March 24, 2011

the

Scene

SPORTS 11 Tide continues undefeated streak

has its headphones on

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Serving the University of Alabama since 1894

Vol. 117, Issue 101

Armed man Tide moves on to Big Apple robs student From staff reports An unknown male robbed a 20-year-old, female University student at knifepoint while she was walking at Marr’s Spring Road near Ridgecrest South Tuesday around 9 p.m. She sustained no injuries, according to the University of Alabama Police Department.

The assailant stole the student’s purse, laptop and ACTion card, as well as a black nylon bag and keys. He then fled the scene on foot heading west, UAPD reported.

The victim described the suspect as a 5-feet-10-inches to 6-feet-tall male in his late 20s to early 30s with a medium com-

plexion. According to UAPD, the victim described the suspect as weighing approximately 200 lbs. and wearing blue jean shorts and a white sleeveless T-shirt.

Director of Media Relations Cathy Andreen said the robbery was an isolated incident.

However, there were precautions taken.

“A helicopter was used to aid in the search for the suspect following the incident,” Andreen said. “The helicopter was requested through mutual aid from Tuscaloosa [Police Department].”

See ROBBERY, page 7

Birmingham council urges against mine

By Stephen Nathaniel Dethrage Staff Reporter sndethrage@crimson.ua.edu The Birmingham City Council adopted a resolution on March 15 to implore the University of Alabama System to neither sell nor lease any of their property holdings to be strip mined by Shepherd Bend, LLC. The resolution, written and introduced by City Councilor Valerie Abbott, declared the proposed mine to be too hazardous to the environment and public health for council approval. The resolution was adopted with eight votes in its favor and one vote abstained.

The resolution said that the discharge of the mine’s wastewater into the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River would considerably damage the drinking water of 200,000 customers of the Birmingham Water Works Board.

“Primarily, we have a

CW | Jerrod Seaton Above: The Alabama men’s basketball team celebrates after advancing to the NIT Final Four Wednesday night.

Left: Sophomore forward Tony Mitchell dunks the ball in Alabama’s 79-64 NIT quarterfinal victory over Miami Wednesday night. The Crimson Tide now advances to the NIT Final Four in New York City.

By Laura Owens Senior Sports Reporter lkowens@crimson.ua.edu

FAST FACTS • The Birmingham City Council has officially taken a stance against the strip mine proposal.

The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Miami Hurricanes in the National Invitation Tournament quarterfinals 79-64 in Coleman Coliseum Wednesday night. With the win, Alabama will advance to the semifinals at Madison Square Garden, giving the Tide its sixth NIT Final Four appearance. Alabama also finished the season 19-0 in Coleman.

“The atmosphere today was awesome,” head coach Anthony Grant said. “The thing we talked about before we took the floor today was making sure we finished it at home. The opportunity to go 19-0 and what these guys have accomplished this year, we couldn’t accept anything less than finishing it the right way.”

Leaders for the game were freshman Trevor Releford with 22 points and senior Senario

• The Council is concerned with water polution.

great deal of concern about Birmingham’s drinking water,” Abbott said. “We don’t want it polluted, and we don’t want to ask our citizens to pay more to have it cleaned because of this mine, and there’s also the concern about the general health of the Black Warrior River.

Anytime people are allowed to dump their waste into it, it becomes more polluted—

See MINE, page 7

Hillman with 17 points. Hillman fouled out late in the second half, but in the first half, he became Alabama’s all-time leader in career steals with 175.

Alabama shot 55 percent form the field, while holding Miami to 40 percent. The defense was also able to get 16 fast break points, which made all the difference in the secondhalf momentum.

“We’ve had some games where we played great defense and some where we didn’t, but this one I’d say was one of the better ones,” sophomore forward Tony Mitchell said.

“I guess we had a chip on our shoulder with this being our last home game, and we just wanted to come out and win.”

Miami came out of halftime strong, cutting the lead to two with six quick baskets. The Tide gained a lead, but then Miami cut it back down to one.

See NIT, page 9

Players see newcomers, familiar faces at practice

By Laura Owens Senior Sports Reporter lkowens@crimson.ua.edu As the Alabama Crimson Tide football team had its second spring practice of 2011 Wednesday afternoon at Thomas-Drew Practice Facility, the returning defensive players were happy to see familiar faces around them.

“We come in and see most of the guys back, and we’re just ready to get this season off and rolling,” said linebacker Courtney Upshaw. “There’s a lot of chemistry there, a lot of guys who played last year, so we’re just ready to get the ball rolling.”

Along with the familiar faces, though, are the new faces that have joined the Tide.

Alabama added three new le this

p

INSIDE today’s paper

er •

Plea s

yc rec

Please ec

r

• er

CW | Jerrod Seaton

See FOOTBALL, page 10

ap

e

Head coach Nick Saban leads cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick through defensive back drills during the Crimson Tide’s practice on Wednesday.

coaches to the coaching staff with wide receivers coach Mike Groh, defensive line coach Chris Rumph and offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland.

Defensive lineman Josh Chapman said Rumph is a great coach and is teaching the line a lot of new things.

“He’s intense,” Chapman said. “You have to be intense with the group we have, but that’s how some guys learn, by yelling, so he’s at it.”

Chapman said this was his first time adjusting to a new coach during his career but that it wasn’t going to stop him from learning.

Wide receiver Marquis Maze said an adjustment for the wide receivers has been the loss of

P.O. Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom: 348-6144 | Fax: 348-8036 | Advertising: 348-7845 | Classifieds: 348-7355 Letters, op-eds: letters@cw.ua.edu Press releases, announcements: news@cw.ua.edu

Briefs ........................2

Lifestyles.................. 12

Opinions ...................4

Puzzles.................... 15

Sports .......................9

Classifieds ............... 15

WEATHER today Clear

67º/40º

Friday Clear

70º/52º

ycle

this pa

p

ON THE GO

ON THE MENU BURKE

Beef Stroganoff with Noodles Shrimp Scampi Mucho Nachos Marinated Tofu Vegetable Chimichanga (vegetarian)

FRESH FOOD

Buttermilk Fried Chicken Potatoes Au Gratin Seasoned Pinto Beans Macaroni and Cheese Vegetarian Lasagna (vegetarian)

LAKESIDE

Lunch Barbecue Beef with Ginger Sauce Chicken Burrito Black Eyed Peas Beef with Broccoli Roasted Winter Vegetables (vegetarian) Dinner Rotisserie Chicken Mexican Corn Asparagus Saute Chipotle Orange Chicken Roasted Winter Vegetables (vegetarian)

BRYANT

Southwestern Chicken Fried Steak Chicken A La King Cheddar and Bean Burrito Apple Walnut Salad Artisan Vegetable Wrap (vegetarian)

Page 2• Thursday, March 24, 2011

EDITORIAL • Victor Luckerson, editor-in-chief, editor@cw.ua.edu • Jonathan Reed, managing editor, jonathanreedcw@gmail.com • Brandee Easter, print production editor • Daniel Roth, multimedia editor • Will Tucker, news editor, newsdesk@cw.ua.edu • Kelsey Stein, lifestyles editor • Jason Galloway, sports editor • Tray Smith, opinions editor • Adam Greene, chief copy editor • Emily Johnson, design editor • Brian Pohuski, graphics editor • Drew Hoover, photo editor • Brian Connell, web editor • Marion Steinberg, community manager, outreach@cw.ua.edu

ON THE CALENDAR FRIDAY

TODAY What: The 10th annual LUNAFEST® film festival is the only national touring festival of films by, for and about women. Proceeds will benefit the Women’s Resource Center and the Breast Cancer Fund - $12/studenta

What: Student Recital featuring David Mahloch, composition

What: Celebrity Series featuring Barbara Nissman, piano - $7/student

What: Technology night

Where: Moody Recital Hall When: 7:30 p.m.

will be led by Dr. Vivian Wright and her Instructional Technology students. They will be talking about Cybersafety and productive ways to use technology.

Where: Holt High School When: 5:30 p.m.

What: Convocation Where: Moody Music Building

When: Noon

Where: Moody Recital Hall When: 6 p.m.

SUNDAY What: Carnival on the Quad

Where: The Quad When: 1 - 5 p.m.

What: ‘The Tin Man’ Charlie Lucas and Kathryn Tucker Windham: Living Legends of Alabama - art lecture

Where: 125 ten Hoor Hall When: 3:30 - 5 p.m.

Submit your events to calendar@cw.ua.edu

ON CAMPUS

Alabama Rotaract Club to host IJM Benefit Alabama’s Rotaract Club will host Midnight Madness to benefit the Alabama International Justice Mission at the Student Recreation Center on March 25 starting at 10 p.m. The event will feature 3 vs. 3 basketball, dodgeball and a D.J. International Justice Mission (IJM) is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression, according to Rotaract Club member Christian Smith. IJM lawyers,

investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems, Smith said in an email.

“I love basketball and sports, and I think Midnight Madness is a great way for students to enjoy sports and each other while raising money and awareness for IJM to fight slavery, sexual exploitation, and other forms of violent oppression that are largely unknown to most people today,” said IJM Treasurer John Pickering.

Anyone interested can register at the Ferguson Center and at the Rec until Friday.

Panelists discuss documentary film

By Brett Saunders Contributing Writer After the Wednesday night airing of “Waiting for Superman” as part of the Honors College Assembly’s “What if ” documentary series, panelists spoke in the Ferguson Center Theater regarding reform to the current education system

• Drew Gunn, Advertising Coordinator, 348-8044 • Hallett Ogburn, Territory Manager, 348-2598 • Emily Frost, National Advertising/ Classifieds, 348-8042 • Jessica West, Zone 3, 348-8735 • Courtney Ginzig, Zone 4, 3488054 • Robert Clark, Zone 5, 348-2670 • Emily Richards, Zone 6, 3486876 • Amy Ramsey, Zone 7, 348-8742 • Brittany Key, Zone 8, 348-8054 • Nikki Amthor, Zone 44, 3486153

The Crimson White is the community newspaper of The University of Alabama.

The Crimson White is an editorially free newspaper produced by students.

The University of Alabama cannot influence editorial decisions and editorial opinions are those of the editorial board and do not represent the official opinions of the University.

Advertising offices of The Crimson White are on the first floor, Student Publications Building, 923 University Blvd. The advertising mailing address is P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, AL 35403-2389.

The Crimson White (USPS 138020) is published four times weekly when classes are in session during Fall and Spring Semester except for the Monday after Spring Break and the Monday after Thanksgiving, and once a week when school is in session for the summer.

Marked calendar provided.

The Crimson White is provided for free up to three issues. Any other papers are $1.00. The subscription rate for The Crimson White is $125 per year.

Checks should be made payable to The University of Alabama and sent to: The Crimson White Subscription Department, P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, AL 354032389.

The Crimson White is entered as periodical postage at Tuscaloosa, AL 35401.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Crimson White, P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, AL 35403-2389.

All material contained herein, except advertising or where indicated otherwise, is Copyright © 2010 by The Crimson White and protected under the “Work Made for Hire” and “Periodical Publication” categories of the U.S. copyright laws.

Material herein may not be reprinted without the expressed, written permission of The Crimson White.

turing Bryan Sibley, violin

Where: Bama Theatre When: 6:30 - 9 p.m.a

ADVERTISING

• Kelly Sturwold, Creative Services Manager, 348-8042

What: Student Recital fea-

Where: Moody Recital Hall When: 5:30 p.m.

• Dana Andrzejewski, Advertising Manager, 348-8995, cwadmanager@gmail.com

• Will DeShazo, Zone 55, 3488041

SATURDAY

all inclusive student living fully furnished apartments + new upgraded amenities

in America.

“Waiting for Superman” focuses on the current failures of America’s school system.

“The movie shows desperation that low-means families have for their children,” said Ben Guest, a panelist at the event. “Seventeen percent of charter schools are more effective than public schools, and the rest are either below or average compared to public schools.”

Within the past 30 years, funding for students in public schools has risen from $4,300 to $9,000, according to the documentary. The documentary went on to say that this funding for schools has not shown an increase in proficiency of students.

In Alabama, 18 percent of students are proficient in math, while in Mississippi 14 percent are proficient, and 30 percent are proficient in New York, according to the documentary.

In Washington D.C., reading proficiency is the lowest in the nation at 12 percent.

“I hope you were outraged by the movie,” said Mary Boehm, another panelist at the event.

“There is a way for you and for us to get involved in schools.”

