THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 VOLUME 121 | ISSUE 19
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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894
Butterflies
3 John Grisham
6 Dark Matter
University of Alabama researchers are studying shark skin and butterfly wings to learn more about effective aviation techniques. Studying the scales on butterfly wings and shark skin provides insight on ways to prevent friction.
John Grisham, author of over 29 bestselling books, was awarded the 2014 Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction. This is Grisham’s second novel to win the prestigious award.
Three University of Alabama physicists are researching dark matter, a substance that may make up a large percentage of space. Official research will in South Dakota.
ANATOMY OF GAMEDAY
Lottery offers additonal chance for game access By Maddy Ard | Contributing Writer
The long-awaited football season is finally upon The University of Alabama. All across campus, there is a buzz of pride and anticipation for Saturday afternoons spent My freshman year, in Bryant-Denny I totally forgot to Stadium. purchase a For students who missed the football package. chance to get football tickets, — Camille Driver — there are a variety of options still available for students to gain access to the stadium. The lottery system is one way to obtain tickets. Students who decide they do not want to or cannot attend a game donate their tickets to a lottery. “My freshman year, I totally forgot to purchase a football package,” said Camille Driver, a senior majoring in public relations and human development. “I went online and opted in every Sunday at 1 p.m. I actually got a ticket to every game.” To request a ticket through the lottery system, students need to log into their myBama account and locate the MyTickets tab on the homepage. This will take students to a page listing their name, CWID and the team the Crimson Tide is playing in the upcoming game. Students need to simply click “Request Ticket,” and SEE TICKETS PAGE 13
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Gameday is almost here. The first of seven home game Saturdays is almost here. Finally, Crimson Tide football is back at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Soon the Quad will be bustling with Alabama fans tailgating and waiting for that 11 a.m. kickoff. Turn to our GAMEDAY magazine insert to read about the upcoming matchup.
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SCENE ON CAMPUS Senior health studies major Deandra Millner and senior TCF major Calvin Ross practice self-defense on the Quad. CW / Shelby Akin
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WHAT: Homegrown Alabama WHEN: Sept – Oct 23, from 3 – 6 p.m. WHERE: Canterbury Episcopal Church
by students who give up their time each week so the Tuscaloosa area can enjoy local goods. Come by Canterbury Episcopal Church and pick up some peaches, then call your nana for the recipe and bake one of those cobblers you so desperately miss. Compiled by Hannah Hammitte
Farmers’ market WHAT: Homegrown Alabama WHEN: 3-6 p.m. WHERE: Canterbury Episcopal Chapel
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The smell of your nana’s homemade peach cobbler doesn’t have to be just a memory. “Freshly picked apples and tomatoes” doesn’t have to be false advertisement one reads under the produce baskets at the grocery store. Homegrown Alabama Farmers’ Market makes its appearance again this evening at Canterbury Episcopal Church. The farmers’ market begins at 3 p.m. and will wrap up at 6 p.m. Each week this student-led farmers’ market gives students and locals the opportunity to purchase local goods and produce. The farmers’ market is available every Thursday to the public until Oct 23. Homegrown Alabama is a great way for students to buy locally and meet others who also enjoy purchasing goods locally.
Visiting speaker WHAT: Rob Nelson - Mapping the Slave Frontier WHEN: 4-5 p.m. WHERE: Room 205 Gorgas Library
Campus art WHAT: Art Night in Woods Quad WHEN: 6-8 p.m. WHERE: Garland Hall and Woods Quad Woods Hall
Campus exhibit WHAT: Glimpses of the Great War Abroad and at Home WHEN: All Day WHERE: J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pearce Grand Foyer, Gorgas Library
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Women’s Resource Center to host Chocolate Festival The Women’s Resource Center will host its 4th Annual Chocolate Festival on Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. in Shelby Hall. Local vendors will supply chocolates while the Women’s Resource Center will provide information on various women’s issues.
Tickets are $8 at the door. Pre-registration is available at the Women’s Resource Center. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Women’s Resource Center. Compiled by Sean Landry
The 49 Out of State Student Organization to hold first meeting The 49 Organization for out-of-state students will hold its first meetings this week in the Ferguson Theater at the Ferguson Student Center. Meetings will be Thursday at 6 p.m. or Sunday at 3 p.m. The 49 is a student coordinating body
designed to help students from out of state connect with student organizations and campus life. Contact Douglas Fair at dcfair@crimson. ua.edu for more information. Compiled by Sean Landry
Department of Art and Art History hosts Art Night at Woods Quad The UA Department of Art and Art History will put on two public art exhibitions Thursday night from 6 to 8 p.m. The Sella-Granata Art Gallery will host the inaugural Alabama National Juried Art Exhibition in Woods Hall,
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Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Thursday, September 4, 2014
Grisham wins Harper Lee prize By Holley Long | Contributing Writer
In Harper Lee’s famous work “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the main character, Atticus Finch, showed millions of readers how lawyers can make a difference and effect positive change. Today, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction recognizes stories told that illuminate these ideals. John Grisham received the Harper Lee Prize for 2014, marking the second time he has been awarded this honor. His first book to receive this award was “The Confession,” and the novel that won this year is “Sycamore Row.” “My thanks to the committee for the selection of ‘Sycamore Row,’” Grisham said. “I’m still admiring the first Harper Lee award. It’s hard to believe there is now a second one. I am deeply humbled.” Members of the selection committee included Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, a writer and former panelist for the Harper Lee award; Kevin Blackistone, professor at the University of Maryland, sports columnist and panelist for ESPN; Fannie Flagg, a New York Times best-selling author; Dan
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Kornstein, partner at Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard and former panelist; and Adam Liptak, lawyer, journalist and New York Times correspondent for the Supreme Court. The Harper Lee Prize, which is authorized by Lee and sponsored by the American Bar Association and The University of Alabama School of Law, is awarded to an author who wrote the most compelling legal fiction, Szegedy-Maszak said. “The prize is given to the author of the most realistic portrayal of the legal field, and John Grisham
wrote such a powerful book,” she said. “The strength of his storytelling as well as the vividness with which he described the life of a lawyer made for a very compelling and believable novel.” “Sycamore Row,” which continues the story of Jake Brigance from “A Time To Kill,” parallels Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” with its theme of racism and characters who face adversity for doing what is right. “Grisham’s book was most representative of the finalists of what Lee came to be known for from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’” Blackistone said. “It tackles issues of the law. It is tangled in race. And in the end it provides a sense of hope that eventually right can overcome wrong, and we as a society can free ourselves for a less encumbered future.” Fans of John Grisham said they were pleased to hear the author was awarded the Harper Lee Prize. “It’s not surprising,” Holly Ford, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, said. “His writing is very descriptive, and it keeps you interested in reading whereas other books can be a struggle to get through.”
Grisham’s Top 5 Best Sellers By Rachel Brown | News Editor
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A Time to Kill This is Grisham’s first novel, published in 1989. The novel follows attorney Jake Brigance and the capital murder trial of a black father charged with killing the men who assaulted his daughter.
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The Firm This book brought Grisham into the national spotlight. The novel tells of a recent law graduate who takes a job at a seemingly perfect law firm only to find out it is not what it seems. It was turned into the 1993 movie “The Firm,” starring Tom Cruise.
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Sycamore Row This novel is the second Jake Brigance story. Set three years after the trial in “A Time to Kill,” Brigance is again made infamous for uncovering the mystery behind a man’s handwritten will and Sycamore Row. Grisham won the 2014 Harper Lee Prize for this work.
