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Alabama’s national title resume got a bit longer, and Phil Fulmer’s seat just got a little hotter.

No. 2 Alabama continued its road-game dominance and kept its BCS hopes alive Saturday with a 29-9 win over Tennessee at Neyland Stadium.

Receiving criticism about finishing games from the public and

head coach Nick Saban alike, the Crimson Tide (8-0, 5-0 SEC) fanned 29 points fairly evenly over four quarters. After struggling to close games in its most recent three-game stint, the Tide outscored its opponent in the second half for the first time since the Arkansas game.

“He harped on [finishing] at half time, and he’s been harping on it the last couple games,” center Antoine Caldwell said

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Crowns, resolution Business grad school facilities ranked at stake in vote Homecoming ballot to include amendment

By Dave Folk News Editor On Tuesday between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. students will have the opportunity to cast their ballot for Homecoming queen and vote on a resolution for the SGA. The resolution will read, “Do you support an amendment to the SGA constitution that will specify the manner in which vacancies on the student judicial board are to be filled?”

SGA President Cason Kirby said it would basically allow the SGA to amend the number of justices or how they are selected without

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having to put it up on the ballot each year.

“This amendment gives the SGA Senate and Chief Justice [of the SGA] a little more oversight in how the judicial board is run,” Kirby said. “As the campus has been growing over the past few years we have seen the need for more justices.”

In the past the SGA would have to put an amendment on the ballot each time they wanted to increase the number of justices.

Students will also be able to vote for one of the 13 candidates for Homecoming queen or write in their own choice.

Candidates for the position are Louise Acomb, PattyAnn Green, Christina Arnone, Caroline Gwaltney, Collin Jones, Alexa Stabler, Katie Hyde, Maegan Wrenn, Phillips Thomas, Caroline Ball, Christy Roach, Brittany Rogers and Sarah Yate.

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By Josh Veazey Staff Reporter The Manderson Graduate School of Business has been ranked by the Princeton Review as No. 3 in “Best Campus Facilities.” The Manderson program has been ranked in the top 10 of at least one of the 11 different categories for the past four years, according to a UA news release.

“It’s been a best-kept secret for a long time,” said Susan West, assistant dean and director the school. “I’m glad to see that it’s finally not a secret, as hard as our faculty, staff and students work.”

The ranking, according to the Princeton Review’s Web site, is based on “student assessment of the quality of classroom, library and gym facilities.” According to the UA news release, Manderson has been ranked eight for campus facilities, ninth in best classroom

experience and eighth for administration.

One assessment praised the school’s computer technology available to students. Students are given free access to laptops, and have their own wireless cloud over the school’s complex.

West attributed the ranking to the close, personal relationships the staff and faculty members have with students.

“We try to build a different kind of culture and network,” West said. “We’re a very relational, high-touch, family-oriented environment and faculty relationships are very strong with students. People stay in touch with their faculty and administration for the rest of their lives.”

The school has previously been ranked by the company in the categories “Classroom experience” and “Administration.”

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Miss UA pageant in planning stages

By Amy Castleberry Contributing Writer The Miss University of Alabama program set for Jan. 17 is a traditional and high-stakes competition that the University has been participating in for 35 years.

With about 25 contestants each year, it is a preliminary contest to the Miss America pageant. It consists of five events; an interview, talent competition, swim-suit, evening wear and an on-stage question. Women will compete for a full tuition scholarship, two book scholarships sponsored by the University Supply Store, and other prizes totaling $20,000, pageant director Carol Wright said.

The participant must also be committed to a community service platform, Wright said. Wright said she is excited about the number of interested participants.

“We’re in the implication stages, have decided upon a Mardi Gras theme and held our first candidate interest meeting where 25 women came to pick up

applications,” Wright said.

The meeting was held Oct. 19. Wright said 20 more women have contacted her saying they were interested, but could not attend the meeting.

“The numbers and competition keep increasing each year,” Wright said. “It’s all very exciting.”

Wright said those interested in participating in the pageant may pick up an application in Alumni Hall before the Nov. 26 deadline.

It is a closed pageant, Wright said, which means participants must be students enrolled full time at the University between the ages of 17 and 24 and cannot be or have ever been married.

Participants must maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA. Those from out of state are welcome to participate as well, Wright said.

“This is a big deal,” Wright said. “The Miss University of Alabama program is a part of the largest women’s scholarship in America, the Miss America Pageant, allowing a woman to represent the University. Many past winners have told

What: Miss UA pageant When: Jan. 17 Why: Prizes totaling $20,000 Who: Full time UA females between 17 and 24 with at least 2.5 GPA

Applications due Nov. 26.

They can be picked up and dropped off at Alumni Hall.

me the experience was their greatest memory in college and has only benefitted them in the job market after college, helping them to communicate effectively in job interviews and act professionally when needed,” Wright said.

The Miss University of Alabama Pageant will occur Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. in Morgan Hall. For questions or for more information contact Wright at cwwright4@comcast.net.

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TODAY • Drum Circle: Noon to 1 p.m., Ferguson Plaza • University of Alabama Honor Choir Concert: 6 p.m., Moody Music Building Concert Hall

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• Homecoming: Rebirth Poetry Slam: 12 to 1 p.m., University Programs Entertainment Lounge at the Ferguson Center

• Homecoming: International Music with a UA Flavor: 12 to 1 p.m., Ferguson Center • UP presents “Rocky Horror Picture Show” and costume contest: 7 p.m., the Quad

• Homecoming: Exhibit opening: Black Belt 100 Lenses, Green County: 1 to 3 p.m., 232 Ferguson Center

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UA to provide electronic pay statements Human resources/payroll at UA now has the ability to provide electronic pay statements in place of the current paper, direct deposit information.

Instead of receiving paper direct deposit information on payday, employees will receive it electronically via e-mail with a PDF attachment. An employee’s campus-wide identification number, or CWID, will be the secure password for opening an electronic pay statement.

Pay statements will be sent to employees’ Bama e-mail accounts. Therefore, it is important that employees have a forward set up on their Bama account or that they review their Bama account regularly.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We finally just took it upon ourselves to finally put a complete game together. We scored points in the second half, and that was huge to put the game away. The defense played lights out today. It was a total team effort.”

— Antoine Caldwell on Saturday’s game against Tennessee. “Two year’s running” page 1

After-hours program only a piece of services offered through dean of student’s office

By Christy Conner Senior Staff Reporter In order to aid students after office hours, the dean of student’s office offers an on-call service of professional staff members that help aid in crisis intervention.

The program, which was established more than 15 years ago, tries to offer campus support during a time of need, said Melanie Miller, associate dean of students.

Miller, who has been overseeing the program for the last year, said it offers extra support to students in need.

“For students going through a crisis such as a family death or personal illness,

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we have staff members who are on-call and can be made available to students after office hours,” Miller said. “We also provide services to the families of students who have passed away. We meet with them and help tie up any lose ends on campus.”

