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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894

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The Crimson Tide volleyball team defeated LSU in their SEC home opener. The win took the Tide’s winning streak to nine games. Junior Bruna Evangelista finished the match with a .409 hitting percentage, the highest on the team.

Students looking to fulfill their fine art credit may be interested in one of the University’s newly offered pottery classes.

Ceramics I has two components: throwing and hand-building.

UATD’s “The Dining Room” premieres Monday in the Allen Bales Theatre. Six actors portray 58 characters, with 18 overlapping vignettes all taking place in the same room.

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Total of out-of-state and international students outnumber in-state

By Andy McWhorter | Production Editor

Douglas Fair and Brandon Skinner sat at the head of the table in a meeting of The 49, the University’s out-ofstate student organization, prepared for a transition.

Fair, a senior from Knoxville, Tennessee, who helped found the

organization, stepped down as its president and turned over the leadership to Skinner, a junior from Philadelphia majoring in mathematics.

“Doug will be sticking around as kind of an advisor, but from now on, I’ll be taking over the president role,” Skinner said.

At the same time The 49 made its

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transition, the position of out-of-state students at The University of Alabama as a whole had transformed. For the first time in the University’s 183-year history, a majority of UA students are not from the state of Alabama. Together, out-of-state and international students outnumber in-state students.

Stephen Katsinas, professor of higher

education administration and director of the Education Policy Institute, said the shift in demographics at The University of Alabama is the product of a years-long plan.

“That this happened was no accident,” he said. “It was the result of a SEE ENROLLMENT PAGE 6

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SCENE ON CAMPUS Matt Qualls, a junior majoring in business management and marketing, bikes to his off-campus apartment after a study session at the Ferguson Center. CW / Pete Pajor

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Campus exhibit

Museum hosts history class

Women’s golf opens ANNIKA

The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art will host their class “Walking Through American History” in conjunction with The University of Alabama today from 10:30-11:45 a.m.

“The class is meant to give a general overview of the art in the museum,” said William Hawkins, class director.

It will highlight pieces from the museum’s Westervelt Collection, a compilation of approximately 1,000 works of American art.

The pieces date back to the 18th century and feature famous American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Luks and Thomas Moran.

Many Civil War-era pieces of art are housed by the museum as well and will be covered by the class.

Classes began on Sept. 8 and will continue through Oct. 27.

Interested students can sign up through the class director William Hawkins.

The UA women’s golf team shot a 4-over 292 in Sunday’s opening round of the ANNIKA Intercollegiate. The score is good for seventh place, 12 shots off Arizona’s lead.

Emma Talley and Lakareber Abe both shot even on the par-72 course. Talley and Abe are four shots off the individual leader.

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Band concert WHAT: Symphonic Band Concert WHEN: 7:30-9 p.m.

WHERE: 125 Concert Hall Moody Music Building

UATD performance WHAT: The Dinning Room WHEN: 7:30 p.m. – midnight WHERE: Allen Bales Theatre, Rowand-Johnson Hall

Library exhibit WHAT: John DePol, American 20th Century Wood Engraver WHEN: All Day WHERE: 2nd floor hallway exhibition case, Gorgas Library

WHAT: Wade Hall’s Library: The Poetry of History WHEN: All Day WHERE: J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pearce Grand Foyer, Gorgas Library

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Women’s tennis takes wins The UA women’s tennis team finished a threeday stint at the Furman Fall Classic with eight wins.

On Sunday, the Crimson Tide competed in five singles matches and won three. The team picked up both a singles and doubles victory on Saturday, following two doubles wins and one singles win the first day.

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Athletes honor John Servati

Soccer sweeps SEC weekend

After a Saturday morning practice, Alabama’s swimming and diving team spent the rest of the day working with Habitat for Humanity. Team members not only wanted to give back to the community, but they also wanted to honor swimmer John Servati, who died last April saving the life of another UA student when severe storms swept through Tuscaloosa.

More than 75 student athletes from over half of the University’s sports teams joined the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams.

The Alabama soccer team (7-3-1, 2-1 SEC) went to overtime on Friday night to beat Tennessee 1-0. It was the team’s first win in Knoxville and first SEC win of the season. On Sunday, the Crimson Tide took down Vanderbilt 1-0.

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Football moves up in poll

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The Alabama football team, which received 13 first-place votes in the AP Poll, stayed at No. 3 despite not playing last weekend. The Crimson Tide moved up one spot to No. 1 in the Coaches Poll, receiving 15 first-place votes.

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Speaker gives new perspective Visiting speaker Tom Scheinfeldt will provide his perspective on how humanists can adapt in the digital age during a University Libraries speaker session Thursday, Oct. 2.

An associate professor and director of digital humanities at the University of Connecticut, Scheinfeldt has worked on a number of award-winning, groundbreaking experiments in digital archives.