In college, many freshmen have to take remedial classes, as their high school educations

failed to prepare for higherlevel learning.

The documentary discusses how large portions of freshmen entering a four-year institution have to take remedial classes before beginning college-level classes. The idea to combat this problem, addressed by the documentary, is creating charter schools.

“The solution is broken; we have to give them the solution through public schools,” Boehm said.

“One-third of charter schools have results that are below average,” said Paul Landry, a panelist at the event. “The movie is clearly slanted, and it could be seen as propaganda. The movie should allow for balance and debate.”

In the documentary, students were shown at lotteries, which would pick who got into the better schools.

Students who waited to be picked in the lottery were not guaranteed a spot and most did not get in.

“If we deal with poverty in this country we deal with education,” said James McLean, a panelist at the event and dean of education at the University.

“We tend to put the most inexperienced teachers in the most difficult areas,” he said.

Thursday

The Randy Rogers Band $10 advance tickets • $12 day of show • 9 pm doors open

$2 Bud Light Lime and $3 Baby Bombs

Friday

205.554.1556 | 301 HELEN KELLER BLVD. | CAMPUSWAYUA.COM

Saturday $1 Wells and Dance Night *please drink responsibly

1307 University Blvd. 205-248-6611 dixieonthestrip.com

The Crimson White

NEWS

Thursday, March 24, 2011

3

UA to purchase Mobile radio station

By Stephen Walker Contributing Writer Monday, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees voted unanimously to purchase Spring Hill College’s WHIL-FM 91.3 public radio station for $1.1 million.

Based in Mobile, Ala., the listener-supported station has a coverage area that, in addition to reaching the Alabama gulf coast, extends into parts of Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi, the WHIL website states.

WHIL has been operated for over 30 years by Spring Hill College, a private Catholic school of less than 2,000 students.

Difficult economic conditions made the sale of WHIL

inevitable, Spring Hill College President Richard Salmi, S.J. said in a statement on the college’s website. “The station’s role in our community is an important one, but the College must focus its energy and limited resources ‌ to providing an exceptional education for our students,â€? he said. “Therefore, ultimate responsibility for the operations of a public radio station cannot be a main focus for us.â€?

In addition to the declining revenues public radio stations such as WHIL may soon lose all federal funding for their programming, due to hard economic times. The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to eliminate all federal funding for public radio. Should the measure

become law, it would mean drastic revenue losses for WHIL and other public radio stations. “The loss for 91.3 WHIL would be about $100,000 [per year] in federal support,� the WHIL website states.

Once acquired by Alabama Public Radio, the station will no longer have to rely on federal funding for a large portion of its expenditures. “The stronger financial resources of the University of Alabama Public Radio system in today’s environment of uncertainty in federal public radio funding make the impending transfer to the University all the more timely for the 91.3 WHIL listening audience,� the website states.

Since trustees from both institutions have agreed to terms

for the sale, acquisition of WHIL needs only the approval of the FCC, which is expected to take up to two months.

WHIL programming will be taken over by Alabama Public Radio, which broadcasts from studios in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University. APR currently broadcasts in Tuscaloosa, Muscle Shoals, Huntsville, Montgomery and Selma.

WHIL is expected to add significantly to APR’s listening base. “This will give the University of Alabama access to an additional 800,000 listeners,� UA President Robert Witt said, as reported in the Mobile Press-Register.

Acquisition of the station by APR may also provide better

programming for listeners.

The station currently spends $190,000 for programming from vendors such as National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media, the WHIL website states. Takeover by APR will result in new offerings for WHIL listeners that were previously too expensive for the station to purchase.

Even after the acquisition, however, the programming of WHIL is expected to change very little. “It is currently assumed that the basic format of the station will remain intact – NPR News and Classical Music – since Alabama Public Radio’s schedule substantially mirrors WHIL’s during the weekdays,� the WHIL website states.

Once the sale is complete, WHIL will have a more sound financial future and the University of Alabama will have a new voice in the southern part of the state.

FAST FACTS • The University has voted to buy Spring Hill College’s WHILM radio station. • The FCC has to approve the sale before it is ofďŹ cial. • FCC approval is expected to take up to two months.

Incoming student media leaders selected

By Alyssa Locklar Contributing Writer Every day as an Alabama student, you are provided with various student media outlets and the free entertainment, knowledge and memories they have to offer. But who makes these publications possible? Who organizes the troops and takes the lead to make sure that there are songs to be heard, stories to be read, photos to be seen and more?

Over the course of the last few weeks, the Media Planning Board has interviewed and elected the new student media leaders for the 2011-12 school year. No matter if the student has been a part of student media their entire time at the University or not at all, anyone interested must go through the same application process. Each applicant must apply with a proposal and then be interviewed by the board. The board is made up of student representatives, faculty and media professionals. “The board makes the decision based on the merits of each candidate,� said Paul Wright, director of student media. “They look for candidates whose plans and goals will be the most beneficial for each specific medium.�

After completing the inter-

view process, the board immediately votes and notifies the new media leaders of their selection.

Although they will not take over immediately, the new leaders already have their plan for the staff ready to go.

For The Crimson White, the editor-in-chief already has a year of experience under his belt, and plans to build on the past year’s successes, he said. “I’d like to establish physical forums hosted by the CW,� said Victor Luckerson returning editor-in-chief of the CW. “We’ve sparked a lot of conversations online and through social media this year, and I’d like to funnel that into a more directed venue. “I hope to organize a CW Forum of some sort once a semester, where students could bring their issues to the CW editors in a panel discussion. We could also organize conversations based around certain pressing campus issues, such as race relations or campus growth. There is a lot of potential to extend The Crimson White’s role as a community hub on campus.�

Luckerson has made The CW’s relationship with students a top priority. “I want The Crimson White to be something that the average UA student can identify with,�

Luckerson said. “I have always emphasized that staffers should not view The Crimson White as a product but rather a service to the student body. We have made considerable efforts to put The CW back in the hands of the students by reaching out to diverse groups for staffers, by starting conversations on social media and by actively seeking out story ideas.�

Unlike Luckerson, all of the other elected media leaders will be new to the job. “I think one of the more difficult jobs will be reshaping the programming toward the students,� said Chris Dodson, newly-elected station manager for WVUA. “I really hope to accomplish that by the years end. We are going to have to gather as a staff and find out how the program could better the community.�

Although he will be new to the position, Dodson is confident in his ability to lead. “I am just as excited about the hard stuff as the easy stuff, and I’m really pumped about the job,� Dodson said. “I think the thing that will make me good at my job is my passion. Being apart of the WVUA had really created a fire within me to see the station succeed. I know I can

work to see this station not only grow but be better all around.�

Emily Richards, 2011-12 advertising manager, said she’s excited to begin work. “I hope to continue developing The CW advertising department and implement plans that will contribute to the newspaper’s growth,� she said.

The other newly-elected media leaders include: Farren Stanley, editor-in-chief for the Black Warrior Review; Erika Wade, editor-in-chief for the Marr’s Field Journal and Megan Bever for The Southern Historian.

STUDENT MEDIA LEADERS • Victor Luckerson:

Warrior Review

editor-in-chief of the Crimson White

• Erika Wade: editor-

• Chris Dodson: station manager for WVUA

in-chief for the Marr’s Field Journal

• Megan Bever: The

• Emily Richards:

Southern Historian

advertising manager

• Phil Hudson: editor-

• Farren Stanley:

in-chief of the Corolla

editor-in-chief for the Black

7+( 7+ 678'(17 9,6,725 6,1&(

Follow the Crimson White on Twitter at

$8*867

@thecrimsonwhite

$55,9(6 21 78(6'$<

0$5&+ 7+ C A P S TO N E D E N TA L C A R E

:,// ,7 %( <28"

John C. Bennet, D.M.D. & Jennifer T. Dickson, D.M.D. â&#x20AC;˘ Bleaching â&#x20AC;˘ Most Major Insurances Accepted â&#x20AC;˘ Cosmetic

205-248-9077

www.capstonedentalcare.com

Trustworthy dental care away from home.

: : : / , % 8$ ( '8

OPINIONS

Female tweeters must be focused on #winning

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Editor • Tray Smith letters@cw.ua.edu Page 4

By Kingsley Clark

MCT CAMPUS

UA needs to give reasons for forcing Lai Lai to leave The Strip

By John Davis

{ YOUR VIEW } (WEB COMMENTS) “Why doesnʼt the University just offer up the RfPʼs prior to shoving Lai-Lai out? Then maybe they wonʼt have to pay to move out then back in and lose time and moving costs.

Sounds like UA is still up to no good on the Strip.”

– jawright19, in response to “Lai Lai set to close by this summer”

“That is unbelievably ridiculous. I want to know just what the universityʼs plans are.”

– Andrew Fennell, in response to “Lai Lai set to close by this summer”

“I agree Jason. You only live once, Go for it! Congrats to the proud parents Abbott and Neng!”

– Amanda D. Sayao, in response to “Law student a foreign soccer star”

EDITORIAL BOARD Victor Luckerson Editor Jonathan Reed Managing Editor Tray Smith Opinions Editor Adam Greene Chief Copy Editor

WE WELCOME YOUR OPINIONS Letters to the editor must be less than 300 words and guest columns less than 800.

Send submissions to letters@ cw.ua.edu. Submissions must include the author’s name, year, major and daytime phone number. Phone numbers are for verification and will not be published.

Students should also include their year in school and major. For more information, call 348-6144. The CW reserves the right to edit all submissions.

The headline on March 9 informed us that Lai Lai – the Chinese hole-in-the-wall restaurant that has called The Strip home since 1998 – would be closing, though it might as well have read “University forces out local business,” or maybe “University suffers self-inflicted wound to local culture.”

Refusing to allow Lai Lai to renew its lease on The Strip is a perplexing move, given that the University has not (and most likely will not) explain to anyone – Lai Lai management or otherwise – why exactly it is forcing Lai Lai off The Strip. One would think that, as an establishment that predates every member of the current student body, Nick Saban and even Dr. Witt himself, Lai Lai is at the very least owed an explanation.

If the University wants that space for a specific business, be it for another restaurant or, God forbid, another retail front for one of the many “premium” student-centric housing complexes around Tuscaloosa, why is it so difficult to announce that? It is unabashedly offensive to flat-out refuse to tell even the management why they cannot renew their lease on what has become one of The Strip’s landmarks.

To add insult to injury, the University has the gall to “allow” the owners to submit a Request for Proposals (along with any other business who desires the location) so that they may retain the location. What the article (and

the University representative) does not point out is that even if Lai Lai somehow wins the bid, they would still have had to move out of the location beforehand before moving back in.

So much of any college town’s personality is based on the local businesses that operate there.

While many towns can be identified with bars more than specific restaurants (looking at you, Athens), that doesn’t mean the local restaurants are any less important to the overall culture.

When I have a friend from out of town visit, I don’t make it a point to take him to Pita Pit or Jimmy

been to Lai Lai; I can say with certainty that the food served there is much more authentic than meals found at a chain. It also doesn’t take hawk-like vision to see that Lai Lai is a favorite spot of UA’s sizable international student body.

While I suppose after three years I shouldn’t be shocked to say this, it isn’t any less frustrating: the University yet again is doing nothing more than posturing when it stresses the importance of “student unity.” Either that or the desire for unity only extends to the greek/independent divide while ignoring a significant

It also doesn’t take hawk-like vision to see that Lai Lai is a favorite spot of UA’s sizable international student body.

John’s, because those places already exist wherever he came from. No, I take him to places like Buffalo Phil’s, Crimson Café, or Lai Lai to show off the Tuscaloosaspecific dining.

There’s a reason nobody ever says, “Man, Tuscaloosa has some of the best pizza in the country” after leaving Hungry Howie’s. If The Strip is going to be packed with chain restaurants and retail fronts why even bother singling it out as a point for UA culture?

I also feel compelled to point out another implication of this forced exit that hadn’t occurred to me until I read a particular Tuscaloosa blog (yes, those exist): what about the international students? I’ve been to China and I’ve

minority.

If I was an owner of a business that had been operating on The Strip since 2007, I’d be scared. While there are currently no plans for moving or closing any of the other businesses, the University only said they agreed to honor the leases established by the previous owner. These leases end at different times; it just happens to be that Lai Lai’s is the first to expire. When the leases do expire, though, don’t be surprised to see the University strong-arm these Tuscaloosa staples right off The Strip, too.