The on-call program, however, is only a piece of services offered through the dean of student’s office, she said. In addition to grief counseling, the dean of student’s office provides students with full-time staff members who offer case support.

Miller said students will sometimes come in already knowing what is bothering them, and some will come in and discover the issue once they discuss what

By Alan Zibel The Associated Press WASHINGTON | Each day from July through September, more than 2,700 Americans lost their homes in foreclosure.

That number, up from 1,200 a day a year ago, is a sign that the mortgage industry and government programs have done little to help troubled homeowners.

The mortgage market’s troubles have proved to be far more serious and intractable than most in government or the private sector had predicted a year ago.

“We are behind the curve.

We are falling behind,” Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. told a Senate hearing Thursday.

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Now prices are plummeting, especially in once-sizzling markets like California, Florida and Nevada. And the bleeding might not stop until the end of next year.

The median home price in the U.S. dropped 9 percent in September from a year ago to $191,600, and is down 17 percent from the peak in July 2006, the National Association of Realtors said Friday.

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Plunging prices have had even more impact on investors than on homeowners because investors have less emotional attachment to a house. They’re even more likely to walk away, especially if they’ve put little money into a property.

“There has been some progress, but it’s not been enough, and we need to act. And we need to act quickly, and we need to act dramatically to have more wide-scale, systematic [loan] modifications....”

More than 4 million homeowners with a mortgage were at least one month behind on their payments at the end of June, according to the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association, and a record 500,000 had entered the foreclosure process.

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Investors purchased one of every five homes last year, and almost one of every three when the market peaked in 2005, according to the Realtors trade group.

They flocked to hot markets like California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, as television shows such as A&E’s popular reality series “Flip This House” touted the easy money that could be made buying and selling homes.

They took advantage of risky loan products that didn’t require down payments or proof of income. Other loans allowed the borrower to pay only the interest on the loan, or even less, and none of the principal for a certain time.

Now, more than 30 percent of properties in the foreclosure process are owned by someone with a different address, indicating the home is likely owned by an investor, according to foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac Inc. Government programs to help homeowners are specifically designed not to help such investors, though in reality it may be hard to weed them out.

Traditionally, lenders evaluated borrowers carefully because they held onto the mortgages for the life of the loan. That process started to change in the late 1980s, as Wall Street found new ways to package the loans into securities to sell to investors.

Investors were attracted to these new mortgage-backed securities because they paid better returns than government bonds.

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AIDS treatment should start sooner, study finds

By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press WASHINGTON | People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The study found that delaying treatment until a patient’s immune system is badly damaged nearly doubles the risk of dying in the next few years compared to patients whose treatment started earlier.

Doctors have thought it would be better to spare patients the side effects of AIDS drugs as long as possible.

“The data are rather compelling that the risk of death appears to be higher if you wait than if you treat,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which helped pay for the study.

If the results prompt doctors to change practice as Fauci and other AIDS specialists predict several hundred thousand Americans who are not taking AIDS drugs now would be advised to start.

The study was reported Sunday at an infectious diseases conference in Washington.

About 56,300 Americans are newly infected with HIV each year. The virus ravages T-cells, “helper cells” of the immune system that fight off germs. Once that happens, people can fall prey to a host of diseases that prove fatal.

Powerful drug combinations available since the mid-1990s have transformed HIV infection into a manageable chronic condition rather than the death sentence it once was. But they can cause heart and cholesterol problems, diarrhea, nausea and other side effects. They also must be taken faithfully or resistance develops and the drugs stop working.

That is why guidelines by the government and the International AIDS Society recommend that patients who are not yet having AIDS symptoms delay starting on the drugs until their Tcell counts fall below 350 per cubic millimeter of blood (healthy people have more than 800).

“There was this thinking, maybe the drugs were worse than the disease. If you could wait as long as you possibly could wait, you would have fewer side effects,” said Dr. Robert Schooley, infectious diseases chief at the University of

California, San Diego.

The new study is the largest to look at whether that advice is sound. Researchers led by Dr. Mari Kitahata of the University of Washington in Seattle pooled information on 8,374 people in the United States and Canada with T-cell counts of 351 to 500 from 1996 to 2006.

About 30 percent started taking AIDS drugs right away; the rest waited until their T-cell counts fell below 350, as guidelines recommend.

“We found a 70 percent improvement in survival for patients who initiated therapy between 350 and 500” compared to those who waited, Kitahata said.

Two other recent studies found that people who start taking AIDS drugs while their Tcell count is above 350 have a better chance of getting their count back to normal than those who start later. Another key study found that briefly interrupting treatment to give patients “drug holidays” puts them at grave risk.

“These studies have all shown the same thing that we were starting too late” and need to keep treatment going once it starts, said Schooley. He helped write the AIDS society

guidelines and consults for several companies that make AIDS drugs.

The bigger problem is that as many as a third of people diagnosed with HIV only discover they are infected after their T-cell counts already have fallen below 350 and they have serious complications.

“People are still being tested and identified way too late,” and the new study shows how important it is to test and find people sooner, said Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, an AIDS specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Newer drug combinations that have come out in recent years have fewer side effects.

Also, some require only a pill or two a day, making adherence less of an issue.

These advances and the new study justify a fresh look at the guidelines, Fauci said. He predicted that doctors would not wait for them to change to start treating patients sooner.

The new study’s findings do not apply to HIV patients who also have hepatitis, kidney damage or other medical problems, or who are pregnant doctors have long advised that these people start treatment as soon as they are diagnosed.

Online help gets parents off kids’ homework hook

By Desiree Hunter The Associated Press

MONTGOMERY | Feagin Johnson Jr. quickly came to his 11th-grade daughter’s aid when she needed help with homework from the first pages of her thick Algebra II textbook, but his fast response came with a warning.

“I told her I’m glad I helped you on page one because on page 101 you’ll be on your own,” the state’s assistant superintendent of education said with a laugh.

Through sixth grade, a parent can “pretty much help them with anything,” Johnson said, “but when they get up to secondary and there’s biology, chemistry, physics, Algebra I, Algebra II. Oh boy.”

Parents in Alabama and a growing number of other states no longer need fear homework helplessness. Thanks to the spread of online tutoring services that are now increasingly free, courtesy of government and private funds, stumped students can reach out to resourceful tutors across the U.S. and in some cases around the world.

The number of libraries offering free online tutoring has snowballed as libraries look to stay relevant to their communities, said Jan Sanders, who directs the Pasadena library system in California.

“We want to provide that link, that opportunity for people and a learning environment to come together in a friendly, equitable way,” said Sanders, the former president of the Public Library Association. “This is one way for that to happen. It’s not the final answer, it’s not the only thing we do. But it’s an auxiliary service that’s proving to be helpful.”

Eighth-grader Samuel Mutch turned to the homework site the library system in Casper, Wyo., provides through New York-based Tutor.com when he needed help on a geography research paper on tsunamis last school year.

