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CULTURE | PROFESSOR FILM

Professor creates film about past ‘Service to Man’ inspired by life of director’s father

By Matthew Wilson | Staff Reporter

Making the film, “Service to Man,” has been the collective dream of directors Seth Panitch and Aaron Greer since Panitch started working on the script in 2008. Loosely inspired by Panitch’s father’s experiences, “Service to Man” follows the journey of the first white student, Eli Rosenberg, attending the historically black Meharry Medical College in the late 1960s.

Panitch, a University of Alabama professor of theatre, said he used the framework of his father’s experiences to tell a story of universal communication and discovery. Having just wrapped principal photography, Panitch and his team will be busy editing the film, polishing scenes and incorporating music.

“Considering present circumstances, I’d love a modern audience to fascinate in these characters, historical and otherwise, who were able to forge relationships across race during a time of great upheaval and animosity,” Panitch said.

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All about that bass University of Alabama club fishing team to compete in Ranger Cup

By Matthew Wilson | Staff Reporter

Leaps and bounds Sophomore Quanesha Burks came into the NCAA Outdoor Championships with the No. 1 ranking in the women’s long jump. She took an early lead before falling behind on the third jump. She secured the title on her fifth jump.

As a child growing up on the lake, John Davis would watch fishermen in boats catch bass, all the while dreaming of owning his own boat and competing in tournaments. Now, as president of The University of Alabama club fishing team, Davis is living that dream.

Davis, a junior majoring in marketing, and his fishing partner Payton McGinnis, also a junior majoring in marketing, qualified for the 2015 Ranger Cup Team of the Year Challenge after placing seventh at the 10th Anniversary BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship. The two will travel

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to Florida in October to compete against anglers from Liberty University.

“Honestly, it was a surprise because we didn’t expect it,” Davis said. “One of

the qualifications for Ranger Cup is you have to have their logo on your jerseys. I was looking at all the guys in front of us, and I still hadn’t seen somebody with a Ranger Cup on their jerseys. I thought we might win Ranger Cup. I’m really looking forward to it. It’ll be great experience.”

Having fished nearly his entire life, McGinnis said he didn’t start fishing competitively until he came to Alabama.

Fishing in tournaments is a more competitive environment than recreational fishing. He said it takes days of practice and weeks of preparation before they go to a SEE FISHING PAGE 16

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Kevin W. Whitaker, The University of Alabama’s associate provost for academic affairs, will take over as interim provost this summer, UA President Judy Bonner announced in an email Wednesday.

“Dr. Whitaker’s leadership skills, experience at The University of Alabama, and his collaborative and analytical approach to decision making will prove helpful to Dr. Bell as he forms his administrative team,” Bonner said.

Whitaker will take over this summer after current provost Joe Benson retires from his 37-year career at Alabama.

Whitaker began his time at the University as an assistant professor of aerospace engineering in 1987.

From there, he would hold various other leadership positions including associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics and associate dean for academic programs in the College of Engineering.

Whitaker was named as associate provost for academic affairs last July.

“I am both honored and humbled to accept the challenges as UA’s interim provost,” Whitaker said in a UA release. “To work with our outstanding administrators and faculty and staff for the good of our students is a responsibility I take very seriously. And with Dr. Bell being recommended as our next president, I look forward

with great excitement to the transition period in front of us.”

Whitaker earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute in 1980 and is a two-time graduate of Texas A&M, having earned his master’s degree in 1982 and his doctoral degree in 1986. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Aerospace Engineering Faculty Member and the 2007 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership Award.

Benson will retire later this summer after nearly 40 years at The University of Alabama. In 1978 he came to the University as an assistant professor of geology, with promotions to associate professor and professor to follow. From 1990-1998 he was chair of the department before being promoted to associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences for the next three years. Other positions held at the Capstone include senior associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, vice provost and vice president for research.

“Please also join me in thanking Dr. Benson for his close to 40 years of tremendous dedication to this institution and for his calm and effective leadership,” Bonner said in an email announcement. “We wish him all the best in his retirement.”

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3 Gorgas hosts Confederate publication exhibit Editor | Heather Buchanan newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Wednesday, June 17, 2015

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Many University of Alabama students haven’t taken the time to access the vast collection of historical material available to the University, provided by generous donations. Tucked away in a corner of the third floor in Gorgas Library lies one pocket of this stockpile – the A.S.Williams III Americana Collection. In it can be found items ranging from Southern historical documents to presidential papers and addresses.

Melissa Young and Lindsay Smith, Ph.D., students at the University, co-curated the current exhibition in Williams.

It features imprints that were created between 1860 and 1865 in the Confederate States of America. After receiving the broad topic of the imprints, Young and Smith chose to focus primarily on studying elements of Confederate nationalism.

“People find it easier to understand the physical creation of the Confederacy, which began with various states’ secession and their joint military action, than the nationalistic feelings that would have been vital to its longevity if the South had won the war,” Young said. “Southern people needed to be connected to each other and their new nation so they would be motivated to make daily sacrifices to ensure its survival.”

Though Young was already very familiar with Confederate history, she said the biggest surprise during this

project was discovering the beauty of some of the pieces.

“Some of the books and journals have engraved covers, which are really cool.

There is a piece that contains handpainted illustrations of Confederate uniforms that is just amazing, and the wallpaper books are unbelievably beautiful,” Young said.

Putting together an exhibition like this one requires a large amount of collaboration. Though Smith and Young did the curating, they said they wanted to ensure that everyone involved got credit. Jennifer Cabanero and Nancy DuPree, who work with the Williams Collection, and Amy Chen, a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Special Collections when they were working together, were instrumental in creating the exhibit.

Chen asked another doctoral candidate, Katie Deale, to create a Confederate imprints exhibit for the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, located on the second floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall. Due to her interest in music, Deale chose to focus on sheet music of the Confederate States. She said a very difficult part in creating the exhibit was choosing what to display.

“There were many pieces of sheet music that I could have displayed but did not have the space to do so,” Deale said.

Deale said that curating this exhibit was an enjoyable change of topic.

“Most all of my sources for my

Melissa Young and Lindsay Smith co-curated the current exhibit in the A.S.Williams III Americana Collection, featuring Confederate books and journals. Photo courtesy of Muzel Chen

dissertation are government documents, governors’ papers, newspapers, diaries and political correspondence. While most of the sheet music included in my exhibit is very political, examining cultural sources was a pleasant departure,” Deale said.

