THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 VOLUME 121 | ISSUE 27
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Coming off a win in its meet against Samford, the Crimson Tide cross country team will travel to Asheville, North Carolina this weekend. Coach Dan Waters will look to lead a team of young athletes to further success.
“In 2013, there were 122 bikes reported stolen,” said UAPD Officer Vonda Collins. Twelve bicycles have been reported stolen this semester to date, six in September alone.
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Accidents frequent on campus An average of 1.6 traffic accidents occur per day By Collin Burwinkel | Contributing Writer
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For students who commute by car, traffic accidents can cause quite a headache on campus. “There were 492 reported traffic accidents on campus between Aug. 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014,” Cathy Andreen, director of media relations, said. Andreen said the majority of crashes occurred Almost 500 in parking lots car accidents and were not lifethreatening. does seem like “Over 50 pera lot to me. cent of the 492 accidents were in a parking lot — Kyle Rose — or some type of parking area,” Andreen said. “A small percentage of the accidents resulted in injury. However, there were no deaths.” Students who choose not to drive a car aren’t exactly free from an accident, either. “There were occasional wrecks involving UA vehicles and First Transit buses,” Andreen said. Parker LaFont, a sophomore majoring in telecommunication and film and computer science, was involved in a Crimson Ride bus crash last year. “Last year I was riding my bus on the way to class and while the bus was making a turn, it just ran straight into a car. It was over by
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Some Tuscaloosa residents struggle for access to healthy food By Emily Williams | Staff Reporter
At 9 p.m. in Alberta City, the Piggly Wiggly grocery store closes for the evening. The next closest store is WinnDixie, almost two miles down the road. For residents with a car, the commute is no problem, and fresh food is easy to access. But without a car, it is more than a 30-minute walk down University Boulevard. After dark, inhabitants of Alberta City are trapped in what is known as a food desert.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food deserts as areas where a significant percentage of the population lives more than a mile from the nearest source of fresh, healthy food. For many people living in a food desert, the only source of food they have access to are nearby gas stations and convenience stores, which supply primarily unhealthy food items. A recently released USDA report ranked Alabama among the top 10 states for food insecurity, referring to
households without access to enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. Nationally, 14.3 percent of households lack access to healthy food on a regular basis. In the state of Alabama, the average percentage of households that are considered food insecure is 16.7, according to the same USDA study. Henry Lipsey, executive director of the West Alabama Food Bank, said the Black Belt counties, Hale and Greene, SEE FOOD PAGE 13
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Six former Alabama golfers will compete at the 2014 Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic at the Capitol Hill Golf Club, in Prattville, Alabama, this weekend. Stephanie Meadow, Jennifer Kirby, Brooke Pancake and Hannah Collier, members of the 2012 National Championship team, will compete, along with Jenny Suh, a 2007 graduate, and Kathleen
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Chaco footwear launches Fit for Adventure Tour Many students at The University of Alabama have bought the walking, hiking and climbing sandals made by Chaco. Chaco footwear is hitting the road with their Fit for Adventure Tour this year. The company has scheduled 11 stops, and for the Chaco-lovers close by, Tuscaloosa is one of them. Chaco footwear will be on campus Saturday for the Alabama vs. Florida game with offers of giveaways, new products, music, food and a chance for attendees to win a trip. The tour is in honor of the company’s 25th year anniversary. Chaco Footwear has already made stops at the Georgia vs. South Carolina and
Arkansas vs. Auburn games, along with several outdoor festivals in Colorado and Tennessee. Chaco will be on the Quad before the game in a green trailer. In addition to the merchandise the company will be giving away, the company will bring a photo booth. At the trailer, Chaco will have a fitting station for customers who have never worn Chacos before. For every try-on, Chaco will donate $2 to Big City Mountaineers, a company that mentors youth outdoors. Chaco is promoting their tour with social media, using the hashtag #ChacoTour. Compiled by Stephanie Gaytan
Mark Edmundson to lecture about new book University of Alabama students will have the opportunity to hear Mark Edmundson lecture on his newly published book, “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game,” at 3 p.m. Friday. The event will be held in the Ferguson Center Theater, and Edmundson will stay on campus for a book signing and small reception following the lecture. Both the lecture and reception are open to the public. His book cites his own personal experiences
with the game of football as well as its larger role in American society. In addition to being an essayist and author, Edmundson is currently a professor of English at the University of Virginia. His studies there focus on 19th-century American and British poetry and romanticism. He received his undergraduate degree from Bennington College and a doctorate from Yale University. Compiled by Mary Catherine Connors
Water stations to be provided in Bryant-Denny Stadium Fans attending this weekend’s home football game against the University of Florida will have access to nine watering stations at Bryant-Denny Stadium. There will be five located on the mezzanine level and four located in the upper deck. The watering stations are 150-gallon tanks of cold filtered water forfans caaccording to director of athletics Bill Battle’s weekly email. “Our 11 a.m. game with FAU saw almost
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Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Thursday, September 18, 2014
Paul Finebaum to sign new book in Tuscaloosa By Katie Shepherd | Staff Reporter
Six bicycles have been reported stolen to UAPD so far in the month of September. CW / Lindsey Leonard
12 bikes reported stolen to UAPD this semester By Alessandra Delrose | Contributing Writer
So far this semester, 12 bicycles have been reported stolen to the University of Alabama Police Department, including six bike thefts in September. “In 2013, there were 122 bikes reported stolen to the University of Alabama Police Department,” UAPD Officer Vonda Collins said. Laura Yablecki, a sophomore majoring in mathematics and economics, is familiar with on-campus bike thefts. “I was only riding on campus for two weeks before my bike was stolen,” she said. “I live off campus, so not having a bike was a big inconvenience for me since I am not able to drive to campus.” Yablecki said she believes the bike theft problem has increased since she first arrived on campus last fall. “Besides me personally having my bike stolen, I have had friends now who have had their bikes stolen, and it is just an incredibly frustrating situation,” she said. “It is sad that some people will resort to stealing bikes from innocent students.” Chris Kent, a junior majoring in management and information systems, said he mistakenly believed his bike was stolen three different times. Kent said he was coming back from class one day and went to where his bike was
supposed to be, and it was gone. He immediately called UAPD, who told him they cut off his locks and had his bike. “I assumed that this was because my bike wasn’t registered at the time, so it was more of a relief that my bike was alright,” Kent said. “After I got my bike back that day, I made sure to register it through the school.” Kent said he assumed all of his bike trouble was over, but again he walked out to where his bike was parked and it was gone. He said due to the overflow of bikes, he has to park his bike in a different place. “So while I see that the University may be making obvious strides in registering bikes to prevent theft, I think one way to make bikes safer is to allow more parking opportunities where you can properly lock your bike to better prevent theft,” Kent said. Collins advised students to follow some simple rules when it comes to commuting with a bike on campus. “First of all you need to always secure your bike properly to a bike rack. Also, we offer an Operation ID program where students can come in free of charge and engrave letters/numbers to identify their bikes, and finally, we encourage students to keep this identifying information and/or register their bicycle with Transportation Services,” Collins said.
SEC fans may rejoice to know Paul Finebaum, radio personality and author of “My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Rules College Football,” will come to Tuscaloosa Friday as part of his book release tour. Finebaum is one of the leading sports writers to cover SEC football. He also had a role in the ESPN documentary titled “Roll Tide/War Eagle,” which discussed the eternal Alabama-Auburn conflict. In his new book, readers will get insight into the rise of the SEC powerhouse and a look into the SEC teams and their fans. In a statement from BooksA-Million, whom sponsor of the event, Finebaum said how excited he was to come to the home of the Crimson Tide. “I certainly couldn’t do a book tour without a stop in Tuscaloosa,” Finebaum said. “It will be great to visit with these passionate fans from the SEC country.” The book signing event will take place outside of Bob’s Victory Grille at Midtown Village and will feature food samples from the restaurant. “The event will be one-of-a-kind and will feature tailgate-style entertainment, food and music,” said Bob Baumhower, owner of Bob’s Victory Grille, in a statement. “The entire family will be able to enjoy a night of excitement celebrating Paul Finebaum’s stop in town.” Brynn Wheeler, a senior majoring in public relations, said she plans on attending the event on Friday because she is a fan of SEC football and is familiar with Finebaum’s radio show and his work on the SEC Network. “I feel like he always has a good way of saying things,” Wheeler said. “I would like to go see how he is in person.”
