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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015 VOLUME 122 | ISSUE 1

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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894

NCAA champion

7 Study abroad

7 Tuscaloosa pets

Junior Emma Talley won the NCAA Women’s Golf Individual title Monday, May 25. She is the fifth player in history to win an individual title and U.S. Amateur. Talley also succeeded in golfing her lowest score in her NCAA career.

In each issue this summer, The Crimson White will publish a column written by a student who is studying abroad in order to share their experiences in a foreign country.

While some pets are abandoned after their college owners go home for the summer, others enjoy their new homes as shelters adopt them out to those looking to care for their furry friends.

OKC YOU SOON Softball to compete for title against Oklahoma

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After some of the hubbub died down following No. 6 Alabama softball’s 5-3 come from behind win over Oklahoma to secure a spot in the Women’s College World Series, softball coach Patrick Murphy took his seat for the postgame press conference.

“Did that just happen?”

Murphy asked, laughing.

Yes, it did.

Alabama did win two games in one afternoon to stave off elimination. Alabama did just win on a sixth-inning grand slam from its power hitter who hadn’t had a hit all weekend.

In a sport where nothing is decided until the final out, and there isn’t such a thing as running out the clock, Alabama made every last out count.

Down to four outs, Alabama

only needed one.

Marisa Runyon, who struck out with the bases loaded Friday night for the last out in Alabama’s 5-2 loss and who hadn’t been able to solve the lefty-lefty matchup, needed one pitch to figure out Oklahoma freshman Paige Parker when it mattered most.

“The ball or the game is going to find the kid that seems to be struggling whether defense or offense,” Murphy said. “It’s going to happen. Every time I put a new kid in to play defense, we always say the new girl’s going to get the ball. Same thing with the kid that’s struggling. You have two errors in the game? You’re probably going to get the next ground ball right at you so you just better be ready.”

Runyon was ready.

Alabama would not have been in a game three situation without its freshman right-hander Alexis Osorio who went from good to SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 9

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Tuscaloosa art gallery to host works by African American artists The Paul R. Jones Art Gallery is currently hosting lithographs, serigraphs, woodcuts and engravings created by black artists through June 12. Thirty four pieces make up the collection, which is curated by Sarah Marshall, an associate professor in the University of Alabama department of art and art history specializing in printmaking. Artists featured include Michael

Ellison, John Woodrow Wilson, Mamie Jo Rayburn and Romare Bearden, among others. The gallery is located in downtown Tuscaloosa at 2308 6th Street, and is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the first Friday of every month from noon to 8 p.m.

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The Rude Mechanicals, a local theatre group in its 13th season, presents Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well” on May 27 through 30 at The Park at Manderson Landing. Audience members are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets, and arrive at 7:30 p.m. for music

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The University of Alabama’s Early College will offer a gateway course to high school students enrolled in dual enrollment courses, both online and on-campus, in order to prepare them for those classes. The Alabama State Board of Education has implemented a new policy where one college class can equal one high school credit required for graduation. Tenth grade students can take an online class through the Early

College, while 11th and 12th grade students can take classes online or on-campus. Students eligible for these courses are welcomed to take a gateway course beginning June 16, with a deadline to register June 2. For questions, contact UA Media Relations at 348-5320.

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University to host annual Boys State Convention The University of Alabama will host the 2015 American Legion Alabama Boys State convention from May 31 to June 6. The convention, which will begin with a speech by Governor Robert Bentley on May 31 at 2 p.m. in Morgan Auditorium, will allow nearly 600 high school seniors to participate in mock elections, engage in civic

processes and community service during the week-long convention. For more information, contact Richard LeComte in UA Media Relations at 348-3782 or rllecomte@ur.ua.edu.

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Moundville Park offers bird-themed program The University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park is set to host a bird-themed program in the park this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The program, which will be West Alabama Birding Trail-themed, will include activities

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Editor | Heather Buchanan newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Plates to benefit Eagles’ Wings

By Jeremy Connor | Contributing Writer

University President Judy Bonner attended the opening of the NOAA Water Center. CW / Heather Buchanan

Water center to assist in local research efforts

By Heather Buchanan | News Editor

Incidentally, rain and cloudy skies greeted visitors at the grand opening and dedication of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Water Center on the University of Alabama campus Tuesday afternoon.

The National Water Center, which first broke ground in 2012, will bring together several different agencies, including NOAA, United States Geological Survey and Federal Emergency Management Agency, to collaborate on water-related issues facing the country today.

“The importance of the National Water Center is to bring together NOAA’s capabilities in terms of predicting what is going to happen with water all over the country, along with other parts of the federal government,” said Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, who attended the dedication.

The goals of the center were physically included in the building’s design. The 65,000 square-foot building was designed to be a collaborative environment, earning the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED gold certification, according to a press release from NOAA. “It’s got really spectacular collaborative spaces everywhere, and of course located on the campus of this great university with the expertise of both the geosciences department and the engineering department in particular, we really will be able to use this as a national hub to drive innovation, to drive scientific advances and to improve the information services about flood and drought and water quality that are provided nationwide,” said Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA Administrator, who also attended the dedication.

