TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 VOLUME 121 | ISSUE 21
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Alabama’s young equestrian team will embark on its largest travel schedule thus far when it heads to Delaware State later this month.
“A family that dances together, stays together,” said Joshua McCoy, president of the Rip Tide Dance team. The family will reunite this year after holding auditions for new members.
The Magic City will sound more like The Music City this fall with a host of high-profile bands filling the lineups of area venues. Don’t miss a beat by checking out our Birmingham breakdown.
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Outside the window of Tuscaloosa resident Laurie Johns’ home, past a New England Red birdhouse replica hanging in a nearby tree, lies an opening in the woods, where a small path has been carved by the occasional automobile and frequent foot traffic of nearby residents. Johns travels this path outside her window often. It leads to an open area of land with a tin sign that reads “The Sassafras Community Gardens.” The gardens are a part of Sassafras Center for Arts and Environment, a community organization that Johns and others recently created. As the president of Sassafras, Johns aims to combine arts We’re trying to and the environment in various combine the community outreach projects community, and events. The arts and the organization is nearing its secenvironment. ond birthday and hopes to — Laurie Johns — become an integral part of the community for years to come, Johns said. The idea for Sassafras blossomed from a combination of factors. When Johns and her husband moved into a Tuscaloosa home shaded by a canopy of decadesold trees, they found a plot of land
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Diabetics manage insulin, classes College can be challenging for students with diabetes By Laura Testino | Staff Reporter
Alicia Traylor, a freshman at The University of Alabama, can identify the number of carbohydrates in every bite of food she consumes, and it is not because she decided to try out a new
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diet plan. Traylor has Type 1 diabetes, and knowing her carbohydrate intake can be a matter of life or death. Like other University students, Traylor is no stranger to the dining halls or the green straw sprouting from a Starbucks Frappucino. She just completed her first few weeks of college, and didn’t fail to take advantage of the Dining Dollars and meal swipes on her new Act Card.
“The thing is, you can have anything [to eat], as long as you have good control over your diabetes and you cover it with insulin,” she said. “That’s always what my doctors told me to do.” Traylor was diagnosed at nine years old, and the disease has impacted her life beyond the foods in her diet. Diabetes is a chronic disease that SEE DIABETES PAGE 2
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