Scheinfeldt will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library on Oct. 2.

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3 Ceramics class alternative for fine arts credit Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Monday, September 29, 2014

By Grace Golden | Contributing Writer

For students who aren’t majoring in art, the fine arts credit required for graduation often seems cumbersome.

While Art History, Honors Fine Arts and even Intro to Listening are available to UA students, all of these classes are lecture-style. The University doesn’t allow studio art classes to count towards the fine arts requirement.

However, for students interested in taking a studio art class as an elective, Ceramics I doesn’t require any prerequisites.

Matthew Mitros, a ceramics instructor, said 90 percent of his students are majoring in something other than art.

“I don’t get ‘artsy-fartsy’ with Ceramics I,” Mitros said. “I want it to be as enriching and enjoyable as possible.”

Ceramics I is made up of two components: throwing and handbuilding. Throwing involves shaping clay with a potter’s wheel, while handbuilding involves just what the name suggests – shaping clay by hand.

“We emphasize a strong

As pottery becomes less and less necessary, it becomes more and more important as an art.

— Matthew Mitros —

technical foundation so that students’ extravagant and complicated ideas can succeed in the future,” Mitros said.

Thomas Kent Scott, a senior majoring in accounting, is a ceramics student and said his first project was to produce six cups or mugs.

“It’s not exactly easy because it takes a lot of skill to make a cup,” Scott said. “It’s more difficult than I expected.”

Scott, who originally took the class because he was in need of a few credits, said he is getting much more out of it than he expected.

“I’m learning a lot about an art that a lot of people really enjoy,” Scott said.

Hayley Harvison, a freshman majoring in elementary education, said she enjoyed the freedom she had to be creative in her high school ceramics class and is considering taking Ceramics I at the University.

“It’s harder than it looks,” she said. “It takes a lot of strength.”

The objectives of Ceramics I are for students to gain the skills, strength and experience necessary to make mugs, cups, pots, sculptures and more.

“I encourage students to consider how exciting and different it can be to use a different part of the brain and to use their hands to create something that can last 100 years or more,” Mitros said.

The students will not only gain a wider understanding of ceramics, but also of art and how it represents the general human experience.

“There is a rich history of human development in ceramics,” Mitros said. “As pottery becomes less and less necessary, it becomes more and more important as an art.”

In the Ceramics I class, students learn to throw and hand-build mugs, cups, pots and sculptures. Photo Courtesy of Mckenzie O’Brian

Tide Talks emphasizes pivotal changes

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“Look at me now,” Aaron Brazelton said to a full audience in the Ferguson Theater. Brazelton, one of four speakers at the eighth Tide Talks speaker series, was speaking to “Mrs. Davis,” a previous teacher of Brazelton’s, who told him he probably would not go to college.

Brazelton, the first speaker of the evening Friday night, gave his talk on how students can be “change agents” in the fight against education inequity.

He underlined his own past as a student who was hit at birth with “the trio: being low-income, black and male,” but he said he overcame his circumstances with the help of teachers who pushed him to work hard. ‘’I am where I am because I was forced to pivot,” Brazelton said.

At the end of his talk, Brazelton tasked students in the audience to “be that pivot” in the lives of other students in need.

“Go forth and seek justice in all that you do,” he said in conclusion.

Following Brazelton was Bryan Anderson, a student majoring in aerospace engineering and computer science, who spoke on being an optimist in today’s world.

Anderson specifically highlighted Bill Gates and his enduring optimism in society today. He said it has given him the ability to work toward making a sustainable difference in different areas of the world. Anderson pointed out while the

Brazelton, second from the left, was one of four speakers at the eighth Tide Talks speaker series.

Photo Courtesy of Kevin Pabst

media may paint an upsetting picture of the world, rates of violent crime and poverty in the U.S. are decreasing.

“If we all work on things we are passionate about, we really can make a difference,” Anderson said.

Dabney Powell, a student majoring in food and nutrition and the director of Homegrown Alabama, discussed the relationship between a community and its food. Powell said although it may seem new, the idea of eating local is not. A hundred years ago, eating local was all there was, she said. The benefits of eating local include knowing where your food comes from and how it was grown.

“You can’t ask [supermarket managers] about how their food was grown,” Powell said.

Powell said she wanted to challenge students to be mindful of what they eat.

“Your best source is the farmer,” she said.

Koushik Kasanagottu, a UA graduate and current medical student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was the last speaker of the evening.

Born in India and raised in Birmingham, Kasanagottu said he comes from a family where diabetes is common. Growing up in Alabama, a state which ranks third in the nation for diabetes prevalence, sparked Kasanagottu’s interest in the disease and other chronic illnesses that affect lowincome communities. Kasanagottu said there are many things that affect a person’s ability to prevent diseases such as diabetes, one being education.