Christopher Sawula, the director of Research and Academic Programs for the Williams Collection, said the original imprints were once on display, but for preservation purposes were replaced

with high-quality facsimiles.

“Because of a lack of resources, the Confederacy had very poor quality printing, so a lot of these imprints we don’t want sitting out all of the time,” Sawula said.

The original imprints are still available for viewing to the public. To request an imprint contact a librarian in the Williams or Hoole exhibits with the call number.

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On Monday, Jeb Bush announced he would seek the Grand Old Party nomination for the 2016 election. His announcement brings the list of candidates vying for the GOP nomination to almost a dozen. With Clinton, Sanders, and O’Malley already declaring their candidacy for the Democratic nomination, it seems like everyone and their mother is running for president these days.

As the list of candidates gets large enough to fill a baseball lineup, we have to select a candidate who is innovative and willing to make substantial change.

I am not advocating for a specific candidate or telling you who to vote for. With almost 16 months until the election, I haven’t even decided myself. What I am suggesting is that you do your research and decide which candidate aligns with your values and will work to create a better country for everyone. We should not accept an election cycle full of mudslinging, but instead, we need to rethink how we engage with politics and not

forget that we hold the future in our hands with our vote.

As young people, we are often told the only way we can engage with politics is by giving our time to canvassing and donating what little money we may have back to the campaign. We are rarely seen as people who have solid ideas that should be taken into consideration. While we may be young, that doesn’t mean the ideas we have for the future should be ignored today.

Many of us are lucky enough to go to a university with brilliant professors who are experts in their fields. We also have access to the vast resources our library has to offer. By utilizing our resources, students are able to produce ideas to change their communities.

Unlike the gridlock seen in Congress, local governments are thriving on innovative ideas to change their cities.

It can even be as simple as a university changing their procurement policies to buy more goods from local, minority and women-owned businesses to

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ensure their economic security and kick-start economic development in the surrounding area. In Tuscaloosa, we could pressure local officials to change the city ordinance preventing companies like Uber and Lyft from coming to campus. By having these companies on campus, you are offering students an alternative to drinking and driving.

There are many similarities between the candidates on both sides. Over the years, the right has campaigned on cutting government programs and ending entitlements while the left has tried to replicate the New Deal in some way.

There is more potential on both sides to do something new and exciting that breaks away from what we’ve seen in years past.

Instead of trying to replicate the past, we need someone who will invest in the future.

... we need to think how we engage with politics ...

Madelyn Schorr is a senior majoring in art and anthropology. Her column runs biweekly.

The University of Bologna, the oldest continually operating university in the world, was founded nearly a millennia ago to train students in the arts of rhetoric, grammar and logic, for the purpose of developing their reason, intellect and eloquence.

Universities were created to teach students how to think, not necessarily to teach students what to think, and it is a tragedy that our country is killing off this beautiful educational tradition.

More and more individuals throughout the United States are rejecting the idea that the Western Canon, that is, the set of literary and artistic works that until a few decades ago was a necessary part of a liberal education, is of any value to 21st century university students.

The works of Aristotle, Virgil, Aquinas, Dante, Michelangelo and Mozart, just to name a few, are often shoved aside or, if taught at all, are optional courses, written off as irrelevant for our postmodern sociocultural moment.

Often we think of university education as four years of learning just enough material to pass the next test, with a nice piece of paper as a reward at the end. This tragic view of education has led to the practical rejection of the humanities and the ideological rejection of education as a means of engaging all human faculties.

The humanities, and specifically the works of the Western canon, ought to be embraced instead of marginalized.

Exposure to these works gives students the ability to both learn about the heritage of Western intellectual and artistic tradition– the basic building blocks of our society– and explore the rhetoric and beauty of these particular works. John Henry

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Newman, an Oxford academic and Roman Catholic Cardinal in the late 19th century, stated that “it is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.”

In particular, the humanities challenges a student to think not only about the subject of a text, but also about how the text was presented, about the rhetoric and arguments behind the text and about the aesthetic value of the text. Students can learn from Plato and Aquinas how to reason and how to form an argument. Students can learn from Raphael and Beethoven how artistic beauty can affect the human person.

Cicero remarked that the capacity for reason and eloquence are what separate the human person from savage beasts. Aptly named, the humanities appeals to what it means to be human. The ancient Greek philosophers, the medieval scholastics, and the Renaissance artists were all searching for the true and the beautiful.

A restoration of the humanities, of the rhetorical and artistic tradition, is necessary both to teach students how to think and form arguments, and to put the true and the beautiful back in society, two transcendental ideas sorely lacking in our postmodern world. All universities, including The University of Alabama, ought to reconsider their required courses to ensure that all students have exposure to the full breadth of the Western intellectual tradition so that they are not only forming graduates of an institution but also developing each individual’s inborn capacity to reason, thus engaging exactly what it means to be human.

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Joe Puchner is a junior majoring in mathematics and Spanish.

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OPINIONS Wednesday, June 17, 2015 COLUMN | CAMPUS BUILDINGS

Murky history of building namesakes should be more openly discussed LEIGH

Terry Staff Columnist

At The University of Alabama, we live in the shadow of many complicated men.

Former Alabama Governors David Bibb Graves and Braxton Bragg Comer as well as Dr. Josiah Nott and Sen. John Tyler Morgan were men of power and influence who set in motion events and ideologies that still lurk in our society. They are only a few of the names atop the many buildings we pass by every day, and I believe it is time to talk about them, their legacies and their buildings openly.

It is important to remember that these men defy easy categorization as onedimensional heroes and villains. To be fair to their memory and hopefully set the tone for the debate to come, I offer their failings alongside some of the reasons these men were considered distinguished enough to deserve buildings in the first place.

David Bibb Graves was a Grand Cyclops in the Montgomery Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He privately promised to pardon the Scottsboro Boys and

later reneged on that promise after meeting them.

However, he also won re-election without the support of the Klan after he resigned his membership in their organization in disgust of their violent tactics.

He opposed the racist and restrictive 1901 state constitution. He served as an Army colonel and engaged in heavy fighting during World War I. He appointed a woman to the U.S. Senate (the first female senator of two in Alabama history) only 17 years after women won suffrage, and he was a champion for better working conditions, education and public health.

Braxton Bragg Comer’s stance on child labor was ambivalent at best and in favor of the practice at worst. He used the Alabama National Guard to break strikes in coal mines where the working conditions could only be described as atrocious. The coal company Comer supported lynched a black man in direct relation to the tensions fostered by Comer’s efforts at strikebreaking.