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The Pelican Brief Set in the midst of Washington, D.C., and the bayous of Louisiana, “The Pelican Brief” details the whirlwind cover-up scheme of two Supreme Court justice murders and law student Darby Shaw’s inevitable involvement.
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The Client An 11-year-old becomes stuck in a battle between law enforcement and a dangerous crime mob after he, by chance, becomes privy to the whereabouts of America’s most wanted body.
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Editor | Patrick Crowley Opinions@cw.ua.edu Thursday, September 4, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | RACE
Why race still matters By Anthony Berry | Guest Columnist
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University’s reputation is students’ responsibility CRUISE
Hall Staff Columnist
When I read President Judy Bonner’s email condemning the viral Snapchat photo that cast a dark cloud over this year’s historic sorority recruitment, I could only bring a palm to my face and shake my head. Before the school year could begin, The University of Alabama was already scrambling to distance itself from the absurd actions of a few children who happened to be students. It was time to get into PR mode again. We have all memorized some version of a “we’re not all like that” speech for our friends back home, and we are all tired of watching a minuscule subset of students define the University’s reputation. Sadly, though, no amount of PR can prevent a few students from bringing shame upon the University. Let us be clear, Bonner’s swift email was appropriate, but an administration-led, reactionary PR strategy can only do so much to salvage our university’s reputation. It is up to the greater student body
to show the world The University of Alabama we all know and love. We truly are better than the headlines suggest, and we all have a responsibility to demonstrate it. Like many other things we do here, improving the image of the University is a process that starts with an attitude of ownership. Every student is a stakeholder in the University’s future, and we all have an interest in its success. When the University succeeds, we succeed. Anyone who has interviewed for a job or applied to another academic institution understands how comforting it is to be received with esteem simply because your school is highly esteemed. Regardless of where you want to go in life, the University’s good name will precede you. Therefore, we have a responsibility to protect it. After embracing this attitude of ownership, we should extend it to the way we interact with our fellow students. Consider the impressionable freshman who has never sat in the student section at a football game. There is no instruction manual for how to behave in a
stadium swarming with cameras and coast-to-coast sports broadcasters. It is up to the upperclassmen to show him or her how to party and where to draw the line. So if you are an upperclassman, realize that you can have a huge impact on the way upcoming freshmen represent the University in the years to come. Peer pressure works both ways, and we all have a responsibility to challenge one another to live up to a higher standard. And finally, our attitude of ownership should extend to the general public – those who are on the outside looking in. Every time someone interacts with a UA student, their opinion of the University will be affected, for better or worse. We are the face of the University, wherever we go. If we allow this mindset to permeate into our spheres of influence, we can drown out the noise of controversy and show the world The University of Alabama for what it truly is.
Every student is a stakeholder in the University’s future, and we all have an interest in its success. When the University succeeds, we succeed.
Cruise Hall is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. His column runs biweekly on Thursday.
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One of my favorite books during my time in high school was, and still to this day is, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Alabama’s very own Harper Lee. In it, a white attorney named Atticus Finch defends an innocent black man who has been wrongfully charged with rape. The story takes place in pre-civil rights Alabama, so Finch knows what the jury’s verdict will be before he even takes up the case. One of the most profound moments in the book comes when he gives his daughter, Scout, some simple advice on how to deal with people who are different from her. He says, “If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb in his skin and walk around in it. I think this advice is needed in our current debates concerning race in the public sphere.” In the past year alone, there have been numerous incidents both on this campus and nationally that have reignited America’s conversations about race. As a young AfricanAmerican male from the Deep South, some of these incidents have deeply troubled me. In the year 2014, when the United States has twice elected an African-American president, race remains the topic of many very heated discussions. It’s an unsettling issue, regardless of the amount of melanin your skin happens to possess. Even though it is tough, race and its role in our daily lives and society is a conversation that we as a country need to have. From its very beginning, one of the greatest gifts of this nation has been its multi-ethnic and multicultural population. People of every skin color from every corner of the globe call the United States home. This great gift has been tested by things like the horror of slavery, the expulsion of Native Americans from their lands, the imprisonment of JapaneseAmericans during World War II and the discrimination of Eastern European immigrants during the 19th century. Yet succeeding generations fought to right the wrongs that their predecessors created. Now it is our turn. While race relations have undoubtedly improved over the latter half of the last century, there is still much progress to be made. We need to talk about Ferguson. We need to talk about segregated Greek systems. We need to talk about immigration. But communication has to be a dialogue, not a monologue. Otherwise, our efforts to cultivate a more ethnically harmonious nation will instead result in increased discord and hostility. We should not want to be a “colorblind” or “post-racial” society. Anthony Berry is a sophomore majoring in finance.
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OPINIONS Thursday, September 4, 2014 COLUMN | RACE
Historic socioeconomic inequality causes racial inequity in America
NATHAN
James Staff Columnist
Last week, Samaria Johnson wrote an excellent piece titled “The University must provide support for black students, not just words.” As is the norm for controversial columns, Johnson’s piece received a number of hostile Internet comments. The disturbing thing about these comments in particular was how familiar they sounded. One remarked, “Put down your race card … No one owes you anything.” Another said, “You WANT to believe that whites hate you.” I think that Johnson’s column stands on its own merits, and it certainly does not need a defense from me. But I would like to address the stance, exemplified by the comments on her piece, that programs designed to support black Americans are unfair and counterproductive. I have met a number of white
people who believe that as long as no one is acting out against a racial minority with malicious intent, racial equality has been somehow achieved. They believe that if black Americans are poor, incarcerated and uneducated at higher rates compared to white Americans, then the black community just needs to work harder. What these people fail to understand is that racial inequality stems mostly from economic disparity that has been inflicted on black Americans over centuries. For an example of how this affects black Americans today, think of the prestige that is associated with being a first-generation college student. Our society recognizes that it is a significant achievement to go to college when your parents did not. Now consider the fact that until the ’60s, barring black Americans from universities was a matter of public policy. This means some black Americans could have no more than two generations of college education behind them. This is the crux of inequality in our nation today: There is no “old money” among black Americans. Every black
American who makes significant financial or scholastic achievements has to do so without the benefit of ancestral wealth or education. For anyone who doubts the importance of these things, consider the fact that parental income is the single strongest predictor of academic success. W hy does white America have such a hard time realizing that the odds are stacked against the lower social classes, including most black Americans? It may be because we want to believe that every American succeeds on his or her own merit. We like the idea that America is the place where anyone can make it if they work hard enough, and this belief blinds us to the fact that some people – many people, in fact – don’t get a fair shake in our country. Yes, on an individual basis some black Americans will be able to
overcome the odds. Some will work hard enough and have enough natural ability to overcome their financial disadvantages. Others will simply be born rich. But that does not change the fact that the bulk of black Americans are still struggling with a 400-year-old legacy of racism which has culminated in crippling social inequality determined largely by race. When you take this historical context and its economic consequences into account, it is easy to see how black Americans and white Americans do not compete on a level playing field. This is why we need programs to help ease the burden of inequality. This is why we need to continue having race conversations.
Why does white America have such a hard time realizing that the odds are stacked against the lower social classes, including most black Americans?
Nathan James is a senior majoring in psychology. His column runs weekly on Thursday.