“If you don’t know what’s healthy or unhealthy, you can’t determine healthy foods to eat,” he said.

To help combat this, Kasanagottu created a student-run diabetics education program that reaches out to communities surrounding Tuscaloosa. The program informs members of the community who are at risk for diabetes how to live a healthy lifestyle within their means.

Musical guests performed between each speaker. Kristina Cruz performed a flow art dance, Mary Ann Cooper sang a cover of “Stay with Me,” and Max Dolensky, a technical musician, performed a song created with a Gameboy.

Tide Talks’ ninth speaker series event will be held in November. Nominations for speakers and performers can be made online.

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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Monday, September 29, 2014

COLUMN | COROLLA

Yearbooks are not relevant in college MARK

Hammontree Staff Columnist

MCT Campus

COLUMN | SEX ED

Universities should offer better sex education

SAMARIA

Johnson SStaff Columnist

In the past year, the University quietly updated its nondiscrimination policy to include protections for students’ sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions. It also brought Haven, a program that helps students understand sexual violence on campus, to incoming freshmen and transfer students. While colleges across the country continue to struggle to make their campuses a safer environment for students to study and live, these improvements at our own campus indicate progress is still being made.

That’s something we all can be proud of.

Still, there’s always more work to be done. Students across the country have committed themselves to peer education, especially when our respective institutions have not adequately provided those resources. For instance, on this campus, resident advisors are barred from giving away condoms to residents, and the Student Health Center, which ought to be the best resource

available for students’ sexual of us do not arrive on campus health needs, does not distrib- with adequate knowledge of our ute them for free either. On sexual and reproductive selves that note, every time I bring and how to care for them. Most up receiving sexual health care of us receive inaccurate, incomfrom the SHC, I receive almost plete and misleading informaunanimous comtion about sexual plaints about and reproduchow we have tive health. We been treated also get little to poorly and been no knowledge Our university should shamed by the wealth realize that it has a vested about health care proof contraceptive fessionals. There and anti-STD interest in keeping its are also continumethods availstudents safe and healthy able to us both al problems with the way both ove r - t h e - c o u n in all aspects. the University ter and with a and Tuscaloosa prescription. police h ave With virtually handled sexual no information assault reports and treated about sexual consent or how to those who have reported vio- navigate and respect our own lence against them, which is personal boundaries and those especially alarming consider- of others, it cannot reasonably be ing that freshman women are expected that we are all capable particularly vulnerable to sex- of handling ourselves and our ual violence during their first relationships well enough. six weeks on campus. Those For students, college is as are the things we must con- much a living space at it is a tinue having honest, careful learning environment. Our uniconversations about. versity should realize that it has In the meantime, the a vested interest in keeping its University should continue students safe and healthy in all its newfound commitment to aspects, including this particuinclusivity and protection by lar one. Is it awkward? Often. But enacting a fully comprehensive it’s necessary. sexual education program for Johnson is a its incoming students. While it Samaria may seem redundant to offer senior majoring in history. college-aged students sex ed, Her column runs biweekly the unfortunate fact is that most on Mondays.

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Yearbook signing day may have been one of the best days of the year in high school and especially in junior high. For an entire day, and usually a day or two after that, the whole school would seemingly be concerned with nothing other than flipping through the pages of the annual, laughing with classmates with nostalgic reflection of the closing year.

I have them all somewhere, every yearbook from K-12 in the Mountain Brook school system, and I’ve certainly gotten a kick on multiple occasions from tracking the evolution of notes in the back pages, from the smiley faces and childish signatures of elementary school to the classic “HAGS” wishes of junior high to the more thought-out and meaningful messages of high school.

I don’t have them down here at college with me, but I’m glad to still have them all. I’m sure someday I’ll get a kick out of seeing my kids flipping through them too. I hope they’ll have their own hardbound collections to reflect on as well. It would be a sad day if high schools and elementary schools stopped producing yearbooks for their students to sign and pore over.

I experienced no such sadness when I heard production of The Corolla had finally been ended. For 122 years, The Corolla was printed and made available to students in much the same way my high school yearbooks were. The University’s annual probably brought forth a lot of chuckles and smiles over that time period, and I know many alumni were sad to hear of its end.

While I’m certainly sympathetic to all those who once worked for The Corolla – it’s always sad to see something you spent a great deal of time and effort on end – I’m honestly surprised it survived this long. It’s not that I think printed yearbooks are unable to meet the demands of an increasingly web-based society. Nor do I think The Corolla’s downfall can be wholly attributed to the general downward trend of print media, especially on college campuses. Sure, those factors certainly play a role, but I think the real reason for The Corolla’s death is the constant growth of the campus.