On the other hand, Comer’s administration lowered railroad rates to make Alabama industries more competitive and consumer goods more affordable.

He was an advocate for conservation, education, health, and infrastructure improvements. The company he founded, Avondale Mills, was the industrial

I believe it is time to talk about them, their legacies and their buildings openly. backbone of cities across the state including my own, where he and his family’s generosity provided for the building of my city’s library, museum, recreation center, football stadium, and some of our schools.

He also greatly improved the working conditions in his own plants after leaving the governor’s office.

Dr. Josiah Nott’s book, “Types of Mankind,” gave professional credence to the idea that there are superior and inferior races. It was widely accepted by scientists and influenced policy on two continents. I need hardly say which continents or which races he argued were inferior.

But for all of his horrendous musings on race, Dr. Josiah Nott largely succeeded at promoting the professionalization of the practice of medicine in Alabama.

He increased access to medical services across the state and supported a scientific approach to medicine.

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The most concerning of these men is, without doubt, John Tyler Morgan, who served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and was later one of Jim Crow’s strongest advocates in the U.S. Senate. He was an extremist who supported the forced deportation of blacks from the South, served as a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, and supported bills to legalize lynching. Although if you look close enough, even he did at least one or two deeds to his credit: pushing for the creation of the Panama Canal and obtaining federal financial support for the rebuilding of this University.

It is time to talk about what the buildings that bear their names say about the students, faculty and administrators working within them. It is time for an informal conversation among ourselves and an institutionalized one among our campus hierarchy.

These men represent us. Their failings are our failings. Their victories are our victories. Our history may be dark, but only because it is layered in shades of moral gray, and it is time to talk about all of it.

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

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STUDY ABROAD | SPAIN

Alumnus expands franchise

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Travis Taylor takes a break from hiking through the flat plains around Madrid proper. Photo courtesy of Travis Taylor

Student enhances his Spanish skills 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.

By Travis Taylor | Contributing Writer

Our group of students trickled in busloads into la Universidad Maria Cristina, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, over the course of half a day, bleary-eyed from a 10-15 hour block of traveling and quietly absorbing the feel of the new country. For me, it was a fullday since I arrived for my flight out of Atlanta; I had slept about two hours in the interim. It was my first time outside of the United States and everyone was (unsurprisingly) speaking Spanish.

Under a thin coat of exhaustion, I was ecstatic. I was finally here, studying with UA in Spain for a month, an opportunity to go somewhere where people dressed differently, spoke differently, thought differently.

Of course, after a brief period of settling in with the other students, we had to actually start speaking in Spanish.

The most immersive I had ever gotten with my Spanish-speaking was, of course, in the ubiquitous high school or college hour-long classes, with a professor to helpfully provide words that you don’t know and another 23 hours to chill out and speak English until the next day’s class. Here, my abrupt shift in languages was forced, mentally jarring.

Our orientation of the town was a guided tour with one of the program’s conversation partners, a Madrileño named Pablo who was (and is) hanging around helping the students during the summer. I have never felt so at a loss as when I was trying to follow Pablo, both physically and linguistically, while he gave us the grand tour of the pueblo we’d be staying in. Despite some six years’ worth of

Spanish classes, the rapid-fire flood of speech was only palatable in tidbits; it was pretty sobering.

Over the next few days, our classes with Spanish professors started and I met my conversation group: three other UA students and our conversation partner Eugenia (or Uge [pronounced OO'-Heh]). My speech began to flow a little bit better; the vernacular spoken in Spain has its idiosyncrasies and slang, but once you start speaking solely in Spanish day after day, things start to click internally. Several days in, for every encounter that I had to politely ask, “Repite, ¿por favor?” three or four times (or just smiled and nodded), I found myself carrying another conversation with relative fluidity.

Initially, I had thought that this trip would be the big break for my Spanishspeaking skills. After a month of forced discourse in this language, I’d have no choice but to be a fluent Spanish speaker by the end – right? However, two and a half weeks into the four-week program, it’s looking more like I’ll come out of the program with a better ability to read, write and speak, certainly, but nowhere near the paradigm-shifting breakthrough I was expecting. A month, which seems like such a huge chunk of time when you’re anticipating it for a semester, passes surprisingly quickly – well, it passes at one second per second, like always, but it’s just as easy to lose track of a week or two here in Spain as it is anywhere else. So, I guess the only thing for it is to keep traveling, a month here, half a year there. My time here has shown me that if I’m really going to make lasting progress, it’s going to be through a renewed interest in pursuing the language, which was started by this program, not fulfilled.

Chris Thomas began working at Smoothie King the summer of his sophomore year at The University of Alabama.

He worked there for three years and was involved in opening the store located inside the Student Recreation Center.

“I needed a job, and Smoothie King seemed like a cool job to have,” Thomas said.

Thomas is a native of New Orleans, where Smoothie King originated and still maintains a significant presence. The home court for the New Orleans Pelicans, formerly the New Orleans Arena, was renamed The Smoothie King Center after the company purchased the naming rights there. When Thomas left the city to come to Alabama, where he was on the club rowing team and studied finance, Smoothie King was there waiting for him in Tuscaloosa.

After graduation, Thomas coached at Stetson University, where he earned his masters before going into business with his father, who owned multiple McDonald’s franchises.

This influence caused Thomas and his wife to decide to buy into franchising together.

“We felt like we wanted to do something more healthy,” Thomas said. “We settled in Florida and took the opportunity to go visit with franchises there. We really liked what we saw and learned.”

They bought an existing store. Four weeks ago, the couple expanded to a second location.

“On a typical day, I take the kids out,” Thomas said. “I check in on the stores on my phone. Everything is so advanced now. I usually spend four to six hours a day at one location.”

Thomas said his managers run much of the daily business at the stores for him, and that this was a part of why he chose to become a franchisee like his father.

“Running your own business is really good for your family,” Thomas said.

“My father was available to go to baseball games and band concerts. He didn’t always have to be there at the stores. A doctor has to be there to make money and service patients. When you run a restaurant, you don’t always have to be there.”

Thomas remembered when, as a child,

University of Alabama graduate Chris Thomas pours a smoothie at Smoothie King. Photo courtesy of Zack Masengale

his family took a beach vacation together.

“My dad checked something on his phone and turned to me and said, ‘I’m making money right now and we’re at the beach,’ and that stuck with me the rest of my life,” Thomas said. “I was like, ‘I want to do that’.”

Thomas also said Smoothie King is about to launch a new Apple-based pointof-sale system.

“It’s going to be the biggest Applebased POS nationwide,” Thomas said.