The result? The 13-year-old “got the best scores ever,” his mother said.

“He got the highest score in the class, which he’s never gotten on a writing assignment,” Kate Mutch said. “I did make him tell his teacher he used the homework help because I didn’t want her to think somebody else had done it!”

Alabama’s free online tutoring program was recently expanded to all students, who can log on to www.homework alabama.org, the site offered through the Alabama Public Library Service.

Users typically gain access to the sites by typing in their ZIP codes, then putting down their grade levels and the subjects they need help with. They are then connected to a tutor. The wait time varies depending on how many users are logged on.

Most companies have tutors available online 24/7 but they vary in the hours they are available to individual states and students.

Lynn Giese, presidentelect of the National Tutoring Association, said use of tutoring in general has grown with the entry of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 and that online tutoring, by extension, has increased as well.

Giese said more research is needed on the effectiveness of online tutoring and whether it is helping students score higher on overall exams and not just the individual assignments they seek help with.

Proponents cite students’

ease with computers and instant messaging technology as reasons they feel comfortable when young people seek help online. But others have concerns.

“There’s not really a clearinghouse for quality and effectiveness of various tutoring models,” said Don Knezek, CEO of the International Society for Technology. “That’s not unusual for an industry in its infancy, but that places a larger burden on educators and on parents to ensure that the activity going on online is appropriate and that it’s worth the time and fiscal investments.”

Other drawbacks include the lack of a connection that students get with a live, faceto-face tutor, but parents can help minimize that by being more involved and sometimes sitting in the tutoring sessions, he said.

“In the same way that you wouldn’t drop your kid off for lessons with a tennis pro or piano teacher but not ever talk with them about it or how it’s going, I think the same thing ought to happen when going into an online environment,” he said.

Traditional one-on-one tutoring is “the best way to teach” but unfortunately it’s not cost effective for schools, said Mike Zenanko, who is publications director of the certification and trade group Association for the Tutoring Profession.

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“If you meet with a student one-on-one, you can be sure you’re meeting all their needs and it’s great,” said Zenanko, who also directs the Instructional Services Unit at Jacksonville State University.

“But we mass-educate our people and that’s the way it is.”

Alabama library director Rebecca Mitchell said the service is free for users but costs $500,000 a year, with $300,000 coming from state funds and the rest covered by a federal grant.

Considering there have been more than 200,000 online sessions so far and the average cost of traditional tutoring is $35 per hour, Mitchell figures the program has kept about $7 million in Alabamians’ pocketbooks.

“There are not many parents who can keep shelling out money when [their children] need that extra boost, that extra assistance, and this is a fantastic program,” she said.

Susan Patrick, a spokeswoman with the North American Council for Online Learning, said national data isn’t kept for online tutoring specifically.

But she said that form of tutoring has played a big role in the 30 percent growth that online learning has seen in K-12 over the past decade.

Mutch, the Wyoming mother, said her son is not the only one who has benefited from the online help. The Casper librarian said she and her colleagues

were recently stumped trying to figure out the percentage of something and turned to their computers.

“We finally said ‘You know what? This is crazy, let’s just go on homework help,’” Mutch said laughing. “And he didn’t give us the answer, but he walked us through and we all felt like we were back in sixth grade. So yeah, they’ll help anybody!”

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Defense steps up in Cody’s absence

By Greg Ostendorf Assistant Sports Editor Terrence Cody has been deemed the anchor of the Alabama defense that was ranked fourth nationally in rushing defense prior to Saturday’s game.

When the massive nose tackle went down early in the second half of the Ole Miss game, the Rebels mounted a comeback. The Crimson Tide defense surrendered 17 unanswered points after only giving up three points with Cody in the lineup.

Saturday, Alabama didn’t seem to miss their force in the middle as the defense held Tennessee to 173 yards on offense and just 36 yards rushing in the Tide’s 29-9 win over the Volunteers.

“Cody’s a big part of our defense,” junior Lorenzo Washington said. “He didn’t make the trip this weekend to recover from his injury.

Everybody had to step it up. If one person goes, you have to be able to fill in.”

Washington moved over from his defensive end position to play some nose tackle in place of Cody. Washington, who played in that position

but we knew what we had to do,” Chapman said. “We knew we didn’t have Cody, so we had to make plays without him.”

Early in the game, the defense had to make two separate stands after miscues on special teams set Tennessee up with great field position.

On their opening drive, the Vols went three-and-out, but Javier Arenas fumbled the punt when he was drilled by LaMarcus Thompson, giving Tennessee the ball at the Tide five yard line.

After a false start penalty moved them back to the ten, Alabama stopped the Vols on three straight plays, capped off by a Rashad Johnson sack on third and goal to force a field goal attempt.

“There were times we were put in tough situations, and we did a good job of keepCW | Matt Abbey ing them out of the end zone Marcel Dareus (57) and Eryk Anders (32) chase down Tennessee quarterback Nick Stephens especially early in the game,” during Alabamaʼs 29-9 win Saturday. Dareus, a freshman, helped fill in for the injured Terrence Johnson said. “I think we Cody. really stepped up to the challast year for the Tide, rotat- really play team defense. it was nothing new for the lenge and had a good game.”

In the second quared with Josh Chapman and When the guys play together sophomore, who had already Marcel Dareus throughout and everybody does their job, been rotating with Cody ter, Tennessee’s Montario the game. we have a chance to be suc- every fifth play through the Hardesty blocked a punt and “We’ve got a lot of good cessful.” first seven games before the set them up in great field position again, this time at the players on defense,” head Chapman got the most injury. coach Nick Saban said. “We playing time of the group, but “It motivated us a little bit, Alabama 35.

The Tide defense again stood their ground. After stuffing Lennon Creer for no gain on first down, Washington pressured Vols’ quarterback Nick Stephens out of the pocket and forced an incomplete pass.

On third down, Tennessee tried to throw a screen pass to Denarius Moore, but Alabama’s Ali Sharrief blew it up and tackled Moore for a loss of two. The Vols attempted a 51-yard field goal on fourth down, but the kick fell short.

“I think our defense from a competitive standpoint, dealing with some tough circumstances in the game, overcame adversity three or four times, not allowing them to score more points,” Saban said.

Alabama finally allowed their first touchdown midway through the fourth quarter, but more importantly, the defense showed they could play just as stout without Cody clogging up the middle.

“You can’t replace a guy like Terrence, but we’re more than just one player,” linebacker Rolando McClain said. “We’re more than just two or three players. We’re a team, and we’re going to lean on each other.”

Tide swept by No. 22 Wildcats

By Will Barry Senior Sports Reporter

the scores of 23-25, 22-25 and 21-25.

The loss puts Alabama at The Alabama volleyball 10-10 overall for the season team fell in three sets to with a 3-8 mark in the SEC. Alabama had two more No. 22 Kentucky Sunday by

total kills and four more total digs then Kentucky did on the match, but the Crimson Tide also had 10 service errors with only two service aces.