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Forza gains new tax status By Emmalee Molay | Contributing Writer
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Physicists study dark matter in outer space By Emily Williams | Staff Reporter
Dark matter is more than just a mythical fuel source in the popular, animated comedy “Futurama”. It is potentially a substantial part of the universe. Three University of Alabama physicists are taking part in an international experiment to test for the existence of dark matter in an attempt to understand what makes up our universe. “Dark matter is believed to be a very important component of the universe,” said Ion Stancu, associate professor of physics. “We have measurements which indicate that about a quarter of the universe is made out of this mysterious form of matter. It’s called dark matter simply because we cannot see it.” Stancu, along with fellow professors Andreas Piepke and Jerry Busenitz, has begun working with researchers from 28 institutions including Stanford, Yale, UC–Davis and Oxford to design a device that will detect dark matter, called “the LZ,” which stands for Lux Zeplin.
In order to shield the device from radioactivity, cosmic rays and other components that may interfere with detection, the experiment will take place underground, in a former gold mine in South Dakota. Busenitz said construction on the detector will take around three to four years, then they will operate the experiment and collect data for another three to four years. Piepke said both undergraduates and post-doctoral participants will assist in data analysis and research on campus. Stancu said the theory for the existence of dark matter comes from the discrepancy between how fast galaxies are rotating and how fast they should be rotating. “We certainly hope to detect the dark matter, however there is no guarantee,” he said. “If we’re lucky, if the gods are smiling on us, then we might detect dark matter. If not, it’s the next generation’s experiments that will be tasked to do that. The greatest uncertainty is not looking; that is a guarantee that you will never find anything.”
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Forza Financial, a student-led pro• Forza Financial is looking for interns gram at the University that helps local for the Fall 2014 semester. entrepreneurs get loans and business education, gained official public–non• The online application can be profit and tax-exempt status as of Aug. accessed at forzafinancial.com and 25. The program has been growing is due Sept. 5. ever since it started in 2009. Public–nonprofit and tax– exempt status means any contributions made to the organization are fully tax-deductible. “It really opens up the door for us to apply for different federal and private grants,” said Jordan Tucker, chief communications officer for Forza Financial and a senior majoring in marketing. “We’ll have a lot more access to funding, and hopefully write more loans.” As a non-profit micro-finance institution, Forza Financial conducts a multitude of different services to help small businesses around town. Their main initiatives include funding smaller loans, one-on-one business coaching and free academic workshops Caroline Morrison and Erica Boden pose for a picture after signing a loan in Marion this summer. Photo for entrepreneurs. Courtesy of Jordan Tucker Katherine McLarney, a senior majoring in finance and economics, few other schools. is the chief executive officer for Forza “When we started, we didn’t have Financial. She said the gap from small any money to lend out,” McLarney said. loans to big loans was recognized by “It’s been a wild ride in five years. It’s students at the University as well as a grown tremendously.”
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By Collin Burwinkel | Contributing Writer
As a kid growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska, Lars Anderson would regularly travel to University of Nebraska football games with his father to watch the Cornhuskers play. “Some of my fondest memories growing up were going to Nebraska games with my dad,” Anderson said. “My dad was a big time athlete, and I grew up playing basketball, soccer and actually won a state championship in tennis and just fell in love with sports.” Although an athlete and avid sports fan, Anderson attended college with politics, not sports, as his main goal. After a short time helping with Bob Kerrey’s presidential campaign before his senior year, Anderson realized that politics wasn’t for him. “The whole process just really turned me off,” Anderson said. “I thought I was going to go up there and be inspired, but I didn’t love it as much as I thought I was going to.” Anderson thought it was time for a change and started working for the school newspaper, leading him to apply for graduate school. He attended Columbia University in New York and earned his masters degree in journalism. “One of my professors in graduate school was a former editor for Sports Illustrated,” he said. “He sort of opened a door for me
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at Sports Illustrated, and we became very close. I was able to get a sixth– month tryout as a fact checker and would write some small stuff here and there.” Anderson passed his tryout during his six-month stint and was writing for Sports Illustrated at 23 years old. He lived in New York for the next 14 years and then moved to Birmingham in 2005. “It was a little bit easier to cover college football and NASCAR here in Alabama than it was in the upper east side of Manhattan, where I had been living and
working,” Anderson said. For the next six years, Anderson covered a wide variety of sports and even became an adjunct professor at the University. Many of the current faculty members think having Anderson at the University full time now will be even more beneficial than when he was an adjunct professor. “I do think having Lars in the department will attract new students to the college and to the journalism major,” said Wilson Lowrey, current chair of the department of journalism. “The growing interest in sports and sports journalism generally will make his classes and our other sports courses even more popular.” With more than 20 years of experience writing for Sports Illustrated, appearing on ESPN and writing books, Anderson brings an exciting amount of real world application into the classroom. “I try to rely on my own experience, and I use the model of what I went through at Columbia in my classroom,” Anderson said. Students see the impact of having Anderson at the University full-time as well. Alexis Winborne, a freshman majoring in journalism, said she is looking forward to Anderson’s class. “With all of the opportunities our school has to offer, it’s nice to know that someone who has been where I want to be can teach me things he knows from his experiences,” she said.
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Book signing of “The Storm and the Tide” WHEN: Sept. 20, before Alabama v. Florida WHERE: The Quad Anderson said he considers his newest book, “The Storm and The Tide,” about overcoming tragedy and the human spirit in Tuscaloosa after the April 27, 2011 tornadoes, the most important thing he has done in his career. “Asking people to go back and revisit the worst part of their lives, when they had to identify their child or kiss them on the forehead for the last time in a makeshift morgue, you have to give something back,” he said. Anderson left Sports Illustrated this spring and said he is looking forward to his new role as a full-time professor at the Capstone. “Part of the arrangement I have will still give me time to write and get out there,” Anderson said. “I just signed on to do another book, I’m contributing for the SEC Network, I’m doing a few things for AL.com and some long–form stuff for Bleacher Report too. I feel like I have the best of both worlds. I’m able to teach, and I’m still able to practice journalism.”
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Sharks, butterflies used to further aviation research By Samuel Yang | Contributing Writer
Biologists have long watched and studied sharks and butterflies, but the secrets locked within their scales and wings have begun to attract researchers like Amy Lang, associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. As an undergraduate, Lang was told by a professor to look up sharkskin, which Lang and her team recently discovered uses flow separation to reduce frictional drag. “It just always stuck in my thoughts. When I came here in 2005 as a new faculty member, I needed to have a new direction for my research,” Lang said. “I [wanted] to investigate this further and see if there’s something that nobody’s discovered.” Lang’s research into the properties of sharkskin has opened the door for potential applications in overcoming drag, a problem engineers have faced for centuries. Animals like sharks and butterflies have been fighting it for much longer. “The idea is that we have an engineering problem,” Lang said. “Our benefit then is that if we can discover that mechanism that nature has already evolved, why [do] we have to discover something from scratch?” In fact, the U.S. Army has worked for decades on reducing drag in helicopter rotor blades, in hopes of allowing helicopters to fly faster. Sharkskin might provide a solution. “The area of bio-inspired engineering is one that has developed probably very well in the last 15, 20 years,” she said. “There’s more cross-collaboration now.” Initially, biologists recruited engineers to help investigate the finer points of animal function, but there has proved to be potential for engineers to recruit an existing design for man-made technology. “It’s looking at [animals’] special qualities and seeing if we can get something from that for engineering,” Will Schreiber, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, said. The scales of a butterfly have a unique structure that also reduces drag. Schreiber worked to create models that would allow for accurate insight into data Lang is
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UA professor Amy Lang has discovered that the scales of a butterfly have a unique structure that also reduces drag. UA News
collecting in conjunction with a University of Alabama at Huntsville facility where live butterflies can be tested. “We hope to see that as we fly them around, they’re flying more efficiently with their scales than without,” Lang said. “That’s confirmed to some extent, [and] that tells us let’s keep looking.” Lang and her team will eventually start attempting to mimic the structures on a large scale, with the help of 3-D printing facilities at the University. The challenge with butterflies, as it was with sharks, has been figuring out where to focus the attention. “We’ve come up with a hypothesis as to how we think the scales of the butterfly are functioning and then we try to take what is a very complex flow in a butterfly wing … and we try to simplify that down to a more easy case where we want to identify a particular aspect,” Lang said. Even within the subject of drag, there are multiple mechanisms and types of drag, making it important that the project involves Lang, Schreiber and biologists like John Yoder, associate professor of Biology. “You really need to bring experts to the table on all aspects of the project,” Lang said. “Everybody’s just going to bring their expertise.”