“Be careful who you hate — it could be someone you love.” Author Unknown Last year, the headlines were full of stories about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth who had committed suicide. The nightmares of bullying and suicide filled many hearts with sadness and sympathy for the victims, but these stories also brought a tragic issue to the forefront; they reminded us of the prejudice and hatred that exist in all levels of our society towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

We had heard stories before about adults, young adults and even teenagers victimized by homophobic or anti-LGBT violence, but this time, the victims are as young as eight years old.

It may be hard for a mother to accept that her son is gay, or for a girl to understand that her best friend is the same person, regardless of her sexual orientation.

However, letting these feelings result in anger or alienation can be painful and isolating to a person living in a world where being who they are causes bullying in the schoolyard or vile accusations from politicians and religious leaders.

A thirteen year old has a hard enough time trying to develop as a person without being attacked and called names by her peers, told by the popular

and talk to others who are friends and relatives of LGBT individuals (and even LGBT people themselves) and have experienced some of the same feelings that you may be.

PFLAG is a good way to understand your feelings better and gain some perspective on your situation with your loved one. A new chapter of PFLAG has just started here in Tuscaloosa, and will meet for the first time this Thursday evening, March 24 at 7 p.m. in the Canterbury Episcopal Chapel Student Center.

If you have a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender loved one, please consider attending a meeting of PFLAG. Doing so provides an excellent opportunity to help you educate yourself, and demonstrate to your loved-one just how much you value your relationship with them. In a world where LGBT people are the subjects of physical and ideological attacks, the support and understanding of their parents, family and friends can be invaluable, and may even save a life.

Alex Hollinghead is a junior majoring in math and philosophy.

Kingsley Clark is a junior majoring in communications studies and creative writing. Her column runs biweekly on Thursdays.

John Davis is a junior majoring in bracketology. His column runs on Thursdays.

In a world where LGBT people are the subjects of physical and ideological attacks, the support and understanding of their parents, family and friends can be invaluable, and may even save a life. media that his life is predetermined to be hollow and riddled with drug abuse and depression, or feeling that they should hide their identity from their family.

All of this occurs for a feeling they can’t really help.

Coming out is a difficult, emotional process for both parties, evoking many feelings— from anger to confusion to concern to sadness. These feelings are normal reactions to discovering that a loved one is LGBT. Research indicates that up to ten percent of the population is LGBT, and approximately twenty-five percent of people have an immediate family member who is LGBT. This means that there are countless people who have experienced the same feelings as you and understand what you may be going through. The first thing (and one of the best things) you can do for yourself and for your LGBT loved one is to talk to someone else who has been through the same process.

Fortunately, doing so has never been easier. An organization known as PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) exists to facilitate these kinds of conversations. You can go listen

We’re smart women. We can do better. We go to an excellent school. We live in the Southeast.

Aside from a few smelly trees and a bit of pollen, things aren’t that bad right now for us, the female population of the University of Alabama. they give you at Panera Bread, as if they resent you for choosing the healthier and free option of beverages. Give a humorous play-by-play to pass the time at the health center. Own your hilarity.

You know you’re funny!

Your brutal depictions of the “GDI” or “fat girl” in your class? Save it. We’ll just think you’re awful and we’ll unfollow you.

The other day, a tweet was addressed to Daniel Tosh from a UA student requesting that the comedian do more racist jokes. Her biography? A Bible verse.

Don’t confuse us. Take your misunderstandings of morality and logic to your blog. Aside from the more serious issue, this is Twitter. (This is entertainment.) (This is an app.) (Charles Barkley thinks you’re a loser.)

There are plenty of Twitter offenders though, most not as awful. Just irritating. You already probably follow them all: The one we’re supposed to feel sorry for, but can’t stand: “The woman giving me a well-deserved deep-tissue massage for no occasion at all on this random Tuesday smells like my grandma.”

The alarmingly addicted coffee drinker who always stresses about lame assignments: “Well, after 4 cups, 2 lattes, and a bunch of espresso shots, staying awake in Rogers all night for this Geography 102 PowerPoint should be a breeze.”

The nightly soap opera queen who lives for nightly soap operas: “Barely slept after that Bachelor episode…btw, UM what’s going on in Japan? Who bombed them?”

The never alone girl whom you doubt has any real friends: “Just went to the Rec with @girl_who_ only_tweets_about_food, and now I’m off to Bear Trap with my lovelies @girl1, @girl2, @girl3…@ girl17!”

The shameless lover who probably has at least a few restraining orders: “OMG OMG OMG he texted me!!! I knew he liked me! He said, ‘hey, did you just drive by my house?’ Dreams really do come true!! xoxo” And finally, the over-hashtagger: “Just saw a dog. #Iwantone #wheresmine #hernamewouldbeCinderella #mydadsaysImaprincess #Imadaddysgirl #LovemybrandnewBMW #thanksDaddy” We’re smart women. We can do better. We go to an excellent school. We live in the Southeast. Aside from a few smelly trees and a bit of pollen, things aren’t that bad right now for us, the female population of the University of Alabama.

We ain’t never been nothin’ but winners, according to the Bear. (Take that, Charles Barkley.) Let’s step up our game, our wit, our intelligence, our entertainment! Let’s make Twitter live out its purpose for creation, and gain followers far and wide.

Let’s stop whining and start really #winning.

Coming out can be a challenge

By Alex Hollinghead

“Twitta’s for losers, Jay; if someone wake up in the mornin’ wonderin’ what I’m doin’, they a loser.”

Charles Barkley’s right. Twitter is for losers.

And like so many of you ladies, I too am a loser.

As a late joiner to the social networking religion, I am bombarded by the convenience of having so many of my favorite voices all rolled into one happy medium.

Twitter allows me to do everything from keeping up with the headlines of all my favorite web media sources; to reading my favorite funny celebrities’ latest bit of comedic wit; to keeping tabs on my friends; to seeing funny pictures. (Funny pictures are the best, right?) But while I watch my fellow UA feminine peers ceremoniously create themselves in 140 characters or less, I can’t help but think that we could do better.

This thing that has many students, especially girls, ritually contributing their two cents five times a day was created as an outlet for information. Information in this sense means headlines, promotional work, social commentary, and of course, funny pictures.

Like all social networking sites, Twitter allows you to create an identity solely by yourself. There are reasons we choose the profile pictures we do.

Because we look good!

There’s a reason why some of us still have that egg after two years. We just don’t care. Twitter is the essence of how we’d like to be seen, we hope.

Still, some of us forget to look down at our bracelets and think, WWID? Well, what would you do?

What do you want us to gather about you from this tweet?

One thing we gather from many of our peers is that, quite bluntly, things that suck are funny.

Social commentary on things that just don’t make any sense is entertaining because we can all connect to it. (Thanks, Seinfeld.)

But do we always want to be reminded of the things that annoy us in an avenue for entertainment? (And why do we write so many letters?)

“Dear vending machine, thanks for giving me Grapico instead of Sierra Mist and ruining my whole life. Sincerely, #tickedoff.” This too-common drama in postal disguise really tells us nothing about you, except that you need to get a grip.

We’re in college! Wise up! You have to be at least a little bit narcissistic during this time of your life.

(You’re still allowed to do whatever you want without worrying about anyone but yourself, and the people who raised you typically pay for it! They love you!)

Make a clever joke about that tiny water cup

The Crimson White

NEWS

Thursday, July 1, 2011

5

6

Thursday, March 24, 2011

NEWS

The Crimson White

Biology expert to UA Robotics team speak on evolution places in competition

By Ashley Rucker Contributing Writer Douglas Futuyma, a leading researcher in ecology and evolution who teaches at Stony Brook University in New York, will be speaking on the theory of evolution in his lecture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evolution: The Most Important Theory in Biology.â&#x20AC;?

The lecture will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Futuyma is an expert on evolutionary biology,â&#x20AC;? said Lesile Rissler, an assistant professor of biology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the member of the National Academy of Sciences and author of one of the most successful evolution textbooks on the market.â&#x20AC;?

Rissler said the Alabama Lectures on Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evolution, known as ALLELE, has seen impressive attendance for the past five years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We almost always pack the Biology Auditorium with upwards of 300 people,â&#x20AC;?

Rissler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has even helped launch a new minor at the University-evolutionary

I hope students can see the power of evolutionary thinking-the overwhelming evidence that shows that evolution is a fact, and the profound insights that an evolutionary perspective provides to understanding life on this planet. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lesile Rissler studies. This minor is housed in Anthropology and codirected by Drs. Christopher Lynn (anthropology) and myself (biological studies).â&#x20AC;?

Rissler said evolution is one of the most misunderstood concepts in society, yet Futuyma will explain how evolution is the most important theory in biology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you attend more than one ALLELE lecture, you will also understand how ideas in evolution extend to other fields like philosophy, psychology, anthropology, geology, communication science, medicine, business and even religious studies,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Rissler said she hopes the lecture will encourage students to understand our world and how important it is to realize how it works.

Is more than WINGS

Chicken Finger Sandwich

Grilled Chicken Sandwich Fresh Salads 1/2 lb Cheeseburger

$1 off ANY of these items throughout March!

20 5. 34 2 .B IR D (2 47 3)d E 12 4 1 M cF ar la n d B lv W in gZ o n e. co m

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope students can see the power of evolutionary thinking-the overwhelming evidence that shows that evolution is a fact, and the profound insights that an evolutionary perspective provides to understanding life on this planet,â&#x20AC;? she said.

IF YOU GO ... â&#x20AC;˘ What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evolution: The Most Important Theory in Biologyâ&#x20AC;? lecture â&#x20AC;˘ Where: Biology Building

â&#x20AC;˘ When: Tonight at 7:30

By Will Tucker News Editor wjtucker1@gmail.com Seven UA engineering students placed 13th out of 50 teams at the IEEE SoutheastCon Hardware robotics competition on Mar. 20, according to team member Chris Millan.

According to a UA News release, the competition was designed last year after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and features tasks resembling rescue missions that student-designed robots must complete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our robot was supposed to be an autonomous search-and-rescue robot,â&#x20AC;?

Millan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal was that the robot would travel around a disaster site, a building which was wooden walls and a floor to form four rooms.â&#x20AC;?

Millan said the team designed their robot to follow the walls of the course to navigate using infrared rangefinders. The robot used a camera to find the â&#x20AC;&#x153;victims.â&#x20AC;?

FAST FACTS â&#x20AC;˘ Text: UA Robotics team placed 13th out of 50. â&#x20AC;˘ Text: Robots had to complete tasks resembling rescue missions. â&#x20AC;˘ Text: Last year UA placed 6th. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Throughout the course there were blocks of wood to represent obstacles that the robot would have to navigate around or over. In these rooms there were PVC end caps that represented victims of the disaster, and they had a green LED on top to indicate when their status was alive, unconscious or dead,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Millan said the team had been together for one year as part of a senior design project run by associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Kenneth Ricks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to join because it was by far the most interesting project available for senior design, and I also had plenty of interest in robotics, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity,â&#x20AC;? Millan said.

According to the UA News

release, UAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team finished 6th out of about 50 teams at the 2010 competition. This year, Millan pointed to navigation problems as the reason their robot placed where it did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the competition, our robot had more trouble navigating over and around obstacles,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were mostly able to overcome them with minimal failure aside from one that got us stuck and ended our second run.

According to the release, the other members of the team were Taylor Hall from Montgomery, Bianca Kuczynski from Owens Crossroads, Stephen Palecek from Northport, Andrew Price from Birmingham, Jeremiah Ritchey from Guntersville, and James Yerby from Madison.

Russian Club members petition for additional faculty members

By Anna Kate Delavan Contributing Writer The Russian Club at the University of Alabama is petitioning for an additional faculty member for the Russian program.

Russian Club President Zach Golden and Jonathan Williams are the authors and contributors to the petition directed at UA President Robert Witt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is my earnest opinion that the expansion of the department, if only by one Russian language faculty member, would reflect well on the University, improve the stability of the program, help to satisfy the needs of its students and would work to give students necessary skills for future careers in government and private sectors,â&#x20AC;?

Williams said in the petition.

According to Williams, the club expects to present the proposal to Witt in a matter

of weeks.

The petition asks for Wittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support in expanding the Russian department, claiming there are not enough faculty to fulfill the demands and needs of students, including the basic language courses of Russian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Culture, conversation and literature are needed to fully understand a language and its people,â&#x20AC;? the petition stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therefore, the current program does not, and cannot, fulfill the needs of a student looking to master Russian in hopes of using it in a future career.â&#x20AC;?

