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WEEKEND EDITION | SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 VOLUME 122 | ISSUE 21

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4 Immunizations It’s almost flu season, and with that comes flu vaccinations. For those on the fence, check out why you should get your flu shot.

7 Cyber Crime

ISSUE The topic of gun control divides Americans in the wake of nationwide violence.

With the rise of technology and smart phones, students have become more vulnerable to being hacked

8 Vegetarianism Being a vegetarian on campus, it can be difficult to find places to eat, but many students find the change fufilling.

10 Celia Jimenez Spanish soccer player Celia Jimenez starred for La Roja in the Women’s World Cup before returning to Alabama for her first full season with the Crimson Tide.

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3 Shootings, gun regulations draw controversy Editor | Elizabeth Elkin newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Monday September 28, 2015

By Nick Privitera | Staff Reporter

An eye peers down the metal sights.

Lungs expand and deflate. A twitch of a finger starts a chain reaction as the trigger is pulled. In an instant, the firing pin strikes the primer of a bullet or shell, forming a spark, which ignites the gunpowder and launches the projectile forward through the barrel in the desired direction.

According to the Pew Research Center, about one in three Americans owns a firearm. Vehement debate surrounds the purpose and place of guns in American society. Political action groups lobby for their protection or for their control.

The U.S. has had more public mass shootings than any other country, according to a study published by University of Alabama professor Adam Lankford. There have been 90 mass shootings in the U.S. The country with the second most shootings is the Philippines with 18. Yet, a Pew Research Center survey found that more than half the country supports the right to own guns.

A study by the American Journal of Medicine shows that gun ownership rates in the U.S. are associated with firearm related death rates, but surveys from the Department of Justice also show that guns deter crime. With so much conflicting information, it can be hard to determine what is true.

“I think it is a very divided issue,” said John Denton, a sophomore majoring in biology. “I think that there are very good points on both sides, and I think there is a lot of inability of people to understand each other.”

Some people would have all guns taken away, while others want unconditional open-carry licenses. However, some take a more balanced approach, such as gun owner Trey Reed, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering.

“I feel like we could make them harder to get,” Reed said. “That probably wouldn’t be a bad thing, but I don’t want them to become to hard to get, to where they control everybody’s. There is a difference between wanting guns to be harder to get and being afraid of guns and not wanting anybody to have them.”

Both Denton and Reed spoke about keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable individuals to help prevent future tragedies. Both mentioned a need for more rigorous background checks to ensure those seeking firearm ownership are doing so for legitimate reasons, such as home and personal defense, recreational shooting or hunting.

Recently, Ethan Schmidt, a history professor at Delta State University, was fatally shot on campus, unnerving many students and staff. The list goes on with violence on college campuses.

The University had its own experience with the threat of gun violence. Last year, the Authur Pendragon scare sent the campus into a virtual lock down for fear of violence spread through rumor. No students were harmed in this situation, but that is not always the case.

According to the UAPD Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, in the past three years, there have been 15 cases of illegal weapon possession on the University’s campus. This does not account for illegal guns used in crimes on campus. While there have been no gun-related homicides on campus, guns have been involved in several robbery cases.

Tuscaloosa has experienced its share of gun violence, especially in the downtown area, which lies less than three miles from the UA campus. In July 2012, Nathan Van Wilkins opened fire at Copper Top bar and was subsequently charged with the attempted murder of 18 people, three of which were UA students, according to an article published by The Crimson White.

More recent events include an April 2015 shooting and a 2014 Fourth of July shooting, both of which occurred at Kennedy’s Bar, which has since closed its doors at the urging of the Tuscaloosa Ci ty Council due to the prevalence of violence. According to an article by The Tuscaloosa News, over 100 violent crimes were reported at Kennedy’s since, seven of which were gun-related.

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Leave your belongings behind Help others escape, if possible Do not attempt to move the wounded Keep your hands visible Call 911 when you are safe

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Lock door or block entry to your hiding place Silence your cell phone (including vibrate mode) and remain quiet

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Fight as a last resort and only when your life is in imminent danger Act with as much physical aggression as possible Improvise weapons or throw items at the active shooter Commit to your actions . . . your life depends on it

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Editor | Leigh Terry opinions@cw.ua.edu Monday, September 28, 2015

COLUMN | BIKING

Simple awareness could keep bikers, drivers safe

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COLUMN | VACCINES

Vaccines should not be forced or feared Eric Roddy Staff Columnist

Here’s a riddle. What’s clear, completely free at most places that offer it, and is still important to have enough of even though the hotter months are winding down? You got it–vaccinations.

Every year, we all see the same signs for free flu shots outside of CVS, and we probably all think the same things.

Either, “Boy, that’s nice that those are free. I should probably get one,” or “I saw that video about vaccines. You couldn’t pay me to get one of those.” Fair enough. It’s your choice either way. You can take five minutes to run in and get a shot (it’s not that big of a needle–I promise) or you can take your chances.

