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BFA Spotlight: Tavi Juarez

Sports

Saying goodbye to an Atlanta legend

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News

Details from the “It’s a Just Cause” event

IMMIGRATION WORLDWI D E CAMPUS

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Part two of a Three Part Series

Intramural Flag Football Begins October 8, 6pm–7pm Intramural Fields AKA Wiener Roast October 9, 5pm–8pm Main Quad

Life Raft Debate October 11, 7pm–9pm Palmer Auditorium National Coming Out Day Program October 12, 8am – 9am Fall Preview Day October 13, 8am–9am Movie October 13, 7pm–9pm Student Life Center

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by Kyle Jones Editor-in-Chief

This week in our series on immigration we focus on migrant workers. What drives someone to leave their home to seek out employment elsewhere? It is safe to say that we in The United States immediately think of migrant workers coming into our country from Mexico and South America, but what other countries face similar issues?

In my travels to Norway most Norwegians assumed that Americans believe their homeland is the capital of Sweden and that polar bears run through the streets. In reality it’s a socially progressive country with an unemployment rate of almost zero. Entry level jobs start at an average of 133.46 Norwegian kroner per hour, that’s 23.34 American and 18.02 in Euros. At these rates you can see why Polish immigrants rank number one in Norway at 72,103 people, considering in their home country they make about $353.04 EUR per Month compared to 2944.17 EUR they can make in Norway. Keep

in mind that even though wages are high in Norway, so is the cost of living. You pay around 30% tax, spend 27% on rental housing and pay NOK250 or US$45 for one large take-way pizza. Norway also ranks third on the The Economist Intelligence Unit’s quality-of-life index.

Polish immigrants like their Hispanic counterpart make up the manual labor workforce. Many take jobs in construction, agriculture and service jobs such as housemaids and sanitation work. The reason for this draws even more comparisons to America’s Hispanic

workforce, the language barrier. Many incoming Poles do not speak the national language of Norwegian, thus they are not qualified for many jobs in which they have to communicate in an effective way. Many Poles return home after working long periods of time, others have opted to stay and continue working or to start families if they have proper permits and reason to be there. St. Paul Catholic Church in Bergen, Norway even offers an extra service in Polish.

Not all immigrants coming into Norway share the same benefits as the Pol-

ish. The unemployment rate among immigrants was 6.5% in May 2011, which totals to about 20,000 people.

Overall the unemployment rate for the country as a whole was at 2.7%. For immigrants coming from African countries like Somalia and Morocco the unemployment rate was at 12.4%. Eastern Europeans on the other hand were at 7.4%.

Our policies and opinions of migrant workers in America are no secret. Many Americans and politicians do not want migrant workers in our country, which has led to, increased

border protection, the proposition of a wall being erected and extreme laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 and our very own HB 56 immigration law here in Alabama.

Norway is a part of the EEC(European Economic Community) which is similar to the European Union but only for economic purposes such as trade and transportation. By law it is not illegal for any person from an EU or EEC country to stay in a country for a prolonged period of time, if they have a job in that country.

work on the album.

Death Grips released a statement Monday night on social networking site Twitter informing their fans that “The label wouldn’t confirm a release date for NO LOVE DEEP WEB until next year sometime”.

Four minutes later, the band tweeted to their fans, and subsequently their label, about “NO LOVE DEEP WEB”’s

release: “The label will be hearing the album for the first time with you”.

The full album was put up for free download at midnight on Monday from the band’s site, thirdworlds. net, and was listenable through music streaming sites such as Soundcloud and YouTube.

The album artwork to accompany the download was a picture of a man’s genatalia

with the album’s title scrawled in black ink.

Twelve hours after announcing the free download, the band tweeted: “Our [site] just got shut down-BASIC AS F***”. There were allegations that Epic officiated the site crash.

The label later denied leading the action. A day later, on October 2nd, the website reappeared.

No further conflict has been reported

between the group and their label. On October 3, Death Grips announced a new Fall tour to make up for the previously cancelled dates to finish the controversial album.

The band’s latest Tweets have been alternate covers for the album, and the announcement that the group “has no idea when the album will be physical, or if it ever will be.

