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UA license plate gets new design

By Hannah Mask Contributing Writer

The University’s new collegiate license tag design is available this month in any state courthouse or license office, according to the alumni association.

Pat Whetstone, UA’s director of alumni affairs, said funds from the tags cost about $50 more than regular tags and go towards undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.

The Capstone’s alumni association raised about $3 million • UA license plates cost with the car tag program from 2007 to 2008, more than any $50 extra — $48 of which other university in the state. are tax deductable Auburn raised about $2.43 million, according to press releas• From 2007 to 2008, UA es. alumni affairs raised nearly “Out of the $50 the tags cost, $3 million from UA license $48.50 deductable, so most of tag purchases the money is considered a gift to the University,” Whetstone • The license tag money is said, adding that tags can also used to fund undergraduate be personalized. “If a person scholarships and graduate wants BAMADOG or JIMBO on

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UA Athletics The Alabama gymnastics team poses after winning the sixth SEC Championship in school history over the weekend. The Tide has battled injuries all year but stepped up at the right time to fend off No. 1 Georgia and take the title.

By Jason Galloway Senior Sports Reporter

“Middle of the season, things were looking pretty grim,” sophomore All-American A month ago, this did not Kayla Hoffman said. “It was a pretty down time for us, but we seem possible.

The Alabama gymnastics never completely lost hope.”

The team needed something team had lost its last four meets against SEC opponents, to happen, some kind of spark having scored just lower than to pull itself back into the cona 196 for the second week in a versation as one of the best.

On Feb. 27, the Crimson Tide row. The injuries were plentiful, and it seemed as if this sea- trounced No. 5 Auburn with son would just be accepted as a a score of 197.35, its seasonhigh score by a long shot at down year.

the time, reminding the Tigers and the rest of the country why Alabama had five SEC titles to its name in the last 20 years.

In the past month, Alabama has averaged better than a 197 in each meet. On Saturday, the Tide posted its second highest score of the season, a 197.3, to capture its sixth SEC Championship and first since 2003.

“This is just so sweet because of everything that’s

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been thrown at us, all the adversity and injuries,” junior All-American Morgan Dennis said. “Every little thing that we never would have thought happened this year.”

Alabama’s biggest competition, top-ranked Georgia, opened the door for the Tide by counting a fall on the balance beam in the first rotation, posting a dismal 48.6 on

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cutting spending in anticipation of a massive deficit,” said representative Artur Davis in a press release. “But the fact is that our economy is suffering the most severe downturn since the early seventies and it will likely get worse. Our state

By Josh Veazey government is facing a billion Senior Staff Reporter dollar shortfall even with the The American Recovery fiscally conservative choices and Reinvestment Act, passed we have made in Alabama.”

Money that might help stuon Feb.17, invested an estimated $247.5 billion in health- dents include an increase care, education and scientific in maximum Pell Grant, an research, much of which has increase in “higher educapotential to end up at the tion tax credits” for people saving up or currently payUniversity.

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By Drew Taylor Senior Staff Reporter On March 10, Sen. Shelby announced federal funding on a number of projects within West Alabama and the University. Of the $90 million in earmarks going to West Alabama, nearly half will be going to the University. Of this, $4.03 million will be given to the University’s Transportation Services, including $2.468 million for the Ridgecrest South parking deck.

In a written statement, Shelby, who graduated from the University in 1957, said it is important to think about how this bill can best serve the people who elected him in the first place.

“I believe the people of Alabama elected me to represent their interests in Washington and I am willing to defend any funding or project I have secured for Alabama,” Shelby said. “I

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FAST FACTS • This month, Shelby announced $90 million of federal funds will support projects in West Alabama

• Nearly half will come to the University

• $4.03 million will be given to Transportation Services

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restabilization fund designed to prevent layoffs and budget cuts.

Most of the money for research will come through federal agencies, and research institutions like the University will apply to get specified grants from them. For example, the National Science Foundation received $3 billion, and the National Institutes of Health received $10.4 billion.

Joe Benson, UA vice president for research, said he thinks this is a good way to allocate money based on merit and to give departments at the

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By Danielle Drago Senior Staff Reporter It is the week after spring break. This means returning from the sand and sun to not only piles of unfinished work and creeping deadlines, but also inundation of spring break pictures posted on Facebook. Although it may be fun to flip through friend’s pictures in their varying states of sobriety, some students post their good times had over the break online without stopping to consider the consequences.

“Photos not only document your fun times, but also the places you’ve been and people with whom you associate.

These are clues that others can easily piece together to find you,” according to a report issued by Vivian Wright, associate professor of instructional technology.

Privacy is something that is

often compromised when students divulge valuable information, such as phone numbers or addresses, on their Facebook accounts.

Being an open book puts you at risk of sharing a little too much, according to the report.

“I think Facebook’s safe depending on what you put on it,” said Amanda Wachtel, a junior majoring in mathematics. “I think if you put too much information it’s really easy for people to track you down.

Putting your address isn’t a good idea.”

She said only accepting friend requests from people she knows is also a good rule of thumb.

The best ways to protect your privacy are by keeping phone numbers and addresses private, as well as reviewing the privacy settings provided

by Facebook. You are only as vulnerable as your privacy

settings allow, according to the report.

In addition to limited privacy, posting pictures and information can also limit job opportunities.

“Employers do look at Facebook,” said Gayle Howell, a consultant with the Career Center. “A couple of years ago, there was discussion if it was ethical for employers to look at [potential employee’s] Facebook pages and other networking sites. We’re not even having that discussion anymore; it’s just so prevalent.”

In the current job market, students have to be mindful about their Facebook profiles, she said.

“Now what we talk about it how students can be very careful about what they post or how they post it so that employers don’t change their mind about wanting to offer them a job,” Howell said.

Taking down any pictures or content of questionable appropriateness is key, she said.

“As they approach the job search, they need to clean up their Facebook, and not post any pictures or any links that would take employers to information that was inappropriate,” she said.

Facebook is changing the way employers look at future job candidates.

“I think employers have done background checks for years and years and Facebook allows employers another way to do a background check on what kind of person the [job] candidate is. I’ve heard countless stories from employers who have not made a job offer because of what they have been able to access through Facebook,” Howell said.

Students are aware of the

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• The Unbound Art Show — 6 to 9 p.m., Maxwell Hall

• Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre presents “Annie Jr.” — 7 p.m., Bama Theatre, also 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday

• “The Environmental Family in a Changing World” presented by Saturdays at the Arboretum — 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., UA Arboretum

• Philosophy Today lecture series presents Michael P. Lynch — 7:30 p.m., AIME room 110

• A Walk in My Shoes, a performance by theatre troupe ‘Unscripted’ — 5 p.m., Campus Programs Lounge

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Crosswalk at Hackberry and Campus to be closed The crosswalk at Hackberry Lane and Campus Drive will be closed this week because of construction between the Kilgore House and the new Science and Engineering building. From now on, pedestrians must use the crosswalk at Margaret Drive to access campus. There will no longer be access to campus between the new Science and Engineering building and the Kilgore House.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I believe the people of Alabama elected me to represent their interests in Washington and I am willing to defend any funding or project I have secured for Alabama. I firmly believe that elected officials, not bureaucrats, should be stewards of taxpayer dollars.”