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Matt Chesley, a senior majoring in international business, said he is a huge Finebaum fan and is extremely excited for the book signing in Tuscaloosa. “I would go because I love college football and his voice runs the game,” Chesley said. Finebaum will be in front of Bob’s Victory Grille at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. “My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Runs College Football” will be available for purchase, and fans will have an opportunity to have the book signed by Finebaum himself. Tickets for the book signing will be available at the event.
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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Thursday, September 18, 2014
GUEST COLUMN | CYBER PRIVACY
Cyber privacy must be respected, understood By Lu Luisa Sanchez | Guest Columnist
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It has been three weeks sinc a hacker infiltrated since abo 20 celebrity iCloud about acc accounts and leaked private photos of artists such as Jennifer Lawrence, Ari Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dun Dunst, Kaley Cuoco and Kat Upton on Reddit. The Kate scan scandal made front pages all over the United States and was a trending topic on Twitter and Facebook. S Social media exploded w users excited to see with th pictures everyone was the tal talking about. While reading differW ent articles on Facebook an nd news platforms, I saw and a rridiculous number of neg negative and disrespectful com comments likening the victim tims to pieces of meat and neg neglecting their work as arti artists. Personally, my opinion of these artists has not cha changed at all. “Normal” peo people tend to worship cele celebrities and public figure ures, thinking they are god gods who are too perfect to mak make mistakes. T The leaking of these photos is a huge violation of privac vacy, and the hacker should face the consequences of thei their actions. The photos them themselves did not disturb
me; what disturbed me was the way people reacted to this incident: shaming, judging, insulting and attacking. Even if we all have the right to privacy, people generally need to be more careful with what they post online and keep on their phones and electronic devices. This is not because it’s wrong to have nude photos on your phone, but because clearly other people will not respect you or your privacy in any way. The main issue of this whole situation has nothing to do with our bodies, nude selfies or whether we have a sex life. It has to do with respect, and in our society it is evident that we do not respect each other. This is the main reason why ideas such as “slut shaming” are still going on around the world. How medieval is that? Yes, Jennifer Lawrence has boobs. Deal with it. Let’s all try to become less hypocritical and more accepting of others, so we can focus on things that really matter and will make us grow as a society. Luisa Sanchez is a sophomore majoring in journalism.
COLUMN | GRAD SCHOOL
Graduate school application class would be practical NATHAN
James Staff Columnist
For many students at The University of Alabama, undergraduate studies are just the first step on the long road towards a master’s or Ph.D. These students will commit huge amounts of time and energy to the process of graduate school applications, mostly during their senior year. Simultaneously managing a course load, a slew of applications and extracurricular activities that are meant to get you across that final threshold can be a
daunting task. It’s not uncommon for a student’s GPA and/or mental health to suffer under the stresses of the application process. The hardest part of this process can be managing time -– when you have a test tomorrow, a paper due later in the week and volunteer hours after class, how do you find the time to invest in applications without some other aspect of life suffering? One possible solution to this would be for the University to create a class for seniors and juniors only, dedicated solely to the process of applying to graduate school. This class would give students a dedicated time slot each week when they would work on their applications. They could research schools, compose materials or schedule meetings with advisors and
other faculty members during this time. There wouldn’t be a curriculum, since the basics of graduate school application are fairly simple, and long-term objectives vary from person to person. This class wouldn’t provide students with anything tangible they didn’t already have. But it could provide something crucial: structure. It would let students know exactly when they’ll have time to work on their applications and also be completely certain that this time won’t overlap with other responsibilities. A counterpoint to this idea is that college students, as adults, shouldn’t need hand-holding. This is an entirely valid point. As mature and aspiring adults striving for material and intellectual independence, most of us don’t want or need a faculty member standing over our shoulder
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and guiding our every action. However, the class I’ve suggested doesn’t take the responsibility of finding information, making decisions and doing work from students. It simply provides an optional support system for people who are driven to do those things, with a minimal cost to the school. The University of Alabama is an extremely effective institution, and it should want to help students capitalize on the quality of instruction they’ve received here. A program like the one I’ve suggested would be a simple, non-intrusive and cost-efficient way for the University to help students on the path to higher learning get there. Nathan James is a senior majoring in psychology. HIs column runs weekly.
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OPINIONS Thursday, September 18, 2014 COLUMN | FOREIGN POLICY
US must promise retribution for those who attack Americans overseas CRUISE
Hall Staff Columnist
Students have unparalleled opportunities to see the world, but those opportunities might be limited in the future as America’s influence in the world continues to decline. Some corners of the world will always be more dangerous than others, but few destinations are safe when the U.S. is incapable or unwilling to defend Americans abroad. To ensure the safety of Americans traveling overseas, America must maintain strong diplomatic and military stature. Our capacity must also be matched by a willingness to extend retributive justice anywhere across the world. Whether Americans are caught in the crossfire of regional conflicts or are specifically targeted for terror attacks, those who bring harm to Americans abroad should be treated as if they are harming Americans here at home. The world takes notice of the United States’
commitment, or lack thereof, to protect brazenly ordered their men to shoot the plane down. At worst, they would Americans abroad. The recent executions of two endure another round of economic American journalists, Steven Sotloff sanctions and a slap on the wrist. In each instance, a regional band of and James Foley, are particularly worrisome in this regard. The terrorists belligerent murderers had little fear campaigning to establish an Islamic their actions would incur America’s State across Syria and Iraq intention- wrath. Nefarious forces around the ally targeted Americans in an attempt world are emboldened by this new to deter future American involve- norm of American indifference. And while these inciment in the region. dents occurred on the That is, ISIS terrorfront lines of a war zone, ists consider American citizens to be fair game It is crucial that the United international terrorists have consistently demin their conquest for States sends a clear onstrated their intent regional dominance, bring the war zone to and they had no conmessage to anyone who to subways, airports and cern that their actions shopping malls around might ensure further contemplates harming the world. In fact, interAmerican involvement American citizens abroad. national cities are favorin the region. ite targets for fanatics Consider also the murlooking to capture the der of the passengers world’s attention. When and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by Russian sep- terrorists are eager to pick a fight with aratists in July. Quinn Schansman, the world’s superpower, no American a 19-year-old with dual citizenship student, businessman or casual in the U.S. and Netherlands, was the tourist is safe. In such a climate, it is crucial that only American of the 294 passengers. But for all the separatists knew, every the United States sends a clear mespassenger on the Boeing 777 could sage to anyone who contemplates have been American. This possibility harming American citizens abroad. did not deter the commanders who Our enemies should have no doubt
WHAT I THINK • Recent terrorist attacks have made safe travel difficult for Americans. • Terrorists believe they can attack Americans with impunity. • The United States has the power and influence to prevent these attacks. • The U.S. should ensure swift justice for anyone who attacks Americans overseas.
that their days will be numbered once they decide to target Americans. Even those who indiscriminately kill civilians of all nationalities should lose sleep at night for fear that a stray bullet or bomb might strike an American citizen. To attack one American is to pick a fight with every American. Only after the United States secures this promise of swift justice can Americans be truly safe to explore the world without fear. Cruise Hall is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. His column runs biweekly.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
The Huxford Symphony Orchestra will perform pieces from Brahms and Sibelius during its first of six concerts in the 2014-2015 season. CW / Lindsey Leonard
Huxford Symphony Orchestra opens season By Heather Buchanan | Staff Reporter
Thursday evening marks the season opening of one of The University of Alabama’s top performance groups, the Huxford Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra opens the 2014-2015 season with the first of six orchestral concerts, playing pieces by Brahms and Sibelius. Skip Snead, director of the School of Music, said the Huxford Orchestra will demonstrate its superior status at Thursday’s performance. “It has grown substantially in recent years, becoming one of the most recognized university orchestra programs in the Southeast and the only full-time student university symphony in the state of Alabama,” he said. “Their opening concert Thursday evening features an outstanding repertoire and will serve as a wonderful beginning to what will be an outstanding season throughout
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Huxford Symphony Orchestra Concert WHEN: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Moody Concert Hall
this academic year.” The group is mainly composed of music majors ranging from freshmen to doctoral students. The orchestra meets twice a week for two-hour rehearsals. The pieces slated for performance include what Lindsey South, a sophomore majoring in violin performance, called “two of Johannes Brahms’ finest orchestral works.” She also said the talents of violin professor Jenny Grégoire will be showcased. “My teacher, Mrs. Jenny Grégoire,
is soloing the Sibelius Violin I’m excited to here how they do on Concerto, which is notoriously this concert.” difficult and virtuosic,” she said. “It’s Haley Funkhouser, a sophomore an honor to have her solo with us, and majoring in horn performance, is a vetit would be a loss not to come and hear eran member of the ensemble who said her play.” she believes this perBlake Richardson, formance will serve director of orchestral as a strong opening studies, serves as conto what should be ductor of the group. a good season for Our first concert He said the program the ensemble. has definitely proven to will appeal to the “Our first congeneral public and cert has definitebe a challenge. serve as an introducly proven to be a tion to the high perchallenge,” she — Haley Funkhouser — formance level of the said. “I believe Dr. Huxford Orchestra. Richardson sees “The concert will our potential and is be about two hours going to hold us up to long, and it’s all very that standard in the enjoyable, popular classical music – coming concerts as well. stuff that I think most people will find We have all worked hard, and I accessible and interesting to listen to,” believe that our first performance he said. “The orchestra is doing quite is going to set the tone for a very well, it plays on a very high level, so strong season.”