No Love Deep Trouble

by Reed Strength Staff Writer

Death Grips, a Californian rap collective made up of rapper MC Ride, drummer Zach Hill, and producer Andy Morkin,

released their new album “NO LOVE DEEP WEB” on Monday night, without the consent of their label Epic.

After releasing the critically acclaimed experimental album “The Money Store” in April of this year, Death Grips announced that a second album would be released on October 23.The collective cancelled their summer tour to complete

Photo:Kyle Jones

Welcome to Norway, a land of promise.

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Five Day Weather Forecast

“The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate.

If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.”

-Herbert Bayard Swope

The Oppression of Straight Follow me at Students by The LGBT @amechum

byAndrew Meechum Associate Editor

You Know, Just Cause

by Savannah Champion Contributing Writer

The “It’s a Just Cause” civic engagement fair was at Main Quad on Thursday, October 12, from 4 to 6PM. It was put on by The Leading Edge Institute, UPC, Student Life, SGA, STARS, UM Social Work Program, and Service Learning.

The goal of the event was for students to find a place where they could put their passion to use. “It was a great opportunity to see what the community has in terms of

volunteer opportunities and getting involved,” said STARS coordinator Rachel Swokawski.

This also served as chance to register to vote.

Several organizations set up booths with information, both on campus and in other areas of Shelby County.

These included Student Government Association and Environmental Club, as well as 4-H Club, Alabama Wildlife, and Civitan International.

The booths provided promotional materials and free tshirts were available for those who attended.

The event was marketed by fliers and a Facebook event page where those invited were encouraged to attend, find a passion, and register to vote.

As a result, the event was a success with many students and members of faculty involved and participating.

A Look at Jesus and His Bride

byNeal Embry Staff Writer

Looks like Dan Brown isn’t the only one creating controversy for the church.A scholar at Harvard has found a piece of papyrus that seems to indicate that Jesus had a wife. The scrap of paper says “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife.’”

There are multiple problems with this.

And it starts with a group of people I’m familiar with.

Journalists and media personnel all over the world are blowing this out of proportion, stating that we have more evidence

showing that Jesus was married. The Harvard scholar has even stated that this doesn’t prove that Jesus was married. They just thought it was interesting.

Also, this piece of paper was found 2,000 years later and only dates almost 200 years after Jesus rose from the grave and ascended into heaven.

So no, Jesus didn’t have an earthly wife.

Anything that comes out against that is false, according to Scripture. So this story isn’t examining this piece of paper that means absolutely nothing. Sorry.

When Jesus talks about his wife, there is one that He is talking about, but she’s not a woman. She’s a people. She’s the church. The Bride of Christ is His church.

There are so many misunderstandings about the church, and some of them are warranted. When we think of the word “church,” we too often think of a building.

For those outside of the church, the term can mean a place where old people go to sing songs to somebody they can’t see and where they gossip about all the “bad people.”

Some of these, again, are warranted.

Too often, we can be quick to act like we have no sin and accuse the world of all faults imaginable. The truth of the Word is that Christ’s church isn’t made up of perfect people, but people who realize just how messed up they are and how gracious and amazing Jesus is. At least that’s

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For too long now the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community has had an unfair advantage over the straight community. For too long we have let these oppressive power mongers live in the lap of luxury in student domiciles.

Meanwhile, the straight community has been left in the cold without any of the amenities the high and mighty LGBT has come to enjoy.

For most university and college students across America living in gender divided housing has been the norm. We are subjected to loud, obnoxious room and hall mates who, if you’re lucky, might know the meaning of “clean”.

Straights have been relegated to living in entire buildings full of people who share our gender, but not our sexual orientation.

The tyrannical rules leave no room for cohabitation with our significant others, force us to conceive elaborate plans to spend a night with the ones we love and put an undo strain on our relationships in the long term.

But the LGBT doesn’t care about that, or us.

Instead, they have taken a system what it’s supposed to be.

Too often, we think of the church as a building.

I’d like to quote Lecrae’s song, “The Bride.”

In it, he refutes the church being a collection of bricks, saying:

“She ain’t bricks and buildings/ She’s all God’s people/ Men women and children/She the Church.”

