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Students irked by Maea

Reamer beats back adversity

By Cate Kennedy Staff Writer

By Desiree Mahr Staff Writer

After the closing of Lakeside Diner last semester, Bama Dining added Maea as a new dining option in the Lakeside complex.

Analyzing the data gathered from

For some students who do not bring their cars to campus, it can be difficult to do things off campus, such as running errands, attending off-campus events or even going to the grocery store.

“It is kind of annoying if I want to make a Wal-Mart run,” said Asia Stephens, a freshman. “Sometimes I have to ask someone in my dorm who has a car, or I’ll have to wait until everyone I know needs to go to WalMart so we can all go together.”

Jessica Pitts, a junior majoring in math, said she deals with the same problem and has to adjust every fall semester when she comes back to school.

“When I’m at home, I use my mom’s car,” Pitts said. “When I want to get up and go, I can get up and go. Here I have to depend on others, which is fine, but that means I can never do anything on my own time.”

Now, students who do not have cars can make their way off campus with Zipcar, an international car-sharing service. The University kicked off its new partnership with Zipcar Wednesday, which will make cars available for students to drive on or off campus.

Zipcar began in 1999 and provides its services to cities and university campuses around the world. Starting with just 20 cars, Zipcar has quickly grown to more than 325,000 members sharing more than 6,500 cars worldwide “The goal of Zipcar was to look at a more sustainable way of living in an urban setting or a campus,” said Matt Malloy, vice president of International University Operations

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If there is one attribute senior strong-side linebacker Cory Reamer has picked up in his time at the Capstone, it’s resiliency.

From leg injuries to position moves, and two years of rehab in between, the trials and tribulations of the Tide’s spiritual leader at linebacker have molded him into a player of great intensity and intelligence on the field.

MarketMatch, a survey that Bama Dining put out near the end of last year, Bama Dining officials discovered that the student body wanted a classy, sit-down restaurant.

“So far, the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Matt Mackey, marketing manager for Bama Dining.

However, not everyone feels this way about the new restaurant. Although the MarketMatch survey revealed a majority of the poll wanted a sit-down restaurant, many students have expressed displeasure with the absence of their beloved Lakeside Diner. In fact, many said they have also been dismayed by the lack of late-night dining options since the closing of Lakeside Diner.

“Bama Dining says they wanted to make it [classier], but, honestly, I do not care about class in my 2 a.m. dining choices,” said T.J. Skrodzki, a junior majoring in international management.

Offering finer cuisine than in most dining halls on campus, Maea’s specialties include yellowfin tuna, fried green tomato sandwiches and smoked chicken nachos.

“The food at Maea is good, but we are college students and don’t really need fine dining,” said Brandon Feazell, a junior majoring in history.

In response to the negative feedback regarding Maea, Mackey said with the new dormitories being located behind Lakeside, Bama Dining knew Lakeside Diner could not keep up with capacity any longer.

“That was why we decided to move the late night downstairs to Lakeside Dining, which clearly has a significantly larger capacity,” Mackey said.

For the future, Mackey said Bama Dining hopes that the University will consider Maea its own and that “they will think of Maea first when they want that especially good lunch or dinner.”

The planning for Maea began part of the way through the last spring semester. The remodeling phase began after the school ended in May and was completed the first week in August. While Maea has not been as crowded as the Diner, this is to

See REAMER, page 11

See MAEA, page 2

FAST FACTS • The car rental service started on the UA campus Wednesday.

CW | Tori Gordon Alabama senior linebacker Cory Reamer concentrates during Wednesdayʼs practice. A former safety, Reamer experienced a rocky path to his current ʻSamʼ linebacker position.

• Six Zipcars will be available to students.

• Two cars will be in the parking lots between Rose Towers and Riverside, two between Paty Hall and Blount Hall and two at Tutwiler Hall.

“Bama Dining says they wanted to make it [classier], but, honestly, I do not care about class in my 2 a.m. dining choices” — T.J. Skrodzki, junior

See ZIPCAR, page 2

• Using Zipcar, students can use cars on an hourly, daily or weekly basis with varying rates.

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Ted Kennedy dies at 77

By Spencer White Assistant Sports Editor

Resident advisers use new journals for freshmen

By Drew Taylor Administrative Affairs Editor

Ridgecrest West opened in fall 2007. In its first year, the dorm housed only freshman, but it now includes a mix of students.

“FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE” JOURNALS

In an effort to analyze student • This is the first year the journals have been used on a trends within various residence halls large scale. on campus, Housing and Residential Communities has recently implement• HRC will use the journals to help students and analyze ed a new way for residential advitrends in the residence halls. sors to keep track of their respective floors, using “First Year Experience” • They include information on academic support services, journals.

Amanda Wallace, programming the Career Center and various outlets for students to get and civic leadership coordinator involved. for HRC, said this system, while not entirely new, is an update in how the department can better its own practhe dorms] in the first semester with- dential communities, such as Byrd, tices of interacting with students.

“Retention is an important thing,” out knowing what went wrong.”

Originally started in smaller resi- See JOURNALS, page 6 Wallace said. “We’d lose [students in

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NEWS in brief CAMPUS | Tailgating games event to be held Friday Student Involvement Week will continue through Friday with tailgating games from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center fields This pre-season tailgate party will feature games — horseshoes, cornhole, bocce ball, ladder toss and more — as well as information about participating in UA intramural and club sports. For more information, visit urec.ua.edu.

CAMPUS | Second annual Greekfest planned for Friday on fraternity row The Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils along with Costa Del Mar invite students to the second annual U. of Blue Greekfest on Friday. The show will feature four different performances. Azz-Izz will open the show, followed by Keller Williams. The third act of the night will be country/folk legend Robert Earl Keen. The headline of the event will be a two-hour set by jam-band legend moe.

Fraternity and sorority members can buy tickets though their organizations, and all other students will be able to purchase general admission tickets through the Crimson Arts ticket office.

All of the proceeds raised through ticket sales of U. of Blue Greekfest will go to support The Billfish Foundation, a program that works to return billfish populations worldwide to a healthy level of abundance, and Magic Moments, a non-profit organization that grants non-medical wishes for seriously ill children in Alabama.

Gates open on Jefferson Avenue at 6 p.m. The show starts at 6:15 p.m..

CAMPUS | Golden Key meets tonight The UA chapter of Golden Key International Honor Society is holding its first meeting of the year tonight at 6 p.m. in Room 252 of Hardaway Hall. UAPD Officer Andy Liles will speak about safety. Students who attend are asked to bring a 4-pack of applesauce or pudding, which will be donated to the special education class at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.

For more information, visit www.bama.ua.edu/~gknhs.

STATE | Chuck Norris endorses Roy Moore for Ala. governor

MONTGOMERY (AP) — Actor and political activist Chuck Norris has endorsed Republican Roy Moore for governor of Alabama.

Norris issued a statement Wednesday saying Moore’s resume “reads like a Who’s Who of American life and justice.” Norris recalled Moore’s service in the Vietnam War and his ouster as chief justice after refusing to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building.

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UA group looking for freshman also participating in events around campus and doing community service hours.”

Students involved in Freshman Forum go through weekly training and are actively involved in several annual on-campus events throughout the year.

“Those involved in Freshman Forum get to take part in a variety of activities such as Beat Auburn Beat Hunger, Capstone Creed Week, Homecoming and Alabama Youth Summit,” Karagas said.

“They also take part in several local service projects in the Tuscaloosa area.”

Applications can be found at leadership.ua.edu and are due Sept. 1 at 4 p.m. Once all of the applications are received by the Office of Student Involvement, a select group of students will be invited back for interviews to be held on Sept. 8, 9 and 10.

Past members said they encouraged freshmen to apply for Freshman Forum.

“I had an outstanding experience as a part of Freshman Forum during my first year

at UA,” said Caitlin Looney, a senior majoring in journalism and history. “I would advise any freshman interested in getting involved on campus to apply and make the most of their experience…because it truly is one of the best opportunities for new students to make friends and develop both personally and professionally during their time here at UA.” “Freshman Forum allowed me to make life-long friends and establish a network of gifted individuals seeking to better themselves by serving others,” said Milton Nettles, a senior majoring in chemical engineering. “My experience within Freshman Forum gave me the initial drive and focus that I would need to make a difference at the University and within the Tuscaloosa Community. I learned that being a campus and community leader entails being a servant above all else.”