Thomas said he would suggest franchising to anyone who was ready and had experience in the industry.

“Learn as much as you can about a business first,” he said. “I don’t think I would buy into something new. Learn on someone else’s dime first.”

Steve Shields, Smoothie King Franchise Development Manager, signed Thomas up as a franchisee several years ago.

“He comes from a family familiar with franchising,” Shields said. “He’s smart, has great character and a great personal compass.”

Shields said Thomas has a passion for the Smoothie King goal of becoming a part of customers’ healthy lifestyles.

“Chris and Kate represent our brand very well,” Shields said. “We want them to grow. We want to grow with them. I think he’s done a nice job positioning himself.”

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Most Alabama residents recognize the literal truth behind the phrase, having been caught in a flash thunderstorm or harsh torrent. Meteorologists and emergency workers, however, see its metaphorical sense, as these weather conditions can present serious hazards, and any breakdowns in forecasting and communications can magnify the potential destruction. Current technologies often fall short in these areas.

Aiming to solve this problem, The University of Alabama is hosting a seven-week “Summer Institute” for students participating in the National Flood Interoperability Experiment which aims to develop new modeling and data tools for use in predictive weather modeling.

This opportunity is made possible by a grant from the National Weather Service in conjunction with the new National Water Center in Tuscaloosa.

“NFIE was conceived by Dr. David Maidment from the University of Texas back in May of 2014, right after he made keynote remarks at the initial opening of the National Water Center,” said Andrew Ernest, UA professor of engineering and director of The Environmental Institute.

“I’ve been working with David, folks from the National Weather Service and other key researchers across the country since then to make it a reality.”

Coordinated by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., a research collective comprised of over 130 universities and other organizations in the hydrologic community, the program seeks “to help build a new high resolution, near real-time hydrologic simulation and forecasting model for the United States,” according to its website.

45 graduate students from 19 universities, 4 of which are international

From the University of Alabama: 4 students from the department of geography + 1 student from the department of civil and environmental engineering “The framework, currently under development, will allow us to predict floods several days in the future at very high spatial resolution,” said Sagy Cohen, professor of geography at the University. “These so called ’street-level’ predictions will be a considerable improvement over the existing national flood warning system (by a factor of over 700).”

Additionally, NFIE will coordinate its efforts with the Tuscaloosa County Emergency Management Agency and the Tuscaloosa Fire Department to improve communications with first responders and the general public in the event of emergency.

For the duration of the program, which began two weeks ago, graduate students will conduct a variety of research projects under the guidance of professionals from all over the country.

Emily Clark serves as the training coordinator for CUAHSI. “NFIE is an opportunity for the best and brightest students, both domestic and international, to work with the great resources provided by the National Weather Service and really advance hydrologic technology,” Clark said.

8 Tuscaloosa holds free music nights in June Editor | Laura Testino culture@cw.ua.edu Wednesday, June 17, 2015

By Laura Testino | Culture Editor

Last Friday at the Government Plaza, an indecisive partly-cloudy sky yielded 76-degree temperatures and a light breeze on the grass, where, by 5:45 p.m., several families were toting blankets and chairs and rolling coolers to situate themselves at a fair distance in front of the gazebo.

The crowd ventured out in the wavering weather to the lawn – off of 21st Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets – to be part of “Live at the Plaza,” an event featuring free music from 6-8 p.m., and specifically for last Friday, the local band Angela and the Able Brothers.

The idea for “Live at the Plaza,” a series that began the first Friday in June and will continue weekly until the end of the month, was discussed last April by the Tuscaloosa City Council, particularly by Tuscaloosa District 4 Councilman Matt Calderone.

“We’ll continue to do activities like this in the downtown so long as the community supports it,” Calderone said. “This has been put on with minimal to really no cost to the city. We have a couple support staff out there to help monitor the trash and some officers out there walking around for safety reasons, but every bit of this was paid for through private donations by Tuscaloosa businesses, which is a really great thing.”

Calderone announced over 10 sponsors at the event, and some of those included

were: Carpe Vino, Soulgrown Tuscaloosa, JNJ Apparel and Green Bar. Instead of detracting business away from downtown, Calderone believes the event will bring the community to the downtown area. On the first Friday, June 5, over 400 patrons came to the plaza to see the Lamont Landers Band.

In addition to the yellow boxes of Hungry Howie’s pizza sitting atop the blankets on the lawn, audience members could also bring in alcoholic beverages. An open container permit was approved for the plaza area as part of the “Live at the Plaza” series.

A couple officers patrolled the area on Friday, just in front of the City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Precinct and Municipal Court on the 6th Street border of the plaza. They never had to move too far from their posts, which was true of the previous Friday as well, Calderone said.

Sharing a bottle of white wine and sitting on a bench on the outskirts of the plaza were Nathan Cordle and Casey Johnson, both residents of the city. Cordle, a May 2015 graduate of UA Law School, has enjoyed the city’s growth and frequents many of the downtown restaurants; his wine was purchased from Carpe Vino.

“It’s fantastic that they have [‘Live at the Plaza’] here on Friday nights in June,” Cordle said.

Bill Lloyd, the owner of Green Bar and Wilhagan’s, has been in the downtown area

Live at the Plaza takes place from 6-8pm on Fridays at the Government Plaza. CW / Layton Dudley

for nearly 14 years. Throughout his time, Lloyd has remained involved with downtown events, and spoke with Calderone about sponsoring “Live at the Plaza.”

“I’m a big proponent of downtown events, and I thought [‘Live at the Plaza’] was something that we needed to have,” Lloyd said. “To Green Bar, as a music venue – and we do pretty much all original music there – it’s just a natural tie-in

for us to try and support a live music event in downtown.”

Green Bar hosted Lamont Landers last weekend after the band played the opening night of “Live at the Plaza.” Angela and the Able Brothers were at the event last Friday. Band member Angela Hamiter said she enjoyed playing at the concert tremendously, and said she would like to return as an audience member.

“It was nice to see people relax and have a good time,” she said.

The band was one of more than 60 applicants to play at the series, which speaks volumes about the local music scene, Calderone said. When choosing the bands, Calderone said he tried to select local musicians with easy-going music for all ages.

Angela and the Able Brothers opened with a cover of the Indigo Girls’ “Closer I Am to Fine” and played a mix of artists both new and old, ending with “Dixieland Delight.”

Calderone said he hopes to continue some kind of live music series in the fall or other months and that he welcomes all ideas.

“Hopefully we grow it. I’d love to carry it on into July, so long as people want to,” he said. “We may take a month off and come back in August, or come back in September with something.”