“I think we out hit them;

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we out dug them, [but it was] serving errors today,” head coach Judy Green said.

“Serving is one of those rhythm things, it can become very mental, so you try not to talk about it too much with your kids and just try to get them back to focus on the fundamentals.”

The Tide went point for point with Kentucky but was unable to win any of the three sets as Kentucky pulled ahead at the end of the each one.

“The other thing is, is that when Kentucky needed a point, they executed and got it,” Green said. “I thought we did that for 90 percent of the match today. That 10 percent where we didn’t execute, that’s the difference between a team that’s where we’re ranked and where they’re ranked.”

Kentucky’s sophomore outside hitter Sarah Mendoza led all scorers with 18 kills as the Tide didn’t have an answer for her.

CW | Drew Hoover Stephanie Riley sets the ball for a teammateʼs spike in the game against Kentucky Sunday afternoon.

“She’s a wrist-away kind of hitter and our defense at leftback just was a little surprised when the ball was coming at them that hard. She’s a great player,” Green said.

The Tide is on a four-match losing streak and has lost 12 of its last 14 sets.

“Progress is a slow process,” junior outside hitter Brooks Webster said. “Right now, we’re on our way. We’re playing decent volleyball. It’s just we still need to work a little harder at it.”

Webster led the Tide with 17 kills and six digs, while freshman outside hitter Ashley Frazier added six kills and eight digs.

The Tide was swept 3-0 by the Tennessee Lady Vols on Friday night.

“For the first time, we actually played back-to-back matches on a Friday, Sunday with effort,” Green said.

“Everybody was here mentally. Everybody was plugged in, and when that happens, it makes it easy to coach.”

The loss ended a four-match home stand for the Tide and it will now hit the road for four matches, which will begin Wednesday.

The Tide remains process oriented, Green said, and is looking to build on the positives.

“Our goal right now is to practice in the practice gym with effort and with concentration everyday and that’s all we’re focusing on,” she said.

“The outcome result will happen and if we continue to do the things right that we have been struggling with all season that we’re making progress in, then success is going to follow.”

OPINIONS

Monday, October 27, 2008

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Thompson clarifies Friday column Pittsburg ran with the story.

Friday morning, Ms. Todd was administered a lie-detector test; she was found to have been making the entire incident up.

I appreciate that it was brought to my attention. If this had been a foreseeable error, believe that I would have corrected it before now.

In light of Friday’s developments, I ask you to disregard those parts of my column affected by references to Todd’s false story.

I regret that an untrue story Paul Thompson made it into my column and would like to reiterate my own commitment, as well as I would like to take this that of The Crimson White, to opportunity to amend my ref- accuracy in everything we do. erence to Ashley Todd in my It was most certainly not my Friday column. intention to print any referAt the time I was writing — ence to a story that was false, Thursday evening — the local and I am happy to correct the police chief considered Todd’s mistake. story about being assaulted by a Barack Obama supporter Paul Thompson is the opinions true, and a local TV station in editor of The Crimson White.

MCT CAMPUS

For the love of the game of football

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR that the Senate Thompsonʼs column disappointed Finance Committee preferred a misrepresentation instead to cut the top tax rate of It would be nice if a column titled “Socialist States of America?” actually put forth a marginally respectable and coherent argument with facts that serve to make the case against the Obama tax plan.

Instead, in his latest screed, Paul Thompson beautifully illustrates why the Republican party will go down in flames on Nov. 4.

Modern “conservatism” has forsaken serious policy debate for the politics of fear, distraction and innuendo.

If we are to believe Thompson, Obama and his supporters are an uncontrollable mob of irresponsible Nazis who advocate violence against opponents, support the theocratic dictatorship that runs Iran and upon taking office will “lower the noose of socialism” around our necks. Granted, the incidents of violence mentioned in the piece are shockingly deplorable, but it takes a pretty steep slippery slope to arrive at the conclusion that all Democrats are crazed thugs looking to carve up your face or shoot up your home.

Sadly, the slippery slope is the best Thompson can muster. Not very creative for a guy tasked with shaping opinion.

But I can’t really blame Paul, even if he is responsible for this awful column. Consider the ideological playbook he’s working from. In the words of McCain’s spokesman, if Republicans talk about the economy they will lose. Hell, if they try to defend eight years of Republican malfeasance, they will lose. Instead, they’d rather deal in false equivalencies, smears, lies and innuendo. Obama is a celebrity with no experience who wants to teach kids about sex in kindergarten and take Joe the Plumber’s lunch money and give it to people who live in Americahating blue states where his terrorist pals plot the Iranian invasion. I am laughing at how pathetic and ridiculous this line of argument has always been, and the majority of America is laughing with me, or holding their nose.

As for Obama’s socialist tax plan; for those making a combined income of more than $250,000, they will pay 3.6 percent more in taxes every year, restoring the tax rate from 36 percent back to the pre-Bush 39.6 percent. John McCain didn’t seem to think that taxing the wealthy at a higher rate and giving the middle class a tax break was socialism when they were debating the Bush tax cuts in 2001, and therein lies the rub. “I am

39.6 percent to 36 percent, thereby granting generous tax relief to the wealthiest individuals of our country at the expense of lower- and middle-income American taxpayers.” [John McCain, Senate floor statement, May 21, 2001.] I guess, as Thompson points out, some people will say anything — even go against their own positions — to get elected.

Michael Pearce is a catalog librarian in Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.

Man cannot live on politics alone I have become tired of reading all these politically-oriented articles in the newspaper over the last few months. Now, I am aware there is a national election about to take place and most students and faculty members have strong convictions for the most part about who they intend to vote for and why.

I am requesting that The CW start publishing more prevalent articles dealing with student life outside of the political arena for at least a few days after the election. Droning on about McCain/ Palin or Obama/Biden has gone on long enough. It is time to put your journalism students to work to better use by turning them loose on Tuscaloosa news.

For a change, write about why CrimsonRide does not have a time schedule for pick up, or something to that effect which has a deeper impact on me as a student.

Recently my concerns have fallen to what is a good movie to put in my Netflix queue rather than whether the rest of the United States government will eventually decide to “leave” Iraq.

There are a million ways to get political coverage about the election, and The CW is the last place I would try to get an informed decision for such a topic.

I am asking you to please give me more relevant stories, like which bicycle lock is going to save my bicycle from thievery, and why the Bama Bikes isn’t more set up like an outdoor kiosk instead of what we have now.

Michael Strange is a senior majoring in management.

Callie Corley Autumn is my favorite season. By the time October comes, I’m tired of the heat and humidity. I just want to enjoy being outside.

The chilly air that accompanies fall makes every day of the week more enjoyable. The whole town feels lighter, freer — released from the oppressive summer weather. In the streets the children play, the lovers swoon and the poets dream.

