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WEEKEND EDITION | OCTOBER 1, 2015 VOLUME 122 | ISSUE 22

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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894

Ray Hayes

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The former UA system vice chancellor has been tapped to succeed outgoing chancellor Robert Witt, following a period of unprecedented growth at the University.

Throughout the early days of the campaign process, the government subsidization of higher education has been a hot-button topic, with some claiming universal access to education devalues a degree, while others consider it a right.

Alabama faces Auburn on Thursday in 22nd rivalry match in history of both programs. In recent years, the Tigers have held sway in the rivalry, but new UA coach Wes Hart and the Crimson Tide are aiming to reverse that trend.

COLUMN | HAZING

5 students arrested for hazing Phi Gamma Delta faces sanctions on activities

By Elizabeth Elkin | News Editor

Five University of Alabama students were arrested due to an investigation of hazing allegations involving Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, according to a statement by Chris Bryant, assistant director of media relations at the University.

Bryant said UAPD arrested Colter K. Anderson, 21; John Patrick Buckley, 21; Hunter Lee Wagner, 20; and Richard E. Markwalter, 20, and face three hazing charges. Mark Allen Powers, 20, faces one hazing charge.

The students were booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail, Bryant said.

Each student’s bond is $1,000.

The arrests followed an investigation

by UAPD and the UA Office of Student Conduct, Bryant said.

Bryant said the University has placed interim sanctions on the chapter, including no social events and no new member activities.

The investigation is ongoing, Bryant said.

“The University of Alabama will not tolerate hazing and takes allegations and incidents of hazing very seriously,” said Tim Hebson, dean of students, in an emailed statement to Bryant. “Students who are the victims of, or who become aware of, hazing incidents are strongly encouraged to bring these incidents to our attention.”

Hazing information can be reported to the University via the 348-HALT confidential hotline or a direct call to UAPD. Those with information or concerns can email editor@cw.ua.edu.

Full coverage of this developing story is available online at cw.ua.edu.

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3 Next chancellor feels confident in his abilities Editor | Elizabeth Elkin newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Thursday, October 1, 2015

By Arielle Lipan | Staff Reporter

After being unanimously appointed as Chancellor Robert Witt’s successor for The University of Alabama System, Ray Hayes feels confident in his ability to do the job justice.

“Everybody was kind of anxious about, you know, what’s gonna happen when Bob Witt retires,” said Vice Chancellor of System Relations Kellee Reinhart.

“There was just an up-swelling of concern about that, and people feel that this is the most optimum outcome.”

Upon the hiring of Hayes, concerns arose about the narrowness in the search for Witt’s successor. However, President Pro Tem Karen Brooks addressed those concerns in a statement after the announcement.

“With more than 35 years of senior administrative leadership in higher education, Ray Hayes has been integral

to the success of our campuses,” she said. “From my perspective, there is no one in the country with a sharper focus on the future of higher education than Ray Hayes.”

Most of Hayes’ experience has been up close with campuses, especially from the financial point of view, so facing those challenges in universities does not worry him.

“I think I have enough gray hair to be comfortable with that,” he said.

The funding for the universities in the UA System has seen many input changes in the — Karen Brooks past 10 to 20 years. Less than 8 percent of the $5.5 billion given to the system came from the state, whereas revenue from tuition used to be less than that from the state.

However, Hayes doesn’t think all hope is lost thanks to research grants, gifts and the like.

“When you look at the pie charts,

From my perspective, there is no one in the country with a sharper focus on the future of higher education than Ray Hayes.

you’ll see those other revenue streams increasing,” he said. “The percentage of the pie is getting larger and it has to be in order to survive and thrive in the future.”

Hayes said he worked closely with Witt for the past three years as the executive vice chancellor for finance and operations and plans to continue that relationship through this transition year.

“I’m looking forward to this year, to continuing to work and learn from [Witt],” he said.

Reinhart said the main focus right now is ensuring a seamless transition; Hayes agreed and said he hasn’t made a specific plan of action for his first year because it’ll depend on the campuses.

“We’ve got a new president on the campus here, and he’s kinda in his first few months and getting to learn things,” he said. “The focus will depend on what the campuses want and if we can afford it.”

Hayes doesn’t foresee any big changes in the system’s future, but he plans to keep an open ear to the people.

“Our whole reason for existence is to support the campuses in our system,” he said. “That’s where we need to focus.”

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Editor | Leigh Terry opinions@cw.ua.edu Thursday, October 1, 2015

OPPOSING VIEWS | HIGHER EDUCATION

Candidates choose campaign stances

By Leigh Terry | Opinions Editor

The issue of the government’s proper role in higher education has been a part of the presidential campaign platforms of candidates on both sides of the aisle, from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Their proposals range from free community college, income-based debt repayment and funding from private investors.

To that end, The Crimson White is proud to present the opposing views of these two staff columnists, specifically focusing on whether or not government should subsidize higher education. I encourage you to research further into this debate with both views in mind.

Leigh Terry is a senior majoring in economics. She is the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White.

Nothing good in life comes free

By Sarah Howard | Staff Columnist

Higher education is flaunted as the key to a successful future, and parents are pushing their children to pursue it more than ever. While college costs continue to climb (our own University of Alabama tuition recently increased by $172 per semester for in-state students and by $500 for outof-state), students and their families look for whatever will make it more affordable. As the next presidential election gets closer, candidates are grasping for the votes of this large and influential demographic of students. Most left-wing candidates are advertising their own plans to make sure everyone can get a university degree and even current president Barack Obama is promising free community college.

The biggest problem underlying many of these proposals is their cost because offering anything for “free” really means that someone else is paying for it. As of right now, the federal government has been using taxpayer money to subsidize universities for years, and instead of making tuition bills smaller, it has caused incredible cost inflation. Although it appears that public universities are less expensive than private ones, this is not always the case. For example, Hillsdale College costs less than $12,000 a semester for tuition, keeping prices low by not accepting any federal or state subsidies. Like any other service or product on the market, the price of education is set by the demand of those willing to spend for it, and as college becomes more of an expectation, the demand, and price, will continue to increase.

This rise in university enrollment not only causes a subsequent rise in cost, but it devalues the college

degree itself. A high school diploma once was the standard to secure a decent job that would support a family, but now a bachelor’s degree is often required to even get an interview for an unpaid internship. Many people see education as an investment to a better career, but it is unfortunate that the same employment could previously be attained without such an expensive price tag. If the government strives desperately to increase enrollment and graduation rates for college education, a four-year degree will soon be too standard and it will take a master’s degree or higher to have a comfortable income.

The current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, is attempting to attract voters with her “New College Compact Plan.” This plan begins by piggybacking off of President Obama’s idea to make community college “free,” but goes a few steps further.

Promises such as debt relief, so that those who are still unable to repay what they owe, guarantee that education dollars will be simply given away to those who cannot afford it versus those who deserve it. Bernie Sanders is second in the Democratic primary polls with even wilder intentions to eliminate the direct cost of college entirely, relinquishing the burden from the student to the taxpayer.

As college students, we tend to be concerned with our futures quite often, and with these candidates, we need to protect it more than ever.

The worth of our education could be at risk if we continue to allow those in power to look for short-term solutions to long-term problems.

Sarah Howard is a sophomore majoring in chemistry. Her column runs biweekly.

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One of the most important issues of our time is how to improve the condition of the United States’ educational system. We’ve become somewhat used to it by now, but it still shocks me to see the U.S. consistently beaten on rankings of student performance by dozens of countries. How can we return to the top to make sure our students can compete in a world economy?

Many in the political landscape are arguing for a decrease in government funding for higher education, increasing the value of degrees earned by those who are lucky enough to be born into families that can send them to college. Along with sounding decidedly anti-“American Dream” to me, this idea to improve our educational system by cutting its funding makes no logical sense, either.

Whether or not increased college enrollment lowers the value of everyone’s college degree, it is still exceedingly beneficial for someone to pursue a bachelor’s degree or even a more advanced degree. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the attainment of a Bachelor’s degree increased weekly earnings from $668 to $1,101 in 2014. By obtaining a bachelor’s degree instead of being content with their high school diploma, workers increased their earnings by 65%.

Yes, if everyone has a degree, your degree is less rare, and thus you are relatively less valuable to potential employers.