“Live at the Plaza” is free of charge.

Plato Jones is scheduled to play on June 19, followed by Sweet Kicks on June 26.

The event will be rescheduled in the event of rain.

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CULTURE Wednesday, June 17, 2015

UA student takes choreography to NYC festival

By Sam West | Contributing Writer

New York City is home to the 2015 Young Choreographer’s Festival, where the recent University of Alabama dance and musical theatre graduate Ameen Price-Burnett will lead a team of five others in the performance of a dance he created.

The Young Choreographer’s Festival is an annual event featuring up-and-coming talent, which serves as a showcase of all genres of dance.

The festival will take place Saturday.

“There’s no prize, reward or anything,” Price-Burnett said. “It’s just to show off young choreographers to dance professionals in New York City and let them see what’s coming out of young minds.”

While participating in a workshop in the city last year, Price-Burnett attended the festival as a spectator and said he was impressed by the talent on display. He decided to submit some of his own work to see what would happen, he said.

The choreographer entered a piece he put together in December 2014 and performed in Morgan Auditorium for the university’s Dance Collection.

Three members of the original group will travel to perform in the show.

One of the performers, Shaun

Ameen Price-Burnett, a recent graduate of May 2015, will showcase some of his choreography, previously performed at the University, in New York City this weekend. Photo courtesy of Dirty Sugar Photography

Leary describes the routine they’ll take to New York City as an “isocontemporary” dance number set to music with an electronic-house-like

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feel. He said the act and the track behind it were tied closely together, with dancers often moving in exact rhythm with the under-beat or bass line.

Leary, a senior majoring in dance, has worked with Price-Burnett throughout his college career and describes him as a calm and effective leader.

“He doesn’t yell,” Leary said. “He’s really mellow, but when it’s time to crack down, he will.”

Sarah M. Barry, an associate professor of dance, taught Price-Burnett in several classes and said she can attest to his skill in collaboration. “[Price-Burnett] has particularly grown in his ability to work with groups of dancers,” she said. “His ability to listen to his peers and to know them enables him to work to their strength on the stage.”

Price-Burnett did not originally see choreography in his future.

“At first I just wanted to dance,” he said. “I didn’t find my passion for [choreography] until I had to take [that] class my sophomore year. It just kind of blossomed from that point.”

Reflecting on his achievements since then, Price-Burnett said he’s proud of his growth as an artist.

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starting you don’t create the best things,” he said. “But you just have to keep doing it and seeing what happens. I am pleased with what my work has turned into and what it can become after this.”

The future for the young talent is full of possibilities. Price-Burnett said he hopes to create routines for several different dance companies, branch into the world of commercial choreography and submit his work to as many competitions as he can.

“I am so excited that [Price-Burnett] could end his college career with being honored by an outside organization for his choreography,” Barry said of her former student. “While our support and encouragement has helped him to grow, I know it was rewarding for a professional organization to acknowledge his work as well.”

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COLUMN | MUSIC

Banditos release self-titled album

By Jordan Cissell

The Banditos’ self-titled debut is a rowdy, rollicking good time, a totally uninhibited collision of Appalachian twang, rock ‘n’ roll swagger, blues throb, punk snarl and youthful inertia. And they’re some of Alabama’s own: the band’s six members came together on the street corners and in the open-mike dives of Birmingham before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, for a shot at a record deal.

“The Breeze” immediately launches the record into a full-bodied stomp, with oscillating organ and cycling banjo fighting for breathing room amidst Randy Wade’s big, unpinned drumming. Three different band members – Corey Parsons, Stephen Pierce, and Mary Beth Richardson – take equallyadept turns at lead vocals throughout the album’s 12 songs, but the three’s warbling harmonies in the chorus of “The Breeze” create a gritty, irresistible fourth voice.

Richardson takes lead vocal duties on “Waitin’,” hiccupping her way through the chorus like vintage Buddy Holly and spitting lines with Bonnie Raitt’s frayed twang.

Guitar and drum conspire for a bouncing one-two shuffle. The band halts mid-song for a bubbling, two-second banjo run, before combusting into a vividly intense guitar solo.

That’s not to say that every track here is a hot-stepping barnburner. Richardson channels both Etta James and the Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard on slow-building blues numbers “No Good” and “Old Ways,” stacking crescendo upon crescendo until the cumulative force pushes her into an impassioned, octave-leaping howl.

“Ain’t It Hard” delivers a lost-love lament over a subtle samba rhythm freckled with spikes of guitar and banjo. Richardson sings like she’s holding back tears while pulling on the trigger.

Banditos attack “Still Sober (After All These Beers)” with the visceral, DIY approach of Dr. Dog or fellow Alabama natives the Dexateens.

The drums beat out a surfrock rhythm reminiscent of Dick Dale and His DelTones’ 1962 hit “Misirlou” and the bass guitar torpedoes unflinchingly ahead.

Amidst the chaos, the restrained treble tones of Parsons’ guitar step with the quiet dignity of Scotty Moore’s poised solos on Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Baby, Let’s Play House.”

“Long Gone, Anyway” disguises itself initially as a folky, Pete Seeger-esque sing-a-long before launching into an unrestrained kazoo solo, the instrument’s

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buzz tearing through the track with an unhinged earnestness evoking the saxophone eruption on X-Ray Spex’s 1977 manifesto “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” Albumcloser “Preachin’ to the Choir” features a big ol’ wall of Crazy Horse-informed guitar feedback and the distant echoes of high, searing guitar tones.

“Cry Baby Cry,” one of the record’s highlights, is an unglued honky-tonk, a two-and-a-half minute catapult of ragtime piano and high-fret glissandos in maximum overdrive.

Each song boasts an eclectic weld of styles, but every joint is soldered together throughout the record by the band’s palpable enthusiasm for making noise with each other, as well as by their collective sense of mischievous humor.

The exuberant “Can’t Get Away” is a scalawag’s serenade, a rough-hewn love poem to the object of his affection.

Pierce’s narrator bumbles a bit at first, unsure of just how to say it but determined to try. It’s when he runs out of old and reliable platitudes (“You make the sun rise, and you make the moon shine”) that we really hear just what he’s got on his mind: “When I get home, you and me are gonna … cook.”

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Student receives art grant

By Sam West | Contributing Writer

A Windgate Fellowship worth $15,000 was recently awarded to University of Alabama senior Alexandra “Ali” Hval for her work in textile craft. The grant is given to 10 graduating seniors each year who are chosen from 120 art programs around the country. Hval is the third UA student to win the award, and she plans to spend the next 18 months creating many new pieces and attending workshops in Florida and Tennessee.