Who really would want to buy a yearbook tasked with a campus encompassing of over 30,000 students and hundreds of groups and organizations? Well, apparently only 24 people, because that is how many people bought the 2013-14 edition. The Corolla has lost over $225,000 since 2007, and it’s not because yearbooks are no longer relevant in the age of social media. Yearbooks still do fine in a lot of high schools and elementary schools.

Yearbooks are no longer relevant to universities as large as ours. I have no desire to pay big money for a book that I may personally know a handful of people in. There are other publications on campus that do an adequate enough job of recapping the year, like The Crimson White’s year in review issue – and that’s free.

I love my yearbooks from grade school, and I know I’d be sad if Mountain Brook decided to stop producing them. But I knew the names of just about everyone in those books, or at least the people in my class. Having a university-wide yearbook was great 15, 20, 50 years ago, but today, with this many students enrolled here, there’s just not really any point.

Mark Hammontree is a junior studying secondary education language arts. His column runs weekly.

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OPINIONS Monday, September 29, 2014 OPINIONS | PROGRAMS

The University should expand and require service-learning courses First, not only can service-learning courses exist within any department, but they can also benefit more than just the students who take them.

These courses are unique ways of leveraging one of the greatest forms of capital a college or university has–its human capital–to uncover and implement innovative solutions to issues in the community.

Many of the service-learning courses that the University does have are wildly successful. In 2012, more than 130 students participated in the SaveFirst initiative, which is offered as a class through the Honors College as well as individual departments, and prepared over 3,200 tax returns, helping Alabama families claim more than $7 million in refunds and commercial fees.

In addition, the Every Move Counts initiative places UA students in local schools to teach children how to play chess, which has been proven to increase various cognitive and emotional skills.

When students take these classes, not only do they learn invaluable lessons about the nature of the problems that their society faces, but they also develop a unique bond with the Tuscaloosa community that could not be formed in the classroom alone.

CHISOLM

Allenlundy Staff Columnist

During the 2013-2014 school year, the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships conducted 64 academically-based community service courses, ranging from those that allowed students to assist in music education at local high schools to those that partnered with local hospitals studying asthma prevention programs.

In fall 2014, The University of Alabama’s Service Learning Pro website listed 22 different courses – certainly a respectable number. That said, UPenn is a school with slightly more than 10,000 undergraduate students, whereas The University of Alabama has recently broken the 30,000 mark. In general, students here simply have fewer choices when it comes to service-learning programs, which translates into lower participation overall. There are several reasons why the University should do more to expand these types of courses.

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This leaves the question of how he University should go about expanding these classes. For starters, both of these programs are administered through the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility. If we are serious about being a force for positive change in the Tuscaloosa community, we should consider increasing our support, financial and otherwise, for this center that has visibly done just that.

The precedent that institutions of higher education can require its students to take certain classes has long been set. If the University can mandate that all of its undergraduate students take X hours of hard sciences or Y hours of some vague “humanities” classes, why can’t it do the same for service-learning courses? And if we’re being honest, the vast majority of nonSTEM majors will make very little use of biology, chemistry and physics, while STEM majors may simply not need as many humanities hours as other students. But, as noted previously, servicelearning courses can benefit everyone, beyond just the students who take them.

Benjamin Franklin once remarked that “the great Aim and End of all Learning … is service [to society].”

In many ways, the University does a

WHAT TO KNOW • The University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships conducted 64 academically-based community service courses, while The University of Alabama’s Service Learning Pro website listed 22 different courses.

• In 2012, more than 130 students participated in the SaveFirst initiative, which prepared over 3,200 tax returns to help Alabama families claim more than $7 million in refunds and commercial fees. superb job of carrying on that call to serve. However, it could do much more by expanding and requiring servicelearning classes that would engender a sense of lifelong commitment to public service in its students. Let’s stop talking about it and start acting on it.

Chisolm Allenlundy is a junior majoring in philosophy and economics. His column runs weekly.

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Fall 2014 Enrollment by State Percentages 0.3%

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0.1% 1.2% Out-of-state students made up 4,279, or 0.3% 0.1% 0.04% 0.02% about 62 percent, of this year’s 6,865-per0.7% 0.5% son freshman class, according to the 0.02% 1.3% 1.1% Office of Institutional Research’s annual 0.1% 0.1% census. In-state students, on the other 1.3% 0.04% 0.1% hand, accounted for 2,474, about 36 per2.2% 0.5% 1.3% 0.1% cent. While this is the highest the ratio of 0.1% 2.0% 1.8% 0.6% out-of-state to in-state students in a fresh0.8% 0.2% 2.4% 0.8% man class has ever been, the trend itself 1.8% is nothing new. Out-of-state students have 3.8% outnumbered in-state students in every 0.9% 0.2% freshman class since 2011.