What happens to your waste when it is thrown into a recycling bin? At The University of Alabama, it is sent to a recycling plant in Birmingham along with around 1,650 tons of other plastic, paper and aluminum products. This year, according to an annual sustainability report, the University has seen a significant increase in the amount of products being recycled. Tony Johnson, executive director of Logistics and Support Services, said he makes it his goal to pay close attention to the University’s environmental impact. When any delivery is sent to the Ancillary Services Building, where the office is located, the goal is to limit the amount of waste produced. “As soon as we open up the doors, our first thought is, ‘What can we recycle?’” Johnson said. When recyclable goods come to
Johnson’s office, they are sorted, separated into bales and then loaded onto tractor-trailers that can carry 44,000 pounds at a time. Johnson said Logistics and Support Services sends about 75 of these tractor-trailers each year. This means that this fiscal year, the University delivered about 3.3 million pounds – 1,650 tons – of recycled waste. There are recycling bins all over campus, but some students choose to throw their waste into the garbage instead. “If I see a recycling can and it’s by a trash can, I will probably recycle,” Lindley Kitchens, a junior majoring in Digital Media, said. “But I won’t go out of my way.” Johnson encouraged everyone to do their part to help reduce the University’s carbon footprint. “We want it,” Johnson said. “We want everything that we can get.”
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CULTURE Thursday, September 4, 2014 COLUMN | FILM
Fall features to focus on novel adaptions By Drew Pendleton
A rule of thumb for many bookworms when it comes to adaptations is to always read the book before seeing the movie. This year, several highly anticipated movies premiering at festivals over the next few months are based on books, which may be worth checking out before seeing them on the big screen.
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Oct. 3: “Gone Girl”
Oct. 17: “Men, Women & Children”
Nov. 7: “Rosewater”
Since its release in June 2012, Gillian Flynn’s suspense novel “Gone Girl” has taken the literary world by storm. It was no surprise when 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the movie adaptation. Since then, the anticipation for the film – written by Flynn herself and directed by David Fincher – has grown. In the film, Ben Affleck plays Nick Dunne, a man who comes under the suspicious media’s microscope when his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike) mysteriously disappears on their anniversary. “Gone Girl” – which opens the New York Film Festival on Sept. 26 – should be a surefire hit at the box office.
Released in June 2011, Chad Kultgen’s “Men, Women and Children” has had a generally positive reception. Examining the intimate frustrations and pressures on teenagers and parents in today’s world, the novel serves as the latest directorial effort from Jason Reitman, known for the acclaimed “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Young Adult.” Featuring an ensemble cast including Adam Sandler, Emma Thompson, Ansel Elgort and Kaitlyn Dever, “Men, Women & Children” is an intriguing, potentially thoughtprovoking choice for audiences come mid-October.
Serving as “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, this drama is an adaptation of Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari’s “Then They Came For Me.” Bahari, played in the film by Gael García Bernal (“Y Tú Mamá También”), was imprisoned for nearly four months in Tehran during the 2009 Iranian presidential election on suspicions of being a spy. The book chronicles his ordeal, as well as Bahari’s family history. With the personal connection to Stewart, “Rosewater” looks to be a harrowing, powerful story that has received stellar reviews following its first screenings at the Venice and Telluride festivals.
UA to host bone marrow drives
Students pose for a photo during a drive last spring. Photo Courtesy of Rachel Harris By Tara Massouleh | Assistant Culture Editor
When Michael Keefe added his name to the national bone marrow registry during a drive at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house in the spring of 2013, he didn’t think twice. A few months later when he got the call that he was a potential match for someone, he headed to Mass General Hospital in New Hampshire to undergo an outpatient procedure where he would donate his bone marrow. “In the end it’s worth it 100 percent to go through the process because no matter what, it’s a couple of needle
sticks for you, but for this person you’re donating to it can mean years on their life,” he said. Keefe, a junior majoring in nursing, is one of over 1,300 University of Alabama students who have joined the national bone marrow registry through the University’s chapter of Be the Match. Caitlin Roach, a senior majoring in biology and the group’s current president, said she didn’t know what the bone marrow registry was before Be the Match. Seventy percent of people who need bone marrow, typically those with blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, do not have a match within their own family. Be the Match provides a 76 to 97 percent chance of finding a match for each patient on the registry. Roach said it’s especially important to target college students because the registry only accepts those between 18 and 44 years old, and most donors are between 18 and 30 years old. This year, Be the Match at Alabama is planning to take part in the first Be the Match campus competition. During the week of the Texas A&M game, the two schools will host drives followed by fundraisers at Chipotle on the Friday before the game on Oct. 18. The University of Alabama’s marrow drives will take place Oct. 14 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ferguson Center Theatre. The fundraiser at Chipotle will take place on Oct. 17 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Vintage market returns for 3rd year PLAN TO GO WHAT: The 5th Street Vintage Market WHEN: Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: 4150 5th St. in Northport
The 5th Street Vintage Market is returning to Northport for the third time. Photo Courtesy of Lori Watts By Hannah Widener | Contributing Writer
The 5th Street Vintage Market is coming back to Northport for the third year. New this year are Crabapple Lane Handmade Soaps and Gifts, Bama Bath and Body and Mary’s Cakes and Pastries. Student vintage clothes vendors Lake Stanfield and Andrew Hyder, who co-own Queen City Clothing, will also be making their debut appearance at the market Sunday. “I think the market has been very beneficial to the community and to our vendors,” Watts said. Hyder, a junior majoring in accounting, came across the market with Stanfield one day. He said he immediately knew their clothing and vintage
finds were a perfect match for the vintage market. “We surveyed their wares, bought a couple things and realized that the stuff we had would fit right in,” Hyder said. Stanfield and Hyder will be selling vintage men and women’s clothing, audio equipment, golf clubs and various home goods. “I hope I find customers with panache,” he said. “That’s what I have for sale. My favorite item is probably this dope patchwork madras sport coat. Also a Marantz receiver and Kenwood turntable.” The market will take place this Sunday following Alabama’s first home game of the season. Watts said she hopes the Gameday crowd will create a bigger draw to the market while also showing football fans another side of Tuscaloosa. “I think what makes the market special is there isn’t really anything else in Tuscaloosa to compare it to.” Watts said. “We’re kind of one of a kind. All of our vendors are all very knowledgeable of what they sell and create.”