Sullivan also said the center will eradicate the obstacles that arise when people from many different areas of a community attempt to solve a water problem.

Community members, business owners and government officials often have to work together to address the concerns and needs of those affected by a water problem, she said.

“This center’s going to play a very strong role in helping erase all those seams,” Sullivan said.

Prior to the dedication ceremony,

several high-ranking officials from the University of Alabama – all the way up the federal government – took a tour of the center. This tour group included Pritzker, Sullivan, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell and University of Alabama President Judy Bonner. The group was given a tour of the $23.55 million facility, including demonstrations from some of the staff.

The center includes a water resources forecasting operations center, an airborne snow and soil moisture observation analysis facility and several and development research facilities.

Joe Benson, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at The University of Alabama, said the center’s location on campus would help integrate the school into the water research community.

“I think it puts the University in the center of what is probably the premier water research facility in the world today, and it will allow our students and our faculty to interact with some of the preeminent scientists who are studying water in all facets,” he said.

Benson said those collaborations could begin as early as this summer.

“Our University is extremely proud to serve as the host campus with this exciting new building and all the collaboration that will take place between academic institutions, government agencies, the private sector, from all corners across America, that are involved in critical water research,” Bonner said during her speech at the dedication ceremony.

Several other officials made speeches after Bonner at the ceremony, including Richard Shelby, U.S. Senator from Alabama; Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Terri Sewell, U.S. Representative from Alabama’s 7th District; Joe Nimmich, deputy director of FEMA; Bill Werkheiser, associate director of Water for the USGS; and Tom Bogdan, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. After the ceremony, Sullivan, Bonner, Shelby, Pritzker and Sewell cut the ribbon together on the steps of the National Water Center, followed by a reception inside.

The National Water Center on the University of Alabama campus is located at 205 Hackberry Lane.

When Baylee Smith started doing pageants four years ago, she found a cause that she could really believe in. A winner of the Miss Alabama High School America pageant, Smith said one of her first pageant’s platforms was anti-bullying.

“I found my passion then and just really wanted to continue to do something about it,” she said.

Last year, Smith became a client for The University of Alabama’s upper-level graphic design class. The students in the class were all assigned the same project – to design a license plate that promoted anti-bullying. Smith was the last client for the class, so it was a final project of sorts for ART 414.

Tori Roper, a recent UA graduate, designed the plate Smith chose as the winner. On the left side of the license plate, in front of the numbers, lies a darkblue ribbon curled into the shape of a heart. Smith and Roper explained that the dark-blue ribbon is a symbol that represents the anti-bullying movement, while the heart represents love.

“There is a lot of bullying in the world today, and I think that if people were more loving toward each other, there wouldn’t be so much,” Roper said. “That’s why a heart is the perfect symbol for bullying awareness.”

The school year has ended and she has graduated, but Roper remains in contact with Baylee’s mother in order to see how

UA art students Baylee Smith and Tori Roper (not pictured) designed an anti-bullying license plate. Photo courtesy of Tori Roper

the project is progressing.

Even though a design has been selected, Smith still has a work to do. In order for the license plates to get printed, Smith must confirm 1000 orders in a 12-month deadline. Presale of the license plates starts on June 1 and they can be purchased on Smith’s official Facebook page, “Anti-Bullying License Plate for Alabama - Baylee Smith.” The proceeds from the sales of the license plates will benefit Eagles’ Wings of Tuscaloosa, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping adults with mild to moderate disabilities.

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Editor | Leigh Terry opinions@cw.ua.edu Wednesday, May 27, 2015

OPPOSING VIEWS | STATE LOTTERY

Views differ on possible imposed Alabama state lottery

By Leigh Terry | Opinions Editor

If you haven’t been following the ongoing saga in Montgomery over the state budget, I encourage you to start now. Whether you are here for four or planning to become a

lifelong Alabamian, the mixture of tax increases, budget cuts and gambling measures that may eventually be enshrined into law will affect your education, your ability to experience the beauty of this great state and the quality of

Lottery would provide state help KYLE A.

Simpson Staff Columnist

With our state in a severe budget shortfall and a Republican state legislature that would probably rather praise ObamaCare than raise taxes even slightly, things are looking pretty dire for Alabama’s state government. When our conservative Republican governor, who campaigned on “no new taxes,” is now begging the state legislature for a tax raise, the situation is probably pretty dire. The perfect way to fix our budget problems is to institute a state-run lottery.

Primarily, the lottery would allow our state to offer a scholarship program similar to Georgia’s celebrated HOPE scholarship, giving incentives and opportunities to high school students throughout the state.

The HOPE scholarship allows talented and hardworking students to attend prestigious universities like Emory and Georgia Tech that many would not otherwise be able to afford. Georgia’s program is 100 percent funded by its state-run lottery, and there is no reason it would not work in Alabama. Alabama’s public school system unfortunately lags behind much of the country, and a strong public school system is an essential piece of a successful state.