My friend Lecrae nailed it. This recent discovery of a piece of meaningless paper has reminded this writer about the church. I’ll say Jesus has a bride, and I’m part of it, and that’s not at all demeaning to my masculinity. It means Jesus loves me. It means the God who created me loves me, restores me, and despite my sins and failures, I can trust in

meant to help us and rigged it against us.

The LGBT has the run of dormitories nation wide. They have the chance not only to share a room, but also a bed with the ones they love.

They are afforded the opportunity to know what it is to live, work and play with the ones they love; a luxury not afforded straight students.

The LGBT community has a significant advantage over their Straight counterparts.

They learn facets of being in a long-term relationship during college that many of us have to wait until we graduate to learn.

Based on current divorce rates it would appear Straights learn these skills too late to help save their relationships.

Straight students are left at a disadvantage upon graduating. Their emotional growth is potentially stunted from years of not being able to live with their partners, while their cocky LGBT peers laugh it up in their cohabitation bliss.

only ones who fall in and out of love during college, so why should it be they are the only ones who get to enjoy all the trappings of being in love. The Straight community should rise up, demand change and seek to put an end to the monopoly on dormitory love that the LGBT has selfishly held for themselves for too long.

Perhaps they are afraid we won’t appreciate it. Coed dorms won’t be the end of LGBT relationships, but that’s what they would have us believe. Coed dorms, where Straight couples are allowed to live and love freely won’t diminish the value of love as the LGBT tells us.

The days of the LGBT having superior rights to love compared the Straights must end.

We’re Straight, we’re irate, and we just want to love our partners in the custom that the LGBT have been so keen to keep us from.

Rise up, demand change and tell the LGBT that we won’t take it anymore. Our rights are being disparLiving together in col- aged, it’s about time we lege dormitories, shar- did something about it, ing memories that the because if we don’t the rest of us are forced to LGBT will be the only do without the LGBT ones who have the right has been given a distinct to love in college dorms. advantage over their Straight counterparts. *This has been a satire

I say it’s time presented by The Falwe put an end to the con. Any offense caused injustice and inequal- should be redirected ity. No more should at anyone who would the Straight commu- seek to limit the rights, nity stand by and watch liberties and happitheir freedom to love be ness of any American trampled by the LGBT. based on age, gender,

They aren’t the race, religion, creed, or sexual orientation. the One who called me.

The church isn’t a place where good people go. The church is where sinners go to worship their groom.

The church is where people with real life problems, struggles with sin and broken hearts go to receive grace and mercy, and by the grace of God, they won’t leave unchanged.

I attend Seven Springs Church in Calera when I’m in Montevallo on Sundays.

When I’m at home, I go to Lakeside Baptist in Hoover. And I can say with a glad heart that I love these churches.

They both love Jesus and help me love Him more.

They support me. There are men and women there that aren’t afraid to call me out when I’m being unbib-

lical and hypocritical and model repentance.

That’s what the church should look like. It should be sinners modeling repentance, confessing sin and struggles, building each other up through hard times. It should be a family of men and women and children encouraging each other to look at Jesus, and should be a place of mobilizing, where we go to tell the world of the grace of God in Jesus Christ.

And by His grace, the world won’t look the same because of it, and neither will we.

The Bride of Christ? Yeah, there is one. It’s the church.

Come and join us as we worship and follow the One who loves us.

Follow me at @nealembry

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Black Lips Shake Up Middle East

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Photos From It’s a Just Cause

by Kyle Jones Editor-in-Chief

Atlanta based “flower punk” band The Black Lips are known for their wild stage antics and their “play anywhere, anytime” mentality. This is a band who wants to make their music and brand of entertainment accessible to everyone.

They’ve played all over the U.S.A., toured India until they were forced to leave for indecent behavior, they’ve toured Israel and claim to be the first American band to play in Palestine.

Last July they announced they were headed for the Middle East, seven different countries to be exact. Jordan, Cyprus, Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Lebanon.

What is revolutionary about this tour is that it is not part of any type of USO event, nor was it sponsored by any type of interest group.

Its four American guys

playing rock n’ roll.

