas of the University, including athletes, greek students and other student organization members. The wide pool of participants will help the University decide which students to target and when the program can be best implemented during a student’s four years at the Capstone.

The housing and residential communities are working on creating a partnership with the Transit program. Instead of creat-

ing a separate financial wellness program, housing and residential communities plans to use Transit for students living in the dormitories. Resident advisors will serve as point-of-contacts for students living on campus.

Cathy Bolling, the assistant director of finance for housing and residential communities, said she looks forward to the partnership between the Transit program and student housing. “Our goal is to provide students with as much information as possible regarding personal financial management, credit, and debt,� Bolling said. “Financial decisions made during the college years will have a major impact on the student’s quality of life for many years after college. If we can provide information about best practices and help avoid some of the financial pitfalls that sometimes occur in college, we may be able to help the student in ways which have a major positive impact on their lives.�

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Student artist expresses personal experiences in paintings, prints

By Elayne Smith | Contributing Writer

CW | Lindsey Leonard Claire Siepser carefully places one of her animal paintings to hang in the Ferguson Center Gallery.

Claire Siepser scribbles rough sketches of ideas that inconveniently pop into her head, reaching for a napkin, receipt or any available surface she can find while driving, shopping or doing anything far from her studio.

Siepser, a graduate student earning her master of arts degree in printmaking, is inspired by everyday life.

Her most recent inspiration led to “Menagerie,” an art exhibit focusing on her personal experiences that will be held in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery from Nov. 5-26 with an opening reception Thursday from 5-8 p.m.

The exhibit focuses on prints and paintings that portray different emotions by putting animals in human situations. Her paintings are hung by pins and unframed intentionally while her prints are framed and matted to show enclosure. She mostly used ink, brushes and pens, although the prints are etchings.

Siepser carefully chose the animal she wanted to use in a certain piece, to make her work more relatable. Greg Randall, Siepsers colleague and a senior majoring in printmaking and photography, said the animals allow anyone to relate to a piece by letting people put themselves in the painted moment.

“Claire really wants to engage the viewers in multiple ways and try to pull them out of their normal everyday experience and allow them to experience something that is kind of

PLAN TO GO WHAT: Menagerie: Recent work by Claire Siepser WHEN: Nov. 5-26, with an opening reception Thursday from 5-8 p.m.

WHERE: Ferguson Center Art Gallery magical,” Randall said.

Artists must first master technical skills before they can add their own ideas.

Jessica Peterson, a printmaking and book art professor, said the difficulty lies in mastering the techniques.

Successfully portraying personal perspective can also be challenging as students are exposed to professors’ work that can be easy to simply emulate.

“The best thing artists can do is be true to themselves,” Peterson said. “The challenge of art school is finding your own voice and having your art be strong and powerful.”

Siepser refuted the misconception of the abstract artist flinging paint left and right to create a masterpiece. She said her favorite part is the beginning and end. In the beginning, the excitement of the ideas and the details carry away her imagination. In the end, the completed work shines with the vision she so laboriously tried to create. In between is tiresome work. Her muscles ache as she hunches over her piece with repetitive small strokes. Hours of technical execution challenge her.

“Ultimately, it’s incredibly fulfilling, but it’s like digging

a hole for a tree,” Siepser said.

Randall said Siepser’s lines are very detailed and cannot be completely grasped in the few seconds most viewers give to art displays. He said it is rare for people to give the full amount of time it takes to truly experience a piece.

“I think you have to stand and look at something for more than just a moment. You can’t take the whole thing in at a glance. There’s more detail put in than you can take in within just one moment,” Randall said.

Siepser said her work usually comes from a less personal place. However, these paintings are moments in her life, and the animals are inspired by people she encountered. She said even though there may be only one person able to recognize the painting as an exact moment in her life, they are relatable.

“These are pieces of architecture from my life that are distorted by memory,” Siepser said. “Every item is so specific to my life, but somehow, because they are so personal, people can relate to it.”

Siepser said she cannot define her artistic style since she works with such a variety of materials and images.

Siepser works with whatever medium expresses the ideas and stories she is exploring and tries to make an interactive experience for the viewer.