Secondly, by instituting our own state lottery, we would retain the money that Alabamians are currently spending on lotto tickets in all of our border states, each of which benefit from Alabama not having its own lottery. Many opponents of the lottery claim it disproportionally makes money from the lower classes, which is true. However, many of the people

who would participate in Alabama’s lottery already participate in lotteries in other states, so nothing would change. It may not seem like a lot, but Mississippi gambling interests have been caught giving campaign money to Alabama politicians that are conveniently opposed to instituting gambling in Alabama, so the benefit is obviously significant. Our border states do not want us to have a lottery, so that means it is probably in our interest to have one.

Currently, all of the gambling money in the state goes to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. With three casinos, a stake in the Mobile Greyhound Park, and lots of cash, this tribe wields tremendous political power in the state and is likely the main reason gambling is still illegal. Scared at the prospect of losing their monopoly, they have offered to temporarily pay for our budget shortfall next year in exchange for a guarantee against the legalization of gambling and a lottery. Again, this shows the potential benefit of this money going to the state to improve our schools, keep our parks open, and pay the pensions of hardworking Alabamians.

Instead, it is currently going into the pockets of the casino monopoly.

Alabama has always tried to legislate its citizens’ morality, despite the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Regardless, a lottery in the state is one vice that has an enormous amount of benefit and not many drawbacks. Our citizens are already gambling by traveling to other states, so why not keep those dollars in our own state instead using them to send Georgians to University of Georgia?

While we’re at it, we can fix the enormous tax vacuum in our state budget, and everyone can be happy. It’s a winwin situation.

Our citizens are already gambling by traveling to other states, so why not keep those dollars in our own state...

Kyle Simpson is a junior majoring in biology. His column runs weekly.

EDITORIAL BOARD Peyton Shepard editor-in-chief Kelly Ward managing editor

life for millions.

To that end, The Crimson White is proud to present the opposing views of two of our staff columnists, specifically focusing on the issue of gambling revenue. In the spirit of intellectual exploration, I

Letters to the editor must contain fewer than 300 words and guest columns fewer than 500. Send submissions to editor@ cw.ua.edu. Submissions must include the author’s name and daytime phone number.

Leigh Terry is a senior majoring in economics. She is the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White.

Lottery only serves to benefit rich

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Hammontree Staff Columnist

Alabama needs money. A whole lot of money. As the fiscal due date on Alabama’s bills approaches, the state finds itself well over $260 million dollars short of the funds necessary to keep our budget balanced.

That’s super bad because it’s actually constitutionally illegal for the state to carry a deficit. So, yeah, Alabama needs money. And we need to figure out soon just where we’re going to get it from.

As the Governor and the House have each proposed their own tax increases and budget cuts, the Senate is discussing a constitutional amendment establishing a state lottery and allowing for Class III casino-style gambling at the state’s four greyhound tracks.

Now, I have mixed feelings about gambling and about lotteries. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t buy a Powerball or Mega Millions ticket just about every time I find myself in Georgia. And I find the idea of playing blackjack or poker in a casino in Las Vegas a pretty exciting notion.

I even used to buy into the pro-lottery arguments of education funding and blah, blah, blah. But now I’ve learned that lotteries or casino-style gambling would hardly be a good thing for Alabama, much less the right way to dig ourselves out of a quarter of a billion dollar deficit.

While proponents of the amendment argue that Alabama would see revenues upwards of $300 million from a lottery, with an additional $64-74 million in casino revenue from the four racetracks, what they don’t tell you is most of the revenue will likely come

from Alabama’s poorest residents.

Studies have consistently documented the regressive nature of lotteryproduced revenue. While it is easy to make the excuse that lotteries and gambling are voluntary, studies on the psychological and social effects of lotteries suggest that low-income citizens are much more likely to buy tickets as they see the lottery as a way of finding wealth in an arena with an even playing field.

In other words, lotteries become a shiny, well-marketed embodiment of the American Dream with the promise that anyone can get rich, and you have the same shot whether you’re poor or rich, white or a minority.

This fantasy is marketed to those most susceptible to dreams of wealth: those who have little money and few prospects for making a fortune the “traditional” way.

Casinos, particularly in states like Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, operate in much the same way. It shouldn’t be overlooked that two of the racetracks set to offer casino gambling in the proposed amendment are located in two of Alabama’s poorest counties, Macon County and Greene County.

I realize that taxes are considered one of the four horses of the apocalypse here in Alabama, but the truth is, these regressive forms of revenue like lotteries and gambling will only further the socioeconomic divides already crippling our state.

There’s the easy thing to do, and there’s the right thing to do. Creating a lottery to fund the government on the hopeful dollars of the poor may be easy, but it sure isn’t right.

Creating a lottery to fund the government on the hopeful dollars of the poor may be easy, but it sure isn’t right.

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encourage you to research further into this debate with both views in mind.

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Mark Hammontree is a senior majoring in secondary education - language arts. His column runs biweekly.

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OPINIONS Wednesday, May 27, 2015 COLUMN | PATRIOT ACT

Arguments against Patriot Act reforms ‘weak,’ unfounded ERIC

Roddy Staff Columnist

As I made my return journey to Tuscaloosa this past weekend down Highway 43 and through the town of Haleyville, I found myself searching for something on the radio to occupy my time. Settling on NPR, I found myself halfway into a recap of Rand Paul’s objection to extending the life of three of the Patriot Act’s major provisions – he was against even a 24-hour extension. The intensity of the Senator’s staunch opposition was reminiscent of many a “I don’t want the government spying on me,” retort. But how accurate is this accusation? Do we really know what this bill serves to accomplish, and if we did, would we still be against it?

