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Library receives historical collection By Jaley Cranford Contributing Writer
On Monday, the University’s libraries received the largest donation in their history, Dean of Libraries Louis Pitschmann said. Pitschmann accepted the A.S. Williams III Collection of History and Culture of the South in Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library alongside University President Robert Witt. A.S. Williams III, a UA alumnus, donated more than 20,000 books and 12,000 photographs, which have been appraised at $12 million, Pitschmann said. “The real importance of the collection is not the monetary
value but instead the size and potential for scholarly research and moving the University of Alabama forward,” he said. Williams, a Eufaula native, graduated from the University in 1958 and has spent more than 40 years collecting manuscripts, books and photographs of Americana. What makes his collection rare, Pitschmann said, is his collection of items pertaining to Southern history. The Williams Collection includes some 3,000 works of Southern fiction, including many first editions, limited editions, manuscripts and signed copies. The collected works, currently in 1,500 boxes, will move into the third floor of
Gorgas and be open to the public in October, Pitschmann said, meaning students will have access to resources that have never been studied. More than 4,000 images in the collection are the work of Southern photographers from 2,500 different studios, Pitschmann said, and it also contains unpublished letters, diaries and documents written by Alabamians dating back to 1820. Matt Blumenfeld, a senior majoring in political science, said benefactors like Williams give students at the University opportunities to better themselves as researchers. “This collection will enrich the research of many under-
The Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation will continue its annual July Jubilee on July 4 at Sokol Park. The event is a familyoriented patriotic celebration that is open to the public. July Jubilee will feature live music, food and fireworks choreographed to music. It will also feature old-fashioned games and an array of activities for children. Live music will be housed in the Jenkins Multi-Purpose Arena located just south of Sokol Park. Tuscaloosa’s own Eat My Beats will perform along with the Alabama Blues Project. The music will begin at 7 p.m. West Alabama’s largest fireworks display will begin at 9 p.m. The fireworks display is choreographed to patriotic music and will be viewable across northern Tuscaloosa. Children’s activities and family-oriented games will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The activities will include carnival-style games, an ice cream eating contest and old-fashioned potato sack races, as well as several climbing walls and bounce houses. These
IF YOU GO ... • What: July Jubilee • Where: Sokol Park • When: 6 p.m. • Cost: Free activities will take place in the Jenkins Arena. Last year’s turnout was higher than expected, which caused trouble for many of those who attended. Most frustration stemmed from major traffic issues as well as extremely long concession lines. Blair Plott, director of community relations for Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation, said PARA and police officials are hoping to make this year’s Jubilee more accessible and manageable for those who attend. “This year we have a totally different setup for vendors and we hope the community will enjoy the quantity and the variety of vendors,” Plott said. “Also, we’ve been working closely with the Tuscaloosa Police Department to relieve some of the traffic issues. “Additionally, Clear Channel radio will also be
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Greeks prepare for recruitment By Katherine Martin Contributing Writer Fall recruitment is just around the corner and fraternities and sororities are gearing up for what could be the largest recruitment season greek life has ever seen. Gentry McCreary, director of Greek Affairs, said he anticipates between 1,600 and 1,700 women and around 1,000 men will participate in recruitment this fall. Last year, more than 1,490 women and 900 men le this
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UA landmark to be demolished due to high maintenance costs By Jaley Cranford Contributing Writer
The structure has been part of the Capstone since 1967, but University officials decided in Demolition of the 240-ft. February that the smokestack Central Plant Smokestack behind needed to be demolished to cut B.B. Comer Hall began June 1 and mounting upkeep costs. “The smokestack requires a is set to be finished by the end of July, Assistant Vice President for lot of maintenance to keep it up, and it is nonfunctional,” Leopard Construction Tim Leopard said.
By Ethan Summers Contributing Writer If you’ve ever wondered why you have to buy the expensive new edition of a textbook instead of a much cheaper older version, your professors will be able to tell you beginning today. A provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act will require publishers to provide in-depth textbook content and pricing information to faculty when they are selecting content from the publisher, according to a
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said. “We felt like it was better to spend that money eliminating a maintenance problem and save the University money long term.” The project will cost about $225,000, but according to The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees documents, the University will save $85,000
every five to 10 years in scheduled maintenance and $125,000 in deferred maintenance. Since demolition began, the structure is down to 190 feet. “Two methods are being used in this demolition,” Leopard said.
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release by the Student Press Law Center. The act requires that publishers include, in writing, the prices of bundled and unbunPublishers must provide: edition dled texts, descriptions of content changes changes, price for bundled versions between editions, prices and availabilities of other formats of the texts, copyright dates for and most recent three copyright years the most recent three editions and the price of the textbook in question. Whitney Durham, a junior majoring in somebody advocated for the students in relasocial work, said she supported the act’s tion to how expensive all our books are.” Some faculty on campus said they’ve goals. “I think that the law couldn’t have come at a better time,” Durham said. “It’s about time See TEXTBOOKS, page 2
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joined a sorority or fraternity at the University, McCreary said. “To my knowledge, we had the largest number of women pledge to sororities after formal recruitment,” McCreary said. “I know of only one school, Indiana, that had more participate in the recruitment process.” According to the University’s greek life website, sorority recruitment will begin on Sunday, Aug. 8 with
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CW | Jerrod Seaton Library patrons observe two interesting pieces recently donated to the University: a check made out by President Reagan to support the Democratic Party and paperwork signed by George Washington.
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graduate and graduate students interested in the history of the South and the culture representative of this region,” he said. Williams said the occasion was bittersweet. After looking for a way to keep the extensive collection together, he said, the University of Alabama seemed an opportune place. “I am very pleased that it will stay here in Tuscaloosa and be held together,” he said. “This is just ideal to me, that it can be in Tuscaloosa and be a part of the University of Alabama.” Witt reiterated the significance the donation will have for students.
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Alumnus receives employer recognition award from UA
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Chris J. “CJ” Searcy, Jr., a junior mechanical engineering student at The University of Alabama, recently received the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Small Firm Council Scholarship, worth $5,000. Searcy, from Selma, was nominated for an ACEC General Scholarship by the ACEC of Alabama. As one of three national winners selected for general scholarships, Searcy’s application was reviewed based on cumulative grade point average, an essay, work experience, recommendation letters and extracurricular college activities.
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“Right now [the construction workers] are literally demolishing it with air hammers, and once the building gets down to 90 feet, we will remove the men and the scaffold and use a hydraulic excavator.” John Lyles, a University alumnus, set up a Facebook group called “Remember the Smokestack!” “I created the group because people should know and care about what is happening on and to their campus,” Lyles said. The University is a home for many students, Lyles said, and they should monitor changes to its infrastructure. While the group stands as a way of remembering the smokestack, it also acts as a way to make students more
aware of decisions UA administrators make that may affect them. “It brought character to the campus, and with its removal, we lose a little bit of what makes our campus unique,” Lyles said. For many students, the smokestack has become a campus landmark, Jenna Tidwell, a junior majoring in French and English, said. “My first day of class here at UA, that smokestack helped me find my class,” she said. “Obviously, students will find their way around campus without it, but it is just sad to lose something of historic value on this campus.” Shan Nazeer, a junior majoring in finance, said the demolition of the smokestack is something he is against. “I feel like the University of Alabama is built on tradition, and we should keep it that way,” he said.
