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International, 1970s UA president to speak Mathews UA students David returns to give lecture live together Fast Facts

By Lindsey Holland Contributing Writer

If you are interested in Contact Housing and foreign culture, planning to Residential Communistudy abroad or just looking for a more beneficial housing ties at 348-8084 to experience, you may want to apply. consider the International Living Learning Community for fall 2009.

“A large population of The HRC staff will international students don’t make your assignalways find a receptive roomment if you are semate, particularly those lected. who take part in the English Language Institute who come and go,” said Alicia Browne, Associate Director for For more information, Assignments, Information and contact Housing and Communication for Housing Residential Communities at and Residential Communities.

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Career Center offers students résumé tips

By Sydney Holtzclaw Contributing Writer

Résumé tips

As honor society applicaRealize the process tions are being turned in and will take time and RA interviews are being conducted, students are starting patience to turn their attention to getting their resumes in order for • Highlight experiinternships and jobs, whethences and skills er for the summer or postgraduation.

• Keep it simple yet Mary Loyd Lowrey, assistant director of career educa- concise tion and development at the Career Center, said she sug- • Check spelling and gests getting started as soon grammar as possible.

• Keep it to one page “Students should realize that writing an effective resume will take time and thought. They should start by Lowrey said.

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By Martha Gravlee Contributing Writer

David Mathews, a former president of the University of Alabama, will be delivering a lecture this morning at 11 a.m. under the rotunda on the third floor of Carmichael Hall.

Mathews was the UA president in the 1970s until he served as former President Gerald Ford’s Secretary of Health,

Education and Welfare.

Since 1981, Mathews has been president and chief executive officer of the Kettering Foundation, a nonprofit research organization that, according to its Web site, “works on strategies to strengthen democracy.”

“Dr. Mathews is, in my opinion, a great American,” said Ben Foster, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film and political science. Foster is also a fellow of the Blackburn Institute, which was instrumental in bringing Mathews back to the University.

Mathews’ lecture will be titled “Tough Times, Tough Challenges: The

Role of Universities in Civic Engagement” and is expected to address the responsibilities institutions of higher learning have to initiate change in greater society.

After the lecture, Mathews will answer questions from attendees.

“I think students can gain a lot of valuable insight from attending,” Foster said, citing Mathews’ influence on politics and education in both Alabama and the United States as a whole as reasons.

“He’s got quite an impressive résumé,” he said. “Any time you have someone who’s done so much work in civic engagement, I think that’s a valuable

lesson that anyone can gain from.”

The lecture will be open to the public, though seating will be limited.

If you go...

• What: David Mathews delivers lecture on University Civic Engagement

• When: Today at 11 a.m.

• Where: Rotunda on the third floor of Carmichael Hall

Fakin’ it — ID fraud Local bars crack down on fake IDs

By Victor Luckerson Staff Reporter Teenagers often look wishfully toward the future; many times wishing they were older and had more freedom. Some, however, do more than wish. With fake IDs, students are able to take on older personas and dive into the world of alcohol, much to the chagrin of local bar owners.

One student who wished to remain anonymous said she got her fake ID almost by accident.

To help her get into a bar a friend took her picture and crafted an ID for her, complete with a hologram. The task usually carries a $75 charge.

The student said she mostly uses the ID to buy alcohol CW | RF Rains instead of trying to gain access Left: Legal, state-issued IDs can be swiped through this machine, making it easier to check many to bars. So far the ID has IDs quickly. Right: The Red Shed shows off their system for catching fake IDs and counterfeiti bills.

“All it is is a UV light,” said TRS owner John “Mo” Mosley.

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Alpine Living takes students to new heights students to broaden their horizons,” Greer said. “It’s a good way for them to get a taste for different cultures and to learn the etiquette of the different a trip to France,” Bissell said. regions they report in.”

By Christy Conner “There is a lot of work that Senior Staff Reporter In addition to sending copies goes on when we are abroad.” of the magazine to UA faculty For the France issue of the members and to the compaTraveling to Switzerland, Italy and France sounds like magazine, they will focus on nies who purchased advertisea dream vacation to most, but four regions, with sections ments within the magazine, for UA Professor Kimberly like food and wine, sports, the University also distribBissell, it’s her utes copies to dream job. high schools As part of the “This class really helps students to broaden their throughout international jourAlabama with horizons. It’s a good way for them to get a taste for nalism class she journalism or different cultures and to learn the etiquette of the teaches at the communicadifferent regions they report in.”

University, Bissell tion programs. and her students The magazine — Journalism Department Chair Jennifer Greer travel abroad for is also distribtwo weeks in order uted to local to collect interbusinesses and views, photos and whatever architecture, French culture travel agencies. else is needed for the maga- and etiquette about each sec“Essentially, the magazine is zine they produce over the tion, she said. In two weeks, used as a recruitment tool for semester, called Alpine Living. students are required to have the University,” Bissell said.

The trip is planned over the completed a majority of their “We try to make sure it is disweek of spring break and the workload for the class, she tributed to incoming freshmen following week so students said. during Bama Bound, and we “It is essentially a guide to also distribute it in local busionly miss a total of five days of traveling that you wouldn’t nesses so that the community class, she said.

The class, which has taken find at most bookstores,” could see it.” students to Switzerland and Bissell said. “Instead, we try The class serves students in Italy in previous years, will be to create a local-based guide two ways, Greer said. It serves headed to France this semester. so travelers can get a flavor the students taking the class Students will travel through- of the people in those regions by giving them experience out the French Alps, Province, and what they do.” designing and writing for a One of the added bonuses is product in the real world, and Nice and Paris, which will be the four main regions that the that students in the class get it serves potential students by students will focus on for this the experience while learn- showing them all the potential issue of the magazine. From ing how to be a journalist majors within the journalism Paris, students will also take internationally, Journalism department, she said. day trips to Normandy and Department Chair Jennifer Greer said.

Versailles, she said.

“This class really helps see FRANCE, page 3 “It really is more than just

Students travel to France as part of journalism class

Professor reflects on time at University Professor of 40 years gives advice to students

By Josh Veazey Senior Staff Reporter

Dwight Eddins taught English and American literature at the University from 1966 to 2006. He was a Rhodes Scholar who studied in Oxford, and has published books, essays and poems, including a collaboration with UA art professor Alvin Sella, “Of Desire and the Circles of Hell.”

Eddins currently teaches University Honors Program courses on modern poetry and Friedrich Nietzsche, a philosopher from whom Eddins said he draws when it comes time to give advice for students: “Build your houses on Vesuvius” — a call to live dangerously.

Q: Was there a particular author, piece or era of literature that made you want to pursue a career in English?