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Fick uses art to showcase Serbia By Reed O’Mara | Culture Editor
UA alumna Emma Fick moved to Serbia to teach English and engage in service projects. Photo Courtesy of Emma Fick
The University of Alabama is renowned for the outreach its students perform after their college years, though few can say they find themselves 5,491 miles away in Novi Pazar, Serbia, shortly after graduation. Novi Pazar, a town with a municipal population of around 100,410 circa 2011, resides in the southwest of Serbia, near Kosovo. From September 2013 to June 2014, the town became the home of 2012 UA alumna and Fulbright Scholar Emma Fick. “I applied for Fulbright because it would allow me to learn about a different way of life,” Fick said. A former intern of Creative Campus, Fick worked in Novi Pazar to establish service projects to bring art to the community. Her projects include the painting of murals in a children’s hospital, cultural activities for students to take a break from exams and lectures from visiting faculty on the importance of English. “Learning to take initiative is a skill that will serve the students for their entire lives, and these projects also offer something they can put on their resume when applying to scholarships within Serbia and abroad,” Fick said. Rachel Raimist, co-director at Creative Campus, worked with Fick when she was a student. She said Fick was integral in uniting other interns. “She’s really brilliant; when she speaks, the other interns take notice,”
I think she’s interested in bringing people together, people you wouldn’t necessarily connect. — Rachel Raimist — Raimist said. “I think she’s interested in bringing people together, people you wouldn’t necessarily connect, and I think that’s a real strength.” One of the projects Fick worked on when she was a student is The Nest, which brought together UA students and Tuscaloosa residents for an artistic project working with debris from the 2011 tornadoes. Hank Lazer, a Senior Fellow in the Blount Undergraduate Initiative, was the executive director in Creative Campus and worked with Fick during The Nest and said her work has flourished since then. “Her projects at Creative Campus – particularly the post-tornado Nest project – were characterized by an extraordinary mixture of vision and follow through,” Lazer said. “When Emma has a good idea, she also has the persistence to bring it to fruition.” Fick spent a lot of her time in Serbia working on personal art projects, which she named “Snippets.” Her work characterizes everyday life and people in Novi Pazar, and Raimist and Lazer both described them as very contemporary, whimsical and illustrative like
a travel log or graphic novel. “The things that we teach, the skills that student interns develop as part of Creative Campus, she’s been able to take out into the world,” Raimist said. “She can demonstrate her knowledge solidly in any academic arena, but it’s more than that. What she knows informs what she does.” She showcased her work at the Novi Pazar Culture Center. She chose 70 Snippets she said were most emblematic of Novi Pazar and had students translate the captions into Serbian. “The town loved Snippets. The best compliments I got were from locals, who often told me it allowed them to see their community with new eyes,” Fick said. “It was very interesting for them to see themselves from an impartial and fresh perspective – how often do we get to see that? Perhaps the most touching comment I got: ‘You’ve let me fall in love with my city again.’” She said she encourages students at the University to seek out grants and funding for extended trips abroad, and said her time at the University working with Creative Campus has been meaningful in pursuing her art and work in Serbia. “I found working as an intern with Creative Campus extraordinarily meaningful; it taught me to design projects that would use art and creativity to connect with the community,” Fick said. “Providing a platform for beauty and creation is essential for the human spirit.”
Charleston band Atlas Road Crew to play at Green Bar By Kinsey Haynes | Contributing Writer
calls “Southern flare.” Their inspirations range from popuFew young bands can say they have lar British rock bands like Led Zeppelin played big-name music festivals and have and The Rolling Stones to Southern opened for nationally known acts in a rock musicians Lynyrd Skynyrd and The span of only two years. Allman Brothers. Beddingfield said the Formed in Charleston, South Carolina, slide guitar used in their songs is influin 2012, Atlas Road Crew has already enced by Duane Allman. played Wakarusa, toured with big-name “We try to create a catchy song that acts like Hootie and The Blowfish and is backed with riveting guitar riffs and Hard Working Americans featuring Dave an exciting piano style that you can Schools from Widespread find in a lot of Southern Panic. The band was fearock songs,” he said. We try to create a catchy song “We can’t help but tured at the AAA Sunset Sessions in Carlsbad, add a little [Southern] that is backed with riveting California. flare and twang to guitar riffs and an exciting The band’s name is our sound.” derived from an old pracSince they started in piano style. tice space off of Atlas a college town, most of Road in Columbia, South their fans are college— Duane Allman — Carolina, right before aged, but there are their first gig. Atlas some older fans who, Road Crew is returning as Drohan said, “were to Alabama for its third time Thursday, our age when The Black Crowes were where they will play at the Green Bar. blowing up.” “It was hot as hell in [the practice Beddingfield and Drohan said the main space] in the summers and freezing goal of the band is to connect with their cold in the winters,” Patrick Drohan, listeners and to be able to make a steady the band’s drummer, said. “It was pretty living as full-time musicians. While not on tour for their current much practicing in a tin box.” The Charleston area has shaped the EP, the band is recording their first full band’s sound into what Atlas Road length album and aiming for a Crew’s guitarist, Dave Beddingfield, February release.
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Tide volleyball team to travel to Virginia By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter
The Alabama women’s volleyball team will compete in the Cavalier Classic in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday. CW File
After an undefeated weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, The University of Alabama women’s volleyball team will travel to Charlottesville, Virginia, to compete in the Cavalier Classic. The Crimson Tide will open the tournament against Navy on Friday at 3:30 p.m., with matches against Long Island University at Brooklyn and Virginia to follow on Saturday. “I think we did really well. It’s the first weekend, so you never know what’s going to happen,” redshirt sophomore
Krystal Rivers said. “I feel like we were well prepared and used that preparation in the match. We did some great things, we did some not so great things, but in the end we played as a team and that’s what got us through it.” For the upcoming weekend, Rivers’ expectations are simple. “I’m expecting to win another tournament,” she said. Though the Crimson Tide won all four matches of the Marcia E. Hamilton Classic last weekend, it played a fiveset match against Memphis, eventually winning the match 3-2.
Coach Ed Allen said while the tournament helped to further the team’s goal of winning every match it plays, the Memphis match showed that there are errors that need addressing. “If you look at the five set match we played against Memphis, that had more to do with us than it did about them,” he said. “We committed 62 errors in a match, so that doesn’t really require anyone else to do much of anything. Minimizing errors are important as we move into this week and into conference play, and just continuing to grow as a team.”
Men’s golf team to compete in Georgia By Elliot Propes | Staff Reporter
Back-to-back national titles are now in the past for The University of Alabama men’s golf team. A new season has arrived and the Crimson Tide is ranked No. 1 in the nation ,again. With three seniors leaving, the team is inexperienced but hopes to start the season off well at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Dalton, Georgia. “I’m excited about starting a new
year,” coach Jay Seawell said. “I’m very concerned as a coach that we are putting them in the deep end. The golf course and the competition are going to be great, so we need to be really good.” The Crimson Tide will face stiff competition in its first tournament of the year. There are a total of 14 teams in the tournament with four other nationally ranked teams including No. 3, Georgia Tech. Alabama will face some familiar
foes with six SEC teams traveling to the tournament. The Carpet Capital Collegiate begins Thursday and will end the following Sunday. “For the team, I want the guys who haven’t played in the tournament. I think there will be three guys who haven’t played in a college tournament yet. I want them to see what it is like to play for each other,” junior Tom Lovelady said. “It’s just exciting and I want them to kind of soak it in and compete.”