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faculty placing a copy of the text on reserve at the library,” said Victoria Peeples, an assistant professor of human development and family studies. Peeples added that she thought there are plenty of options for formats for students who are looking to keep costs down, including hardcovers, binder-ready and e-books. “In addition, there is a new
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campus initiative to offer textbooks through a rental program,” Peeples said. “I have even heard of publishers exploring options for conveying course material using iPads.” For Rachel Mitchell, a junior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, current options on campus are insufficient. “Prices in general are extremely high,” said Mitchell. “However, the prices online are much cheaper than the prices of the SUPe store.” Mitchell also said she did not think the HEOA would have much of a long-term impact. “I’m not sure how it will affect the textbooks professors choose,
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but I can’t see how it will help students much, at least not at UA, since pricing information is already online,” Mitchell said. Bruce Barrett, an associate professor of statistics at the University, agreed with Mitchell. “I don’t think it’s going to make any difference,” said Barrett in reference to the HEOA’s requirements. “I think the free market can make it work.” Barrett, unlike Peeples, said that new editions do not always contain valuable new information, at least for hard sciences and math. “For most introductory level courses, the basics of the discipline just don’t change that
quickly,” Barrett said. He added that faculty recognize the burden students face, but typically do not have many options for their classes. “In general, faculty are aware that at the introductory level you may have a large number of competing texts,” said Barrett. “But for upper level division courses, they’re probably more concerned with how the text aligns with the course objectives.” Despite claims the information would not change prices, Whitney Durham said she thinks the information is still needed. “They better use the access to this info,” Durham said. “There is no reason they shouldn’t.”
majoring in restaurant and hospitality management, said she thinks the low cost may attract a high turnout of college students. “It doesn’t sound like the most exciting Fourth of July ever, but it’s a really cheap way to have some fun and show your patriotism, so I’ll probably go for part of it,” Monaco said. “I bet some college students will make their way over there.” Logan Ortega, a senior major-
ing in business management, said the Jubilee seems like a good idea for those who have children, but doesn’t excite him too much as a college student. “If I had a kid, I would go,” Ortega said. “But I don’t have a kid, so I’ll probably go to Gallette’s.” Sokol Park is located on the corner of Watermelon Road and Old Colony Road. All components of the event except concessions are free.
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commencement and end on Bid day, Sunday Aug. 15. This spring, Greek Affairs put a stop to spring recruitment events because of a few challenges, McCreary said. Over the summer, a group of students and alumni have been evaluating all of the University’s recruitment policies and will be releasing a list of recommendations when students return in the fall, McCreary said. “This will include a number of new policy recommendations regarding spring recruitment,” McCreary said. McCreary said preparation for fall recruitment is in full swing, despite setbacks during the spring process. “We just finished the final edits to the recruitment manual that will be mailed to all students that registered for sorority recruitment,” McCreary
said. Candice Rosenkranz, director of recruitment for Panhellenic, said her team was planning the logistics to make the week run smoothly. Rosenkranz said this includes meeting with sorority recruitment chairs and advisors, the University of Alabama Police Department, parking and transportation. “Most people have no idea how much planning really goes into one week of recruitment,” Rosenkranz said, “but it takes a lot of time and teamwork to pull it off.” Allison Pace, vice president of Chi Omega sorority, said the Chi Omega recruitment team has been actively preparing for girls by organizing paperwork and other necessities. “Chi Omega is so excited to meet all the girls and cannot wait for an amazing rush week,” Pace said. McCreary advised participants to be open-minded during the recruitment process. “Know what it is you are
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looking to gain from the experience, and be yourself,” he said. Emma Keener, an incoming freshman from Baltimore, Maryland, said she registered for recruitment in the spring and attended Panhellenic weekend, a weekend of spring sorority recruitment. “I am very excited about rush, but I am also very nervous,” Keener said. John Voltz, an incoming freshman from Tuscaloosa, said he is excited to join a fraternity in the fall. “I am looking forward to meeting a good group of lifelong friends and a great college experience,” Voltz said. Rosenkranz said the most difficult part of recruitment for potential members is making their final decision at the end of the week. “Some people worry about the right thing to say, or the cutest clothes to wear,” Rosenkraz said, “but the biggest decision you have to make is where you’ll fit in for the next four years of your life.”
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“[Williams] has entrusted it to the University to help students and scholars,” he said. The Williams Collection is comprised of a smaller subcollection, Pitschmann said, which includes Southern maps, African American experiences and materials pertaining to the financial history of the United States. Ashley Hamilton, a sophomore majoring in history and anthropology, said the collection will mean a lot to her academic career at The University of Alabama. “My focus is on SouthernAmerican history, so this collection will provide new resources to expand my knowledge and understanding,” she said.
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Student travels to the twin cities of Chile By William J. Tucker News Editor
I now know what inspired Patagonia Co.’s logo. At five in the morning, flying into Santiago, the purple, blue, black and orange mountains stamped on all the clothing company’s products appeared just out the airplane window. The Andes welcomed the plane to Chile. It was an amazing sight, and Chile hasn’t let me down since. Especially living in the coastal metropolis of Valparaíso and Viña del Mar—two hours west of Santiago—the mountainous backdrop seems omnipresent. In the two cities, which sit in a manner reminiscent of Minneapolis and St. Paul, running together without clearly defined boundaries between each, the views are amazing. Since I live in Viña and have class in Valparaíso, each morning I take a bus down the main road immediately by the Pacific. Across the shallow bay Valparaíso utilizes for its shipping industry, the steep hills are completely covered with multicolored houses. Every morning it’s like a real-life Where’s Waldo picture of houses on the way to class, and it’s hard to miss some-
thing new every day. Valparaíso, because of its convenient, central location on the Pacific in southwest South America, once served as a major shipping port for ships traveling around the Americas. Once they had passed through the dangerous Strait of Magellan, ships would stop in Valparaíso and recoup before the rest of their journey into the Pacific or up the coast. The opening of the Panama Canal, however, changed all of that—Valpo quickly became a had-been city, neglected and abandoned in many places. Today, the city has essentially rebranded itself. Now, registered as a World Heritage Site, the city utilizes old, turn-of-the-century buildings for new enterprises—many of which deal with the arts. To someone from Alabama, it brings to mind images of Birmingham’s abandoned steel mills now used for new projects, like Sloss Furnace. The geography and city layout, though, are decidedly different than Birmingham. Bars and clubs line the streets that climb up from the waterline at fifty-degree angles up the steep hills. At night, the streetlights lining the roads look like orange veins on the hill from far
William Tucker rides horseback across the Chilean beaches near the Pacific Ocean. Behind him Valparaiso lies an hour and a half across the water.
away. Intensely colorful graffiti lines literally every smooth vertical space in Valparaíso, and nearly every bit of it has a political twist of some sort. Politically, Chile is fascinating. The country remains only 20 years removed from the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who seized power in a bloody coup d’état backed by the Nixon administration and the CIA on September 11, 1973. The event occurred after Chile democratically elected their first Marxist president, Salvador Allende—the first time in the world, in fact, that a Marxist won a democratic presidential election. Allende remains a muse to many of the grafitti artists in Valparaíso. I mention all that to say that those events weigh heavily on the collective Chilean conscience. Many Chileans are intensely liberal from an American point of view, despite the huge prevalence of Catholicism. My “cultura” class professor is Marxist, and my host brother is communist, for example. All this makes my experience doubly interesting as an American, or “gringo,” in this environment. Ultimately, I’ll remember Chile as
one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been to, and not just from an intellectual standpoint. Chile is just fun, too. I’ve gone to a fourstory club and ridden horses on the beach and across 150-foot sand dunes at Ritoque. I’ve had tea with the Chilean Constitution Co m m i s s i o n e r ’s assistant in the Chilean National Congress building and toured the chambers of Chile’s upper and lower houses with him. I’ve eaten shrimp and scallop empanadas in the tiny hippie fishing village of Horcón to the north. I’ve played guitar with a street performer on the curb in Valparaíso and experienced what was supposedly a magnitude-four earthquake from the 10th floor of a 10-story building. I’ve watched more “fútbol” than I ever thought I would— ¡Viva Chile! —and had the time of my life for the past three weeks. I’m just now nearing the halfway
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mark of my trip. Now, with a growing collection of Chilean friends and a few new American friends—including Molly Barret and Froy Batsielilit from the University — I only look forward to the next three weeks against the backdrop of the Andes.