Spring brings allergies — who wants to sit and cuddle on a park bench when they’re sneezing all the time? But

Autumn is the season of love.

And what does this city really love? Football.

Football is football, and we’ll go to the game whether it’s 80 degrees or eight. But the cooler temperatures make Saturday ideal for football. It’s lovely to stand comfortably in the student section and focus on the game instead of the hot weather.

Everyone can feel the love in the air when an SEC school has a winning football team. Sadly, though, this love is something I’ve only recently been able to understand.

My first two years at Alabama, I couldn’t have cared less about football. I saw it as barbaric — a bunch of boys beating up on each other to the cheers of 92,000 fans. It was a modern-day gladiator match, except fighting to the death meant a statistical death and a drop in or off the polls.

For all the younger students, you have to understand something. My freshman year was our 10-2 season. Nine wins carried us to the LSU game, where — well, we all know what happened.

It was an eerie feeling after that game. I remember walking home from the stadium

in complete silence. No one spoke aloud, all lost in their thoughts. Even the parties after the game, in my memory, stayed quiet.

But now things are different.

The Crimson Tide is different.

Game after game, our team proves itself to be on a higher, better level. We’ve had a few tough wins, sure, but we keep pushing on. I think that’s the difference between the 2005 and 2008 season teams.

We’re not getting overly cocky or comfortable. Our football team has real, raw talent. My freshman year our team just got lucky — a lot.

And as pathetic as it might be, I’ve gained the majority of my technical knowledge of the game from watching my friends play “NCAA Football 09.” When Terrence Cody got hurt during the Ole Miss game, I wanted to pause the game on the field and check his injury status. But, alas, that feature hasn’t been invented for real life.

Understanding more about what’s going on makes the games more fun to watch. And after three unspectacular football seasons, I think a thank you is in order.

We all know when Alabama

wins we walk prouder. We hold our heads a little higher.

We work a littler harder during the week to make next Saturday get here quicker.

As fans, we’re behind you whether you win or lose. We know you’re playing your hardest. We’re just unequivocally, 100 percent, no questions asked in support of you when we’re winning — strongly — against teams like Clemson, Georgia and Tennessee.

This ball club showed me that the game isn’t about luck.

It’s about heart.

When you love what you’re doing, show up for practice, work hard to be the best, there’s no luck involved. You practice hard whether you win or lose, which shows just how much you put into this game, for the love of the game.

As a fan and a student I’m proud of our team. I graduate in May, so every win is like an early graduation present for me. Plus, I can’t wait to go home and talk football with my Auburn fan family members.

Thank you, football players.

Callie Corley is a senior majoring in political science and journalism. Her column runs on Mondays.

The rhetoric of fear and the closed mind

Ian Sams As I thumbed through the pages of The Crimson White last week, I saw a lot of criticism of the kinds of rhetoric often employed by columnists in this very section of the paper. One writer of a letter to the editor cited that racial undertones shouldn’t be tolerated by the University in describing Barack Obama’s supporters. Another writer discussed his cringing while reading columns he described as “one-sided hate fests.”

One of my favorite rhetorical appeals in the world of writing (or speaking, for that matter) is that of pathos. For those who aren’t sure, pathos is appealing to one’s emotions. I love when orators, writers or even musicians utilize the pathos appeal to speak directly to the

soul of the American people.

In this election, we’ve seen strong evidence of pathos by Barack Obama in his promotion of fairer tax policies and in his arguments for a universal health care system.

But John McCain’s campaign, and the Republican Party as a whole, has employed a twisted, negative pathos appeal.

This same kind of appeal is evident in almost every one of The CW columns that were so criticized last week. Basically, there has been a movement to scare the American public about Barack Obama, trying to influence base emotions in the collective American psyche.

Sarah Palin said Obama “is palling around with terrorists.”

Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, speaking as a McCain surrogate, said Obama and his wife held “anti-American views.”

Sheriff Michael Scott, speaking to a McCain rally audience in Florida (in uniform no less), for no apparent reason emphasized Obama’s middle name, Hussein. Countless rightwing blogs and chain e-mails have repeatedly asserted that Obama is a Muslim. Locally, CW Opinions Editor Paul Thompson, an avid and vocal conservative, said Obama wanted to “subjugate America to his socialist vision.”

This rhetoric of fear, rhetoric based on closed-mindedness and stereotypes of what “patriotism” and “Americanism” are, hasn’t gone unnoticed

either. A couple weeks ago, a woman alleged to John McCain in a town hall meeting that Obama was an Arab after she and others had repeatedly stressed that they just can’t trust Obama. That same week, at a Sarah Palin rally, audience members were heard shouting things like “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” in response to Palin’s comments about Obama, outbursts that weren’t repudiated by Palin when she heard them.

This kind of misunderstanding and blurring of facts and rumors has even led prominent Republican and former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell to endorse Obama. On Meet the Press last Sunday, Powell said: “I’ve also been disappointed, frankly, by some of the approaches that Senator McCain has taken recently …What they’re trying to connect [Obama] to is some kind of terrorist feelings. And I think that’s inappropriate.”

With only eight days left until Election Day, we as the American public must reject this kind of negativity, untruthfulness and manipulation.

I have no problem with opposition to Barack Obama, just as I have no problem with opposition to John McCain.

But to have that opposition be based on a misconception that Obama is anti-American or a terrorist is simply ignorant and unacceptable.

But more important than this simple example of politicizing fear is the root of this

dangerous rhetorical form.

There are important philosophical questions that must be answered honestly to find that root. Why is there such a stigma attached to Islam in this country? Why are progressive tax principles attacked as socialist? Why do baseless character attacks stick even when they’re proven false?

The rhetoric employed in the past few weeks by the McCain campaign, its surrogates, and the Republican Party as a whole ignores truthful answers to those questions and finds its lifeblood in the very basic, narrow views of what it means to be pro-American that those stereotypes propagate.

America finds its greatness in being an open, accepting and diverse nation. To be patriotic is to believe wholeheartedly in and fight unyieldingly for the ideals of this great nation: democracy, equality, justice, freedom.

Barack Obama and John McCain are both patriots.

Why can’t everyone from Sarah Palin to Paul Thompson understand that? Why is there a need to spin untruths in a way that causes ignorant folks to see the world in a distorted way?

I think it’s about time we stop spinning, accusing, hating, blurring and deceiving and start seeking truth.

Ian Sams is a sophomore majoring in political science. His column runs on Mondays.

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YOU DECIDE

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WHAT IS THE YOU DECIDE PAGE? You Decide is a feature geared toward examining the hot-button issues of the 2008 presidential election. A bipartisan panel of student political experts will meet every week — from now until the election — to debate and discuss the issues from the perspectives of the two major party candidates. Every Monday, check out the You Decide page on page 5 in The Crimson White, and check out a full podcast recording of each panel discussion at The Crimson White Online at www.cw.ua. edu.