She said she views art outside of the traditional structure, seeing it in cooking, planting and every creation.

“Art is important to everybody. They just may not realize it,” Siepser said. “You can exist without art, but you can’t live without it.”

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Theater society promotes confidence, self-expression

CULTUREIN BRIEF ‘Bama Girl’ to be shown at Ferguson Center The American studies club and Phi Alpha Theta are sponsoring a screening of “Bama Girl” at the Ferguson Center Theater Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of the American Culture on Campus Film Series.

The 2008 documentary features a black student’s effort at The University of Alabama to become Homecoming Queen. The film’s director, Rachel Goslins, has worked with National Geographic, PBS and A&E. The film first premiered at SXSW. A discussion will be held after the screening.

Symposium on campus to discuss race relations

Submitted Alpha Psi Omega members participate in a dance break before a Guerrilla Theatre performance.

Since 1994, students have been lining up for hours each month to buy tickets for Guerrilla Theatre, brought to campus by The University of Alabama’s chapter of the national theater honor society Alpha Psi Omega.

The show can include basic performance acts like singing and dancing and extend all the way to other types of performance art like poetry, stand-up comedy and spoken word. Because Guerrilla Theatre is a variety show, audiences will never attend the monthly show and see the same act twice.

Keegan Butler, a senior majoring in theater and president of Alpha Psi Omega, said the shows that take the audience through a wide range of emotions are always the most touching.

“They take people on roller coasters of emotion from being very happy to being very raw and gritty to being spectacularly beautiful,” Butler said. “Those are the types of guerrillas that everybody loves.”

Sign-up sheets go up in Rowand-Johnson Hall the Sunday before Guerrilla Theatre is set to

take place, and any student can sign up as long as they are willing to abide by Alpha Psi Omega’s rules, which include no nudity, no breaking of any law and no harming of any person or any animal.

Each piece of performance art can be up to 10 minutes long and 10 acts from the sign-up sheet are selected to be performed.

“The most unconventional act I’ve ever seen was a four square act,” Butler said. “Four guys signed up, drew out a four square court on the stage, and started playing then invited anyone from the audience to join them.”

Each Guerrilla Theatre has a theme and is selected at the beginning of the year to give Alpha Psi Omega officers adequate time to create and put up advertisement posters around campus.

“My favorite tends to be the one or two during the year that everybody takes a part in, like the masquerade-themed or zombiethemed guerrillas,” Butler said.

“Even non-APO members dress up for those.”

Guerrilla Theatre has been known as a safe place to perform since its conception 19 years ago. The University’s Alpha Psi Omega was the first

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chapter to start a monthly Guerrilla Theatre, and many schools have since followed suit.

It continues to bring all kinds of students to Allen Bales Theatre once a month to let loose through performance art.

“My favorite experience with APO is watching someone who has been into themselves just open up on stage and belt a beautiful song or release so much pure emotion onstage that the audience can’t help but feel for that person,” Butler said. “It has the ability to affect hundreds of people at a time, and it can captivate nearly everyone simply through movement, speech and music.”

Alpha Psi Omega pledges are required to perform in at least one show in a group dance performance. Miranda Hamilton, a sophomore majoring in theatre and an APO pledge, said Guerrilla is a great chance for students who don’t participate in a departmental production to put something together and perform.

Members teach pledges Alpha Psi Omega line dances, along with the family song, “Soldier,” that is added to each year and performed at

each show.

“You don’t have to be in APO to know them,” Hamilton said. “If you pick it up at [the show], sing it and we’ll join you.”

Stacy Alley, a professor of musical theatre and dance, is in her first year of sponsorship of Alpha Psi Omega but remembers Guerrilla Theatre being a staple in campus life when she attended graduate school at the University from 2003-04. Alley said she most enjoys seeing students’ enthusiasm and passion for what they do.

“It’s the fact that they get to sometimes step outside their comfort zone and tackle projects and performances that they otherwise wouldn’t get to do or be brave enough to do,” Alley said. “It’s nice to go and be amused by one act and be so deeply touched by something in another act. No matter what it is they choose to do, the audience is so incredibly supportive because they allow themselves to be vulnerable.”