The academic catalog lists 24 classes, but only six of those are offered due to the lack of faculty. Currently, the department has one faculty member, Andrew Drozd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hiring of just one additional instructor would make a huge difference in the amount of classes available to the students,â&#x20AC;? Drozd said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For one thing, it would allow us to offer at least two sections of first-year Russian, which should help to accommodate the demand for the course.â&#x20AC;?

The hiring of just one additional instructor would make a huge difference in the amount of classes available to the students. For one thing, it would allow us to offer at least two sections of ďŹ rst-year Russian, which should help to accommodate the demand for the course. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Andrew Drozd The 18 classes left out would contribute to a broader Russian education, Golden said.

According to Drozd, it is impossible to meet the demands of students with only one faculty member. Due to increased student demand, Drozd will teach the Russian literature sequence next year in lieu of Russian 101.

Golden said he believes there are about 50 students currently in the program, but many are turned away each semester, including freshmen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we had more faculty, more people could take Russian,â&#x20AC;? Golden said.

According to class listings on myBama, this semester Drozd is teaching Elementary Russian II, Intermediate Russian II and Advanced Russian Grammar

Composition II. However, none of the classes are filled to capacity.

The demand for Russian language classes has increased and now exceeds the capabilities of the department, according to Michael Picony, interim chair for the Department of Modern Languages & Classics. The demand increase is due to the United States Department of Defense declaring Russian as a strategic language, he said.

According to the petition, people who are skilled in the Russian language are more likely to receive bonuses and incentives for their skills. The petition also listed employers who are seeking people with a background in the language, including General Motors, NASA, the FBI, Microsoft and AT&T.

Follow The Crimson White on Twitter at

@thecrimsonwhite

The Crimson White

NEWS

Thursday, March 24, 2011

7

Brown named alumni affairs director

By Allie Hulcher Contributing Writer On April 1, a new director of alumni affairs will step into Alumni Hall.

Calvin Brown of Decatur, will replace Pat Whetstone, who has been in the position for 20 years.

Brown is currently a partner and portfolio manager with BlueCreek Investment Partners in Huntsville. He graduated from the University in 1983 and has been active in his alumni chapter since graduation.

Whetstone has known Brown since 1997, when Brown became president of the National Alumni Association.

According to Whetstone, Brown has the qualities to step in and be an effective leader.

MINE

Continued from page 1

there’s no way around it.”

Caitlin McClusky, president of the University of Alabama Environmental Council, is also an opponent of the proposed mine and advocates education about the project.

“It’s definitely important that students and faculty at the University of Alabama understand the magnitude of this issue,” said McClusky, a junior in New College. “But it’s also vital that the citizens of Birmingham understand it, too, because if this mine is built, it will affect them the most.

“People need to educate themselves about this issue.

Just get online, search Google and read articles about this mine and the risks associated with it.”

According to the UAEC, the proposed mine covers 1,773 acres and about 1,300 of those acres belong to the University of Alabama System.

The UAEC has said that without the University agreeing to sell or lease their portion of

“For someone to do well [in this job], they can’t take themselves too seriously, but they have to t a ke this job Calvin Brown seriously,” Whetstone said. “You must be empathetic, and I think Calvin possesses that empathy.”

Brown said his past experience has prepared him.

He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the College of Commerce and Business Administration and has worked as an investment analyst, portfolio manager, and president and partner of

an investment company.

Among his involvement with The University, he is a member of the UA President’s Cabinet, chair of the Library Leadership Board and a board member for Capstone Village.

He was on the steering committee of the “Our Students Our Future” capital campaign.

Brown will move to Tuscaloosa soon, joining his two children, Julia and Pete, who are both UA students.

Brown said he thought the position was appealing and called getting it a dream come true. He said it is a great time to be coming to campus, as it is a golden era at the University.

“I think UA is a special place,” Brown said. “When you leave and go out into the world is when you realize how special it is. It’s imperative that our alumni stay connect-

the proposed mine, the entire project might fall through, and the Birmingham City Council agreed in their resolution.

“As a practical matter, without the consent and full participation of the UA System, it may not be cost effective to mine Shepherd Bend at all,” the resolution states.

Since the issue of the mine was first raised several years ago, University officials have said they have not been approached by any parties concerning the sale or lease of their property near the proposed mine, and their position has not changed since the Birmingham City Council adopted their resolution.

“We have no current plans to sell or lease any of our property holdings near Shepherd Bend,” said Cathy Andreen, the University’s director of media relations.

For Abbott and other opponents of the proposed mine, this stance is not enough.

“Just because no one’s approached the University yet doesn’t mean they’re not waiting in the wings to do so,” Abbott said. “It would be won-

derful if University officials would come out ahead of this and say that we’re not going to allow our land to be strip mined, we’re not going to allow the Black Warrior to be polluted.

“We’re hopeful that the student body will be behind Birmingham’s wishes of keeping the river as free of pollution as possible, and to keep our drinking water clean. In this day and age, a lot of people don’t get active over issues that don’t affect them personally, but students have a habit of getting involved anyway, for the greater good, especially with something as noxious as strip mining. Our hope is that University students will help us in asking the administration to get serious about opposing this mine.”

McClusky also advocated strong student involvement in this and any other issues that they find objectionable.

“It’s wrong to do nothing,” she said. “As large shareholders in this university, students and faculty should be able to tell the administration what we want and how we feel about any issue. We’ve got to have a voice.”

Don’t graduate without scoring your favorite book.

Students and alumni are the life blood of our University and we can’t ever lose sight of that fact.

— Calvin Brown

ed to their university.”

Vi c e President of Advancement Pam Parker said that as director, Brown will be like the head of a family. He will oversee the alumni magazine, manage chapter development, raise money for scholarship endowments, engage in student recruitment and provide leadership for all of the 21 staff members at Alumni Hall.

“I’m looking forward to working with him,” Parker said. “He will really keep things moving forward and

have good ideas as well.”

Brown said his plan for his first year is to get familiar with what is going on. He said he has a clear vision of the mission of Alumni Hall.

“Students and alumni are the life blood of our University and we can’t ever lose sight of that fact,” Brown said. “Every alumnus is an ambassador and they are an effective way of telling [the] story of UA throughout the state and country and really the world.”

Whetstone said he looks

forward to Brown coming on board. There will be a one-month transition period where Brown will become more familiar with the staff and get up to date on the budget.

Both Whetstone and Brown said that the transition should be smooth.

“They are big shoes to fill,” Brown said. “There is a continuity of tight leadership, so we can hit the ground running and continue the strong legacy that Pat is leading.”

While Whetstone said he won’t miss traveling three nights in a row to go to meetings, he will miss other aspects of the job he held for 20 years.

“This is a wonderful position,” Whetstone said. “I’m going to miss interacting with the students.”

BAMA CASH! Bar & Grille Student specials available kitchen open till 1am

2209 4th st. - downtown 205-366-0913

R

emember in college when...

7DNH DGYDQWDJH RI HGXFDWLRQ SULFLQJ RQ $SSOH SURGXFWV ZKLOH \RX¶UH VWLOO HOLJLEOH 2QO\ DW WKH $SSOH &DPSXV 6WRUH

Wear something with meaning...

A ring representative will be on campus: Wednesday & Thursday, March 23rd & 24th 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ferguson Center Plaza Friday, March 25th 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

SUPe Store Ferguson Center Lobby

8

Thursday, March 24, 2011

NEWS

The Crimson White

Homecoming Committee application due Friday

By Amanda Sams Senior Staff Reporter alsams1@crimson.ua.edu

Homecoming 2011 will be held Oct. 8 in Bryant-Denny Stadium, when the Crimson Tide competes with the Vanderbilt University Commodores.

Student Government Association Homecoming Committee applications are due Friday so the planning can begin.

“Committee members are directly involved in the execution and planning of each and every aspect of Homecoming at the University,” said Executive Homecoming Director Katie Mellown. “These projects and events range from the [National Pan-Hellenic] Step Show to the intricate lawn decorations that adorn the campus, to the rigorous Dodgeball Competition at the [Student] Recreation Center.”

Mellown said the time commitment involved in a

homecoming committee ranges on the person’s willingness to participate and jump in. She said the homecoming committee is looking for members who are • Service Projects Comexcited about homecoming and want to be a part of the team. mittee Each committee member is • Parade Committee required to attend their committee’s specific events and weekly • Athletic Events Commeetings leading up to the week mittee of homecoming.

“Each committee poses differ• Development Commitent tasks they need to accomtee plish in order for their event/ project to be conducted in the • Halftime Events and proper manner,” Mellown said.

Reception Committee “Committee members assist the • Lawn Decorations director of their event or project on any tasks that are necessary, Committee ranging from talking to local • Operations Committee businesses for raffle donations, to working with faculty and staff • Choreography Comabout building and grounds mitte regulations, to planning a seating chart for the choreography competition.”

Applications can be picked online at sga.ua.edu under up in the SGA office or found the “Forms” tab. They are to be submitted via email to nkmellown@crimson.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED The different committees students can join include: • Choreography Committee • Pep Rally & Bonfire Committee • NPHC Events Committee • Banner Committee & Paint the Town Red Committee • Rules and Regulations Committee • Roll Tide Run Committee • Engagement Committee

ua.edu or turned into the SGA office at the Ferguson Center—Room 231—by Friday at 5 p.m.

Momma’s Love Cheese Sandwich Turkey Delite Nachos N h

From staff reports

Have you had these cravings late night?

Momma’s now going until 2 am!

Free nacho with a purchase of a large drink.

10pm-2am

Friday & Saturday • Tuscaloosa Only mommagoldbergs.com | (205) 345-5501

The Community Service Center and Greek councils are constructing a Habitat Shed on campus for the Tuscaloosa Habitat for Humanity Chapter, according a Community Service Center Facebook event.

“The Tuscaloosa chapter is currently in a rebuilding stage, and we are building the required shed that they need on site for the next

house they are scheduled to build,” the page states.

Students are asked to volunteer to aid in construction and may sign up for shifts by following a link posted on the Facebook event page, which may be accessed by searching Habitat for Humanity Shed Build.

Dates to volunteer are Sunday from 1-7 p.m., Monday from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Tuesday from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

For questions, contact Rachel Edington at reedington@sa.ua.edu.

ROBBERY Continued from page 1

UAPD does not release suspects’ names, and the investigation is still ongoing.

Brandon Refour, a freshman majoring in public relations and a resident of Ridgecrest South Residence Hall, said he’s not worried about his safety.

“I felt safe because I didn’t know too many details about it,” he said. “Had I known more, I probably would have felt uneasy.”

Colby Finnegan, a freshman who also lives in Ridgecrest South, said female students should be more cautious than males when walking alone at night.

Last semester, he said, an intoxicated man assaulted his girlfriend when she walking alone after a football game.

“Somebody grabbed her and threw her down a hill,” he said.

To report information about Tuesday’s incident, call University Police at 348-5454.

Crime prevention information is available through UAPD’s Safer Living Guide, which can be viewed at police.ua.edu.

Fountain Square 1 Bedroom $544 (Includes Water) 2 Bedroom $609 (Includes Water) Spacious floor plans near UA campus. Pet friendly! 391-6096 fountainsquareapts.info

By Melissa Brown Contributing Writer In an article released in Science magazine last week, a team of University of Alabama faculty and students announced it had devised an efficient method of recycling hydrogen, a step in the direction of widespread use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel to gasoline.

The team, headed by David Dixon, has worked in conjunction with Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past six years on hydrogen research.

Dixon co-authored the article with Edward “Ted” Garner III, a graduate student; J. Pierce Robinson, a UA undergraduate and Monica Vasiliu, a post-doctoral researcher.

The University team was responsible for computer

about how to do that,” Dixon said.

The new process involves placing hydrogen into a more stable compound called ammonia borane.

“We take ammonia borane as a solid or liquid, a simple stable compound to handle, and we can release the hydrogen when we need it to run the fuel cell and the car,” Dixon said.

This method only releases nitrogen into the atmosphere, and the spent fuel remains in the car to be used again.

While Dixon said he believes the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel will be widespread in a decade, our current infrastructure is not built to handle it presently and there are many questions and problems left to be solved.

We didn’t know how to efficiently re-add the hydrogen back into the fuel. The paper that came out in Science is all about how to do that.

NEWS in brief Greek councils, Community Service Center look for volunteers

UA team has alternate fuel breakthrough

—David Dixon modeling work that predicted the kinds of reactions that were to occur, while Los Alamos took on the experimental portions of research.