A: I spent two years in physics.

But I was reading [W.B.] Yeats and [Wallace] Stevens – those were the two that had the most influence upon me. At the

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Hemingway’s Cuba letters at JFK Library

By Kelsey Abbruzzese The Associated Press BOSTON | When Gaylord Johnson Jr. was struggling with a term paper at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he figured he’d ask for help from someone who knew the material best: Ernest Hemingway.

“I’ve read a couple of the Nick Adams stories and have also read critical material on the same,” Johnson wrote in a letter to Hemingway in 1956, referring to one of Hemingway’s most famous characters. “I am, however, not quite satisfied with all I’ve read, and I wondered if you would write me and tell me just what you think of Nick Adams.”

Johnson’s letter, along with more than 3,000 other documents from Hemingway’s time in Cuba, was previously

tucked away in the basement of Hemingway’s estate at Finca Vigia, unseen by scholars and researchers.

Now, thanks to an agreement between U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., and the Cuban government, copies of those writings are at the John F. Kennedy Library.

The archival replicas include corrected proofs of “The Old Man and the Sea,” a movie script based on the novel, an alternate ending to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and thousands of letters, with correspondence from authors Sinclair Lewis and John Dos Passos and actress Ingrid Bergman. The documents were previewed Thursday and will likely be available to researchers in late spring.

McGovern, museum officials and scholars hailed the agreement with Cuba as historic cooperation between the

two countries.

“It’s a turning point toward a more rational, mature relationship between our two countries,” McGovern said. “I think Hemingway can be the bridge to help move both sides to a point where we can have a good, solid relationship.”

McGovern, an advocate of normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, said Cubans consider Hemingway one of their own because he lived there for 21 years, longer than any other place he resided in his life.

The Worcester congressman also credited the Cubans working at Finca Vigia for scanning and digitizing all the materials and working to preserve the originals and the house in Cuba, which was also AP photo part of the agreement.

In this photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum writer Ernest Hemingway The JFK Library already appears sitting in front of his typewriter Cuba in the late 1940s. has an extensive collection of Hemingway material — 100,000 pages of writings and 10,000 photographs, paintings Hemingway’s editor. and personal objects such Phillips arranged the trip as Hemingway’s passports, through McGovern when she flasks and wallet — thanks heard there were letters in to a connection between the basement from her grandHemingway’s fourth wife, father but couldn’t gain access Mary Welsh Hemingway, and to them. She returned with the Kennedys. her husband, Frank Spanier, Hemingway’s wife returned and Pulitzer Prize-winning to Cuba in 1961 after Perkins biographer A. Scott Hemingway’s death that July, hoping to retrieve his belong- Berg to assess the collection ings from his house at Finca and look into steps to preVigia. Because Fidel Castro serve it.

Spanier said she got had risen to power, she asked a friend who knew the Kennedys goosebumps when she saw if President Kennedy could Hemingway letters to Mary help her get to Cuba and take before their marriage and an Hemingway’s possessions original typescript of the short back to the United States, story “In Another Country.” since the Cuban government The microfilm copies at the planned to turn the estate into JFK Library provide scholars a Hemingway museum. The a window into the period that president took care of logis- occupied half of Hemingway’s tics within days. writing life, which before left When Mary Hemingway a “black hole” in Hemingway decided to donate the collecstudies because the material tion to a library, Jacqueline was off-limits to biographers, Kennedy told her through Spanier said. a letter exchange that “The question has always Hemingway’s writings would always have a special place in been, what didn’t Mary bring out?” Spanier said. “It’s really the JFK Library.

The collection has been a very intimate view of him available for viewing by that we’ve not had.”

As library director Tom appointment on the fifth floor since 1972, and the library Putnam said, “This completes boasts the most comprehen- the story.” sive body of Hemingway mateJenny Phillips saw the story rial in one place. of her grandfather’s relationStill, Sandra Spanier, profes- ship to Hemingway. In one sor of English and general edi- typed letter in 1929, Perkins tor of the Hemingway Letters addressed Hemingway withProject at Pennsylvania State out a salutation and wrote in University, said that Mary his own hand at the bottom: Hemingway couldn’t physi“For God’s sake, un-Mister me cally carry everything out anyhow.” of Cuba because of the large “It started as an immodest volume of works. Spanier little curiosity about letters was part of the group that saw what was left behind at from my grandfather that the Hemingway Museum at might still be in the basement Finca de Vigia in 2002, along at Finca Vigia,” Phillips said. with Jenny Phillips, a Concord “The larger significance of the psychotherapist whose grand- project became obvious very father, Maxwell Perkins, was quickly.”

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Iraqi shoe hurler inspires art in Saddam hometown BAGHDAD | When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush last month at a Baghdad press conference, the attack spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world.

Now it’s inspired a work of art.

A sofa-sized sculpture — a single copper-coated shoe on a stand carved to resemble flowing cloth — was formally unveiled to the public Thursday in the hometown of the late Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein.

Officials and visitors walked around the outdoor sculpture during the brief ceremony, pondering on its eccentricities — such as a tree poking up from the shoe’s interior.

Its sculptor called it a fitting tribute to the shoe hurler, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar alZeidi, and his folk hero reputation in parts of the Muslim world and beyond.

The Baghdad-based artist, Laith al-Amari, said the

work honors al-Zeidi and “is a source of pride for all Iraqis.”

He added: “It’s not a political work.”

But its location in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, about 80 miles north of Baghdad, is a point of reference for prewar nostalgia among some Iraqis.

The sculpture also includes an ode to al-Zeidi and mentions the virtues of being “able to tell the truth out loud.”

Al-Zeidi had shouted in Arabic as he pulled off his shoes and heaved them at Bush during the news conference. “This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq,” screamed al-Zeidi, who was working for a Cairo-based television station.

Bush dodged both shoes, but the image was extremely powerful in Arab culture, where throwing shoes at someone is a sign of extreme contempt.

Iraqis whacked a toppled statue of Saddam following the U.S.-led invasion with their shoes and slippers.

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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘NOBLE BEAST’

Indie rocker delivers oddly charming ‘Beast’

By Trey Irby Contributing Writer

Violins are awesome.

Yes, this sounds like a completely random slapdash quote, but hear me out. Violins craft nice, beautiful and alluring music.

Now, are they cool? Probably not. Well, not unless an indie artist makes being a violin virtuoso cool. This is what makes the music of Chicago’s Andrew Bird fascinating. Oh, he has talents like guitar playing and melodic whistling, but his violin compositions are gorgeous. He’s a quirky artist, but not quirky enough to put himself into any one realm, or at least a realm that can’t be enjoyed by hipsters.