—Richard Shelby, State Senator on federal funding projects for the University

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Chinese Culture Club to present Asian Interest Week

By Jessie Gable Staff Reporter Due to a growing interest in Chinese culture by the students at the University, the Chinese Culture Club has decided to host the first Asian Interest Week from March 28 through April 7 on the UA campus and several nearby locations. All events are open to all UA students and the public. The week will showcase cultural events from China, Japan, Tibet and India.

Susan Gorin, a junior majoring in history and president of the Chinese Culture Club at the University, came up with the idea for Asian Interest Week after studying abroad in Beijing in 2008. Crossroads Community Center, Creative Campus, SGA, Steven Ramey of Religious Studies, Gloria Tham of the Music School and. Anthony Clark of the history department will also be contributing to the events of the week, Gorin said.

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The number of students enrolled in Asian language and culture classes at the University and the number of students interested in the UA study abroad program in China has grown to the point where additional majors and minors are being considered.

“This semester, 70 students are enrolled in Chinese, 94 in Japanese, 15 in Korean, and seven in Thai,” Gorin said.

“There are also numerous classes offered throughout the year on Chinese and Tibetan History, Japanese film and literature, Chinese art and Asian religions. In fact, there are so many classes pertaining to Asia that Dr. Steven Ramey of the religious studies department is in the process of establishing an Asian studies minor.”

In addition, the number of Asian exchange students at the University continues to grow.

Gorin said after her study abroad, she realized just how much help students need getting acquainted with the United States and the UA campus.

“When I lived in Beijing, all the students at my university went out of their way to help me get adjusted. I just want UA students to show the same initiative,” Gorin said.

Katie Barzler, a senior

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1931: Nine black youths, soon to be known as the Scottsboro Boys, are arrested in Paint Rock and jailed in Scottsboro, the Jackson County seat. Charged with raping two white women on a freight train from Chattanooga, the sheriff had to protect them from mob violence that night. Within a month, eight of the nine were sentenced to death. Based on questionable evidence, the convictions by an all-white jury generated international outrage.

their tag, it’s the same price.”

The University’s 2009 tag underwent several creative processes before being made available to the public.

Whetstone said UA students and graphic designers worked together to come up with

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critic said Master Killer contains ‘the most exciting training sequences ever committed to film.”’

On April 2, the Chinese Culture Club will continue Asian Interest Week by presenting a lecture titled “Hindu God or Muslim Saint? Creating a Public Identity with a Contested Figure in India” at 3 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall. Ramey has researched contemporary Sindhi Hindus and other communities whose stories and practices do not fit the standard definitions of Hinduism, Gorin said.

On April 2 at 7 p.m., the club will be showing the film “Kundun,” directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the life and writings of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet.

Then, on April 4, Gloria Tham will be presenting a piano recital, “Chinoiserie at the Piano,” at 2 p.m. at the Moody Music Building.

The last event will take place on April 7 when Crossroads Community Center presents the UA in China Photography Exhibit and talk. This event will take place in 232 Ferguson Center at 5 p.m. and will show photos from some of the 21 students who traveled abroad to China in the fall 2008.

about 40 designs for the tags initially. After combining some designs’ ideas and eliminating others, about 20 tags were left to be debated.

“Student leaders, alumni leaders and student organizations helped us cut it down to two designs, which the state put onto metal so they were actual tags,” Whetstone said.

“The last test was putting them on the back of a car, and one was clearly the better choice. [The other design] was cute, but it just didn’t work as a tag.”

Whetstone said the collegiate license tag program has been ongoing since 1988.

He also said it’s “good for any entity in the state” that’s involved, as it raises money to benefit schools.

Students interested in purchasing a personalized collegiate license tag should go online to ador.state.al.us and click the ‘Motor Vehicle’ option under the ‘Divisions & Services’ tab, then click ‘Search or reserve a personalized tag message’ under ‘registration.’ A variety of tags are available under ‘tag type,’ and users may enter up to four personalization choices in order to find out which ones are available.

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majoring in journalism and minoring in Chinese, said Asian Interest Week will be a good opportunity to bring a little piece of Asian culture to the students at the University.

“If you see a lecture that sounds interesting, go to it. You have nothing to lose. In a way, it’s just bringing a little piece of their culture here,” Barzler said.

The first event will be the Sakura Festival of “Matsuri in the Mall” to be held at McFarland Mall in the center court from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28. The festival will include different Japanese cultural exhibits and performances.

On Monday, March 30 at 6 p.m., Anthony Clark, history professor at the University, will be presenting the film, “Master Killer: 36th Chamber” and a lecture following the movie. This will be shown in 205 Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. ‘“Master Killer: 36th Chamber’ is considered by many to be the greatest Kung Fu cult film ever produced,” Gorin said. “This 1978 movie about the famed Shaolin Temple was produced by the Shaw Brothers tycoon, Sir Run Shaw, at his Hong Kong studios, and is set during the fall of the Ming dynasty. One

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“The success rate [for researchers applying] at many of these agencies is around 10 percent. What this means is there’s 90 percent that aren’t being funded because there’s a limited amount of funds available. And some of this is very high quality research,” Benson said. “What the stimulus money should allow is funding for a broader range of research activity. Research that may have been recommended for funding but not funded because of limited funds may now be funded.”

Benson said grant money may come to the University as soon as next fall.

Benson said he thinks

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research will play an integral part in the long-term security of the country, and that researchers at the University will play a prominent part in that.

“I think what you’re seeing out of the new [presidential] administration is a greater commitment to science and healthcare in particular,” Benson said. “I think it is a real opportunity to enhance high quality research and Alabama does high quality research, so we are going to be at the table. And it’s our hope that it will help us help the country.”

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TUSCALOOSA CITY COUNCIL

Council passes new landscaping ordinance all those speaking against the ordinance: it has “no serious enforcement provisions.” He likened it to having voluntary speed limits.

Representatives from Tuscaloosa Neighborhoods Together, North Tuscaloosa Neighborhood Association, Black Warrior Creek Keepers and four residents opposed the new regulation. Jo Barr, Tuscaloosa Neighborhoods Together, said that subdivision development, an “equal or greater threat” to existing neighborhoods and the environment, wasn’t regulated at all.

Ron Price, co-chairman of the committee that created the

lots and between industrial and commercial developments.

The goal of the ordinance, according to Senior Planner Eric Thompson, is to reduce water runoff, temperature in the city and ease the burden on the sewers. He said that the proBy RF Rains posed “greener” ordinance is Assistant Photo Editor already getting attention from No seats were to be found at across the state.

Carol Myers, a representaTuesday’s two-hour city council meeting. The exceptional tive of the West Alabama Sierra length was added by one item in Club, spoke in favor of the ordiparticular, a controversial new nance, although the majority of the public comments were neglandscaping ordinance.