I would wager that a large number of the opponents of the Patriot Act fail to realize exactly what it does. Created in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it

served as a swift means to gather terrorist intelligence. Many would be surprised to learn that the government’s collection of metadata as allowed by the bill does not include any audio from phone conversations. I can understand that collecting this much data at any given time could take away peace of mind from some, but to totally do away with this bill could prove to be problematic.

Personally, I find the arguments levied against the bill to be weak. I understand the desire for privacy, but the idea of the government using this information to gossip about you seems a little farfetched.

Not to be cliché, but if people aren’t committing federal crimes, then why would it matter anyway? On a lighter note, and in no way do I claim to be an economics guru, but I seriously doubt that our solution to the national debt crisis will ever include the government selling our telephone numbers to private

companies. Silicon Valley did that years ago.

I understand the skepticism.

With Edward Snowden’s name a weekly fixture in national news, headlines taken at face value are very unsettling. However, claims of domestic ISIS accomplices seem even scarier to me. If the Patriot Act was directly responsible for thwarting even one potential terrorist incident, it would absolutely be worth it, and perhaps we wouldn’t question it quite as much.

To even the most steadfast opponents, reform seems to be coming to the Patriot Act, and it seems likely that the large scale collection of data will be reformed to target legitimate persons of interest. So rest easy, folks. If Obama wants to listen to your gossip, he’ll have to get a warrant first.

If Obama wants to listen to your gossip, he’ll have to get a warrant first.

Eric Roddy is a senior majoring in philosophy. His column runs biweekly.

WHAT I THINK • Most Patriot Act opponents don’t realize what it does.

• Arguments against the Patriot Act are weak.

• Concern for privacy is understandable but the concerns are too “farfetched” • Domestic Isis accomplices are far more terrifying than the minor invasion of privacy • The Patriot Act proves its worth by thwarting terrorist efforts • The act will be reformed to target legimate persons of interest

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

By Patrick Smith | Contributing Writer

PLAN TO GO

With the gift of a 19th-century post office desk from David Nelson, Gorgas House Museum Director Lydia Ellington has recreated the University’s first post office on the first floor of the Gorgas House Museum.

She did so with the help of Bill Allen, collections technician for The University of Alabama museums and Samantha Jacobi, Gorgas House Museum assistant. Nelson said he acquired the desk from an estate sale in Columbus, Mississippi.

“To me, the most unusual aspect of the desk was the extreme atypical length and top cabinet section which overhangs both ends of the desk to maximize space,” Nelson said.

Another key player in getting the desk to the exhibit was Mary Bess Paluzzi, Associate Dean for Special Collections, as she was the facilitator in the donation.

Allen said the recreation of the post office in the Gorgas House is a pivotal move for the museum.

“It’s a way of tying the house a little more closely not just to the Gorgas family itself, but to the history of the University,” Allen said.

WHAT: Gorgas House Post Office WHEN: Weekdays 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m WHERE: The Gorgas House Museum

The University of Alabama’s first post office was located in the Gorgas House, currently a museum on-campus.

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The home was the first building erected on the University campus in 1829, originally serving as a dining hall for students and a hotel for faculty and visitors on the second floor. It was one of only a few structures to survive the burning of the campus by Union

General Croxton and his soldiers in April of 1865.

In 1878 Josiah Gorgas, Union-born but a former Confederate general, accepted the offer as president of The University of Alabama. After only one year of

service, his health forced him to resign the position. As a retirement present, the Board of Trustees gave President Gorgas the house, formerly known as Steward’s Hall, as a residence and assigned him the position of Head Librarian. His wife, Amelia, took the position as matron of the University infirmary and later as postmistress. Both the infirmary and the post office were located on the ground floor of their home.

“The Gorgas House Museum is an important tool and resource for the University as the oldest building on campus,” Ellington said. “It has seen all the history of the great opportunity for the students to get a handson with the experience of history.”

COLUMN | STUDY ABROAD

Study Abroad Series: Student finds joy serving others in Costa Rica Editor’s Note: In each issue this summer, The Crimson White will publish a column written by a student who is studying abroad in order to share their experiences in a foreign country. If you are studying abroad this summer and would like to write a column, please email newsdesk@cw.ua.edu.

By Katie Bedrich | Contributing Writer

I once read that the best way to make yourself happy is to make someone else happy. Now, I have no doubts that I could be happy living alone in Costa Rica, but my job here has given me an even greater opportunity: to create unforgettable experiences for others.

I work as a group assistant for Centro Panamericano de Idiomas, a Spanish immersion school with three distinct campuses in Costa Rica. University groups from the U.S. come here to study abroad and live pura vida, and CPI provides itineraries and assistants (like me) to ensure unique and memorable experiences for each student.