According to Dixon, the basic idea of the experiment is to run a car using a fuel cell, which will be powered by hydrogen gas and oxygen.

“Think of hydrogen like gasoline works today, except it’s a gas rather than a liquid,” said Dixon, Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry at the University.

When hydrogen is placed in the fuel cell, it reacts with oxygen to make water and gives off energy, which runs the motor of a car when converted to electricity.

Dixon said the difference between hydrogen and gas is that hydrogen is cleaner.

Gasoline-powered engines release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which can cause environmental damage.

“Right now we dump our combustion out of our tailpipe,” Dixon said. “With the hydrogen, we release it but we don’t let the compound left over out in to the environment. It stays in the car. So we’re going to have to take that spent fuel – the waste – and add hydrogen back to it so that we can have a new fuel.”

According to Dixon, researchers on the project published a paper several years ago with chemistry describing a recycling method, but later experiments involving the calculations revealed that it was not an economically efficient process.

“We didn’t know how to efficiently re-add the hydrogen back into the fuel. The paper that came out in Science is all

“How can we make this fuel liquid so we can pump it around?” Dixon said. “The problem with hydrogen is that it is so small it will go through all the seals we currently have. We’re still working on it.”

The final hurdle in the process is that hydrogen production is expensive, and therefore use of it as a fuel is not currently practical.

“We have to continue to find a good way to make hydrogen by using solar power to split water,” Dixon said. “There are methods to do this but they aren’t as economically viable as we would like, or involve making carbon dioxide, which is what we’re trying to avoid.”

The four researchers worked as a team to complete the various aspects of this project, according to Vasiliu.

“Everybody had their part of the chemistry to work on,” Vasiliu said.

Garner said they started out with virtually no information on the process they were researching, and had to build from the ground up. Now they’re continuing research to perfect the process.

“Now that Pierce and I have figured out a better idea of what’s going on, we’re doing other calculations to figure out the pathway that makes it 100 percent efficient,” Garner said.

While not practical in today’s society, Dixon said he believes the work he and his colleagues have done and continue to do will revolutionize future transportation industry.

“When we have a cheap source of hydrogen, we now have a process that can work in industry,” Dixon said.

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do.

2 Bedrooms 1.5 Bath 1st & 2nd Floor $571 (Includes Water)

3rd Floor $556 us o Camp T k l a W Pool Great

(Includes Water)

391-6075 canterburyapts.info

I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

-Rog e rs Hornsby 1896-1963

MANAGEMENT CO.INC

Locations at Ferguson Center, Tutwiler Hall, Bryant Museum, School of Law

Selection commitee should judge success, not RPI

By Jason Galloway Sports Editor crimsonwhitesports@gmail.com Stop apologizing to Virginia Commonwealth.

Stop proclaiming the Rams have validated the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee’s decision.

Instead, recognize the difference between deserving something and taking advantage of an opportunity.

It doesn’t matter if VCU loses to Florida State Friday or wins the national championship, a Colonial team that finished 23-11, finished fourth place in a small conference and lost five of its last eight games belongs nowhere near the NCAA Tournament field.

Meanwhile, Alabama, in a much tougher conference, finished with a better conference record, the same number of overall losses, and won 15 of its last 21 games. Yet, the

Crimson Tide is stuck easing its way through the NIT. The reason for these appalling and horrendous decisions: A flawed RPI system.

RPI stands for Rating Percentage Index, and is used as “one of the factors” in determining the tournament field. The formula is calculated as 25 percent team winning percentage, 50 percent opponents’ winning percentage and 25 percent opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage.

That’s it. That’s the entire formula. Only 25 percent of these rankings factor in whether teams actually won or lost the games they played. Margin of victory is also not factored in, meaning a 21-point loss to Duke likely boosted UAB’s RPI, another undeserving team selected over Alabama.

The Blazers had one win against RPI top 50 teams (the

Tide had four), yet UAB’s RPI is higher than Alabama’s.

UAB had the same conference record in a far inferior conference, and only one more total win than Alabama.

And that one win in the RPI top 50? It was against VCU (RPI 49), whose losses to Tennessee (RPI 33), Richmond (RPI 44) and George Mason (RPI 24) probably didn’t drop its RPI ranking at all.

Just to prove a point, take a look at the bottom of the RPI rankings. The last-ranked team is 5-24 Houston Baptist.

A few spots higher, you’ll find 1-27 Centenary of the Summit Conference. Houston Baptist beat three teams with .500 records this season, while Centenary’s lone win came against 7-23 Western Illinois.

What could have propelled the one-win team ahead of others? It was its 64-point loss to Memphis and its 29-point loss to Marquette. Well

done, Gents.

Those rankings at the bottom obviously do not matter in the least bit, but it shows how flawed this system is.

VCU’s tournament run should also be approached with a bit of caution. The Rams defeated another team in USC that did not deserve a tournament bid for the right to play Georgetown. Although Hoyas point guard Chris Wright was back in the lineup, he clearly wasn’t the same player and Georgetown clearly wasn’t the same team as before his injury. Then the Rams beat a Purdue team that lost its last two games before the tournament, got embarrassed by a bubble team in the Big Ten Tournament, and was playing without Kelsey Barlow.

Don’t misinterpret this message – the Rams’ run has been extremely impressive, but it is ridiculous to apologize to anybody because a team got hot

SPORTS

COLUMN | MEN’S BASKETBALL

at the right time. Tournament performance has nothing to do with tournament selection.

VCU’s run has covered up the absurdity of this year’s selections and the fallacy of the RPI. The selection committee says RPI is just a guideline, just one factor to consider when selecting the NCAA tournament teams. That was hard to believe when the tournament field was released on March 9.

Besides, any weight placed on this terrible measurement is too much. It is the reason Alabama became the first team in history to go 12-4 in major conference play and be left out of the NCAA Tournament. And it even happened in a year when the tournament field was expanded.

Maybe the committee should start weighing factors like common sense and actual wins a little more heavily.

NIT

Page 9 • Thursday, March 24, 2011 Editor • Jason Galloway crimsonwhitesports@ gmail.com

SPORTS

Continued from page 1

this weekend

“We needed to start the second half like we started the first half, and we didn’t,” Grant said.

“Miami’s too good of a team.

They immediately cut right back into the lead and made it into a game.”

When Miami brought the game within one point, Alabama went on an 8-2 run to secure the lead for the rest of the game. The Tide had its largest lead with three minutes left at 18 points.

Going into halftime, Alabama had a 10-point advantage over the Canes at 36-26, while leading by as many as 14 during the half.

The Tide’s three highest season scorers in JaMychal Green, Releford and Mitchell all had two fouls. Green and Releford each only played seven minutes, while Mitchell played 19, having gotten his second foul later in the half.

Mitchell was also the leading scorer of the half with 10 and also ended a four-minute scoring drought with a field goal midway through the first half.

In the first half, the Tide shot 46 percent from the field and 36 percent from behind the arc. The defense held Miami to 42 percent from the field and 17 percent from the three-point line. The defense also forced 11 Miami turnovers that the team converted into 16 points.

Despite the initial disappointment at not getting into the NCAA tournament, the team has rallied together to come back and make a statement in the NIT. Alabama’s next game will be against Colorado in New York for the NIT semifinals Tuesday at 8 p.m.

“It’s still a championship there for the taking,” Mitchell said.

TODAY •Men’s and Women’s Track: Alabama Relays, All Day •Men’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Championships: All Day, Minneapolis, Minn.

FRIDAY • Women’s Tennis vs Kentucky: 3 p.m.

•Softball vs Arkansas: 6:30 p.m.

Happy Hour 4pm- 10pm Best Happy Hour on the Strip

$5 Lunches Tuesday- Friday Open @ 11am Tuesday- Saturday Open @ 4pm on Monday

Monday

CW | Margo Smith Top Right: Ben Eblen dribbles past a Miami player in the Tideʼs NIT quaterfinal against Miami.

Top Left: The Alabama bench celebrates a good play during the Tideʼs NIT quarterfinal victory.

Bottom Left: Junior JaMychal Green dunks the ball in the second half of Alabamaʼs 7964 victory.

$5 Burgers $3 Hotdogs $3 Bushwackers $3 Domestic Pitchers $3 Margaritas $2 Baby Bombs

Tuesday All You Can Eat Wings! 8 Flavors Voted Best in Town Team Trivia @ 7pm Prizes for the Top 3 Teams

y T, l N E a S t E I R P e Littl NO TIME LIKE THEAST!

THERE’S KE UP FOR THE P TO MA

MAKEUP MONDAY

NEW OWNERSHIP, NEW MANAGEMENT & NEW ATTITUDE! COME IN AND LET US MAKE IT UP TO YOU! 1 SLICE W/DRINK PURCHASE

99¢

MONDAY MARCH 28TH

1130 University Blvd. Suite 6

$3 Bushwackers $3 Domestic Pitchers $3 Margaritas $2 Hangin’ with JED Shots

Wednesday Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off Lettuce Wraps $3 Bushwackers $3 Domestic Pitchers $3 Margaritas $2 Hump Day Shots

Thursday 1/2 Price Apps! $3 Bushwackers $3 Domestic Pitchers $3 Margaritas $2 TOO HOT SHOTS

Sunday Hours: 11am-10pm

LIVE MUSIC ALL WEEK!

Roll Tide Roll!

"Hd]Yk] \jafc j]khgfkaZdq

*(-!+,-%*/.. ))+/ Mfan]jkalq :dn\

10

Thursday, March 24, 2011

SPORTS

The Crimson White

ROWING

Top 25 athletes

Rowing makes a splash at Clemson

By Ashley Swafford Contributing Writer The Alabama rowing team competed in one of the toughest regattas of the spring season last Saturday. Their annual trip to the Clemson Regatta on Lake Hartwell, served as the Crimson Tide’s second outing of the season.

Although nationally ranked Clemson headlined the event, the Tide put on a good showing by finishing third or better in all five of its races. The Clemson Regatta proved that the Tide might not fall too far behind No. 15 Clemson, later in the season’s rankings.

“We were really fired up to start the year off with [the Clemson Regatta],” junior Bianca Arrington said. “We all put forth our best effort and came out with a very successful weekend. It was exciting to see

No. 19 TONY MITCHELL, men’s basketball, forward The thing we’ve always said about Tony is that he has the ability to make plays. I think that’s what he’s doing, taking advantage of the opportunities that are there, getting out in transition, and I think with every game, he’s getting more and more comfortable with what he can do.”

“Watchmen” is an absurdly faithful adaptation of a dark graphic novel, with strong performances and top-notch direction.

— John Doe where we stood since we will be heading back to Clemson in just a month from now.”

Along with Clemson and Alabama, five other teams competed over the weekend.

The teams include Boston University, Syracuse, Indiana, Purdue and Marist.

“This is the first time we have had a seven boat field and with such depth,” head coach Larry Davis said. “We usually don’t see Boston University or Syracuse. So, to have the addition of such strong teams was good, and it let us test ourselves.

Fortunately, we came out on the high end.”

Coming in at intervals of five seconds, the First Varsity 4+ boats were neck and neck.

Clemson claimed the top spot, while the Tide placed second and Syracuse placed third.

Trailing second place Boston University’s boat, Alabama’s Second Varsity 4+ placed third at 8:04.44. Clemson claimed another first place finish with a time of 7:48.57.

“Each race was a dog fight,” Arrington said. “Each finish was [within a couple seconds of one another]. The field was extremely strong across the board.”

Losing 12 seconds to first place Clemson, the Tide’s First Varsity 8+ finished third at 6:52.05; Indiana finished second. Behind Clemson and Indiana, Alabama’s Second Varsity 8+ finished third with a 6:56.98. Clemson led the race by 12 seconds.

Even the Tide’s youngest boat held its own at the Clemson Regatta. The Tide’s Novice 8+ boat finished third at 7:32.02 behind Clemson, and Indiana.

“Even though Indiana and Clemson came out on top in most of the races, we were closer to them this year than we have ever been,” Davis said. “Overall, it was a very encouraging weekend.”

Next up, the Tide will travel to their first ever west coast regatta and compete in the San Diego Crew Classic on April 2.

“I’m very pleased with where we are right now through our first two weekends,” Davis said. “There is still some speed we can pick up, and need to pick up if we’re going to continue to progress the way we want to, but I’m very, very encouraged as to where we are right now.”