0.3% 0.2% This year, the trend of freshman classes 6.5% 0.05% with out-of-state majorities has tipped 1.4% 49.3% the scales of total student enrollment for the first time. In-state students now 4.5% 1.0% account for 17,830, about 49 percent, of the University’s 36,155-person student body.

4.5% Students from states other than Alabama make up 16,622, about 46 percent, of the 0.03% student population, while international students make up 1,670, about five percent.

0.1% Together, out-of-state and international enrollees total 18,292 students, 51 percent of the University’s student body. By a margin of 462 students, in-state students CW / Hannah Glenn are a minority for the first time in The University of Alabama’s history.

As he opened the meeting of The 49, Fair At the same time other universities students here,” he said. “Although they the recession, yet more in-state students said the increase in out-of-state students began to implement caps, The University all fit to the demographic of ‘out-of-state are enrolled at the University than in 2003, makes their role on campus more impor- of Alabama began heavily marketing students,’ they’re from vastly different Katsinas said. tant than it has been in the past. itself to out-of-state students, Katsinas places. I’m from Philadelphia. I have very “Out-of-state students are subsidiz“Just because students are from out of said. Victoria Bernier, a sophomore little in common with somebody who’s ing what the state of Alabama is not state doesn’t mean they come in know- from Connecticut majoring in finance, from Sacramento, California, or somebody investing,” he said. ing other out-of-state students,” Fair said. said she first consider the University who’s from Houston, Texas.”

Philip Westbrook, assistant profes“This connection is honestly more impor- when her father found a scholarship Bernier said she feels more in common sor of educational leadership and former tant at this juncture than it ever has been opportunity online. with other students from her region than director of The Blackburn Institute, said because of the high amount of students.”

“I have the Presidential Scholarship,” with out-of-state students as a whole. the growth of the out-of-state populaWhile students at The University of she said. “It was based on SAT and ACT “Most of the out-of-state people are tion works to improve the perception the Alabama come from all 50 states, most scores. That’s actually not something that actually in the region here, so they’re like, rest of the United States has of both the still call the South home. Of the 16,622 out- is offered in New England, is a merit-based ‘Oh yeah, I’m from out of state – Georgia,’” University and the state as a whole. of-state students at the University, 5,901 scholarship. That’s why we looked south.” she said. “That’s right here. You know “The economic impact is very strong, come from Georgia, Florida, Tennessee The distance from home made her skep- nothing about what I’m talking about as well as the image impact, because even or Mississippi. Another 1,612 call Texas tical at first, she said. But then she decided when I refer to something that’s differ- if the students who come here from other home. Only California, with 901 students, to visit the campus. ent. I do see myself as someone from New states choose to go other places after they breaks the top five in number enrolled and “Once we got here, meeting everyone, England and not someone just from out graduate, we’re impacting the way that the isn’t part of the South. seeing that the academics are really good, of state.” country perceives the state of Alabama,” These students did not choose to come and the people are even nicer,” she said.

Although out-of-state enrollment has he said. to The University of Alabama without reaAt the end of her college search, Bernier grown at the same time in-state enrollment As the University continues to grow, son. Katsinas said a number of factors led to only applied to The University of Alabama. has stagnated or shrunk, UA President driven in part by the arrival of out-of-state students choosing to enroll Skinner said he believes Judy Bonner said students from Alabama students, infrastructure issues have risen at the University in rapidly the University gets out-of- are not displaced by students from on campus and in the larger Tuscaloosa growing numbers. community. Bonner said she expects the The future will go to those state students interested other states.

“First, we are in the midst with scholarships but tips “As the state’s flagship institution, pro- University will continue to grow for the who can attract of a period of record demand the balance with everything viding an excellent education to students near future. outstanding human nationwide for higher eduelse it offers. from Alabama is a top priority,” Bonner “We expect our enrollment to continue cation,” he said.

“The money is the thing wrote in an emailed statement. “We to grow in the next several years, although capital.

The number of 18- to that starts it, I think,” he welcome out-of-state and international at a slower rate than in the past,” she said.