But, that indicates a strong, educated and motivated country, and who would argue against that? Constant improvement is demanded in today’s economy, and taking away education subsidies in order to lower the bar for everyone is incredibly counterproductive. More education for more

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people is the only way we will advance.

The actual problem in today’s education is the skyrocketing costs of attendance, which is largely falling on the backs of students. U.S. citizens hold a staggering $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, a debt that often follows people around for most of their adult lives. These cost increases are being caused by rapid enrollment growth that is happening alongside funding stagnation or even a defunding of education by the states. For example, the University of Wisconsin has enrolled more students than ever in its history in the past three years, yet the Wisconsin state government voted in June to approve Governor Walker’s plan to cut UW’s budget by $250 million. A similar situation is being experienced in Louisiana, Georgia and all across the country. Here in Alabama, our well-documented explosion in enrollment has been matched by a dramatic decrease in state funding–from $218 million in 2008 to $170 million in 2012. With numbers like these, it’s no wonder tuition has skyrocketed around the country.

The real solution to our problems in education isn’t a decrease in government subsidies–it’s an increase. In terms of education spending by percentage of GDP, we are behind countries like Cuba, Kenya and Jamaica. That is unacceptable. Our state and our country need to invest in their citizens the way South Korea, Finland, Switzerland and other countries that have passed us by in all those rankings do. In a country that spends over $580 billion a year on defense–more than anyone else by a long shot–it is embarrassing and shameful that we cannot even adequately fund our own schools. If we want to maintain our position as the center of innovation, power and influence in the world, it’s imperative that we reverse this disturbing trend in the U.S. education system.

Kyle Simpson is a senior majoring in biology. His column runs biweekly.

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5 UA community should be safe from violence OPINIONS Thursday, October 1, 2015

By Jonathan Hess | Guest Columnist

Here at the University, students have a basic expectation: we should be safe from violent crime on and near campus.

In Fall 2014, the UAPD released five crime advisories over the five-month fall semester. Just six weeks into Fall 2015, we have already eclipsed that number with seven advisories pertaining to nine incidents. Over the entire year of 2014, nine advisories were issued. We have reached that number-once again-in five weeks.

Every crime advisory is available on the UAPD website and is sent to students once released. Reading through them is not pleasant. A block and a half from the Strip, a UA student was struck by three criminals, hit while he was lying on the ground, and was robbed of his wallet. In sight of East Edge Apartments, a criminal held a student with a weapon in his back and took his wallet—before 10 p.m. And perhaps most heinously of all, a female student was picked up from the strip under the guise of a church group offering rides home and was sexually assaulted. All in less than three weeks.

The Strip and downtown Tuscaloosa feel more dangerous

this fall than last spring. The city in Fall 2013, my first semester at the University, faced no safety issues of this scale. Student safety is quickly becoming a huge issue, but collectively we do not recognize the magnitude of the problem. No one wants to talk about it.

We must all be proactive about safety at the University and work collectively to make this campus our home.

I am proud to help lead a student government that takes student safety and well-being seriously.

The massive success of Alabama’s ‘It’s On Us’ campaign by Director of Programming and Advancement Jordan Forrest proved just two weeks ago the power of students’ voices on an issue affecting so many young women and men at the University.

Soon, Chief Implementation Officer Drew Cicero’s campaign for mental health will kick off, drawing attention

to another critical student safety and well-being issue.

A third campaign must join our twin initiatives for sexual assault prevention and mental health education. Our campus needs a coalition for student safety and well-being.

Student leaders across campus, by coming together, can voice their opinions to implore University administration and Tuscaloosa decision-makers for sustainable change.

The SGA can and will provide a forum for leaders to discuss student safety-and implement initiatives to make students safer on campus. We must all be proactive about safety at the University and work collectively to make this campus our home.

On Sunday morning, I read a police report on a group of students accosted near Lakeside Dining. They were walking together in a lit area on campus. These students followed all the right policies our administration and UAPD recommend for student safety and they were robbed in sight of the Ferguson Center. This crime needs to stop.

Jonathan Hess is a junior majoring in finance. He is the Vice President of External Affairs for the Student Government Association.

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Editor | Matthew Wilson culture@cw.ua.edu Thursday, October 1, 2015

Franklin to Festivals: An Interview with Grammy-Nominee

WILL HOGE

By Taylor Esche | Contributing Writer

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Will Hoge lounges alone, looking completely relaxed on the Urban Outfitters tapestry-clad couch. His apparent ease comes from the fact that this is actually his home, the place where he was raised in Tennessee. It is here in Franklin where I first met Hoge. It is here, at Park at Harlinsdale Farm, where Hoge is playing side-by-side with music legends Willie Nelson, Steven Tyler and Sheryl Crow.

As any true Southern gentleman would, Hoge rises to shake my hand, and then waits for me to be seated. I’m nervous. I stumble over my first question about his inspiration for his album, the words clinging in my throat. But, ever the gentleman, Hoge puts me at ease, making me feel like more of an old friend than a young kid at her first big interview.

His manners and humility make it hard to believe the man is a Grammynominated artists, who tours with the likes of Dierks Bentley, Kings of Leon and the Avett Brothers, rather than just another Franklin resident enjoying the festival weekend.

The artists Hoge attracts displays an all too similar pattern of humble normalcy.

“The people I’m interested in is the guys and girls who’ve done it for thirtyplus years,” Hoge said. “They aren’t necessarily ‘superstars’ in that people aren’t following them around, trying to take pictures of them and their kids, and they’re not on the cover of People magazine.

They’re musicians that make a living and have great fan bases.”

Among the never-ending list of inspirations is Hoge’s own father.

“My dad was a musician before I was born, and he had this incredible record collection,” he said.

This record collection, consisting of anything from the Beatles to Otis Redding to Hank Williams, is among the inventory from which Hoge draws from to influence his music. His latest album, ‘Small Town Dreams,’ was released in April of 2015 and peaked at #15 on the U.S. Country chart.

‘Small Town Dreams’ is a hybrid of country and rock, the love child of John Mellencamp and Hank Williams albums.

His eleventh studio album feels more like a journal of thoughts about growing up in a small town set to twangy guitar riffs than anything, the songs each

honest reflections of Hoge’s life in Franklin.

“I felt like I was really at a place where I wanted to reflect on what it was like growing up in a small town and capture that,” Hoge said of his latest album.

Shortly after releasing his album, Hoge released the single ‘Still a Southern Man.’’Written about his journey in stepping away from the Confederate flag, Hoge wrote and recorded the song shortly after the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Capitol. The single was met by mixed reviews, some of praise for Hoge speaking his mind, and others condemning Hoge for betraying tradition.

The controversy made national headlines, even spreading onto The University of Alabama campus.

“I had a teacher who played the song in class. No one could agree and some people got really heated about it,” said Courtney Wood, a senior majoring in early childhood development, of “Still a Southern Man.’” Hoge, who attended Franklin High School at a time when the mascot was the Rebel, recalled being the one to wave the flag with the Confederate soldier on it during football games.

“I was the guy who waved the flag at our games. I came from that idea that it’s not hatred, just this thing that we are proud of,” Hoge said. “Fortunately, I was able to grow up and travel the world and realize it’s not just what I think. It’s about what it looks like to other people, and I think that, as a culture, we are really starting to realize that, which is a wonderful step.”

For Hoge’s latest endeavors, he is steering a less controversial direction. Writing for friend and author Ed Tarkington, Hoge has written a few songs for the 45rpm vinyl that will be accompanying Tarkington’s book, “Only Love Can Break Your Heart.”

“It’s been fun for me because I got to write some songs inspired by somebody else’s work,” Hoge said. “The first [songs] are more acoustic-oriented than on the previous record.”

As for a full album, Hoge plans to begin recording in Nashville in the upcoming months. No word yet on specific plans or directions, but Hoge, as if we’ve been friends all along, laughs and says he will let me know in six months.

Until then, Will Hoge will be performing in Birmingham this weekend. If you’re not making the trip to Athens, I suggest you try and catch his show at Workplay. The show is at 8 p.m. on Saturday with tickets available for $17.

NEWS Thursday, October 1, 2015

More than the

By Elizabeth Elkin | News Editor

SCIENCE

Students, faculty and fans flooded into the University of Alabama Moody Music Concert Hall Monday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. Heads turned, eyes searched. An excited murmur traveled through the hall.