If selected, Freshman Forum members are expected to attend weekly meetings on Monday evenings from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., pay $40 in dues for

the year and commit to completing 30 hours of service over the course of the year, according to the online application.

The Web site also encourages students interested in applying to review their schedules before submitting an application, in order to make sure that they have the time to dedicate two to three hours per week to being involved in Freshman Forum.

“This opportunity truly does give you a foot in the door, because students not only get a great deal of experience while on the Forum but also make connections with their peers, past members, and several members of the faculty and staff,” Karagas said. “Students often find that they can carry on the skills they learn while in Freshman Forum with them wherever they decide to go and get involved after their freshman year.”

Students who have questions and are interested in applying can visit the Web site or the Office of Student Involvement for more information.

around when they become a ‘Zipster.’ When they become Continued from page 1 a member, they’ll use public transit up to 50 percent more, operations at Zipcar. “People they bike more, they walk fundamentally change the more.” way they look at getting Zipcar allows students to use cars on an hour-long, daily or even a weeklong basis with rates that vary according to the day of the week. Zipcar’s system allows students to join and then reserve a car when they need one.

Once the reservation is confirmed, the member can use their card, or Zipcard, to activate and unlock the reserved car, said Zipcar spokesman Jaime Quick. The keys will be located in the car along with a gas card.

Ronnie Robertson, UA View our menu @ director of transportation, thecrimsoncafe.com said discussions about a possible partnership with Zipcar 1301 University Blvd. began in May. “On the Strip” “Now, I think we’ve com750-0203 pleted a full transportation

circle,” Robertson said. “We have the Crimson Ride, 348RIDE through the night, and now we have Zipcar if students need to get off campus.”

Six Zipcars will be available to students and can be found in the parking lot between Rose Towers and Riverside, the parking lot between Paty Hall and Blount Hall and in front of Tutwiler Hall.

“We have staged these vehicles in our most heavily populated areas,” Robertson said.

“Hopefully, if we get some more, we can better spread them around campus.”

According to the Zipcar website, a member saves $500 each month by sharing cars as an alternative to driving personally owned vehicles.

“The one word that everyone uses to describe Zipcar is ‘freedom,’” Malloy said.

“We’re enabling a freedom of car ownership and a freedom from car payments. And not

only do we give freedom to the students, but we’re also putting a lot of money back into their pockets.”

Zipcar also impacts the environment. For every Zipcar on the road, 15 to 20 personally owned vehicles are taken off the road, Malloy said, saving a large amount of gas and crude oil.

In addition, Malloy said Zipcar pledges to use the highest rated SmartWay vehicles, representing transportation modes that are environmentally cleaner and more fuel efficient, according to the SmartWay website. Out of the six Zipcars on campus, there will be two hybrid vehicles: the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius.

The company has had success at other universities in the south, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Florida and Duke University. Zipcar representatives said they hope to see the same outcome at UA. “It’s becoming more and more popular,” Quick said.

“When people buy into this program, they really see the benefit and see how it changes their lives. They see how much more freedom it gives than they had anticipated.”

The idea has already caught on with some students at the University.

“We’ve already had several people sign up, and I think that’s great. When the cars get here, it will be even more tangible,” Robertson said.

“These are 2009 cars that are nice, clean, and well-maintained. Where else can you get such a nice vehicle on an hourly basis?”

Stephens believes that a Zipcar membership would relieve her transportation problems overall.

“It would make it a lot easier if I needed to go somewhere by myself, or if I needed to go the mall,” she said.

Zipcar representatives will be on the Ferguson Plaza Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to speak with students about Zipcar memberships.

For more information or to register with Zipcar on campus, visit zipcar.com/ualabama.

Freshman Forum taking applications until Sept. 1

By Kelsey Hendrix Staff Writer The Office of Student Involvement is looking for freshmen eager to get connected, strengthen their leadership skills and give the freshman class a voice.

The office is accepting applications for Freshman Forum, a leadership and community service program for first-year students at the University.

“Freshman Forum is usually made up of about 160 freshmen on campus who are looking for a leadership development opportunity,” said Alex Karagas, coordinator of student involvement and leadership. “Freshmen involved in Freshman Forum go through three different tracks throughout the year: professional development, creative campus and civil engagement, while

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to be expected in a more formal atmosphere, Mackey said.

He said Bama Dining is pleased with how Maea has turned out so far. However, officials would like to encourage students to suggest any changes they would like to see and are welcome any constructive feedback, Mackey said.

“We certainly hope people will continue to come by and explore the fantastic menu [Maea] have put together there,” Mackey said.

Mackey said there has been talk of a possible remodel in the future that would put a diner style restaurant back on campus, but there are no definite plans at this time.

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Kennedy dies after battling brain cancer

By Kellie Munts Senior Staff Reporter Democratic Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy died late Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. at the age of 77, leaving behind a legacy of service to the nation through his role as a Massachusetts senator.

Kennedy, senior senator from Massachusetts and youngest of the nine Kennedy siblings, could have lived in the shadow of his brothers John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy after being born into a family considered by many to be “political royalty.”

However, Kennedy was not content to merely follow the path that had been paved for him and instead made his own political strides. He served as a senator for eight full terms after being first elected in 1962, and is among an elite few who

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UA College Democrats President Ian Sams, a junior majoring in political science and communication studies, said he was saddened by the news of Kennedy’s death and surprised his health deteriorated at such a rapid rate. Sams said he expects the American public to unite in memoriam for the political figure.

Sams said one of Kennedy’s major causes throughout his life was to ensure that all children had access to good education — a cause demonstrated in Kennedy’s work across party lines in order to ensure that the education system was improved.

“Not only did the Democratic Party lose one of its fathers, one of its patriarchs, but the American people lost a patriot for passing legislation,” Sams said.

“ Not only did the Democratic Party lose one of its fathers, one of its patriarchs, but the American people lost a patriot for passing legislation.”

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Left: Ted Kennedy speaks outside the Statehouse in Boston before a bronze statue of his brother, the late John F. Kennedy.

AP According to The Associated Press, longtime chairman of the Alabama Democratic Conference, Joe Reed, said poor people of all races lost a friend when Sen. Ted Kennedy died.

Reed, who leads the black wing of the Alabama Democratic Party, said he was friends with Kennedy for many years. He said Kennedy had a vision for America and the

courage to pursue it.

Reed recalled that when, in 1973, Kennedy accepted an invitation to appear with then-Gov. George C. Wallace at Decatur’s Spirit of America Festival.

At the time, Reed protested Kennedy’s acceptance of the invitation due to Wallace’s past.

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Reed said Kennedy turned out to be right.

“Ted Kennedy treated his colleagues with grace and respect, regardless of whether we agreed with him on the issues,” said Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby in a statement.

“His presence and his example of comity and courage will be missed in the Senate. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends during this difficult time.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has not released a statement on Kennedy’s death.

Kennedy was known for his great political influence throughout his career. After his brothers were tragically assassinated in 1963 and 1968, Kennedy had the opportunity to seek the presidential spotlight for himself. The scandal surrounding Kennedy after being involved in a car accident killing Robert Kennedy’s campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne encouraged him to continue to further his political ideas from the Senate floor.

During his time as a senator,

Kennedy was influential in the passing of several major pieces of legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the No Child Left Behind Act. Most recently, Kennedy emphasized a comprehensive health care plan.

He endorsed the idea and worked toward that goal under the Clinton administration, but the legislation eventually failed. When the Obama administration began taking strides toward a similar goal, Kennedy showed his support for the plan.

“It’s just a sad day for the country, really, to lose such a political heavyweight,” Sams said. “I think we’ll see Republicans and Democrats alike come together to honor the influence that he had on our country.”

Kennedy will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery alongside his brothers. He is survived by five children, his second wife, Victoria Ann Reggie Kennedy and his first wife Joan Bennett.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 Editor • Alan Blinder Page 4

Should U.S. presidents take vacations?