The ordinance has been under ative. Jim Shaddox, a developer development for two years now critical of the way water quality and would regulate landscap- is maintained by Tuscaloosa, ing in and around city parking first raised the point echoed by

Corner Store’s liquor license also revoked

ordinance said the ordinance was never meant to regulate subdivision development and was enforceable — violations can be penalized with stop-work notices and up to 6 months in jail. The ordinance was passed unanimously.

The retail beer and liquor licenses awarded to Hussein Hajjaji, the owner of the Corner Store on Paul W. Bryant Dr., were revoked because his first background check failed to turn up his four felony charges in Louisiana. He also had a warrant out in Alabama related to forgery accusations.

Luanne Springer, his lawyer, was present to ask for

Bill to remove Ala. sales tax from food fails

MONTGOMERY, Ala. | An effort to remove the state’s 4cent sales tax from groceries failed Tuesday in the Alabama House.

A vote to bring the proposed constitutional amendment up for debate failed. The House voted 56-42 for the bill, but that was short of the 59 votes needed to bring it up for debate in the 104-member House.

The sponsor, Rep. John Knight, D-Montgomery, promised to continue to push for passage of the amendment, which if it passed the Legislature would have to be approved in a statewide vote.

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firmly believe that elected officials, not bureaucrats, should be stewards of taxpayer dollars.”

According to the government watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Shelby is the ninth largest earmarker in the Senate, with 64 inserted earmarks worth $114.5 million for Alabama projects, totaling 125 earmarks for $219.4 million. In addition, Shelby secured $30 million for a building in the science and engineering corridor on the UA campus, the largest appropriation in the bill. The building is currently under construction and is scheduled for completion in December.

The earmarked funds are

The vote in the House fell along party lines, with Democrats supporting it and Republicans opposing it.

Democratic Rep. Richard Laird of Roanoke voted against the bill and was the only House member to cross party lines.

The bill would replace the lost income by removing the current deduction for federal income taxes paid from higherincome taxpayers. Republicans opposed that part of the bill, saying it would amount to a tax increase for some taxpayers.

Knight urged passage of the measure, saying it was not morally right to tax necessities of life such as food.

“This is giving the people a chance to vote on taking the

sales tax off groceries. I trust the people of this state to do what’s right,” said Knight, chairman of the House General Fund budget committee.

Alabama and Mississippi are the only states that levy the full state sales tax on groceries. The other states either have no tax, a reduced tax, or a tax credit for low-income residents.

Alabama currently levies a 4 percent state tax on groceries, which produces about $400 million annually. Cities and counties also have taxes that would not be removed by the proposed amendment.

House Minority Leader Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said Republicans want to remove the sales tax on food, but do not

want to do it by raising taxes for one segment of the population. He called Knight’s bill “a shell game.”

Hubbard said the measure would hurt many small business owners who pay the income taxes for their businesses.

“Now is not the time to raise taxes on any segment of the work force,” Hubbard said.

The bill was opposed by some business groups, some of whom had lobbyists at the Statehouse Tuesday urging lawmakers to vote “no.”

House Majority Leader Rep. Ken Guin, D-Carbon Hill, urged House members to put aside differences and remove the tax from food.

part of the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, a $410 billion spending package which will also include research funding at Auburn University and the Interstate 10 connector in Dothan. The bill will pay for government operations through September.

Ronnie Robertson, director of Transportation Services, said the department works on a three-year federal grant on its projects, such as CrimsonRide. The department pays 20 percent of the initial fees while the government pays 80 percent of the year’s projects. This year marks the third year of the grant, which will then go into next year’s funding.

“This money is nothing new,” Robertson said.

“This is just money that the

government is reimbursing for our projects.”

Cathy Andreen, UA director of media relations, said the University is very appreciative of Shelby’s efforts to bring this money to the University.

“We are sincerely grateful for all that Sen. Shelby has done for the University,” Andreen said.

Additional funding includes $411,000 for the University Transit Service and $650,000 to the University Transportation Center for transportation education and research. Also, half a million dollars will be used to fund research by the College of Engineering into hybrid vehicles and fuel cell research.

“Increasing science and research is our best hope for decreasing energy

costs,” Shelby said in a press release.

“This funding will allow the University of Alabama to maintain and improve its cutting-edge comprehensive research program, and to educate scientists and engineers in this growing industry.”

Mary Weimer, media spokesman for the college, was unavailable for comment.

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two weeks to clear up a “misunderstanding between business partners,” before voting to revoke the license. Once a license is lost, the applicant has to wait six months before applying again. Kip Tyner and Cynthia Almond voted against revoking the license, but the rest of the council voted yes.

The Mayor proclaimed March 24 “Dr. Cordell Wynn Day.” Wynn gave a speech and was presented with a framed proclamation Wynn worked with Housing and Urban Development and Tuscaloosa Schools for over 25 years and was recognized for his service.

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potential dangers to privacy that Facebook provides.

“I try to make everything as private as possible, because I don’t want to world to know personal stuff about me. Some people share a lot of personal things over Facebook,” said Carol Kaminsky, a junior majoring in dance.

If you are not willing to share that information in person, do not share it online, the report said.

Wachtel has a different way to check herself on what she posts on Facebook. “[When posting things on Facebook], I basically just think if it’s something I wouldn’t want my parents to see then I don’t post it,” she said.

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all at his fingertips, and no one knew it better than Kenny.

Unfortunately for him, heavy lies the crown of fame, and after a few more years in the major leagues, Kenny began to struggle with every stereotypical problem possible for an athlete in the ’90s. For you baseball fans out there, picture John Rocker’s mouth and attitude with Mark Wohlers’ mullet-like haircut and you’ve got Kenny Powers.

In the pilot episode, we get to see Kenny’s demise as he loses everything and is forced to retire from baseball and move back to his hometown in North Carolina. He unwillingly becomes the P.E. teacher at the school he grew up in, and most people think he is a big joke.

Despite all the mistakes Kenny causes, most people find themselves still pulling for this guy.

He is so vulgar, and yet you want to see him become a winner again.

“Eastbound and Down” has become one of the most watchable shows on television. I cannot say anymore on the storyline due to the fact that I may ruin any further suspense for new viewers of the show. Last Sunday, Season 1 of Eastbound wrapped with only six episodes.

For those who want to catch this show immediately, find a friend with Comcast HBO On Demand, and you might watch the whole season in one sitting.

“Eastbound and Down” is a highly quotable and incredibly funny show, and for me, it has been my television nutrition as I wait for my other favorite shows to begin new seasons. I think the formula for making great TV shows is causing the viewer to care about the characters like they are real people. Each week my household looks forward to the characters on these shows that come into our homes like invited guests prepared to make us laugh.

Perhaps there never really was a gap in great comedy on TV, and I was just missing the right ones to watch. Anyway you look at it, “Eastbound and Down” has been my favorite show for the last few weeks. If you have had a hard day and you need to laugh at someone who has it a lot worse off than you, I would encourage you to make that someone Kenny Powers.