The crowd roared as Bill Nye entered the room.

The Blount Undergraduate Initiative and the Allele Lecture Series partnered to host a lecture by Nye. Nye began his speech with an overview of his family history before transitioning to talking about the number of people in the world during his grandfather’s and parents’ lifetimes.

“In my grandfather’s time, there were about one and a half billion,” Nye said. “During his lifetime it doubled.

During my lifetime and as of about lunch time today, we have almost 7.3 billion people.”

He said climate change is caused by this increase in people.

“The atmosphere is thin and there’s 7 billion humans driving around, breathing and burning it, I mean that’s the problem,” Nye said. “This part of it is not rocket surgery.”

This drew another laugh from the crowd.

July 2015, Nye said, was the warmest month on record, and 2015 is well on its way to being the warmest year in human history.

Nye said ice melting in Antarctica could cause flooding very quickly.

“Most of southern Florida will be underwater and New Orleans,” he said.

Nye said the issue isn’t that the world is getting warmer, but the speed at which it’s doing so.

“If you think the Earth is 6,000 years old, knock yourself out, but don’t make your children believe it, because we

w cool stuff and need you all who are in college to design new w policies and deal with climate change and establish new change the world,” he said. ally that many Nye said he wondered if there were really people who believed the Earth is 6,000 yearss old.

“And then I went to Kentucky,” he said.

The crowd laughed and cheered.

“You laugh, but these guys are serious,” he said. “There is a huge effort to get elementary kids to somehow buy ved in nature.” into ignoring everything they’ve ever observed Nye said the Bible was not built to be a science text. eone could d He said he would believe in creation if someone prove to him that events that happened in the Biblee were possible. g,” he “This way of thinking is very troubling,” erysaid. “These followers are able to ignore everything they see.” ent Nye said it’s worrisome that government laleaders, people in positions of power, can blatantly ignore science.

“You have to vote,” he said. “If you don’t vote, if you don’t believe in voting, will you just shut up and let the rest of us run things?”

The crowd roared in agreement.

Nye said that what society needs to do iss develop wind and solar energy.

“We believe that we can power the U.S.. entirely with ons 80 percent wind and solar by 2050 and cut the emissions ted to do it,” he by 2030, just 15 years from now, if you wanted said. “If it were important to you, you could do it.” mes more stars Nye said there are approximately 100 times that we can observe than there are grains of sand on the pace. beach. He compared himself to a speck in space. is,” Nye said.

“With your brains you can know all of this,”

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“With your brain you can understand what our ancestors understood, you can build on it with the process of science, you can know nature, you can know the cosmos and our place in it, you can know your place in space. With your brain you can see what’s happening to the world’s atmosphere. And with your brain, you can, dare I say it, change the world.”

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Get that Business off the

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By Sam West | Staff Reporter

“IO Hawks,” “Funky Ducks,” “Hover Boards.” These are all names that describe the sleek, two-wheeled, futuristic devices. Students weave on them and slide between pedestrians, cutting their time to class down to only a few minutes, even seconds. Most people stare from the street, not even sure what to call this new technology that more and more students at the University are using.

“They’re going to take over the world eventually,” said Phillip Drake, a junior majoring in business administration.

“Scooters are going to be like Playstation and Xbox-everyone’s going to have one eventually. It’s going to be that big.”

By most people, they’re called hover boards.

C A board fits one person and is controlled by touch sensitive pads underneath the feet of the rider. To accelerate, the user leans forward; to brake, lean back. Turning involves shifting their weight to one side of the board or the other. Drake said that the devices are very simple to pick up.

“I’ve taught plenty of people, and everyone I’ve taught has learned in like, 10 minutes or less,” he said.

It takes about two hours to charge up one, and once powered, it can ride for seven miles before running out of juice.

The top speed of the hover board is 12 miles per hour.

Drake, 27, sells the vehicles between classes at the University of Alabama, in addition to running several other ventures. He originally wanted one

Finding piece of mind

By Lauren Lane | Staff Reporter

When searching for the perfect job, Tessa Albert, a junior majoring in advertising, found herself in the historic downtown Northport. She stepped inside the wooded, unassuming storefront of Restoring Piece and found a wonderland.

The moment she entered, she knew this was a place she wanted to work.

“I think Restoring Piece is a lot different than normal Tuscaloosa shops,” Albert said. “It offers an experience and products different than what Midtown Village or somewhere more popular like that can offer.”

The store carries handmade jewelry, stationery, customized artwork and one-of-a-kind home decor, which they are most known for.

“My wife loves to decorate, and she wanted to find unusual pieces to decorate her house with,” said Brandon Bowen, co-owner of Restoring Piece.

Bowen said his wife was unhappy with the selection she found around town, and together, the couple began deconstructing old houses and investigating Tuscaloosa for junk to restore in order to create their dream home.

“We just started collecting neat little odds and ends to decorate our house with and then started selling them locally, and business just exploded,” Bowen said.

In a brave but hopeful initiative, both quit their day jobs. They then began to create, build and restore

one-of-a-kind pieces until they were able to eventually open up their own store last December.

They haven’t looked back since.

Each day in downtown Northport may seem quiet for some, but the inside of Restoring Piece is bustling with chatter between local customers and buzzing with electric saws. Creative minds merge to create the perfect chair and Halloween decoration for their cozy home.

“We try to focus on creating and restoring items that are one-of-a-kind, either handmade by us or another artist. If it’s something that’s a reproduced piece, we try to be the only ones in Tuscaloosa that carries those brands,” Bowen said.

Albert said that in her few, short weeks working at Restoring Piece, she enjoyed getting to see customer’s ideas come to life through the help of Brandon and Jeni. Albert has even begun to sell her own artwork in the store. She said the whimsical atmosphere helped her create some of her best pieces.

Restoring Piece offers weekend classes for all ages and also hosts events for groups wanting to create seasonal or custom artwork for their homes. Those who take the classes get step-by-step instructions and materials and get to leave with a handmade piece of artwork.

“In our store, you find things here you can’t find anywhere else,” Ben said “We are proud to be the only store in Tuscaloosa like this.”.

when he saw artist Chris Brown had one. But he also recognized a good business opportunity.

“I went over to China and found out where they were making them,” he said. “Nowhere in the United States is making them.”

The entrepreneur knew suppliers in Beijing because of other gadgets he sold in the past. He traveled to “The Valley,” an industrial area in China’s capital, and realized that he could bring hover boards to the states at an affordable price.

The reason there are so many different names for these vehicles is because there is not a U.S. patent on them.

Drake said that anyone can sell them and call them anything they want, and many rappers or celebrities have put their name and brand on a version of the scooter.

Different companies also produce competing versions of the same idea that vary in price, design and top speed. Drake is not looking forward to the day when the new technology becomes restricted.

“Once they put a patent on it, the bigger stores will be able to pick it up, like Wal-Mart, Target,” he said. “That’s going to put all the little men out, like me, and everybody else selling it.”

The student has sold the hover boards in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and North Carolina. Different versions are also available through certain online retailers.

Shaquera Wade, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, got hers off

Amazon. She said the device made getting to class much easier.

“I could do anything on it,” she said. “It got me down to the elevator faster than if I was walking to the elevator.”

Drake believes that the products have an appeal among students because they’re practical in addition to being stylish.

“I told [students], don’t look at it as a toy,” he said. “It’s kind of an investment.

You go to class every day-you can wake up late and still make it to class on time.”

Phillip Drake, a junior majoring in business administration, always saw himself owning a scooter like Chris Brown but had an even better idea to make a business opportunity out of it. CW / Shelby Akin

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9 Off-label drugs may help facilitate treatment NEWS Thursday, October 1, 2015

By Arielle Lipan | Staff Reporter

Tears and snot dribbled down a one-year-old’s face as he tried to breathe through his swollen throat.

Robert Bulloch wasn’t actually crying, but his cold made his little body puff up and leak like never before.

His parents gave him Zyrtec, an allergy medication commonly used for cold symptoms, but it only made him sleepy.

“He had some irritable behavior changes that can occur as well,” said Marilyn Bulloch, Robert’s mother and a clinical assistant professor at Auburn University and The University of Alabama. “If the drug had worked, we probably would have just been like, ‘Alright, it’s only for a few days; it’s really not a big deal,’ but it wasn’t effective at all.”