Filmmaker Bill Cody ventured with the band, alongside a supporting act Lazzy Lung from Beirut, Lebanon, to film the tour and turn it into a documentary entitled “You know. For kids”. Bill Cody said about the tour “The Middle East is filled with people just like everywhere else and the kids just want to have fun like everyone else.”

The motivation for such a drastic move?

Drummer Joe Bradley says, “But the idea, and especially with this documentary we’re making, is to come [here] with a blank slate, and go back [home] with a different perspective, something other than “this brown guy with a beard is coming to bomb your house,” which is completely unrealistic.”

The tour conclude October 6th, with everyone returning safely.

Students gather information on what they could get involved with

IMMIGRATION continued Does that mean the Norwegian population is happy about it? Sindre Rambjør of Oslo, Norway says, “I don’t like them. They’re rude, inconsiderate, they take jobs from Norwegians, they don’t pay taxes, and complain about not having benefits. I guess you could say they are our Mexicans in many ways.”

Not all Norwegians think this way, considering even their most conservative party is liberal by many of our American standards and definitions of the term.

“Like the Norwegians who came to America many years ago, Polish workers have been coming to Norway for the past years to pursue a better future. They do a great job, most of them are very hard working. Norwegians are spoiled, the Polish do the work that we do not want to do.” Says Helene Fluge Nordgreen of Bergen, Norway.

Depending on the

country, the culture or population immigration worldwide is either a major problem or a potential answer.

In this case the immigration of a dedicated workforce to grow and develop a progressive country into the future is a blessing. In the next installment we’ll take a look at a country and company that rather import their work then do it themselves.

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The Beatles’ Remasters Get Their Groove Back

by Matt Sanderlin Arts & Culture Editor

The year 2009 saw the classic Beatles catalogue remastered in CD form. All fourteen studio albums from the Fab Four were painstakingly remixed and remastered from an obscenely high-quality transfer over a four year period by unparalleled professionals.

These new mixes were subsequently released as individual CD's and also as a box set.

Later, the remasters hit iTunes, seeing substantial success there, as well.

At the time of the CD releases, Apple Records promised fans a vinyl version of the remasters. \ That was three, long years ago.

On November 13 of this year, the stereo version of the vinyl remasters will FINALLY become available on 180-gram vinyl - Individually and in a box set.

Apple Records has also announced that they'll

release the Mono vinyl versions next year; but even the news of the stereo releases is exciting enough for audiophile Beatles fans.

According to Amazon.com, the Beatles remastering process for the vinyl editions was even more thorough

and meticulous than for the CD's. The audio experts at London's famous Abbey Road Studios (where the Beatles did most of their recording) committed themselves to extensive testing (choosing between a Direct Metal Master or a nickel disc lacquer,

Tame Impala-Lonerism

by Reed Strength Staff Writer Psych rocker Kevin Parker must be aware that he is most productive when he’s alone. He recorded the vocals and instruments on his first album all by himself, and had the self-indulgent notion to coin it “Innerspeaker”.

The album was critically applauded, and Parker began recording the follow up. The sessions, however, were spread out over two years of touring. With two years of preparation, Parker has named his latest offering “Lonerism”, as if he’s written the musical authority on the subject.

The album is produced by psychedelic sound supervisor David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev). Fridmann’s kaleidoscopic touch sounds more in use on this album rather than “Innerspeaker”, as each drum fizzle or guitar lead reverberates with just a bit more undefined edge.

“Innerspeaker” was a unique guitar record in that its main instrument was placed in the back of the mix; Parker’s textured guitar playing was there to color the music, not dominate it.

On “Lonerism”, Parker relies more on effects and synths to really send his solitude seeking music into outer space. On

“Apocalypse Dreams”, he manages to do just that. At first the song is a marching declaration, Parker musing that “this could be the day we push through”.

Around the middle of the tune, everything suddenly drops down a sonic rabbit hole, and comes out the other side as a cosmic, keyboard heavy version of itself.

W i t h this reliance on greater effects and less guitar, Parker’s songs aren’t always so immediately catchy. In an interview with Stereogum, the front man admitted that he “was a little closed minded with the previous album. I wanted to use a very specific number of instruments — I only wanted to use basic guitar, bass, and drums to make sounds that were kind of pseudo-electronic.

This time I was a little more open to using whatever was available to me”.