November’s Guerrilla Theatre show is still to be determined, but those interested can check uaapo.weebly.com for updates on Alpha Psi Omega events.

Advisor interest sessions to be held Wednesday Students interested in becoming a resident advisor or freshman advisor for the 2014-15 school year will have the opportunity to get their questions answered at interest sessions Wednesday. Interested individuals are required to attend at least one of these interest sessions.

Wednesday’s sessions include one from noon1 p.m. in the large living room at Tutwiler Hall and an additional session from 4-5 p.m. in the large game room at Paty Hall. Students who cannot attend these interest sessions can contact Mary Thornton at 205-348-7175 for more information or to arrange an individual session.

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WEDNESDAY

By Megan Miller | Staff Reporter

Researchers from various universities will come together Wednesday to present and discuss results from The University of Alabama Climate Survey, which was conducted earlier in the year. Scholars will be traveling from George Washington State University, North Carolina State University and Virgina Tech.

Several researchers from The University of Alabama will also be at the symposium, titled “Student perceptions of Race Relations at The University of Alabama: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.”

The symposium will be held from 1-4 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library. Scholars will be discussing how this year’s results compare in regard to similar surveys that were conducted on campus dating back to the early 1960s. They will also address how race relations have changed on campus since 1963, to what degree students are still segregated, how students’ perceptions of race relations differ and how the University can continue to improve campus race relations. The event is free and open to the general public.

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Rock stars such as Syd Barrett, Keith Moon known for wild pasts

By Francie Johnson Rock stars in the 1960s through the 1980s are known for their rowdy antics, but bu most of the stories I’ve heard seem too insane to actually be true. I decided to do some research, and it turns out, some rock stars ar are just as crazy as the rumors say they are. These are my three favorite classic rock stories that, surprisingly, actually happened.

Have you got it yet?

David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright – these four names will forever be known in music history as the legendary progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

But as many fans know, the band once had another member: Syd Barrett.

MCT Campus Roger Waters performed Pink Floyd’s classic “The Wall” at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Sunday, October 24, 2010, in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

B a r r e t t , one of the band’s founding membe b rs and its members original lead vocalist, wa w wass only with Pink Floyd for a relatively short shor ort period of time. He left the band in 1968, just four fou ur months after Gilmour joined in 1967.That brief five-mem ember five-member period in Pink Floyd’s history is where this story ttakes akes place.

Toward the end of his Pink Floyd days, Barrett’s Bar a rett’s mental health took a nosedive due to hiss extensive experimentation with LSD. As on ne can one imagine, this made him a nightma are to nightmare work with. At a rehearsal one day, Barrett announced he had w ritten written a new song called “Have You Yo ou Got It Yet?” He proceeded to teach ch the other band members the song’ss chocho rus, in which he repeated the phrase ph hra “Have you got it yet?” over and an nd over. ov The first time Barrett played the song, s it sounded fairly simple, but to the band members’ frustration, they y couldn’t seem to get it right. Tim me and time again Time again, they would try to play along with Barrett, b but they just couldn’t do it.

Finally, the band ba and members realized rea that every time they tried to join in, Bar Barrett would change the melod dy ever so slightly — not enough melody to be immediatel ly noticeable, but ju immediately just enough to make it impossiblee tto o learn. And th the entire time,

he had been taunting them with the phrase “Have you got it yet?” knowing full well that they never would.

And that’s the story of the last time Syd Barrett ever played with Pink Floyd.

Bob Dylan introduces the Beatles to marijuana Judging by the band’s music, it’s pretty obvious that the Beatles smoked; however, that wasn’t always the case. In fact, it took a certain someone to introduce them to the drug that wo ould la would later be their muse – and that someone was Bob Dylan.

The date was Aug. 28, 1964. The Beatles were hanging out with Dylan in a suite at Delmonico Hotel in New York City wi when Dylan suggeste wh suggested that they light up. Nervously, John L Le nnon, Paul McCar Lennon, McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr looked at each other before admitting they had ne never smoked marijuana before. Dylan didn’t b believe them at first.

“What about your song about getting hi high?”