Bulloch and her husband then delved into the pharmaceutical jungle with a hunch and a hope to find a better solution for their child.

They realized this jungle wasn’t all that wild or unexplored, and the hunch they went in with, to use Allegra instead of Zyrtec, wasn’t unheard of.

Bulloch recalled her feeling of determination once they finished.

“It’s been studied in kids,” she said. “I have a dose.

I’m giving it. The Allegra worked beautifully, and I use it for my current 16-month-old, too.”

Bulloch used this drug off-label, meaning she used medications in a way that isn’t directly approved by the FDA. Doctors prescribe off-label out of necessity to most efficiently treat their patients who also benefit from lower prescription costs.

Bulloch used both Zyrtec and Allegra off-label as they were originally allergy medications and not meant for children.

Adam Allen, a local pharmacist, said people often receive off-label prescriptions, but don’t ask about it.

“Most of the time, they’re using it under direction and they’ve already discussed it with their doctors,” he said.

Bulloch said children’s colds aren’t the only example where off-label prescription use can be beneficial and sometimes even necessary for the patient.

“Let’s look at an old friend: penicillin,” she said.

Penicillin is FDA-approved for respiratory tract infections and rheumatic heart disease, but it’s often the drug of choice for syphilis, rat bites and several skin infections.

Companies usually don’t renew patents because they don’t want to spend the vast amount of time and money necessary to do it, Bulloch said.

Colchicine, a drug generically used for decades to treat gout, became an exception to the rule when in 2013, URL Pharma applied for a patent. Once approved, the prices doubled from being around

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“We’ve seen the same thing with several of our lifesaving medications in the ICU,” Bulloch said. “They’ve been cheap for a long time, and they’re very necessary to keep people alive.”

Vasopressin is the drug commonly used to treat septic shock, when the patient’s blood pressure plummets leading to organ failure and, more often than not, death.

In 2014, Par Sterile Products patented vasopressin for septic shock and the prices went from $3 a vial to $45.

“That’s hard for the patient whose copay has risen, and they worry if their insurance will even pay for it,” Bulloch said. “But what can you do? It’s going to keep you alive.”

Dr. Lynx McClellan, a registered nurse, brings up a different reason for the need of off-label use.

“Maybe the medications were originally made for a certain illness, injury or disease, but it became easier to approve it for something else,” she said.

Not everyone is as gung ho for off-label use, however.

Just this year, the daughter of the late Alabama athletic director Mal Moore sued Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc. because of what she considered off-label use of her father’s prescription, amiodarone.

According to the suit, amiodarone is FDA-approved only “as a drug of last resort for patients suffering from documented recurrent life-threatening ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia,” but Moore’s doctors used his prescription as the primary

method of care.

However, Bulloch thinks this lawsuit is grasping at straws.

“I think his prescription was used appropriately,” she said. “It’s unfortunate that it happened to him, but he was the victim of a known side effect.”

Even if the Moores win the lawsuit, Bulloch said doctors should continue to prescribe medications off-label.

“You would drastically limit treatment options in this country if you didn’t use off-label use,” she said.

McClellan and Bulloch both support some sense of caution with prescriptions.

“More than anything, it’s important that the doctor discloses the difference in the drug usage,” McClellan said.

Bulloch cautions all medication use.

“In every drug there’s a little bit of poison, even in placebos,” she said. “You see it in our studies.

The people who receive the placebos still experience some form of side effects.”

Therefore, Bulloch doesn’t recommend people hit the computer for new medications the second they spy the price tag on their newest prescription unless they have clinical training.

Despite being a big proponent for off-label use, Bulloch can’t wait to put away the Allegra.

“Once my eldest goes to kindergarten, we’re good,” she said. “He will have been exposed to all of those germs, and we will have gotten everything out of the way.”

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NEWS Thursday,October 1, 2015

Horwitz case reversed

By Peyton Shepard

The Alabama Supreme Court reversed a previous dismissal of Kelly Horwitz’s case contesting the results of the 2013 Tuscaloosa City School Board election on Wednesday.

Horwitz’s case alleges that voter fraud by members of the UA greek system contributed to opponent Cason Kirby’s 416-329 victory for the District 4 board seat, according to a 2013 article by The Crimson White.

The decision will allow Horwitz to continue pursuing her case, which was dismissed by Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge Jim Roberts on Nov. 13, 2013. Roberts stated that there were not enough potential illegal ballots to overturn the results.

Horwitz first filed the statement of contest on Sept. 6, 2013, and submitted a notice listing 397 allegedly illegal votes, including votes cast by approximately 375 UA students, on Oct. 11. The notice argued that the votes were illegal based on lack of residency, bribery or misconduct, and ineligibility.

The Supreme Court decision concluded that though Horwitz was unable to prove the illegality of the votes on the basis of misconduct in the form of bribery, there were 159 ballots due to be rejected, 105 of them based on residency and 54 based on other factors of ineligibility.

In August 2013, WVUA reported allegations of 10 UA students who registered to vote at the address of single family home, and reports from al.com alleged that greek students were incentivized with free alcohol at two local bars, as well as UA Panhellenic and in-hours points, as a means of securing votes for UA alumnus and Board of Education chair candidate Lee Garrison and previous SGA president Kirby. Both Garrison and Kirby went on to secure victories over Denise Hills and Horwitz, respectively.

The Supreme Court’s reversal means that the case will be brought back to the Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court. Horwitz will need 87

votes invalidated to have the election results overturned, and will be required to subpoena the students who cast the illegal votes. Roberts’ previous ruling contended that there were only 70 ballots that could be called into question.

Timeline of events leading to case’s dismissal July 17 Political newcomer Cason Kirby announces he will challenge incumbent Kelly Horwitz in the Tuscaloosa City school board District 4 race

August 27 Kirby defeats Horwitz by 87-vote margin, 416-329

October 31 Hearings begin in election contest

September 6 Horwitz files an election contest in circuit court

November 4 Kirby assumes office

November 13 Judge dismisses Horwitz’s election contest

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Editor | Kayla Montgomery sports@cw.ua.edu Thursday, October 1, 2015

Thursday marks 22nd rivalry match against Auburn

Do It for the Kicks Alabama will take on Auburn at home this weekend. CW File

By Marquis Munson | Staff Reporter

Since the late 1800s, the Alabama vs.

Auburn football competition has been one of the greatest rivalries in sports history.

Whether it’s the chants of “Roll Tide” or “War Eagle” roaming through the two schools, they battle each year to determine who the most dominant team in the state of Alabama is. The competitiveness between the two teams extends off the football field, and the battle of crimson and orange has spread to various other sports.

“Growing up, the Alabama/Auburn rivalry has always been a huge deal in my family,” said forward Tori Gann, from Pinson Valley, Alabama. “My My stepdad and stepbrother are Auburn fans, so it always gets tense in my house around the time of the Iron Bowl.”

This Thursday, coach Wes Hart and the Alabama Crimson Tide soccer team will continue the legacy of this rivalry

against the Auburn Tigers for their 22nd meeting, dating back to 1994.

“It is a huge game for us, not only because it is our big rivalry game, but also because it can change our momentum going forward,” midfielder Auburn Mercer said.

A junior from Charlotte, North Carolina, Mercer always gets asked the, “How do you go to Alabama, when your name is Auburn?” question.

“When introducing myself, I am usually prepared for the follow-up question,” Mercer said. “If I had a dollar for every time I was asked that question, I’d be set for life.

I am named after the color, not the school.

But I think that this is one of the greatest rrivalries ri valries in sports and makes for an ecstatic atmosphere every time the two teams set foot on the field.”

This soccer rivalry began in Tuscaloosa

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on Oct. 12, 1994, with a final score of 0-0.

A few weeks later on Nov. 4, both teams would go head-to-head in the second annual SEC Tournament at LadyBack Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Tigers pulled a 2-1 victory in overtime against the Crimson Tide.

After the Tigers gained another win the following season, Alabama took control of the rivalry, winning the next five match ups in a span of four years. In 2000, Auburn regained the lead over the Crimson Tide and has had control since.