If you’re like me, you are so thankful for the current resurgence of great comedy shows on television. As I, and most likely as you were growing up, you were a fan of classic comedy TV. Elementary school was usually a heavy dosing of cartoons and game shows on Nickelodeon and T.G.I.F. We were taught life lessons from Doug Funnie or the Tanner Family of “Full House.” The tween years gave us the Savage brothers on “The Wonder Years” and “Boy Meets World,” and every guy was dying to be Zack Morris just so we could date Kelly Kapowski.

When we were growing up, comedy on television was at its best, and people at my lunch table were quoting Trebek and Sean Connery “Celebrity Jeopardy” lines or trying to recite the entire theme song of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” (kudos if you can. Just to get you started, ‘Well this is a story all about how…’).

Comedy on television was something every youngster needed, but unfortunately as life continues to get busier and more important, TV watching gets harder to save time for. I think between the memories of all these great shows and today’s great comedy series, there were a few years when TV comedy significantly suffered. Luckily, since the Hollywood writer’s strike ended last year, there has been a coming out party for new hilarious shows. The power of TiVo and DVR has also allowed us to watch shows when time is convenient for us, and I think that has been a big key in great comedy shows and their longevity.

Now that I have caught you up in the TV comedy world, I get to tell you about my new favorite show “Eastbound and Down” on HBO. From the brilliant minds of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay comes a show about a man from the South who has his ten seconds of fame and then hits rock bottom.

Kenny Powers is the main character, played by Danny McBride, whom you have seen in several of the recent “frat-pack” movies (“Tropic Thunder” and “Pineapple Express”). Powers became a professional baseball pitcher and won the World Series as a 19-year-old kid, thus shooting him to superstardom. Sam Hamilton is a senior majorFame, money and girls were ing in marketing.

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Ideology doesn’t ensure wins

By Jonathan Reed Every summer, baseball fans cheer on their heroes.

Most of their biggest heroes are the home run hitters, players like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr. These players make their living based on statistics, putting up massive numbers in the home run and RBI columns of the stat sheets. Day in and day out, they prove to the rest of the world that they’re the best. Politicians aren’t much different. While an athlete’s contract extension depends on numbers, a politician keeps his job based on his ability to prove that he is more competent than his opponent. The problem is, politicians like to rely on labels and partisanship to ensure they’ll win their next election.

When President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan was working its way through Congress, the debate was heated. The problem was, the debate wasn’t over what mattered. And it wasn’t about ways to make the bill better or fixing what both sides could have agreed to be flaws.

The Republican minority in Congress decided to talk mostly about all of the tiny bits of spending packed into the bill, the earmarks or “pork,” which

threatened to drain off bits of taxpayer money for what they deemed to be irrelevant, pointless programs.

What could be better for them than a trillion-dollar bit of legislation that made it so easy to label their opponents “tax and spend liberals”? The fight would be vital if Republicans want to take back Congress in 2010. Our Grand Ole Party was, to use the baseball term, swinging for the fences.

The problem was, they neglected one fight. Strangely enough, Republicans offered few objections to a now-famous provision in the plan which allowed bailed-out companies to still give huge bonuses to their top employees.

These bonuses, particularly the ones given by AIG to retain the “top talent” that helped drive the company into the ground, have created a firestorm. Why should the people who caused this crisis still get their millions?

Fortunately for the Republicans, all of the blame will fall on the Democrats.

Obama’s White House allegedly wanted the provision in the bill, and forced Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd to change his amendment to allow the bonuses.

The original version of the bill

passed by the Senate forbade companies receiving a bailout from giving their top employees bonuses, at the discretion of the Treasury Secretary.

Even though Dodd has been the target of much of the blame for the bonus scandal, his initial amendment would have prevented it, despite its marginal legality.

So while Republicans hammered away at parts of the bill they deemed to be “pork” (which was often incorrect or misleading, according to the Annenberg Foundation’s FactCheck.org), they neglected a provision which not only wastes taxpayer money, but creates an incentive for businesses to get a government bailout.

Why waste your time and effort publicizing alleged money for “butterfly parks” and “Frisbee golf” when you can say “this bill will let the bad guys get away and still get paid”? Republicans hunted down what they wanted to find: something frivolous (like a dog park in a list of non-prioritized, unapproved potential projects suggested by local governments in a questionnaire which was not intended as a request for funding). In their search for pork, they did what Congressmen tend to do best:

not read the bills they vote on.

So instead of prioritizing what’s best for the country (as both sides are always telling us they’re doing), the Republicans in Congress decided to fight an ideological, partisan battle, and their Democratic opponents responded in kind. Although the Democrats put the provision in the bill and passed it, the Republicans had their opportunity to bring the issue to the public, but they were too busy swinging for the fences.

Both sides are so focused on proving they’re better than the other, that they neglect the bigger picture: doing what’s best for the country. After all, even in baseball you can be the best and still lose. Ask Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr.; even considering steroid allegations for three of them, they are considered some of the best hitters to ever play the game. Despite this, not a one of them has won a World Series.

Sometimes it’s better to lay down a bunt and take one for the team than to swing away for yourself and lose it all.

Jonathan Reed is a freshman majoring in political science and journalism. His column runs bi-weekly on Wednesdays.

Libertarians work to improve society via anarchy

By Max Avery The Oklahoma Daily

Libertarians are smart.

Historically, when countries enacted the type of extreme free-market economic principles advocated by libertarians, there have been popular uprisings, rapid economic decline, corrupt governments, dictatorships and civil war.

Examples of these negative effects have been seen in Chile under Pinochet, Apartheid South Africa, Indonesia under Suharto, Iran under the Shah, modern Colombia and many others.

Think of these like Russia’s attempt at socialism –– they were poorly managed attempts at an ideal.

Libertarianism is incredibly similar to anarchism. They don’t like government, anarchists want no government to eliminate governmental control; libertarians just want to shrink it until

it’s impotent and doesn’t have the power to influence people’s lives.

These are two different attempts at the same conclusion, liberation from state control.

Anarchism has, unfortunately, been taken as a joke in popular culture.

Anarchism, when legitimately considered, actually refers to community cooperation, and a strict prohibition of centralized authority.

The individual should decide everything that affects the individual. After all, why should someone else, especially the government, have control over your life?

The goal of libertarians has been to weaken governmental regulations and authority.

When states issue the unpopular legislation advocated by libertarians, it hurts governmental legitimacy. Their effort to shrink the size of government also

removes the government’s effectiveness.

The results of free trade, regressive taxation and “across the board” budgetary cuts (all ideas promoted in Milton Friedman’s “Monetary Economics”), promote the agenda of the anarchist as well as the libertarian; the weaker the state is, the easier it is to remove, and the more legitimate its removal would be.

The goal of a libertarian should be to challenge the strongest form of authority controlling a society. By doing so, that authority will lose its power over the individual.

In America, where businesses are hugely powerful, government often acts directly in favor of certain businesses as a form of political patronage, arguably a consequence of campaign contributions. This leads to some difficult challenges for libertarians.

They become confused, not

knowing if they should weaken business or the state.