I’m constantly evaluating the happiness of my students, which in turn results in my own personal joy every day. I’m currently working with a group of 27 students, and it was difficult at first handling such a large group with logistics like transportation and reservations to execute, but watching them explore outside their comfort zones has been more rewarding than I could have imagined.

Katie Bedrich’s work in Costa Rica combines office work with zip linging. Photo Courtesy of Katie Bedrich

About half of my job is comprised of organization, logistics, communication and

supervision. A day in the office is sometimes just a day in the office, but most days consists of zip lining, snorkel cruises, volcano hikes, whitewater rafting and volunteer trips, just to name a few. That’s the other half of my job.

I get to travel a lot. Costa Rica is one of the most geographically diverse countries on the planet, which makes it a top vacation destination along with the laid-back lifestyle of Ticos (natives). In the 17 days that I’ve been here, I’ve lived along the golden coast of Playa Flamingo, the bustling capital city San José and a quiet town called San Joaquín de Flores. I’m currently living in the Cloud Forest of Monteverde, a lush green mountainous region that is literally in the clouds.

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Editor | Laura Testino culture@cw.ua.edu Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Sebastian rests on his owner’s textbook.

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Pets search for homes in Tuscaloosa New shelter programs increase adoption rates

By Matthew Wilson | Staff Reporter

Bouncing across the floors of his apartment, Hudson, a 140-pound Great Pyrenees, and his owner, Abbey Anderson, are almost inseparable. They do everything together, from walking across the Quad, to visiting dog parks, and even swimming.

“He half looks like he’s having fun and half looks like he’s panicking, flapping his paws in the water as fast as they’ll go,” said Anderson, a senior majoring in finance and economics. “He’s there in the mornings after I had a long night, licking at my hand. One special trick I taught him is when I ask him who does he love, he’ll run up to and put his paws on me.”

It is this special companionship between owner and pet Anderson said she values most, but many animals in Tuscaloosa are still looking for owners and for homes. At any given time, the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter houses 250 stray dogs and cats.

Jennifer Earp, director at the shelter, said Tuscaloosa sees a rise in the number of stray animals during the summer months due to the warmer weather and populating strays. Sometimes people feed strays because they don’t want them to starve but that causes them to linger around people’s houses, she said.

“We have an overpopulation problem, period,” Earp said. “Because of the lack of availability at home, you see them running at large because people will oftentimes drop them off elsewhere, like deserted roads.”

Being a pet owner is a big responsibility, Anderson said. When she leaves to go on a trip, she always makes sure one of her friends can watch Hudson. When she goes

home for the summer, she said she takes Hudson with her.

The animal shelter has been offering a number of programs to increase their adoption rates and find these animals new homes. Earp said adoption rates have increased every month since December 2014. One of the programs the shelter offers is Happy Hour, which rents out dogs to college students for a couple hours.

Miranda Therkelsen, a sophomore majoring in musical theatre, rented a terrier mix puppy during finals week. Getting a retractable leash, Therkelsen took the puppy to the park and walked it across the Quad. She said people would stop her and talk about the puppy.

Therkelsen said it was a great stress reliever for students like her, who aren’t allowed to have pets in their dorms or apartments, and it gives the dogs a chance to get out of their kennels.

“It helped me focus on something that’s not my phone or a test,” she said.

“There’s something so spaced about playing with an animal because it’s not a distraction but something I can enjoy.

Being with an animal makes you calm down, and everyone needs a break so why not do it with a puppy that needs to go outside?”

Earp said the Happy Hour program serves two purposes: it allows the dogs to get exercise and stay socialized and adoptable, and it gives them more exposure.

People can see how these animals behave outside of the shelter, and it has led to more adoptions.

Betty Freeman, a board member at the Humane Society of West Alabama, said the organization partners with PetFinder to increase exposure on their pets.

Since they are a no kill organization, the

Humane Society can only take in around 30 dogs and 70 cats at a time.

“It allows us to have exposure 24/7, and we find a better calibre of people are looking on the internet, wanting to adopt,” she said.

On average, 300 animals get adopted from the Humane Society every year. Having volunteered at the organization for 12 years, Freeman said it is her love for the animals and finding them new homes that makes it all worth it.

“Most of this is no fault of the animal to be needing a home,” Freeman said. “We call it our adoption high when you see an animal that’s been on the streets, go to a loving home.

That’s what it’s all about. That person needs the animal too sometimes, and it’s just a win win situation for everybody.”

The animal shelter offers a fostering program for animals that aren’t ready to be adopted due to age or availability. The program allows animals to live outside of the shelter and gives volunteers, who can’t have long term pets, a chance to interact with animals.

Both Freeman and Earp admitted that despite their best efforts, they can’t save every animal. Earp said Tuscaloosa has an overpopulation of pitbull mixes, a breed people don’t want due to insurance problems and rental agreements. The shelter is forced to put many of these dogs down due to the negative stigma surrounding them, preventing adoption.

If a feral dog (a dog that is a domestic descendant, but currently lives in the wild) shows an aggressive behavior, the shelter isn’t able to adopt them out, and the animal has to be euthanized. Earp said feral cats have more options due to the city’s new program, TSNIP. The program is designed to lower the feral cat population by trapping them, spraying and neutering them, then releasing them back into their colony.