Just remember that if you’re feeling lucky, it’s also good to have a week’s worth of camping supplies because that’s pretty much what you’ll need if you get the flu.

A recent study found that our generation was more skeptical about vaccines than any other.

There is also a bigger move towards holistic medicine than ever before. It seems that every week anti-vaxxers are on a news show talking about their friend’s cousin’s babysitter who knew a guy with a daughter who “caught” autism from a

vaccine. Through propaganda like this, it can be extremely hard to sort through what one should believe. The ridiculous claims that these people make are scary enough to make one wonder. Does one illness outweigh another? There shouldn’t be a contest in the first place.

This limbo that we find ourselves in shouldn’t exist. Yet when it is propagated by presidential candidates from both parties, those with by far the most face time right now, the limbo becomes harder and harder to escape. Seriously, Ben Carson, a retired director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, seemed too afraid to step on Trump’s toes to put down his ridiculous antivaccination claims. And Hillary Clinton has met with antivaxxers on multiple occasions even though she claims to be a supporter of science. This isn’t an issue to dance around. We shouldn’t even give this issue the time of day. It can be difficult for students to take the time to

Influenza Vaccination Coverage Estimates by State

*Average of 2010-2014 flu seasons National Immunization Survey (NIS). CW / Melanie Viering

discern what is factually right and wrong, and misleading headlines serve to muddy the water even more. This “mainstream health is not healthy” movement, as detrimental as it is, is just the flavor of the week.

There are estimates that place the seasonal flu-related death toll as high as 49,000 people.

I’m sure some of these could have been ruled out had the victims not been exposed to those who failed to get vaccinated.

Although I think that the public will ultimately become more mindful of public health, I don’t think that the 49,000 people who die each year should have to wait.

Obviously, it wouldn’t be fair or practical to force everyone to get vaccinations, but there should be some kind of incentive system. We should do more as a campus to encourage students and faculty to take advantage of the health resources around us.

Vaccinations shouldn’t be an issue of personal liberty, and they definitely shouldn’t be an issue of false science. So to both the granola couple and to the most libertarian couple, lay down your weapons on this matter. To everyone else, if you’re skeptical about stopping by CVS or the Student Health Center to get your flu shot, don’t be.

Eric Roddy is a senior majoring in philosophy. His column runs biweekly.

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Aside from the sheer shock of the incident, I only received minor injuries which included a sprained shoulder and a Erin Mosley bruised shin.

Staff Columnist I was one of the lucky ones but with slightly different cirLearning to ride a bike is a rite cumstances, it is possible that of passage for many children. I would not be writing this colThe moment we take off without umn at all. Others have not been the aid of training wheels or our so fortunate. By now, many peoparents’ protective hold is one ple have heard of the hit-andof the first steps towards inde- run accident that happened only pendence. Unlike other child- earlier this week with another hood toys, we don’t outgrow our UA student, Rod Rahimizadeh. bikes, and they become conve- The miracle of his survival and nient and eco-friendly modes of pending recovery does not mititransportation for students and gate the dangers that bikers, young professionals alike. both students and professors as Unfortunately, that feeling they ride on campus. of freedom is soon wrecked I haven’t mounted my bike with paranoia and fear as the since having my own accident amount of automobile related (also a hit and run), opting biking accidents rises on our instead to endure the heat and ever growing campus. the extra few minutes to walk, For two years, I begged for but hundreds of students contina bicycle. Faster and cooler ue to ride to class each day. For than walkmany students withing to class out vehicles or parkduring the ing passes for camswe l t e r i n g pus, biking is one The responsibility months of of the best options August and lies on both parties for transportation.

September, I truly believe to have an underit also that even with bikseemed like standing for the ing lanes and laws a great way put into place, there rules of the road to improve is no real lane for my hipster and to abide them. the biker. We are status. My despised by pedesskeptical trians and motorists parents felt alike, the former differently, claiming that an claiming that we are too fast unobservant accident-prone and the latter screaming the person such as myself should opposite. As our biker populanot bike on the University’s tion increases so should our campus which has seen its awareness. Legally, bikers are share of accidents. Ignoring required to ride in the road and their caution and believing that motorists should treat bikers I wasn’t a statistic, I brought as they would other motorists. my bike to campus this year. The responsibility lies on both The transition from pedestrian parties to have an understandto biker was everything that I ing for the rules of the road and had hoped. Clad in Tevas, cuffed to abide them. Like biking and jeans and a V-neck t-shirt, I other lessons we learned in our would freely zip around campus childhood, looking both ways, with the breeze in my hair and paying attention and being sun on my cheeks. I marveled respectful would help to preat how quickly I was able to fly vent many injuries and possible from my apartment, to class, deaths. In this faster-than-everthen work and back home again paced, severely distracted sociwith minimal effort and time. ety, simple observation would Everything was great until one save many lives. day while adhering to the rules of the road by riding in the bike lane, I was hit by a car mak- Erin Mosley is a junior majoring a right turn as I attempted ing in studio art. Her column to continue going straight. runs biweekly.