Two of Hval’s pieces were shown during April in Contact, an exhibit at the Sella-Granata Art Gallery in Woods Hall.

“I really like seeing how people approach the work and what they take from it, because everyone’s experience and what they’ve all been through is going to bring something new,” she said.

Jenny Fine was awarded the grant in 2006, the prize’s first year, and has since gone on to a career in visual arts.

“The thing that’s great about the Windgate Fellowship is that it’s specifically for someone who just graduated,” Fine said.

Hval is using a portion of her grant to rent studio space and purchase supplies.

She said she chose to use textiles in her work due to the medium’s portability, and because she finds the variety of sheens and textures in the material appealing.

During the next 18 months, Hval plans to create as much art as she can.

Hval created “Interior Me” (2014) and submitted the piece as part of her application for the award. Photo courtesy of Ali Hval

Hval said Sarah Marshall, associate professor of art, had a big role in exposing her to the Windgate Fellowship. Marshall said she thought Hval was the right fit for the grant, which seeks out students who work using traditional methods that may not be emphasized as much in contemporary art programs. "[Hval] is an extremely dedicated and passionate student,” Marshall said. “She is not afraid of a challenge.”

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CULTURE Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Bama Theatre hosts Bama Art House summer film series

By Laura Testino | Culture Editor

The Bama Theatre began its summer film series, Bama Art House, for the fifth summer in a row Tuesday, June 16. The series is held three times throughout the year, and most of the selections are inspired by films shown at Sundance and Cannes, as well as other film festivals and art houses.

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David Allgood, the manager of the Bama Theatre, said the venue provides a movie-watching experience distinct from other theaters. The core group of patrons turns the film viewing into a social event, coming to the Bama Theatre when the box office opens at 6:45 p.m. and enjoying snacks and beverages – both alcoholic and not – until the film begins at 7:30 p.m. Ticket cards are available for $60, and include admission to 10 films

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regardless of patron or series. Tickets are $8, student tickets are $7 and Arts Council members pay $6.

“It’s a cozy little theatre,” Allgood said. “People like the historical aspect, and we have good picture and sound.”

The series opened with “While We’re Young” on June 16, an emotional dramedy starring Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts. A new film will be screened each Tuesday until July 21.

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JUNE 23 Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

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Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, this drama finds a veteran actress (Juliette Binoche) confronted by a younger version of herself (Kristen Stewart) when she takes a part in a revival of the play that made her famous.

This touching dramedy, directed by Shira Piven from a screenplay by Eliot Laurence, stars Kristen Wiig as a woman struggling with mental illness who wins $86 million in the lottery, quits her meds, and – inspired by Oprah – enters on a swan onto the talk show she purchased with some of her winnings.

This Hungarian drama, co-written and directed by Kornél Mundruczó, follows 13-year-old Lili (Zsófia Psotta) on her journey to reunite with her dog, Hagen, a mutt that Lili’s father set free in the streets.

Director Albert Maysles documents the life of now 93-year-old fashion icon Iris Apfel. Husband Carl Apfel accompanies his couture costume jewelry, jeanwearing, thrifting wife as she recalls her previous work in fashion, business and interior design.

In this comedy, two mismatched personal trainers, Trevor and Kat – played by Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders, respectively – are introduced to a new, wealthy client, Danny (Kevin Corrigan). Through Danny’s training, writer and director Andrew Bujalski brings Trevor and Kat into an unlikely relationship.

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Movie filming assisted by students, shot in local areas FILM FROM PAGE 1

“Also, the central battle of the film for Eli – service to self or service to man – is one we all fight daily, so I hope people can see their own struggles reflected in that journey.”

Panitch partnered with Orpheus Casting, an established casting office in New York City. He said the production team was fortunate because the office gave them access to a rich pool of professional actors. Panitch looked for actors who embodied the spirit of Meharry in 1968.

While mostly filled with up-and-coming actors, the film also attracted the attention of established actors Lamman Rucker and Keith David, who Panitch met through their casting directors. Panitch said David was particularly interested in working on a film about Meharry and signed on quickly. Both actors worked for a fraction of their usual salaries in order to support the project.

Eric Marable Jr., a recent UA graduate, plays the character of Franklin Williams, who he describes as the film’s comic relief.

To prepare for the role, Marable said he researched the 1960s and tried to listen to as much music as he could from that time period. His favorite part of the experience was the amount of input he had in the backstory for his character.

“As long as I was responding honestly on film, [Panitch] was cool with what I was

doing,” Marable said. “He taught me everything I know, so he was cool with me taking chances and taking risks.”

As one of Panitch’s students throughout college, Marable said it was mind-blowing to have Panitch offer him his first job.

Marable considers the film to bring the past few years of his life full circle.

“My first day on set I was so excited that I was being really weird,” Marable said.

“Have you ever been so excited that you’re worried you’re overwhelming other people with how excited you are? I was trying to hold back all the emotions. The first person who believed in my acting skills gave me my first job is unbelievable. When I was little, I used to say I was going to be a doctor, and my first film role was a doctor. We shot at Stillman College, which is where my parents met. I’m overwhelmed by the magnitude of it.”

Panitch researched for the film by visiting Meharry itself, in Nashville, Tennessee, in order to capture the historical spirit of the place. The production team hired a number of local actors and film technicians to work on the film. Panitch said the final product will be able to compete with films with a similar budget, which is a testament to the local talent.

As production assistants, Alaina Boukedes, Elizabeth Thiel and Elizabeth Perkinson were on set 12 hours a day, six days a week, helping with equipment, setting up props, or fixing breakfast.

Boukedes, a senior majoring in journalism and theatre, said the production assistants help solve problems that arise on set.

Boukedes said the experience made her

Seth Panitch, a University of Alabama professor of theatre, examines race relations in his new film. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Perkinson

realize how much preparation and work goes on behind the camera and has made her a more humble actor. One of the most challenging parts of her job was the night shoots from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

“I think you can never really appreciate an art form fully until you experience it from all sides,” Thiel said. “The cast is full of incredibly talented people, and I was surprised by just how genuine and friendly they were on set. It takes every person in every department to make a movie.”

Perkinson, a senior majoring in theatre

and English, said she was impressed by the number of the University’s current and former telecommunication and film students working on the film. Perkinson was in Panitch’s Shakespeare class and asked him if she could help with production of the film over the summer.

Most of the project was filmed around Tuscaloosa, Moundville and Irondale.