Some want to challenge both because of their strong links, trying to end the corporatist state’s control of us by dividing the two most powerful entities in our society.

Some don’t see the connection between businesses and the state; these are the Ron Paul libertarians (Paul is a government employee whose campaigns are financed almost exclusively by businesses).

They see business as the strongest challenge to governmental control, and thus business should be promoted and government should shrink.

The reason for this fear of governmental control is because government is still the only institution with legitimate control of the use of force.

Despite the privatizing efforts of the Bush administration and libertarians like Ron Paul, that

legitimate control of force has yet to be privatized. However, when businesses have that power, we will see libertarians shift and start challenging corporations’ control.

If they fail to challenge corporations with the legitimate use of force, they are in fact corporate fascists (not fascists as an insult, but Mussolini/Hitler-esque fascist, with a corporate/market twist).

Some believe libertarians are merely pro-business ideologues.

However, this claim can be dismissed when considering history; businesses suffer when not regulated because people lose confidence in them and take their business elsewhere, this has been proven dozens of times historically, and is part of the current economic crisis.

Unregulated businesses have been known to sell children’s toys with mercury, lead or other toxins in them, beef that contains

human meat and diseases, and produce still covered in hazardous pesticides.

When this happens, people lose confidence in businesses, and look for alternatives; many turn to their local industries, where they can see how a product was made, and know it’s safe.

This promotion of the local products away from national or international products is a part of the anarchist agenda.

From a holistic perspective, the actions of the anarcholibertarian make sense. Yet, belief that these reforms will benefit anyone requires the end of the state or complete loss of confidence in business.

Max Avery is a columnist with The Oklahoma Daily at the University of Oklahoma.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. | President Barack Obama claimed early progress Tuesday night in his aggressive campaign to lead the nation out of economic chaos and declared that despite obstacles ahead, “we’re moving in the right direction.”

At the second prime-time news conference of his presidency, Obama also toned down his criticism of bonuses to executives at bailed-out AIG, and shot back at Republican critics of his budget.

In office for 64 tumultuous days, Obama cast his budget — now under review in Congress — as essential if the economy is to recover. The tax and spending plan “is inseparable from this recovery because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity,” he said.

The president also defended the U.S. dollar in the wake of China’s suggestion for a universal currency, saying: “The dollar is extraordinarily strong right now,” and “I don’t believe that there is a need for a global currency.”

The news conference, lasting 55 minutes, came at a pivotal, early moment in Obama’s young presidency. Democrats in Congress are readying budget proposals that will largely determine how much

of his first-term agenda will be passed, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is churning out near-daily proposals to solve the nation’s economic crisis and the administration is struggling with public and congressional outrage over bonuses paid to executives of bailed-out AIG. Additionally, Obama departs next week for his first European trip as commander in chief, with the global economy a major focus.

Flexible on some points, Obama was unyielding on others. Pressed on why he seemed to delay before condemning the AIG bonuses, Obama said, “It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.”

The news conference was dominated by questions about the economy. Obama defended the steps his administration has taken to counter the recession and an unprecedented credit crisis. He said teachers and others have jobs today because of the economic stimulus measure that Congress passed, and the nation is “beginning to see signs of increased sales and stabilized housing prices for the first time in a long time.”

He said full-fledged recovery is months away, and he added, “It will take patience.”

At the same time, he said, “we’re in a better place because of the decisions that we made.”

Obama put in a plug for

the request Geithner made to Congress earlier in the day for extraordinary authority to take over failing companies like American International Group Inc., much as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. now does for banks.

“It is precisely because of the lack of this authority” that AIG’s problems threatened to bring down the entire U.S. economy, he said. Top Democrats in Congress reacted positively to the proposal, although it is not clear when legislation might be considered.

Obama has been vocal in his unhappiness over the $165 million in retention bonuses paid to executives at AIG, although his favorable reference to business men and women seeking profits was a new twist.

“Bankers and executives on Wall Street need to realize that enriching themselves on the taxpayers’ dime is inexcusable, that the days of outsized rewards and reckless speculation that puts us all at risk have to be over,” he said.

“At the same time, the rest of us can’t afford to demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit.

That drive is what has always fueled our prosperity, and it is what will ultimately get these banks lending and our econAP Photo | Gerald Herbert omy moving once more,” he President Barack Obama talks to astronauts on the International Space Station Tuesday from the said.

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U.S. takes steps to deport alleged Nazi

By M.R. Kropko The Associated Press

CLEVELAND | The U.S. government said Tuesday it is asking German officials for travel documents needed to deport accused World War II Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, who is charged in Europe with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided an email to The Associated Press showing that it has contacted the German government in its effort to deport Demjanjuk, once accused but ultimately cleared of being a notorious guard at the Treblinka concentration camp in occupied Poland.

The 88-year-old suburban Cleveland man was charged in Germany in March with crimes while working as a guard at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland.

His son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said Tuesday that his father remains at home and is not in federal custody.

The German warrant seeks the deportation or extradition of Demjanjuk, who lives in Seven Hills and denies involvement in any deaths.

Prosecutors in Munich, Germany, said Demjanjuk (pronounced dem-YAHN’-yuk) will be formally charged in front of a judge once he is extradited.

“In this capacity, he participated in the accessory to murder of at least 29,000 people of the Jewish faith,” the prosecutor’s office has said. It is handling the case because Demjanjuk spent time at a refugee camp in the area after the war.

The suspect’s family has said he is in poor health and unable to travel.

“My dad spent a few hours in the emergency room the other day,” John Demjanjuk Jr. said.

“He is being treated for kidney stones at present.”

He said his father has chronic kidney disease, along with other serious ailments.

Kurt Schrimm, head of the special German prosecutors’

office that has hunted Nazis since 1958 and who asked Munich prosecutors to pursue Demjanjuk’s extradition, declined to comment Tuesday.

Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based human rights organization, welcomed the development.

“We’re very pleased that these steps are being taken to facilitate Demjanjuk’s extradition to Germany so that he can be tried and can be given an appropriate punishment for his heinous crimes during World War II,” Zuroff told The Associated Press by phone from Jerusalem.

German Justice Ministry spokesman Ulrich Staudegle said he could not confirm that U.S. authorities had requested any specific documents, but reiterated that the German government was working closely with the U.S. to secure Demjanjuk’s extradition or deportation.

Demjanjuk became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958 and has

never been convicted of war crimes in a domestic court. But a federal judge in Cleveland in 2002 stripped him of his U.S. citizenship, saying prosecutors proved in a trial to determine his citizenship status that he served the Nazi regime for more than two years during World War II as a guard.

He was accused in 1977 of concealing a past as a notorious Nazi death camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible” at Treblinka. He was extradited to Israel in 1986 and two years later was sentenced to death after being found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

He appealed, and in 1993 Israel’s top court ruled 5-0 that Demjanjuk was not “Ivan the Terrible.” He was allowed to return to the United States.

The chief U.S. immigration judge ruled in 2005 that Demjanjuk could be deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine.