Will Tucker is the news editor of the Crimson White.
Editor’s Note: “Where in the World” is a summer series giving UA students studying abroad an opportunity to write about their summer adventures in their own words. If you’re studying abroad in a fascinating place and would like to tell your story, e-mail editor@cw.ua.
Tucker visits the chambers of Chileʼs higher legislative house.
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US students ages 7-13, including a buffer for administrative costs. As we all are aware, education is the only effective winch that can lift a person out of poverty. The average high school and college graduate makes $700,000 and $1.7 million more, respectively, than a high school dropout over his or her lifetime. If the success rate of payment for performance was only 10 percent, the benefits to the quality of life and productivity for both that small group and our economy would be enormous. Since the US is already spending $400 billion on various welfare programs, the long-term savings are apparent and will serve as an additional weapon for the War on Poverty. Such a program could also be a tool for getting our economy out of the doldrums. When our parents were in elementary school, they were not imbued with the instant gratification plague. They found that longterm benefits were worth the toil put forth in school. The model of yesteryear will not work in our time, where video games and the Internet offer rewards immediately compared to the investment of an education. Dividends are regularly paid to investors who stay loyal to a company’s stock. It’s time to apply that same “dividend” to those children who are likewise committed to success in their education.
During three days of intense questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has demonstrated the intellect and judgment needed to win Senate confirmation. Kagan, who described her views as “generally progressive,” would not alter the ideological balance of the court if sworn in to replace Stevens, who has lead the Court’s liberal wing for some time. She would, however, enhance the diversity of the Court, which would have three female Justices serving together for the first time in history. Kagan would also be the In short: Elena Court’s third Jewish member. Kagan has the This would be a boost credentials and for the nation, as the judgment to beSupreme Court has been come the next slow to reflect the changSupreme Court ing demographics and Justice. increased diversity of the country at large. Kagan’s dry humor would also add a needed sense of vitality to the court’s normally drab proceedings. When Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), asked where she spent last Christmas, she wryly replied, “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.” Graham proceeded to ask her about the attempted airline bombing that day. Kagan did exhibit some cause for concern when she deferred to precedent on several cases, even calling one recent decision by the Court “settled law.” The Supreme Court can overturn its past decisions. The Court has been wrong on many occasions, most infamously when it ruled slaves were personal property not entitled to constitutional rights in the Dredd Scott case and when it upheld segregation under the “separate, but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson. The former was overturned by the 14th Amendment; the latter by the court itself in Brown v. Board of Education. Still, Kagan is a qualified nominee with impressive credentials. While some senators have criticized her for never having served as a judge — as all of the current Justices had when they were nominated — it is refreshing to have someone from outside of the judiciary elevated to the Supreme Court. Since Obama appointed Kagan Solicitor General, she has been responsible for representing the federal government before the Court in all cases in which it is involved. During the committee hearings, Republicans, under the leadership of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), have asked tough and probing questions, as they should. Supreme Court appointments are very serious matters. However, calls for more time to review Kagan’s nomination ring hollow. Senators have had seven weeks to question her and analyze her extensive record in academia and government. She has proven herself a worthy nominee. Now, partisan politics should be put aside and the Senate should confirm Elena Kagan.
Gregory Poole is a University alumnus.
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By Gregory Poole
As political campaigns around the nation move past the primary season toward the general election, education will certainly be a common issue, as always. The candidates will issue their talking points, stating that American education is failing (which it is). Some will then add that more money needs to be pumped into the system for more hi-tech gadgets that no one knows how to operate and consultants that attempt to state the obvious by teaching teachers how to teach. I am always in favor of providing adequate funding for schools and instructors; I sincerely believe that additional funding is necessary. However, it should be channeled toward providing incentives for reading more books and gaining better comprehension of the material. After all, a student can’t succeed if he or she cannot read the textbook. No, I’m not talking about merit pay for teachers; I’m talking about merit pay for students. This is not an entirely new concept. For years, the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools have given weekly paychecks in the form of virtual dollars based on students’ classroom performance and discipline, which can be redeemed for snacks and miscellaneous items at the school store. In the underprivileged areas of Houston, where minorities comprise 98 percent of the school’s
student body and 86 percent of students are eligible for the free or reduced lunch program, the results have been nothing short of miraculous. Eighty-five percent of the graduating class pursues a college education, and 94 percent of those are first generation attendees. Compare this with the traditional inner-city campus, which education scholar Robert C. Kohler calls the school-to-prison pipeline. I’ll take the results of the former, please. KIPP isn’t the only evidence of the success of financial incentives. For nearly three years, Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer has been paying students in Dallas $2 per book read and comprehension test passed. The results have been very promising. Reading comprehension scores jumped for those that were paid, and this trend of success continued even after the payments ceased. The students developed a love for reading that transcended the financial payments. In the interest of time, I will refrain from listing the further successes of incentivizing student performance. It is obvious that offering carrots instead of sticks works best. Still, naysayers will try to tell us that such programs are too expensive to carry out, or that it isn’t worth the investment. Sadly, their arguments are deliberately misleading or misinformed, as simple “back of the envelope” calculations will show that the program only costs $10 billion a year to implement for all
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Political correctness is the scourge of our First Amendment rights and is the most frustrating invention since the lid of a pickle jar. The fact that anything said has to pass through several filters so as to not offend anyone makes anything worth accomplishing ten times more difficult. This is a virus that has been plaguing our democracy since its conception, and will more than likely never leave. The name of the game in political correctness is to try to take offense to anything possible. In an argument, the vic-
tor is never determined by who is right, but by who is offended first. This may seem completely ridiculous, but try it out with some friends. It works. Therein lies the problem; political correctness is the most effective and easiest way to win an argument and is a great way to make up for being a poor debater. Political correctness can also cover up for someone who simply does not know what he or she is talking about. The person debating such an unknowledgeable opponent now has to apologize repeatedly for what he or she said and is no
longer in a position to argue again. Now this tactic is fine for schoolyard arguments, but when fully-grown men and women employ political correctness in debates, it jumps into the upper echelons of irrationality. Arguments between senators and representatives now almost always involve some kind of he said/she said deal that is fueled by the media. Being politically correct can not only be irritating, but can be deadly as well. On November 5, 2009, there was a massacre at Fort Hood in Bell County, Texas. A lone gunman killed 13 unarmed people and injured
30 others. Major Nadal Malik Hasan worked as a psychiatrist at Fort Hood and several of the officers that knew him had reported his radical Islamic beliefs and behaviors. Emails were intercepted between Hasan and a radical imam with alleged links to Al-Qaeda. No action was ever taken on either account though, because those who would have reported it feared being labeled as antiMuslim. So Major Hasan remained free to slip through the nets until the massacre. The U.S. Army was too sensitive; as a result, 13 innocent American soldiers were killed.
It is impossible to be for or against anything without being labeled. If you’re against illegal immigration, you’re a racist; if you are afraid someone is a terrorist, you are anti-Muslim; and if you’re a Democrat you are a baby-killer. Being labeled something negative breeds fear which then keeps men and women from exercising their rights and speaking out against anything, from legislation in Washington, D.C. to textbooks in Texas. This road leads directly to censorship. Reid Stuart is a sophomore majoring in political science.