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Editor | Reed O’Mara Culture@cw.ua.edu Thursday, September 18, 2014
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With Alabama’s first SEC game right around the corner, many are gearing up for a big gameday Saturday in Tuscaloosa. While many travel to Tuscaloosa to watch the Crimson Tide, others come purely for the exciting atmosphere. With so many people milling about on the Quad and plenty of things to see and do before you event enter Bryant-Denny, it can be difficult to get the most out of gameday. Here is a timeline of events for this weekend’s match against Florida.
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12:30 p.m.
The University’s “official tailgate party” on the Quad opens. Tailgating on the Quad includes a variety of food and merchandise vendors as well as different student organization tailgates. Make sure to make a stop at the SUPe Store tent to stock up on shakers, T-shirts and crimson memorabilia galore.
CW File The drum line starts playing two hours prior to kickoff on the steps of Gorgas Library. Crowds line the roundabout in front of Gorgas and put on a festive performance sure to get everyone pumped up for kickoff.
1:30 p.m.
“Walk of Champions” on the north side of the stadium, facing University Boulevard. The Crimson Tide football team arrives at the stadium in their team buses. It’s your chance to get up close and personal with your favorite players and cheer them on as they enter the stadium.
CW File It’s best to enter the stadium early to make sure you get a seat as the student section will fill up fast. The hype video will also play before kickoff, and no one wants to miss that.
CW File The Elephant Stomp begins on the steps of Gorgas Library on the Quad. Alabama’s Million Dollar Band performs on the Quad, with a pep rally and then the march to the stadium to follow.
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Gameday Timeline
CW / Pete Pajor After a day full of buildup, the Alabama Crimson Tide’s match against the Florida Gators begins in Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Hear all of Alabama’s sports anthems played Saturday 6 a.m. till midnight T h e M i l l i o n D o l l a r B a n d . S w e e t H o m e A l a b a m a . R a m m e r J a m m e r . D i x i e l a n d D e l i g h t . We W i l l R o c k Yo u . a n d m o r e . . .
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Rucker to perform in Tuscaloosa By Ray Allen | Contributing Writer
Grammy award winner Darius Rucker will perform at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Thursday as part of his True Believers tour. Many know the singer for his country ballads, but others know him as the former frontman of Hootie and the Blowfish, an alternative rock group popular in the ‘90s. Rucker rose to fame in the South Carolina bar scene, where he met the other musicians who would ultimately become Hootie and the Blowfish. After five successful albums, they parted ways, and Rucker began his solo career. One R&B album later, Rucker decided to venture into the country music genre. In 2008, Rucker released his first country album, “Learn To Live.” Since then, he has released three award-winning albums with an untitled fourth on the way. The concert will not be the first time Rucker has per-
formed in Tuscaloosa, but it will be the first time he will perform as a solo artist. Rucker previously visited Tuscaloosa for a show with Hootie and the Blowfish. Betsy Kiser, marketing director at Red Mountain Entertainment, said the agency booked Rucker for Tuscaloosa because of his current success in the country genre. “He is one of the hottest acts in country music today,” Kiser said. “And we think country music fans in Tuscaloosa are going to have a great experience at the show.” Brittany Jones, a junior majoring in chemical engineering, said she grew up listening to Rucker on the radio back when he went by the name Hootie. “I think he is trying too hard,” she said. “Country music is just not his fit in my opinion.” Destiny Sims, a junior majoring in English, said she enjoys listening to music from the ‘90s, but she thinks Rucker’s solo career sounds much better.
“Hootie and the Blowfish are just songs to play at parties,” Sims said. “Darius Rucker songs are just a little bit more relatable.” Rucker will not be the only artist taking the stage. His concert will be opened by Sam Hunt and Chase Rice, newcomers to the country music industry. Hunt was formerly a quarterback for Middle Tennessee University and the University of Alabama in Birmingham before he decided to pursue a career in music. He has since collaborated with high-profile artists such as Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban. Rice got his start after he appeared as a contestant in the reality show “Survivor: Nicaragua.” Since being on the show, Rice has released two country albums with a third on the way. Darius Rucker, Chase Rice and Sam Hunt’s concert will take place at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets can be purchased on Ticketmaster or at the Amphitheater.
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9 UA alumna brings fall fashion to Tuscaloosa CULTURE Thursday, September 18, 2014
By Katherine Metcalf | Contributing Writer
As the fall fashion season approaches, Smith Sinrod heads back down south on her September Streamin’ by Smith Airstream tour to present her fashion collection, titled By Smith. The first stop on her tour is presenting her collection to students at her alma mater, The University of Alabama. Sinrod graduated from the University in 2005 from the apparel design program. She said she did not become serious about starting her own fashion line until late in her college career. “I have always been interested in fashion,” she said. “I did not realize that I wanted to start my own line until my junior year of college, and then senior year I explored [my] options.” Even though Sinrod is living and designing for her line in New York City, she still cites the South as an inspiration for her line. “I definitely [still] have a Southern style,” she said. When Sinrod was in college, she said her clothes would always fall apart. From these experiences, Sinrod said she decided she wanted to design well-made clothing women from a
Smith Sinrod showcases her fall collection in an Airstream. Photo Courtesy of Smith Sinrod
variety of fashion tastes could wear from day to night. “I feel like I have something for women of all ages,” she said. Tuscaloosa is the first stop on Sinrod’s September Streamin’ by
Smith tour. Her next stops are Birmingham, Auburn and Mobile. She will also be visiting other southern states such as Tennessee and Georgia. Sinrod said she enjoys showing her clothing on tours because
she wants to give her customers more than just a great shopping experience. “For each event [my team and I] try to create a block party trunk show to give people a fun way to shop and spend time with their friends,” Sinrod said. Sinrod’s story serves as inspiration for many current students who want to pursue fashion careers. Berta Amelinaite, a sophomore majoring in fashion retail, said it is motivating to see alumni becoming successful in a competitive fashion industry. “Starting [a] line is very awesome,” she said. “There are so many opportunities in the fashion industry, but it takes hard work and effort.” Marcy Koontz, a professor at the University, was one of Sinrod’s professors within her major. Koontz said Sinrod not only had the talent to start her own fashion line, but she understood the sacrifices of becoming a designer. Koontz said she remembers the conversation she and Sinrod had not long after Sinrod graduated from the University. “I can remember telling her that if it was easy, everyone could do it, and you need to focus on the one yes, not the five no’s,” Koontz said.