Both Thiel and Perkinson said one of the challenges of production was filming with the number of trains passing through.

Perkinson said they had to halt production to prevent the sound of the train’s whistle showing up on film.

Panitch said he found directing a film to be a vastly different process than planning a theatre production. One of the major differences for him was having to craft a story out of sequence rather than working chronologically liked he did with theatre.

“The logistical challenges of bringing in a number of New York actors and scheduling them throughout the four week shoot was particularly dizzying,” he said. “You must always be aware of where each scene lies in the trajectory of the action, as they are fashioned out of sequence.”

Like his character Franklin, Marable said he wants people to learn how to work together and trust in the soul of a person rather than their background.

“I really want people to get that same sense of inspiration and love,” he said.

“At the heart, it’s about people having love. Everyone is a part of each other. We are all God’s children. We’re all going through pain. We’re all going through changes together.”

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‘Welcome to Alabama’ Deontay Wilder defends WBC heavyweight title

By Sean Landry | Contributing Writer

BIRMINGHAM – Welcome to Alabama.

For one night only, the biggest sporting event in the state so famed for college football wasn’t the Iron Bowl. There was no ‘Roll Tide,’ or ‘War Eagle’ or even ‘Go Blazers’ in the sold out crowd in UAB’s Bartow Arena on Saturday night.

There was only ‘BombZquad’ and ‘DE-ON-TAY’ and the WBC Heavyweight Champion of the World standing over knocked-down challenger Eric Molina, shouting, “Welcome to Alabama” as Tuscaloosa native Deontay Wilder retained his crown.

Before the fight, Wilder promised an exciting third round and the fight delivered, if not in the way the Bronze Bomber hoped. While Wilder pressed an advantage, the challenger from Raymondville, Texas, caught the defending champion with a powerful right hand, sending Wilder stumbling. For the rest of the round, Wilder fought cautiously. On one judge’s scorecard, it was the only round Wilder lost.

“It was a couple-second buzz and then I came back to the fight,” Wilder said. “It was a great shot. I definitely wasn’t hurt at any time in the fight.”

Wilder also promised he would stand

over Molina and welcome him to his home state. That one, he delivered on without a doubt.

“I did,” Wilder said.

Wilder knocked Molina down a total of four times. The first time, the referee sent Wilder to the opposite corner as Molina barely survived the 10-count in the fourth round. The next round, Wilder got his chance, knocked him down in a neutral corner, leaned over his opponent and shouted.

Molina weathered three knockdowns, coming back to force a longer fight after being knocked to the canvas twice in the fifth round. More often than not, Molina was fighting off balance, swinging at his opponent and catching a few powerful shots.

“I was really surprised he kept coming and hanging in there,” Wilder said. “A lot of people said he wouldn’t even be around [in the late rounds]. There were a lot of doubters. But he showed a lot of heart, and I needed that kind of guy to fight here in Alabama. A lot of people at the fight tonight were first timers, so I wanted to put on a good show with a good guy. When you get a guy with a lot of heart in front of you, that’s what you’re going to get.”

With 1:57 left in the ninth round, Molina could weather no more. Wilder caught

him with an overhand right, the special education teacher was sent to the mat and the referee stopped the fight. Wilder went to the side of the ring, pointed to the crowd and told them: “This is for you Alabama.

For y’all.”

“This is the reason why I am still here, guys,” Wilder said. “I get so much love and support in the state of Alabama that I can’t see myself no place else. I told you guys I wasn’t gonna go nowhere, I’m here, and we’re looking forward to doing it again and again and again.”

The crowd in Bartow Arena certainly did show Wilder love – deafening and unrelenting love – and Wilder said he plans to fight in Alabama again, in bigger arenas, possibly as soon as Sept. 26, when the defending champion is aiming to face his first mandatory challenger, Alexander Povetkin (29-1, 21 KO).

“It was no doubt in my mind that the people were going answer to where I was from,” Wilder said. “It was no doubt. Just to see the atmosphere, just to hear the thunder of the crowd and all the voices cheering and stuff like that. That was a wonderful feeling.”

There aren’t many bigger arenas in Alabama than Bartow’s capacity of 9,347.

Wilder’s first choice for this fight was

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one of those few – Coleman Coliseum.

According to The Tuscaloosa News, with The University of Alabama’s permission, the fight would have happened there. For the next fight in Alabama, whenever it is, it remains to be seen whether Coleman is an option, or if the Tuscaloosa native could fight in Birmingham’s Legacy Arena at the BJCC or Mobile’s Mitchell Center, for example.

“I get a lot of love from Tuscaloosa,” The WBC heavyweight champion of the world said. “That’s where I’m from, that’s where I represent. But I tell people all the time: Not only do I represent my city, I represent the state of Alabama. I can’t go nowhere without saying Alabama because I represent the whole state.”

Burks wins women’s long jump title on 5th attempt

By Marquis Munson | Contributing Writer

For Alabama’s Quanesha Burks, the fifth time’s the charm.

On her fifth attempt of the day, Burks jumped a wind-aided 22 feet, 8 inches in the women’s long jump. She had another attempt, but she didn’t need it as she finished her record-breaking outdoor track and field season winning the biggest prize of them all.

Burks went into the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with the top seed in the long jump competition and walked out of Eugene, Oregon, with the 2015 NCAA Championship.

“My coaches [have] been there for me and humbling me,” Burks said. “My family also been supporting me and without them I wouldn’t have made it this far.”

The sophomore sprinter and jumper from Hartselle, Alabama, finished with a leap of 22-8, her personal best, to win Alabama women’s track and field team its first NCAA long jump championship. She

Quanesha Burks jumps in the women’s long jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championship in Eugene, Oregon.

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became the first women’s NCAA champion in a field event for the Crimson Tide since Beth Mallory won the discus in 2005.

“She’s a tremendous competitor,” head

coach Dan Waters said. “She had complete focus and you can see by her body language and the way that she was handling herself she was poised to win.”

Burks continues to rewrite history in the long jump competition. She currently holds nine of the 10 best marks in Alabama’s school history. She also won the school’s first SEC outdoor women’s long jump championship since 1990. Her leap 22-5 1/4 tied an SEC meet record set by former Ole Miss athlete and Olympic champion Brittney Reeves.

“She has had a lot of success to this point but there is still things she’s done before,” said Miguel Pate, long jump coach and alumnus of Alabama. “Winning as an underdog is great because nobody sees it coming but winning that second one is even harder because everyone expects you to do that again.”