Landmark ruling a win for Second Amendment By John Anselmo On Monday, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision that not only affects Chicagoland, but will be felt miles away from the city of the Big Shoulders. In McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of McDonald, declaring a Chicago prohibition of handgun ownership unconstitutional. The court ruled that the right to “keep and bear arms,” protected by the Second Amendment, is applied to the states through the Due Process Clause, found in the 14th Amendment. Therefore, state governments are prohibited from infringing on that right, just as the federal government is. In an age of rapid government growth, this decision is refreshing and comforting. Americans do have the right to defend themselves, despite several attempts to take away this right by many on Capitol Hill and politicians in state capitols and city halls. This ruling will reawaken a
battle that has been a main issue in the past. The war on a basic right, the right to bear arms, is one that incorporates unsound logic and false findings. The soldiers in the war against this fundamental right employ several angles to push forward with their agenda, which in many cases scarily match the plans of history’s most evil rulers. I heard an argument not too long ago, embraced by the antigun lobby, which claimed that when the Second Amendment was penned, the founders did not envision the sophistication of modern firearms. This man claimed the founders meant only muskets when writing the Second Amendment and that anything further is a danger. Setting aside the fact that a musket of 18th century technology can still inflict fatal damage today, what precedent do such arguments set for modernization? Could blogs and other Internet sites that host opinions be banned, as the founders did not envision this enhancement of free speech when writing the
First Amendment? Is this proliferation of free speech too much? Much like several other government decisions, gun control laws infringe upon the rights of the people for the so-called “good” of the community. We must be aware what intrusions of such liberties can lead us to: the intrusions Hitler, Stalin and Zedong forged. “Fewer guns, less violence” is common sense in this violation of liberty. Yet, despite the rationale of so many in the antigun movement, guns do not kill people. Bad people with guns can kill people. Those who do perform harmful acts with guns are naturally criminals. What is going to make a criminal turn in a gun to authorities when a ban is enacted, when they have no respect for the law or their fellow citizens? Nonetheless, local governments have repeatedly lumped criminals together with lawabiding citizens who want selfprotection. Because of the innate nature of a criminal, no law can keep those who do wrong from
doing so. The logic of gun control and its application also produces an environment prone to more gun violence. If those who are criminals know, because of gun control laws, that law-abiding citizens do not have matching means to protect themselves, what is going to keep criminals from committing crimes? FBI and CDC data has proven year after year that higher private gun ownership and more states with right-to-carry laws have produced lower gun violence. With gun ownership at an all-time high in 2008, the FBI found that violent crimes were at a 35-year low and murder at a 43-year low. To further laud law-abiding citizens, in the seven years following the passage of Florida’s right-to-carry legislation in 1987, 221,443 citizens obtained a permit to carry a concealed firearm. In 1998, a study found that not one licensee had ever shot a police officer in Florida, and only one permitted carrier had shot someone following a
traffic incident. The one man who fired upon another after the traffic incident was acquitted by a grand jury after it was ruled self defense. Florida saw handgun homicide rates fall by 41 percent in the nine years after the rightto-carry law passed. In the four years before former President Clinton’s signing of the Assault Weapons Ban, less than 1 percent of homicides were committed with the banned weapons. More children die every year from choking accidents than firearm accidents. The same for fatal fire accidents. The right to self-defense is embedded in natural law, and our Constitution. Ironically, also found in natural law is the inherent mandate of personal responsibility. Gun owners should be well versed in handling firearms to prevent accidents, for it is their responsibility. Having this right to self-defense, we must cherish it and be responsible.
John Anselmo is a junior majoring in economics.
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to what the costs of complying with the bill’s requirements will be, are much more reluctant to hire new employees for whom they are now legally mandated to provide governmentapproved insurance plans. Adding to this uncertainty is the possibility of a cap-and-trade program to ration the use and increase the costs of energy. The president continues to entertain the possibility of enacting such a scheme despite the enormous costs it would impose on families and businesses. European governments, to their credit, have largely ignored Obama’s advice. Times have indeed changed when normally free-spending European governments are reining in their budgets against the wishes of the U.S. president. The European leaders know, from the ongoing turmoil in Greece, that a broader financial crisis much worse than the one we have just survived lingers if markets lose confidence in the ability of governments to service their debts. European governments have already had to pool their resources to bail Greece out, and are imposing austerity measures in order to reduce market uncertainty and fuel confidence in their ability to manage their budgets. These lessons are lost on our president, who in his letter wrote that global governments “need to commit to adjustments that stabilize debt-to-GDP ratios at appropriate levels over the medium term.” Gone is any ambition of eventually balancing the budget, and the pretense of even trying. Rather, the president touts his administration’s plan to halve the deficit by 2013, which is a farce for two reasons. First, because the administration, through discretionary and stimulus spending, has so increased the budget deficit that even halving it by 2013 would still mean a larger deficit that year than in any year during the Bush presidency. Secondly, because government projections show the deficit increasing again after 2013 as a result of mandatory increases in entitlement obligations. If the president were serious about reducing spending in the “medium-term,” he would propose a serious solution to rein in those obligations even as he urges for more “temporary” stimulus measures. That work has instead been handed off to a committee, which will conveniently not report its findings until after the November elections. What the economy needs now is confidence that the government is aware of its perilous fiscal situation and is willing to take actions to correct it. Until then, the economy will remain stagnant as businesses and consumers restrain their economic activity under the daunting prospect of ever more taxes and debt.
In a letter to the leaders of the world’s 20 most economically developed nations last week, President Obama called on the group to “reaffirm our unity of purpose to provide the policy support necessary to keep economic growth strong.” He then arrived at the group’s summit in Toronto and lobbied for more stimulus spending in industrialized countries, including European nations who have recently begun to impose budget cuts and other measures aimed at trimming their deficits. Yes, the Obama spending binge has gone global. No longer satisfied with running up our own national debt, the president is now encouraging other world leaders to continue adding to their own deficits, writing, “I am committed to the restoration of fiscal sustainability, but it is critical that the timing and pace of consolidation in each economy suit the needs of the global economy, the momentum of private sector demand and national circumstances.” As Obama travelled to Toronto, his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill tried unsuccessfully to advance yet more stimulus spending. This after the $862 billion stimulus bill they enacted last year failed to spur employment growth and left the economy staggering. Administration officials say they “misread” the economy last year, “underestimating” the magnitude of the recession they “inherited” from Obama’s predecessor. The problem, they say, is that the stimulus wasn’t big enough. The problem is the stimulus. Research done by Harvard economists Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna, released last fall, shows stimulus plans based on tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than plans based on government spending. The pair arrived at this conclusion after analyzing every major stimulus plan enacted in developed economies between 1970 and 2007. The stimulus program Obama signed into law last year included little in the way of tax cuts. The tax cuts Democrats did include were mostly temporary tax credits, not the type of marginal reductions in tax rates that spur economic growth. Far from using tax cuts to stimulate growth, the Democrats have instead opted to let the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year, leading to higher tax rates on capital gains, dividends and income. Additionally, the health care plan enacted earlier this year imposed an array of new taxes and regulations that will be levied on everything from medical devices to tanning beds. Health care, an issue the Democrats foolishly endeavored to take on in the midst of a sagging economy, has only added uncertainty to the eco- Tray Smith is the opinions editor of The nomic environment. Businesses, still unsure as Crimson White.
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Nothing but net ... neutrality By Wesley Vaughn A significant decision from the United States Court of Appeals in April passed mostly unnoticed, though it has the potential to directly affect many more people than it first appeared to. It involves net neutrality, an issue that has surfaced on occasion without drawing much media attention. Net neutrality is a policy that requires Internet providers to treat all web services equally. The court of appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks regulatory power over
broadband Internet, voiding its 2008 attempt to stop Comcast’s blocking of certain Internet uses. The entire conflict boils down to one word: information. As of now, the FCC regulates “telecommunication services” and not “information services,” which is the current label for Internet access services. Thankfully, an easy fix is at hand. As Susan Crawford wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed, “The FCC has the legal authority to change the label, as long as it can provide a good reason. And that reason is obvious: Americans buy an
Internet access service based on its speed and price — and not on whether an email address is included as part of a bundle.” I find it unbelievable that the FCC allowed the court system to deal with the Internet in the first place. If the necessary and obvious steps are taken to finalize net neutrality once and for all, the FCC can focus on more important ventures, such as expanding the high-speed Internet highway across America. Wesley Vaughn is a junior majoring in public relations and political science.
