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SPORTS No. 1 Tide travels to California for the Cathedral City Tournement
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SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES
Mayor talks alcohol sales
Vol. 115, Issue 90
SGA hosts advising discussion
Poetry Jam Slam
By Jessie Gable Staff Reporter
Economic stability also discussed By Danielle Drago Senior Staff Reporter
Tuscaloosa’s mayor of three years, Walt Maddox, gave a speech at the annual legislative breakfast this year outlining several goals, including the sale of alcohol on Sundays. He talked about this, as well as his other goals and the affects of the University on the city with The Crimson White.
CW: What were your goals outlined at the legislative breakfast? Maddox: Well, they are
more of legislative goals. You have to separate goals from those that are in terms of running the city and goals that are legislative. This was all about the city’s legislative agenda for the 2009 session. Some of the main points were to continue to advocate for zoning in and around Lake Tuscaloosa. It’s a cityowned lake that provides to over 200,000 people daily, but one of the issues we have is that around the lake there is no zoning protection. The city would like to see zoning
See ALCOHOL, page 3
CW | Marion R Walding A sign in Publix lets customers know alcohol cannot be sold on Sundays. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox wants to bring the sale of alcohol on Sundays to a referendum.
UA Student dies last Sunday By Karissa Bursch Staff Reporter
UA student Christopher Franklin Roman died at 25 years old Sunday due to unknown causes, said UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen. Roman was a senior majoring in advertising, Andreen said. Roman was from Birmingham and graduated from Oak Mountain High
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School in 2002, Andreen said. Roman was also involved with the Houndstooth Hut, a distributor of houndstooth apparel on gamedays and online. The visitation service was held Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Southern Heritage Funeral Home and Cemetery in Pelham. The funeral service was directly after at 2 p.m., according to the student death notification addendum.
INSIDE Today’s paper
Opinions: Recycle with Creative Campus......4 Students journey on a religious retreat........5
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Empty Bowls event for Homelessness week ..5
Friday
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Sports: Gators beat Tide in menʼs basketball ..6
Saturday
49º/29º
Piano documentary debuts tonight ..........8
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CW | Drew Hoover Xavier Burgin, Sy Pryor and Jazzmin Franklin perform during Poetry Slam dress rehearsal on Feb. 17.
ʻF.E.A.R. 2ʼ Review ....8
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CW | Drew Hoover Assorted Flava, a dance performance group from Stillman College, performs a Caribbeanthemed dance choreographed by Carlos Shephard at the Poetry Slam dress rehearsal on Feb. 17.
As reported in The Crimson White on Wednesday, the University will be instituting DegreeWorks, a degree audit tool, in June 2009. On Feb. 18, the SGA hosted a roundtable discussion for students, teachers and faculty members to air their concerns about advising. At the discussion students and faculty members could freely discuss their complaints and confusion around advising and get feedback from other sources. SGA Secretary to the Senate Meg McCrummen and SGA Vice President for Academic Affairs Brandon Clark presented several possibilities that the SGA had considered to make advising easier and more productive for students. One of the major student complaints surrounding the UA advising process is that students are only allowed to sign up for one 15-minute time slot before they have to register. This time frame is not enough to discuss the classes they have to take the next semester as well as their plans for the future, said Tyler Reeves, a senator from the College of Arts and Sciences. Chris Hutt, an adviser in the College of Arts and Sciences, said most professors consider the focus of that appointment to be very narrow. “Students want to discuss the next 30 years of their life and advisers are just trying to get you through the next semester,” Hutt said.
See ADVISING, page 2
UA Filmmaker to ‘eat Alabama’ Grace to eat only food grown and prepared in Alabama By Karissa Bursch Staff Reporter Imagine eating only Alabama grown food — no Florida oranges, no Italian olive oil, no Chinese rice. Andrew Grace, a filmmaker at the Center for Public Television and Radio at the University and his wife, Rashmi Grace, set out to do this for one full year as a project titled Eating Alabama. Grace said he, his wife and two friends started the challenge in April of last year, thinking for four months they would only eat food grown and raised within the state. “Initially we were going to pursue this diet for one season, but decided to extend the season into six months, and then
finally, with a few more exceptions, Rashmi and I decided to continue the project for a year,” Grace said. “So, for the last ten and a half months we’ve been eating only food grown or raised here in Alabama.” The few exceptions to the food selection include cooking oil, limited spices, coffee and tea, Grace said. He said that other exceptions were made in the later part of the year when they went out to eat but all other food eaten at home is grown or raised within the Alabama’s borders. “The primary reason why we started this project was to see if it could be done,” Grace said. Grace explained that most food in the United States travels between 1,500 and 2,000 miles from “the farm to your plate”. “This system of food distribution — which relies entirely on cheap petroleum for both transportation and for the continued manufacturing of pesticides and herbicides used in industrial agriculture — is completely unsustainable,” Grace said. “We started Eating Alabama to see if we could reverse some of these trends, if only in our
See FOOD, page 2
Submitted photo Andrew Grace, a filmmaker at the center for Public Television and Radio at the University has only eaten state grown food for the past 10 months.
Semester at sea available for students By Hannah Mask Contributing Writer Students will have the opportunity to travel to 10 countries in 101 days while they study aboard a floating campus, thanks to Semester at Sea. Semester at Sea is a program that allows students to learn more about other countries and globalization through world travel while simultaneously earning credit hours. Ed Williams of the University’s department of theatre and dance will be teaching and traveling with the program for the first time in the fall, although the University has been involved with the program in years past.
“[Semester at Sea] puts things into a global context,” Williams said. “You get to see Islam at work in places like Turkey, Croatia and Egypt. “It’s so easy to compare other places to America,” he said. “With this, you get to compare country to country to country.” Williams’ voyage destinations include Morocco, Vietnam, China, Egypt and India. Throughout the course of the trip, students attend a variety of classes onboard. Up to 15 transferable credit hours can be earned, and there are classes offered to benefit any major, Williams said. Subjects offered include anthropology, biology, art, economics and
communications. Williams said at least 20 percent of every course’s content is related to experiences students will have off the boat. Williams will be teaching a class on world cinema. “It will be about how Hollywood portrays other countries,” Williams said. Depending on the voyage, Semester at Sea students, faculty members and employees spend from about 60 to 100 days travelling aboard the MV Explorer, the program’s cruise ship. The ship, which has a capacity of almost 900 people, has been re-outfitted to fit educational needs, Williams said. For
See ABROAD, page 3