After back-to-back national championships the Alabama men’s golf team is ranked No. 1 in the nation to begin the 2014 season. CW File
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DePriest returns as starter By Nolan Imsande | Staff Reporter
During his final press conference before the Crimson Tide’s Saturday home opener against Florida Atlantic, Nick Saban stressed the importance of his players’ development in practice. “The focus on our team is really on improvement,” Saban said. “You’ve got to practice well and develop the kind of habits to help yourself improve.” The Crimson Tide defense was less than impressive in their 33-23 season opening victory over West Virginia, but they will be aided this week by the return of senior linebacker Trey DePriest. DePriest, who Saban and players have called a team leader, had to sit out for the game against West Virginia because of a minor NCAA infraction. “I think Trey, because of his knowledge and experience and his ability to communicate, certainly allows other players to be more confident in the calls and communication,” Saban said. Among other changes on defense for this week’s game
will be Geno Smith taking the place of the injured Jarrick Williams at the Star defensive back position. “Geno is one of the guys who can play multiple roles,” senior Nick Perry said. “He used to play corner, so the Star should come easy for him.” Cornerback Eddie Jackson will likely also make his return this week. Jackson, who tore his ACL during spring practice, did not play in the first game of the season but has seen an increased workload during practice this week. “Eddie has been working hard all summer and fall camp for this moment,” Perry said. On the offensive side, the team will have to make up for the loss of injured wide receiver DeAndrew White. White sustained a shoulder injury during the game against West Virginia and was seen wearing a sling on the sideline. Saban said Christion Jones, Chris Black and ArDarius Stewart are all capable of replacing him and will get some opportunity to play while White is injured.
WHAT TO KNOW • The team practiced outdoors in full pads. • Lane Kiffin got vocal with running back Derrick Henry, yelling at him during a drill saying, “Quit walking, Derrick Henry. That is the third drill in a row you have walked to.” • For the second day in a row Eddie Jackson worked with the first team in place of Bradley Sylve. Sylve worked with the second team at the cornerback position opposite of freshman Tony Brown. • Geno Smith worked at the Star position in place of the injured Jarrick Williams. • Brandon Greene worked with the tight ends even though he is listed as an offensive lineman. Alabama football practiced outside to prepare for Saturday’s matchup with Florida Atlantic. CW / Pete Pajor
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an email explaining the wait list is sent within minutes. The lottery opens at exactly 1 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are allotted on a firstcome, first-served basis. “I had to set an alarm every week so I would opt in on time,” Driver said. The student body also created a Facebook page, “Alabama Student Ticket Exchange,” as a way for students to buy and sell tickets. “All I had to do was message someone who had posted that they were selling tickets,” Jessie Langford, a senior majoring in consumer science, said. “We met at Coleman Coliseum, and I paid him $250
for the ticket.” Unlike the lottery system, the prices for tickets through the Facebook page are decided by students. Another option available to students is transferring tickets from one student to another. The donator must log in to their myBama account, locate the MyTickets tab and follow the online steps for transferring the ticket to the other student’s ACT card. Both students will receive an email confirming that the transaction was completed. Even without tickets to the game, students are still able to cheer on the Tide throughout Tuscaloosa. “Some of my favorite Gamedays of freshman year weren’t spent in BryantDenny,” Sarah Setterstrom, a junior majoring in education, said. “Get a group together and gather around a TV. You’ll end up with a better view anyway.”
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‘Like a girl’ no longer a bad thing By Kelly Ward
The University of Alabama soccer team will host two matches this weekend against No. 2 Virginia and Jacksonville State. CW File
Crimson Tide soccer to host No. 2 Virginia By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter
The University of Alabama’s soccer team is set to host two matches this weekend against No. 2 Virginia and Jacksonville State. Friday night’s match against Virginia will be the highest ranked opponent The University of Alabama has ever faced at home. The Crimson Tide (2-1-1) spent the better part of the week practicing for its upcoming matches. Though Virginia is the highest ranked opponent Alabama has ever met, coach Todd Bramble said the team isn’t worried about the Cavaliers’ rank or their dominant players. “[Virginia is] just a really skillful, talented team that plays good soccer,” Bramble said. “They obviously have Morgan Brian on the team who’s the reigning Hermann Trophy winner in college soccer and current U.S. Women’s National Team member, so that will certainly be a treat for the fans and the kids in the community to watch a player like that play on our field. So we’re going to treat them with the appropriate amount of respect, but not too much respect. We’re really confident about the team that we have right now.” Brian, a senior from St. Simons Island, Georgia, has 31 career goals under her belt and has a shot average of .118 and a shots on goal average of .427. She has both domestic and international experience, which makes her a dominant player on the field. Bramble also said this past weekend’s draw with Middle Tennessee helped the Crimson Tide gain experience playing into overtime. Alabama tied 2-2 against Middle Tennessee and played two overtime periods.
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Alabama v. Virginia WHEN: Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. WHERE: Alabama Soccer Stadium WATCH: SEC Network RADIO: WVUA 90.7 FM WHAT: Alabama v. Jacksonville State WHEN: Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. WHERE: Alabama Soccer Stadium WATCH: SEC Network RADIO: WVUA 90.7 FM
“There is some value in having played, though we’re disappointed in the result. There’s some value in playing an overtime game up in Tennessee on Sunday,” Bramble said. “It won’t be the last overtime game we’ll have this year.” As for Jacksonville State, Bramble said the team wasn’t brushing the Gamecocks off. Known for their spirited tactics on the field, Bramble said Jacksonville State is always a competitor. “They are a scrappy, feisty, hardworking team that’s super disruptive,” Bramble said. “They are led by a coach who spent many, many years in the SEC at Mississippi State, so he certainly knows what the level of play looks like … They’re going to give us everything they can on Sunday.” Alabama kicks off Friday night’s match against No. 2 Virginia at 7 p.m. Sunday’s match against Jacksonville State will also start at 7 p.m.
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No. 2 Alabama vs. Florida Atlantic
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COACHES POLL 1. Florida State (57) 2. Alabama 3. Oklahoma (2) 4. Oregon (2) 5. Auburn 6. Michigan State 7. Ohio State 8. Georgia (1) 9. Baylor 10. Stanford 11. UCLA 12. LSU 13. Texas A&M 14. USC 15. Notre Dame 16. Arizona State 17. Ole Miss 18. Nebraska 19. Wisconsin 20. Kansas State 21. South Carolina 22. Missouri 23. North Carolina 24. Clemson 25. Texas
AP POLL 1. Florida State (46) 2. Alabama (1) 3. Oregon (5) 4. Oklahoma (2) 5. Auburn 6. Georgia (2) 7. Michigan State 8. Ohio State 9. Texas A&M (2) 10. Baylor 11. UCLA 12. LSU (1) 13. Stanford 14. USC 15. Ole Miss 16. Notre Dame 17. Arizona State 18. Wisconsin 19. Nebraska 20. Kansas State 21. South Carolina 22. North Carolina 23. Clemson 24. Missouri 25. Louisville
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What Williams loss means to secondary By Sean Landry
Sometime during last week’s victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers, Alabama defensive back Jarrick Williams picked up a foot injury. He finished the game, recording three tackles and affording some organization to a secondary desperately in need of structure. Post-game X-rays showed a Jones fracture in Williams’ foot, an injury that will leave the Crimson Tide without its starter at one of its most vital positions. To explain the position Williams plays, we should start with the front of Alabama’s defense: the defensive line and linebackers. Alabama’s base defense is the 3-to-4 alignment: three defensive linemen (two ends and a nose tackle) and four linebackers. The linebackers are divided into two groups, inside linebackers and outside linebackers, which are then given names based on which side of the offense they attack – the “strong” side for the side of the offensive line with more players, or the opposite, appropriately called the “weak” side. The strong side, inside linebacker is called the Mike linebacker, while the weak side is called the Will. The outside linebacker most likely to rush the passer, usually on the weakside, is called the Jack. The other outside linebacker, usually over the strong side, is called the Sam. Behind the front seven is the standard secondary: two cornerbacks and two safeties. That’s 11 players, filling out the defensive personnel. Jarrick Williams doesn’t play any of these positions. Hold on, let me explain.