Not to say that the album is particularly dense or hard to listen to. Cuts like “Why Won’t They Talk To Me” and “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” are reminiscent of Phoenix’s bright, glittery jams. I’d pay a hell of a lot more attention to dub-step if it wobbled or thumped as much as single “Ele-

phant”. A distorted guitar riff begins the jackhammer like beat of the song, and when Parker announces the arrival of the monolith in a whispered “here he comes”, a synth bursts through, and the song becomes the soundtrack to an unseen video game epic.

H o w ever, “Lonerism” does tend to get a little too indulgent with its increased instrumental pallet. Songs like “Apocalypse Dreams” and “Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control” have so many dizzying effects and change ups, that their fight to be heard becomes boring and exhausting. “Keep On Lying” uses this oversaturation to its advantage, when its straightforward verse melody fades away, and a steady synth groove rides through a muddled collage of effects and voices.

While Kevin Parker has made an immersive and colorful world with “Lonerism”, his experiments away from traditional rock instrumentation leaves the record cold compared to the playful and measured “Innerspeaker”. The Falcon gives this sophomore effort 7 out of 10.

perfecting the mechanical and electrical reproduction of the albums, etc.) in order to achieve the most perfect results humanly possible.

The new vinyl transfers were also cut from 24-bit audio, as opposed to only 16-bit for the CD's. Basically,

the sound quality will be outstanding, and better than any previously-released format.

The stereo vinyl box set is set to retail for $399.99, and the individual records are currently priced between $20-$35 a piece.

If there's one band that

deserves this immaculate treatment, it's the Beatles. Rejoice, fans of the Four! - The Beatles finally return to the format that made them famous. November can’t come soon enough.

Dharma House Records Presents: The $1 Review

by Matt Sanderlin Arts & Culture Editor

I felt slightly out-of-the-musicalloop when I presented our editor with the $1 record I had found at Dharma this week.

"You've never heard Adam Ant?!?!" he asked, incredulously.

Embarrassingly, I had not; so I went about doing some research to resuscitate my 70's/80's musical knowledge.

Adam and the Ants, Adam Ant's first project, splashed its way onto the shore of post-punk and new wave in the late 70's, garnering plenty of commercial and critical success to go around.

Ant had previously played bass in a pub rock band called Bazooka Joe, but Adam and the Ants allowed him his first taste of the coveted spotlight.

Photo:Matt Sanderlin

After the Ants' official breakup in 1982, Adam went solo.

Friend or Foe, Adam's first studio release without the Ants, came out in the same year as the Ants' breakup. The album produced three hit singles for Ant, who still plays and records new material to this day.

The electric title track kicks off the album, blending a unique mix of surf-rock guitar, southwestern-flavored brass, and punk-shaded bass. The melody is instantly-memorable, and the arrangement is perplexingly welltextured. Adam’s distinct voice propels the track through its short run, making the track an overall and instantaneous standout piece.

Adam’s knack for unorthodox sounds

and mind-melting genre blending continues to shine through the rest of the album - Jovial whistling and brawny brass foxtrot in unison in the excellent “Something Girls;” new-wave, surf-rock and London Calling-era Clash ride in tandem through the noir-like night sky in the slinky “Desperate but Not Serious;” and folkrock, blues and doo-wop throw a no-bars-held party in their shared living space in the rambunctious and rebellious “Goody Two Shoes.”

Overall, Friend or Foe is an underrated album that has aged beautifully since its initial release.

As usual, the record itself was in perfect quality and played wonderfully Just one of many reasons you should go visit Dharma this week.

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Heidi and her BFA

by Mandy Steadman Staff Writer

On Wednesday, Oct. 10 the curtain in Reynold’s Theatre will rise to welcome the performance of “The Heidi Chronicles.” Tavi Juarez plays Heidi, a young woman who is following her dreams and trying to get around society’s watchful eye.

Juarez is a Senior at the University of Montevallo and “The Heidi Chronicles” is her Bachelor of the Fine Arts, or BFA, project.

Juarez has been involved in the fine arts since she was a little girl. Before coming to Montevallo, Juarez was looking at bigger colleges in really big cities.