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OPINIONS Monday, September 28, 2015 COLUMN | CAREERS

Pursuit of happiness more fulfilling than pursuit of financial security

By Danielle Waddell | Staff Columnist

As college students, we know all too well the series of questions that fill the first five minutes of any conversation with a new person: Where are you from? What year are you? What’s your major? Only recently have I gotten used to these questions and the uncomfortably common response I receive when I say I’m a journalism major.

“Don’t you want to make any money?”

While a prosperous life doesn’t sound too shabby, I have come to the conclusion that we as a nation have put too much focus on wealth and paid far too little attention on enjoying the rest of our lives. So I’ve decided to pursue happiness.

Happiness isn’t very reliable. We cannot obtain happiness and hold onto it permanently; it comes and it goes.

Yet, money is not very reliable either. It can be spent, lost or ultimately be proven worthless under the right circumstances. Honestly, everything we pursue in life is a gamble, it’s about finding what we feel is most worth the effort.

To me, writing is worth it. It’s worth the debt from student loans – at least this is what I tell myself every semester. It’s worth being repeatedly asked

why I want to spend the rest of my life in search of money. It’s worth being told I’ll have to move to New York City to find a decent job (who am I kidding?

That’s the best part!). Writing is worth all of the effort, struggle and questioning because nothing in this world makes me as happy as seeing my words in print.

A part of me still sinks every time I hear people ask me that question and suggest a different, more financially-beneficial major for me to pursue, yet I continue to remind myself of how miserable my life would be if I couldn’t spend the rest of it writing. My prayer is for every single person at the University, and anywhere else, to find a passion that fulfills them in this way.

There is no greater joy than discovering our ultimate passion, what we were made for, and seeking it with our whole hearts. Like I said, happiness is unreliable – it waivers in and out and doesn’t hang around forever – but when we find something that makes the rest of our lives worthwhile, we find a way to make happiness stick around for a little bit longer.

For those students who are pursuing a career for their parents’ sake (if they’re paying for school, I totally understand, don’t ruin that) or those

MEDIAN WAGE EARNINGS PER YEAR BY MAJOR ENGLISH $68,000 $53,000

CRIMINAL JUSTICE $70,000 $54,000

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING $109,000 $96,000

ACCOUNTING $91,000 $69,000

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION $57,000 $43,000

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who are so caught up with ensuring their future wealth that they can’t even decide on a major, I encourage you to let go of the idea that you will be happier if and when you are rich.

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miserable doctors, lawyers and engineers in the world. Why do you think so many adults are so unhappy? Join me, let’s be passionate, poor (ok, hopefully not poor, but you get it) and happy together.

Danielle Waddell is a sophomore majoring in journalism. Her column runs weekly.

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CULTURE

Monday, September 28, 2015

Centered in the limelight Final performances test music majors CW / Layton Dudley

By Becca Murdoch and Lane Stafford | Contributing Writers

They take the stage. The lights dim. A hush falls over the audience. Time slows down.

Student musicians will take to the stage and showcase their talents in upcoming recitals at Moody Music Building. Each student has taken their own journey to find themselves before an audience, and these students are no different.

Allison Glover, a senior majoring in music education, demonstrated the culmination of her work with the flute with fellow flutist Frances Victory, a fifth year senior also majoring in music education, on Sunday, Sept. 27. Chris Henley and Matthew Edwards, both juniors majoring in music, will take the stage Tuesday, Sept. 29.

Music has been a part of Glover’s life since she began taking piano lessons from her mother in the fourth grade. She said she found her love for the flute in middle school and continued playing throughout high school and into college, where she joined the Million Dollar Band and declared music education as her major.

“Eventually I reached the potential [in flute playing] I was aiming for and I wanted to see how far I could get,” Glover said.

Victory, who performed with Glover this past Sunday evening, also took piano lessons from her own mother and then found her talent for the flute in middle school. Victory started her undergraduate studies as a chemistry major, but after seeing flute professor Diane Schultz perform in the symphonic band Victory was a part of, she said was sold on studying music.

Henley started playing the organ when he was 11 years old. After a church service at his new church, First Baptist in Talladega, Alabama, he went up to the organist and asked if he could teach him how to play. After the morning and evening services at church, Henley would meet with him and learn about the organ. Henley now works as an organist and conductor at First United Methodist Church in

Anniston, Alabama.

Edwards began taking organ lessons with his church director when he was in 7th grade. He was a finalist in an organ competition in Connecticut where he met Faythe Freese, Alabama’s organ professor. He then attended the UA Organ Scholarship Competition and said he fell in love with the practice facilities at the University.