Williams plays a position called Star, a position that only exists when Alabama is in a defensive package called “nickel.” The nickel draws its name from its defining feature: a fifth defensive back. To avoid too many men on the field, Alabama would obviously need to substitute one of its basic positions. In most defenses that use a star position, the typical replacement would be the Sam linebacker, played by Denzel Devall for the Crimson Tide, and Williams does sometimes replace Devall. Frequently, however, Alabama chooses to forgo its primary pass rusher, the Jack linebacker, played by a number of people – notably Xzavier Dickson. The star, as a fifth defensive back, is also called the “slot” cornerback, because he functions like a cornerback in the interior of the field. He is well-suited to cover disguised passing routes and can be called upon to stop play-option runs. He plays a shallow zone coverage to pass protect, but can also be called on to contain mobile quarterbacks and running backs. His role is more ambiguously defined than some, but no less vital. The nickel package is used more and more commonly as a solution for the spread offense because it offers additional and versatile pass coverage. The star is the lynchpin of the secondary that enables defenses to neutralize the many-faceted offenses of today’s football. With the prevalence of the spread from teams like Auburn and Ole Miss, the sooner Alabama gets its star defender back, the better for the Crimson Tide.
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Alabama defense looks far from infallible By Kayla Montgomery
Eight months without college football is a very, very long time. During the offseason, in which we are forced to find other avenues to fill afternoons, a pseudo-craziness takes hold of analysts and fans everywhere, and infinite speculation begins. Sometimes – rarely – these preseason hypotheses may play out as expected, but more often than not, that speculation is wrong. SEC East favorite South Carolina was routed at home by Texas A&M, a team that was completely dismissed with the absence of Johnny Football. Florida State scraped by a young, unproven and unranked Oklahoma State. Tennessee looked like a football team. On the Alabama front, heralded Florida State quarterback transfer Jake Coker, whom many dubbed the key component in The University of Alabama’s quest for another championship, saw little field time, entering the game for only the final series of the matchup against West Virginia, a team that won only four games last season. The Crimson Tide, who many picked as a top contender for the title trophy, simply did not look like a
Reuben Foster tries to tackle WUV fullback Elijah Wellman. CW / Pete Pajor
championship team. The SEC West was made to look even stronger, while Alabama left preseasonquestions unanswered on the field. Yes, the offense functioned solidly, perhaps better than could even be expected with new quarterback
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the running backs and receivers performed well. The defense did not quite live up to the standards of Alabama football. Throughout the offseason, the Crimson Tide secondary has been an area of concern, and this game illustrated that it still is. The defense showed that its kryptonite is still the up-tempo, spread offenses, which gave the team much trouble last season. The Tide defense, typically strongarming and dominating, looked far from infallible The Mountaineers racked up 365 passing yards, the third-most ever allowed under Nick Saban’s tenure, and it was also the first time that the Tide has allowed back-to-back 300-yard passing games under Saban as coach. Though Alabama emerged with a win, West Virginia again put the Crimson Tide’s weaknesses on display, until we finally found our footing in a dominating fourth quarter. Alabama still has the ability to be a title contender, and they are more than capable of living up to the speculation that surrounded them throughout the preseason. But first the defense has to improve for more than just the fourth quarter.
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Junior Cyrus Jones leads at cornerback By Sean Landry | Assistant Sports Editor Alabama’s secondary was beaten several times in Alabama’s 33-23 win over West Virginia Saturday night. The unit blew several coverages and conceded major gains on more than one occasion, endangering the Crimson Tide’s victory. Junior cornerback Cyrus Jones, however, might have saved the game for the Crimson Tide. Isolated several times against West Virginia’s best receivers, Jones was able to record seven tackles and a pass breakup. Early in the game, he covered West Virginia receiver Mario Alford on a pass in the end zone that fell incomplete, forcing West Virginia to kick a field goal on its first possession of the game. Late in the game, he broke up a pass intended for star Mountaineer receiver Kevin White in the end zone, saving another touchdown. The Baltimore, Maryland, native’s performance was enough to earn Player of the Week honors from the Alabama coaching staff. “I think he played really, really well,” coach Nick Saban said. “He made two big plays inside the 10-yard line. He was the one guy that consistently did what he was supposed to do in the secondary and did a good job of covering. He didn’t give up many plays. We actually, when they kept going to No. 11, flip-flopped him to No. 11 in the game. The last time we stopped them, he was the guy who was covering the guy on the
fade pattern and batted the ball down.” Jones has been praised by his coach and teammates for his growing role as a leader in a defense that has struggled to maintain consistency. “He had a really good camp and really matured as a player, much more confident this year than a year ago, and has played really well,” Saban said. “I think he has a good understanding, and he’s a smart guy. He has the poise to adjust. We thought he really did a good job.” Jones said the coaches’ appreciation is motivation more than anything, reminding him of the important role he has to play on the team. “It definitely feels good any time you get recognized by your coaches,” Jones said. “It definitely motivates you to keep on grinding in practice and keep on working to get better.” Jones came to The University of Alabama as a wide receiver but switched to the defensive side of the ball for his sophomore year. He said it was difficult to switch back to a defensive mentality, although he played defense in high school. Since then, he has developed as Alabama’s top cornerback, and Saban has called him one of the Tide’s most improved players. “I just think I’ve matured a lot as a player,” Jones said. “I just go about my preparation a lot more vigorously, and I’m just a lot more comfortable with the playbook. Anytime you’re comfortable with the playbook it helps you play faster on the field because you don’t have to think as much.” CW / Pete Pajor
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Running away with it BY KELLY WARD | SPORTS EDITOR
Give the ball to T.J. Yeldon or Derrick Henry and expect one thing: yards.
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etween et ween we een tthe he ttwo wo o o off th them them, em Yeldon and Henry put up 239 yards rushing on West Virginia in the 33 to 23 win. The offense had a net 288 yards rushing. “I like the way both guys played,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said in his Monday press conference. “That’s probably, as long as we can keep them healthy and they can stay healthy, that’s probably how we’ll play.” Yeldon and Henry also come together for three rushing touchdowns, which were the Tide’s only touchdowns against the Mountaineers. If Yeldon needed any further proof
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of h his is athleticism ath thle leti le tici ti cism ci sm a after fter ft er h his is lleaping eapi ea ping pi ng touchdown against Missouri in 2012 or scoring on a screen pass to seal the comeback 21 to 17 victory in Death Valley in 2012, he got it, this time stiff-arming a Mountaineer defender before leaping into the end zone. He nearly did it again two Alabama drives later, but his dive fell short. He punched in a one-yard touchdown the next play. “That’s how we sort of went in the game planning, to play the game,” Saban said. “Probably use Kenyan Drake a little bit more in special situations. Just didn’t maybe come up where he would come up ... We thought he would play a little
bit bit more more in in the the game. game ga me Didn’t Didn Di dn’t dn ’tt quite qui uite te come up quite as much those situations. We have a lot of confidence in all three of those guys.” But Yeldon isn’t the only who who can run for Alabama. The backfield is loaded with Henry and Kenyan Drake, who poses a threat as a receiver beyond just a running back. Henry averaged 6.6 yards per carry Saturday and totaled 113 yards rushing. His 19-yard touchdown run put Alabama out of reach of the Mountaineers. “[Yeldon and Henry] looked good out there this week,” fullback Jalston Fowler said. “Both of them are running with speed, power
and ex and explosiveness.” plos pl losiiven ivenes esss ” Fowler said blocking for each of those backs is a different experience. “You gotta get out of Derrick’s way. [He’ll] run right up your back,” Fowler said. For all of Henry’s potential, Yeldon is the one who has already cleared a spot in the record books. After two years, he was 12th on the list of career rushing yards. After Saturday’s game, he moved up to 11th with 2,469 yards. Every person above him has those numbers through three seasons. Yeldon is the fifth person in school history to record two 1,000plus yard seasons. He is the first to do so in his first two years.