Bird has honed this style to become a surprise star in the indie press, as his 2007 record “Armchair Apocrypha� sold nearly 100,000 copies and has built a feverish anticipation for

his follow up record, “Noble Beast.� “Noble Beast� even starts with violins. The opening track “Oh No� begins with a lot of pleasant instrumentation, some whistling and a bit of acoustic guitar. And early on, it’s clear this will not be a record everyone can enjoy. Bird sings in long and often indecipherable sentences about sociopaths and dizzy spells. His lyrics are admittedly complicated for the sake of complication. In fact, there might not even be a clear reasoning to any of the album’s tracks. (Mind you, this shouldn’t seem too surprising considering Bird previously released an album called “The Mysterious Production of Eggs.�)

However, it’s still an oddly charming record. The music is gorgeous throughout, especially on “Masterswarm� and the opening to “Effigy.� These songs are two of the album’s best tracks, and probably among Bird’s

‘Noble Beast’ CW critic’s rating:

Bottom line: “Noble Beast� is a good record that doesn’t quite touch greatness.

finest songs. Bird’s vocals are very conversational to a fault, and his voice is an amazing mesh with the music.

This brings up the interesting point as to why “Noble Beast� and Bird are merely good as opposed to great. Bird does everything

right except make that connection with the listener. His stories are based on being convoluted and hard to decipher, which may work in genres like metal or progressive rock where it is designed to be jarring and hard to follow, but it is less successful in indie rock. Great bands like Spoon, Animal Collective and The New Pornographers have wildly different indie rock sounds than Bird, but their music hits a wavelength with the listener. Bird doesn’t touch on the rough hardships or joys of life like those bands do. Because of this, unfortunately, “Noble Beast� proves an accomplished record, but not a classic.

That said, I reiterate that everything else about this record will draw in the listener who wants to hear it. This is Bird’s best full-length work. The sound and melodic tones mostly drown out my personal hiccups.

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INTERVIEW | GRAYSON CAPPS

Southern rocker returns with band

By Josh Hedrick Lifestyles Reporter

publicist, Kerry Chesnut, described Capps as having “this really great, southernMaking his third appearWhat: Southern rocker raspy, whiskey-soaked voice. ance in Tuscaloosa, Southern There is a rare quality to his Grayson Capps plays with rocker and Alabama native voice. It is really unique and full band, The StumpknockGrayson Capps takes the stage interesting when there are so ers at Little Willie’s tonight at many computerized vocals in 9:30 p.m. This will mark When: Tonight at 9:30 the music world today.� his first Tuscaloosa visit Capps recently released his Where: Little Willie’s with his full band, The fourth album, “Rott ‘N’ Roll,� a Stumpknockers. phrase fans coined to describe Just don’t buy him any the rough, down-home style whiskey shots. night long, but whiskey is the of his music. Tonight’s perfor“Whiskey starts f---in’ with bane of professional musi- mance will feature selections me when I’m playing,� said cians.� from his new album as well as Capps. “I can drink beer all Despite this, Little Willie’s his proven fan favorites.

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“Home� Entertainment was Never this Good

“If you like your music rough, raw and honest, accompanied by lyrics that are a mix of poetry, bourbon, humor and empathy, then you need to listen to Grayson Capps,� reads a Blogscritic.com review. “‘Rott ‘N’ Roll’ will make you realize that you’ve never actually heard Southern rock before.�

Capps said he enjoyed the response and atmosphere in his previous performances. “The first time I played Little Willie’s, I was solo. It was cool. There was a good reception and lot of pretty college girls there. I have red pins and green pins I put on a map of places I’ve played.

Green means go back and red means don’t. Tuscaloosa is a green pin.� “I really like the stage at [Little] Willie’s,� Capps said. “I like it when there is little barrier between the stage and the audience. I tell a lot of stories and stuff and it just feels better and we can be more dynamic.�

Little Willie’s strives to provide that sort of environment for both performers and the audience, Chesnut said. “When you walk in here, we want you to feel like you

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Tide falls to Razorbacks, 89-80 UA Athletics

FAYETVILLE, Ark. | The University of Alabama basketball team fell on the road to Arkansas 89-80 in interim head coach Phillip Pearson’s debut Thursday night.

Alabama trailed by as many as 14 points in the second half but cut the lead to six in the final two minutes before the Razorbacks pulled away.

Tide, scoring 11 points and dishing out seven assists.

The Tide trailed 38-31 at halftime. Alabama mounted an 8-1 run over a 3:08 period to cut the deficit to 35-31 before Jason Henry knocked down a three-pointer with 0:11 left to send the Razorbacks to the locker room with a seven point lead. Torrance led the Tide with nine points before the break.

By John Pye The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia | Andy Roddick was right there when Pete Sampras won his 14th Grand Slam title. And he was right there again when Roger Federer moved within one victory of matching Sampras’ record.

After a scorching day in which temperatures hit 111 degrees, Federer beat Roddick 6-2, 7-5, 75 in more manageable 91-degree heat Thursday night in the Australian Open semifinals.

The Swiss star will be playing in his 18th Grand Slam final but won’t know his opponent until Friday night, when Spanish left-handers Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco meet in the other semifinal.

Federer will be going for a fourth Australian title. Serena

Arkansas was led by guard Rotnei Clarke, who scored 26 points and sank 6-10 shots from three-point range. Michael Washington added 17 points and Michael Sanchez chipped in 13 for the Razorbacks.

Alabama returns home to Coleman Coliseum to take on the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, Jan. 31. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.

“Both teams shot 49 percent from the field, but the big discrepancy came at the free throw line where Arkansas went 28-35 compared to 8-10 for Alabama.”

Williams will be doing likewise, and also going for a 10th Grand Slam singles title. She ended the 15-match winning streak of Olympic champion Elena Dementieva, winning 6-3, 6-4 to set up a final against Olympic silver medalist Dinara Safina.

This was Federer’s seventh straight win over Roddick in a major and put his overall record in this matchup at 16-2. His loss to Roddick in Miami last year now seems like an aberration.

Roddick lost to Sampras in straight sets in the quarterfinals at the 2002 U.S. Open when he was a 20-year-old emerging talent. Sampras, then 31 and in his 52nd major, retired after beating Andre Agassi two matches later to win the U.S. Open.

Roddick won the next year at Flushing Meadows and held the No. 1 ranking in 2003.

“I think when Pete did it — I was a part of that one, too — everyone was saying how kind of lofty of an achievement it was,” Roddick said. “I don’t know if we thought we would see it any time soon. Little did we know (Federer) was going to start it the next year and go after it.”

Roddick is 26, just more than a year younger than Federer.