Upon seeing the Beatles’ confused expressions, h he started singing the lyrics to “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” only he mistook the verse “I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t h hide” for “I get high, I get high, I get high.”

Len After Lennon corrected his mistake, Dylan rolled a joint for i the room and then looked on with amusement everyone in s as they smoked for the first time. McCartney had a particuhila larly hilarious reaction. He told anyone who would listen, “I’m thinkin for the first time!” and he had the Beatles’ road manthinking ager, M Mal Evans, follow him around and write down everything he said.

Th next day, Evans handed McCartney a piece of paper.

The All that was written on it were the words, “There are seven lev levels!”

Keith Moon and the exploding toilets The title of this one says it all, but a little bit of background information couldn’t hurt.

Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, had a reputation for being a little crazy, earning him the nickname “Moon the Loon.” He was known for his hilarious antics, such as a famous performance where he filled his set of transparent drums with water and goldfish and dressed up like a cat.

This was probably the least destructive of his behaviors.

Moon had a habit of trashing hotel rooms – a habit that got him banned from several chains, including Holiday Inn, Sheraton and Hilton. He would throw furniture out the window, light things on fire and more.

But his favorite activity was blowing up toilets. It’s estimated that Moon caused about $500,000 worth of damage to hotel toilets and plumbing systems alone. Once, he even blew up a toilet in front of a hotel manager’s face.

If that’s not a great reputation to leave behind, I don’t know what is.

Author shares personal ties to slavery, civil rights through new book

By Reed O’Mara | Staff Reporter A seventh-generation Southerner and descendant of a slave owner, Margaret Wrinkle was born into the “racially charged” year of 1963, just on the cusp of the civil rights movement, and said she feels as though her debut novel “Wash” has therefore been heading for her all her life.

“Wash” details the much-debated history and practice of slave breeding in the pre-Civil War South from the perspectives of three different people: a slave owner, a slave midwife and the title character, Wash, who is a slave brought into the trade directly.

“It’s a difficult subject. There’s a lot of pretty terrible things that happen in [‘Wash’], a lot of violence, a lot of sexual violence in particular, and yet, to be able to write about that and still tell a story, that’s very moving,” said Josh Rothman, director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South and a history professor at The University of Alabama. “The language itself has a sort of lyricism to it, but it’s a lot of alternating voices. It’s literary. It’s not the type of book you’re going to pick up at the airport.”

Rothman helped organize a reading of “Wash” by Wrinkle at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center downtown Tuesday. The event doubled as the opening of the exhibition “Seeing Across the Divide,” which featured photographs taken by Wrinkle that helped to inspire her novel. Many of the photographs were taken at slavery-related sites around the South, and each is paired with an excerpt from her novel.

Wrinkle said she felt it was important to pair each photograph with a textual element because she said the separation between the two elements is artificial.

“I wanted to get people thinking. You read the text

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the top schools, but also we are showing the schools that are not doing so well. We really wanted to encourage schools to think about how they can push their vegan options to the next level.”

Although Alabama scored very well, the University has a long way to go before it has a vegan friendly program comparable to the highest scoring schools.

University of California at San Diego, University of North Texas, Oklahoma City and Brown all have an all-vegan dining facility and partner with students to distribute vegan foods.

Montville said students could go online and rate their school as well and leave comments on whether or not they agree with the score. Alabama has a 100 percent student satisfaction rating on Peta2’s website.

Despite Alabama’s successful

and make an image in your mind, right? And then you look at the image, and you make a story,” she said. “So I wanted to get people thinking that they’re doing that, to see that you see and feel things both ways.”

“Wash” also ties into West African traditions and ritualism, and Wrinkle said she incorporated the West African paradigm of “everyone that’s been here is here all the time” to create a feeling of connectedness throughout the novel and, ultimately, to the exhibition and its title.

“I think the initial meaning [of the title] is seeing through the racial divide through an active empathy, but it’s also the divide between the living and the dead.

It’s the divide between different ways of being; it’s a gap between different ways of doing things and trying to see across difference,” Wrinkle said.

Wrinkle’s writing is “grounded in historical sensibility,” Rothman said, and looks to make the past and its many voices accessible to a modern reader. In looking to show each side of racial divide, Wrinkle said she became a bridge figure for her work.