The U.S. Supreme Court in May AP Photo | Mark Duncan declined to hear an appeal of John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland for the deportation ruling. an immigration hearing.

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on Thursday and Friday.

Loomis’ lecture, titled “On Rue Tatin: With Renowned Food Expert and Author Susan Hermann Loomis,� focuses on how she ended up in France and opened a cooking school.

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Loomis travels to the United States to speak at cooking seminars and conferences on a regular basis. Her visit to the University is the first time she has been in Alabama. She said she has enjoyed some of the local cuisine that Alabama is known for. “I love it. I’ve had biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, pork sausages and pecan muffins,� she said. “That’s about it so far, but I’m not done.�

Loomis has written nine books, including several recipe cookbooks. She also contributes her writing to several publications including Food & Wine magazine and the New York Times.

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Loomis went to work on “The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris� with Patricia Wells while she worked in a small restaurant in Paris. She eventually moved to the region of Normandy in the northern part of France, saying she had met with friends there and had decided that it would be a good place to live.

In 2001, she opened her cooking school, On Rue Tatin, in Louviers. Louviers is a town in Normandy.

While the school does not offer degrees, Loomis, who also teaches all the classes the

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly been graced with the resurgence of smart comedies for adults.

This trend has been helmed

by Judd Apatow and his entire cast of characters. They hit gold with such films as “The 40 Year Old Virgin,� “Knocked Up,� “Forgetting Sarah Marshall� and now again with “I Love You, Man.�

What makes these movies so good is that they work in a way that, despite all the gross-out jokes, allows them to be some of the sweetest and most goodnatured movies out there. The lead men are always good guys.

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Paul Rudd leads the cast with a wonderfully nuanced and awkward portrayal of Peter Klaven, a man who never got around to having any male friends. Upon his engagement, he realizes he needs to find a best man.

The search is underway. We are lead through a montage of man-dates with a wide array of unsuccessful setups. Some are from his mother and others are from his gay brother, Robbie (Andy Samberg). I was happy to see a gay man who, for once, isn’t flamboyant and over the top, but merely a man who likes men.

When he has lost all hope of finding a nice man to stand by him on his wedding day, he meets Sydney Fife (Jason Segel) at an open house for Lou Ferrigno’s estate. If you don’t remember who Ferrigno is, he played the Hulk on the TV show all those years ago.

Sydney and Peter form an instant bond. Pay attention to the way Peter approaches the situation. He is such a nice guy that he doesn’t want to mess it up. He even admits that he is scared because he really likes Sydney.

The boys meet up for some fish tacos that Sydney thinks are “the tits.� They have an instant connection. Peter is reserved, but he breaks out and lets Sydney prod into his life a little more than he was hoping for on their first date.

The two begin to hang out nonstop. They start, of all things, a Rush cover band. Peter slaps a little bass down and Sydney serves as the axe-man. The more time they spend together, the more Sydney begins to dissect Peter’s life and makes him

rottentomatoes.com Paul Rudd and Jason Segel star in ʝI Love You, Manʟ which was released in theatres on March 20. question the paths he has been taking. I won’t divulge any more plot points, but the path to the end is rather easy to spot.

This movie is a better romantic comedy than “He’s Just Not that Into You,� and I liked that movie. It works so well because these two men are intelligent so their dialogue with each other is interesting. Their conversations are profane, but there is poetry to the way they interact.

The dialogue would only be so good without the two lead actors. Paul Rudd has been on fire the past few years. He has been turning in stellar comedic work in recent years. Most recently, watch him in “Role Models.� The scene in which he orders coffee and belittles the barista for being stupid in three languages is a perfect example

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Jason Segel, who was wonderful in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,� returns here in top form. He gives Sydney a depth that is almost unheard of in this type of comedy. Yes, Sydney is wild and spontaneous, but he is also lonely and sad. He uses his confident exterior to hide his inner struggle. It is easy to make a character funny, but it is hard to give him depth.

John Hamburg crafts “I Love You, Man� neatly. He doesn’t pump up the screen with any forced humor. The one time he goes for forced laughter is the vomit joke, which falls flat because it is completely unnecessary and inconsistent with the rest of the humor in the movie.

Otherwise, Hamburg keeps his characters close and uses the dialogue to service them.

Hamburg, who wrote the screenplay with Larry Levin, brings in a cast of characters that is welcomed in this type of work. Jon Favreau in particular brings a fresh energy to the screen as a miserable married man.

This movie is by no means a perfect outing. But I would much rather spend my time with Peter Klaven and Sydney Fife than Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison. Maybe it is because I know these people. I see them in my life and I care about them.

That’s a testament to the entire crew. I’m man enough to say it: “I Love You, Man� brings the love full force.

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The games most played on my Wii are either “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” or “Wii Sports.” While both games are fun to play, they have gotten old. Fortunately, Nintendo may solve my problems with games like “Madworld” and “Dead Space.”

Nintendo is also re-releasing some Gamecube titles for $30 with new Wii motion controls like “Pikmin” and “Mario Power Tennis.”

My first impression of “Mario Power Tennis” was that the motion controls felt unresponsive on specific shots. “Mario Power Tennis” has the shots you would expect in a tennis game. You can perform forehand or backhand slices, topspin shots, flat shots (no spin), lobs, smashes or drop shots.

You can perform these shots just as you would expect to in real life. The reason I had a problem performing a lob or flat shot was because my timing and motions were not correct.

Power Shots add a competitive counter mechanic to gameplay. Performing Power Shots affect how you return the ball, and they can be used when the Charge Gauge is full. Each character has its own offensive and defensive shot that reflects his personality.

The difference between an offensive and defensive shot

is that a defensive shot will return the ball from anywhere on your side of the court with no effect, but an offensive shot will always have some effect on the ball. Diddy Kong’s offensive shot makes the ball’s path c u r v e in the shape of a banana.

The game gives the option to play with Power Shots on or off. “ M a r i o Power Tennis” includes some fun and helpful mini games.

Spending five minutes trying to hit targets in different spots on the court by using the different shots helped me understand each shot’s timing and motion.

There is a variety of courts to choose from and many have special conditions or items on them, but you can choose to play on a regular court.

One court’s obstacle involves hitting moving alligators along the net. Hitting an alligator will make it attach to your opponent and slow him down.

“Mario Power Tennis” is a fun game with deep tennis mechanics, but my complaint is that Nintendo just ported the original Gamecube version with motion controls. There is no additional content or even online multiplayer.

Putting the effort into making “Mario Power Tennis” online enabled would have been worth it. I would have even paid $10 extra for it to be included.

It’s a shame because I think “Mario Power Tennis” captures that fun and competitive atmosphere of “Wii Sports.” I had a

NEW YORK | Ethan Coen is going off-Broadway again.

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker is returning to the Atlantic Theater Company with “Offices,” a new collection of one-act plays.

Coen scored a success last season at the Atlantic with “Almost an Evening,” another trio of one acts. “It was a good experience, so I’m going to try and repeat it,” the filmmaker said in an interview.