“I love the sounds [of the organ]. It’s like an orchestra at your fingertips,” Edwards said.

Glover and Victory have spent the past few years together, sharing most classes and performing together in the Million Dollar Band.

“We’ve held pinkies this whole program so we want to show everyone how much we’ve grown as musicians, but we also want to show everybody that this is how we’ve grown as friends,” Glover said of their senior recital.

For Glover and Victory, this performance is the result of months of preparation and countless hours of practice. Both Glover and Victory decided on their pieces in early Spring of this year, worked tirelessly all summer, and for the two weeks leading up to the recital, have been practicing for almost two hours a day.

“I’ve really had to work on my mental game,” Victory said. “I’ve had to change the way I think about the way I practice because I’m very hard on myself. I’m a perfectionist, but I have to let the little things go and keep moving on.”

Glover also commented on the pressure for perfection and finding the proper mentality for the performance.

“The most pressure isn’t coming from [Schultz],” Glover said. “It’s not coming from my parents or all the people I know are going to be there. It’s coming from me. We want to go out there and do the best we can. The hardest part is knowing how much pressure to put on yourself because you can put too much.”

Though the psychological battle of performing in front of an audience is a major hurdle for performers,

Osiris Molina, associate professor of clarinet, noted the physical struggle of giving a recital. Music education majors are required to perform in a 30 minute recital for their degree. Performance majors must perform for an hour.

“The hardest part often is physically getting through a lengthy recital with very limited breaks,” Molina said. “You have to know how your body will react during the performance.”

Glover, Victory and Henley said they all recognize the value of a recital, not just for the performer but for the audience as well.

“Hopefully when people come to a concert if you can bring a little bit of joy or something along those lines that’s the enjoyment I get out of performances,” Henley said. “It’s not so much performing for the sake of performing.”

Glover said she sees recitals as a good way to inform the public culturally.

“It’s important to educate our community about music, not just the kids that want to know,” Glover said. “It’s good for people to see different perspectives because when a musician gets up there and exposes themselves, it’s coming from the deepest parts of that person.”

Victory said she sees recitals as a place for people to learn more about what music majors actually do.

“I think it would open people’s minds up to what other people in the University do,” Victory said.

“A lot of people, they think of people with instruments and just associate them with the Million Dollar Band, which is good, but we do a lot more.”

Recitals, though they may be time consuming in their preparation and draining in their completion, are considered to be some of the most rewarding experiences musicians can get.

“Five minutes after a concert, you can see the weight is completely lifted off [the performer’s] body,” Molina said. “They’re exhausted but they’re happy and proud and their parents are there and if it’s a good recital, it’s a really empowering thing.”

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NEWS Monday, September 28, 2015

CYBER CRIME UA technology responds to new threats

By Patrick Smith | Staff Reporter

With the rise of the Internet has come a rise in a relatively new form of crime, crime that does not entail the use of guns, knives or other traditional weaponry. Technology has elicited an expanse of opportunity for cybercriminals, who can commit felonies while simply sitting in front of a computer screen.

In the years from 2000 to 2014, there have been 3,175,611 reported complaints worldwide by victims of cybercrimes to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, according to the FBI’s IC3 website. These crimes range from fraud and identity theft to stolen credit card information, electronic theft of money and data breaches.

“Not a day goes by when you open your newspaper or watch the news that there’s not some kind of a data security breach, computer hacks, Instagram problems and national security problems,” said Mark Lanier, associate director for the UA Cyber Institute, an educational organization developed to advance the understanding of the dynamics of cyber issues.

In 2014 alone, total reported losses amounted to over $800 million globally, according to the IC3.

“What we’re seeing in this day and age is that there are very few crimes that are committed without any form of technology,” said Diana Dolliver,

assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and academic liaison to the Alabama Joint Electronics Crimes Task Force. “It could be mobile devices.

Anything from recorders to cellphones.

We look at computers, external hard drives, XBOX’s and DVR’s.”

The JECTF was established in August 2014 by a grant received from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. The lab, created through a partnership with the Criminal Justice Department and local law enforcement agencies, will help local and national law enforcement officials process cases and lead to prosecutions in cyber-related crimes.

When a crime is committed and the officers respond to it, if any evidence is digital, it is taken back to the lab to be extracted using digital forensics techniques.

Dolliver said typically government entities and large corporations are hit most by cyber-attacks.

But, in the past, some university students have fallen victim to cybercrime.

Between the months of July and August 2013, at least 25 university students had their myBama user names and passwords collected by a fellow student who sought to illegally obtain money from federal and state student loan funds, according to a Tuscaloosa News article from April 2015.

Briana Jackson, 22, of Childersburg pled guilty to one count of unauthorized

access to a protected computer as part of a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama and was indicted on April 3, according to the article.