With any rivalry comes big losses and major comebacks. On Oct. 28, 2005, after the Tigers dominated most of the series, the Crimson Tide would pull out a shocking 6-3 victory in Tuscaloosa. That exact date one year later, the Tigers responded by defeating them 6-1. Last season at the Auburn Soccer Complex, they went to overtime where the Auburn scored the game winning goal at the 91 minute mark.

“We want to be able to say we’re the best in the state,” midfielder Hailey Brohaugh said. “So winning this game would be huge

for us, especially moving forward with the season.”

Auburn is 5-5-1 at the Alabama Soccer Complex. This season, Alabama has only lost one game at home with a record of 4-1-1 in Tuscaloosa.

“Probably the most important thing for us is getting back home,” Hart said. “We know we have the step at home, so it’s nice to know we are playing on our home field.”

The Tigers lead the all-time series 13-7-2 and come into Tuscaloosa as the 10th best team in the nation. Alabama is coming into this game with back-to-back losses on the road against tough SEC opponents Ole Miss and South Carolina. With the season coming down to the wire, Alabama looks to use a victory in this rivalry for momentum going forward in the season.

“I have no problem being the underdog, but at the same time, especially in a rivalry game, anything can happen,” Hart said.

“The time and clock is winding down for this season, and each one of these games are important. We want to carry this game over to the rest of this season.”

12 Crimson Tide faces tough SEC road stretch SPORTS

Thursday, October 1, 2015

By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter

The Alabama volleyball team looks to take the positive momentum it’s been building at home on the road this weekend.

The Crimson Tide first travels to Tennessee on Friday, then it’s right back on the road for Kentucky on Sunday. However, the back-to-back travel isn’t something the team dreads.

“We’re used to this SEC play, playing on Fridays and Sundays,” junior Krystal Rivers said. “It’s more of a normal schedule for us. It’ll be tough because it’s two road matches at two places that have great programs.”

Tennessee will have a 15-2 overall record when Alabama gets there. Kentucky is 7-5, but will face Mississippi State at home on Friday before Alabama comes.

“We have two days to prepare for Tennessee, a team that is really hot,” coach Ed Allen said. “It’s always tough to play them at home. Hopefully we can play one of our better matches.”

Last season, Alabama lost to Kentucky, 3-1, but defeated Tennessee by the same score but a reversed outcome. The last time Alabama beat Kentucky was during its 2012 season, 3-1. That was also the last time it lost to Tennessee, 3-0.

Alabama has split its away matches so far this season, 2-2. Travel this time is different from the preseason travel that comes with tournaments.

“It’s all a blur,” senior Sierra Wilson said.

“I remember the games. The travel is just something you get through. It’s all about mental preparation for what we’re actually traveling for, what we came here to do.”

Because the team has to miss class for travel sometimes, Wilson said she takes advantage of the long bus rides to do her homework. It’ll be easier travel since the team is taking a bus rather than flying, Allen said.

“I think compartmentalizing things and focusing on just handling what you need to do academically and then handling what you need to do physically as a volleyball player,” Allen said. “Those two things are the only things you think about during these times.”

The key is for players to focus on each match and take care of their bodies.

The traveling can be draining since it’s

CW / Amy Sullivan

back-to-back this weekend. Rest is vital in order to be successful, both academically and physically.

This weekend’s lineup has Wilson excited and eager. The team had a rocky preseason and is starting to find its identity once again. She’s looking forward to seeing what the team is made of on the road.

Rivers also said she thinks the team is starting to rediscover itself.

“We still have our moments where things just aren’t going as well,” she said.

“We’re a little bit inconsistent, [but] we’re working hard at it. Every game has been better. It’s going to keep gelling.”

Consistency is what Alabama needs to keep its momentum and win. Allen said Rivers and sophomore Kat Hutson are returning to the form they were in last year, which he said is critical to the team.

He also hopes freshman Tabitha Brown will continue to take steps forward as well.

This weekend, Allen said he wants his team to simply execute and be a team that plays consistently and intelligently.

After sweeping Alabama State Tuesday night, the Crimson Tide is 7-8 overall, 1-0 SEC. It’ll play Tennessee at 6 p.m. Friday and Kentucky at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

“It’s going to be a challenging weekend,” Allen said.

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SPORTS Thursday, October 1, 2015

On the Other Hand...

By Kelly Ward | Digital Managing Editor

Madi Moore isn’t going to have it easy when she scrimmages against her teammates on the Alabama softball team.

They will repay the favor done to them by pitchers like Jaclyn Traina, who led the team to a national title, and Alexis Osorio who battled three games to send the Crimson Tide back to Oklahoma City.

The lineup won’t take it easy on her because no one took it easy on them.

“You have to because those girls, when we go into real games, they’re not going to just, ‘Oh, she’s a freshman, let me take it easy on her,’ ” senior utility Leona Lafaele said.

Moore has a trick up her sleeve. She’s left-handed.

Moore is a local kid, only about an hour from her home in Winfield, Alabama.

She grew up coming to Alabama softball camps. She played for a travel team in Birmingham and faced teams from around the country with players headed off to play at Division I schools.

“What I want to see when I recruit a pitcher is her throwing against the girls that are going to the colleges that we need to beat,” head coach Patrick Murphy said.

As a senior in high school, Moore missed most of the season with an injury but returned in time to throw a no-hitter.

Madi Moore (right) warms up with the rest of the softball team. UA Athletics

“Every time we’d go to watch her, she’d prove her worth,” Murphy said.

What makes a lefty so hard to hit is mostly mental. Many batters don’t see lefties all that often, even less so than in baseball.

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“I also think there’s a mental block sometimes with hitters for lefties,” Moore said. “I don’t really think many people think of it as that but I can see, just like hearing some batters in the past even on my team in the past, not here, just saying, ‘Oh, man, she’s a lefty.

I can’t hit her.’ OK, well, you probably can. It’s just the fact that it’s just in your head so I think that’s very beneficial for lefty pitchers.”

While a right-hander often has trouble jamming a lefty batter, the lefty pitcher can jam a right-handed batter easily.

“Most lefties, the hitters don’t see it going away from them hard and away,” Alabama pitching coach Stephanie VanBrakle said. “They’re usually seeing just a flat screwball from a righty that stays straight or maybe they try to come in hard, but it doesn’t really get in there with them so the angle of how the ball’s coming towards the batter is different.”

For junior Marisa Runyon, hitting against a lefty can be tricky. She bats from the left side and spent most of the 2015 NCAA Super Regional trying to figure out Oklahoma left-hander Paige Parker. She did, and sent the

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Crimson Tide to Oklahoma City with a two-out grand slam in a winner-take-all game three.

“It obviously is a different angle and being lefty-on-lefty, the same side, it is different, but I do think it’s still the same mentality as a righty pitcher, just kind of see the ball, hit the ball, you know, back to the basics,” Runyon said.

Having Moore will help the team get used to a lefty, but she hasn’t scrimmaged with them yet.

So far, she’s been eased back into pitching. She worked back to her first full bullpen two weeks ago after taking a month off this summer.

Moore will get her first taste of collegiate competition when Alabama heads to Middle Tennessee State for a doubleheader Sunday.

14 Alabama prepares for challenge in Athens SPORTS

Thursday, October 1, 2015

By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter

Alabama knows it cannot make mistakes during Saturday’s game against Georgia if it wants to win.

Heading to Athens, Alabama will face the undefeated Bulldogs on their home turf. For the first time since 2009, Alabama is the underdog with a 3-1 overall record.

“It’s always a challenge playing on the road in the SEC, and I think it’s always a test of your competitive character to be able to stay focused and do the things that you need to do to execute and do your job under difficult circumstances,” coach Nick Saban said.

It’s the little things here and there that will add up to determine who brings home a victory.

“I think when you play a good team that’s very balanced and does a great job of executing, you have to match that with your ability to execute and everybody do their job,” Saban said.

Georgia has accumulated 1,965 offensive yards on 238 plays. Its rushing game is strong, especially with running back Nick Chubb. Georgia as a team has 1,031 yards rushing and Chubb contributed 599 of those.

Not only will the defense have to be on its toes against the Bulldogs, but the offense has to be just as alert and ready to go. Georgia’s secondary is aggressive.

“They do a good job of disguising in the secondary,” Saban said. “They play multiple coverages [that] I think the quarterback has to be able to identify so he’s throwing the ball in the right place at the right time.”