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University Programs to screen Tom Cruise film By Ray Allen | Contributing Writer
Students will have the chance to take a break from studying and enjoy a summer movie after the soccer game Saturday. In continuation with their film series, University Programs will be playing “Edge of Tomorrow.” For the first time, they will be hosting the event on the soccer field. Students can watch the women’s soccer team take on the Florida Gators and stay for the movie following the game. Victoria Sims, University Programs’ event programmer for the film series and a senior majoring in business management, said she enjoys movies and selecting them for students. During the selection process, Sims tries to find movies that do well at the box office or might be well-received by students. Set in a dystopian future, “Edge of Tomorrow” stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt as two militants in a world where aliens have nearly
It is PG-13, so we can show it outside, and it’s a great action movie that appeals to girls and guys. — Victoria Sims —
PLAN TO GO WHAT: “Edge of Tomorrow” screening WHEN: Friday, 9:30-11:30 p.m. WHERE: UA Soccer Fields overthrown the planet. Cruise’s character is stuck in a time loop that forces him to repeat the same day after he is killed. He seeks the help of Blunt’s character, who trains him to combat the aliens and stop the time loop. Sims said this particular film was chosen because it would cater to a diverse range of students. “It is PG-13, so we can show it outside, and it’s a great
action movie that appeals to girls and guys,” she said. Sims said the screening is great for the University because it gives students the opportunity not only to enjoy the soccer game but to engage in conversation with other students and faculty members. Michael Coffey, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering, said he plans on attending the event because of all the hype surrounding the film. Coffey said he does not have much prior knowledge of the film, but he hopes it will be worth watching. “After hearing so much about it, I want to see what it is about,” Coffey said. “I guess it is curiosity, I suppose.” “Edge of Tomorrow” will be shown on the soccer fields following the game at 9:30 p.m. The team’s concession stand will be open until 10:30 p.m. Students are encouraged to bring their own blanket. Tickets are free to students and can be found at “Edge of Tomorrow” stars Tom Cruise as a militant stuck in a time loop. Rotten Tomatoes up.ua.edu.
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Moakler to perform during campus fundraising concert By Mary Catherine Hodges | Contributing Writer
Howard Schnellenberger served as offensive coordinator under Paul Bryant from 1961 to 1965. MCT Campus
Former Tide coach to promote book By Marcus Flewellen | Contributing Writer
WHAT TO KNOW
Former Alabama football coach Howard Schnellenberger will be in the Tuscaloosa area this weekend to promote his new book “Passing the Torch.” The book chronicles Schnellenberger’s extensive career as an NCAA and NFL football coach. As the offensive coordinator for the Alabama football team from 1961 to 1965, Schnellenberger worked under Paul “Bear” Bryant. During his time as offensive coordinator, Schnellenberger helped the team win three national championships and recruit Joe Namath, celebrated college and NFL quarterback. Schnellenberger will be speaking and signing copies of his book at Barnes & Noble in Midtown Village on Friday.
THURSDAY: Bob’s Victory Grille FRIDAY: Paul Bear Bryant Museum and Barnes & Noble SATURDAY: The Ferguson Center and Bama Stuff SUNDAY: Academy Sports Barnes & Noble store manager Mary Wendt said she is looking forward to the coach’s arrival. “He’s a pioneer in college and professional football coaching,” she said. “He’s had an incredible career. This is going to be a big event.”
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If there is one thing Maggie Snead, president of the Alabama International Justice Mission, wants people to know about slavery, it’s that there are 30 million people enslaved worldwide. AIJM, a student organization at the University, is trying to change that. “This issue is overlooked sometimes because most people think slavery is something of the past,” Snead said. “Our mission is to bring awareness to the fact that there are millions of people in the world who are enslaved and we want to do everything we can bring awareness to our cause.” AIJM holds campus-wide fundraisers and events to help raise money and awareness for modern-day slavery. For one of the organization’s upcoming fundraisers, singer-songwriter Steve Moakler will hold a free concert Friday at the Alpha Gamma Delta house to help bring awareness to AIJM’s mission. All the money from these events is sent to the International Justice Mission, a global team of lawyers, investigators and community activists working to protect the poor from violence. Snead, a junior majoring in food and
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Track pants, sweatpants are versatile fashion staples for fall weather By Angela Thomas
For many, the deciding factor in dressing for class is comfort, and for most, comfort translates to T-shirts and shorts, the staple of all summer wardrobes. As fall approaches and the weather turns cooler, we will have to put away the shorts and trade them in for either yoga or sweatpants
to keep the same level of comfort. But fall’s trends from the runways to stores have been filled with dressed-up sweatpants. These track pants are the trendy, fashionable version of those sweats many students wear to class. They are typically made out of the same material too, but have stylish touches, like zippers, stripes and contrasting waistbands.
These could be considered the ultimate fall trend: They are comfortable, stylish and versatile. To achieve a comfy-for-class look, pair sweats with a T-shirt and sneakers. Track pants are going to be a new staple this fall. They can be dressed up or down and can be worn almost anywhere, and no one will know your outfit is as comfortable as it is trendy.
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THURSDAY September 18, 2014 down the number of crashes.” Kaitlyn Smith, a sophomore majoring in business, said she was involved in one of the 492 reported accidents. ACCIDENTS FROM PAGE 1 “My car was in the Tutwiler parking lot near the back entrance,” she said. “I was about to go to the grocery store, but Publix on the gold route,” LaFont said. Andreen said wrecks involving official when I walked up on my car someone had completely rear-ended UA vehicles only happen my SUV. The whole back occasionally, but the averof my SUV was ruined and age emergency response I had over $2,500 worth of time rivals other police I think if they added damage. I was not injured, departments around the country at 6 minutes or less. more parking spots... but I was irate. However, by looks of the damages, Even with a quick response that could maybe bring the the other person who hit time, some students think me must have been shakmore should be done to down the number of en up. They didn’t even prevent future crashes. crashes. leave a note.” “Almost 500 car accidents UAPD has information on does seem like a lot to me,” its website regarding crashKyle Rose, a senior major— Kyle Rose — es. This includes informaing in criminal justice, said. tion regarding leaving the “The response time seems pretty quick, so that’s good. I think if scene of an accident, common traffic they added more parking spots, drivers offenses on campus, fines imposed and won’t have to drive around looking for accident avoidance. To learn more, visit other spots and that could maybe bring police.ua.edu.
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Alberta City, including the Retreat, is in a food desert FOOD FROM PAGE 1
are two of the most food insecure places in Alabama. Greene County is one of the largest food deserts in the entire state. “To be honest with you, Tuscaloosa County is really not in that bad of shape as far as food deserts go,” Lipsey said. “Its has a multitude of grocery stores and places where you can buy food. It’s the far outlying counties that have more of a problem with that.” Lipsey said many small communities can’t support large grocery stores. In the past, residents grew a lot of their own produce and bought their staples at country stores. Now, he said, most people don’t grow their own food and the country stores have gone out of business, leaving few options for fresh food. “One of the problems with the food desert is that you can take care of it on a short-term basis, but it’s not going to last long,” Lipsey said. “What you really need is somehow to develop growing businesses in those areas. If you could stimulate the growth of country stores then you would help alleviate that problem.” The West Alabama Food Bank created a network of Mobile Food Pantries, which deliver food to residents on a weekly basis within various communities. The food bank serves nine counties in West Alabama: Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lenoir, Marion, Pickens, Sumter and Tuscaloosa counties. While Tuscaloosa County has less food insecurity than the surrounding area, there are localized food deserts within the community. Just east of campus, off McFarland Boulevard, the neighborhood of Alberta City is considered a food desert according to the USDA Food Access Research Atlas. Elizabeth Manning, a graduate of the UA journalism masters program, did her graduate research project on food deserts in West Alabama. She created an interactive website, foodinsecurity.ua.edu, to help