Jackson created an email account, uaeduhousing@gmail.com, and requested myBama user names and passwords from other students under the guise that the request came from the University, according to the article.

More than 40 students responded to the request, and Jackson accessed at least 25 myBama accounts between July and August of 2013. Jackson attempted to change direct deposit information for seven of the accounts to reroute state and federal student loan funds to money cards under her control that had been opened with identities taken from other students, according to the

article. Jackson attempted to take around $41,331 from the accounts, but only succeeded in redirecting $9,597.

She was able to withdraw about $1,000 before the University froze the account, according to the article.

Jackson was sentenced in August to five months in prison, according to a Tuscaloosa News article.

Students have been victims of thousands of phishing attacks over the past 18-24 months, said Ashley Ewing, chief information security officer for the UA Office of Information Technology.

“Do not be fooled by emails that want your ID and password,” Ewing said.

For more cybersafety tips as well as cybersecurity alerts, visit the UA Office of Information Technology website at oit.ua.edu

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It’s not that easy eating green CW / Hanna Curlette

By Lauren Lane | Staff Reporter

With each new fad diet, figuring out what healthy eating looks like becomes more distorted. For Jackson Spradlin, a junior majoring in biology, it means not eating meat. “Being a vegetarian is more than just a way to eat healthier,” Jackson said. but a way to figure out who he is and who he wants to be.

“Part of me finding who I am has been identifying myself as a vegetarian,” Spradlin said. “Becoming a vegetarian has been a great start because it lines up with my foundational beliefs: just living a lifestyle that is as healthy as it possibly can be, helping out the environment and supporting local farmers instead of big corporations. It makes sense economically, environmentally and health-wise too.”

While only about four percent of Americans consider themselves vegetarians, around 20 percent of college students are, according to a study done by Vegetarian Times.

“Most days I cook at home for breakfast, lunch and dinner and find it hard to eat on campus much,” Spradlin said.

Spradlin spent his summer working at a camp where every meal had a vegetarian option, and he wishes the culture in Alabama and the South would be more health-conscious than it is now. But he said he sees steps toward that direction.

“This semester has been the best so far, just thinking back to the options I’ve had in the past, and the new salad bar in the Ferg is awesome,” he said. “It has a ton of stuff, and I can get some good protein sources there, like chickpeas. Other than that, the only other really good option I have right now is Subway.”

Some campuses around the country, such as the University of North Texas, are opening vegetarian and vegan dining halls and providing healthier options.

With a rapidly growing student body, vegetarian students are often disappointed in the lack of options available at the University.

“In college it’s been a lot harder,” said Caroline Walden, a freshman majoring in nursing and business. “At home I had a kitchen, and my mom knows how to cook

special foods, so being here and eating at my sorority house, I feel like I just have to eat a lot of snacks most of the time. But it has made me start to eat more salads, so that’s good at least.”

Walden said having Julia’s Market and Zoe’s Kitchen nearby have been lifesavers but overall, living in Tutwiler has made it difficult for her to make and store food that coincide with her diet.

“Even though it’s been a tough transition, I could never picture myself eating meat again.” she said. “The other day someone was trying to get me to eat a chicken sandwich, and I just physically couldn’t get myself to do it. It would make me sick after this long. My biggest nightmare is me accidentally eating meat and finding out that I did by being sick all the next day.”

The biggest problem Walden and Spradlin face is how being vegetarians can affect them socially.

“When I told my friends I was a vegetarian, they rolled their eyes and couldn’t believe that I would choose to stop eating meat,” said Spradlin. “But they are getting to be pretty open-minded. They invited me to Dreamland one night and I was thankful for the invite, but there isn’t anything there I can eat. It’s just uncomfortable being at a restaurant and not eating anything. I don’t want to look like I’m on a diet. My friends are at least usually pretty accommodating, just not some of the restaurants.”

Walden said she likes how being a vegetarian can be a great conversation starter, but it can make her appear to be someone she’s not.

“It makes me so uncomfortable if I’m eating somewhere that doesn’t have a vegetarian choice, and I have to ask for something else,” she said. “It just makes me feel like a diva and I don’t like that at all. I’m just being healthy.”

Ellie Graff, a sophomore majoring in finance, is a vegan, someone who doesn’t eat any eggs or diary, and faces the same issues when eating with col lege friends or in a restaurant.

“Every single time I go to Mellow Mushroom, without fail, they put cheese on my pizza,” Graff said. “They actually

have vegan options here so it’s just funny that people can get confused by my order here, at a more health-conscious place.

Sometimes they even put vegan cheese on after I’ve told them I don’t want any and if you’ve had vegan cheese, you would not want that near your dinner either.”

With the changes made at the University over the past few years,

Spradlin said he hopes that there will be strides made here nutritionally as well.