24- year-olds in the United said. “That’s what gets stu- students, but those students do not take Westbrook said continued growth, — Stephen Katsinas — States has grown by about dents to look here. That’s spaces away from qualified Alabamians.” as well as the influx of out-of-state stu5 million between 1996 what got me to pay attenFar from hurting the educational pros- dents, will make the University continue and 2012, Katsinas said. At tion to The University of pects of Alabamians, Katsinas said grow- to evolve. Although there will be growing the same time, flagship universities in Alabama. But once you visit here, the ing out-of-state enrollment will benefit the pains, he said, the University will be in a many large states, where the growth in campus is beautiful, with all the addi- state in the long run. better position to fulfill its mission. demand is most acute, have placed caps tions they’ve made in the past few “Can anyone doubt that regions and “The University is growing,” he said. on enrollment. year, they really put a lot of money into states with better educated populations “Does that mean that the University has “Enrollments at flagships like UT-Austin academic buildings.” will have better economic futures?” he changed its purpose? Many people view it neared 50,000 by 1975 or 1980; unless Texas Once they decide to come to The said. “The future will go to those who can as a different place because it looks differbuilt additional universities from scratch, University of Alabama, the adjustment attract outstanding human capital.” ent and there are things that may feel difmany more students would be chasing can be difficult for out-of-state students As state funding has decreased since ferent from when we had 19,000 students. slots at Texas or Texas A&M in 2010 than who might be hundreds of miles from their the Great Recession, Katsinas said out- But I think that we’re achieving our misin 1990,” Katsinas said. “Students who a home state. The goal of The 49, Skinner of-state enrollment has helped support sion in a stronger way, in that we’re able generation ago might have been accepted said, is to help ease that transition. funding for higher education in Alabama. to do more teaching, research and service at Texas’ flagships are now choosing a “I think we have a great purpose here Alabama was second in the nation for cuts – what you see on the sign when you come flagship university experience at UA.” now that there’s so many more out-of-state in state funding to higher education after into our campus. Those are our missions.”

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In “The Dining Room” six actors portray 58 characters, including 18 overlapping vignettes all taking place in the same generic room. CW / Lindsey Leonard

Character variety brings intrigue to UATD play

By Laura Testino | Staff Reporter

When loved ones share meals around the dinner table, much more is exchanged than dishes of vegetables, breads and desserts. Inevitably, the conversations that blossom from dinner time foster an atmosphere that is either humorous or serious and often somewhere in between.

This common phenomenon is portrayed in the snapshot-like scenes of “The Dining Room,” a play by A. R. Gurney, which premieres Monday in the Allen Bales Theatre.

In the show, six actors portray 58 characters, including 18 overlapping vignettes all taking place in the same generic room.

Steve Burch, the director of UATD’s production of the play, led the cast in the portrayal of these different snapshot scenes.

“Some of the characters in some scenes are the star of the scene, and some of them are supporting, but everybody has center stage for more than once in the play,” said Burch. “It’s quite a display of acting.”

PLAN TO GO WHAT: “The Dining Room” WHEN: Sept. 29 - Oct. 5 WHERE: Allen Bales Theatre

Rehearsals started at the beginning of the semester, and actors were challenged to expand their range as each took on the roles of nine or 10 distinct characters for the play, Burch said.

Each actor’s set of characters vary in age, physical attributes and dialects.

Although Gurney’s script focuses on WASP households of the Northeast, Burch included dialectic changes to suggest the universality of the scenes in the play.

“What I take from [the play] is that whether you belong to this subset of culture or not, I think we all recognize the family tensions; we recognize the

aspirations; we recognize the disappointments; and we see it in ourselves and our families and our friends,” Burch said.

Corey Rives, a senior majoring in musical theatre and advertising, said he has enjoyed exploring his set of characters and making some of his own artistic choices with Burch’s guidance.

“My favorite part of any rehearsal process is getting in costumes and makeup,” Rives said. “I think you can develop a character, but once you actually put on what that character would wear and see how that character would move in those clothes, that’s when I feel like I’m really able to sink in.”

Working with the cast through a set of multiple characters was a valuable learning experience because each actor has different strengths, Rives said.

“I feel like I definitely had favorite scenes when I first started, but all the characters are so completely different that I end up just liking each one for

different reasons,” Rives said.

Andrea J. Love, a third-year MFA acting student, works with Rives in two scenes of the play, which she said turned out to be her favorite scenes of the entire play.

In addition to playing multiple characters, Love also composed a piano piece that will be used in various parts of the show. “[Burch] gave me a CD of some of the music he had wanted, and then I worked off of that with some of his instructions for mood and style and atmosphere and created a fairly simple, but hopefully evocative, three-minute piano piece,” Love said.

The rehearsals for “The Dining Room” have fostered a creative atmosphere, allowing the cast to work well with one another, Love said. She said ideally the vast amount of characters in the show will allow audience members to relate to at least some portion of the play.

“There are so many characters and so many scenes that it’s such a beautiful buffet of humanity, I suppose,” Love said.

‘TCF in LA’ offers intern experience

By Hannah Widener | Contributing Writer

The TCF in LA class is bringing Bama to Hollywood. Photo Courtesy of Rachel Raimist

The “TCF in LA” class is bringing Bama to Hollywood with the opportunity for students to intern in Los Angeles during the winter interim or summer session.

Through the program, students meet producers, cinematographers and industry executives, all while learning on the job.

This year the class is available to all majors.

Rachel Raimist, an assistant professor in telecommunications and film, started the course last winter and extended to offer a course during summer 2014.

In its first year, the course was only offered to TCF students, but Raimist said she is excited to open the course to anyone who has a passion for learning about the industry.