“Offices” will open May 7 with preview performances beginning April 15. The 11-person cast will include F. Murray Abraham, John Bedford Lloyd and Mary McCann. The

director is Neil Pepe, artistic head of the Atlantic.

Coen said the plays are comedies, but added, with a laugh, “The audience will be the judge of that.” They all take place in offices or places of business and involve white-collar workers, he said, and were written before last fall’s economic downturn.

“I worked in an office a long time ago,” the playwright explained. “My first job out of college — in fact my only job out of college — was working as an office temp, just to do typing basically.”

The first play in “Offices” is called “Peer Review.”

“And you can sort of gather from the title some of what it deals with, Pepe said.

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“The plays have Ethan’s incredibly distinct and funny and slightly dark voice,” said Pepe, who directed “Speedthe-Plow” on Broadway this season. “And I also find them to be quite theatrical. It’s been a great collaborative process, the beginning of it being last year. We had a great time. And I am excited to get back into it again.”

With brother Joel, Coen has made more than a dozen movies including “No Country for Old Men” (2008’s best-picture Oscar winner) and “Fargo” as well as “Raising Arizona.”

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When Nicholas Hughes was in his early 20s, his father, poet Ted Hughes, advised him on the importance of living bravely.

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated,”

Hughes wrote to his son, who committed suicide at 47 last week at his home in Fairbanks, Alaska, 46 years after Nicholas’ mother, poet Sylvia Plath, killed herself.

“And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

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However, this does not interfere with the experience; and because the interface is simple, setting up matches is easy.

The motion controls feel right and work well once your timing and motions are correct, and the mini games and tutorial are great practice for mastering the controls.

“Mario Power Tennis” is at its best when played with a friend, and for $30, it’s a great gift or accessory for a party.

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more enjoyable time when I was playing doubles or singles with my friend, but I guess playing co-op makes any game experience better.

The graphics and sounds feel cheap and outdated and the outdated production value stands out. Since the Wii is backward compatible, the only difference between the two versions of the game is the control. They could have at least enhanced the menus or graphics to a small extent.

Instead, Nintendo decided to add annoying character sounds.

Hitting the ball forces you to hear your character’s annoying, low quality voice from the Wiimote and there is no option to turn it off. Yet you can turn off the background music.

I like the depth and fun of “Mario Power Tennis,” but the production value and interface are not update d .

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BASKETBALL COACHING SEARCH

Grant to visit, may receive offer

By Greg Ostendorf Sports Editor

AP Photo VCU head coach Anthony Grant has emerged as the top candidate in Alabamaʼs coaching search.

The search for a new head basketball coach at the University may be coming to an end as Virginia Commonwealth University’s Anthony Grant has emerged as the top candidate.

Grant, who according to multiple sources is expected to travel to Tuscaloosa Wednesday, could receive a formal offer during his visit, the Tuscaloosa News reports.

Athletic director Mal Moore and executive athletic

director Dave Hart met with Grant Sunday in Richmond, Va., to discuss the job opening, according to a report by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Grant, who is also receiving interest from Georgia and Virginia, went 24-10 this year at VCU and helped lead the Rams to the NCAA Tournament, where they fell to UCLA 65-64.

The third-year head coach has posted a 76-24 record during his tenure at VCU and made a name for himself when he upset Duke in the NCAA Tournament in 2007.

Grant, a former University of Florida assistant, nearly took the Gators’ head coaching position when Billy Donovan flirted with the Orlando Magic job in 2007.

Alabama has also been rumored to be interested in Missouri’s head coach, Mike Anderson, a Birmingham native.

When asked about other coaching vacancies Monday, Anderson said his only focus is on Memphis, their next opponent in the NCAA Tournament, according to the Associated Press.

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Auburn falls to Baylor in NIT

By John Zenor The Associated Press

AUBURN — Curtis Jerrells grabbed a key rebound then made 1-of-2 free throws with 6.9 seconds left, helping Baylor to advance to the semifinals of the NIT with a 74-72 win over Auburn Tuesday night.

LaceDarius Dunn added 19 points and nine rebounds to help the Bears (23-14) extend their improbable run after finishing ninth in the Big 12 Conference and going 59 years without a postseason win.

The Tigers (24-12), who matched the second-best win total in program history, had two chances in the final seconds to at least tie it.

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Trailing 73-72, Auburn forced a turnover on the inbound pass with 16 seconds left. DeWayne Reed attempted a leaner and was fouled, but missed both free throws and Jerrells rebounded the second.

Rasheem Barrett’s 3-point try bounced off the left side of the rim at the buzzer.

Baylor will play the St. Mary’s-San Diego State winner next Tuesday in New York, their first game at Madison Square Garden since the 1950 NCAA Final Four.

Kevin Rogers had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Bears, who shot 51 percent. Jerrells added 16 points and eight assists against only one turn-

BASEBALL Continued from page 12 offense is the key with this team. Any lead the other team has, I think we can surpass it.”

Rutledge added an insurance run in the seventh with a two-out single to score Dugas.

Graham earned his first win of the season, now 1-0. He struck out two and allowed just one hit and no runs in two-and-one-third innings.

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Tweety Carter had 13 points and made three 3-pointers.

Jerrells, Rogers and Henry Dugat took over as Baylor’s winningest senior class with No. 63. The Bears hadn’t won multiple postseason games since finishing as NCAA runner-up to Kentucky in 1948.

Barrett led Auburn with 16 points and had hit three of four 3s before his final miss, including one with 19 seconds left to make it a one-point game. Reed scored 13 while Korvotney Barber had 11 points and 13 rebounds.

The Tigers rallied from a seven-point deficit in the final 2 minutes on back-to-back 3-pointers, trying to extend

their first postseason since 2003. Tay Waller hit the first from the right wing with 1:05 left to make it 73-69.

The Bears then managed to wind most of the shot clock down, but Jerrells was forced to try an off-balance 3-pointer with 29 seconds left. Barrett fired away from beyond the arc 10 seconds later.

The Bears were up 22-12 midway through the first half when Dunn limped off favoring his right ankle having already scored 13 points. The Tigers went on a 10-0 run to tie it during the 2-plus minutes he was on the bench and AP Photo | Dave Martin trailed 37-36 at halftime, but Auburnʼs Frankie Sullivan, left, fights for the ball with Baylorʼs never got the lead.

Curtis Jerrells during their NIT third-round college basketball game at the Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum in Auburn, Ala.,

the ninth inning to record his first save of the season.

Head coach Jim Wells said the team is still trying to settle the pitching staff.

“The main thing is we’ve got a really good offensive team, and we scored again, came from behind again, and we found someone to close it out. We didn’t get out of Nelson what we were looking to … There’s no dominant guy right now. [We’ll do] whatever it takes to win.”

Thanks in large part to shaky pitching from both staffs, the game turned into a three-hour and 10-minute endurance test. The two staffs combined to allow 17 runs on 20 hits, walked 15 batters and hit two more.

Tuesday’s game was the first of a home-and-home series with the Blazers. Alabama travels to Regions Park in

Hoover tonight for a rematch.

Kilcrease was scheduled to start, but his late appearance puts that in doubt, Wells said.