illustrate food deserts in the Turner, executive director of the Druid Tuscaloosa community. City Garden Project, said the weekly proManning lived at the Retreat at Lake gram is especially effective in schools like Tamaha, which lies within the bound- Oakdale Elementary, which is situated in aries of the Alberta City food desert, a food desert. her freshman year. While she person“The first thing we’re trying to do ally did not suffer from food insecu- to address the problem of food insecurity because she owned a car, she said rity is teaching our kids where their food it made her aware of the problems comes from, that food doesn’t just magiin the area. cally appear at the grocery store,” Turner “You’re living in a city with a very wide said. “We’re connecting kids to their food income gap, and the poor population source, and indirectly connecting their doesn’t have access to transportation,” parents to the food source as well.” Manning said. “There’s so many people The Druid City Garden Project sponsors [affected by it,] especially with the after- a program called Budding Entrepreneurs, math of the tornado, which took so many where students set up produce stands in resources from people.” the pick-up lines outside their schools and She said lack of edusell the vegetables they cation about healthy have grown to parents options is not the probIt’s really important if you’re and other members of lem. In many cases, the community. going to college for four cost outweighs nutri“Our Budding tion when deciding years and you’re going to live Entrepreneurs prowhat to eat. gram is probably our in a community that you learn most direct way of “I spent a lot of time with people who literally dealing with food inseabout that community. have nothing,” Manning curity and putting said. “They live on food healthy, affordable food — Elizabeth Manning — stamps, and they literinto homes,” Turner ally live month to month. said. “And our kids A lot of them know that take pride in the fact they need to eat healthier that they’re growing – they’re not ignorant. But they can get this food and then selling it back to the these unhealthy food options that their community, and they’re learning how to kids will love and eat for so much cheaper. operate a small business.” It’s so expensive to eat healthy.” Turner said parents get as much out When Manning investigated the prob- of the program as their kids do. She said lem of access to healthy food, she said some parents have told her they learned she found many factors contributed to about different types of vegetables and people’s ability to get groceries, includ- about the seasonality of produce from ing low income, lack of transportation and their children. unfamiliar surroundings. “It’s an opportunity for parents to pur“What I started learning was that a lot chase fresh, healthy, organically grown of these places that did have healthy food food for a very low price,” Turner said. options like the River Market – it was so “We subsidize the cost of our food at the nice and upscale that there was a portion farm stand, so whether you’re a parent of the Tuscaloosa population that felt like that earns $250,000 or $12,000 you can they didn’t really belong there,” she said. afford the food from our stand.” “They’re feeling excluded because they’re Turner said intervention and education not the Northport population.” about healthy eating at an early age is An alternative source of produce comes the only way to prevent obesity and other from the Druid City Garden Project, health problems in the future. which sets up gardens in local elemen“Kids have to learn how to eat, we have tary schools to teach children about to demonstrate that for them,” she said. growing and eating healthy food. Lindsay “We’ll have some schools where our kids
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already have a pretty good base knowledge about healthy food and we’re just building off of that, and we have some schools where we have literally been asked the question, ‘Does ice cream grow off of trees?’” Dr. John Higginbotham, associate dean for research and health policy at the College of Community Health Sciences and director of the Institute for Rural Health Research, studies the effects of food deserts on childhood obesity. Because of the lack of healthy food options, he said children who grow up in food deserts have a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes and other health conditions associated with obesity and poor nutrition. “Right now our adolescents and our young children, 31 percent of them are either overweight or obese,” he said. “If we look at the adults, that number jumps to 69 percent in our state. These children are going to have the same problems with obesity that adults are having but at a younger age. There have even been some people who have said this may be the first generation that doesn’t outlive their parents if it continues to go in this direction.” Higginbotham was recently awarded a $1 million grant from Project UNITED, which works to reduce childhood obesity in Alabama’s Black Belt region. Through Project UNITED, Higginbotham said he aims to create lasting solutions to food deserts and obesity by customizing solutions that fit each individual community. Higginbotham and Turner agreed that while the issue of food deserts is a largely geographic problem, educating children about nutrition is a key element in trying to work towards lasting change. Manning said the first step to finding a solution is to raise awareness in the community, particularly among college students who are largely unaware of the problem. “There are so many students that just go for that college atmosphere: study, party, get your degree,” she said. “If you have the opportunity to get that higher education, you need to use that to help others. It’s really important if you’re going to college for four years and you’re going to live in a community that you learn about that community.”
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American String Quartet to perform on campus By Andrew Laningham | Contributing Writer
The sounds of classics will be ringing out of Moody Music Hall when the American String Quartet performs Sunday. The quartet was brought to The University of Alabama by The String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa. “Coming to Tuscaloosa fit into the American String Quartet’s travel plan really well, and it made it financially feasible for the quartet to come to the University,” said Leslie Poss, board member of the String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa. David Duff, another board member, helped bring the American String Quartet to the University. “This is my first year to work with the String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa in terms of booking quartets for the season,” Duff said. “We were looking to bring in the most exceptional talent we could both find and afford. The American String Quartet is certainly among the best performing today. We were very happy that they were able to fit us into their schedule.” The American String Quartet consists of violinists Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, cellist Wolfram Koessel and violist Daniel Avshalomov. All of the musicians are faculty at the Manhattan School
PLAN TO GO WHAT: American String Quartet WHEN: Sunday, 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Moody Concert Hall
of Music. The quartet is in its 39th performance season. Bronwyn Mullen, a sophomore majoring in computer science, said she was planning on attending the event. “The four instruments harmonize with each other,” Mullen said. “Instead of being a wall of sound, like an orchestra, a quartet’s harmonies and melodies are easier to follow.” The American String Quartet has traveled as far as Tel Aviv, Israel, for its performances, where the quartet recently performed a concert titled the Beethoven Cycle. The quartet’s program for Tuscaloosa has yet to be announced on their website. Following the concert in Tuscaloosa, the group will travel to Montgomery and perform pieces from Brahms and Beethoven. “It’s classical music, of course, so it’s probably a little different atmosphere than some other kinds of
The American String Quartet consists of violinists Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, cellist Wolfram Koessel and violist Daniel Avshalomov. Photo Courtesy of Melvin Kaplan
concerts,” Duff said. “The music on the program for this concert is pretty listener-friendly, so I think it would be a great opportunity for someone who may not have had a lot of exposure
to classical music to come and take it in.” The American String Quartet will performing at Moody Concert Hall at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Popular actors detour from typical roles to receive Oscar nominations By Drew Pendleton
It seems Matthew McConaughey started a trend. The actor was known mainly for his mainstream box office successes before he ventured into more dramatic territory with films like “Killer Joe,” “Magic Mike,” “Mud” and “Dallas Buyers Club,” which won him last year’s Best Actor Oscar. Like McConaughey, several mainstream actors and actresses have taken detours from their typical roles this season, and early festivals and reception have already cemented them in the midst of the awards race. In the actor categories, four formidable four men have already been the center of awards conversation, all of whom are taking on different material. Steve Carell is in the midst of the race for his role as John DuPont, a schizophrenic millionaire
who murdered an Olympic wrestler on his estate in the 1990s in “Foxcatcher.” The trailers show Carell in a completely unsettling and genuinely terrifying character, drastically different from the funny man he usually plays. Right beside Carell are Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”), who have both earned rave reviews for their turns as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” and British mathematician Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,” respectively. Busting out with stellar reviews and giving a performance that apparently seals his Hollywood comeback was Michael Keaton, who plays a washed-up actor – known mainly for his role as a superhero – trying to restart his career and pick up the pieces of his personal life while attempting to put on a Broadway
play in “Birdman.” The movie will hit screens everywhere in early October after appearing at the Venice, Telluride and New York film festivals. From early trailers, the film looks like a wild experience. On the outside looking in, Channing Tatum (a co-lead in “Foxcatcher”) and Miles Teller (“Whiplash”) are also very much in play for their first nods, as is Teller’s co-star J.K. Simmons in supporting. In the actress categories, however, more intriguing choices have surfaced. In Best Actress, rising star Shailene Woodley is still in contention for “The Fault in Our Stars,” and British starlet Rosamund Pike (“Jack Reacher,” “The World’s End”) has the prime role in “Gone Girl,” whose trailers have been cryptic, mysterious and tantalizing. Toronto produced Jennifer Aniston as a dark-horse contender for her dramatic turn in “Cake,”
where she plays a woman tormented by chronic pain who investigates the suicide of a member of her support group (Anna Kendrick, in contention for her second nod with a supporting role in “Into the Woods”). Other contenders include Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin” and Kirsten Dunst for “The Two Faces of January.” In supporting, “Easy A” star Emma Stone has received plenty of buzz for her role as Keaton’s daughter whom he hires as his personal assistant after her release from rehab in “Birdman.” Expect Stone to be named in the Supporting Actress lineup when the nominations are announced, alongside four other women that may include first-time nominees Patricia Arquette (“Boyhood”), Emily Blunt (“Into the Woods”), Rene Russo (“Nightcrawler”) and Kristen Stewart (“Clouds of Sils Maria”).