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Party affiliation. “I have always been a Republican,” Bentley said in response to a question about growing the Republican base. Byrne, who was first elected as a Democrat but Robert Bentley and Bradley Byrne faced off in their second debate June 25 at the Cahaba Grand switched parties in 1997, said Bentley is backed by Democratic leaders who are attempting to “hijack” Conference Center in Birmingham. The only clear policy disagreement came in the runoff. Throughout the debate, Byrne cited Bentley’s conregards to how to best handle the issue of legalized nection to Alabama Education Association Executive gambling in Alabama. “The only way that you can rid this state of gam- Secretary-Treasurer and influential Democratic bling is to have a clear vote,” Bentley said. “I believe Party leader Paul Hubbert, linking Bentley to the AEA. the Christian people of this state will vote it down.” “Paul Hubbert and the Democrats have held this Byrne disagreed with Bentley’s assessment, saying a statewide vote would end in favor of gambling. state back for decades,” Byrne said. “They have con“The gambling interests would love to have a refer- trolled our education system. They have blocked ethics reform, and they even block things we try to do to endum,” Byrne said. In his last response, Bentley pledged to not run any move our economy forward.” “It is time, it is high past time, that we tell Paul negative campaign advertisements against Byrne. Hubbert and the Bentley faced a Democrats that smattering of boos “The only way that you can rid this state of gamhave controlled during his closing bling is to have a clear vote, [and] I believe the this state for so statement after telllong, ‘Paul we want ing an anecdote Christian people of this state will vote it down,” our state back.’ ” about a Huntsville After Byrne’s native who told him —Robert Bentley fifth reference he had been contactto Paul Hubbert, ed by the Ron Sparks campaign and instructed to vote for Bradley Byrne, Bentley said, “I think this is a forum on Paul Hubbert.” stating, “We can’t beat Robert Bentley.” The AEA funded a radio advertisement attackThe two candidates largely agreed on every other issue discussed. However, Bentley and Byrne pointed ing Byrne for supporting the teaching of evolution in public schools, and Bentley said it was unfair for criticisms at each other. In the wake of Byrne attacking the insurance Byrne to suggest he was an AEA “lackey.” “I vote against them and I vote for them,” Bentley industry, Bentley accused Byrne of accepting large said. “It depends on whether they are right or they donations from insurance companies. “It’s hard to stand up to the large insurance com- are wrong. Who do you think gets the most money panies in this state if you’ve taken hundreds of thou- from special interests? It’s not me.” The Young Republican’s Federation and the sands of dollars from those companies,” Bentley said. Alabama and Auburn Student Government “My opponent has done that.” Byrne interjected repeatedly with statements such Associations hosted the debate. SGA President as, “That is a lie,” and “That is not true,” until the James Fowler was featured on the panel along with moderator, John Paepcke, NBC 13 anchor, told Byrne Kurt Sasser, Auburn’s SGA Chairman. The Republican Gubernatorial runoff election he had to wait until his next question to respond. Bentley also mentioned Byrne’s prior Democratic takes place July 13.
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The National Science Foundation Rapid Response Grant was awarded to two University of Alabama biology professors to perform research on environmental clean up solutions in the
Gulf of Mexico. Behzad Mortazavi, an assistant professor of biological sciences, and Patricia Sobecky, the biology department chair, both received a grant for $124,999 allowing them to further their research. Following the accident on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform
in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, crude oil has been continuously discharging at an estimated rate of 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day. So far, attempts at stopping the oil spill have not been successful and, according to the latest estimate, the spill from the well may continue until a relief well becomes operational in August. The team’s main research objective was to determine means of enhancing rates of biodegradation of the hydrocarbons in the coastal zone of the northern Gulf of Mexico that were a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. “We process materials for a variety of analyses including chemical and biological determinations to assess the microbial oil degradation capacities,” Sobecky said. Some of the team’s other objectives include identifying sources of naturally occurring marine organic matter in the affected areas, identifying the composition and genomic potential of the microbial consortium, and examining changes in the rate processes and composition of the microbial consortium as the oil is weathered over the course of a year. Once the oil reaches the coast, clean up of the spill will be an arduous task. Passive and active bioremediation can provide a solution to the spill in the coastal zone, according to the project summary. “Our long term goal is to develop based on biological data generated from this research feasible engineering solutions to assist in mitigating the effects of oil contamination in our coastal waters,” Mortazavi said. Bruce Hamilton, program director of environmental sustainability at the National Science Foundation stated that the primary goal of this proposal is to determine means of enhancing rates of biodegradation of the hydrocarbons in the coastal zone of the northern Gulf of Mexico resulting from the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill. “The scope and impact of this ongoing oil spill disaster are of unprecedented scale, and information on key environmental data is critically needed as quickly as possible,” Hamilton said. “A longer term objective is to develop feasible engineering solutions based on sound biological data to assist in mitigating the long-ranging effects of offshore and coastal oil contamination.”
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Toy Story 3 sends series out on high note By Carter Glascock Contributing writer Is there really any doubt about Pixar’s greatness? Over the last 15 years, the studio has dominated the animated film genre, and rightfully so. Every film the studio has produced since 1995’s landmark “Toy Story” has been an artistic breakthrough for the genre in terms of technical achievement and emotional depth, all while remaining thoroughly entertaining for both adults and children. With an enviable track record of films like “Ratatouille” and “WALL-E,” expectations were exceedingly high for this long awaited sequel to the film that put them on the map. Thankfully, “Toy Story 3” is anything but a disappointment, being every bit as good as the first two entries in the series, as well as being a truly fitting way to cap off what is probably the best animated film trilogy of all time. The film picks up 11 years after the events of 1999’s “Toy Story 2,” with Andy, the owner of the toys, getting ready to
move to college. Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toys, who have begrudgingly come to terms with the fact that Andy is too old to play with them anymore, await their trip to the attic when he moves out. A complication with Andy’s mother gets the toys donated to a daycare, where they are greeted by a new lot of toys, led by a strawberry-scented teddy bear named Lots-O-Huggin’ Bear (voiced by Ned Beatty). To give away anymore of the story would be doing a disservice to Lee Unkrich’s direction and Michael Arndt’s screenplay, which alternately has you on the edge of your seat, laughing hysterically, or crying your eyes out throughout the entire film. For his second screenplay in a major feature (his first was “Little Miss Sunshine”), Arndt demonstrates that he may be one of the best screenwriters working today. He takes the familiar settings and characters of the Toy Story world and makes it his own, all while staying true to what made us love these characters like family to begin with. The entire original voice cast
‘Toy Story 3’ Runtime: 103 minutes MPAA rating: G Release date: June 18 CW critic’s rating:
Bottom line: “A beautiful way to end a beautiful series. The best film of the year so far.” returns for the film (with the exception of Jim Varney, the original voice of Slinky Dog, who died in 2000 shortly after the release of “Toy Story 2”), as well a handful of new faces, including Beatty as Lotso and Michael Keaton as a smitten Ken, the counterpart to Barbie. Timothy Dalton (the third James Bond) is particularly hilarious as Mr. Pricklepants, a porcupine doll dressed in lederhosen. Don Rickles continues
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to steal every scene he’s in as Mr. Potato Head (including a particularly hilarious scene in which he has to change forms). The dialogue is crafted with such care to keep the story flowing that it seems like a real treat the film is as funny as it is. The humor of the film is a very welcome buffer for the emotional wallop at the end. There are moments of nailbiting tension and such sentimental gorgeousness, it makes you reminisce on how you’ve grown as a person since the first film. Not to give anything away, but the final scenes in the film are so poignant and moving, that it is guaranteed you will hear sniffling from the audience while watching it, if not out and out bawling. To be sure, this is a beautiful film. It performs the trick of transcending the tag of
extremely entertaining, marketable family fare into the realm of high art. It retains the trademark of the series in humanizing children’s playthings into a metaphor about family and the excitement of childhood imagination. It also retains Pixar’s high mark of quality, which is a relief, but at this point, is to be expected. Highly recommended. Side note: The short film “Night and Day,” which plays before “Toy Story 3,” also lives up to Pixar’s esteemed reputation for delivering visually stimulating shorts with great lessons for kids. Also, watch “Toy Story 3” carefully for numerous Pixar “Easter eggs,” which include past characters of Pixar films like “Finding Nemo” as well as future Pixar characters like a lead role in the upcoming “Cars” sequel.