{ YOUR VIEW } “This idea of ʻIf you are going to fix a problem, you have to work at it every hour of every day,ʼ is foolish. Heʼll burn out. You have to take vacations.”

— Kyle LeRoy, junior majoring in english

“Everyone takes vacations every once in a while.”

— Jordan Grubb, freshman majoring in elementary education

“He should be able to take vacations-short ones, maybe, like a week at a time -- just time to clear his head, get a new perspective, and come back to work.”

— Sassy Saint, junior majoring in english and psychology

“I think itʼs very appropriate for the president to take vacations.”

— Jonathan McMath, junior majoring in telecommunication and film

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Health for a better debate

By Ben Baxter

the nuances of health care, insurance, and individual health? How President Obama and his admin- can we have a better debate?

First, it is time to end the politiistration feel that health care in this country needs to be reformed cization of this health care debate. as a way to improve healthiness, increase hospital efficiency and lower insurance inflation. Sounds Legislators and citizens great. alike are hooting and Unfortunately, the authors of hollering like they have this new reform happen to be doctorate degrees in members of Congress. health care manageCongress has written a number of different proposals, each with ment. its own strengths, weaknesses -Ben Baxter and zip code (each proposal has more pages than my overpriced Calculus book.) Roughly zero percent of Congress has read the pro- There are way too many citizens posals, and likely zero percent of that will be affected by these the American population has read healthcare reforms for this to be them, either. But one would never reduced to campaign ammunition realize this total lack of knowledge for the 2010 Congressional elecbased on the events taking place at tions. Concerned Democrats and these eerily fashionable healthcare Republicans are going to have to town hall meetings. Legislators work together to construct a health and citizens alike are hooting and care bill that benefits more people hollering like they have doctorate than what we currently have. If an degrees in health care manage- overall improvement cannot be realistically predicted, than perment.

And that is just the tip of the ice- haps all parties involved should just drop this idea of reform (espeberg.

But what can be done to better cially since polls suggest that more inform citizens and lawmakers on than 75 percent of Americans are

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satisfied with their current health care).

Second, citizens need to become better informed. The simplest job that citizens can perform is to keep their representatives accountable, but that is impossible if citizens are as uninformed as bright-eyed freshmen on the first day of school.

There is no excuse for this citizenapathy.

Third, we need to take more responsibility for our own health status. Health insurance will not make us eat healthy, will not take us to the gym and will not make us follow doctors’ instructions.

Health insurance (or lack thereof) should not always be the scapegoat for our poor health and high medical costs. More times than not, it is our fault that we are unhealthy and that insurance is so expensive.

Here is a hint for everyone: insurance costs less if we take care of our bodies.

But as Levar Burton from “Reading Rainbow” says, “You don’t have to take my word for it.”

So please UA students, faculty, and staff, go get informed.

Our View is the consensus of the Crimson White’s editorial board.

Ben Baxter is a senior majoring in industrial engineering.

Requiem for Lakeside Diner

By Jonathan Reed

a suitable replacement. There’s a rapidly growing group on Facebook pledging to “Boycott It all began to sink in as I Maea.” sat in the vast emptiness of Of course, I’ve given Maea a Lakeside Dining Hall a little chance. The food was delicious after midnight a few days ago. I and worthy of everyone giving had a basket of “chicken strips” it a shot at least once, but it was to one side of me. also expensive for campus food.

I say “chicken strips” in Some days, I don’t want to sit quotes because I’m still not sure down and wait on something if the ground-up, manufactured cooked well and then beautimash of mystery meat inside fully garnished before being that fried breading was, in fact, served on the University’s finest chicken or something different china. I don’t want to shell out and more sinister. On my plate, half a week’s worth of Dining some cold, soggy eggs were Jonathan Reed Dollars for one meal, no matter swimming in barbecue sauce.

(Yeah, I put barbecue sauce on and comfort at all hours of the how tasty.

A nice sit-down restaurant eggs.) day or night.

The emptiness of the room Diners may lack “class,” but is great, but it lacks all of the was what hit me. This was caf- that’s not a knock on them. intangibles that I loved about eteria food in a near-empty cafe- They aren’t supposed to be the Lakeside Diner. Every time I teria: churned out trays of chow classy, expensive places where went to the diner, I found somefor the masses, except there you take a date or sit down for one I knew at a table or waiting in line. were no masses to consume important business decisions.

It took my meal plan, which them.

They’re a place where you What I missed was the sizzle can go to get a cheesesteak meant it didn’t actually feel like I of my food being cooked in all and a soda with friends and was spending money there, and of its greasy goodness right in reminisce about past, present you could get way more than front of me. I missed knowing and future adventures. They’re enough food in one meal. You what was on the menu and get- somewhere you can go in your could usually get exactly what ting exactly what I wanted: real, pajamas in the middle of writing you were after, especially since delicious chicken tenders, grits a paper and get whatever you they kept the chicken tenders and an omelet all smothered crave, be it a burger and fries stacked up to the ceiling. It was the perfect choice for in barbecue sauce. or an omelet, grits and chicken busy, overstressed In the space Diners may lack “class,” but that’s not a knock college students. a floor above on them. They aren’t supposed to be classy, While it may me where that not be possible to dream was once expensive places where you take a date or sit bring the diner back, fulfilled until down for important business decisions. the importance of it 2 a.m., well— Jonathan Reed to students is hard to dressed workignore. The diner is ers were cleaning up tenders. Whatever tickles your such a valuable asset because it tablecloths in a classy restau- fancy. rant.

I know I’m not alone in deal- is comforting, quick and simple.

It is, according to the motto The sights, sounds and smells ing with the shock of returnof the diner were brazenly ing to school and finding my of the Athens, Ga. restaurant absent. beloved Lakeside Diner gone. Weaver D’s, which spawned an The diner is a staple of Many people don’t think the REM album title, “automatic for American culture. From the replacement of the diner with the people.” What’s so wrong setting for so many scenes of a “classier” sit-down restaurant with a place that serves food “Seinfeld” to the half-hour tour in Maea (which I still, being a automatic and for the people? of Americana on Food Network’s working class inner-city kid “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” to from the Midwest, struggle to Jonathan Reed is a sophomore Edward Hopper’s famous paint- pronounce) was needed, and majoring in political science ing “Nighthawks,” the diner is many also don’t see the extra and journalism. His column a ubiquitous image of good food late night dining hall hours as runs on Thursdays.

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In short: To honor Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, the Kennedy’s memory, liberal lion of the Congress should United States Senate, craft a good health died late Tuesday care reform bill, not night of brain canjust a fast one. cer. He served as the chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, one of the key entities in the fight for health care reform. Even though Kennedy is gone, the nation he championed for nearly a halfcentury is not.

Kennedy, while far from perfect as a legislator and as a person, was a master of the upper chamber. He earned bipartisan respect for his work on behalf of people from all areas of American life, not just his constituents from Massachusetts.

When Kennedy arrived in the Senate in 1962, some regarded him as a lightweight. They were wrong.

No one did it quite like Kennedy, and his record of success through the years proves it. He forged new paths on education reform, working with George W. Bush to find compromise. He found his voice while seeking one for women, minorities and the disabled. And his work was not limited to the United States as he sought equality in places as diverse as Northern Ireland and South Africa.

While he never accomplished his ultimate goal — health care for every American — his work over the decades helped to set the stage for debate taking place now in the halls of Congress and in every community in America. If reform is to happen, we can — and should — give much of the credit to Kennedy, who started the long road to reform long before Bill Clinton in the 1990s and Barack Obama today.

But reform is not guaranteed. There is still much debate to be heard about the benefits of the health care overhaul Kennedy dreamed of for so long. To date, Congress has yet to formulate a single bill, much less a unified voice. Some commentators have already said that Kennedy’s death might spur action. We hope it doesn’t trigger rash reform, but, rather, that it serves as a catalyst for genuine dialogue.

The negotiation and discourse, however time consuming, would not have bothered Kennedy. In fact, he would have encouraged it, for he realized that republican government is about developing a consensus. He was, without question, a devout partisan, but an American first.