With that disguised secondary, Georgia has caught five interceptions so far this season, and Alabama has thrown six. Four of those interceptions came from quarterback Jake Coker.

Good decisions on offense will be key.

“You have to play fast against them,” Saban said. “The receivers have to play fast and be precise in what we’re doing, and the quarterback has to make a good decision about where he goes with the — Nick Saban ball. They have been a very, very ag g r e s s ive secondary.”

The season opener against Wisconsin was Coker’s first road game with Alabama, and that was a non-conference game. Saban said he thought that was Coker’s best game, but since then, he has gained more confidence.

“I think the key thing with Jake is to play with the right passion and energy and not get affected by external factors and just focus on what he needs to do on that particular play, make the right read,” he said.

Coker has completed 68-of-123 passes for 786 yards and eight touchdowns.

He averages 196.5 yards per game.

“He’s very capable of

I think the key thing with Jake is to play with the right passion and energy...

Nick Saban answered questions about the upcoming game against Georgia during Wednesday’s press conference. CW / Hanna Curlette

making all the plays he needs to make, so it comes down to mindset and focus,” Saban said.

Coker will need to focus on the right reads, the right plays and the right throws on Saturday. This will help him avoid adding to Georgia’s list of interceptions, and it will also keep his own offense moving. The defense can try and hold strong and keep Georgia from scoring, but if the offense can’t make it into the end zone, then eventually

Georgia will.

It’s been discussed cornerback Cyrus Jones may see more time at wide receiver now that Robert Foster is out, but coaches have had a difficult time trying to make that happen.

“It’s going to be very important for us to continue having the kind of competitive spirit that’s been reflected in some of our other teams,” Saban said.

“It’s a challenge for this team to create that identity for themselves.”

Crimson Tide eager to face Georgia Bulldogs

By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter

A little rain won’t stop linebacker Denzel Devall.

“I play rain, sleet, snow,” Devall said. “It don’t matter.”

The weather this week was gloomy and the forecast doesn’t show that it’ll clear up any time soon, even in Athens where Alabama heads for its first SEC away game Saturday.

Aside from the weather, Alabama is prepared for its game.

Devall and wide receiver Richard Mullaney said the team had a good week of practice, and earlier in a press conference, coach Nick Saban said the team worked hard from a coach’s perspective.

“I feel like as a team, the atmosphere in the locker room has been great,” Mullaney said. “At practice, it’s just been fun out there with the guys. We’re ready to get out there and show everybody what we can do.”

Mullaney said as a group, the receivers communicate with one another about the plays and how to line up- little things like that to help

each other become better.

Consistency has been lacking in Alabama’s offense, and wide receivers are a part of that. Alabama had four dropped passes against The University of Louisiana at Monroe last week. This week of practice was good for the wide receivers, Mullaney said.

Sophomore ArDarius Stewart leads the Crimson Tide in receptions, followed by freshman Calvin Ridley who has had 17 receptions for 125 yards and one touchdown.

“I think for him being a freshman, he’s progressed very well,” Mullaney said. “He’s doing things that I wasn’t doing as a freshman – a lot of people are actually.”

For wide receivers, Mullaney said it takes getting used to the offense, knowing what to do and how to do it, so it doesn’t require any thinking, just playing.

Saban said earlier that cornerback Cyrus Jones is being looked at to potentially fill in at wide receiver. It wouldn’t be a bad move in Mullaney’s eyes.

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“With him back there with punts and him out there playing DB, he’s just a playmaker. When you get the ball in his hands, it’s exciting to watch.”

Mullaney expects the Georgia secondary to present a good challenge on Saturday, but the wide receivers’ job is to run their routes. When quarterback Jake Coker decides to throw the ball, Mullaney said they’re just going to be sure they’re open to catch it.

Simple as that.

“We’re just going to do what we’re doing,” he said. “Whatever the coaches call, we’re just going to execute it. I have all the faith in our offense.”

On the other side of the ball, Georgia has a strong quarterback in Greyson

Lambert. Devall said Lambert knows his offense well and is a solid guy and athlete.

“It just comes down to everyone knowing exactly what to do with different shifts, different motion, different calls and just basically being at the right spot at the right time,” he said.

The team is excited to be heading to Georgia for its first SEC road game.

“A lot of guys from Georgia are pumped,” Devall said. “That’s how it is being from Georgia and stuff like that, them guys, it’s their game for them.”

Alabama has at least 10 players that are from Georgia, including Dillon Lee and Geno Matias-Smith.

Mullaney said he is excited because he grew up watching big games like this, and now, he gets to be a part of the experience. Devall is ready to see if Athens is really as loud as people have been telling him.

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proper front seven operates as much like a wall, keeping opposing running backs at bay. This Saturday, Alabama’s front seven needs to build that wall more solidly than ever—and become one that is near-impossible for Georgia running backs to break through.

So far this season, Alabama’s defense has done well creating such a wall. It’s ranked as the No. 1 rushing defense in the SEC, as its opponents have averaged 56.8 yards rushing.

Defensive back Cyrus Jones said he has the utmost confidence in his defensive line.

“Our front seven, it goes without

saying how good they are,” he said. “I think we just have to be ready to go out there and play.”

Alabama’s defense did its best during its last game when it only allowed the University of Louisiana at Monroe nine yards rushing.

Now, facing Georgia on Saturday, Alabama’s front seven will be truly tested as Georgia is ranked No. 2 in SEC rushing offense, averaging 257.8 yards per game.

Coach Nick Saban said Alabama played against one team that played a little bit of an offense similar Georgia’s: Wisconsin. During that game, Alabama allowed 40 yards rushing.

That was back in the first game of the season though. This is now its fifth game.

“For the last three weeks, we haven’t played against that kind of team,” Saban said. “So we’re looking forward to the challenge of trying to get back to being able to play that kind of football.”

It’s going to be a physical game.

Saban expects Georgia to have direct runs, he said, along with a well-conceived scheme of play action passes and modern day run-passes, option passes, presenting challenges in defense.

“I think it’s going to take 11 guys really doing their job well to be able to play well against a team that has as many weapons and as much balance as Georgia does,” Saban said.

Georgia’s offense plays with a consistent pace. With that, Saban said the fact Alabama rotates its players in and out will be helpful.

Georgia scored 14 of its touchdowns this season from rushing.

“You know against this type [of] team, it is going to come down to being physical and stopping their running

game and trying to make them be one dimensional,” Jones said.

Then, there’s Georgia’s not-so-secret weapon: in running back Nick Chubb.

He’s going to be the best running back Alabama has faced this season, Saban said.

Chubb leads his team in rushing with a 599 net yardage, only nine yards lost.

He averages 149.8 yards per game and has scored six touchdowns. Forward progress is his specialty.

“I don’t try to compare myself to other running backs,” Alabama’s Derrick Henry said. “He’s a great running back, does a great job for the team and has had a heck of a season.”

While Henry leads Alabama in rushing, he also comes in at No. 5 for SEC rankings with an average of 127 yards per game. Chubb is at No. 2, however, behind LSU’s Leonard Fournette.

“We’ll see what he does on Saturday,” Henry said.

Defensive lineman Dalvin Tomlinson also said Chubb is a great running back.

He’s prepared for how to take him down, though.

“He’s physical; he’s not afraid to run into a defensive player,” Tomlinson said. “You just have to wrap him up. You can’t arm-tackle. He’s not that kind of running back.”

Georgia’s other running back, Sony Michel, is the same way. Wrapping him up is how defense needs to tackle him.

Tomlinson said Georgia has a great set of running backs, just as Alabama does here.

“Defense as a whole is going to need to be aggressive and on its A game.

Georgia has an explosive offense, and each position is talented across the board, Tomlinson said, not just the running backs.

“The offensive line is pretty aggressive, comes off the ball aggressively and try [to] know the defensive line’s head off, pretty much,” he said.

He prefers it that way, even said he likes it.

“It’s just old-school football that people love to play,” Tomlinson said. “As I grew up playing it, that’s how I like to play it.”

With the inconsistency that has been Alabama’s offense, defense needs to make sure Georgia does not score, or at least scores less than Alabama, in order to win.

The defense has been a consistent rock for Alabama for some time now.

Since 2005, Alabama leads the nation with only giving up 15 individual 100yard rushing games. As for games under Saban, Alabama’s defense has allowed only 10 players more than 100 rushing yards. Georgia’s Todd Gurley was on back in 2012 with 122 yards.