“It’s like my childhood was Pete, and now it’s kind of my grown life is Roger,” he said. “I guess Roger is a contemporary of mine, which didn’t lessen the affect. I see Pete and Andre and I still get a little jittery. It’s crazy to think it’s come full circle and the magnitude of the numbers (Federer’s) accomplished, it’s pretty scary if you sit down and go through what it takes to accomplish that.”

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Both teams shot 49 percent from the field, but the big discrepancy came at the free throw line where Arkansas went 28-35 compared to 8-10 for Alabama. The Razorbacks also held a significant edge behind the arc going 9-21 while the Tide shot 4-17.

Four Alabama players scored in double figures led by freshman JaMychal Green, who put up 24 points on 9-11 shooting from the field. Senior Alonzo Gee went for 18 points to go along with a team-high seven rebounds.

Sophomore Justin Knox had a solid game on both ends of the court with 12 points, six rebounds and three blocks. Junior Mikhail Torrance rounded out the double figure scorers for the

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Tide’s McLane makes early impact

By Cyrus Ntakirutinka Sports Reporter

The Alabama women’s tennis team kicked off the spring season last week with a strong performance at home against Chattanooga. The success has come in part because of the play of freshman Courtney McLane.

“I think she has done a really nice job,” head coach Jenny Mainz said. “She is very responsive to coaching. She’s always trying to find ways to get better, and continues to improve on a daily basis as well as making our team better.”

McLane showed a lot of promise in her performance against Chattanooga, beating Emily Hangstefer 6-0, 6-0.

McLane teamed up with her freshman roommate and doubles partner Taylor Lindsey to beat Beata Knizat and Jennemeike van der Veek 8-0.

“She is incredibly dynamic,” Mainz said. “Just powerful, explosive, dynamic, she has made an immediate impact.

She is a gamer, she loves to play, loves to compete, loves the pressure, continues to seek opportunities and continues to capitalize on opportunities.”

Listening to music is one way McLane prepares for matches.

The freshman admits rap songs by Lil’ Wayne and Kanye West help her get pumped up before she plays, but she also finds another source for inspiration.

“We have notebooks that we have to keep track of,” McLane said. “You kind of write positive affirmations, and I look at them before every match. I look at those and that usually gets me going.”

McLane’s athleticism also comes from playing other sports, with one close and dear to her heart.

“I love basketball. I played in high school,” McLane said. “I was a point guard, too short do anything else. I’m pretty much a sports fanatic, I play pingpong in the dorm, you name it I’m doing it.

“I play against Taylor [Lindsey] and some of the

girls on the team. One day me and Taylor played Inca [Bigos] and Alice [Tunaru] in doubles ping-pong, we had fun with that.”

The talented freshman plays a commanding tennis game with a strong attitude her coach finds to be beneficial to the team’s growth.

“It’s contagious, she is a gamer,” Mainz said. “Game days she’s excited [and] ready to play, she’s competitive in everything that she does, it is just her nature. But it is a good spirit and it is contagious to the team.”

McLane said she never lets her competitive spirit get in the way of team goals. The freshman has set her personal goals for the season to match the team goals.

“I’m just looking to put myself in the best situation to help my team win,” McLane said. “If it is getting the energy going up in doubles, taking care of points in singles, whatever I can do to help the team win.”

Mainz said she sees the

CW | Drew Hoover Freshman Courtney McLane won her match in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 Sunday against UT Chattanooga. McLane has given the Crimson Tide a boost early on.

“I think the sky is the limit,” potential McLane brings to the table and the impact she can Mainz said. “She has that hunmake on the team so early in ger, that burning fire inside, when people have that they her career.

will run through a wall to perform. I’m just fortunate that she is here at Alabama wearing the crimson and white.”

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Alabama to close out regular season at home Saturday UA Athletics

The Alabama swimming and diving teams close out their regular season Saturday, Jan. 31, at home with a tri-meet against Georgia and South Carolina starting at 11 a.m. in the Alabama Aquatic Center.

“This will be a great way to finish out this portion of our season,” head coach Eric Mcllquham said. “These are two good teams and we’re all ready to swim fast at this point in the season. There will be several Olympians in the pool and it should make for an

exciting meet.”

Both Georgia and South Carolina were in Tuscaloosa last spring for the Crimson Tidehosted SEC Championships.

This weekend’s meet will serve as a final tune-up for the year’s conference championships, coming up Feb. 18-21

in Auburn.

While there will be great competition throughout the meet, there are a couple of events on the men’s side of the meet that will bring extra fire.

Alabama’s Mark Randall and Georgia’s Troyden Prinsloo are ranked first and second in the 500 and 1650 freestyles, and the 200 butterfly will also feature the league’s top two competitors

in the Tide’s Dened Zubcsek and UGA’s Mark Dylla.

The women’s side of the meet will heat up around the breaststroke and IM events, as well as the diving events where the league’s top-10 lists are loaded with athletes from the three schools.

Saturday will also be Senior Day for the Crimson Tide.

Alabama will honor Caitlin

Anderson, Mary Kate Sellers, Van Diehl, Kevin Greer, Alin Mihalca, Chris Perry and Andy Schnack in the last home meet of their careers.

“This is already a big meet, just with the time of year and the competition, but you throw in senior day and it just makes all that much bigger,” McIlquham said. “We’re looking forward to it for sure.”

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Tide to compete at Adidas Classic UA Athletics The Alabama women’s track and field team will compete at the Nebraska Adidas Classic in Lincoln, Neb. on Saturday.

The meet being held at the Bob Devaney Sports Center will consist of five women’s teams, two of which are ranked.

Florida State leads the ranked teams at No. 5 while host team Nebraska comes in at No. 20 in the rankings. Other teams joining the Crimson Tide will be Kansas and Wichita State.

“Their teams are built very similar to ours with strengths across the board and I think as a result of that, this meet is going to be a catapult for everybody in regards to competition,” head coach Sandy Fowler said. “All of those schools have folks in all areas that have got some national

qualifiers. I think it’ll be a chance for everybody to be up against national caliber athletes.”

The Tide will be led by Chealsea Taylor this weekend, as she is ranked No. 10 in the country in high jump. Also ranked in the Top 25 in the nation in their respective events is Kimberley Laing (15th) in the 60m hurdles and Lynda Cooper (23rd) in the pole vault.

The women have had two straight weekends off after competing at the Clemson Invitational on Jan. 9. On opening weekend, Alabama had a good showing with three NCAA qualifying marks.

Cooper set a new school record on her way to a provisional mark in the pole vault. Laing also garnered a provisional qualifying time in the 60m hurdles and is ranked third in the event. Taylor jumped a provisional mark in

the high jump as well and is now ranked second in the SEC in that event.