In his senior year at Alabama, Pate won a 2002 NCAA men’s indoor title in the long jump competition.

“Coach Pate told me to just go out there

and stay consistent,” Burks said. “He prepares me every week, he sets out a plan and we just execute that plan so he has played a huge part. To look at him and know that he is a national champion it’s like I’m following in my coaches footsteps.”

Freshman Filippa Fotopoulou also joined Burks in the long jump competition as the No. 19 seed after placing seventh in the NCAA East preliminary. She made her first national championship appearance and finished 21st.

Burks along with Ahmed Ali, Tony Brown, Steven Gayle, Jeremiah Green and Tadishi Pinder were named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s (USTFCCCA) Division I First Team All-American. She also was named Second Team All-American in the 4x100meter relay. Sixteen other Crimson Tide athletes made both the second team and honorable mentions list.

In all, Alabama sent 18 athletes to Oregon, including 10 men and eight women.

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COLUMN | SOFTBALL

Softball should return to Olympics

By Kelly Ward

The University of Alabama women’s soccer team attracts both national and international players. UA Athletics

Alabama soccer alumna, signee play at 2015 Women’s World Cup

By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter

The Alabama soccer team takes pride in the fact that it can attract national and international players. In the past four years, the Crimson Tide has had three Dutch players and one Spanish player.

It comes as no surprise that Alabama’s talented recruiting led to two players competing in the Women’s World Cup this year.

Former midfielder Merel van Dongen closed out her collegiate career last season with the Crimson Tide and now plays for the Netherlands.

Incoming transfer student Celia Jimenez Delgado is playing for Spain. Delgado previously played for Iowa Western Community C o l l e g e before joining Alabama’s roster.

Both players made their debut in the World Cup last week. Van Dongen and the Netherlands played June 11 against China, losing 1-0.

Delgado has started for Spain in both her games against Costa Rica, drawing 1-1, and against Brazil, losing 1-0.

Van Dongen and the Netherlands tied against Canada on June 15, 1-1.

Delgado will play tonight against South Korea.

Coach Wes Hart did not get the opportunity to coach van Dongen as he was hired in April, but said he was proud of what the program has instilled in his players that are

competing on the highest level.

“Having two players from The University of Alabama representing their countries at the World Cup is incredible,” Hart said. “This truly speaks volumes about the level of soccer players we have, and will continue to develop here at Alabama.”

Van Dongen was one of the top players for Alabama since she joined in 2012. She played for three years, scoring 10 goals overall. Van Dongen suffered from a season-ending knee injury in 2013 while training with the Netherlands national team.

Despite the knee injury that kept her out of the game, va n Dongen returned last season with much more fire and — Merel van Dongen determination.

“My career at Alabama has helped me so much in preparing for playing with the Dutch National Team in Canada during the 2015 Women’s World Cup,” van Dongen said. “During my time at Alabama I learned what it takes to be a leader, a good teammate, to train as hard as you can and to face adversity. With the help of my coaches and teammates I am where I am today.”

Delgado has yet to debut for the Crimson Tide. At Iowa Western Community College, Delgado was one of the Reivers’ top players and went on to win the 2013 NJCAA National Championship. She scored 21 goals with 11 assists during her time with the Reivers.

My career at Alabama has helped me so much in preparing for playing with the Dutch National Team in Canada during the 2015 Women’s World Cup.

About 10 minutes from downtown Oklahoma City is softball’s biggest stage. Every year, thousands flock to the area for the Women’s College World Series.

Five years from now it will still draw in crowds – probably bigger crowds as coverage increases.

Five years from now, the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium could be empty in the summer, and there could be no Team USA to play international friendlies or scrimmage the junior national team. There is no chance to play in the Olympics right now.

That could change in five years.

That should change in five years.

Five years from now, that stadium could be empty. Five years from now, Team USA could be practicing in Japan for the Olympics.

Softball, along with baseball and several other sports, has submitted proposals to be included in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

It’s time for softball’s biggest stage to move away from Oklahoma City.

“That is ultimately the pinnacle of the sport to be able to wear the red, white and blue in the Olympics,” UCLA softball head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said before the Women’s College World Series. “We still do have a national team, and I think the national team does a great job of being able to get the best athletes to be able to compete on the national level.”

Those who do compete on the national team aren’t strangers to the biggest stage in softball: the WCWS. Those currently on the team have graduated in the past four years or are still playing collegiate softball.

They’ve played on the biggest stage. The country has seen them play – this year was the most-

Softball was last in the Olympics in 2008 in the Beijing Games. Tribune News Service

viewed WCWS ever. It’s time for the world to see them play.

Jaclyn Traina, the pitcher who won Alabama the national title in 2012, is on the team along with current center fielder Haylie McCleney, the best outfielder in the conference and most likely the country.

If they’re still playing in five years – there is a professional softball league but there’s not much of a living to make there – they could play on an Olympic team.

As good as they are now – and they are good – they will be even better in five years.

“I think the unfair aspect of having a collegiate athlete especially women’s softball to be at the top of their game, I don’t think that will ever happen,” women’s national team head coach Ken Eriksen said in March. “The top of their game is going to be between the ages of 26 and 32 so hopefully they’re fortunate enough to continue to play.”

If you’ve seen McCleney or Sierra Romero play, that’s pretty exciting.

If you’re the rest of the world, you have five years to scout them.

BRIEFS | SPORTS

American Outlaws starts Tuscaloosa chapter, promotes soccer An American Outlaws chapter is being formed in Tuscaloosa. According to their official website, the mission of the organization is to “support the United States National Soccer Teams through a unified and dedicated group of supporters” and create a local and national community to “unite and strengthen U.S. Soccer fans from all parts of the country.”

Aaron Barrett, a University of Alabama alumnus, local high-school soccer coach and president of the Tuscaloosa chapter of the American Outlaws, is excited to see what the local organization can bring in terms of more interest and awareness.

“I have been a part of soccer my entire life, it’s my passion, it’s my love and I want it to be my career,” Barrett said.

The group currently has 21 members, needing 25 to become nationally official. Membership fees are an annual $25 and include an outlaw shirt and bandana.

American Outlaws Tuscaloosa is teaming up with the Black Warrior Brewing Company, which will open its doors every time the men and women of U.S. soccer take the pitch.

Compiled by Christian Elliott

Julie Johnston (19) of the U.S. Women's National Team battles Ireland's Fiona O'Sullivan (20) for the ball during their game on Sunday, May 10, 2015, at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, Calif. USA defeated Ireland 3-0. Tribune News Service

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