• Honors: Named to the Southeastern Conference AllFreshman team in 2010, named the team’s Most Outstanding Freshman in 2010 • Key Stats: In the 2011 season, has had nine games with 20-plus points; surpassed his career high in three different games in 2011; current career-high of 27 points

• Great Moment: When the Tide was struggling against Arkansas late in the SEC season, Mitchell stepped up and scored 27 19. Barrett Jones, football points to seal a victory 20. Bobby Wyatt, golf 21. Jackie Traina, softball over the Razorbacks and clinch the SEC West title.

— Head coach Anthony Grant

CW File

FOOTBALL Continued from page 1

former receiver Julio Jones, who opted to leave early for the NFL draft.

“I feel like we have something to prove,” Maze said.

“Me, [Darius] Hanks and [Brandon] Gibson are capable of filling the void. Julio will be well missed, but I feel like we’re capable of making plays for the offense, too.”

As far as filling the quarterback spot with senior Greg McElroy graduating, Maze said all the quarterbacks have been working hard.

“All of them are competing,” he said. “It’s only been two days of practice, so we really can’t tell who’s standing out the most, but I feel like those guys are capable of filling the void in that position.”

Chapman said one thing the defensive line is looking to work on for next season is its pass rush.

“When you hear that we can’t rush the pass, it’s not just on the linebackers, it’s on us,” he said. “It’s not good for the outside linebacker to have the most sacks on the team.

It’s what we want to take pride in, the defensive line having

the most sacks, having the most pressure. Affecting the quarterback is the main thing we want to do.”

Still coming back from injury is defensive back Mark Barron, who injured his pectoral muscle in the Auburn game last November. Though he’s wearing a black jersey in practice, head coach Nick Saban said he’s at no risk from the injury side and that hitting in practice isn’t far off for him.

“He’s doing great,” Saban said. “He did great in the offseason program. He’s got full

range of motion, which was the biggest issue with this injury. I think that right now, to use that daily is the No. 1 thing we’re trying to get him to do.”

Alabama’s next practice on Friday will be the first time the team will don pads since the bowl game in January.

“That’s something I look forward to,” Chapman said.

“Having jerseys on, you can’t really do much. When you start getting those pads on, you get to popping, that’s where the fun comes in.”

Jerrod Seaton Above: Offensive lineman Alfred McCullough participates in offensive line drills during Wednesday’s practice.

Left: Linebacker Don’t’a Hightower talks to fellow linebacker Trey Depriest during Wednesday’s Spring practice.

Get your news online at cw.ua.edu

@ cw.ua.edu

The Crimson White

11

SPORTS

Thursday, March 24, 2011

BASEBALL

Tide stays hot, wins fourth straight Left: Catcher Brock Bennett makes a tough catch in foul territory to get a Jacksonville State batter out Wednesday night.

By Tony Tsoukalas Assistant Sports Editor ajtsoukalas@crimson.ua.edu

The Alabama baseball team won its fourth straight game Wednesday afternoon as the Crimson Tide beat Jacksonville State 9-5 at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.

After allowing a run in the first, the Tide offense erupted in the third with a five-run inning, which would give the Tide a lead it would never let go of.

Junior designated hitter Josh Rosecrans had a productive day at the plate, going 3-for-5 with four RBIs. It was Rosecrans’ bases-loaded double that gave the Tide its initial lead; he later connected on a towering home run to give the Tide a commanding 6-1 lead. “[The double] definitely helped me,” he said. “It got me going, that’s for sure.”

Jacksonville State rallied back in the seventh, capitalizing on an error by second baseman Josh Sanders that would have ended the inning.

The Gamecocks were able to score three runs in the inning, making the score 8-4, before pitcher Taylor Wolfe ended the rally by getting a muchneeded popup with the bases loaded to end the inning.

Jacksonville got another run in the eighth to trim the lead to three, but the Tide answered back in the bottom of the inning, and senior Brett Whitaker was able to shut down the Gamecocks in the ninth to cement the win.

“We kind of had some hiccups there in the back end of the game,” head coach Mitch Gaspard said. “But I thought overall I was really pleased with [sophomore pitcher Trey] Pilkington, and I thought our offense certainly did enough.”

Pilkington provided a solid outing in his first start for the Tide, going 6.1 innings while giving up three earned runs

Right: Outfielder Andrew Miller swings at a pitch in Alabamaʼs 9-5 win over Jacksonville State Wednesday.

CW | Drew Hoover

[ On the Strip p Formerly y Bama Dogs ]

and striking out three.

“I thought Trey Pilkington had a really good start tonight,” Gaspard said. “That is just what you want to see in midweek games. He took us deep into the game.”

The heart of the lineup was key for Alabama, as shortstop Jared Reaves, first baseman Austen Smith and Rosecrans went a combined 7-for-14 with five RBI. Previously, the heart of the lineup has been a weakness for the Tide, as Smith and Rosecrans came into Wednesday’s games with batting averages of .222 and .234.

The Tide hopes Wednesday’s game is a sign of things to come as Alabama continues into SEC play over the weekend.

“With Rosey, that was good

to see,” Gaspard said. “Josh was a junior college AllAmerican and had really big numbers. We are going to need him. He is a middle-ofthe-lineup force and it would be great for him to get hot as we are getting into conference play.”

The Tide’s next test will come Friday night against Kentucky at 6:35 at SewellThomas Stadium. Alabama (15-7, 2-1 SEC) will be looking to win its second SEC series in as many tries when the Wildcats come to Tuscaloosa.

“With every win you get a little more confident,” Gaspard said. “Right now we are playing pretty good baseball. It is really important for us to try and bottle up that momentum and head into the weekend with it.”

s l a i c e p S t h g Day & Ni $1 Beer

chers $2 Jolly Ran nds $5 Long Isla

508 Red Drew Ave. www.hornysbar.com 205-345-6869

es $6 Hurrican l Deads $6 Gratefu til 4pm n u s g o d t o $1 H

Experience

Graduation Celebration Wednesday and Thursday, March 23rd and 24th 10:00am – 5:00pm Ferguson Center Plaza Friday, March 25th 10:00am – 4:00pm SUPe Store Ferguson Center lobby

Specials avaliable only during this event 20% off Diploma Frames 10% off Bachelor’s and Master’s Gowns

LIFESTYLES

Two Alabama artists visit campus

Page 12 • Thursday, March 24, 2011 Editor • Kelsey Stein kmstein@crimson.ua.edu

LIFESTYLES this weekend TODAY

By Karissa Bursch Senior Staff Reporter kabursch@crimson.ua.edu

Students don’t have to plan trips to New York City, London or Paris to experience a wealth of meaningful culture and heritage. They have an opportunity to learn about and appreciate the culture that lies right at their fingertips here in the state of Alabama.

The Center for Economic Development, along with the Department of English, the Department of American Studies, New College, Creative Campus, Honors College Assembly and the UA Press, is sponsoring a “University of Alabama Living Legends” lecture where students will experience firsthand Alabama’s own living legends and cultural heritage.

The lecture is today and will last from 3:30 until 5 p.m. It will take place in ten Hoor Room 125 and is free for all to attend.

Daniel Marbury, an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer for the Center for Economic Development and one of the organizers of the project, explained the importance of the lecture. “[The Center for Economic Development] initiated a conversation about this,” Marbury

said. “We’ve been working throughout Alabama and promoting cultural heritage as a tourism opportunity. This lecture is a good way to highlight that wealth of cultural innovation that you can see across the state.”

Two Alabama artists will be highlighted at the lecture, Charlie Lucas, who will be present to speak, and Kathryn Windham, who will be unable to attend due to health issues.

The lecture will be set up as a casual conversation instead of a strict lecture, Marbury said. Since Windham will not be present, Linda Vice, a partner from Southwest Alabama Tourism and longtime friend of Windham, will be there to share stories, along with Lucas, about Windham.

According to a bibliography of the two artists, Lucas is also known as “The Tin Man” and is a self-taught artist who makes art from “a variety of found objects which become incorporated into sculptures and paintings.”

Windham is a nationally acclaimed storyteller who presented at the second National Storytelling Conference last year. She is regarded as one of the best storytellers in the Southeast and is especially known for her ghost stories.

She was a pioneer for female journalism and is also a photographer.

Both Lucas and Windham have written several books ,which will be available to purchase at the lecture, including Lucas’s book “Tin Man.” The authors will not be available to sign the books at that time, but Lucas will be available to sign books on Friday at 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at the Kentuck Museum in Northport.

Students will also be able to view his work in a gallery at the book signing and participate in a book discussion.

“These are two of Alabama’s greatest artists,” Marbury said. “We are trying to expose students to the work they do.

Usually you don’t honor people like this until they pass away, but we want to bring them here while they are alive.

They have a lot of wisdom to share.

If they haven’t already had a conversation with Charlie they should come. He has a way of talking about life and creating art and there is always a lesson that I can connect back to my own life. [Kathryn and Charlie] both have a very important story to share.”

Ryan Davis, a Creative Campus intern, also worked to help coordinate the lec-

ture. He is also the director of Arts Awareness for the Honors College Assembly, so with HCA he pushed to help sponsor Lucas’s visit to the University.

“It’s sad that Kathryn Windham isn’t very healthy right now, but Charlie Lucas is a legend unto himself,” Davis said. “The unique things that he does make his artwork very beautiful. His art is made from dumpster digging and acquiring scrap metal. It’s incredible. He is an iconic artist from Alabama, and he’s nationally known and he’s very humble about it.”

Marbury elaborated on his impression of Lucas as a speaker and a teacher.

“He is full of metaphors, meanings and symbols,” Marbury said. “You feel like he’s full of wisdom when you’re talking to him. He speaks in parables.”

Marbury said this knowl-

edge is exactly what he is hoping students will get out of the lecture – the wisdom from an accomplished and well-known figure of Alabama.

“I also think [this lecture] is very good as far as encouraging people interested in anything creative…” Davis said.

“These things are contributing to making the art scene better in Tuscaloosa. Encountering somebody like Charlie Lucas would encourage students to take a part of that.”

IF YOU GO ...

• What: University of Alabama Living Legends

• Where: ten Hoor Room 125

• When: today 3:30-5 p.m.

Dylan Sneed performs at the Bama Theatre

• Matt Richie & J-Ste: Bo’s Bar •The Randy Rogers Band: Dixie •Truffle Shuffle: Top Shelf •Junction Senators: Innisfree •Freshwater Phenomenon: Red Shed •Southern Distortion: Rounders

FRIDAY • The Gnomes: Bo’s Bar •Druid City Band: Booth

Sara Beth Colburn Dylan Sneed plays at acoustic night at the Bama Theatre Wednesday night.

• Sex Panther, White Noise & Nastique: Dixie •Plato Jones:: Top Shelf •Druid City Arts Festival Music Crawl: 6 p.m. – 3 a.m., various venues • Stephen Padilla: Innisfree • Southbound: Red Shed

The University of Alabama Libraries Present:

UA Super Searcher March 25th 2011

ONLY $10 STUDENTS FACULTY STAFF

Win an iPad

3:00 to 5:00 PM 205 Gorgas Library

search Eat

FIND Win

1st Place: iPad 2nd Place: iPod Touch 3rd Place: Kindle Register at:

www.lib.ua.edu/supersearcher

$10 TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

The Crimson White

13

LIFESTYLES

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Festival honors women through ďŹ lm

By Lauren Ferguson Contributing Writer The 10th annual LunaFest film festival will celebrate Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Month. The film festival will be shown by the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center at the Bama Theatre on Thursday at 7 p.m.

LunaFest is funded by LUNA, maker of the Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, to raise awareness on issues women face. All proceeds raised by the event go to local charities and the Breast Cancer Foundation.

The film festival consists of 6 short films lasting from three to five minutes each that have been selected from more than 250 submissions. Each film covers a topic relating to what it means to be a woman in current society, with genres ranging from documentaries to animation.

Kit Pearce, leadership and education programming coordinator for the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;[This event] is a great way for people to become educated on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues and a great way for the Tuscaloosa community to be exposed to women in film and what issues women face today.â&#x20AC;?

LunaFestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success has allowed the event to grow from a small annual event to one that has more than 150 festivals every filming season. The film festival has raised more than $570,000 for multiple womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s non-profit organizations in addition to promoting awareness for women and their stories.

Pearce said the director of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center discovered LunaFest and thought it was a wonderful opportunity to be a host.

The University is the only place in the state of Alabama to host LunaFest. This is the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth year to be a host and additional festivities have been planned to accompany the event. At 6:30 p.m. there will be a silent auction fundraiser consisting of 10 to 15 items. Among the items will be two footballs signed by the 2010 Crimson Tide football team, paintings, a spa package, a golf package and gift cards to restaurants.