If Democrats and Republicans want to honor Kennedy’s legacy, they will not pass reform for him. They will pass an overhaul bill, or at least consider one, because of the principles and people he stood for over the generations.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Domestic violence merits attention

By Melanie DeMaeyer, Jami Harris and Rachel Watts

Signs of Abuse

We write in regards to the recent arrests • Frequent “accidenof two UA students for domestic violence, tal” injuries as we have some concerns regarding • Frequent and sudden the statement given absences by head coach Nick Saban during his Aug. • Frequent, harassing 20 press conference. phone calls We feel that Saban missed an impor- • Fear of the partner tant opportunity to address the UA com- • Fear of conflict munity about the serious issue of domestic • Submissive behavior violence.

It was our hope that • Depression Saban would have alerted those tuned • Isolation into the conference of • Insufficient resources the severity of domestic violence and the to live far-reaching impact it has not only in our UA • Low self-esteem community, but also globally. According to Source: ndvh.org the U.S. Department of Justice, one in three women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. Furthermore, women between the ages of 16-24 have the highest rate of intimate partner violence and approximately 32 percent of college students are survivors of intimate partner violence.

Clearly, this is an issue that deserves more coverage in The Crimson White and should have been handled with greater emphasis by Saban in his statement.

We hope that Saban will address the issue of domestic violence further with his players. Additionally, should this matter arise in the future, we encourage him, as well as other UA officials, to use their influential forums to inform not only the media, but also the greater UA community about domestic violence. Finally, we hope to see members of the UA campus and Tuscaloosa community at National Domestic Violence Awareness Month events throughout October.

If abuse is suspected, please contact the national domestic abuse hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) or visit www.ndvh.org Melanie DeMaeyer, Jami Harris, and Rachel Watts are graduate students in women’s studies.

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Obama: ‘‘thank you and goodbye’’ to Kennedy

By Glen Johnson and Philip Elliott The Associated Press

CHILMARK, Mass. — Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president’s personal, mournful tribute on Wednesday.

Obama lauded the Massachusetts senator’s tireless work for legislation that reshaped the lives of millions of Americans — “including myself,” the nation’s first black president added in a poignant hint of affection. Also clearly not forgotten as a grieving president took a break from his

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summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard to mark Kennedy’s death from brain cancer late Tuesday night: the great political debt Obama owes Kennedy.

“His fight has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the blessing of time to say thank you — and goodbye,” Obama said.

Obama owes his ascension to the White House perch that was denied Kennedy in part to the senator’s help.

At a crucial moment in the brutal, marathon primary contests, Kennedy endorsed Obama over Democratic rival

“His fight has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the blessing of time to say thank you — and goodbye.”

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Hillary Rodham Clinton. During his endorsement, Edward Kennedy painted Obama as heir to the legacy of his slain brothers. That connection, to the dynasty of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy, lent the young contender immeasurable credibility with establishment Democrats and cemented a personal friendship.

“I remember another such time, in the 1960s, when I came to the Senate at the age of 30.

We had a new president who inspired the nation — especially the young — to seek a new frontier,” said Kennedy during the endorsement speech. “I’ve seen it. I’ve lived it. And with Barack Obama, we can do it again.”

“Your time only comes once, and this is your time,” Kennedy had told Obama in urging him to seek the White House in 2006, according to a Kennedy aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to recount a private conversation.

All high praise from a man whose family name, Obama said Wednesday, “is synonymous with the Democratic Party.”

Kennedy will lie in repose for two days at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, and a memorial service is scheduled there Friday night. Kennedy’s funeral was scheduled for Saturday morning at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston, followed by his burial Saturday afternoon with his brothers at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington.

A White House official said Obama would deliver a eulogy at Saturday’s funeral. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the Kennedy family had not yet made an announcement.

Both Kennedy and Obama had giant personalities and inspired a generation of Americans with similar themes of service and idealism. They became comrades in the Senate over their opposition to the war in Iraq and nurtured a relationship from there.

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In this 1962 file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, center, poses with his brothers U. S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, left, and President John F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington.

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When Kennedy’s brain cancer kept him from delivering his stepdaughter’s college commencement address, Obama left the campaign trail and stood in for his then-Senate colleague.

Returning the favor, Kennedy traveled to the Democratic National Committee’s nominating convention in Denver a year ago — one year to the day of his death — at great risk to his health. He delivered a heartfelt, seven-minute speech that brought many to their feet and some to tears.

“The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on,” Kennedy said, an echo of the concession speech that ended his 1980 presidential bid.

The senator returned to the Capitol in January to see Obama sworn in, suffering a seizure at a celebratory luncheon afterward.

They were bound on a lighter note, too. When Obama was faced with the much-watched choice of a dog for his two daughters, it was Kennedy who gave him “Bo,” a Portuguese water dog like the pair of dogs that have been a fixture in Kennedy’s Capitol Hill offices.

Since becoming president, Obama has gone out of his way to pay tribute to Kennedy. He invoked him during a joint session of Congress in February, led a “Happy Birthday” singalong during a tribute at the Kennedy Center and handdelivered a letter from the senator to Pope Benedict XVI. Most recently, Obama awarded Kennedy the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Early Wednesday morning, Obama was awakened by a top aide just after 2 a.m. EDT to learn of the death of the man he fondly called “a colleague, a counselor and a friend.” The president spoke with the senator’s widow, Victoria, soon afterward and ordered flags flown at half-staff on all federal buildings.

“Even though we knew this day was coming, we awaited it with no small amount of dread,” Obama said, tieless, coatless and grim-faced at a makeshift lectern outside his rented island compound.

“His extraordinary life on this Earth has come to an end. The extraordinary good that he did lives on.”

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Harris and Lloyd Halls three years ago, the “First Year Experience� journal system was implemented on a large scale for the first time this semester to all residence halls.

In addition to giving notes for RAs to follow, Wallace said the journals would also serve as good ways to analyze possible trends within the halls. “It allows us to look at the whole picture,� Wallace said. “It lets us see how our

NEWS students are really doing.�

The journal itself contains various pieces of Universityrelated information, such as academic support services, the University Career Center and various student organizations, in addition to a number of pages in which RAs can take notes on students to see how their college experiences are going or to make referrals to various support services if a particular student has a problem that requires attention.

Ross Bryan, director of residential communities, said the journals are not put into

a file or permanent record.

There is no hidden agenda with keeping these journals, Bryan said, and they are only to be used as tools the RA, can use to better keep track of their students’ needs.

In addition, Bryan said he hopes the RAs will use the journals accordingly to ultimately do their jobs to the best of their abilities. “I hope that the residents and RA’s view this booklet as a tool that they can both use to better understand each other, their community, and the larger campus community,� Bryan said.

Time gap in Jackson death could prove key to case Thomas Watkins The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A key point of contention has emerged in the case investigators are piecing together about the death of Michael Jackson: Exactly when did Dr. Conrad Murray realize that his patient had stopped breathing?

There are currently two accounts of that moment on June 25, and about an hour separates them.

According to police documents, Murray told detectives he put Jackson to sleep with drugs just minutes before he found the singer not breathing around 11 a.m., then let nearly 90 minutes go by — much of that time on his cell phone — before an ambulance was called.

But Murray’s lawyer says the doctor didn’t discover a stricken Jackson until around noon.

Investigators have ruled Jackson’s death a homicide, based on tests showing he was killed by the combination of the anesthetic propofol with at least two sedatives, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the finding has not been publicly released.

The homicide designation does not necessarily mean a crime was committed, though it’s a helpful starting point should prosecutors choose to seek criminal charges. Police have said Murray is the target of an investigation into manslaughter, defined as a homicide without malice or premeditation.

Murray told police he spent the morning of June 25 administering various sedatives to Jackson in an attempt to get him to sleep, according to an affidavit for a search warrant served last month on Murray’s clinic in Houston. Unsuccessful in inducing rest, the doctor ultimately gave in to the singer’s demands for a dose of propofol around 10:40 a.m.

By 11 a.m., after a short trip to the bathroom, Murray said he saw Jackson was not breathing and began trying to revive him, both with a “rescue� drug and by performing CPR, according to the documents. An ambulance was not called until 12:21 p.m. and Murray spent much of the intervening time making non-emergency cell phone calls, police say.