It hopes to continue that trend and do its job well.

“We’re just looking to play whatever defense coach [Kirby] Smart signals in and play it perfectly—no mental errors, no busts, everybody running to the ball and doing the best they can,” linebacker Dillon Lee said.

In the end, it’s just another game on the schedule. There are things Alabama can work on specifically for Georgia in order to be successful, but execution and consistency will be key.

“We can’t make this more than what it is,” Jones said. “It’s a football game, and we have to be ready to execute.”

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of the backs Nick Chubb Career:

Derrick Henry Career:

Games: 17 Carries: 290 Yards: 2,146 Yards per carry: 7.4 Touchdowns: 20 Receptions: 21 Rec. Yards: 250 Yards per reception: 11.9 Rec. Touchdowns: 3

Games: 30 Carries: 274 Yards: 1,794 Yards per carry: 6.5 Touchdowns: 22 T Receptions: 13 R Rec. Yards: 245 R Y Yards per reception: 18.8 R Rec. Touchdowns: 3

2015: Games: 4 Carries: 71 Yards: 599 Yards per carry: 8.4 Touchdowns: 6 Receptions: 3 Rec. Yards: 37 Yards per reception: 12.3 Rec. Touchdowns: 1

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n Saturday, Alabama will compete in its first true road test of the season against The University of Georgia, entering a game as an underdog for the first time since 2009. On paper, the two teams match up well in a game that will ultimately lead to a battle of front sevens. Take a look at how the two running backs who will contend with these smashmouth defenses line up on paper.

2 2015: Games: 4 G C Carries: 67 Y Yards: 422 Y Yards per carry: 6.3 T Touchdowns: 8 R Receptions: 7 Rec. Yards: 51 Yards per reception: 7.3 Rec. Touchdowns: 0

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By Tyler Waldrep | Assistant Sports Editor

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t was going to be a night to remember.

The home crowd and the players were dressed in black, but their mood was anything but. Top teams ahead and behind No. 3 Georgia had already fallen that weekend, and the only thing standing between the Bulldogs and the No. 1 ranking was an Alabama team Georgia had beat in Tuscaloosa the year before.

“It was crazy, just electric,” Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson said.

“I know it gets overused, but it really was. They were playing music that the Georgia players were dancing [to] on the sidelines. It was one of the coolest environments that I’ve ever been in.”

It’s been seven years since Alabama’s last trip to Athens. The Crimson Tide won the game 41-30 and went on to win the SEC West division and finish the regular season undefeated.

Starting center Antoine Caldwell felt good after the pre-game warm ups. The weather was perfect, and the blackout crowd helped Caldwell pick out the patches of Alabama fans wearing white.

He estimated 40 percent of the crowd would be cheering him on in the game.

“We knew that game, that night, was a pivotal game for us,” Caldwell said.

“For a while we had been getting better, getting better [and] getting better.

There comes a point in time when you

gotta kick the door down, so to speak.”

The season before Alabama finished with a 7-6 record, and Wilson said the team learned a lot of different ways to lose football games that year. The team was ready to learn how to win consistently.

“You could kind of see it in John Parker before the game,” Caldwell said.

“He literally was just in the zone. He couldn’t miss.”

Parker finished the game 13-for-16 and picked up the school record for career passing yards. Wilson had a lot of great moments in that game, but the one that stands out to him was his lone touchdown pass.

“They had great coverage on him [Julio Jones],” Wilson said. “I threw him a great ball and he made a good catch laying out, but that was kind of like we are here to stay when we start completing balls like that.”

Alabama went into the half up 31-0.

Georgia’s blackout seemed to have backfired on the Bulldogs.

“I think if somebody has to go outside the realm of something they normally do, to me that shows me that they are scared,” Alabama linebacker Eryk Anders said. “To me, once I realized that, you can kind of pin your ears back and, you know, put the pedal to the metal because they not confident in what they can do.”

Suddenly, the home crowd didn’t seem quite so cheery, but perhaps they had dressed appropriately after all. “[Alabama strength coach Scott] Cochran I think really made it famous

when he said they’re wearing black ‘cause they’re ready to go to a funeral,” Wilson said. “I mean, we came out and just put it to them and never looked back from the first snap.”

At the half, the Crimson Tide didn’t celebrate. Instead, the team decided to keep its foot on the gas. This was a Georgia offense run by guys that would play on Sunday, but Anders said Alabama’s teamwork kept Georgia from ever threatening Alabama’s lead.

“We were just able to get to the quarterback and affect his arm, and I think Knowshon Moreno had like 40 yards rushing that game, and so we were able to hold him at bay as well,” Anders said.

“I alone must have hit Matt Stafford about seven times that game.”

Caldwell said a great week of practice prepared him for Georgia. At times he seemed to know what Georgia’s defense was going to do before they did. “[That game] turned the page and set the tone for our whole season. When a lot of us guys look back on it, we would always look back on that AlabamaGeorgia game,” Caldwell said.

Wilson said losing that evening in Athens wasn’t an option for the team, and beating Georgia gave the team the confidence it needed for the rest of the season.

“We weren’t going to let people come and beat us,” Wilson said. “We were going to beat them. That kind of set a tone for the rest of that season, and the rest is history.”

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cDonough, Georgia, doesn’t ring a bell to most people.

A small blip on the map 30 minutes south of Atlanta on the mighty I-75, the sleepy suburb is right in the heart of Bulldog country, only a little more than an hour away from The University of Georgia. Houses are adorned with Georgia flags, jacked up trucks emblazoned with the signature G, and from the time a child can walk, they bark.

This town is where my parents decided to settle after trekking from rural Alabama to find a better job and a better life, and it’s where I was raised crimson in a sea of red, only a shade off, but clashing none-the-less.

From an early age, it was decided that I would be an Alabama fan. I didn’t have much say in the matter—my parents grew up in the Shoals, staunch supporters of the Crimson Tide. Each yearbook picture featured my dad in a jersey, and my mom, though she still doesn’t know the difference between a field goal and an extra point, knew enough about the game to know Alabama was the only team to cheer for.

shade of red

The older I got, the more I embraced my Alabama roots—though, as my mom likes to remind me, I’m physically from Georgia, so why don’t I just cheer for them? Because, mom—and the more I realized that barking like a dog was simply unbecoming. I was an Alabama girl through and through, and I wore my Glen Coffee jersey proudly to school on college spirit days and football Fridays.

I traded jabs with the boys to defend against their Alabama blows, but frankly, I had little ammunition.

After we made it out of the Dark Ages that were the Shula years, I was finally able to win an occasional argument about why my team was, for the first time in years, better. The 2008 black out game cemented it—Alabama was back, and Georgia had a long way yet to go.

With the thumping Alabama put on the Bulldogs that weekend, I realized one thing. I really hate Georgia. I could make a video reminiscent of the famed I Hate Tennessee monologue, but for the sake of professionalism, I haven’t yet fallen into that trap.

Each year, UGA enters the season boastful and hopeful, and each year they end the season dejected. But still, fans refuse to admit that Alabama

has talent.

Granted, I am biased, and severely so, but Georgia is worse than Auburn in my book—and LSU and Tennessee, too—and when Alabama takes the field against the Bulldogs this weekend, I’ll be checking my editor hat at the door.

Nothing would make me happier than to see my team black out the [sic] Dawgs, but in my heart of hearts, I’m skeptical of the outcome.

While Georgia and Alabama match up well on paper, this game will be uncharted territory for this Crimson Tide team. It’s the first time quarterback Jake Coker will be tested in a truly hostile road environment, and Alabama will be tasked with stopping Georgia’s running back Nick Chubb, who is looking to tie Herschel Walker’s 100-yard game streak with 13.

While I sincerely hope Alabama proves me wrong in my doubts, I’ll still rest easy at night knowing that students on our campus have seen more championships than middle-aged Georgia fans have in their lifetime.

But, I’ve already planned my escape from Athens, just in case. After all these years, I’ve forgotten how to handle the torment.

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Clean old-fashioned hate

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hanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. All of my family on my mom’s side travels to my hometown of Statesboro, Georgia, and we have the greatest time at my grandparents’ farm. We play football, hunt and eat until we can barely move. The week is great, but there is a football game on Saturday that splits the entire family on two sides.