Nicole Okolo is also competing well in the 60m hurdles where she is ranked fourth in the SEC. She holds a season best time of 8.49.

“The main thing we did is we chose to bring them back early so we could get an idea of their fitness levels after Christmas break,” Fowler said. “Then really get a good look at them to see more of what we need to work on for a couple weeks in regards to technique, speed and power and give them some time so they could adapt to that as well.”

The meet is on Saturday with the first event being the women’s weight throw at 1:30 p.m. The running events will begin at 2 p.m. with the women’s 60m hurdle preliminaries.

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beginning of my junior year, I went to two advanced physics classes one meeting each – and I walked out the door and walked across Clarke Hall to change my major to English.

Yeats said “You have not begun to live until you have conceived of life as tragedy.”

That seriousness, his love of heroism, his sense of how people confront things with a spirit and fortitude; that appealed to me.

Stevens worshipped the imagination. I liked the way he believed the imagination could turn into so many things and find meaning in existence that didn’t have to be orthodox. You parlay your own scriptures out of your experiences.

every time.

“They usually work,” said Caroline, a University student.

She uses IDs given to her by friends that look very similar to her.

“I like to have my height right on it,” Caroline said. “Basically just trying to match up your information to the ID is important.” She said the holograms present on driver’s licenses are very difficult to recreate, though.

According to both Caroline and the anonymous student, people are often looking for fake IDs, but failing to find opportunities to get them. Caroline said a good ID was likely to fall in the $100-$150 range.

Fake IDs are not a new issue for Tuscaloosa bars.

“They’re definitely a problem,” said Jeremiah Jones, owner of the Jupiter Bar and Grill. “They are for every bar in this town.”

According to Jones, the staff of the Jupiter goes through several procedures to check the legitimacy of an ID. Staff will check the thickness of a card and check whether its hologram is the proper Alabama state seal. A camera system is in place to document every ID that is offered to Jupiter staff.

Additionally, all staff must go through a course teaching them how to identify fake IDs. In the event that staff suspects someone is wielding a fake ID, they will usually give them several chances to confess. “It’s our duty to turn them away. It’s not our duty to take [fake IDs] up,” Jones said.

However, if they want to, bars can confiscate fake IDs and submit them to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

Getting caught with a fake ID is usually a misdemeanor punishable by a heavy fine. However, falsifying the state seal to create a truly legitimate ID is a felony with the possibility of jail time.

CW | Matt Abbey Dwight Eddins recently retired from the University as a professor of English and philosophy. Eddins, a professor since 1967, continues to teach specialized classes.

es they’re having, but they’re a kind of god making up his or not as interested in trying to her own world. discern what someone else is Q: Are you anticipating the having! film adaptation of McCarthy’s Q: Nietzsche is notoriously “The Road?” hard to understand for some. A: Yes. I thought “No Country Q: How different is the aca- Do you have problems relating for Old Men” was magnificent demic climate today different him to your students? both as a book and a movie. So from when from you started?

A: I don’t think so. He’s a rela- I’m curious to see what they do A: I started teaching in the six- tively lucid and accessible phi- with it this one. “No Country ties, so people were more inter- losopher compared to some- for Old Men,” when you read ested in trying new things. thing like [Georg] Hagel or it, it was unfolding like a movie Students were more adventur- [Immanuel] Kant. A few people script. This one’s a more prious in those early days – tak- get scared the first day. They vate and intense kind of thing. ing courses that challenge don’t want to take that kind But I think it will work if they them. I think a larger number of challenge on themselves. have good actors that can pull of people try to take the safe [Laughs] In a sense, that’s just it off. path than once did. But the natural selection at work. best students don’t change Q: What would you recomthey always throw themselves Q: A lot of passages you mend for people wanting to into it and are capable what explore question religion and start reading good literature? you ask of them and are able the existence of God. Have you A: I think a good anthology to excel. would be good for poetry. You ever offended anyone?

A: I’m sure I have. I’ve never can leaf through until you Q: Have you expefind one that rienced any reviattracts you, sioning of literaand just read it “Poetry has always had a problem because people ture since you’ve quick, and find want to write poetry but not many want to read started, for better one you like, it. They want you to know what great experiences or for worse? and read some they’re having, but they’re not as interested in trying A: There’s much more of what to discern what someone else is having!” more obsession that poet has with political, written. Robert — Dwight Eddins social and cultural Lowell is a good aspects of litera20th century ture and ideology, poet to read, which is, in my mind, to the been confronted about it. I because he pulls you into the detriment of what ought to be know that some people must problems of his life and makes central, which is the aesthetic have been upset because they it very vivid. experience that literature con- were brought up in different For novels, I think [Ian tains: What kind of power is ways. I think it’s a terrible McEwan’s] “Atonement” there? How does it bear upon thing for anyone to use the would be a good novel to start your life? How does it explode class to promote his or her with. I’ve never known someupon your existence and own ideology. So I’m simply one who started to read that change it? As opposed to: How there to explicate and explain. novel and didn’t get caught up has this author fallen short by I’m sure people are shocked in what was going on in that certain political standards? by Nietzsche saying “God is novel.

[Laughs] There’s a place for dead.” But to explain what he that, but it’s not the central means and follow the reper- Q: What are your future aspect of literature. cussions of it are what we’re plans?

A: More of what I’m doing. here for.

Q: “The Daily Show’s” Jon I plan to keep teaching in Stewart lampooned Elizabeth Q: You wrote an essay con- the Honors College as long Alexander’s inaugural poem necting the philosophy of as they’re willing to let me by joking that a poem read- Arthur Schopenhauer to keep on doing it, and I plan to ing may be the only pos- Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood teach some new courses. I’m sible way to make 2.5 million Meridian.” Are there any in a book group I’ve been in people instantly disperse. Do contemporary authors with since 1980 and we talk about you think there’s any truth to philosophical undertones that books about every five or six that? weeks and argue and have a you enjoy?

A: I’m afraid there is. Poetry A: I like Phillip Roth’s writing few drinks. used to have a fairly large a great deal the inherent phiTuscaloosa’s a place that a audience. [Alfred] Tennyson, losophy there of how one lives lot of people like and want to in his day, had the appeal of a and the existential struggles live in. It’s amazing how many rock artist. There were people of the individual human being people come back here when who would come and stare trying to live a good life against they get a chance to live here into his house and watch him. the forces of various kinds of and work here. I was just But poetry’s not read like that opposition. lucky that I was able to find anymore. It’s become a very Ian McEwan. I think he’s one this place and be in it all this specialized kind of thing. of the finest living novelists. time. And to find a job that I Poetry has always had a You have the author’s view of love. I can’t believe I was paid problem, because people existence, and then the author to read books and come to want to write poetry but writes a book as some kind of school and talk about them. not many want to read it. compensation for the errors [Laughs] I hope I have given [Laughs] They want you to and wrongs they committed in the taxpayers a good value for know what great experienc- their existence. The author is their money.