Panel discusses McCain’s candidacy

By Victor Luckerson Staff Reporter

ThisweekTheCrimsonWhite’s You Decide panel analyzed John McCain the Republican nominee for President.

Panelists included Trent Thompson, president of UA College Democrats; Jesse Woods, executive adviser to the SGA President; and Paul Thompson, opinions editor of The Crimson White.

McCain, the longtime Arizona Senator, has spent more than 25 years in Congress.

“He’s the best person we could have in office when it comes to national defense and protecting our borders,” Woods said.

Paul Thompson complimented McCain’s spirit of reform. He said McCain’s work on immigration reform and the McCain-Feingold Act showed his ability to work across the aisle with Democrats.

Trent Thompson questioned how a McCain presidency would be any different from the Bush administration. He noted that McCain voted with Bush policies 90 percent of the time.

Woods said McCain was his own man.

“He does what he feels is right,” he said.

Polls have shown McCain trailing by double digits, but a recent AP poll had him behind only one percent.

“McCain has a lot of supporters that stand with him 100 percent,” Woods said.

He questioned whether the masses of voters Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, has mobilized would actually turn out.

“I would definitely rather be in Obama’s shoes,” Trent Thompson said. “He’s got the momentum behind him.”

As McCain has fallen behind in the polls, he has also stopped campaigning in certain states such as Michigan and Colorado.

His running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, publicly questioned the reasoning behind pulling out of Michigan.

“When you have a team of

mavericks, they’re bound to disagree with each other,” Woods said.

Because Michigan is a heavily unionized state suffering from the failures of the American auto industry, Woods said the statew might be more interested in the big-government social handouts that Obama supports.

Trent Thompson was more blunt.

“McCain found those states slipping away from him,” he said.

“People are ready for Obama’s message of change.”

Woods suggested Florida as a state that McCain should be focused on in the final week of the campaign. Woods said aiding veterans, improving health care and addressing the housing crisis were important Florida issues which McCain excels at.

Paul Thompson said he thought McCain should focus more attention on Ohio.

“His message will resonate there,” he said. “No candidate has won the general election without winning Ohio in more than 20 years.”

Next the panelists discussed McCain’s judgment. Trent Thompson brought up Charles Keating, a financier involved in a savings and loan scandal in the 1980s who helped fund a McCain senatorial campaign.

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of the benefit of the American people,” Trent Thompson said.

Woods pointed out that, although Keating was a man whose practices McCain had admonished, he was not as bad as the inflammatory William Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, people who Obama has associated with.

He said McCain was pointing out the unsafe lending practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac years before the companies collapsed.

McCain’s selection of Palin as his running mate was also a judgment issue.

“She doesn’t understand the issues facing everyday Americans,” Trent Thompson said.

Woods disagreed.

“She’s not from the old political elite,” he said. “She can connect so well with so many people.”

Next the panel discussed McCain’s military service and how that might reflect his abilities as a leader. McCain spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was offered the opportunity to leave early, but he refused.

“It shows he’s willing to endure,” Woods said.

Such resilience meant McCain would not easily be swayed by flimsy news polls, Woods said.

Paul Thompson said McCain cast the election as a choice between Obama’s socialist government and McCain’s freedom of choice for Americans.

“He’s the man each of us can put our trust in,” Woods said.

“He can put America where it needs to be.”

PANEL AT A GLANCE Trent Thompson, president of UA College Democrats “I would definitely rather be in Obama’s shoes. He’s got the momentum behind him.” “[McCain] put a personal friendship and campaign dollars ahead of the benefit of the American people.”

Paul Thompson, opinions editor of The Crimson White “[McCain has] been willing to serve his country his entire life.”

Jesse Woods, executive adviser to the SGA President “[McCain is] the man each of us can put our trust in. He can put America where it needs to be.”

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evil. It’s more about imagination,” he said.

Specifically, the topic will refer to imagination as it is used for literature “where the author describes a certain scenario and you imagine that’s what’s going on,” he said.

But Yablo’s philosophical interest stems from readers’ “imaginative resistance” to certain elements of the story.

“The philosopher David Hume noticed about three hundred years ago that there are certain strange limits to what we’ll take the author’s word for,” Yablo said. “There are things we’ll say, ‘Sure,’ and there are some other things that we’ll resist and say, ‘I don’t know if that’s true.’”

He specified that while readers are quick to accept descriptive details provided by the author, they might be more skeptical about an author’s judgments of characters and their behavior.

“If the author tells us what the correct moral evaluation of these things is — that was a good thing to do, that was a

PRIDE

Continued from page 6 it was once interesting to look at police corruption, but the trends have grown so tired and worn that there is little drama to it anymore.

Take a movie like “The Departed,” for instance.

While it does show police corruption, that’s not what the film is about. It is a film about Catholic guilt, betrayal and redemption. However, that film was directed by Martin Scorsese, the best living director. With “Pride and Glory,” Gavin O’Connor shows us grit and wants to hone in on these same themes, but it all seems to fall flat.

LIFESTYLES

What: 2nd Annual Philosophy Today Speaker Series presents “Carnap’s Paradox” and “Imagining Evil,” by Stephen Yablo

When: 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Where: 354 ten Hoor and 110 AIME bad thing to do — and we don’t agree, we’ll resist,” he said.

To exemplify his claim, Yablo introduced a story about a woman who kills her baby.

“Why? Because she was crying too much,” he said. “We’ll agree with the author that this woman had a baby, and we’ll agree that she killed the baby, but we won’t agree that it was a good thing to do because it was crying too much. So why is there that sudden switch?

“We have the genre of science fiction, where people can fool around with scientific facts. Why is there no genre of morality fiction, where people fool around with the moral facts?”

This is largely due to the screenplay by both O’Connor and Joe Carnahan. The dialogue is wretched with moments filled with irresistibly laughable lines. Even expert dramatic actors like Norton, Farrell, Voight and Emmerich couldn’t save this mess.

Crime dramas seem to have grown flat unless made by the titans of the genre, like Scorsese. I would love to see life brought back into it, but I don’t want to sit through another movie that is as irredeemably cheesy and heavyhanded as this. The last ten minutes of the movie are not just bad, but dreadful, and I felt sorry for the actors onscreen who were forced to keep a straight face.

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Zombies invade Buddhism talk

By CJ McCormick Assistant Lifestyles Editor Students wondering how zombie trivia might help them better understand Buddhism, can find out tonight at ten Hoor at 7:30.

“The talk will be about taking this concept that society seems to understand almost instinctively,” said Sean Hoade, a UA English instructor who teaches the interim Zombie class, “Zombies: The Living Dead in Literature, Film and Culture.”

“So what I’m doing is taking a cultural concept and students’ prior knowledge to introduce them to a new subject, Buddhist philosophy and metaphysics,” Hoade said.