Jake McCurdy, a senior majoring in history and political science, attended the opening of “Seeing Through the Divide” and said Wrinkle’s reading and photographs piqued his interests, relating them back to his Southern history classes.

“People in the South won’t admit that slavery caused the Civil War, and it did,” he said. “She’s trying to unearth and get beyond that blockade Southerners have. This kind of shows a personal story that makes it very real to you as a human.”

For Wrinkle’s next step, she said she is looking to have “Wash” put into theater as another medium to share her story through. Her exhibition at the Dinah Washington Culture Arts Center will run through Nov. 15.

rating, Whitten has felt somewhat limited on campus as a minority eater. Though there is always something to eat, it is often lacking in variety. She does not have a meal plan and does not eat in the dining halls often, but when she does it is usually some form of salad.

“They have some vegan options, and I can always get plain vegetables or sometimes rice,” she said.

“There is always something to put together in the dining hall. I make lots of salads.”

She said she was surprised to find more options, such as vegan sushi and soy milk, in the refrigerated section of the food court in the Ferguson Center.

“There are some really strange, but awesome options there,” she said.

Each Dining Hall has a dedicated vegetarian station that rotates different vegan and vegetarian options, said Kelsey Faust, marketing manager for Bama Dining.

There is also a vegetarian option at each station, such as a bean burrito at the Tex-Mex station,

vegetable pizza and vegetarian stir-fry at the Asian station.

“Bama Dining consistently strives to meet the needs of our students, including dietary needs,” Faust said. “We actually have a special dietary needs form on our website that students can complete and turn in to us. We then will answer any questions on the form or set up a meeting with one of our location managers so the student can discuss their needs and develop a menu plan.”

However, PETA’s grading scale may be more lenient than Whitten’s consumption guidelines for herself.

“Especially when it comes to processed foods, they usually consider any food that does not have any overt animal products,” she said. “They may not consider how or where the sugar came from.

But that stuff is important to me.”

Though there are many options for everyone, Whitten said she is not sure Alabama’s campus has an atmosphere that encourages students to try going vegan or to consider what they are eating.

CW | Reed O’Mara “Seeing Across the Dixie” features several photographs that inspired Wrinkle’s debut novel, “Wash.”

As a part of the Sustainable Food Committee of the Environmental Council, she and other students are working to see the University’s food atmosphere change.

“We want to incorporate more real food in the dining halls on campus and encourage better labeling of ingredients and clearer nutrition facts,” she said. “If students are given the nutritional benefits of food and focused on healthy food, the more aware they may be and the more likely they are to try going vegan.”

Often Whitten brings her lunch from home. She typically shops at Manna, a natural food store in Tuscaloosa, and Publix. She gets most of her vegetables from the farmers market in Tuscaloosa.

Other students often ask Whitten what she eats, Whitten said.

“I eat more than spinach,” she said. “Contrary to what a lot of people seem to believe.”

Whitten said she believes it is possible to be vegan and still eat well. Even going out in Tuscaloosa, she has

found that Chipotle and Panera offer options, as well as Five Java.

Even Publix offers all-natural food that is vegan friendly.

Going to a major Southern school, Whitten said veganism conflicts with many southern foods. In fact, Whitten has felt that people sometimes think she is not a true southerner if she refuses fried chicken.

“It’s hard because people don’t really understand what it is,” she said. “They think I am not respecting southern culture, but I am still a part of southern culture.”

There are still some foods that she misses, but the trade off is worth it to Whitten.

“What I miss is more about nostalgia than flavor or taste,” she said. “I sometimes think about foods I would eat with my family and miss them, but it has been fun to take those meals and try to make them vegan.

For me, how I use the resources on this earth is more important to me and overpowers taste.”

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

VOLLEYBALL

Tide volleyball team scrapes by with win over UAB

By Kelly Ward | Staff Reporter The Alabama volleyball team didn’t start out looking like a team that had won four of its last five matches. It didn’t start out looking like the team that handed Georgia its first home loss, either.

Neve r t h e l e s s , the Crimson Tide beat UAB in straight sets to secure its 19th win of the season.