That timeline is flawed, said Murray’s attorney, Edward Chernoff, who was present when investigators spent three hours interviewing the doctor June 27.

Chernoff said Murray never told police he found Jackson not breathing at 11 a.m. — instead, it was more like noon. “Their theory is he came back and wasn’t breathing. That’s not what Dr. Murray told them,�

Chernoff said Tuesday. “They are confusing the time Michael Jackson went to sleep with the time he stopped breathing.�

Chernoff did not provide additional detail about what Murray had told police.

Home use of propofol is virtually unheard of — safe

administration requires lifesaving equipment and a trained anesthesiologist monitoring the patient at all times. While the 25 mg dose Murray said he gave Jackson was relatively small, its combination with the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam proved deadly.

Even if Murray found Jackson around noon, he still waited too long to call an ambulance, said one medical expert, adding that anyone — including doctors — should make calling an ambulance their first priority.

AP In this ďŹ le photo, a silver BMW, identiďŹ ed by police as belonging to Michael JacksonĘźs doctor Conrad Murray, is taken from JacksonĘźs rented home in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.

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George Wallace Jr. eyes race for Ala. treasurer

By Phillip Rawls The Associated Press MONTGOMERY — Former State Treasurer George Wallace Jr. is considering making a political comeback because he wants to help the state’s prepaid college tuition plan make a financial comeback.

Wallace, a Republican, said he is leaning toward running for state treasurer next year and expects to announce a decision within a month.

If he runs, he will join Republican Terry Dunn and Democrat Jeremy Sherer in the race. Both said Wednesday they plan to stay in the race if Wallace enters it.

The current treasurer, Republican Kay Ivey, is running for governor.

AP George Wallace Jr. talks with reporters along with his wife Elizabeth after conceding defeat in the Republican runoff election for lieutenant governor in Montgomery in 2006. Former State Treasurer George Wallace Jr. is considering a political comeback because he wants to help the stateĘźs prepaid college tuition program make a ďŹ nancial comeback.

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The reason for the calls is that when Wallace was state treasurer, he and Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. persuaded the Legislature to start the program in 1990. The Legislature honored the two officials by naming the program after them.

Parents or grandparents pay a fixed amount into the program in expectation a child will receive four years of tuition at a state university. The state invests the money to pay tuition.

The program had no major problems paying tuition until the stock market plunge caused the investments to lose about half their value. Tuition costs also started growing faster than anticipated. A recent state study estimated it could take as much as $1 billion to make good on the tuition contracts. “We’ve got to recover, and I’d like to be a part of that,�

Wallace said in an interview Tuesday evening.

In Wallace’s view, the state should back up the program’s 48,000 contracts with money from a trust fund the state has for revenue from natural gas wells drilled in state-owned waters. He said Alabama taxpayers should not bear the cost. “Those who didn’t purchase the contracts shouldn’t be responsible for restructuring the PACT program,� he said.

Dunn, a Southside businessman, said he’s ready to take on Wallace in the GOP primary in June. “It’s an issue of whether voters want a new face in Montgomery or someone from the old days,� he said.

Sherer, a Birmingham attorney, said that if he ends up facing Wallace in the general election in November 2010, one issue he will raise is the tuition program not having a sound financial design. “The problems with PACT did not begin with Kay Ivey. They were formed at the inception,� he said.

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Since then, he and his wife, Elizabeth, have been dividing their time between homes in Shelby County and Palmetto, Fla., and he has been writing a book about his father. “I had believed the days of seeking political office were over for me,� said Wallace, 57.

That changed when longtime supporters and participants in Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Plan began to call him when the program ran into financial problems in February.

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Sale of big-ticket items soar

By Alan ZIbel The Associated Press

WA S H I N G T O N — Consumers and businesses went on a big-ticket spending spree in July, sending home, car and equipment sales soaring by the largest amount in years.

The sales, detailed in two government reports Wednesday, confirmed a subtle but marked shift in confidence about the economy. New home sales jumped almost 10 percent from June, while orders for longlasting goods like appliances, planes and computers rose nearly 5 percent in July, the third increase in the past four months.

“It looks like we’ve hit bottom and we’re now slowly trying to dig our way out,” said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight.

Still, it remains unclear whether the growth can be sustained. Though the increases in housing sales and manufacturing last month were dramatic, they came from extraordinarily low levels and were fueled by temporary government programs like Cash for Clunkers and tax credits for home sales.

Most economists now agree the recession that began in December 2007 has ended or is ending. Some say the economy is poised to grow strongly in the July-September quarter, but will probably show weaker growth after government stimulus spending tapers off.

Sales of new homes surged to a seasonally adjusted pace of 433,000 in July from 395,000 in June, the Commerce Department said, providing another sign the housing

market is bouncing back from the historic bottom reached early this year. Driven by falling prices, the fourth-straight monthly increase was greater than expected. Sales haven’t risen so dramatically since February 2005.

While sales are still off nearly 70 percent from the frenzied peak four years ago, they are still up more than 30 percent from the bottom in January — a big relief after a long and painful decline.

“We can stop worrying about the housing market and start playing closer attention to other issues, such as when credit will start flowing more freely,” Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors, wrote in a note to clients.

The improved outlook could help further boost the economy.

As home sales rise, builders will gradually need to hire more workers to pour foundations and pave roads, reversing the

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A sold sign is posted outside a newly constructed luxury home in Wellesley, Mass., Tuesday. trend that saw 1.4 million industry jobs shed since the recession began.

“These are crucial elements of a sustainable recovery,” David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities, wrote in a research note.

Construction job losses have slowed recently, with 76,000 lost

in July, about half January’s level.

Much like Cash for Clunkers, homebuyers are rushing to take advantage of a federal tax credit that covers 10 percent of the home price, or up to $8,000, for first-time owners. Home sales must be completed by the end of November for buyers to qualify.

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NEW YORK — Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,” died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.

Actor-director Griffin Dunne said in a statement released by Vanity Fair that his father had been battling bladder cancer for some time. But the cancer did not prevent Dunne from working and socializing, his twin passions.

In September 2008, against the orders of his doctor and the wishes of his family, he flew to Las Vegas to attend the kidnap-robbery trial of O.J. Simpson, a postscript to his coverage of Simpson’s 1995 murder trial that spiked Dunne’s considerable fame.

In the past year, Dunne had traveled to Germany and the Dominican Republic for experimental stem cell treatments to fight his cancer. At one point, he wrote that he and Farrah Fawcett were in the same cancer clinic in Bavaria but did not see each other.

He discontinued his column at Vanity Fair to concentrate on finishing another novel, “Too Much Money,” which is to come out in December. He also made a number of appearances to promote a documentary film about his life, “After

the Party,” which was being released on DVD. Dunne was beginning to write his memoirs and, until close to the end of his life, he posted online messages on his own Web site commenting on events in his life and thanking his fans for their constant support.

Dunne was part of a famous family that also included his brother, novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne; his brother’s wife, author Joan Didion; and his son, Griffin.

A one-time movie producer, Dunne carved a new career starting in the 1980s as a chronicler of the problems of the wealthy and powerful.

Tragedy struck his own life in 1982 when his actress daughter, Dominique, was slain — and that experience informed his fiction and his journalistic efforts from then on.

“If you go through what I went through, losing my daughter, you have strong, strong feelings of revenge,” Dunne said in 1990 in discussing his novel, “People Like Us,” in which the protagonist shoots the man convicted of killing his daughter.

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Candidate uses plumb line for campaign prop

By Phillip Rawls The Associated Press MONTGOMERY — Republican Bradley Byrne has found an inexpensive symbol for his campaign for governor — a plumb line he uses to illustrate his desire to straighten out state government.

Byrne pulled out a homemade plumb line — a rock tied on the end of a string — during a forum for gubernatorial candidates Monday night at a Montgomery church. It generated strong applause.

Byrne said afterward, he had been getting good response in speeches when he talked about applying an ethical plumb line to state government. He decided emphasize the remarks by creating a plumb line to show voters. He used it for the first time Monday night.

