9.29.14 The Crimson White

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MOND MONDAY, ND DAY A , SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 VOL LUM LU ME E1 21 | ISSUE 32 VOLUME 121

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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894

Volleyball

3 Pottery

7 The Dining Room

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.

NEWS | ENROLLMENT

ALABAMIANS NOW A MINORITY AT UA ENROLLMENT

RATES

FRESHMEN

I IN-STATE STUDENTS

TOTAL

OUT-OF-STATE BREAKDOWN MOST STUDENTS FROM:

In 2014, 51% of all UA students were from out-of-state.

In 2011, 51% of incoming freshmen were from out-of-state.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

GEORGIA FLORIDA TEXAS TENNESSEE CALIFORNIA

LEAST STUDENTS FROM:

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

2014 FRESHMEN TOTAL

20%

37%

80% FLORIDA

21%

63%

AUBURN

79%

51% 49%

FOR COMPARISON

UA

UAB

MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING MAINE

OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS IN-STATE STUDENTS CW / Hannah Glenn

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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