“I’d rather have local farmers and businesses cooking my food and producing it instead of the mega corporations like McDonald’s,” he said. “I think most people just need to realize the importance of that and having more vegetarians in this world would be a huge propellant for that change.”

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Courtesy of Marc Mitchell and Derek Larson

Everyday surveillance inspires art exhibition

By Sam West | Staff Reporter

The growing lack of privacy and the increasing role of technology in today’s world is a worry for many people. This issue is explored intently in “[mon-iter],” a new art exhibit at Sella-Granata Art Gallery.

A collaboration between artists Marc Mitchell and Derek Larson, “[mon-i-ter]” grew out of an exchange of information

between the two into an exploration of privacy, surveillance and data collection. The exhibit consists of paintings, sculptures and projected video.

“It’s more conceptual about this idea of surveillance and monitoring, monitoring yourself, others monitoring you, what you willingly give up, what you don’t give up, it’s more about those ideas,” Mitchell said.

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“We thought a lot about people wearing FitBits, and other tracking applications that someone would download on their phone,” Mitchell said.

The exhibit grew out of frequent collaboration between the two artists. Mitchell and Larson used to live in the same town, where they often worked together and visited each other’s studios. But when Mitchell moved away, the artists decided to continue working together by sending images back and forth to each other.

Eventually, this grew into a very detailed monitoring of their daily lives.

“It became more and we started tracking things like how many miles we were walking and how many hours we were sleeping, and it got to a point where it was just obsessive and over the top,” Larson said.

Mitchell and Larson tracked many of their activities, such as how often they exercised or went on the Internet. This data was then used as the inspiration for the exhibit’s pieces.

A feature of “[mon-i-ter]” is that it features digital projections, a cutting edge form of artistic expression. These technological installations were mostly the vision of Larson, who said that he sought to use them in a way that paid tribute to traditional artistic methods as well.

“The way that it enters the work is always unique and different,” Larson said.

“So for me, I’m trying to combine my formal interests in painting and sculpture into the software that I’m using.”

The collaborative element of

“[mon-i-ter]” is one of its strongest themes. Larson said he enjoyed working with Mitchell because the two kept each other focused.

“Collaborating with a partner, I find, is motivating and it requires me to stay on point or to make deadlines,” he said. “If you’re working alone it can be easier to slack off or push a deadline off. But with working with somebody, he holds me accountable and I hold him accountable.”

Mitchell, on the other hand, said he found the synergy generated by working with another artist beneficial.

“I think that working in this type of collaborative environment, we are able to set up these boundaries, this sort of map for what we’re going to do, and there’s a back and forth which is really exciting,” he said.

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Editor | Kayla Montgomery sports@cw.ua.edu Monday, September 28, 2015

From Spain to the South Spanish World Cup veteran stars for Alabama soccer

Celia Jimenez played on Spain’s national team in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. CW / Shelby Akin

By Marquis Munson | Staff Reporter

Celia Jimenez stood on the field at Olympic Stadium in Montreal and looked into the stands to see her parents, flashing back to the moment when she kicked her first soccer ball at the age of six.

She reminisced about the trip to the stadium with police escorts and the tires on the bus rolling through a red carpet, and thought about the level of competition increasing from when she was that six-year-old girl playing soccer in Alcaudete, Spain, to playing on Spain’s national team in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup almost 13 years later.

“I usually don’t get nervous before games, but that one I was really nervous,” Jimenez said. “I was talking to my mom the night before, and it was like, I’ve been playing

soccer for so many years, and I feel like I’m relearning everything. But, it was all about building my confidence before the game, because once the referee blows that whistle, there is no nervous.”

Her key role in her first World Cup appearance was to dominate the time of possession for her team. It ended the match with in a 1-1 draw against Costa Rica. She started in all of the country’s three matches in the World Cup. Their next two matches were losses to Brazil and South Korea.

After Spain’s elimination, Jimenez came back to The University of Alabama. There were no police escorts or red carpet. Instead, Jimenez rides her longboard to Hardaway Hall and continues to play the sport she grew up playing.

Jimenez became the first active player in the history of

the Alabama soccer program to appear in a World Cup. “When people ask me how that moment felt like, I think a lot about it and I can’t ever find words to describe it,” Jimenez said.

Jimenez has been successful with many teams throughout her young career. By the age of 14, she represented Spain on every national youth team and made a total of 24 appearances in both the U-17 and U-19 team.

In 2009, she played a season with Real Jaén, before playing with Sevilla FC in the Primera Division. While playing on Spain’s U-17 team in 2011, her team won their second UEFA Women’s Under-17 Championship in the country’s history by defeating France in the finals 1-0.

“I was always used to playing with people 6-10 years older than me,” Jimenez said. “I learned a lot, they taught me all that experience they got in ten years and taught me that in four years.”