Hoade’s lecture, “Dharma of

the Dead,” will start at 7:30 p.m. in 125 ten Hoor Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Mallet Assembly and should last about an hour.

“When the Mallet Assembly came to me, and said, ‘Hey we’d like for you to give a talk,’ I knew immediately that this is what I wanted to give a talk on,” he said. “So they arranged it to be right before Halloween when zombies and stuff are in the air.”

Hoade stresses that his lecture will not be religious in nature but will simply use zombies to better explain Buddhism.

“It’s not a religious talk by any means, so people don’t need to worry that they’re going to get preached at,” he said. “It’s

about the interesting philosophical concepts that can be illuminated, to everyone’s surprise, by these shambling, undead monsters.”

Through the preparation for the lecture, Hoade came to find the irony in the comparison.

“The funniest thing about all this in doing the research and putting the talk together and everything is the irony that Buddhism is a religion of peace and tranquility and friendship, and zombies are murderous cannibalistic beasts, and yet you can use one to illuminate the other,” he said.

As another incentive to attend, Hoade will give away a number of zombie-related prizes for the winners of the

shambling and moaning contests.

Finally, Hoade hopes that his lecture will be a night students won’t soon forget.

“This is something that when they get done with school, they will remember this evening as one in which they learned about a completely new subject using a subject that they thought they knew but will never see in the same way,” he said. “So next time students get together and talk about zombies, they will have a deeper understanding of this cultural concept and also of this 2,500-year-old religious concept. I hope it’s the kind of thing that will always stay with them in a way that many other lectures may not.”

‘High School Musical’ No. 1 with $42 M

By David Germain The Associated Press

Numbers. “That combination of a G-rated and an R-rated movie, both chasing completely differLOS ANGELES | Crazed killer ent audiences, proved to be a Jigsaw has been done in by huge success.” singing and dancing teens.

Disney’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” hoofed its way to the top of the weekend box office class with 1. “HSM 3,” $42 million. $42 million, while Lionsgate’s horror sequel “Saw V” had to 2. “Saw V,” $30.5 milsettle for second place with lion. $30.5 million, according to stu3. “Max Payne,” $7.6 dio estimates Sunday.

A big-screen sequel to the million.

Disney Channel TV movies, 4. “Beverly Hills Chihua“High School Musical 3” had a hua,” $6.9 million. record opening for a song-anddance flick, easily beating the 5. “Pride and Glory,” previous best of $27.8 million, $6.3 million. set last summer by “Mamma Mia!” 6. “The Secret Life of “High School Musical 3” and Bees,” $5.9 million.

“Saw V” combined to send Hollywood revenues soar7. “W.”, $5.3 million. ing. The top 12 movies took in 8. “Eagle Eye,” $5.1 $120.5 million, up 41 percent from the same weekend last million. year, when “Saw IV” led the 9. “Body of Lies,” $4.1 weekend with a $31.8 million million. debut.

“It was good vs. evil at the 10. “Quarantine,” $2.6 box office, and both won,” said million.

Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Media By

Box office leaders

“Saw V” pulled in about the same amount of cash over opening weekend as the last three flicks in the franchise about the diabolical Jigsaw, but it was the first that failed to finish at No. 1 since the original “Saw”

debuted in third place in 2004.

The horror crowd was simply outnumbered by young fans and their parents turning up to see how senior year played out for the “High School Musical” cast.

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Alabama shut out by Georgia, 2-0

By Cyrus Ntakirutinka Sports Reporter The Alabama soccer team suffered a 2-0 defeat to Georgia in the final game at the UA soccer complex, leaving the Crimson Tide with a 9-7-2 record.

Alabama found itself trailing early in the game after a Bulldog goal in the 10th minute.

Georgia’s Megan Tomlinson scored from eight yards out off a deflection. Tomlinson’s torment did not stop there as she assisted teammate Carrie Patterson for a one-touch finish from ten yards out to put the bulldogs up 2-0.

Alabama’s offense struggled despite matching Georgia’s shot totals for the first period

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of Saban. “We finally just took it upon ourselves to finally put a complete game together. We scored points in the second half, and that was huge to put the game away. The defense played lights out today. It was a total team effort.�

The Tide manufactured several long drives, scoring touchdowns on drives of 66, 79 and 80 yards.

John Parker Wilson finished 17-of-24 for 188 yards and freshman wide out Julio Jones hauled in a career-high six catches for 103 yards. Despite the emphasis of the aerial game (nine players recorded receptions), Alabama scored all three of its touchdowns on the ground.

Glen Coffee, Roy Upchurch and John Parker Wilson each reached the end zone.

Upchurch sliced through the

at five to five. Head coach Todd Bramble felt the situation was similar to last Sunday’s game against Florida, in which the Tide conceded two goals off five shots at the halfway mark. “Well, unfortunately that was a very familiar scenario,�

Bramble said. “We found ourselves in a situation we’ve been in too many times recently. We play a team fairly even in the first half, and they make the most of their chances. They get a chance in front of a goal and they stick it away; we get a chance at a goal and we hit the goalkeeper or miss the target.

That was the deciding factor of the game.�

Georgia outshot Alabama in the second half with nine shots to the Tide’s five. As the Bulldogs’ shot totals increased, Alabama was forced to play a more physical game, resulting

in senior Kelsey King picking up a yellow card.

Sunday also marked the last home game for King and fellow seniors Alex Butera, Kailey Corken, Jessica Deegan, Kara Gudmens, Cara Kelly, Laren Lansden, Callie Pike, Colleen Posey and Jamie Zimmerman, who were all recognized before kickoff.

The loss to Georgia makes Alabama’s chances of making it to the post-season tournament smaller but Bramble said he is encouraging his players to keep fighting. “I just told them that at this point last year, their season was over,� he said. “They had no hope to qualify for the SEC tournament. It’s different this year. The season is very much alive. There’s still a lot to play for, and because of that, this week of training becomes very

important. They need to treat it that way with preparation, focus and have a good week of training.�

Alabama’s record in the conference before Sunday stood at 4-4-1 thanks to a 1-1 draw at Tennessee. The Tide benefited from the late goal scored by sophomore Grace Lawson to carry the game to double overtime and give Alabama points in the standings. “We are very proud of that,� Bramble said. “It’s the first time we have taken any points from Tennessee home or away since 1998. So to get a tie in Knoxville, certainly in the fashion that we did, says a lot about the character of this year’s team.�

The team will turn its sights on rival Auburn to close out CW | Drew Hoover the regular season in Auburn Forward Kelsey King kicks the ball upfield in the game against Georgia Sunday. at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

Tennessee line to lead the rushing attack with 86 yards on 14 carries. “Those running backs did really well,� Wilson said. “We were able to mix in the pass and stay really balanced and come out with a good attack.

With the way our defense played tonight, if we just kept the ball and didn’t turn it over, we we’re going to win the game.�

The defense didn’t miss a beat without the injured nose guard Terrence Cody, the 365pound anchor of the SEC’s best run defense who was sidelined with an MCL sprain.