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Vinyl solutions By Morgan Dowdy Contributing Writer
Yesterday, as a late birthday present to himself, your columnist purchased an old Technics turntable on eBay for about $80. It’s a direct-drive model from the early ‘80s, fully-automatic, with linear-tracking that grants almost CD-like controllability. According to audiophile websites, the table should yield low rumble, high output clarity, and very little of something called wow & flutter, which basically measures how uniformly the plate spins. In 1981 it sold for $400, which is about $900 adjusted for inflation. This won’t be my first turntable. A Phillips and a Sony, both very much of the early ‘70s, lie stacked in the corner of the living room, cables tightly wrapped and shut beneath scratched dust covers. Neither work very well; both came from thrift stores. Before those I relied on a former roommate’s brand new Sony automatic, and before that on my parents’ old budget all-in-one tape/record/receiver deck, the kind of shiny plastic crap you might imagine finding on a Sears discount table in Southern California in 1985. Needless to say the search for a quality player with which to spend the best years of my life deserved more, so I went for the Technics. Did you know that vinyl sales represent the only growth area within physical media sales for music over the past several years? That is, while the CD market proceeded to take a nosedive last decade amid the rise of digital downloads, legal and otherwise, the market for vinyl actually expanded. In fact it exponentially expanded, increasing by almost 200 percent between 2007 and 2009, while CDs suffered double-digit declines each of those years. With the widespread prevalence of vinyl-only indie labels, many of which don’t record sales data at all, the numbers might actually be considerably higher. Of course vinyl accounts for an extremely miniscule share of the entire physical media market — only about one-seventh of a percentage point. Still, that 200 percent increase is an incredible figure, and notable enough for national retailer Best Buy to dedicate eight square feet of floor space exclusively to records. Vinyl pressings of brand new releases, once the territory of localized punks and indie rockers, are again being adopted by major label artists for national distribution. What’s going on? How can a medium rendered obsolete 25 years ago suddenly regain relevance in an era dominated by digital technology and the internet? Two reasons. The first is a pretty straightforward one
that quickly pans out into basic economic terms. CDs function solely as vehicles for the distribution of digital music — the song sounds the same whether you’re spinning a disc or accessing a ripped MP3. On the other hand, vinyl offers a sound and experience not available anywhere else or any other way. At a time when CDs provide almost exactly the same service as the digital downloads that are taking over the marketplace, vinyl maintains a strikingly viable niche. A second reason for the upsurge boils down to the same nostalgia for the past that’s been a pretty constant condition within greater pop cultural tastes from the beginning. Turntables and vinyl records have retro appeal. Spending an evening listening to your favorite Miles Davis record evokes a certain lost sophistication. Sitting cross-legged around the turntable with a pile of 45s and a friend affords long-forgotten charms. Charms that are up to this point only half-gleaned by our generation via echoes suspended in the mass media firmament, but rarely experienced in any direct way. The demystification of a central experience of former youth generations is one potentially meaningful implication of that retro appeal. Of course, in this case, retro also connotes obscure, that troubled virtue of postmodern cool. There is always a hipster population (separate article parsing this muddled term forthcoming) attracted to a given retro trend’s obscurity-factor like mosquitoes to standing water. The hipster appreciates vinyl not for its historical or formalistic merits, but for the objectified cultural capital its obscurity imparts. Despite this element, vinyl remains a worthwhile pursuit for a generation reared on instant digital music. Albums you’ve listened to a million times on CD suddenly transform on the record player. The clichÊ that you haven’t heard an album until you’ve heard it on vinyl is usually true. To find yourself a good turntable, check around thrift stores, pawn shops or on eBay. There’s more than enough information on the internet to point your search in the right direction. As for getting the records themselves, first start by talking to older family members who might still have a vinyl collection. Again, thrift stores will often carry old records, and America’s Thrift Store on Skyland Boulevard usually has a pretty impressive selection of 45s, especially if you like classic funk and soul. Finally, we’re lucky to have a quality record store in Oz Music. They’re the place to find reissues of classic albums, as well as new vinyl releases with a tilt toward contemporary indie.
The Jupiter bares all By Jordan Staggs Senior Staff Reporter jlstaggs@crimson.ua.edu Summer in the South just wouldn’t be the same without barbecues, beaches and those teeny bikinis. Although T-town is a few hours from the beach — and the coast might not be the best summer escape right now — The Jupiter Bar & Grill is working hard to bring residents a little bit of those summer classics with its annual bikini contest. The contest has been held every Thursday in June, all culminating up to the big finale this week, July 1 at around midnight. “The finals are always the biggest night,� said Jupiter owner and manager Jeremiah Jones. “We’re doing it in the small room this year, so we’re expecting to be at full capacity.� With last year’s finals drawing over 500 people, there’s no doubt it will be a fun event for everyone involved. The contest up until now has consisted of four preliminary rounds, with the top three contestants from each round moving on to Thursday’s final. Contestants will first be introduced by host DJ Pete in their “street clothes.� Each one will then compete individually, followed by all the girls on stage together. The contestants are judged after strutting their stuff, and the final winner
will receive $500 cash. “The contest has always done really well,� Jones said. “Thursdays are usually kind of a hit-or-miss night in the summer, so we try to do some smaller, but entertaining, events.� Although it is still drawing a pretty good crowd, this year’s bikini contest has been less fruitful than last year’s, Jones said. This might be due to the event’s move from May to June, or due to the economy. “This year it’s been a lot harder finding girls to participate,� said Kayla Perlstein, a Jupiter employee in charge of the bikini contest. “A few of the finalists are going out of town, but we should have eight to ten competing this week.� One of the contestants, 23-yearold Heather Whitfield said she has had a lot of fun with the event. “One of my friends was doing it, so I decided to just for fun,� Whitfield said. “I had never done it before. All the girls competing are really cool.� Whitfield said she might not make it to Thursday’s finals, but that she had a blast doing the contest anyway. “It was like being in front of 200 people in your underwear,� she said. “I figured that was a good fear to try and get over.� Will Whitfield be competing in any more bikini contests? Probably not. “It’s kind of my last hurrah,� she
said. “But it was a really fun time.� Drink specials will accompany Thursday’s festivities, with $1 Natural Lights and $3 Baby Bombs. There will be a $5 cover after 9 p.m., and you must be 19 or older to get in. The bikini contest won’t be The Jupiter’s last cool summer event. Beginning July 8, the bar will be hosting its summer 2010 Battle of the Bands. Each Thursday in July, three bands will compete to move on to the finals and win stage time at the county fair, $350 in gift certificates and a demo recording at Old Capitol Recording Studio. All proceeds from the Battle of the Bands will go to aiding cerebral palsy. Other upcoming events at The Jupiter include fall concerts from Citizen Cope, Drive-By Truckers and Brantley Gilbert, according to owner Jeremiah Jones. The bar is currently undergoing some major renovations, which Jones said he hopes will make the place much more inviting. “Before it was just sort of an awkward space,� he said. The new Jupiter will include much more standing room, 52-inch televisions and working garage doors, if approved by the city. The project will be complete by August 18, Jones said, and there’s one more big change, which hasn’t been decided just yet. “I just can’t think up a name,� he said.
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Gamecocks take the NCAA Championship By Eric Olson Associated Press
South Carolina’s Jackie Bradley, Jr. holds the trophy as players exchange high-ďŹ ves with the crowd at Rosenblatt Stadium.