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list their previous experiences, they should also consider which experiences are the most significant for the job they are applying for.

“After listing all of the activities and accomplishments a student may find they have two or three pages of information, but most employers prefer a one page resume for internship seekers and college graduates,” Lowrey said.

“Therefore, it is important when creating a résumé to think about what will be most relevant to the target employer.”

Lowrey said a résumé is more than just a list of previous jobs and responsibilities.

“Too often students will include the responsibilities they had in a particular position but neglect to indicate how they handled those responsibilities. Employers are looking to gain a sense of how an applicant has performed in previous roles. This can occasionally require a few numbers or percentages to fully reflect the accomplishment and scope of responsibility.”

Once a student has compiled a résumé, Lowrey suggests

CW|RF Rains The Red Shed owner John “Mo” Mosley said that the ABC will fine owners and bartender heavily if they get fooled by fake IDs. In some cases, the owner and bartender can even be arrested. After a counterfeiter hit all the bars on the strip with bad bills, he installed UV lights under the counters and asked bartenders to check all 20 - 50 - and 100 - dollar bills. “Any UV light would work.” Red Shedʼs policy is to turn all fake IDs into the ABC. Jones said the biggest worry for him regarding underage students drinking in his bar is the Dram Shop law. In Alabama, if a minor gets intoxicated at a bar, the bar is liable for any injuries the minor might sustain inside or outside the bar. The bar can then be sued for any amount of money.

Jones said he felt the law put an unfair burden on bars and did not require enough responsibil-

ity of underage students. “That’s the risk you take, though,” he said.

Matt Smith, assistant manager at the Mellow Mushroom, said fake IDs were a moderate problem for the upstairs bar.

“We have a pretty good staff,” Smith said. “There are certain holograms we know are fake.”

Smith said that when the staff discover fake IDs, they usually cut them in half and throw them

meeting with a consultant in the Career Center.

“The résumés that stand out are the ones that are wellwritten, error-free and highlight experiences and skills that relate to the target job,” Lowrey said. “A consultant in the Career Center can critique a résumé to ensure that a student has included all of these elements and is presenting his or herself as the best candidate for the position.”

Another approach is creating a digital résumé. J. Bryan Dill, owner of the Capture Studio Café in downtown Tuscaloosa, has been working with his ad agency, Capture Creative Studios, to create a program that would allow people to generate digital résumés.

“As a business owner, I have held interviews several times and you just never know what you are going to get. There’s only so much you can tell from résumé,” Dill said. “A digital résumé would allow employers to access an online profile showing what you look like and who you are beyond a piece of paper.”

Each profile created by Capture Creative Studios includes a personalized domain name, a head shot, a profile listing interests and

hobbies, a résumé, a virtual interview, and a portfolio section.

“It’s like a professional version of Facebook. Once a customer has created a login and paid a fee, they can add anything they want to their profile. The ultimate goal of the project is to make each profile searchable based on key words so profiles can be matched to a company’s qualifications,” Dill said.

Dill further explained though the project has not reached its full potential it is currently operational.

“We have had 40 profiles created using our site, most of which were created for a pilot program. This spring, we are looking to try and get involved with the University to try and let more students know about our service and potentially team up with UA to make our service available to all students.”

Students seeking further advice or help writing a résumé can call the Career Center at 348-5848 or visit their Web site at www.career.ua.edu.

Those interested in learning more about creating a digital résumé should call Capture Digital Résumé at 866-413-0756 or visit www.capturedigitalresume.com/what.

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OUR VIEW

Opinions revamped Beginning on Feb. 2, The Crimson White will be restructuring our opinions desk.

Aside from a few minor internal changes, the largest noticeable change will be the regular columnist schedule. It will be somewhat different from last semester, and for the first week (which begins on Monday) many columnists will write somewhat close together. What that means is that you may see the same person’s column with less than a week between the last time it was printed.

Usually, we try not to publish the same person twice inside the same week, but the changing schedule requires that we make allowances for that for the first week of

the changes.

You will also see a significant number of new opinion writers over the course of the next few weeks, and will have the opportunity to respond to their takes on the issues. All of this is designed to increase your involvement with our modicum of a public forum here at The CW. That said, we encourage you to submit your thoughts, ideas, and comments in the way of guest letters, columns and cartoons. We are always pleased to receive submissions from readers and enjoy giving you the opportunity to make known your views on a particular issue.

Also coming soon are office

hours for desk editors. Our news editors, sports editors, lifestyle editors and opinions editor will soon be holding regular office hours in The Crimson White’s newsroom.

You will be more than welcome to pay them a visit and voice your suggestions, comments, or complaints to the appropriate desk editor.

So, we hope you’ll join us as we try and make this semester a productive one for provocative discussion on campus, and we look forward to making The Crimson White even more accessible in 2009.

Our View is the consensus of The Crimson White’s editorial board.

Anatomy of an 8 a.m. class It happens to the best of us.

At one point throughout our four to seven years of college, we will have to take the dreaded 8 a.m. class. Fear not children, for I have saved you all of your troubles and compiled a list of every single person you will meet when the clock strikes that Godawful time.

Mr. I had the best time ever last night and you have to know Says to quasi-friend: Dude, check it out. I’m still drunk from last night. I know, I’m kinda bad a--. Yeah dude we got in, my brah’s got a fake. I don’t know what band, something country — I was way wasted. But get this, so I’m ordering a drink and this hot blonde is totally checking me out, so I get over there and start spittin’ some game, ya know [insert fist pound]? She ain’t havin any of it, so I peaced on to the next b---- right. She was probably DTP, too. No, it means down-to-pray, get it? Like, God squad style [insert unnecessarily loud laugh at own joke].

Nah, dude, she didn’t turn me down, I just came to my senses.

Whatever, class is starting; you got notes for me from last class, right?

without glue, right? I mean, I guess we could use duct tape, but ducks are soo much cuter.

Weird dude who sits in the back

Dave Folk of day. I got up a full hour ago and have already accomplished more in that amount of time than you probably will all day.

Definitely more than you will all week. Seriously though, you’ve had the same high school shirt on all week. We get it, you won state champs at football your junior year, please just change it though. For your sake. Oh, it’s note time, my favorite.

Naïve ADHD girl

His inner monologue: F--- all of you. Talking to each other like you know one-another.