Byrne was one of six gubernatorial candidates from both parties participating in the

forum, but he was the only one with a prop. It got such a strong response that later in the forum, Republican candidate Tim James recalled how his father, former Gov. Fob James, traveled in a yellow school bus in his 1978 campaign to symbolize his desire to improve Alabama schools.

William Stewart, former chairman of the political science department at the University of Alabama, said winning candidates for governor have often used props and symbols like James did.

Two-term Gov. James E. “Big Jim� Folsom carried around a broom, a mop and a “suds bucket� in 1946 to symbolize his plan to clean up Montgomery politics.

Gov. Gordon Persons campaigned in a helicopter in 1954 to demonstrate his desire to make the state more progressive. “Few people had seen a

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Gov. John Patterson passed out a comic book in his 1958 campaign to tell his life story in pictures. It portrayed him as an heroic crime fighter looking to get rid of illegal gambling.

Two-term Gov. Bob Riley used his horse, Sandman, in 2002 to strike a campaign pose reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan. Sandman was such an effective election tool that Riley featured the horse in his inaugural parade. “The idea of a prop is a good speech technique because it gives people a visual to go along with the words,� Stewart said Tuesday.

For Byrne, the plumb line allowed the candidate to appeal to voters by mixing biblical scripture with a good government message. It didn’t hurt that the forum was organized by the Christian Coalition of Alabama.

“I was reading the other day the Book of Amos. In the Book of Amos, God tells the prophet, ‘I have created a plumb line for Israel,’� Byrne told the audience.

For those inexperienced in building, Byrne explained that a plumb line is used to make sure the supports for a building are straight so it won’t fall down. “God has put a plumb line in the United States of America.

And these last few years he has put a plumb line here in the state of Alabama,� Byrne said.

Byrne recounted how he served as chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system for two years before resigning to run for governor.

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rying about the game that much.� “Yeah, we’re definitely The Alabama Crimson Tide excited about Virginia Tech,� football team continued fall said senior Jack linebacker camp Wednesday afternoon, Eryk Anders. “We’re tired of conducting a full-pad prac- hitting each other and going tice in scorching hot weather over our own plays.� at the Thomas-Drew Practice Facility.

Getting started on With a week and a half left before the Tide’s showdown the right foot with Virginia Tech, head coach Nick Saban and the Peek, who has looked Tide continue to work on fun- impressive throughout fall damentals and basics, hoping camp in both receiving and to commit the nuts and bolts blocking drills, has almost of the game to muscle mem- fully recovered from a foot ory before beginning specific injury sustained during pracgame planning for the Hokies tice for the Sugar Bowl last next week. season. “Basically, we just went out “I feel 100 percent, but I’m there and‌worked on the fun- sure I’m still working out some damental things,â€? said red- of the kinks,â€? Peek said. “But shirt junior wide receiver Earl I feel wonderful out there, so Alexander. “[We’re] doing the I’m just blessed with that.â€? basics and just getting better The injury did not severely at those things before we start limit Peek during scrimmages preparing for the game.â€? this fall, as said he has been able to fully participate. “Yes, sir, I’ve been able to do It’s (almost) game everything in the scrimmages,â€? Peek said. “I’m thankful time to be where I’m at right now.â€?

At the same time, Alexander was unable to hide his eagerA cult of ness to begin the season at the Georgia Dome on Sept. 5. personality “Oh, yeah,� Alexander said when asked about his exciteAnders was asked about ment for the start of the 2009 the personality of the 2009 season. “Everybody is excited, Alabama defense, which very excited.� returns many key pieces of a Tight end transfer Colin top-5 nationally ranked unit Peek, who sacrificed his from 2008. junior year of eligibility as he “Hard-working, unwilling sat out the 2008 season per to give up an inch, just a very NCAA rules, is perhaps more stubborn defense,� Anders excited than any player on the said. “I feel like we can do Alabama roster to get on the great things with the people field. we have.� “I’m definitely super-antsy,�

The Tide will continue Peek said. “After a year on the practice this afternoon. All sidelines, you lose a little bit practices are closed to of that enthusiasm, not wor- the public.

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O-line key to Tide’s season

By Jason Galloway ESPN’s College Game Day brings a new perspective to pregame festivities.

Fans hug the rail for 12 meaningless hours to funnel in like sand in an hourglass for a meaningful two, making regular tailgating look like your grandmother’s book club meeting.

A sea of 28-by-22 inch poster board signifies that your campus is about to engage in the biggest college football game of the week, and that the fans may analyze the superstitions of Lee Corso’s headgear pattern even more so than the actual match up.

The Game Day crew starts its 2009 road trip the same place it began a year ago, in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, where in 2008, Alabama’s 34-10 thrashing of then-No. 9 Clemson set the tone for the Crimson Tide’s fiveweek stint as the top team in the country, hoisting the illustrious program out of its recent years of solemn mediocrity.

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“You need guys like Cory Reamer who affect other people,” head football coach Nick Saban said. “Those kind of guys are priceless in terms of what they mean to your team.”

The 6-foot-4, 234-pound Reamer was a product of Hoover High School’s powerhouse football program, where he played safety, capping a high school career with a performance for the ages in the 2004 class 6A state championship game. Reamer tallied five tackles, two blocked punts, one of which he returned for a touchdown and an interception which he returned 42 yards to set up another Hoover score, as the Buccaneers would go on to defeat Prattville High School 22-7 to capture its third consecutive state title.

Reamer said he credits his background at the elite school

enters this year’s game against the ACC’s best as the favorite, although the seven new starters on the Crimson Tide’s offense will receive an early test against a Virginia Tech defense that ranked ninth in the country in scoring defense last season.

Alabama’s most apparent change is one that has remained constant the past three years — the man under center. John Parker Wilson’s graduation gives way to red shirt junior Greg McElroy, who snatched records away from former Missouri quarterback Chase Daniels dur-

ing McElroy’s senior year at Southlake Carroll High School in Texas.

Aside from McElroy’s potential to be better than Wilson, the most surprising development has been McElroy’s ability to match Wilson’s leadership, earning the respect of his teammates back in spring practice.

The bigger issue, however, is the Tide’s three replacements up front, including a new left tackle taking over All-American Andre Smith’s spot. Smith was the anchor of an offensive line that pulverized defensive fronts unlike any Alabama line since Shaun Alexander was running behind Chris Samuels.

Not only is that the gamechanging component of Alabama’s season opener against the Hokies, but it quite possibly could be the seasondeciding aspect of the Tide’s 2009 campaign.

After being so dominant on the ground last year, can the new crew up front sustain anything close to last year’s production? If so, will it take the

group a few games before gaining the continuity it needs to be successful? If that’s the case, Alabama could be 0-1 after Sept. 5 in a season that carries more promise than any other in the last 15 years.

Without running back Darren Evans and an overrated quarterback who threw seven interceptions to just two touchdowns last season, Virginia Tech will not be scoring much, if any, on an Alabama defense that looks to be as good as or better than last year.

But will the Tide be able to score on the stifling Virginia Tech defensive unit? That depends on the offensive line’s ability to allow Alabama’s running game to pick up where it left off last season, which would also take heaps of pressure off a new quarterback.

The 24-point waylayof Clemson last year set the stage for the rest of the season. The play of the Tide’s front line in this year’s Virginia Tech game could do the same.

with helping his transition to the college game in terms of strength and technique.

“The development is a lot faster for guys who have been in a 6A program,” Reamer said.

“You come in and coaches are trying to teach guys what to do, you already know what’s going on…I could really just focus on football.”

Growing up, Reamer said he was a fan of the Tide’s in-state rival, the Auburn Tigers, but when former head coach Mike Shula came calling, Reamer found the transition from blue and orange to crimson and white an easy one to make.

“It was a lot easier than a lot of people understand,” Reamer said. “[The former staff] showed me a lot of love, showed me they really wanted me to be here.”

Reamer made a quick impact at Alabama, earning a special teams spot as a true freshman on the Tide’s stellar 2005 squad,

which at one point was 9-0 and ranked No. 3 in the nation.

Reamer, however, would not see past the signature victory of that season, as he suffered a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in the 31-3 Tide victory over the Florida Gators.

Rehab would be long and painful for Reamer. Typical ACL tears require at least six months of recovery, and a problem with Reamer’s rehabilitation would lead to a second surgery and another year off the field.