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16 Saban confirms commitment to Blake Sims Editor | Kelly Ward Sports@cw.ua.edu Thursday, September 18, 2014
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Alabama coach Nick Saban confirmed the Crimson Tide’s commitment to starting quarterback Blake Sims Wednesday evening as the team wrapped up its preparations for its conference opener against Florida on Saturday. “We are going to play Blake and see how it goes,” Saban said. “We have a lot of confidence in Jake [Coker]. If we need to play him, we’ll certainly have no problem putting him in there and allowing him to play.” Through their first three games of the season, Sims has thrown for 646 yards with four touchdowns while registering a passer rating of 177. Coker, who has played in all three games in a reduced role, has thrown for 248 yards and a touchdown but has made several mental mistakes during his time handling the offense. Teammates said the player under center is of little consequence to them. “When Blake [Sims] is in there, we have confidence in him,” cornerback Cyrus Jones said. “When Jacob comes in, we have confidence in him too. Whoever the guy is going to be, we are going to ride with him and have his back.”
Tony Brown expected to see more playing time this week Freshman cornerback Tony Brown will get a chance to prove himself this weekend against Florida. With Eddie Jackson still nursing a quad injury and being limited during Alabama’s practices this
WHAT TO KNOW • The team practiced inside in full pads for the final practice before playing Florida. • T.J. Yeldon (hamstring) went through drills during the media viewing period. Yeldon still has a wrap around his left leg. • Eddie Jackson (quad) and Jarrick Williams (foot) both went through drills. • Scouts from both the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens were in attendance for practice. week, Brown will see an increased role in the defense. “Tony is definitely improving, definitely getting better,” Saban said. “I think the opportunities that he has had to play in the last two games has been good for his development and his confidence. He will play a lot in this game.” Brown, a highly touted prospect from Texas, was seen taking first-team reps opposite of corner Cyrus Jones during practice this week. He has seen playing time in all three games this year, but has not started a game.
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Cross Country preps for first full meet By Matthew Wilson | Contributing Writer
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Preseason polls carry too much weight By Tyler Waldrep
The most important number on the scoreboard should be the final score, but unfortunately that is not always true. Too much attention is given to the number that comes before a team’s name. Preseason polls create a bias that affects later polls, and early season polls are not much better. By design, the polls resist major movement, despite what conventional wisdom might say. Teams that begin the season ranked highly have to stumble dramatically just to fall out of the polls, while unranked teams have a long, slow climb ahead of them if they want national recognition. For proof, look no farther than the Oklahoma State Cowboys. They started the season unranked, but they pushed the No. 1 ranked defending national champions all the way through the fourth quarter. They eventually lost to the Florida State Seminoles, but only by 6 points. Two days before, South Carolina began the season ranked No. 9 as they hosted No. 21 Texas A&M, who dominated the Gamecocks to the tune of 52-28. The next AP poll had South Carolina ranked No. 21, while the Cowboys remained unranked. Both teams lost, but the Gamecocks lost by a much larger margin to an opponent that was ranked much lower. Skip ahead two weeks to No. 24 South Carolina beating No. 6 Georgia 38-35. The latest AP poll has South Carolina ranked No. 14, while Georgia is ranked one spot ahead at No. 13, despite South Carolina winning the head-to-head matchup. At this point in the season, no one in the country has a clue who the best four teams are. Texas A&M could end up being the next national champion, while Clemson finishes the season with only three wins to their name. The College Football Playoff committee has it right to start ranking teams in late October. College football fans can only hope that they are better than the AP poll at resisting preseason biases.
Coming off a win over Samford, the University of Alabama cross country team will face off against East Carolina and Marshall at the Asheville Carnival on Sept. 23. The Crimson Tide defeated Samford last week with a team composed of mostly freshmen. Coach Dan Waters said the Samford meet allowed the new recruits to adjust to collegiate sports. “It’s tough for young athletes making the transition from high school to college competition,” he said. “I think [the meet] helped their morale quite a bit, as well as serving as a great team-building opportunity, because our other runners went on that trip and were out there encouraging them and cheering them on.” The Asheville Carnival will be the first normal grouping of the season and will allow Waters to look at the team’s primary runners. “I think our athletes are ready,” Waters said. “They are anxious to get started.” Team captain Rebecca Stover said she’s excited to be back to running after suffering an injury last season. “This summer I had to catch back up on my training,” she said, “I had to have surgery, so I made sure to put in a good effort in every run.”
Team captain Rebecca Stover said she’s excited to be back to running after suffering an injury last season. CW File
As one of the team leaders, Stover said her responsibility is to push the team and set goals for the season. “We don’t have any seniors this year, so its kind of like I’m a senior because me and the other three juniors have to lead the team and set goals,” Stover said. Looking at last season, Waters said the team’s mentality and consistency will allow it to have a successful season. “We just need more consistency beyond our top two runners,” he said, “If we can get better behind those two that will help
us drastically in the team scoring. I think both of our teams will be focused on staying with our lead runners and competing as a pack.” Stover said the team is staying focused on making it to nationals at the end of the season. “Right now, we have a lot of young girls who will get the experience they need this year,” she said. “If we can stay focused and take it one day at a time, stay healthy and improve on the things we need, I think we will go far.”
Diederich returns from injuries to lead team By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter
When most athletes sign with The University of Alabama, they have a good idea of how their first year will go and how they can contribute to their team. Theresa Diederich, however, had an unconventional start to her collegiate soccer career. Instead of hitting the field with her teammates, Diederich was nursing a torn ACL, an injury she received during her senior year of high school. She didn’t start her career playing, but her injury encouraged her to stay motivated. Today, Diederich is now one of the top players for the Crimson Tide and one of the captains of the team. She’s posted 21 goals during her collegiate career. The fifth year senior redshirted her freshman year, but that didn’t stop her from being one of the most important players on the team. “Having the experience that I’ve had the past five years is just great,” she said. “[I’ve] really gained a lot of knowledge about the game but also just different experiences being a part of the Alabama culture.” After tearing her ACL twice, Diederich came back in her sophomore year and led the team in scoring seven goals
After tearing her ACL twice, Diederich came back in her sophomore year and led the team in scoring seven goals with one assist. CW File
with one assist. She scored seven goals again during the 2012 season and tied for most on the team. Last season she scored three goals as well. Coach Todd Bramble said Diederich does an outstanding job playing on the field, even after everything she has been through. “She is a fierce competitor,” Bramble said. “She is one of our most intense players and I think that’s another reason why she was voted captain. Not only can she lead us through the things she says to people on and off the field, but she definitely leads us by the way she plays. There’s no way you can be on the field
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Alabama vs. No. 7 Florida WHEN: Friday, 7 p.m. WHERE: Alabama Soccer Stadium with [Theresa] and see how hard she plays and how bad she wants to win and that not rub off on you, not inspire you to play just as hard as she is playing.” Diederich has experienced the ups and downs of the Crimson Tide’s previous seasons. She’s seen the team win
and lose. She’s felt the pain of not making it to the SEC Tournament last season after falling to Auburn in the final game of the season. It hasn’t stopped her from striving for more, however. Instead of living in the past, she and her team have set a goal to make it to the post season. Their mission is simple: to improve and to win. “[Our mission is] to take each game game by game and to play your all every game,” Diederich said. “Not look too far off into the future but play in the moment and give it your all every single game.” Despite the early setbacks, she’s still hungry for more. Diederich said she hopes to score 10 goals this season, and she’s already scored four. Bramble said she’s been one of the best players on his team. “She’s just hit another level of playing,” Bramble said. “She’s been consistently our best player on the ball so far this season. She really seems composed and is seeing the game a lot better now and has good instincts. She’s just been really good so far in the early season.” Diederich and the rest of the Crimson Tide will take on No. 7 Florida this Friday night, her senior night.