Jimenez wanted to take up aerospace engineering because she loves designing cars and planes, but doing that with soccer in Spain took too much time. She decided to come to the United States and enroll at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after being recruited by coach Brad Silvey.

After her two seasons at IWCC, she wanted to continue her two passions–aerospace engineering and soccer–she enrolled at Alabama after receiving several offers from Penn State, Mississippi State and TCU. “I was looking for a school that has a good aerospace program, good soccer team and good weather because Iowa was so cold,” Jimenez said. “Honestly, what made me choose Alabama was something in my heart. I opened the website and saw [it] and the crimson color and just thought this is it.”

Last Sunday, she scored two goals with eight shot attempts to give the Alabama Crimson Tide soccer team a 2-0 victory over Jacksonville State, and Friday, she notched an assist. She leads the team in shot attempts at 24 and ties Alexis Mouton in game winning goals with one.

“The way we [have] been raised in my family, it’s like focus what you need to improve on more than what you have already accomplished,” Jimenez said.

“I love this team so much, and I think we have a lot of potential.”

Thomas excels in third year as starter

By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter

Brittany Thomas thought she was going to cheerleading tryouts until, lo and behold, it was volleyball.

Thomas said her mother tricked her back in the fourth grade.

“It kind of just stuck after that,” Thomas said.

Originally from Arizona, Thomas is now a junior at Alabama and playing for the Crimson Tide’s volleyball team, not cheerleading. Since coming to Alabama, she’s done a little bit of everything for her team.

“You know, as a kid that came in and started as a freshman from day one , [she] probably carries – has carried – the largest role on the team being a six rotation player and being asked to pass, hit, dig, set, block, serve–a little bit of everything,” coach Ed Allen said.

As an outside hitter, Thomas runs all over the court, sometimes even running into teammate Krystal Rivers. She does a lot for Alabama.

“She’s that one player that we have that we can rely on in different areas of the sport,” Rivers said. “She’s a complete player and that is great to have on your team.”

She still has room to grow as an athlete, Allen said. In her third year as a starter, Thomas has grown more confident in her abilities.

“She’s a real coachable kid,” he said. “The demands on her with that position can sometimes be very tough and she’s working to deal with how much pressure is associated [with it] from a kid that carries as much responsibility that she has.”

Whether it was cheerleading or volleyball, sports have been a part of her life for as long as she can remember.

As a marketing major, Thomas said her dream job would be to work for Nike on one of its market research and developing teams.

“I definitely want to stay in the sports world because that’s pretty much all I really know,” she said. “Just growing up around sports – my parents being athletes – that’s kind of all I really know, that kind of lifestyle.”

Until then, in her minimum free time, Thomas said she likes to watch “Gossip Girl,” scroll through Pinterest and clean her apartment since she hates when it’s a mess. Most importantly, she loves to hang out with her friends.

Rivers said she would spend a lot of her free time with Thomas during their freshman year. They’d take the bus to the local mall and spend their time walking

Brittany Thomas plays as an outside hitter for Alabama. CW / Amy Sullivan

around together.

“We always think back to those days when neither one of us had cars and it was a lot of fun,” Rivers said.

Thomas likes to have fun, simple as that. She’s considered the quirky one of the team that is constantly found smiling and having little outbursts in the locker room.

“She’s a kid that likes to laugh and likes to make other people laugh,” Allen said.

“I think more than anything else, she enjoys life.”

Thomas loves her team. Getting to know them and being able to spend so much time with them has been her favorite part of coming to Alabama.

“Without them, I don’t think I’d be the person I am today,” she said.

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Monday, September 28, 2015

By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter

Leading up to Saturday’s game, Reggie Ragland told the rest of the defense that nobody was scoring on them. Geno Matias-Smith said that was Ragland’s motto.

Ragland was right. Alabama shut out the University of Louisiana-Monroe 34-0 on Saturday.

“That had to be the standard,” Matias-Smith said.

The last time the two teams faced off in 2007, Alabama lost 21-14. It was a different story this time around.

“We really tried to take a step in the right direction of establishing the kind of identity that we want to have as a

football team,” coach Nick Saban said.

“We played with a lot of toughness, especially on defense.”

Defense was strong at the line of scrimmage, keeping ULM to nine yards rushing. It totaled six sacks from Da’Shawn Hand, Jarran Reed, Denzel Devall, D.J. Pettway, Tim Williams and Rashaan Evans.

Alabama had two interceptions by Matias-Smith and Ronnie Harrison.

“I was in the right place at the right time, tipped ball,” Matias-Smith said.

Jonathan Allen was injured during the game, but Saban said this shoulder problem has happened before and he’s come back from it quickly. Allen is dayto-day leading up to the Georgia game.

The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated ULM 34-0 on Saturday in Bryant-Denny Stadium. CW / Layton Dudley

Offensively, Alabama totaled 303 total yards with 137 rushing yards and 17 first downs. It ran 67 total plays compared to the 101 plays against Ole Miss the week before.