Alabama barely scraped by in the first set with a 25-23 win over UAB. It hit only .222 to UAB’s .238.

The next two sets were a bit easier but not much.

The Crimson Tide took the second and third sets 25-17 and 25-22, respectively. It was a slow start and finish to the match, said coach Ed Allen. “First of all, ball control was awful tonight, could’ve been a lot better,�

Allen said. “[We] passed at 1.9 tonight. That didn’t give us nearly the opportunities that we would’ve

liked to have had for our outside hitters. I think for the most part [we] played with some composure when things were less than ideal, and it was less than ideal. It’s nice to win ugly and be able to do that in three, and so for that part of things, we were pretty pleased with [it].�

After putting up 10 blocks on Mississippi State, the Crimson Tide put up only two against UAB. The Blazers had no trouble putting up seven blocks on Alabama. “I guess that’s something we’re just going to have to definitely work on at practice,� setter Sierra Wilson said. “We just weren’t reading as well as we had been, but we picked it up with our defense, so it’s good that we can work as a team that way.�

D e f e n s i v e l y, the Crimson Tide had 48 digs on the match compared to UAB’s 37. But offensively, Alabama had 50

kills. Krystal Rivers led the way with 12 kills, followed closely by Brittany Thomas and Mattie Weldy with 11 and nine, respectively.

Rivers, a Birmingham native, said she enjoyed playing in front of her friends and family but that the team could’ve played better. “We talked about, especially after the first set, just staying composed, just going out, executing, because if we executed, we probably would’ve come away with a [bigger] win,� Rivers said. “Sierra [Wilson] delivered me great balls, so I was able to get the kills, and just staying disciplined just helped us get us through this match.�

Thomas and Weldy combined for eight hitting errors on the night, but both finished the night hitting at .200 or above. “[Weldy] was hitting negative after the first two

UA Athletics The Tide struggled at UAB managing to only gain two blocks after having 10 against their last opponent, Mississippi State. sets, and I think finished the match hitting .200, so she obviously elevated that third set tremendously,�

Allen said. “I think both her and Brittany [Thomas] have to understand ‌ we

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COLUMN | FOOTBALL

The long-standing rivalry of Alabama Crimson Tide vs. LSU Tigers

By Billy Whyte In a past life, long before Nick Saban became the overlord and foreman powering the indomitable machine that is Alabama football, he was the head coach of LSU. He even won a national championship there before having a short affair with the NFL and returning to the SEC. His replacement, Les Miles from Oklahoma State, quickly matched Saban’s success with the Tigers with his audacious and unique play calling style that gave him the nickname the Mad Hatter.

And somehow, the their rivalry has become arguably the best in college football the last couple of years.

At the forefront of this rivalry have been the two head coaches, both as visual and stylistic opposites. Miles might be the most fun coach to watch at any given news conference. If Saban makes one joke it gets reported by every news outlet as news. Miles is mostly light tempered and energetic, especially fired up after big wins. Saban after a big win will still be upset over an illegal formation penalty in the second quarter. And yet, both the

process for Saban and seemingly lack thereof for Miles, have contributed to crucial and competitive SEC battles that have decided five of the last six SEC West winners.

This Saturday, “College Gameday” will be visiting Tuscaloosa for what will not only heavily factor in to the SEC winner, but also to see if Miles and his Tigers can stop Alabama’s run at three straight titles. In honor of what this Saturday’s game will bring, here is a look at some of the greatest battles between the Crimson Tide and the Tigers in the past.

1964: No. 3 Alabama 17, No.8 LSU 9.

This is the first year in what became an annual rivalry between the two teams. Legendary head coaches Bear Bryant and Charlie McClendon met for the first time in a low-scoring affair. Joe Namath couldn’t get much going, but it didn’t matter as Alabama stifled LSU and went on later to win the national championship.

1993: LSU 17, No. 1 Alabama 13 A Mobile Press-Register reporter

said pigs would fly if Alabama lost, as Alabama had won 31 straight games and was a 25-point favorite, but the 3-5 LSU defense wreaked havoc over Alabama’s offense forcing 4 interceptions and squeaking out a narrow victory.