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Foster offers home court advantage By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter
Leah Lawrence serves the ball during the Tide’s match against UAB Tuesday, Sept. 16. CW / Lindsey Leonard
The tournament will conclude Saturday night, when To Krystal Rivers, the ener- Alabama takes on Clemson gy in Foster Auditorium is at 7 p.m. contagious. Coach Ed Allen said the In the Alabama volleyball competition this weekend will team’s home opening sweep of serve as a strong precursor to the UAB Blazers Tuesday night, SEC play, which begins for the the redshirt sophomore said Crimson Tide next week with the team fed off the energy of a road trip to the University the crowd and went on to play of Georgia. one of its best matches this sea“They are three teams son. The Tide beat the in-state that are going to do very well opponent 25-11 within their in the second leagues and have set, which tied played competithe largest martive schedules It’s a great atmosphere to this point,” gin of victory this season. Allen said. at home. “It’s a great “They’re probatmosphere at ably the perfect — Krystal Rivers — home,” Rivers type of teams said. “We have that you want to great fans and face going into we’re able to feed off their ener- league play. It will be good to gy, so getting a chance to let them have them at home and be able come see us for a few matches to feed off the crowd and use over a short period of time that energy as well, and hopewill be great.” fully we’ll have a pretty good This weekend, the Crimson crowd after the football game Tide will again draw on its home on Saturday.” court advantage as it hosts the Energy has been a big theme Crimson-White Tournament. for the Alabama team this Matches will begin Friday year, as it is currently starting when the team tips off against four new players. Junior setter Florida International at noon, Sierra Wilson said each of the followed by a match against new players brings an energy San Diego State at 7 p.m. all their own to the team.
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NO. 4 OKLAHOMA AT WEST VIRGINIA 6:30 p.m. CT on FOX Since the Sooners’ victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, they’ve been in the conversation for the first College Football Playoff. West Virginia, already dispatched by the Crimson Tide, will need its formidable offense firing on all cylinders if it wants to put a damper on Oklahoma’s playoff hopes. The Mountaineers have the fifth best passing offense in the nation, but Oklahoma’s defense has been one of the top in the nation, allowing only 11 points per game.
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NO. 5 AUBURN AT NO. 20 KANSAS STATE Thursday, 6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN The defending national runners-up have cruised the first two weeks of the season but will have to travel to Manhattan, Kansas for the first of many tests for the Tigers. Kansas State and coach Bill Snyder are experts at slowing down high-speed offenses like the Tigers, but will have their hands full slowing down Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall. The Wildcats will have to go to the air against the Auburn secondary if they want a shot at the upset.
NO. 22 CLEMSON AT NO. 1 FLORIDA STATE 7:00 p.m. CT on ABC While the runners-up travel to Kansas, the defending national champions will host the Clemson Tigers. Clemson was thoroughly handled by the Georgia Bulldogs and Todd Gurley, but Florida State doesn’t have anywhere near that standard of rushing attack. Stopping Jameis Winston, even for a half, is a tough ask of any defense in the nation, but Vic Beasley is one of the top pass rushers in the nation. Clemson will have to stretch the Florida State defense and keep steady pressure on the Seminole quarterback if it wants to knockout the top-ranked team in the nation.
NO. 2 OREGON AT WASHINGTON STATE 9:30 p.m. CT on ESPN Oregon has reasserted itself after perennially falling short of its national championship potential. The Ducks have the fifth best scoring offense nationally, scoring 52 points per game. Meanwhile, Washington State has the top aerial attack in the nation, racking up 517 yards per game. Expect a shootout when the Ducks travel to Martin Stadium for the weekend nightcap.
NO. 14 SOUTH CAROLINA AT VANDERBILT 6:30 p.m. CT on SEC Network South Carolina is something of an enigma. In the first game of the season, the Gamecocks were embarrassed by a Texas A&M offense supposedly in a down year. Two weeks after that, South Carolina held a Georgia team favored for the College Football Playoff on a vital fourth down, beating the Bulldogs 38-35. Vanderbilt’s rebuilding momentum has been halted, and is 1-2 on the season, including a 41-3 loss to Ole Miss.
GEORGIA SOUTHERN AT SOUTH ALABAMA 6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN3 Georgia Southern has two losses on the season, but only by a combined total of 5 points. The Eagles threatened Georgia Tech before falling short 42-38, and lost to North Carolina State 24-23. The Jaguars, on the other hand, couldn’t sustain their record of challenging SEC teams when they fell to Mississippi State 35-3. Georgia Southern has the 2nd ranked rushing offense in the nation, gaining 364.3 yards per game.
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Numbers don’t tell the whole story By Kayla Montgomery To say college football is a game of numbers would be an understatement. Weekend after weekend, story after story is written about stat after stat. Numbers start swirling immediately, from completion percentages to all sorts of yardage, trying to make sense of actions. Throughout our lives, we’ve been conditioned to believe there’s an inherent truth in numbers. In college football, however, numbers lie and they lie often. Numbers lied in The Swamp in Gainesville, where Florida barely scraped by Kentucky in tripleovertime, in a game that will be remembered for a play-clock debacle that should have cost the Gators the game. According to Florida coach Will Muschamp, the Gators were back. Those numbers, wherever he got them, clearly lied. If you stayed in Bryant-Denny for all four quarters of Alabama’s 52-12 destruction of Southern Miss last Saturday (as every student did, right?), you may have missed the chaos ensuing in Columbia, South Carolina, where the
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Georgia Bulldogs traveled to take on their SEC East rivals. After dismantling Clemson in its season opener, UGA was prematurely pegged as the only contender to win the East, and a possible contender for a national championship, thanks largely to Heisman-caliber running back Todd Gurley. By all accounts, the Bulldogs should have been victorious, but numbers couldn’t
account for South Carolina’s unwillingness to lose at home, in what ultimately became a game of inches. Upsets continued around the nation over the weekend with No. 9 USC, the same program that topped Stanford in the week prior, falling to Boston College, while East Carolina knocked off No. 17 Virginia Tech. In Tuscaloosa, things went largely as planned. Although
Southern Miss recorded the first score, Alabama took control shortly thereafter and didn’t relent, holding the Golden Eagles to a handful of field goals. The Crimson Tide fell a little short of its predicted numbers, but for the most part, it was on target. Next week, the Gators travel to T-town, and the home team is sure to be a heavy favorite. However, Alabama will be missing defensive back Nick Perry for the first half of the game, as he was flagged for targeting, leaving an already questionable secondary down a key player. After a bye week, the Crimson Tide will travel to Oxford, Mississippi, to take on Ole Miss in The Grove. This will be the first major test on the Alabama schedule and screams with potential for an upset. While I would like to trust in the numbers, this Alabama team is still largely untested. Although it has handily defeated its opponents so far, it hasn’t been without bumps in the road. This Crimson Tide team still has a lot to prove, and while it is certainly capable of another post-season run, I’m not completely sold on the numbers, at least not yet.
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It’s been nearly 10 months since the Crimson Tide played a conference opponent, and Alabama has changed its face since the 2013 Iron Bowl. It has a new quarterback or two. It has a new offensive coordinator. (Continued on page 8)
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t’s been nearly 10 months since the Crimson Tide played a conference opponent, and Alabama has changed its face since the 2013 Iron Bowl. It has a new quarterback or two. It has a new offensive coordinator. Three games and three wins into the season, Alabama holds a steady No. 3 ranking in the AP Poll after falling a spot two weeks ago. It’s still one game at a time for the Crimson Tide. And this week, it’s Florida. “This is the game we have this week, this is where all the focus is, and they have a very good team, and it’s going to take one of our best efforts to do it,” coach Nick Saban said. “And then you move on from there.” The start of conference play means more preparation. “Teams that we play, obviously, if you look at our schedule starting this week, are all good teams, really good teams,” Saban said. “So it’s important for our team to be able to continue to improve, play with confidence, play together as a unit where we can execute better.” The competition is tougher now.
The Tide’s remaining schedule currently includes four teams in the top 10, all conference opponents. “Games like this, players really get excited,” Saban said. “If they don’t, they don’t understand playing Alabama football, and they don’t understand
playing in the SEC.” The preparation is different for conference play. “You always want to prepare for a game like it’s a Florida or an LSU or something, but going into SEC gets everyone excited,” senior offensive lineman Austin Shepherd said. “This is kind of what you
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live for. This is why you came to Alabama, to play teams like this. It’s just more mental prep because you have to watch a lot of film because these guys have multiple things about them.” Part of the preparation is learning confidence, something Saban said he hoped the team would gain through experience. That means getting more players involved, something that hasn’t necessarily been the case on offense. “I think that there were other opportunities in the game for other guys,” Saban said. “Sometimes we didn’t get them the ball. We did have a drop, but I also think that we’re really trying to feature the players that we have. So far, what we’ve tried to do has been effective and it’s worked. A lot of it is going through Amari Cooper.” It’s worked. Cooper leads the team in all-purpose yards with 483. In conference play, though, it will take more than one player to shift the scale in favor of the Tide. “[The players] need to have confidence and we need to have confidence in them – and we have guys who have capabilities – so the other team can’t zero in on one guy,” Saban said.