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Friday Parking for Home Games 1. Parking and driving will be restricted on Colonial Drive, Wallace Wade and Bryant Drive on the day before and the day of the home football game before and until 3 hours after the end of home games. 2. Students with an Orange Residential Parking Permit who normally park in one of the Gameday restricted areas (Colonial, Tutwiler) are asked to either park in an alternate Orange Residential parking area or the Ferguson Parking Deck beginning at 12:00 p.m. on home football game Fridays. As a reminder, other Orange parking areas can be located by using the parking map on the rear of your parking permit.
These parking changes are for the day prior to and on game day only. Regular parking restrictions are in effect for other times. See bamaparking.ua.edu for regulations. • As in previous seasons, the lots marked in black in this area are reserved for Athletics and must be cleared of all vehicles at 5 p.m. on the day before home football games.
3. Students who have orange hangtags can drive from Bryant Drive to Magnolia Drive.
• Vehicles left in any of these areas after 5 p.m. the day before a home game may be towed at the owner’s expense ($100).
4. Students will be able to take Crimson Ride from parking lots to their residence halls during normal operating hours (7 a.m. to 10 p.m.) and can call 348-RIDE (7433) after hours.
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5. Students with commuter hangtags will park as usual on the day before a home football game. On the day of the home football game, they can park free of charge with their permit in the Upper Rec Center lot off 5th Ave. East and the SW corner of Campus Drive and Bryce Lawn Drive as space allows. 6. If you are an orange residential parking permit holder and normally park in Tutwiler, NE Stadium or Colonial Drive, please be sure to take advantage of your temporary free parking deck access to the Ferguson Parking Deck made available each Friday at noon until midnight for each home game. Simply swipe your Action Card in the “A-Slot� in one of these respective parking decks for free access. DO NOT swipe in the “B-Slot� or $5 will be deducted from your Bama Cash account. Remember, your Action Card will be activated each home game Friday for this parking deck access. Your vehicles must be back in the Orange Residential zone by Monday morning at 7 a.m.
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BEHIND ENEMY LINES By Kelly Ward | Sports Editor
Wesley Wright is the sports editor of the University Press, Florida Atlantic University’s student publication. The Crimson White caught up with him to talk about this weekend’s matchup. FAU threatened Nebraska last week a bit on the ground. Better on the ground this year?
And in one game he’s already rushed for a fifth of what he rushed last year?
Well, that’s what they wanted. In a perfect world, they can set the tone on the ground and then they can go through the air with Jaquez Johnson whenever they can’t run, but they’re a run first offense. They were last year, but on Saturday, they just were overmatched, and they’ll be overmatched probably coming into this next week. Their offense isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as it was compared to a year ago. But they are a run-first offense, and the starting running back is Tony Moore and we have a new coach, Charlie Partridge. Tony Moore didn’t play much under Carl Pelini, but he’s found his way back into the starting lineup and behind him you have Jay Warren, and Jay Warren was playing a lot as a true freshman last year, but it’s going to be running back by committee this year because they don’t have one solid guy. They haven’t had one solid guy since Alfred Morris.
Yeah, that’s right. Last year, he split carries with a guy named Jonathan Wallace, and then once Pelini got fired or resigned or whatever you want to call it, there’s another guy named Damian Fortner, who the interim coach liked, so Fortner took a little bit of Jay Warren’s carries at the end of last year. But it looks like it will be two or three guys splitting carries this year. Warren can play, but I don’t know if he’s the blocker that Tony Moore is. That might be the reason Moore is the starter, but you’ll see a lot of both of them on Saturday.
Despite being overmatched with Nebraska, Jay Warren had 77 yards against the Cornhusker defense. Yeah, that is definitely right, and he probably would have rushed for more if the game hadn’t been blown open so early because there’s no point of running the ball if we’re down by 17, 24 points, but they came to play though. Photo Courtesy of Wesley Wright
There’s a bit of a size overmatch with Alabama. But if you saw the game against West Virginia, they had a little bit of trouble with West Virginia’s offense. What did you see from that that you think Florida Atlantic can take advantage of? Well, it’s good that you mentioned the size of the line. I don’t know. I think they do a zone blocking thing at Florida Atlantic, and then what they like to do is a bunch of short passes, which is kind of like a run anyway. They want to try the short passing game so with that in mind, you don’t have to pass protect for three or four seconds every play. I think they can do that. I think they can do the short passing game, but you just have to deal with how much bigger the Alabama defensive line is than our offensive line. And we also don’t have a quarterback who’s that tall. I think Jaquez Johnson is maybe 6 feet tall so that might be an issue. But look, if they can get into a rhythm early – because on Saturday they got into the first possession and moved right down the field and scored. If they can get into a rhythm early, then it will become an issue of can they avoid turning the ball over and then if one side of the game isn’t working. Let’s say that Alabama
stops Jay Warren and Tony Moore, and then they can key right into Jaquez Johnson passing the ball. He may not be a gifted enough passer yet to where they can hand him the ball and say, ‘Hey, take us to the post, man.’ So the offense is, ahead of where the defense is right now because Brian Wright was the interim coach last year after Pelini, and Brian Wright stayed on this coaching staff. The new head coach Charlie Partridge chose to keep him, but the defense is led by this new guy named Roc Bellantoni, and they did not look good Saturday. I’m a little concerned. And we had one of our cornerbacks get hurt. They say he’s going to be back this week. His name is D’Joun Smith, and he’s probably one of the best cornerbacks in the country. He hurt his arm or something last Saturday, and they say he’ll be back, but you don’t know, and by the way, so did Jaquez. Jaquez also hurt his left shoulder, but they say they’ll be back so I’ll just take them at their word, but if not, then it could get really bad. You say your corner got hurt. How tough is it to lose someone who may or may not be back? I can tell Partridge wouldn’t say, ‘Well, he’s not going to be back.’ I can tell that because then you plan differently. It’s better just to leave it until Saturday. But anyway, let’s say that Amari Cooper is really good, right? So the guy behind our first cornerback is Cre’von LeBlanc, and it’s kind of like a crapshoot. We’ve got one really good cornerback, and then we’ve got three or four guys, one of which is a true freshman. We’ve got three or four guys who are just kind of there. They’re not unproven. They can get the job done, but they’re not gifted like D’Joun Smith is. But our secondary is pretty experienced. It wasn’t even the passing game. Our secondary was actually solid for most of last weekend. It was just their running game that killed us. I think Nebraska had almost 500 yards. Which I expected them to beat us soundly, but I didn’t expect them to put up 500 yards on the ground. So maybe it was merciful that they did that, but the secondary did pretty good. It’s pretty solid all around. Just losing a guy like D’Joun Smith is tough because in a perfect world, you can put him on the best receiver on any team and he’ll take them out of the game, but they’ll just have to figure it out. It’s tough to do when you’ve got guys like Amari Cooper and Derrick Henry and guys like that. There’s so many weapons on the Alabama team. There’s a lot to deal with, but, Florida Atlantic likes to play a lot of man so I figure that even if D’Joun Smith is out, they’re going to stick with that and see what happens.
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