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South Carolina closed out the final College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium with its first baseball title and big-time bragging rights. “To be the last team to win it here,� winning pitcher Matt Price said, “that’s amazing.� The Gamecocks provided the perfect send-off for the stadium that has been home to college baseball’s biggest event since 1950 with a 2-1 victory over UCLA in 11 innings Tuesday night. The CWS moves to a new stadium in downtown Omaha next year. “It dawned on me, it would be wonderful to go deep into this thing and be around at the end,� coach Ray Tanner recalled thinking when the AP CWS began nearly two weeks ago. “I know the new stadium will be very special and a great facility. “But this is history. And we’ll be a part of the College World Series and Rosenblatt for a long, long time.� Not only because they won it, but how the Gamecocks accomplished it. South Carolina (54-16) trailed in the middle innings of all three of its NCAA regional games and had to win two one-run games in the super regionals to make it to the College World Series. Once they got to Omaha, the Gamecocks lost their first game and had to stave off elimination four times to reach the
finals, even winning one game after being down to their last strike. In a fitting end to a fantastic season, South Carolina came from behind again Tuesday night, tying the game in the eighth inning and beating UCLA (51-17) in the 11th on Whit Merrifield’s RBI single. “It’s just a great run,� Tanner said. “You have to have a lot of things happen for you and you have to have the right kind of people around you. But it’s not impossible to be sitting where we are. But the odds are against you being here. No matter how good your program is, there are a lot of great programs out there.� The Gamecocks won six straight games after losing their CWS opener against Oklahoma, and became the third first-time champion since 2006 after sweeping the best-ofthree series. Merrifield was surprised UCLA closer Dan Klein didn’t intentionally walk him and Jackie Bradley, Jr., the CWS Most Outstanding Player, to set up potential forceouts all around and a possible double play. “When I saw the catcher squat down, I knew I had something to prove,� Merrifield said. “They wanted to get me out.� Scott Wingo drew a leadoff walk and took second when catcher Steve Rodriguez, perhaps distracted when Evan Marzilli squared to bunt, let an inside 1-0 pitch get past
him. Wingo moved to third when Marzilli got a bunt down, and scored when Merrifield drilled Klein’s 2-0 pitch past the pulled-in outfield of the Bruins and into right field. “I worked the count in my favor and got a fastball, even though it was kind of down, I got the barrel on it,� he said. “And it finally went the other way and shot it into the gap. And it fell for me. And it was a great feeling.� Price (5-1) allowed one hit over two 2-3 innings for the Gamecocks, who also went to the CWS finals in 1975, ‘77 and 2002, but came up short. “I could have gone another two innings if I had to,� Price said. “The adrenaline kicked in.� Klein (6-1) took the loss after working three 1-3 innings for the Bruins — “the greatest club we played the entire year,� Tanner said. South Carolina had runners in scoring position in four of the first six innings, including loading the bases in the second, but could push nothing across until the eighth. UCLA also missed out on early scoring chances and went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position. “To get so close and to fall short hurts,� said UCLA starter Rob Rasmussen, who allowed six hits in six scoreless innings. “I think maybe later tonight or tomorrow, as it all kind of sinks in, and as we look back on it, we’re all going to be proud of what we did.�
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a condition where the heart is slightly bigger than normal due to prolonged exercise. Torrance says Alabama team doctors cleared him to play and told him the condition was common. He led the Crimson Tide in scoring and assists, averaging 15.6 points a game.
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FOOTBALL
Ingram named SEC athlete of the year
Tide sends several players to MLB By Marquavius Burnett Sports Reporter
The Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team had a successful 2010 Major League Baseball draft. The Tide had a total of 11 players taken in the draft; seven players from this year’s roster and four Tide signees were selected. Alabama has had at least one player drafted for 32 consecutive years, dating back to 1979. “We are very excited and pleased for all of our players and signees taken in the Major League Draft,” head coach Mitch Gaspard said. “We had six players, three on our current team and three
signees, taken in the first 10 rounds. That says a lot about what type of players they are. We are very excited for Nelson and Rutledge, who were both taken in the top three rounds. I know it was a big day for them.” Nelson was the 64th overall pick, taken by the Milwaukee Brewers in the second round. It was the second time the Niceville, Fla., native has had his name called in the MLB Draft. He was selected in the 39th round by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2007 draft. In addition to Nelson and Rutledge, junior second baseman Ross Wilson was selected in the 10th round
(308th pick) by the Chicago White Sox. Senior third baseman Jake Smith was a 15th round pick (471 overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies. Sophomore right-hander Tyler White was a 20th round pick (613th selection) by the Detroit Tigers. Senior first baseman Clay Jones and junior right-hander Jason Townsend had their names called on the final day of the 2010 Major League Draft and in day two of the first-year player draft on Wednesday. The Tide had three signees taken in the first five rounds, including shortstop Matt Lipka, Reggie Golden and John McGuarian.
Lipka, a product of McKinney (Texas) High School, was the 35th overall pick in the draft by the Atlanta Braves. Golden, an outfielder from Wetumpka (Ala.) High School, was taken in the second round (65th pick) by the Chicago Cubs. McGuarian, a standout righthander at Pensacola Catholic High School, was taken in the fifth round (157th pick) by the Cincinnati Reds. UA signee Austen Smith was taken in the 48th round by the New York Mets. The Pensacola (Fla.) Catholic High School standout was the 1,442nd overall pick. “It’s always a risk when you sign talented players like
we do,” Gaspard said. “Matt Lipka is a tremendous talent, and we knew that he had a chance to play in the majors. It is a part of the business.” Gaspard says he understands that all players want to go pro. He just tries to give them good advice, but he knows it is their decision. “Every player hopes to get drafted,” Gaspard said. “It’s a boyhood dream. We just want them to be smart and understand how the minor leagues work. We also want them to get their education and a degree, but at the end of the day that is more of a personal and family decision.”
From staff reports
Sophomore Mark Ingram was recently named the 20092010 Roy F. Kramer SEC Male Athlete of the Year by a vote of the league’s athletics directors, Commissioner Mike Slive announced Tuesday. Ingram became the first A l ab a m a football player to win the Heisman Trophy on the way to leading Mark Ingram the Crimson Tide to a 12-0 regular season and the 2009 SEC and National Championships. He is only the sixth player since 1950 to win the Heisman and lead his team to a national championship in the same season. A unanimous first-team AllAmerican, Ingram was named the Sporting News National Player of the Year and the AP SEC Offensive Player of the Year. He was also a unanimous first-team All-SEC selection. Former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow won the award the past two years. Ingram is Alabama’s ninth all-time SEC athlete of the year winner and third football player since the award’s creation in 1976. The Tide’s most recent winner was gymnast Jeana Rice in 2004. Past winners include Andree’ Pickens (gymnastics) 2002, Dee Foster (gymnastics) 1990, Derrick Thomas (football) 1989, Cornelius Bennett (football) 1987, Lillie Leatherwood-King (track and field) 1987, Penney Hauschild (gymnastics) 1985 and Reggie King (basketball) 1979.
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Federer loses to Berdych in quarterfinals By Stephen Wilson Associated Press For the first time in eight years, Roger Federer won’t be striding onto Centre Court for the Wimbledon final. The six-time champion was upset in the quarterfinals by big-hitting Tomas Berdych on Wednesday, stopping his bid for a record-tying seventh title at the All England Club and extending his recent stretch of disappointing play. The 12th-seeded Berdych used his big serve and forehand to beat Federer 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, on Centre Court for the biggest victory of the Czech’s career. Berdych will meet No. 3 Novak Djokovic for a spot in the final, with No. 2 Rafael Nadal facing No. 4 Andy Murray in the other semifinal. It’s the first time since 2002 that Federer has failed to reach the final. Since losing in the first round eight years ago, Federer had played in the championship match a record seven consecutive times. He won the title six times and finished runner-up once, bolstering his reputation as the greatest player of alltime. Winner of a record 16 Grand Slam titles, Federer said he was unable to play his best tennis Wednesday because of pain in his back and right leg.