The Georgia Tech vs. UGA rivalry is a very hateful thing aptly referred to as “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.” There are a lot of jabs thrown throughout the week, and whoever won the year before usually talks the most trash. For me, I got the brunt of most of those growing up. I was a Tech fan, and they lost virtually every game when I was younger. From 2001-2007, the Yellow Jackets never could pull out a win.

The state has a majority of UGA fans as well, not quite like Auburn. Alabama fans control a majority, sure, but I was the only Tech fan among my classmates and I had to listen to trash talk for years and years. It wasn’t until my eighth grade year that I finally had a chance to fight back.

My dad graduated from Georgia Southern, but his dad went to Tech. He grew up loving to hate UGA, so naturally I grew up to do the same.

The 2008 Bulldogs were having one of their best seasons with Matthew Stafford approaching the NFL draft.

They were ranked No. 1 at one point in the season, and that is what made the late-November upset so much sweeter.

UGA dominated the first half of the in-state clash and led 28-12. It was going to be like every other year, another year of coming to school every day to hear you were a fan of a nobody. Then, the incredible happened. Tech reeled off 26 unanswered points and never lost control in the second half to win 45-42. Paul Johnson had done it in his first year, and at Sanford Stadium of all places. I can tell you now. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

I was finally allowed to talk some trash after that game, and I want to tell you what really bothers me about UGA fans. They don’t take losses well.

After I endured years and years of turmoil, UGA fans couldn’t take just a little backlash, and frankly, I don’t understand their fans. They believe every year is their year, but the fact is, UGA hasn’t won a national title in 35 years. Georgia Tech actually won a national title in 1990 and has a total of four compared to UGA’s two. So what makes them believe their program is the best in the country and is going to win it all every year? I don’t know. I never will.

Every Saturday, I love to hate UGA almost as much as I love to root for my favorite teams. This week, the school I attend has its first matchup with UGA since I’ve been a student, and just like every Saturday, I am pulling for UGA to lose.

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WHO: No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 25 Florida WHEN: 6 p.m. on ESPN Jim McElwain and the Florida Gators are looking to continue their surprisingly successful season after a close win against the Tennessee Volunteers last week. Florida will go up against an Ole Miss team that is coming off a huge win over Alabama in Tuscaloosa and a rising Vanderbilt Commodores team. Florida’s new-look defense will go against an Ole Miss offense that’s averaging 54.8 points per game, second in the nation. These two teams are meeting for the first time since 2008, with the Gators dropping the last two against the Rebels in Gainesville.

WHO: No. 6 Notre Dame at No. 12 Clemson WHEN: 7 p.m. on ABC With six season-ending injuries, including quarterback Malik Zaire and running Tarean Folston, the Irish haven’t lost a step on offense and remain one of the most consistent teams in college football.

Quarterback DeShone Kizer has thrown for over 500 yards and 5 touchdowns while running back C.J. Prosise has rushed for 600 yards. This week Notre Dame will face a Clemson defense that ranks ninth nationally allowing 260.7 yards per game. Under head coach Brian Kelly, the Irish are 2-5 against ranked opponents on the road, while the Tigers have won 11 straight games at home.

WHO: No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 14 Texas A&M WHEN: 6:30 p.m. on SECNetwork After a loss to LSU in week 2, the Bulldogs are back in the national rankings after a crucial win on the road against the Auburn Tigers. This Saturday, they will face yet another tough road game against the Aggies in College Station. Texas A&M has been the surprise team in the SEC, with quarterback Kyle Allen ranking second in the conference in passer rating. He has thrown a conference best 11 touchdowns. Mississippi State senior quarterback Dak Prescott has quietly had the best start of his career with 1,069 passing yards, seven touchdowns and no interceptions. The Bulldogs look to avenge their 51-41 loss in College Station in 2013.

WHO: Texas Tech at No. 5 Baylor WHEN: 2:30 p.m. on ABC, ESPN2 Get ready for another offensive shootout in the Big 12. Last week, the Texas Tech Red Raiders almost got a win against TCU with a final score of 55-52. Still at 3-1, the Red Raiders look to make a name for themselves in the BIG 12 conference and will face the only team that defeated TCU last season, the Baylor Bears. The Red Raiders gave up over 700 yards of offense to TCU, and will go up against a Bears offense led by quarterback Seth Russell that has averaged 767 yards and 56 points per game.

Last season, the Bears escaped a close one against the Red Raiders 48-46 in Arlington, Texas.

WHO: Air Force at Navy WHEN: 2:30 p.m. on CBSSports Air Force is coming off a loss to Michigan State in East Lansing 3521. On the other side, the Navy Midshipmen have won seven straight games dating back to last year. Both teams are evenly matched on the stat sheet averaging, over 400 yards of offense and 40 points per game. The Falcons have the advantage on the defensive side allowing only 270 yards of offense to the Midshipmen’s 352 yards. Navy looks to avenge their lost from last season.

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BEHIND ENEMY LINES

By Tyler Waldrep I Assistant Sports Editor

Taylor Denman, the sports editor of The Red and Black, The University of Georgia’s student newspaper, caught up with The Crimson White ahead of Saturday’s showdown b e twe e n No . 8 G e o r g i a a n d No . 13 Alaba m a .

Georgia has one of the best running backs in the country, but Nick Chubb has not faced a front seven like Alabama’s. How much success do you think Nick Chubb has in the game, and what adjustments do you expect Georgia to make to its game plan with Alabama’s front seven in mind?

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Both teams are going to sling the ball a lot this game. Alabama has, arguably, the best run-stoppers in the country, and Georgia’s front seven isn’t a rack of bowling pins either. If Georgia or Alabama has success running the ball early, there is a possibility that both teams stay

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AP Poll 1. Ohio State (45) 2. Michigan State (5) 3. Ole Miss (10) 4. TCU 5. Baylor 6. Notre Dame 7. UCLA 8. Georgia 9. LSU 10. Utah 11. Florida State 12. Clemson 13. Alabama 14. Texas A&M 15. Oklahoma 16. Northwestern 17. USC 18. Stanford 19. Wisconsin 20. Oklahoma State 21. Mississippi State 22. Michigan 23. West Virginia 24. California 25. Florida

committed. I’m inclined to think both teams will use the run primarily to set up play-action passes on early downs.

Greyson Lambert has had success so far this season, but how do you expect him to handle Alabama’s defense on Saturday?

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Lambert has definitely proven his accuracy thus far, but that is when he’s had time against some weaker pass rushes.

Georgia’s offensive line is going to have to stand up for its quarterback this week. We were against Vanderbilt, when Lambert is uncomfortable, it can be disastrous for Georgia’s offensive balance.

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How do you expect Georgia’s defense to approach this game, and what players on the defensive side of the ball can cause problems for the Crimson Tide?

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Pass rushers Jordan Jenkins and Leonard Floyd

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have wreaked havoc on opposing backfields this year. Georgia’s defense refers to itself as “junkyard dogs,” so I suppose Jenkins and Floyd are this defense’s unchained rottweilers. Cornerback Malkom Parrish is having a great season thus far, usually matched up with the opposing team’s wideout. Safety Dominick Sanders is doing his best to prove he’s a ball hawk; he has two picks and three breakups.

How have the team and the students on campus talked about Alabama’s recent matchups with Georgia in 2008 and 2012? Do you expect memories of either of those games to help or hurt Georgia on Saturday?

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Seniors and longtime fans remember the 2012 championship game like it was yesterday. Over the years, it’s developed into a where-were-you-when story.

Georgia fans like to think the Bulldogs would have gone on to crush Notre Dame the same way Alabama did that year. I think this

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USA Today Coaches Poll 1. Ohio State (61) 2. Michigan State 3. TCU 4. Baylor 5. Ole Miss 6. Georgia 7. Notre Dame 8. LSU 9. Florida State 10. UCLA 11. Clemson 12. Utah 13. Alabama 14. Oklahoma 15. Texas A&M 16. USC 17. Northwestern 18. Wisconsin 19. Oklahoma State 20. Stanford 21. West Virginia 22. Mississippi State 23. Florida 24. California 25. Oregon

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is actually firing up Georgia’s team as well. Normally guys avoid talking about the past, but the players who were there remember. As for the 2008 blackout, everyone just thinks that was a bad idea.

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