“We work with them to cut down on the amount of feral cats that are euthanized here daily,” she said. “Feral cats will not seek you out to cause harm. They’re going to be completely scared of you. If you don’t mess with them, they won’t mess with you.”

Anderson said University Downs has around a dozen stray cats running around, but no one — Betty Freeman really complains.

Many of the students, herself included, leave food out for them to eat.

She adopted a baby kitten briefly until she could find it a new home. Hudson never barks at any of the cats and only sniffed curiously at the kitten when she brought it in.

At the humane society, Freeman said they take feral cats and bring them to barns to be barn cats. People, who have livestock or horses, need barn cats to help kill and combat their rat problems.

“We can’t save them all, but you chip away and educate,” she said. “You try to do the best you can. The key is to be responsible.”

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CULTURE Tuesday, May 27, 2015

‘Broken’ painting exhibit showcases light, color

By Sam West | Contributing Writer

The walls of a downtown Tuscaloosa art gallery currently feature an exhibit that portrays the distinctness of one moment in time, but it invites several minutes of appreciation. “Broken Color” by Greg Cartmell, on display at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, features 25 of these impressionist oil paintings.

Cartmell’s works include portraits of a wide variety of figures and landscapes from the artist’s home state of Mississippi. As impressionist pieces, these works seek to capture the instantaneity of a moment, the way a single second is perceived by the mind.

The paintings in the exhibit focus less on form and shape and more on light and color.

“Something that’s been lost over the years because of photography and TV is natural focus, which is the idea that the eye can only focus on one thing at a time, and everything else becomes blurred,” he said. “The old masters focus on only one thing in a painting.

Every painting becomes like a play – there’s a leading man or lady and supporting actors and actresses.”

George Cartmell’s exhibit, “Broken Color” will be on display until May 29. CW / Shelby Akin

Cartmell’s embrace of impressionism is something that came to him later in life.

“I started out in the Boston School

of painting, which is very staid and academic,” he said.

In the last 20 years, he transitioned to using impressionist techniques almost exclusively.

Cartmell’s landscapes will seem familiar to people from the Southeast, as they depict the environmental features of this region. He paints the landscapes outdoors, surrounded by nature, rather than working from a photograph. “I go out almost every day, like in the old days, and paint,” Cartmell said.

The title of the exhibit is also a visual technique the artist uses in all the featured works. “Broken Color” refers to blending colors by placing their components near each other. To create the color orange, “you’d get a little yellow and a little red, and put [them] together on the canvas,” Cartmell said.

The two colors are then perceived as mixed by the viewer.

Cartmell’s works also use impasto, a process that refers to the heavy application of paint. Sharron Rudowski, education director at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, said this was one of the most striking elements in the exhibit. Rudowski’s

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favorite part of Cartmell’s work was seeing the “smooth and blended and thick application [of paint] juxtaposed together,” she said.

Rudowski said that Cartmell’s portraits were her favorite pieces in the exhibit, particularly the painting, “Kathy,” a profile of a woman with brown hair pulled into a bun. This piece had an air of mystery around it, as it was the only painting featured in “Broken Color” that was not for sale.

Cierra Smith, a senior majoring in chemistry who works at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, also thought the artist’s impasto brushwork was compelling. “What catches my eye in particular is the texture of the painting, how it pops. It gives the paintings a 3-D feel,” she said.

COLUMN | MUSIC

Travelling band Hot Damn Scandal provides Americana soundscapes

By Jordan Cissell

Last week on Pearl Street in downtown Boulder, Colorado, I stumbled onto something beautiful. Four scruffy guys stood playing folk music on the sidewalk, crowded around a beat-up old suitcase with a hand-written sign: “10 Bucks For A CD.” One guy had a washboard around his neck and a hotel call bell and upturned candleholder propped on the battered suitcase in front of him; another plucked away at a big ol’ stand-up bass, darting his right hand up between numbers to scratch his Fu Manchu and adjust his sweat-stained bandana.

They were unpolished, and they were real, and it was obvious there was nothing they would rather be doing than providing a little something to dance to for the 10 or 12 people gathered around them, who were clapping and stepping along. Ten bucks got me a foldout cardboard sleeve dotted with Hieronymus Bosch artwork that held a self-printed CD – “Strange Tongues,” recorded in 2014 – that perfectly captures the genuine immediacy of that street performance. The album is available in its entirety online at Hot Damn Scandal’s bandcamp.com page.

It seems like you can’t throw a Frisbee without hitting an Americana revivaltype band, but many of them lose sight of a key notion for which Hot Damn Scandal display an intuitive understanding: if you’re plying your trade within a genre that’s been steeped in over 200 years of ordinary folks communing at the end of an eight-day work week for a Cumbaya session of pickin’ and singin’, keep in mind that Americana music has

Jordan Cissell, far right, stands with Hot Damn Scandal on Pearl Street, in Boulder, Colorado, after purchasing the band’s CD. Photo courtesy of Jordan Cissell

always been as much about a rascally selfawareness and a blue collar, shoot-for-themoon manifest destiny as it has the nonstop soil and toil. Throughout “Strange Tongues,” Hot Damn Scandal deftly balances dutiful homage to tradition with a playful reverence.