2005: No. 5 LSU 16, No. 4 Alabama 13 OT Alabama started off the season 9-0 and found itself in the national title picture for the first time in a while, but LSU overcame a 10-0 deficit in the third quarter and won on a JaMarcus Russel touchdown pass in overtime.

2008: No. 1 Alabama 27, No. 16 LSU 21 OT In Nick Saban’s first game back at Death Valley, LSU blocked a last second field goal to send the game to overtime. However safety Rashad Johnson intercepted a pass in overtime, and Alabama remained unbeaten.

2010: No. 10 LSU 24, No. 6 Alabama 21 Even with a loss to South Carolina earlier in the season, Alabama still had an outside chance at the national

CW File Matches between the Tide and LSU, past and present, have maintained a healthy rivalry throughout the years. championship going into Baton Rouge. Miles was up to his usual ways though, successfully converting on fourth down in the fourth quarter, and ultimately holding on for the win.

2011: No. 1 LSU 9, No. 2 Alabama 6 OT In what was coined as the “Game of the Century” and arguably most hyped-game in SEC history, LSU took advantage of Alabama’s inability to convert on offense and won by kicking a field goal after

Alabama missed its fourth field goal of the game in overtime. However, Alabama went on to win the rematch in the national championship 21-0.

2012: No. 1 Alabama 21, No. 5 LSU 17 In what is famously known as “the Drive,” A.J. McCarron led the Tide on a 72-yard drive, scoring on a 28-yard T.J.Yeldon screen pass with 51 seconds left to take the lead. The Tide ultimately went on to win its second straight national championship.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Pursley pushes for team improvement throughout season

By Sean Landry | Contributing Writer When Alabama swimming and diving coach Dennis Pursley sits in his office, memories of his long and illustrious coaching career surround him.

There’s the flag from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where the U.S. garnered 11 gold medals and 27 total.

There’s a plaque commemorating the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where the U.S. led the medal count, taking 13 golds and 26 medals. There’s a Sports Illustrated cover from the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where the U.S. took a record 14 golds and 33 medals in what the magazine would later call the “greatest team performance of all time.”

PLAN TO GO WHAT: Alabama Swimming and Diving at Florida WHEN: 7 p.m. ET Nov. 7, 2013 WHERE: Gainesville, Fla. And most recently, there’s the plaque from the 2012 London Olympics, where Pursley coached Team Great Britain to its highest ever finish.

Pursley, like many successful coaches, has an overriding philosophy that guides the way he leads

his programs. Where Nick Saban has his well known “Process” and John Wooden had his “Pyramid of Success,” Pursley, in his second year as head coach at Alabama, has three overarching principles: attitude, character and commitment. The team will have a chance to test the principles out when they travel to Gainesville, Fla., Thursday to compete against the Florida Gators.

“For us it’s all about closing the gap,” Pursley said. “With teams like Florida, it won’t be as noticeable as far as the score is concerned, but it’s being competitive. By that I mean being in the races. A year ago, we would swim a team like Florida, who’s defending SEC champions, a national

powerhouse, and we wouldn’t have been in many races. They’re still a stronger team than we are at this stage … but, rather than being blown away, we want to close that gap. We’ve got a chance to challenge ourselves to step up under not what you would consider ideal conditions.”

The team will leave Tuscaloosa at 6 a.m. Thursday and ride a bus 10 hours to Gainesville Fla.,, just in time to have its pregame meal and swim, Pursley said. For the Louisville, Ky., native, improvement is the goal for this weekend and the season.

“I’ll be real disappointed if we don’t move up from the bottom of the pack to the middle of the pack this year,” Pursley said. “If we continue to prog-

ress to that level each year in the coming years, it won’t be long before we’re contesting for championship team titles.”

As an Alabama graduate and fan, Pursley said he understands that contesting for championships is the expectation for coaches at the University.

“To be able to come full circle and end up where I started is a real special opportunity for me,” he said “It’s a culture and an environment here where championships are expected, and I don’t say that in a negative way as far as feeling a lot of pressure. I just feel a lot of positive energy and enthusiasm here. It’s a fun place to be right now.”

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