The first pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

SEC

Continued from page 1 the event.

After tying a season-high on the vault with a 49.45, Alabama held the advantage over the other six SEC schools from start to finish. Secondplace Georgia was a distant .375 from the Tide when the final routine had dismounted.

Alabama maintained the lead throughout, but Hoffman and Dennis both said they had no inkling of Georgia’s beam struggles until after the meet.

“Just because Georgia made a mistake and opened the

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door, I didn’t want our kids to focus on that,” head coach Sarah Patterson said. “I wanted them to focus on their performance.”

Sometimes it’s better not to know. Dennis said some gymnasts may have gotten ahead of themselves if told about Georgia’s early choke.

“The coaches kept it that way for a reason,” she said. “I think that was the right thing to do.”

During a team meeting Monday, the team sat down for nearly an hour reminiscing the emotion of a championship that seemed out of their reach just a month earlier. Talk of tears in current and former Alabama gymnasts’ eyes when victory was no longer in doubt and stories of past championships circulated throughout the room.

“I think it’s one of the most

memorable we’ve ever had because of all the circumstances that have surrounded it,” Patterson said.

Patterson said the sting of an ultra-close defeat at last year’s SEC Championships made this season’s title feel even better.

“The fact of losing by .025 last year, the narrowest of margins and the disappointment of finishing so well last year and then not claiming that championship,” she said.

“I think it’s kind of a validation for these young ladies.”

Alabama’s 2009 work remains unfinished, however, as the regional and national meets remain as greater goals for the Tide.

Alabama has now jumped to No. 3 in the national rankings and will host the Northeast Regional. The Tide is the No. 1 seed in its region. No. 9 Oklahoma, No. 15 Missouri, Central Michigan, New Hampshire and Maryland will join Alabama in Coleman Coliseum on April 4.

Six regional meets are held across the country, with the top two in each region advancing to the NCAA Championships in Lincoln, Neb., April 16-18.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Ty Lawson is starting to feel better, just in time for North Carolina.

The speedy point guard said his troublesome toe is still achy after returning to the lineup over the weekend, but he plans to play in the Tar Heels’ game against Gonzaga on Friday.

And coach Roy Williams also sounds optimistic, too, that the Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year will be ready for the NCAA tournament’s round of 16. “It’s getting better,� Lawson said. “I’m walking on it better.

Hopefully in a couple of days, it’ll be back to 100 percent.�

Lawson had missed three straight games with a jammed right big toe before helping the top-seeded Tar Heels (30-4) rally past LSU in Saturday’s second-round game in the South Regional. He experienced some minor swelling in the toe afterward, but nothing like what followed the regular-season finale against Duke that forced him to the sideline.

He participated in the team’s shoot around Monday and expected to go through some drills during practice this week.

But the team has been cautious, keeping him out of practice for almost two weeks, in addition to missing both of the Tar Heels’ ACC tournament games

and their NCAA opener against Radford.

Williams said the injury will linger. “It’s here,� he said. “It’s going to be here. It’s not going to go away. It’s going to hurt the whole rest of the season until he can take that time off.�

Lawson injured the toe in practice two days before the Duke game and needed a painkilling shot beforehand. He nearly had a triple-double in 36 minutes in the win, but the toe swelled unexpectedly afterward. It turned out Lawson -- on advice from his father -- might have exacerbated the problem when he soaked his foot that night in hot water and

Epsom salt.

These days, Lawson is sticking to a steady regimen of icing his foot in the morning, before practice and after practice.

Then, when he’s at home, he fills a trash can with ice and water and soaks his foot a few more times in the evening. He’s also worn a compression wrap to limit swelling and exercised in a swimming pool.

The injury has been the topic of conversation around Chapel Hill for weeks, creating a hubbub that has grown tiresome for his teammates. “I get a lot of questions about how does Ty’s toe feel?� senior Tyler Hansbrough said. “I’m like, ‘It’s not my toe. I don’t

pop in his toe, took off his shoe and was in obvious discomfort while a trainer looked at him on the bench.

But he got better as the game wore on, helping the Tar Heels rally from a five-point deficit midway through the second half. He finished with 21 of his 23 points after the break, including a pair of driving baskets during the decisive 11-0 second-half run that looked like the same ol’ Lawson.

Lawson said the performance gave him confidence, joking that it proved the toe “wouldn’t fall off� as he tried to play at his normal fleet-footed pace. He’s also hoping it will answer all the questions about the injury.

know.’ I don’t ask him how his toe’s doing because I’m sure 100 other people have. I understand other people’s curiosity.

They want to know if he’ll be able to go because of his impact on this team and what he’s done this year. Either way, I thought we were a solid team with or without him.�

Still, Lawson makes the Tar Heels’ fast-paced offense go -and that was apparent during his return against LSU. After fans greeted him with a loud roar that drowned out his name during starting lineups, the junior looked rusty and hesitant early on. At one point in the first half, he came out of the game after feeling a

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Five-run inning lifts Tide over UAB

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and a five-run inning to overcome an early deficit and knock off the in-state rival in a taxing It is no secret that Alabama midweek matchup.

Sophomore Jimmy Nelson has used its explosive offense to offset its struggling pitch- got the start at the mound for ing staff this season. Tuesday the Tide, his first of the season.

It did not last long. night’s come-from-behind 10-7 The Blazers chased Nelson victory over UAB was another after just three innings of work, prime example.

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Miers Quigley replaced Nelson, and UAB tacked on two more in the top of the fourth inning to take a 5-0 lead before the Alabama bats woke up.

The Tide loaded the bases in the bottom of the fourth by way of a lead-off single and two walks. With two outs, Wes Henderson watched four straight balls to walk in Alabama’s first run. After a UAB pitching change, Ryan Rhoden beat out a throwing error from third to score Josh Rutledge, cutting the lead to 5-2.

In the next inning, with the wind blowing in, Rutledge hit a two-run shot to bring the Tide within one, 5-4. Rutledge, who hadn’t hit a home run in his first 239 career at bats, connected on his third since his first one last Tuesday. Rutledge, who was 3for-4 on the night, is now 6-of-9 with two home runs and nine RBIs in the last two games.

“I’m seeing the ball better and getting some good swings on good pitches,” Rutledge said of his recent success at the plate.

Just as the Tide was building momentum, Quigley got

touched up for a two-run jack in the sixth inning that stretched the Blazers’ lead to 7-4. Austin Graham came out of the bullpen and closed out the inning.

The Tide would respond with the biggest inning of the game.

Henderson and Rhoden led off with back-to-back walks. Alex Kubal bounced an RBI double off the left field wall to score Henderson. A Taylor Dugas sacrifice scored Rhoden and advanced Kubal to third. Ross

Wilson’s single to shallow left, followed by a Kent Matthes walk, loaded the bases for Brandon May. May lined a twoRBI single over the mound that pushed go-ahead runs Kubal and Wilson across the plate for a 9-7 lead.

“We came out a little slow today,” Rutledge said, “but when we got guys on base we got some big hits. I think our

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