“It was terrible, man,” Reamer said. “It was rough…I really hated being down here for my first two years.”

After he was finally able to strap on pads once again, a new curveball was tossed Reamer’s way in the arrival of Nick Saban.

Saban, who perhaps saw that Reamer had lost some speed with the reconstructed knee, decided to move Reamer to outside linebacker in the fall of 2007.

“It was definitely a tough transition,” Reamer said. “I was only 195 pounds when I got here…I had to put on a lot of weight and get used to carrying an extra 35-40 pounds around…I had a lot of good coaching, which really helped the transition a lot.”

Reamer emerged after overcoming all the hurdles, earning a starting spot on last year’s 12-2 Tide squad, which finished the year ranked with the nation’s No. 3 defense. Reamer contributed more than his fair share, racking up 35 tackles, six for a loss, to go along with a sack and a forced fumble.

Heading into his senior season, Reamer looks to build on those numbers while appreciating his final, and hopefully less traumatic, year.

“It’s flown by so fast,” Reamer said. “It is kind of sad in a way...I think the senior class will be pushing the team to accomplish a lot of goals.”

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SPORTS in brief Cauley advances at U.S. Amateur From staff reports TULSA, Okla. –- Alabama golfer Bud Cauley defeated the No. 1 amateur in the world 3-1 in the first round of match play at the 109th U.S. Amateur on Wednesday at Southern Hills Country Club.

Cauley downed Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler, who is No. 1 in the latest Golfweek/ amateurgolf.com rankings.

Cauley, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., and a sophomore for the Crimson Tide, jumped out to an early 2-up lead by winning the first two holes and never looked back.

He extended the lead to 2-up on a couple different occasions,

Court: Investigators wrong to seize MLB drug list

By Paul Elias The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that agents had no right to seize baseball’s anonymous drug-testing results from 2003, an infamous list that tarnished America’s pastime and some of its biggest stars.

The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for the players’ union, which has argued for years to have the results of the 104 players who allegedly tested positive for performanceenhancing drugs in 2003 returned.

“This was an obvious case of deliberate overreaching by the government in an effort to seize data as to which it lacked probable cause,” Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in the 9-2 decision.

Barring a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the test results and samples will be destroyed, and prosecutors cannot use the information. Union lawyers said the government returned the

but did not separate until he sank a 30-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole. He finished the match with an impressive eagle on the 17th to close out Fowler, who will be his teammate at the Walker Cup in September.

“It is really quite an accomplishment for Bud,” Alabama head coach Jay Seawell said after he caddied for Cauley on Wednesday. “It was a tough draw for him to get the No. 1 amateur in the world in the first round of match play, but he went out and took care of business. He played really well from beginning to end, which is what you have to do when you are facing an opponent the caliber of Rickie Fowler.”

Cauley draws University of Arkansas golfer and Sweden native David Lingmerth in the round of 32 on Thursday. evidence shortly after earlier trial court rulings.

The panel said federal agents trampled on players’ protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, though the ruling came too late to spare players linked to the list, including Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, who admitted they were on it.

Ortiz said he didn’t care about the ruling, adding it won’t help him almost a month after his name was leaked.

Atlanta star Chipper Jones agreed.

“It doesn’t matter now,” Jones said. “The names are already out there in the general public. We’ve already got a number out there. It’s not going to be over until it’s all out there.”

Kozinski said the players’ union had good reason to want to keep the list under wraps.

“The risk to the players associated with disclosure, and with that the ability of the Players Association to obtain voluntary compliance with drug testing from its members in the future, is very high,” the judge wrote.

“Indeed, some players appear to have already suffered this very harm as a result of the government’s seizure.”

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By Josh Hedrick Senior Staff Reporter

UA professor Daniel Livingston had his work cut out for him in preparing for the USA Triathlon Elite National Championship event held Saturday.

He met with tournament officials, checked over his equipment, and got down to the task at hand: processing the dump truck load of clay excavated from nearby campus construction. Livingston then used the debris-free clay to create uniquely Alabamian trophies for the winners of Saturday’s competition.

“Instead of winning something plastic bought from a store, the trophies were made from clay literally in sight of where the competition took place,” said Livingston, a ceramics and drawing professor at UA. “The idea was for people who came from all over to be able to take a piece of Tuscaloosa home with them.”

During the 2008 Olympic Triathlon qualifying event held in Tuscaloosa, then-director of the Kentuck Association Sara Anne Gibson recommended

that Livingston be commissioned to create the trophies for the qualifier event. His talents were again sought for this year’s event.

After meeting with event officials, Livingston said they were able to settle on a design that focused on the local clay, not on an intricate design.

“They look like casserole dishes with lids,” he said. “The hardest part, really, was finding the right glaze to go with the Triathlon colors.”

Although born in Rhode Island, Livingston has spent most of his life in Mississippi and Alabama. And for as long as he can remember, he has been playing and building things with the rich southern clay.

“I can never remember when I didn’t play with clay,” he said.

“I didn’t have far to look for it either. There was a creek right in my backyard that I’d go get it from and have fun playing with.”

He said that during those preinternet days, when “Halo” and Facebook were far-off fantasies, kids made their own fun — in his case, clay creations.

Had Livingston grown up in a different time with indoor, elec-

Tim Yount of the USA Elite Triathlon Championship event gets a first look at the ceramic trophies created by Daniel Livingston and presented to the first, second and third place winners in three events.

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tronic entertainment, undoubtedly he still would have kindled his passion for the kiln and the pottery — clay is in his veins, he said.

For the more than 30 years of his pottery career, his creations have received recognition from

across the globe. He is particularly noted for his raku creations. Raku, he said, is a rapid fire method of firing pottery, often in less than 15 minutes.

He conducts public demonstrations of this process at Kentuck Park, having been a

demonstrating artist for the organization since 1991. His works are also on display in the Kentuck studio.

Livingston has been connected with the University since he completed his bachelor of fine arts degree at the

University after transferring from Mississippi. He then went on to receive his master’s in fine arts from the University. He is now a faculty member, teaching drawing and ceramics courses on the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dozier Bell lectures on art at Gorgas library

By Andrew Hester Staff Writer Walking into Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, one expects to see paintings with the usual modern feel, but there is a bigger picture behind the pieces. Dozier Bell’s work from far away looks as if it is a photograph taken on film, but closer, there is more to the art on her canvases.

Bell gave audiences a closer look at her art through a lecture Wednesday at Gorgas Library.

Perfecting the art of charcoal and paints, Bell has pieces in galleries from New York to Barcelona. She also has pieces in a gallery in Maine, where she was raised and resides today.

Her art is a revolutionary way of portraying the most common objects, from clouds and the sun, into a larger picture that has to be looked at closer. Her techniques of using paints and charcoals is an inventive way to make the viewer think about how the art itself was made and what Bell was thinking when she started the process, she said.

“My whole approach is to see the image and then tell about it in art,” Bell said when giving her introduction to the lecture.

With most of Bell’s pieces in the Sarah Moody Gallery at the size of 3.5-by-4 inches, the audience of her work should feel obligated to step closer for an inside look to the real meaning

of the pieces in the “Navigator” collection. Even though pieces in the “Navigator” collection are close to the size of a postcard, they look as if they could be transformed into full-blown murals with the given wall space.

“I didn’t want these to be narrative pieces,” Bell said, describing a landscape shot.

She said the spaces in her work are not there for a reason, but they just feel right. The “Navigator” collection is com-

posed of paintings and charcoals of images of the moon and clouds.

She said her “Navigator” collection was influenced by science and nature as they go hand in hand. Bell said she was intrigued by works on constellations where an Old Testament god is present, and the same can be shown with 20th Century technology.

Apart from the collection in the Sarah Moody Gallery, Bell also showed a set of photomon-

tages of pictures that had an effect on her growing up. The photos were made up of the ocean, and bedroom scenes.

Seeing Bell’s photo work and paintings, it is now hard to tell the difference between the two because of the amazing talent she has to turn paintings and charcoal into art that looks as though they were taken with film. She explains that she uses her work to express her experiences into art.