PLAN TO GO WHAT: “TCF in LA” interest meeting WHEN: Monday, 4-5 p.m.

WHERE: Phifer Studio A “There are a lot of people who are in the business school who want to work in the entertainment industry, or students from New College who want to work in the media but through a different lens,” she said.

Michael Thomas, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film, was in the very first “TCF in LA” class.

“The application process for the class was not difficult at all,” Thomas said. “Being passionate about a class like this really helps

the selection process.”

In Los Angeles, Thomas interned at two different companies, Psychic Bunny and The Institute, where he worked on special effects projects and did handson research on entertainment trends, respectively.

Raimist hosts guest speakers who talk about the entertainment industry. One of the speakers was Joaquin Sedillo, cinematographer of “Glee.” Raimist said Sedillo stood out because he detailed what each day is like on set. For Thomas, hearing from Sedillo was an experience he will never forget.

“For two hours I got to ask him questions and hear his amazing insight,” Thomas said. “He is one of my biggest role models, and the fact that I got to have that time with him is something I will value for the rest of my life.”

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Students design hybrid

COLUMN | MUSIC

‘Passerby’ showcases simplicity

By Katherine Metcalf | Contributing Writer

By Jordan Cissell

Students at The University of Alabama are redesigning a Chevrolet Camaro into a hybrid electric vehicle called EcoCar 3. The University is one of 16 schools to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, which is known as the leading competition for students pursuing careers in the automotive industry.

Brittany Galloway, a first-year graduate student studying advertising and public relations, is the communications manager of EcoCar 3. Students in the program have four years to build the car, and this year marks the inaugural year for the University’s participation in the competition. “[The group is] elated to be a part of the competition, and we have every intention to build EcoCar 3 right here in Bama,� she said.

Paulius Puzinauskas, an engineering professor, is the faculty advisor for the EcoCar 3 project. He said this project provides a special opportunity for students who might like to pursue careers in the automotive industry. “This is likely the most in-depth, research-oriented intercollegiate competition in North America,� Puzinauskas said.

General Motors, one of the competition’s main sponsors, will provide resources

The University of Alabama is one of 16 schools participating in the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition to turn a Chevrolet Camaro into a hybrid electric car. CW / Lindsey Leonard

including analytical tools, electronics and software for students to use. Puzinauskas said the resources used to make the cars are valued in the tens of millions of dollars.

Kaylie Crosby, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, said the program is a great opportunity for college students to gain experience in automotive engineering and meet students from all over the country. “The Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition series seeks to develop the next generation of automotive engineers,�

Crosby said. “This competition fosters a very supportive environment ‌ [where] students learn from each other’s successes and failures.â€?

In the closing seconds of “Winter is Passing,� Zoe Randell, the singing half of Australian duo Luluc, questions, “Winter is passing. I wonder what’s to come?� She doesn’t proffer an answer. Instead, she delivers only this simple observation and patient inquiry. Throughout each of the other nine songs on “Passerby,� Randell conveys a similar lack of urgency, noting both her surroundings and the thoughts and memories they generate but never providing interpretation.

Each of Luluc’s 10 songs begins with the simple, pleasant plod of Steve Hassett’s acoustic guitar. The occasional cymbal shimmer or snare brush adds texture to Hassett’s soothing, steady-as-a-faucet pluck. So uncluttered and Spartan are the arrangements that the simultaneous entrance of a snare crack and saxophone

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wash just past the four-minute mark of “Tangled Heart� bears the conspicuous esteem of a grand, sweeping gesture.

Hassett’s fingerpicked guitar burbles along like a creek tucked deep in the woods, with each song pulled along in a collection of minuscule, distinct moments.

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Sophomore Nikko Madregallejo finished up the Crimson Tide Four-in-the-Fall and won the championship of the second singles bracket with a final score of 6-1, 6-1. Alabama finished with wins over the weekend. Photo Courtesy of Elliott Propes

Men’s tennis picks up wins for championship

By Elliott Propes | Staff Reporter

Sophomore Nikko Madregallejo finished up the Crimson Tide Four-in-the-Fall with a good day.

Three Alabama men’s tennis players won, including Madregallejo, who won the championship of the second singles bracket in dominant fashion 6-1, 6-1. With that, Alabama totaled 26 wins over the weekend.

“Ever since we came back from the summer, we’ve had tough workouts, tough training, and I think it definitely showed and paid off this weekend. So I’m happy,” Madregallejo said.

Madregallejo was not the only one playing for a bracket championship. Senior Andrew Goodwin was

playing in the singles third bracket against Jamie Malik from Rice. Goodwin fell short in the final set with a 6-4, 1-6, 4-6 loss.

“Andrew always does a great job, competes the hardest,” coach George Husack said. “He is always very into the match and you can see it. He battles on every point. He did today what I expected, and he will need to improve on a couple of things so that today’s loss turns around and becomes a win for him in the future.”