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Will Muschamp and failed potential By Sean Landry When the illustrious Nick Saban cemented his status as one of the top coaches in college football at LSU, taking the Tigers to their first SEC Championship and the 2002 Sugar Bowl championship, he did so with the help of a little-known inexperienced linebacker coach named Will Muschamp. The next season, Muschamp was Saban’s defensive coordinator. The season after that, Muschamp helped lead LSU to the 2003 BCS Championship, leading the nation in scoring defense and total defense. Expectations have since been high for Muschamp. He was an assistant head coach for Saban’s Miami Dolphins for a season, coaching a league average defense that nevertheless had a fearsome pass rush. In 2006, he took the job as Auburn’s defensive coordinator and by the time he left a season later, those Tigers had the best defense in the Southeastern Conference. He was one of the top assistant coaches in the nation. Muschamp left Auburn to take the defensive coordinator position at one of the biggest athletic programs in the country: the Texas Longhorns. As co-defensive coordinator, he was the
highest paid assistant in the Big 12, but more importantly he was headcoach-in-waiting for possibly the biggest job in the country, set to replace Mack Brown, one of the most highly respected coaches in the modern era of college football. Since then, Muschamp’s done everything but meet those high expectations. Muschamp’s role was supposed to create stability and a smooth transition for the Longhorns. He was supposed to sustain the level of dominance established by a coach who led the Longhorns to the 2006 BCS National Championship while out-recruiting three other major in-state programs. Instead, Muschamp bolted Texas to take over for the suddenly-departing Urban Meyer at Florida and promptly set to work dismantling one of the most accomplished programs in the nation. In 2011, Muschamp’s first season with the Gators, he gifted the fans their first losing conference record in 32 years, going 3-5, including a 38-10 loss to his former boss’s Crimson Tide. At Florida, he’s never been able to fill the potential at one of the largest athletic programs in one of the most
talented states, recruiting-wise, in the nation. He’s been out-recruited by the hated rival Florida State, and much like the Iron Bowl, that will not stand for much longer. Most obviously, the Gators’ offense has been dire. The great defensive coordinator never bothered to teach his team how to score. Saban and “Bear” Bryant both stressed the importance of surrounding themselves with people who knew more than them. Bryant frequently said the most important facet of coaching was coaching his coaches, and said he never wanted to hire someone who wasn’t smarter than him. Muschamp either has forgotten that or never learned one of the most important lessons that his mentor had to teach him. Make no mistake, Muschamp was one of the best defensive minds in football for a decade, and that made him a phenomenal defensive coordinator. But that’s all he ever was. Like in the boardrooms of many failed businesses, Muschamp is the boss who got promoted one post too far. His bubble will burst soon, and a loss to Alabama this weekend could accelerate the end of one of the most disappointing coaching tenures in recent college football history.
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“Both of those guys have done a really good job,” Saban said of Dickson and Anderson. “They both had some pressures throughout the Through the first three games of the season, the Alabama de- year so far. They did a good job in the last game. Having those guys fense has put an emphasis on hitting the quarterback; it has paid improving in those roles certainly gives us more guys we can play.” off so far. The defense has sacked the opposing team’s quarterback Anderson and Dickson have already registered two sacks this year seven times, good for 2.3 sacks per game. In addition to that, it has and two and three tackles for loss, respectively. Both players have registered 11 quarterback hurries. been interchangeable at the Jack linebacker position this year, help“It builds a lot of momentum for the defensive line,” lineman Dalvin ing the Crimson Tide with their depth. Tomlinson said of creatThe return of defensive ing quarterback pressure. line coach Bo Davis has “We start challenging also helped the Crimeach other to see who son Tide. Davis was the We start challenging each other to see who could get to the quarterback the fastest. could get to the quarterdefensive line coach at It is a big momentum thing. back the fastest. It is a big Texas before returning to momentum thing.” Alabama this year, where — Dalvin Tomlinson— The defense registered he held the same posi10 quarterback hurtion from 2007 to 2010. In ries during Saturday’s Davis’ previous years at 52-12 win over Southern Miss. The depth on the defensive line and Alabama, the defense routinely ranked in the top 10 in least amount at linebacker has helped the team. Community college transfers of yards allowed, with this year being no different. Through the first Jarran Reed and D.J. Pettway and the return of Tomlinson, who three games, the defense has allowed just 141 total rushing yards sat out most of last year after tearing his ACL in the first game of and zero touchdowns. the season, have helped the line. Linebackers Xzavier Dickson “I like his coaching style,” Tomlinson said of Davis. “It’s like he puts and Ryan Anderson’s have also been crucial to getting pressure the right people in the right positions to affect the quarterback and to on the quarterback. stop the run. He knows what he is doing.”
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Game2014 Ticket Information for Students
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Access MyTickets from mybama.ua.edu or UA’s mobile app. For more information about UA’s mobile app visit m.ua.edu/app from your mobile device’s browser.
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Students enter through Gate 30 (upper deck) or Gate 31 (lower deck).
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Penalty points for non-use is 2 points.
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You may donate your ticket until 1 hour before kickoff.
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.
• Alternative parking is available as shown in the gray areas on this map. You may also park your car at the Ferguson Deck.
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.
Black: Reserved for Athletics Gray: Reserved for Orange Residential Students Student Gate 30 (upper deck) / Gate 31 (lower deck) Closes at 5 P.M. the day before a home game Closed on home gameday Closed at the discretion of the Athletic Department
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• Transportation to the residential areas is provided from that deck by Crimson Ride from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday or by calling 348-RIDE (7433) after Crimson Ride’s operational hours. • Security barricades will be set up on Colonial 'ULYH DQG :DOODFH :DGH WKDW ZLOO UHVWULFW WUDIÀF à RZ 6RPH DUH VHW XS RQ WKH PRUQLQJ EHIRUH D home game and additional barricades are set up on the morning of the home game. Vehicles parked in this secure area will be able to exit the area but will not be able to return until the area is released by law enforcement post game and the barricades are removed. • The student ticket gates (Gates 30 & 31) are located adjacent to Colonial Drive.
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Students who do not move their cars from the designated lots by 5 p.m. on the day before a home football game will be towed at their own expense ($100).
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3. The student section will include seating in the upper and lower bowls. Your ticket bowl assignment will be designated in MyTickets. 4. Lines will be very long, so expect delays. Give yourself 60 to 90 minutes to get into the stadium, whether or not you participate in student organization seating. Student organization seating is in effect until 45 minutes before kickoff. 5. Bringing prohibited items will increase the amount of time it takes to get into the stadium. (See list above.) UA is not responsible for items left at the entrance to the student gates. Prohibited items that are left at the gates will be discarded by security personnel. 6. If you donate your ticket after 5 p.m. Wednesday, you’ll receive a half-point (.5) penalty. 7. Tickets can be available on game day. Don’t forget to check MyTickets for available tickets.
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The student section will open 2 ½ hours before the game. Lines will be long so give yourself plenty of time to get into the game. Use your ticket! Students who do not use tickets assigned to them will receive 2 penalty points for each game their ticket goes unused. Students who receive 3.5 or more penalty points will not be able to purchase postseason tickets for this year and regular season and postseason tickets for fall 2015. You can take your name off the waiting list by logging into MyTickets and following the instructions to take your name off the waiting list for the ticket bank. You must track your own penalty total. The following penalty points apply: - You don’t attend the game yourself: 2 penalty points - You don’t transfer your ticket to another UA student or Ticket OfďŹ ce - 348-2262 donate it to the ticket bank: 2 penalty points rolltide.com - You upgrade your ticket to general admission: 1 penalty point per upgrade Action Card 348-2288 - You make a donation after 5 p.m. on Wednesday: .5 penalty point Game Day Info - 262-2811 actcard.ua.edu If your Action Card is lost on Game Day, replacement Action Cards are available at uagameday.com Room 170 Campus Parking Deck (bus hub) starting 3 hours prior to kick-off through the Parking & Transportation MyTickets - mybama.ua.edu or beginning of halftime. Replacement cost is $35 and is billed to your student account. bamaparking.ua.edu UA mobile app - m.ua.edu/app Temporary Action Cards are not accepted for Game Day entrance at student gates.
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