There are a few pieces that do not seem to fit into the “Navigator” collection, because they are of parachutists jumping out into space, which she begins to talk about with a laugh. She said she was intrigued by this idea by the recent closings of art galleries.

The works of Bell have been on display in Sarah Moody Gallery of Art on campus since July 31 and will be on display until Sept. 4.

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The narrative of a generation

By Avery Dame Metro/State Editor Pop culture phenomena come with a distinct lifecycle, culminating in the final stage of metatexual deconstructive postmodern analysis. Case in point: the “Harry Potter” series is for this generation of college students, their pop culture childhood, signified in part by its still-active and interactive fan following.

“The Unwritten,” written by Mike Carey with art by Peter Gross, then, is “Harry Potter’s” postmodern foil. At the center of “The Unwritten” lies the young adult magic fantasy book series “Tommy Taylor” and its titular hero, young Tommy Taylor.

But, unlike Harry Potter, Tommy Taylor is not only a boy magician but also a living, breathing individual, the son of “Taylor” author Wilson Taylor — who went missing not long after the publication of the series’ thirteenth book.

Taylor resents both the books and the fame they bring him, as his life cycles through an unending string of convention appearances and book signings. This ends when a fan questions his legitimacy as Wilson Taylor’s son, sparking outrage among the fanbase.

“The Unwritten” opens strong and never lets up. Carey powers his first issue with references to the “Harry Potter” fanbase, dropping in nods to such classic fandom stereotypes as people convinced they are characters from the books and the quasi-religious cult which take the books as gospel.

By the end of the issue, however, the lines between living, breathing individuals and the characters they represent blurs — soon becoming invisible. Every character is itself a reference, either to the ‘Taylor” series or

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Tommy himself is a reference full of references to the landmarks of great and popular literature and its authors, the only legacy of his father. Though this could initially seem off-putting for the less fandom-inclined, Carey maintains a high level of reader immersion by opening each issue with an excerpt from the “Taylor” books or a related work.

Taken alone, these are excellent snippets that recall the best of the “Potter” series as well as other classic children’s fantasy, such as Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising” series. Personally, reading them made me wish there was a real “Tommy Taylor” series, if just for the chance to read the books in DC Comics their entirety.

Covers of Issue 1 and 2 of “The Unwritten” by Yuko Shimizu.

When illustrated and used to bookend important sections of the comic, the snippets central premise, the stories we tell need to be. Art and word compleemphasize “Unwritten’s” metatex- ourselves and others can and do ment each other well, keeping the tone consistent throughout. tuality, never letting the reader have serious consequences.

In their previous collaboration, In description, “The Unwritten” stray too far from the comic’s can sound pretty dense. But it’s the comic series “Lucifer,” Carey generally a fast read, as Peter and Gross were never able to Gross’s artwork does what great equal the series from which their comic artwork should: filling work was spun off, Neil Gaiman’s “The Unwritten” opens strong and in what the script leaves unex- “Sandman.” At times, however, never lets up. they got extremely close. plained.

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hatred all the way back to a bad trade involving some guy named Babe Ruth.

And the Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers have been beating each other since helmets were leather and the only way to see the game in high definition was to actually be at the stadium.

But in the past decade, a new rivalry of sorts has emerged in the world of sports video games, prompting gaming aficionados to open their wallets and ask a single question: What do I want more — “Madden NFL” or “NCAA Football”?

For the uninitiated, EA Sports’ John Madden series of video games go back to the ancient days of 1989 and have provided an NFL fix for millions. EA’s “NCAA Football,” on the other hand, tries to replicate the college football experience and can trace its roots back to 1992.

With each franchise being updated yearly and running $60 for a new game, for many the choice between the two can be difficult.

Tuscaloosa, however, has spoken.

According to Matthew Barbour, an employee at the Midtown GameStop and senior political science major, his store has led the nation in sales of NCAA Football for the last two years — the only years of its existence. The University Mall GameStop had the record for the previous five years, meaning Tuscaloosa has been the “NCAA Football” champ for seven years running.

“We’re the football kingdom of the South,” Barbour said.

GameStop held midnight release parties for both “NCAA 10” and “Madden 10” when they hit the streets. For “Madden 10,” Barbour said the store was full with a few people being forced to stand outside.

For “NCAA 10,” the store was full, sure.

But the line outside stretched down and around Midtown shops.

“It’s big enough that we actually grill outside for people who preorder it,” Barbour said. “For the first couple of weeks, we can’t hold it on the shelves.”

It’s popular here, yes, but can the “NCAA Football” series beat its Madden counterpart in a fair fight on the merits, not one based on the passionate enthusiasm of a die-hard college town?

Ultimately, it’s a matter of personal taste. If you like the personal thrill of scampering around the Bryant-Denny Stadium turf (without the security staff chasing you), “NCAA Football” is your game. But if you prefer an evenly matched, more cerebral tilt (if you, indeed can be cerebral with a football video game), then the latest installment of “Madden NFL” should be your one buy if you have to choose.

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THE CASE FOR â&#x20AC;&#x153;MADDENâ&#x20AC;?

If you search hard enough, you can find someone locally who would take â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madden 10â&#x20AC;? over â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA 10.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just prefer â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Madden,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Joey Dodson, a 2007 UA graduate and a one-time graphics editor for The Crimson White.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a better game, Dodson says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hung up on playing as Alabama.â&#x20AC;?

Dodson has a few complaints with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? series, namely the level of competition between teams and the seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dearth of innovations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The competition varies too much in team ratings,â&#x20AC;? Dodson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like how you can run up the score on people. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just played too many bad games to buy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; every year.â&#x20AC;?

Dodson also said the â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? series borrows too heavily from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madden.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maddenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; has the dibs on bells and whistles,â&#x20AC;? Dodson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gets hand-me-downs. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to get a video game, I want it to be new.â&#x20AC;?

But aside from simply hating on the college game, there are independent things to like about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madden.â&#x20AC;? The graphics in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maddenâ&#x20AC;? series, for example, always seem to be a cut above its college counterpart.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madden is beautifully done,â&#x20AC;? Barbour said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The graphics are a lot better.â&#x20AC;?

And that just makes sense. Whereas the developers at â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? have to concentrate on more than 100 teams and their stadiums (not to mention the litany of post-season bowl games), the geniuses who craft â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maddenâ&#x20AC;? only have to deal with the 32 professional teams. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maddenâ&#x20AC;? to look better, and while the fact it does is no surprise, that still does not take away from the visual splendor of the game.

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If the college game is your game, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go wrong with â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Football.â&#x20AC;? The gameday experience of more than 100 teams is painstakingly recreated, and stadiums across the country are replicated in nearly perfect digital form.

Barbour said he prefers â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? because of game tweaks such as better play on defense and easier ways to manage play on both sides of the ball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more realistic,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edition, EA Sports included a feature where gamers could use their own tracks to accompany certain ingame cues, such as a score, a big defensive play or a timeout.

So, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re maybe a little too into the game (like me), you have a Million Dollar Band CD and you set it up right, you can listen to the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basketcaseâ&#x20AC;? at the end of any in-game third quarter. And giddiness ensues.

Both â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? and the Madden series have similar game modes where you can play a single pick-up game or a career mode of sorts where you take control of a single player or a team. In dynasty mode, the player takes the reigns of a college football team and molds it in his own image, be it a flashy aerial bomb squad or a nasty team built around the running game and defense.

For Alabama fans, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing more pleasurable than starting a dynasty and leading the Tide to a national championship. The chief joy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? is

living out this fantasy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after all, what Alabama man doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dream about hoisting the crystal football? Or five or six national championships for that matter?

Fantasy football gets no sweeter or more satisfying than â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Football.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maddenâ&#x20AC;? brings better graphics and closer competition, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Footballâ&#x20AC;? is an easy avenue for any would-be walk-on quarterback to bring his beloved team to glory.

While fans may continue to argue over the superior franchise, there is certainly one clear winner: EA Sports â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the publisher of both games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are totally different franchises,â&#x20AC;? said Julie Michel, a senior publicist for EA Sports, in an e-mail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCAA Football 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is all about Saturdays and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Madden NFL 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is all about Sundays. They are both top selling games.â&#x20AC;?

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