Junior Becker O’Shaughnessey and senior Stuart Kenyon joined Madregallejo with the other two wins of the day. Kenyon won in straight sets, whereas O’Shaughnessey had to come back from a set down

early, to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

“I thought it was a very, very good tournament,” Husack said. “It was a noticeable improvement from our first week in Harvard. We had specific things we needed to work on with our game, and the guys definitely got a lot better.”

The team looks to take the energy from the weekend and build on it. Kenyon said he started slow in his match and had some fatigue from the two days of matches beforehand. He said he fed off his teammates yelling his name, and it helped carry him to his win.

“The energy this year is definitely something different,” Kenyon said.

UA secures win from LSU

By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter

In a thrilling SEC home opener in front of an enthusiastic crowd in Foster Auditorium, the Alabama volleyball team (14-2, 2-0 SEC) defeated conference rival LSU in three sets, increasing the Crimson Tide’s winning streak to nine games.

Coach Ed Allen said the game was a great test for the young team and a lesson in executing skills and efficiency in an emotionally charged match.

“There was a great effort,” Allen said. “For the most part, a game plan was executed pretty well. There were some breakdowns in that game plan, which is expected when you’re talking about young players who are learning to play at this level, and you play in a match that has that much emotion.”

After Alabama won the first set, LSU opened the second set on top, leading the Crimson Tide 15-10 at Alabama’s first timeout of the set. A three-point Alabama run pulled the Crimson Tide within two points of the Tigers. LSU ultimately took the set 25-22, tying the match.

The third set went in favor of the Crimson Tide 25-21, giving Alabama a 2-1 set lead. The Tigers made the Alabama team work for its fourth set victory, stripping the Crimson Tide of six match points and earning multiple set points of their own before Alabama

The Alabama Rowing team hosted its first head-style race against the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

CW / Layton Dudley

Rowing hosts home race

By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter

The Alabama volleyball team defeated rival LSU in three sets with a final score of 35-33. CW / Shelby Akin

closed on the seventh, securing the set 35-33 and the match.

While redshirt sophomore Krystal Rivers led the team in kills, knocking in 26, junior Bruna Evangelista finished the match with a .409 hitting percentage and 11 kills of her own. It was Evangelista’s first home SEC match with the Crimson Tide after transferring to join the team this year.

“Everyone told me it was great to play here for the crowd, but I didn’t know what to expect,” Evangelista said.

Saturday morning marked a first and a last for the Alabama Rowing team.

The team participated in a head-style race against the University of Alabama at Huntsville, the first fall head race the Crimson Tide has ever hosted. It also marked the last event ever hosted out of the team’s old boathouse, as the team will relocate to its new facilities at Manderson Landing in the upcoming weeks.

While the team is extremely excited to relocate to the new facilities, junior rower Jacklin Byers said there will be some nostalgia as the team prepares to leave the boathouse it has called home for so long.

“We are so beyond excited that we finally get to have our new facility,” Byers said. “It’s going to be a catch-22

because this is our home and we’ve been here for so long, but it’s just really nice to be able to have a brand new facility.”

Coach Larry Davis said he thought his team did well in its first fall outing and last race in the old facilities, winning all three events of fours, doubles and pairs.

The fastest four boat for the Crimson Tide recorded a 5K time of 16:35.2, while Alabama’s top pair checked in at 17:01.8.

The winning doubles crew clocked in at 16:47.2.

“Overall, I thought today went well,” Davis said. “We did some things well, and there were some things brought to light that we still need to work on, but we’re aware of that. The conditions were pretty good today, but they were a little tricky given the type of execution we’d like to see from our team day in and day out.”

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Halloween celebration season comes early for Florida State fanbase

By Tyler Waldrep

When football season began, Florida State fans expected to be treated to a second undefeated season and national title in a row.

This year, the Seminoles’ undefeated record seems more of a trick than a treat. In a month, while many will pay a premium

for a good scare next month, the Florida State fan base has started the celebrations early, receiving scares in three of four games this season.

As Alabama fans have learned, handling the pressure that comes with defending a national title is hard. Everyone is going to give Florida State their best shot.

Last week, NC State’s best shot (up 17 points after the first quarter) was almost good enough. The week before, Clemson took advantage of quarterback Jameis Winston’s suspension and exposed a flawed running game.

The passing game is not without its own frightening statistics.

After throwing 10 picks last year,

Winston has thrown four in three games this year.

The Seminoles’ last four games (Virginia, at Miami, Boston College and Florida) are every bit as tough, if not tougher, than their first four games. If Florida State is going to win its next eight games, it might want to strap in and hold on tight.

As Alabama fans have learned, handling the pressure that comes with defending a national title is hard.

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