A free reception will precede the film showing. Kobe Japanese Steakhouse will be providing sushi and Publix will be providing an assortment of desserts. During the reception, gymnastic team head coach

IF YOU GO ...

2011 LunaFest ďŹ lms

â&#x20AC;˘ What: LunaFest Film

â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Translatorâ&#x20AC;?: A foreign ďŹ lm trans-

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thembiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diaryâ&#x20AC;?: 19-year-old

lator ďŹ nds her story on a subway line.

Thembi records an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.

Festival

â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother of Manyâ&#x20AC;?: The most danger-

Theatre

ous journey sometimes needs a helping hand â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a midwife.

â&#x20AC;˘ When: Tonight at 7

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting a Gripâ&#x20AC;?: Tells the story of Fannie Barnes, the ďŹ rst woman cable car operator.

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Touchâ&#x20AC;?: Two women make an unusual connection while waiting for a train.

â&#x20AC;˘ Where: Bama

â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ireneâ&#x20AC;?: 92-year-old Irene suffers from Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but struggles to keep her independence.

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tightly Knitâ&#x20AC;?: A new generation of yarn bombers and social knitters discover that the ties that bind are sometimes made of wool.

old women who spend their days waiting.

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top Spinâ&#x20AC;?: With hard work and fam-

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love on the Lineâ&#x20AC;?: Follow the dots

ily sacriďŹ ce, a young table tennis champion works toward becoming one of the top players in the world.

and dashes when star-crossed lovers curbed their raging hormones via the quickest form of communication available â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the telegraph.

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miracle Ladyâ&#x20AC;?: Tells the tale of two

lunafest.org Sarah Patterson will give a speech.

The film screenings start at 7 p.m. and last approximately two hours. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s films will include â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Translator,â&#x20AC;? in which a foreign film translator discovers her story on the subway; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting a Grip,â&#x20AC;? a docu-

mentary on Fannie Barnes, the first woman cable car operator; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thembiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diary,â&#x20AC;? a 19-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audio diary of her struggle with AIDS. In the past, the event has been well attended and the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center said they have already sold

500 tickets for this year.

Student tickets are $12, faculty and staff are $18, and general admission is $20. â&#x20AC;&#x153;LunaFest is really interesting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it connects to every organization on campus and showcases women across the world,â&#x20AC;? said Jessi Hitchins,

assistant director of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both education and student affairs work together to host LunaFest.â&#x20AC;?

The Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center provides the UA community with outreach, service and ways to support women.

The center also offers free counseling services for those affected by domestic violence or sexual assault. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think being able to reach out to different sponsors and seeing everyone support [LunaFest] has made being the event coordinating exciting,â&#x20AC;? Pearce said.

For more information on LunaFest or Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center call 348-5040.

REVIEW | FOOD

Nice atmosphere at FIVE

By Avery Driggers

CW | Katie Bennett Despite lackluster entrees, FIVE is worth visiting for the atmosphere and great service. ing and genuinely seemed to enjoy where she was working.

The good thing about a small menu is that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take too long to decide what to order. I got the pork pad thai and my friend ordered shrimp primavera. Be warned, FIVE certainly drops their theme when it comes to prices. Entrees range from $11-$22 and wine and cocktails are $6 and above.

The food took just long enough to arrive that we knew it hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been sitting under a heat lamp for a while, but also timely enough that we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t constantly checking our watches and whipping our heads around every time a server came near.

Our waitress set out two substantially portioned dishes, but unfortunately their flavors were inconsistent. The

shrimp primavera was light and flavorful with several large shrimp nestled in beds of fettuccini and sauce. But my pad thai lacked oomph. Maybe I am judging FIVE too harshly compared to actual Thai restaurant dishes, but the flavor was bordering on bland and the chunks of pork were dry and overcooked.

Bottom line, some of the dishes may not be worth their price tag, but the atmosphere is so fun and the service so attentive that, despite my lackluster entrĂŠe, I still had a thoroughly enjoyable evening. So if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to try out FIVE for yourself be sure you have enough money to swing the prices and enough time to sit back and enjoy the surroundings.

W here Student Life Ask About Our New ALL-INCLUSIVE PACKAGES! Apartments $575 Starting at

Apt. Features Walk-In Closets $ Private Baths Washer/Dryer Starting at Patio/Balcony High-Speed Wifi

Condominiums

per bedroom

Meets

e f i L d o o T he G

625 per bedroom

1 mile /4

to the University of Alabama LEASES

Close to campus, dining and shopping.

Starting from

Road Rice Mine

r arne Pkwy kW Jac

oa

R i ve

rR

82 University of 0 Alabama 8 / 7 , ) $ 0 , / <

y Blvd.

U niversit

sity Blvd. ver Uni

359

15th Street

r â?&#x2013;

Apartment Homes â?&#x2013; Condominiums

$

d

Ellis Trick

69

McFarland Blvd.

Since its grand opening in January, FIVE has managed to carve out its niche as that restaurant youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard about but havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually tried yet.

The concept is simple enough. FIVE offers five appetizers, five entrees, five cocktails, etc. and to round out the theme they even opened on 1/11/11 which, when added together, equals five.

Gimmicks aside, the online menu looked promising, despite its slim pickings.

Currently theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re offering pork pad thai, fried chicken, cheeseburgers, shrimp primavera and ribeye steaks and a daily special â&#x20AC;&#x201C; although word has it they change up the menu every month.

If FIVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu is sparse, the dĂŠcor and atmosphere more than make up for it.

Mismatched chandeliers contrast against exposed brick walls, original artwork and a prohibition-style bar area, which combine to accomplish an effortlessly cool vibe.

The weather was nearly perfect the Monday my friend and I decided to go, so we took advantage of the indoor-outdoor seating. Sometimes sitting outside means service is sporadic at best, but our waitress was friendly and attentive.

She was constantly checking up on us without being annoy-

University Mall

Furniture packages available! *See leasing office for details

495

Featured at University Downs:

m per bedroo

} Roommate Matching Service } Premium Services and Amenities } NEW â&#x20AC;&#x153;All-Inclusive Packageâ&#x20AC;?

Ellis Trick 0 8 / 7 , ) $ 0 , / <

UI 4U & Ĺ­

www.universitydowns.com

Visit our website www.universitydowns.com to follow us on Facebook and Twitter!

14 Thursday, March 24, 2011

LIFESTYLES

The Crimson White

New College honors Bob Dylan birthday

By Ashley Chaffin Staff Reporter alchaffin@gmail.com

The University of Alabama and New College are providing students a chance to celebrate Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday tonight from 5-6:30 p.m.

“New College is invested in helping students make connections amongst disciplines and histories,” said James Hall, a New College professor and organizer of the event.“Celebrating Bob Dylan is a natural thing for us to do.”

The celebration will take place tonight in Room 205 of Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.

The speaker for the event will be Michael Gray who, according to the website, is

“He’s not unlike Bob Dylan himself; a troubadour journalist, who has made an impact in the documenting of many areas of American music.”

— James Hall considered a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan.

Gray, the editor of the Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, will discuss Dylan and the poetry of the blues.

“He’s not unlike Bob Dylan himself; a troubadour journalist, who has made an impact in the documenting of many areas of American music,” Hall said. “As editor of the Bob Dylan encyclopedia, no one knows more about Dylan or his influence.”

an informal get-to-know-you said Colby Leopard, LIFESTYLES ofsession, co-chair of the Xpress Night

in brief

Xpress Night tonight at Ferg The Honors College Assembly will host Xpress Night at the Starbucks in the Ferguson Center tonight from 6-9 p.m.

Candidates for HCA offices will also have two to three minutes to talk about what they want to accomplish with HCA next year. Most of the candidates for positions are running unopposed, so it will be more

committee of HCA. The event allows students to express themselves in an openmic forum. Performances can include music, dance, poetry, prose and other forms of artistic expression. Tonight’s event will include 10 different performers.

Art exhibit, Breaking Boundaries, accepting submissions Creative Campus is seeking submissions for Breaking Boundaries, an exhibit

According to the event page, Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker, and broadcaster who is known as an expert on rock’n’roll history.

Gray is currently on a book tour promoting his most recent publication, “Hand Me My Traveling Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell,” which is a biography of the blues musician Blind Willie McTell.

Although Dylan’s birthday isn’t until May, Hall said he couldn’t pass up the chance focusing on art, music and writing by LGBTQA students.

Submissions can be visual, musical or written artwork that speaks to issues and identities surrounding LGBTQA culture.

Visual and musical work should be submitted at creativecampus.ua.edu and written work to thedomeua@ gmail.com.

The exhibit will be on display from April 4-15 at the Alabama Art Kitchen.

According to a press release, Creative Campus presents Breaking Boundaries with the expectation that art will initiate deeper dialogue about LGBTQA issues and allow students to showcase their work in a positive environment.

to celebrate it with someone who knows so much about him, even if it is a few months early.

Tonight’s talk will focus on Dylan’s influence on blues, bringing together his knowledge of Dylan and the themes in his most recent book.

IF YOU GO ...

• What: Bob Dylan birthday celebration • Where: 205 Gorgas Library

• When: Tonight at 5-6:30 p.m.

Credit: 123nonstop.com Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday is May 24, 2011. A birthday celebration for the musician will be held tonight at 5 p.m. in Gorgas Library.

Women’s Resource Center examines beauty

Free iPads!

CW | Margo Smith Above: The What makes You Beautiful campaign helps show how every woman is beautiful.

g n i s ea ll!

L e r P or Fa f

Features include: 2Br / 2Ba Dining room Large Kitchen + Appliances Washer/Dryer Patio/Balcony Huge closet space 24 hr Maintanance Pool!

PET FRIENDLY!

Ask about our All-inclusive Utilities Package!

From $450/BR

Left: A board displays photos of women along with their idea of what makes them beautiful.

The

SUNGLASS

Shop

Free Gift

with Purchase Bring in this ad when you apply to Quail Valley or Windsor Hill apartments to recieve one iPad per resident (maximum of two)! Must sign lease between March 1-31, 2011. Restrictions apply. Call office for details.

205.345.1440 . 2030 9th St., Tuscaloosa, AL 35404

Croakie & Lens Cloth

5525 25 Greensboro Avenue. Tuscaloosa, AL 34501 011

205-752-6931 www.theshirtshop.biz www.theshirtsho

CAMPUS 3-8 Bedroom Houses for Rent. Fall 2011. Walking Distance.

Please call 752-1277.

Lease & deposit required. No pets.

Apartment For Rent CAMPUS- Behind the University Strip. Small (IÂżFLHQF\ $SDUWPHQWV $300-350/ mo. Utilities included. Lease and deposit required. No pets.

Call 752-1277.

MORRISON APARTMENTS 1 BDRM $495/ month and Studio $360/ month half-way downtown and UA. . Call 7580674 WILLOW WYCK 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, perfect IRU URRPPDWHV ÂżYH minutes from Campus.

Move-In Special. Preleasing Available. 3919690

Leasing NOW for the Fall!

1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms

&RQYHQLHQW WR , 6KRSSLQJ 8 RI $ DQG 6KHOWRQ 6WDWH *UHDW IRU 5RRPPDWHV 0RQLWRUHG 6HFXULW\ 6\VWHPV 3URYLGHG 3RRO )LWQHVV 5RRP 7DQQLQJ %HGV palisadesapthomes.com 3201 Hargrove Road East Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 205-554-1977

CAMPUS- EFFICIENCY APARTMENTS CamSXV (IÂżFLHQF\ $SDUWments next door to Publix Supermarket. $350/ month. Water included.

Cobblestone Court Apartments. Lease & Deposit required, no pets.

205-752-1277 CAMPUS-DOWNTOWN 4 blocks from strip. 1 BR Apts. $375/ mo. Lease and deposit required. No pets. Broadstreet Apartments. Call 752-1277 NEW 1&2BR APTS Gated Community! Now Signing Leases for Fall 2011! Only $429/mo. Affordable Student Living At Its Best! 205-4699339 CAMPUS AREA APARTMENT Available Now. Newly renovated 2 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath No deposit required. $625 a month. All new appliances: W/ D included. (318) 470-7512 WALK TO STRIP & CLASS! great 2bd/1bath apt. $675/m check out at 1231 Riverside Drive 2 LOFTS DOWNTOWN Unique! 2BR 1BA, roof patio-$1100. 2nd has brick walls and hardZRRG Ă&#x20AC;RRUV 9020/657-3900

Sublease

Follow us on Twitter!