Josh Chapman, Marcel Dareus and Lorenzo Washington shuffled in to fill the void and stuffed the Tennessee run. The Vols managed just 36 rushing yards on 21 attempts.

The Volunteers converted just two of its 11 possessions into points and had more punting yards, 306, than total offense, 173. “I’ve never been prouder

of our team, our players, the way they competed in the game,� Saban said. “This is the best we’ve played since the Clemson game. We played a complete game today.�

After trailing for the first time all season last week against Ole Miss, Alabama executed a crisp opening drive to take a quick 3-0 lead.

After forcing a Tennessee three-and-out on the ensuing drive, Alabama committed one of two special team miscues that let the Vols hang around early.

Declining to signal for a fair catch inside the 10-yard line, junior Javier Arenas tracked down a sailing 54-yard punt

by All-SEC kicker Britton Colquitt. LaMarcus Thompson jarred the ball loose when he hit the backpedaling Arenas, and teammate Dennis Rogan recovered it at the Alabama 5-yard line.

Arenas and the Crimson Tide defense made a strong stand to keep the Vols off the

checkered turf. Capped by a 7-yard sack by safety Rashad Johnson, Tennessee’s fourplay, negative-nine yard red zone drive ended in a Daniel Lincoln 31-yard chip shot to tie the game, 3-3.

Two drives later, Alabama capitalized on another Tiffin field goal, this time a 43-yarder, to take a 6-3 lead.

Later in the second quarter, Alabama was forced to punt from its own 12-yard line. Tennessee running back Montario Hardesty blocked the kick and Tennessee started its drive on the Tide’s 32-yard line.

Again, the Alabama defense withstood, forcing the Vols to lose three yards that resulted in a missed 51-yard field goal attempt.

The failed field goal reset the field position as Alabama took over on its own 34-yard line. Jones caught consecutive passes for 49 yards to set up four-straight runs by Coffee, who punched it in the end

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Alabama took the 13-3 lead into the locker room.

After another Tiffin field goal, Alabama drove 79 yards on 12 plays for an Upchurch touchdown. Alabama failed on the two-point conversion but tacked on seven more points early in the fourth on Upchurch’s touchdown.

Tennessee notched a meaningless touchdown with 7:26 remaining to set the final score at 29-9.

The 20-point victory continued Alabama’s dominance on the road. Including the neutral-site Clemson game, Alabama has outscored its opponents a combined 153-63 on the road.

The loss dropped a reeling Tennessee to 3-5 (1-4 SEC) and to the bottom of the East.

Just one year removed from a Tennessee trip to the SEC Championship game, rumors are swirling about the fate of head coach Phil Fulmer after the uneven start.

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MIT philosophy professor speaks tonight

By Ryan Mazer Lifestyles Editor

As of late, the department of philosophy has not received much attention in The Crimson White. This reflects an apathy either on the part of the student body — which has grown frustrated by the department’s failure to resolve life’s mysteries — or the philosophy department — the introverted

members of which had been mumbling the answers to students for years before growing frustrated by our inability to hear them. These questions recall the chicken-or-the-egg dilemma — sort of — one that is best left for the philosophers to decide. If only they would speak up.

One who would speak up is Stephen Yablo, professor of philosophy at MIT. As part of the

UA philosophy department’s second annual Philosophy Today Speaker Series — which held its first lecture earlier this month, given by Rutgers professor Doug Husak. Yablo will present two lectures at the University on Tuesday.

The first, titled “Carnap’s Paradox,” will take place at 3:30 p.m. in 354 ten Hoor.

“I’m going to be talking about a paradox that [Carnap] called attention to,” Yablo said. “He was interested in the fact that sometimes when we are talking about the physical world, we bring mathematical objects into the description.”

Yablo offered a description of our galaxy to illustrate this statement.

“Suppose I’m trying to tell you how many planets there are. I could say, ‘The number of planets is eight.’ [Carnap] noticed that it follows from that, by logic, that there are numbers. There is such a thing as the number of planets there are. That’s a very controversial proposition,” he said, self-consciously adding: “That’s something that philosophers worry about and debate back and forth.”

Yablo clarified that the paradox does not only pertain to descriptive properties such as math. It can also include the act of describing in the first place.

“You could say, ‘The proposition that snow is white — that

Stephen Yablo will speak tonight about “Carnapʼs Paradox” and “Imagining Evil.” proposition is true.’ But then you could say, ‘It follows from that that there are propositions,’” he said.

According to the department’s Web site, this lecture presupposes some familiarity with the subject. Fortunately, you all now have some familiarity, so if you attend the event, do not be

intimidated by the suspicious looks of department members.

When confronted, just recite one of the above quotes. They are sure to offer their approval.

But listen carefully — they may mumble it.

Yablo will deliver his second lecture, titled “Imagining Evil,” at 7:30 p.m. in 110 Alabama

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Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs Building. This event will be geared toward the general public.

Yablo explained that the name of the lecture is “sort of a cheat.”

“It’s not fundamentally about

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MOVIE REVIEW | “PRIDE AND GLORY”

Generic cop film fails to impress

By Peterson Hill Contributing Writer

Not explicitly, but there is nothing in the movie that is original.

The premise of the film is Gavin O’Connor’s “Pride and Glory” has been made before. about as old as a molded piece of bread in your pantry. The most disheartening part about this is that it features some of the best actors around. But forget actresses, because this film is not concerned with woman at all.

The plot chronicles the lives of the Tierney family and their

‘Pride and Glory’ Directed by: Gavin

brother-in-law, Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell), who have to get to the bottom of a cop massacre. Does this sound familiar?

The cops are slain off-screen at the very beginning of the film. Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) is asked to be the point man on the task force by his father, Francis Tierney Sr. (Jon Voight). He reluctantly takes the job due to an incident from a few years ago. But he is a brilliant detective and the men who died were under his brother, Francis Tierney Jr.’s (Noah Emmerich), command.

From here, the movie takes us on the usual path of scenes, exhibiting cop corruption and

gritty — almost unwatchable — violence.

And yes, of course the family has a Christmas dinner where the alcoholic Tierney Sr. gets drunk and talks about how much he loves his kids.

And yes, of course Ray is going through a divorce and Jr.’s wife is dying of cancer. The problem with these side plots is that they are not given any time to grow or move around.

There is only one thing this movie is concerned with, and that is cop corruption. I have gotten Hollywood’s point that the police are corrupt. Maybe

See PRIDE, page 7

O’Connor

Starring: Edward Norton, Noah Emmerich, Jon Voight, Colin Farrell

Run time: 125 minutes MPAA Rating: R CW critic’s rating:

Bottom line: Skilled actors can’t save this generic, horribly written police drama.

www.rottentomatoes.com Colin Farrell and Edward Norton star in Gavin OʼConnorʼs “Pride and Glory.”