The latter gleefully pops into full view from the opening seconds of album-opener “How to Act,” as squirrely guitar punctuates a jubilant horn that jumps and jives like it’s strutting down Bourbon Street.

The song’s jaunty call-and-response routine allows the narrator to riff on his own small-time mischief. “I just picked my nose and flicked it off in space,” he admits. The response: “Well, I can’t blame

you there.”

The former is on stark display in “Wild Rose.” The song opens in a strain of mournful violin and percussive acoustic guitar a la Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” With a few ladies’ tender backup vocals lending soothing support, the singer intones, “The only thing that everybody shares is the fear that no one else is really there.”

The band hails from Bellingham, Washington, and operates as a loose, traveling collective in the vein of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. Its lineup is in a state or perennial flux. The album’s liner notes credit a combined total of 16 band members and musical

contributors, including some help from their friend Bill’s ducks.

This diversity of personnel tangibly impacts “Twist It Up,” a sort of summer party anthem for the Birkenstock set in which three different singers espouse the pleasure of a vice-filled lifestyle, but it is also reflected in the record’s eclectic mingling of stylistic directions.

“She Ain’t No Good” could slide seamlessly into Tom Waits’ 1983 album “Swordfishtrombones.” The singer’s voice cracks and slurs when he howls the chorus and spits with staccato accusation in each verse. The song lurches along on stuttering plucks and a few touches of flamenco flourish from an acoustic guitar before devolving completely into a clatter of trashcan lid stomping, deep-throated growls and Mario sound effects.

In “Blame it on the Rain,” a trombone glissandos and the electric guitar swaps solos with a clarinet. “Gold” exudes the bittersweet wanderlust of an old sea shanty, and album-closer “Jericho” is an epic in the vein of Led Zeppelin’s “The Battle of Evermore,” with the singer narrating an impending clash with a world-weary sneer as his trusty acoustic guitar gallops underneath him.

Banjos burble through the pastoral lullaby of “Glistenin’ Steel” as the track envelops you in the warmth of gentle mandolin and square dance-ready violin. The singer’s genuine appreciation for the cool creeks and dense trees of the valley in which he has immersed himself is soothing and contagious, and his voice is a nasally, unpolished whine – flawed perfection.

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TUESDAY May 27, 2015 Softball to play double elimination over next week SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 1

great after taking Friday’s loss. She went five innings without allowing a hit before getting shelled in the sixth inning of Friday’s 5-2 loss. She didn’t come back with get a no-hitter, but she did shut out the Sooners 2-0 while allowing just one hit to force a game three.

She struck out NCAA career home run leader Lauren Chamberlain with the bases loaded to keep the game scoreless.

She did come back to start the third game and get the win even after giving up a home run to Chamberlain.

“Props to her – she’s a great hitter,” Osorio said. “I knew I had to go right at her and mix it up every time. I couldn’t be predictable against her.”

She didn’t get to throw a no-hitter but she did throw 365 pitches in just over 24 hours to send Alabama to Oklahoma City.

But Osorio can’t take full credit because without centerfielder Haylie McCleney, Oklahoma scores at least four runs in the top of the first inning of the final game. Instead, Oklahoma scored zero.

McCleney robbed a two-run home run and then closed out the inning with the bases loaded after diving for a line drive.

“She might’ve saved the game on the two catches, not just the one,” Murphy said. “She took away a two-run home run

and then she took away I don’t know how many runs on the dive in right-center.

She definitely set the tone ‘cause if they score there, it’s a little bit of a downer for us. And she makes those two great plays and now we feel very good about ourselves.

“That’s typical Haylie though.”

Now, Alabama and seven other teams are in Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series. Over the next week, the teams will play in a doubleelimination tournament for the national title. Five of the eight teams are from the SEC (1-seed Florida, 4-seed Auburn, 5-seed LSU and 8-seed Tennessee).

“We thought last year was good,” Murphy said Tuesday. “This year, the parity in the league, I mean anybody can beat anybody. And now it’s almost like the SEC Tournament 2 in Oklahoma City.

I know a lot of people probably aren’t very happy about that, but we knew this day would come because as soon as somebody does something good in the SEC, everybody else tries to match it or do better, and if you don’t, you get run over. And it’s happened in every sport, and now softball is just the latest.”

Alabama is the only SEC team that will not open against another conference team. The Crimson Tide (47-13) faces 3-seed Michigan (56-6) in the first round Thursday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

This year, the teams have played each other twice with Michigan winning both games in Tuscaloosa.

“They look like an SEC team to tell you the truth,” Murphy said. “They’ve

The team celebrates its win over Oklahoma as well as its spot in the Women’s College World Series.

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WHAT: Alabama vs. Michigan WHEN: Thursday at 6 p.m.

WHERE: ESPN2

3,940 Attendance for Saturday, a capacity crowd 365 Pitches thrown by Alexis Osorio 17 Total strikeouts

by Osorio 1 Home runs robbed by Alabama centerfielder Haylie McCleney 79 RBI by Marisa Runyon in the season, tied for most in program history

got two really good pitchers. They’ve got a hall of fame coach that’s just won like 1,400 games. They’re going to be the real deal. It’s going to be a tough opponent.”