Yeah, sit there and laugh at me, we’ll see who’s laughing when the second coming is here, or the end of the world — whichever comes first. Oh, what’s that? You all look alike.

Wearing designer brands and dressing “successful.” See what I’m wearing? Yeah, s---’s underground. Like I made it myself — that’s how underground we’re talking. Whatever, class is starting; I love when she lectures because who needs friends then. It’s just me, her and notes.

Perfect.

Hung-over girl Why are you yelling at me?

No, you were yelling at me, that definitely wasn’t a whisper. I’m fine. The bar was fine, some country band. I don’t even like country. I don’t know some guy kept trying to talk to me, I think he thought I was staring at him.

I was just zoning out. No, he was awkward. After he realized that I wasn’t planning on ever getting near him he muttered something about DTP, whatever the hell that means. Yeah, weird.

All in her head: I’m thinking about definitely hitting the gym up for some cardio later on, I mean yeah I’m skinny and beautiful but a little extra work never hurt anyone, right? Well, except if you were a POW, I guess in that case a little extra work did hurt them.

I wonder if you bleed red if you are physically red. And, wow, Girl who is way to yeah, you’ll definitely never be happy to be up red. Have you ever heard of a You tanning bed? I feel like I’m lookThinks to herself while smil- ing at a piece of paper sans colAwakens to alarm buzzing: ing: It is a glorious day outside, lege ruled. I’d call you pasty but Screw it. the birds are chirping, the sun that would be insulting Elmer’s. is out. I just want to thank some Gosh, I love horses. It’s a Dave Folk is a news editor for higher power for the opportu- shame glue’s made out of The Crimson White. His column nity to be together at this time them, but I mean, you can’t live runs on Fridays.

MCT Campus

Help me help you I’m going to use this column to explain a few things that might have warranted explanation before, but I never got around to sitting down to write it. So try and be patient with me, and hopefully you’ll have a better understanding of me by the end.

Not that you care, or even should care, but I get enough email to know that some of you will read this, so that makes this as good a time as any to write this column.

Last year, I was a reporter for what is now the news desk here at The CW. I wrote 70-something stories and worked as hard as I could to move myself up the chain. I’m hardly touting my own accomplishments; I’m just trying to explain myself to you.

At the end of the year, I applied to be the opinions editor for this year’s staff and was given the job. The opportunities I have had over the course of last semester and this have so far been simply astounding, and I could never have predicted how much fun I would have at work.

Every week, my views are challenged and that gives me the chance to re-examine what I think and exactly why that is.

Those challenges, though, are exactly what make my job so much fun. They come from coworkers as we talk in the office every night and from you, the readers. Without that, I’d have nothing else to write every week, and I’d probably be pretty bored.

This isn’t meant to sound condescending or pompous, but it’s true. I recognize the fact that I have been given a place on the public forum on this campus, and that’s not a responsibility I take lightly.

When I interviewed for this position, I promoted an agenda of tolerance for all opinions and as equal publication space as I could reasonably accomplish.

To an extent, at least, I think we accomplished that last semester

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And I agree with her completely. Just because you and I might disagree — albeit strongly — is absolutely no reason for me to silence your voice by not printing your article, column, letter or cartoon, and that’s not something I do.

Some of you have disagreed surprisingly sharply with me and request that I be unceremoniously fired and my work be burned, as one guest columnist did on Monday.

The important thing to notice there, I believe, is that I printed a column that called for my discharge and the destruction of my work. Obviously, I disagree somewhat with Mr. Gertler, but that does not mean I do not respect his opinion, no matter how much it opposes my own.

All that notwithstanding, I have noticed a decline in reader-generated submissions this semester, and would like your help in correcting that problem. This is a public forum, but it won’t be much of one if you — our public — don’t help make it so.

So, beginning on Monday, The CW’s opinions desk will go further than ever before to make itself available to all of you. I will hold regular office hours that you can use to bring me questions, comments and concerns. I am also working on a number of joint projects with other groups from all over campus to make this a page you can be proud of, and one you want to contribute to.

So if you have any questions, comments or concerns, keep an eye out for our final office hours list, or just send me an email about whatever is on your mind — I would be delighted to hear and publish it.

during the discourse on the election, but there is always room for improvement on my part, and the part of the paper as a whole.

We are, after all, just students.

This is a student-run publication staffed by imperfect people doing their best to turn out as good a paper as can be done four days each week while attending classes, doing homework and taking tests right alongside you. Many staffers work tirelessly for no pay, and others work much harder for probably less than half of what you make in a month.

I’m not throwing a pity party here, I’m just asking you to realize that we are not perfect and that we make mistakes just like anyone else.

When that comes to me, I want you to understand that my responsibility as a desk editor is different from my chance to write columns. When I’m sitting in my office on a production day, I check my inbox for reader submissions, edit them, and — space permitting, of course — put them in our network for placement on my page. I absolutely do not edit any submission for its content, especially if I disagree with it.

As English instructor Maryann Whitaker so eloquently pointed out to us in Thursday’s paper, “Regardless Paul Thompson is the of one’s viewpoint, suppresOpinions Editor of The Crimson sion of even one person’s views White.

His column runs on portends a loss of freedom for Fridays. all.”

YOUR VIEW

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“He needed to go. He is a terrible coach.”

“Itʼs about time. He hasnʼt had the program going in the right direction.”

“Iʼm glad. He wasnʼt winning.”

“Itʼs awesome. He doesnʼt have a good record this year.”

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Blackburn SGA considers protocol changes New rules would alter process fellows leave to fill vacant positions for Anniston

By Amanda Peterson Special projects reporter

Forty fellows of the Blackburn Institute, along with some of its alumni, are leaving today for the Institute’s third travel experience of the 2008-2009 school year.

Each academic year, Blackburn fellows travel to one urban area in Alabama, as well as a rural town and a local site. This weekend’s excursion is to Anniston, following trips to Moundville and Camden.

This trip, the Burt Jones Urban Travel Experience will give students the opportunity to completely immerse themselves in the city of Anniston for two days while also meeting with local political and business leaders. In the past, fellows have traveled to Dothan and Huntsville.

“The whole point of the Institute is giving the fellows the tools necessary to become agents of social change,” said Kendra Key, the chairman of the Blackburn Institute.

“They’ll remember this trip when they are in positions of leadership. It’s all about motivating social change when fellows are in a status in which they can learn about these areas.”

Anniston is situated in Calhoun County near Alabama’s border with Georgia. It has a population of almost 25,000 and has gained media attention in recent years for having a military weapons storage facility.

The fellows selected Anniston as the city about

which they would most like to learn from a list of five Alabama urban areas.

Becky Reamey, Blackburn Institute coordinator, said students have been learning about Anniston as the trip approached.