Help Wanted

@ CWnewsline

!BARTENDING! $300/ day potential, no experience necessary. Training available. (800)9656520 Ext214.

DCH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER EVS Attendants / Housekeepers and Food Service Assistants needed immediately. First and second shifts available with our Resource Teams.

All positions are nonEHQHÂżWHG ZLWK D Ă&#x20AC;DW UDWH of $8.50 per hour.

To learn more about these and other available positions and to apply online, please visit the DCH website at: www.dchsystem.com.

EARN EXTRA MONEY Students needed ASAP. Earn up to $100 per day being a Mystery Shopper. No Experience Required. Call 1-877-6546216 STUDENT HELP WANTED J & P Construction Co., Inc. is hiring for local student help to do light maintenance duties inside and outside, running errands, etc.

A clean driving record and a clean drug test are required. We will work around your school schedule. Please fax your resume to the following number: 205345-6652. Thanks STUDENTPAYOUTS. COM Paid Survey Takers needed in Tuscaloosa. 100% FREE to join!

Click on Surveys.

STUDENTS NEEDED for the fall 2011 Crimson Tide Hospitality Team.

Hiring responsible UA students to assist in skybox & club operations at all Bama home football games. Go to CrimsonTideHospitality.com for an application and more info.

Follow us on

SUMMER SUBLEASE May 8th-July 31st @ the Boardwalk. $460/ mo, all inclusive. I will pay portion of May rent.

(941)725-0006

Condos FURNISHED CONDO Stafford Plaza; 2209 9th St.; 2 Bdrm 2 bath; Downtown Tusc; $1,100/ mo. (205)3109594

Buy & sell

using The Crimson White

classifieds

$tudent $pecial: Move your own home in now and receive up to $1,000 moving assistance

STADIUM SEATING | 3D 248.8248 | 4250 Old Greensboro Rd.

AE9P Fgo 9nYadYZd] 9\nYf[] La[c]lk Gf KYd]

EYjk F]]\k Egek H?! )2(- +2*- -2-( EYjk F]]\k Egek AE9P H?! ))2-( *2)( ,2+- /2(- 12+( J]\ Ja\af_ @gg\ H?%)+! )*2*( +2(( -2+( 02)- )(2-( JYf_g H?! )2+( ,2-- /2+- )(2)HYmd J! *2)- -2)- 02(- )(2,( :a_ EgeeYk2 Dac] >Yl`]j H?%)+! )2-( ,2-( /2-( )(2+( @Ydd HYkk J! )*2+( +2)- -2-- 02*- ))2(( L`] 9\bmkle]fl :mj]Ym H?%)+! )*2)- +2+- .2(( 02+- ))2(-

Place your ad at cw.ua.edu today

Rv Lots for Rent Homes for Sale WoodVillage 205-758-9553 woodvillagemhp.com

PRIVATE PILOT LESSONS Earn your private SLORW FHUWLÂżFDWH DW WKH Tuscaloosa Airport.

205-272-2231 or email joshnwakefield@gmail. com GMAT TUTORING www.GMATnerd.com Cheaper Than Kaplan Better Than Kaplan Group Rates Available Call or Text: (870) 6124222

For Sale Misc PDA -PALM PLOT for Nursing Student, Like new-for Sale-paid $500 will take $300 or best offer. (205)222-0760

Crimson White Advertising

is hiring for Sales & Design positions apply at Office of Student Media

:Ylld]2 D9 H?%)+! ))2,- )*2-- *2+- ,2(( -2*/2(( 02+( 12-:]Ykldq H?%)+! )*2,( *2-( -2,( /2-- )(2*Mfcfgof H?%)+! )*2,- .2-Bmkl ?g Oal` Al H?%)+! +2-( 12,( A Ye FmeZ]j >gmj H?%)+!

02)( )(2,L`] Daf[gdf DYoq]j J! )2)- ,2)( /2)- )(2(Daeald]kk H?%)+! *2(( ,2,( /2,- )(2*( 9dYZYeY Eggf H?! )*2(( *2*- -2(- /2+( )(2(( Dgj\ g^ l`] <Yf[] +< ?! )2,( ,2*- /2*( )(2)(

STUDENT DISCOUNTS WITH VALID ID

Services

or call 348-8995

@thecrimsonwhite

/633@>66+ &

Buying or Selling your bike

www.cobbtheatres.com

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthday (03/24/11). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if Maya Angelou wrote this for you today: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love life; engage in it; give it all youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.â&#x20AC;?

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- If you gaze out farther into the distance, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see not only the bend in the road, but also the signs, obstacles and stoplights ahead. Keep your hands on the wheel.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Your adaptability has allowed for a regeneration of purpose that ultimately moves you up a rung on the career ladder. Travel to spread words of bright outlook.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the zone. You know just what to say. Your career moves to a new level, boosted by patience, thorough attention to detail and harmony at home.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at what you do, and others are recognizing that. Your optimism and friendly nature add to the project. Use diplomacy and attention to detail for best results.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- New ideas thrive with creativity. The basic support is there, the groundwork already laid. Plant seeds and water them lovingly and patiently.

Tend them well.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your confidence rewards you with increased professional stature and

=HPGMBF>

House For Rent

1 BEDROOM CONDO for rent. 625 month, available June 1st.

(251)709-7690

increasingly interesting projects (and travel). Use diplomacy via the written word.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -Clear communication between siblings Mankl]Zr and peers allows for harmony at home and work. This shows up in greater FZk\a +productivity, happiness and increased income.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Confident, adaptable and plugged in, Mh ieZ\^ rhnk Z]3 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re set up to move things forward ,-1&0,.. powerfully. The written word figures prominently. Give a thorough edit, and \p\eZllf`k release it.

9`fZbe'\hf Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Others respect your ability to adapt to the situation, to connect easily with needed resources and to handle ppp'\p'nZ'^]n tasks without breaking a sweat. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power in your communication.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a Lmn]^gm kZm^3 7 -- Be mindful of self-imposed limita ',.(i^k phk]( tions. Use today to re-juice, even while taking care of business. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no place i^k ]Zr like home. Indulge curiosity. Learn !Fbg' */ phk]l% - kngl" something new.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- When a good friend is around to reassure you, nothing can stop you. Let *The Crimson them boost your ego, but also listen White places openly when they point out things that these ads in donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. good faith.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 We are not -- Your patience pays off in matters of responsible for work. Enjoy when everything flows with fraudulent ease, instead of worrying that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too advertising.* good to be true. Be receptive. Be generous. Be thankful.

Visit:

www.cw.ua.edu Career Center Peer Advisor - 0804763.

Applicants must be rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors for the 2011-2012 academic year with 3.0 GPA or higher. Job close date: 3/23/2011.

Programming Assistant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0804777. $VVLVWDQWV QHHGHG WR SURYLGH VWDIÂżQJ DQG programming assistance for the Crimson Source. Applicants must meet availability and GPA requirements. Job close date: 4/4/2011.

Apple Computer Store Assistant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0804780. Assistant needed to provide sales and customer service support in the computer department at the Supply Store.

Applicants with previous retail/customer service experience and experience with Apple computers/software strongly preferred. Job close date: 4/1/11.

Follow us on Twitter: Text â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;UAStudentJobsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to 40404 to get instant alerts on new job postings.

Brettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Website Design www.brettswebsitedesign.com dbdsupvic@hotmail.com

205-394-1140 NO CONTRACT ONE YEAR OLD PART OF THE BIBB COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE t Resume websites t Website for classes t Websites for up and coming new businesses

Scene

the

Check out the best legal solutions to get your daily music fix

LIFESTYLES

Grooveshark.com

Page 16• Thursday, March 24, 2011 Editor • Kelsey Stein kmstein@crimson.ua.edu

Grooveshark is an online music search engine and streaming service. Users can search for, stream and upload music for free and then play songs or add them to a playlist. It’s recommendation system, “Grooveshark Radio,” finds songs similar to the ones on your playlist, so it’s good for finding new music as well as listening to your favorites.

Flicks

Last.fm

Pandora.com

Last.fm is a music recommendation service that helps you discover new music based on the songs you play most often. You have to create a user profile to use the site, then download a system called The Scrobbler that builds a profile of your musical taste by recording details of the songs you play on Internet radio stations and your computer.

Pandora is yet another music recommendation site created by the Music Genome Project. Simply by entering a song or artist you enjoy, Pandora will create a playlist of similar songs and artists. You can use Pandora for free, which includes ads between some songs but allows you to stream up to 40 hours each month, or buy a subscription without ads.

8tracks.com 8tracks is Internet radio made solely from mixes, or “online mixtapes,” created by individuals. Each mixtape is a streaming playlist with eight or more tracks. You can search for mixes based on tags like indie rock or oldies or search by artist.

to catch

COBB HOLLYWOOD 16 • Just Go With It (PG-13) • Rango (PG) • Battle: Los Angeles (PG13) • Limitless (PG-13) • Paul (R) • Lincoln Lawyer (R) • Red Riding Hood (PG13) • The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) • Beastly (PG-13) • Hall Pass (R) • Mars Needs Moms (PG) • Just Go With It (PG-13) • Unknown (PG-13) • I Am Number Four (PG13) • Big Momma’s: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13) • Carmen in 3D (PG-13) • Alabama Moon (PG) • Lord of the Dance 3D (PG-13)

Night

Streaming Facebook

Twitter

Download from Amazon. Prices usually better than iTunes.

– Christopher Marshburn

NPR music, all songs considered – @Alexb251

Amazon mp3 is my go to for music downloads. They have an incredible selection of $5 albums.

– Kyle Goodin

Soundcloud, Addictech, Bandcamp, Junodownload, iTunes, The Fader, RCRD LBL, Beatport – @Bellizio

People love Pandora, but many don’t realize that some of their fav local radio stations broadcast online as well – @eckitchens

Iheartradio at iheartradio. com and for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile – Kyle David Pierce

life

THURSDAY • Bo’s Bar: Matt Richie & J-Ste • Dixie: The Randy Rogers Band • Gnemi’s Top Shelf: Truffle Shuffle • Innisfree: Junction Senators • Red Shed: Freshwater Phenomenon • Rounders: Southern Distortion

I listen to http://bhammountainradio.com/ when I can, since Live 100.5 is no longer on the radio!

– Linnzi Rich

Free & Legal Downloads

Internet Radio

FRIDAY • Bo’s Bar: The Gnomes • Booth: Druid City Band • Dixie: Sex Panther, White Noise & Nastique • Gnemi’s Top Shelf: Plato Jones • Innisfree: Stephen Padilla • Moe’s: Juction Senators • Druid City Band: The Booth

SATURDAY • Bo’s Bar: 2 1/2 White Guys • Booth: Matt Richie Band • Gnemi’s Top Shelf: Southbound • Inisfree: Plato Jones • Moe’s: Truffle Shuffle • Red Shed: Bad Stick • Rounders: Druid City Band

Amazon MP3 is an entirely online music store owned by Amazon.com. Like iTunes, you have to pay for the majority of the music, but the site offers an extensive selection of free downloads, both songs and entire albums. Also, if you follow @amazonmp3 on Twitter you can find out about free songs and deals.

Although most people don’t think of getting free music from iTunes, there is a weekly promotion where users can download one to three songs free of charge. These free downloads, which are available each Tuesday, include three types of songs: the regular feature free song; the Discovery Download, which features songs from different genres; and the Cancion de la Semana, a free Latino single.

This site boasts “the hottest free music downloads. Served daily.” RCRD LBL provides free MP3 downloads from emerging artists. It features more than 25,000 free singles from artists like Santigold, Moby and MGMT. It was the first site to post a free download of Kid Cudi’s single “Day ‘N’ Nite,” so you can use it to stay in the know about new and upcoming artists.

University’s studentrun radio station, 90.7 The Capstone, has recently started streaming live content online. You can access the station’s broadcasts about entertainment, sports, weather and news from the website, thecapstone. ua.edu.

NPR Music offers public radio music programming and original editorial content for free online streaming. It currently has podcasts, webcasts of live concerts, reviews, news, studio sessions with artists and interviews, as well as an index of public radio music stations that offer live online streaming.

Iheartradio offers music content like albums, singles, live performances and music videos. It also gives you access to more than 750 local radio stations from across the country, digital stations and channels hosted by celebrities like Jim Rome and Dr. Laura.

CW | Brian Pohuski