The team took Sunday off before practicing Monday. The team will practice again Wednesday which will be Osorio’s first practice since the Super Regional.

“When you have a hot pitcher going into Oklahoma City, that’s usually been a recipe for somebody winning it, and I think we’ve got a hot pitcher,” Murphy said.

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Managing Editor | Kelly Ward sports@cw.ua.edu Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Jansen, Routliffe win second championship

By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter

Emma Talley won the 2015 NCAA Women’s Golf Individual. UA Athletics

Talley takes home NCAA title, scores lowest in career

By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter

For the past year, junior Emma Talley faced each new day with optimism and hope. If she wasn’t on the greens playing golf, she was analyzing video footage or thinking about golf. Her motto is to keep getting better. And she did.

Talley won the 2015 NCAA Women’s Golf Individual crown on Monday with 3-under 285. She is the first player to win the individual title in Alabama’s history.

The junior is also the fifth player in history to win an individual title and a U.S. Amateur. The last time a player won both was in 2002-03.

“I played so well this whole year,” she said. “[In] this tournament, everything clicked … Everything went my way. I worked really hard so everything just came together.”

Talley is no stranger when it comes to success. The past two seasons have been some of her best both in collegiate golf and on her own. She shot 3-under 69 on the final day of the tournament, sealing her fate.

Previously, she had an even par 216 going into the final round. Her final scores were 70-73-73-69.

The final round also marked Talley’s lowest score in her NCAA championship career.

Accompanied by her parents and her team, she embarked on one of her toughest competitions to date. Each of the starting five competed in the tournament but it came down to Talley in the final round to seal the deal.

Coach Mic Potter walked the greens with Talley as she competed. She said they talk about every day matters like school and life and he would advise

her which club to use and how to hit it.

His advice came in handy during the par-4 ninth hole as she hit the ball to the fairway bunker.

Talley said it was a tough shot, but after consulting with Potter she used a seven-iron to shoot the ball out of the sand towards the hole. She shot it within eight feet of the hole.

“I think once you’ve seen that golf course, people are gonna have no idea how well she played,” Potter said.

“Unbelievable performance on a really hard course. She didn’t make a doublebogey all week. There were double-bogeys, triple-bogeys and higher every day by good players so it was just incredible how she managed herself.”

It was that shot that set her apart from the rest of the competition.

Talley said she was one of the first players to finish the last round of the tournament and although she knew she was leading the tournament, it was nerve-racking for her to watch her competitors try and best her score.

“They got really close to me, but they didn’t quite get there,” she said.

Talley won the tournament by one stroke against Arkansas junior Gaby Lopez and Duke freshman Leona Maguire. Both Lopez and Maguire shot 2-under 286.

With the season now over, Talley and the rest of the team will look forward to competing in outside tournaments or in the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

For her, she will try to qualify for this year’s U.S. Open.

“It won’t hit me for awhile,” she said. “It’s a dream come true and I don’t think it will set in for a while.”

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It takes a special type of doubles team to walk into the Women’s Tennis National Championships ready for action. For many teams, it’s difficult to build a bond with your teammate, to be able to read each other’s thoughts and know where the other one is going to be when the ball hits the court.

But for sophomore Erin Routliffe and junior Maya Jansen, the bond had no doubts. As a doubles team, they were cohesive. Each complimented the other during every game, set and match.

They duo swiftly knocked out California State from the final round of the NCAA Championships.

For the second straight year, Routliffe and Jansen won the NCAA Women’s Doubles Tennis Championship. The No. 1 pair in the country added the program’s second championship trophy.

Their final score was 6-2, 6-7 (5) and 6-3 of California State.

“It’s a really great feeling,” Routliffe said. “We’re both just so happy. Last year, we knew we were a good team. We just kind of went up there and were pretty loose and we played really well. This year, there was a little bit more pressure.

Everyone knew us from last year.

We handled it pretty well.

We just stuck to our game plan and tried to play every match the same.

“It’s a really amazing feeling to bring home another National Championship to Tuscaloosa.”

The pair won the championship using methods coach Jenny Mainz ingrained into them. From coming out strong to aggressive plays, Alabama quickly took control of the match, sinking Cal State.

Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe won their second Consecutive NCAA Doubles Title. UA Athletics

Cal State gave the duo some trouble early in the second set.

Alabama trailed for a long time before tying up the set but ultimately falling. It wasn’t till the third set that Alabama triumphed.

“We definitely had some slow starts but I think what motivated us that we don’t like to lose and the situation of losing in a match made us — Erin Routliffe change our game style,” Jansen said. “We played tennis our way.”

Despite lagging in the first few games, the team cohesively took charge of the court and, in turn, the entire match. With the win, Jansen and Routliffe finished the season 19-2 (9-1 SEC).

It’s a really amazing feeling to bring home another National Championship to Tuscaloosa.

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COLUMN | WOMEN’S SOCCER

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The U.S. women’s soccer team celebrates during a match against Japan. Wikimedia Commons

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