“They are expected to prepare for the trip by reading local newspaper articles and books about the area,” she said.

“In Anniston, they will meet with elected officials and engaged citizens,” Reamey said. “It’s a situation where if the elected officials are open and honest with us, we can learn a lot about how government works.”

The fellows will meet with the mayor of Anniston as well as other community leaders and young professionals who are currently in the same positions the fellows will soon find themselves in.

“Anniston is a town that you drive past on the interstate and don’t really get a feel for what that city’s identity and personality are,” said Ben Foster, the Institute’s community education leader. “I was very interested in Anniston. I thought it would be enlightening — we haven’t really gone to Eastern Alabama, so it’ll be a great experience.”

Key and Foster both said, based on past experiences, this trip should be successful and fun for the fellows.

“Whenever we go, it’s one of the greatest experiences in Blackburn and also an opportunity for us students to get to know each other better,” Foster said.

Glass recycling drive held today

By Drew Taylor Senior Staff Reporter With the growing concern over the fragility of the environment and the widespread calling for more recycling and resourcefulness, the UA Environmental Council will host a glass recycling drive today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the upper parking lot of the Student Recreation Center on 5th Avenue.

Students will be able to bring any form of clean glass in a bag or a box to the drive, where the glass will be taken to Birmingham to be recycled.

The event is hosted by both the University and the UA Environmental Council.

Mika Carpenter, director of community service for the Council, said that with the absence of proper recycling procedures in Tuscaloosa, it is important to not overlook recyclable glass and the multitude of ways that it can be used. “[Glass] has many different renewable resources,” Carpenter said. “They’re nontoxic as well.”

Carpenter said because of its weight, glass is often taken to land fills, where it not only causes safety issues in the area but also is difficult to manage.

“There aren’t enough resources in Alabama for disposing glass,” Carpenter said.

There will be another glass recycling drive on Feb. 20.

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“It is a first-class-looking publication that rivals professional magazines,” Greer said. “Potential students get really excited when they see it because they realize that journalism isn’t just writing a story about a city council meeting.”

Since 2005, the class has been offered every two years during the spring semester, she said.

Students taking the class are required to pay regular tuition costs for the class but also an estimated $2,500 for travel expenses including the flights, hotels, transfers, train tickets and breakfast.

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of international and American students has a lot more to it than just living together,” Browne said.

“A variety of program measures such as international cooking night, movie night with international movies, well known guest speakers and much more will be available,” Browne said. “Some nights foreign students can practice their language skills and Americans can practice their new foreign language.”

Catherine Taylor, a junior majoring in elementary education said she feels this program will increase relations throughout the entire UA campus with foreign students and American students.

“I think the UA will have a better understanding of foreign culture,” said Taylor.

“We are certainly reaching out to students in a lot of areas regular UA students who haven’t thought about how this experience would benefit them,” Browne said.

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“This class is a Capstone experience for students interested in magazine careers,” Bissell said. “Before they are accepted into the class, we want to get a sense of how they can contribute.”

Bissell, who is in charge of selecting the students accepted, first selects a student as an editor.

During the summer, she and the chosen editor use the next few months to plan before starting interviews early in the fall semester.

She and the editor then make the selections by Oct., she said.

The next time the class will be offered will be in 2011 and will focus and travel to Austria or Sylvania, she said.

president. No one asked to not be included.

Football even came up when Nicole Bohannon, a senator for the College of Arts and Sciences, introduced a resolution encouraging students to participate in Academic Integrity Week, which begins Feb. 4.

Bohannon announced that head football coach Nick Saban will speak at the finale event for the week along with UA President Robert Witt and other UA officials. She only has one question.

“When exactly will Nick Saban be speaking?” asked Chambers Waller, a senator for the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.

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SGA officials hope new guidelines for filling empty Senate seats will speed up the process of appointments and prevent entire colleges from being represented.

Meg McCrummen, a senator for the College of Arts and Sciences, introduced a resolution that would amend the SGA constitution so students can apply to fill the seat as soon as there is a vacancy.

Then, an executive committee will interview the applicants and make a recommendation to the SGA president.

She said the new system would be “the way to make sure as many students can be given the chance to be involved as possible.”

Previously, McCrummen said recommendations for replacement senators came

from college councils, but not every college has a council.

SGA President Cason Kirby said some colleges had been unrepresented for months. He said he hopes it will be easier to have students apply.

“It just makes it a little bit simpler,” he said.

The resolution was sent to committee along with a resolution creating the Senator Council on Academic Advising, which McCrummen also introduced.

While the committee has been meeting for a few weeks, McCrummen said this makes it a more permanent group.

They have been discussing ways to improve the advising process for students, she said.

“We don’t want this committee to go away,” McCrummen said.

Corderrol Harris, a senator for the College of Communication and

Information Sciences, introduced a resolution congratulating the 2008 Crimson Tide football season for the 12-2 record and No. 6 ranking at the end of the season.

“Our boys did a great job this year,” Harris said after the meeting. “We just want to thank them for a good season and a good time.”

As soon as Harris finished reading his resolution, senators started to request that they be added as co-sponsors.

When he asked for those who wanted to be added to raise their hands, every hand shot up.

“Does anyone wish to not be added as a co-sponsor?” asked Allen Ross, SGA executive vice

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FRIDAY • Organ Concert presented by the UA School of Music Church Music Conference — 7:30 p.m., Moody Music Building Concert Hall

SATURDAY

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• First Annual Southeast Regional Stroke Conference — 8 a.m to 3 p.m., Bryant Conference Center

• MOVIE SCREENING: UP presents Movies at the Ferg with “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People” — 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Ferguson Theater

Choral Concert presented by the UA School of Music Church Music Conference — 4:30 p.m., Moody Music Building Concert Hall

January 30, 2009

MONDAY

MOVIE SCREENING: UP Arthouse presents “American Teen” — 7 p.m., CP Lounge

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Born and raised in Alabama, Capps has known true Southern living and bears his experience through his lyrics. “I have an affinity and like-mindedness with other southerners. I’m from South Alabama, and a lot of my stories have to do with that,�

Capps said. “I even went to school in the south and majored in theatre. Decided I liked music better once I

got out though.� “People need to see what they’re missing and come see Grayson perform,� Chesnut said. “We have a great venue for an artist like him and even have table service so you don’t have to get up and go to the bar. You can sit down with friends and really enjoy the show tonight and actually be able to hear and appreciate the music.� “We’ve been all over the world as a band, been together five years, and it’s the first time the full band has been to Bama,� Capps said. “We’re a fun, cohesive unit. We try to be as honest as we can. It’s the easiest and hardest thing to do at the same time.�

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