“I couldn’t play the way I wanted to play,” said Federer, who had been chasing the record of seven titles won by Pete Sampras and 19th-century player William Renshaw. “I am struggling with a little bit of a back and a leg issue. That just doesn’t quite allow me to play the way I would like to play. It’s frustrating, to say the least.” Berdych said he didn’t notice anything wrong with Federer. “I don’t know if he is just looking for some excuses after the match or something like that,” he said. “I think he was 100 percent ready.” Berdych ripped a clean forehand winner on his second match point to become the first Czech to reach the men’s semifinals since Ivan Lendl in 1990. “Not many other moments can compare to this one,” Berdych said. “Standing on Centre Court here in Wimbledon, beating the sixtime champion here. It couldn’t be better. But there is still one match to feel better feelings than this one. I hope I can get to that.” Berdych will next face Djokovic, who swept past Yenhsun Lu in straight sets to reach the semifinals for the second time. The third-seeded Djokovic never faced a break point as he beat the 82nd-ranked Taiwanese player 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in
AP Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, walks off court with defending champion Roger Federer after defeating him in their menʼs singles quarterfinal. less than two hours on Court 1. With the loss, Federer will drop to No. 3 in the ATP rankings next week for the first time since Nov. 10, 2003. Since winning the Australian Open in January, he has failed to win a tournament. The 6-foot-5 (1.96 m) Berdych was on the offensive for most of the match, smacking first
serves consistently in the 130s mph (above 210 kph), winding up to rip forehand winners and not buckling under pressure. He hit 51 winners, compared to 44 for Federer. “He played well when he had to,” Federer said. “It was brutal for me. Every time he had a chance, he took it. On the break points, he played great on those.
... When I did have chances, I played poorly. It was just a frustrating match the way it all went.” Berdych broke Federer four times, with the final break coming in the seventh game of the fourth set. Berdych served 12 aces, was broken just once and saved seven of eight break points.
Serena, not Venus, still around for Wimbledon Associated Press Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams doubled-faulted five times, made a total of 29 unforced errors and was beaten 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday by Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria, the lowest-ranked woman still in the draw. “I would have loved to have been around, you know, to come close and hopefully make it an all-Williams final this year,” the second-seeded Venus said. “But that won’t be.” Over and over, she would shank a shot, then turn toward the Court 1 player guest box where her parents were seated and put her palms up or shrug her shoulders, as if to indicate, “I don’t know what’s happening here.” “Didn’t do myself any favors,” Venus said. “I missed all shots today: fore-
hand, volley, backhand. You know, if there was a shot to miss, I think I missed it.” Venus participated in eight of the past 10 women’s finals, losing to her sister three times, including in 2009. She beat Serena for the 2008 title. Tuesday’s match was the older Williams’ 77th in singles at the All England Club, and never had she won so few games. The only time she’s been beaten at Wimbledon by someone ranked lower than Pironkova was all the way back on June 28, 1997, when the American lost her tournament debut to No. 91 Magdalena Grzybowska. Really, the only factor preventing this result from truly being considered one of the sport’s biggest upsets ever is that Pironkova has done it before:
She defeated Williams at the 2006 Australian Open. Still, even the first woman representing Bulgaria to make it to the final four at a Grand Slam tournament in the 42-year Open era was not anticipating this. “No one expected me to (reach a) semifinal in Wimbledon,” Pironkova said, “and to beat Venus Williams like that.” On the other side of the draw, defending champion Serena Williams smacked 11 aces — lifting her total for the tournament to a Wimbledonrecord 73, one more than she hit last year — and made only six unforced errors in a 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 9 Li Na of China. Serena next faces yet another unheralded member of this year’s final
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four, 62nd-ranked Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, who saved five match points and erased third-set deficits of 4-0 and 5-2 to eliminate 80th-ranked qualifier Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 4-6, 7-6 (8), 8-6. Pironkova (her first name is pronounced sve-TAH-nuh, her last peeRON-ko-vuh) and Kvitova (keh-VIToh-vuh) give Wimbledon two unseeded women in the semifinals for the first time since 1999. Indeed, Serena Williams is the only remaining woman with a Grand Slam championship; she owns 12. “It’s not mine to lose; it’s mine to win, if I can get it,” the three-time Wimbledon champion said. “There’s three other people that are vying to win it. They have just as good a chance as I do.”
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Jurrjens returns, Braves beat Nats, 4-1 Associated Press Jair Jurrjens gave up one run and had a run-scoring single in his first start in two months, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 on Wednesday night. Jurrjens (1-3) gave up six hits and one run in five innings in his first major league start since injuring his left hamstring on April 29. He struck out six with two walks. Four Atlanta relievers combined to give up two hits in four scoreless innings. Billy Wagner gave up a leadoff single to Ivan
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Rodriguez in the ninth before striking out Cristian Guzman, Alberto Gonzalez and Ian Desmond to earn his 16th save. Jurrjens, who was a combined 27-20 with a 3.10 ERA in his first two seasons, has had health problems most of the year. He was slowed in spring training by inflammation in his right shoulder and suffered a setback with his hamstring in May. Jurrjens led 3-0 after five innings and was pulled after giving up singles to Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn and walking Josh Willingham with no outs in the sixth.
AP This June 27 file combination of six photos shows Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer looking at the ball that hit the bar and bounced over the line during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Germany and England in Bloemfontein, South Africa. By Jordan Eichenblatt Contributing Writer Finally, after scoreless games ending in 0-0 ties, the World Cup moved on to the elimination round with no ties and 16 teams. Missing in those 16 teams were defending World Cup champions, Italy, and runner-up France. The French team fell apart after head coach Raymond Domenench sent home striker Nicolas Anelka after the team’s 2-0 loss to Mexico. Two days later Domenench was involved in another team problem after the strength coach Robert Duverne threw his badge on the practice field and stormed off. Five minutes later the French team boarded the buses early and returned to their hotel. Also not included in the final
16 teams is host country South Africa. The only African team left is Ghana. Ghana, who placed second in Group E, faced the United States, winner of Group C. The United States, who won their group in a thriller against Algeria, a game which some have suggested was once again overshadowed by horrible officiating, won their first group title since 1930. After the US allowed an early goal to Ghana, Landon Donavan was given a penalty kick to even the score 1-1. After 90 minutes of play and many missed opportunities, the game headed into extra time where Ghana struck early, and the US could not get a goal to equalize. Ghana eliminated the US 2-1. England, who came in
second to the US in group play, was also eliminated following a loss to Germany. A goal in the first half, which would have made the score 2-2, was not counted for England because the referee didn’t see the ball cross over the line, though replay evidence showed the ball crossing into the goal. The should-be goal was shot by Steven Gerrad, bounced off a post and went two yards into the goal before the German goalie picked the ball up. To everyone’s surprise, the referee did not signal a goal. Argentina faced Mexico. Mexico also appeared to be a victim of questionable officiating when Argentina striker, Carlos Tevez was 15 feet offside and scored a goal. The video boards inside the arena showed he was offside and the entire Mexican
team crowded the official and pointed that out. FIFA declined to comment on the officiating but also told each stadium to stop the use of instant replays during the game. Brazil, the favorite to win, defeated Chile 3-0. The Netherlands defeated Slovakia 2-1. Spain beat boarding country Portugal 1-0 and in the first penalty kick shootout of the World Cup, Paraguay defeated Japan 5-3 in penalty kicks. Each team needs two more wins to reach the final. Uruguay will face Ghana, the Netherlands will face Brazil, Argentina will face Germany, Paraguay will face Spain and the Americans will face waiting another four years until the country gets another chance.
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