“I thought offensively we stopped ourselves way too many times,” Saban said.

Jake Coker started at quarterback and stayed there late into the fourth quarter when Cooper Bateman stepped into the position. Coker completed 17 out of 31 passes for 158 yards and three touchdowns. In his limited time, Bateman had eight yards and completed his only pass.

“I think we all started a little slow today, but eventually we got things going and finished off how we wanted to finish off,” Coker said.

Four games into the season, Coker has thrown four interceptions. He threw one early on in the second quarter against ULM. He said everyone ran their route, he just had a hard time getting the ball out the way he needed to.

“When you throw an interception, you’re just not doing the right thing,” Coker said. “I have to be more conservative as far as taking shots, especially in traffic when I’m trying to get the ball out. I can’t do the things I’ve been doing.”

Just before the second quarter, Derrick Henry put Alabama on the board first with a 3-yard run. He had 13 carries for 52 yards with that one touchdown. Saban said Henry was sick

earlier in the week and didn’t want to wear him out in this game. Kenyan Drake led the Alabama offense in rushing with 10 carries for 65 yards.

Coker connected with Calvin Ridley with a 15-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter, increasing Alabama’s lead 14-0. Ridley had four receptions for 38 yards and one touchdown.

Alabama receivers totaled three dropped passes in the first half.

After halftime, Alabama came out with its offense more in sync. It only had one dropped pass early in the fourth.

“Something went down,” wide receiver ArDarius Stewart said.

There was more miscommunication in the first half compared to the second, Coker said. It was all worked out come the third quarter. He said he loved being able to get into a rhythm and play almost the whole game.

Coker threw a 19-yard pass to Michael Nysewander for an Alabama touchdown in the third. Then in the fourth, he threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Stewart.

“It’s a momentum swing,” Stewart said. “That’s what you have to have as a team–momentum. So every time you have a chance to make a big play, you do it.”

Adam Griffith made two field goals in the second half on kicks of 40 and 35 yards.

“We’re definitely getting better as we go,” Coker said.

Offense gains confidence, still lacks cohesion

By Kelly Ward | Digital Managing Editor

Alabama’s offense sputtered early before finding some consistency in the 34-0 win over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.

Four games into the season, the offense hasn’t quite found its identity.

“I was pleased with the fact that our guys went out there and competed hard in the game,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “We really tried to take a step in the direction of establishing the kind of identity that we want to have as a football team.”

The defense, Saban said, played with a lot of toughness. ULM netted 92 yards of offense with only nine yards rushing on 31 attempts.

Alabama’s offense put together 303 yards, 166 of which came from Alabama’s pass game.

“I thought offensively, we stopped ourselves way too many times,” Saban said. “We had five dropped balls and several of those were on third downs.

On 4th-and-1, we eliminated the first down with an illegal motion, so we’re going to need to clean up some of things. We played it pretty tight to the vest today and I think we probably need to do a little more.”

In the first half, Alabama ran 42 plays for 175 yards. Jake Coker was 10-for-21 with an interception. In the second half,

he was 7-of-10 with two touchdowns.

Over the course of the game, he threw for 158 yards and three touchdowns.

“I thought Jake [Coker] did a good job, and however you look at the stops, you’ve got to look at the drops,” Saban said. “That wasn’t really his fault as he made some good throws. There was probably a couple times that he wishes he would have done it a little different, in terms of going to somebody else, and those are the things we need to work out and get better at.”

Derrick Henry, who ran twice on the first drive that ended in a three-andout, finished second on the team with 52 yards rushing on 13 carries.

On Wednesday, Saban said Henry was battling illness that limited his ability to practice.

“I just didn’t want to wear the guy out today,” Saban said Saturday. “I wanted to give other guys the opportunity to play, and I thought they developed and did a good job.”

Kenyan Drake led the way with 65 yards on 10 carries.

Henry ran in the first score of the game from three yards out on 4thand-1 in the first quarter. He didn’t see the end zone again all day. The next three touchdowns for Alabama were in the air.

Freshman Damien Harris ran for 23 yards on four carries. No one else had

ArDarius Stewart catches a pass from Jake Coker. CW / Layton Dudley

double digit yards carrying the ball.

After Alabama established a run, capped by Henry’s touchdown late in the first quarter, it went back to its passing game with three straight incomplete passes including one in the end zone. The drive ended in a 52-yard punt from JK Scott.

The sophomore punter was brought out five times in the first half. His first

appearance ended in an 18-yard punt after a three-and-out where the offense gained six yards. He came on the field again following the Crimson Tide’s second possession.

“We want to be a physical team and we have guys that we’re going to be known as a physical team,” tight end Michael Nysewander said. “I think we’re still working on that week by week.”