She said, “I am incredibly happy that I didn’t choose to go to somewhere like that simply because here I have had the wonderful experience of being able to have a voice.”

In bigger departments and bigger campuses it is extremely difficult to have your own voice in

matters and decisions.

Juarez has enjoyed being apart of the Montevallo Theatre Department and has enjoyed every opportunity she has been given. “Having a group of people who are so [professional] supporting each other and not beating each other down” is great, “and it is not competitive, and it is just love and happiness and we want to foster an environment of creative artists,” said Juarez.

Being a part of “The Heidi Chronicles,” Juarez said she has had a lot of fun and that the cast is so collaborative and not afraid to communicate each other’s thoughts and opinions. The cast is a creative group of Montevallo students who are striving to learn and grow as artists.

A BFA is very different from a BA, or Bachelor of the Arts.

Juarez said that the main difference is that students have to go through a rigorous audition process and be accepted into the BFA program.

Not everyone is accepted, but once you are, you must put together a BFA book and work for weeks, even months, to complete your project.

“There is a lot

of work that goes into a BFA book; there is a lot of time and effort and you really have to love what you do with every bit and part of your being,” Juarez said.

In the book, the students have to record their thoughts, experiences, warm-ups, research, etc. A BA on the other hand does not require a giant project and auditioning.

To start a BFA, students can take the required courses their Freshman year then they audition for the first time their Sophomore year or wait until their Junior year. Juarez said, “ I knew when I was a freshman that I was gonna go for my BFA.”

The BFA auditions require the students to prepare six to ten monologues, which are short paragraphs of dialogue to perform in front of directors.

Juarez did not know she was going to play Heidi for her BFA project until auditions this past Sept.

She said she enjoys playing Heidi and that she has a lot of differences and similarities with Heidi.

“We do share a very clear perspective on life and that is just from being a woman and going through all

of my life experiences, but I think that is what makes Heidi such an enjoyable experience to play,” Juarez said.

Heidi is a very powerful character who wants to show women of society that it is okay for women not to be wives and it is okay to be successful and to have a kid without a husband.

Heidi’s goal is to be a happy, successful art historian and to survive society’s judgements. Juarez said, “Ultimately, she doesn’t want to lose her sense of self, or her friends or anything. She just really wants to be happy.”

Juarez has also successfully created a Theatre Student Organization, or TSO. She is the President and Founder. This organization was created for the good of the Theatre Department and to improve the wellbeing of the students.

Thus far they have put together fundraisers to improve the Reynolds student lounge, held meetings and brought a group of people together to share their thoughts and opinions.

“It is sort of like my brain child, it is my baby and I think why it is so important is see-

Looper is an Unpredictable Ride

by Mandy Steadman Staff Writer

The theater is quiet. The slight noise of whispers and crackles of candy bars fades as the theater grows darker. The suspense rises as the first round of credits appears on the screen. Gradually the sound of wind among trees and fields fills the audience’s ears.

This, friends, is the introduction to the new action film, Looper.

In this movie there are specialized assassins, called Loopers, who are hired by the criminal

market who has acquired the means to time travel, which is highly illegal.

These future thugs send Loopers people from the future to be assassinated on the spot.

Joe, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is one of the youngest and most talented Loopers, who is given a time to be at his assassination location. When the victim arrives, Joe realizes the person he is suppose to assassinate is himself 30 years later. He fails to complete the assassi-

nation and now he must do his best to find his future self, or Old Joe, and escape from the leader of the Loopers.

This movie is not like any other time travel movie. It doesn’t have an unidentifiable ending like Inception, it doesn’t make you contemplate the fabric of space and time and it doesn’t confuse its audience in any shape or form.

Bruce Willis and Gordon-Levitt really showed off their talent in this film. They play off of each other and portrayed characters that neither of them have played before. One is a kid who wants money and doesn’t care how he gets it. The other is a man who wants to prevent his life being ruined by any means necessary.

This film is beautifully directed and cleverly written by Rian Johnson. From beginning to end the audience was literally at the edge of their seats. The action is choreographed wonderfully, every character is memorable, and the ending left the audience completely silent.

The movie begins and ends with nothing but silence and a few gusts of wind. The build up to that silence in the very end is so powerful,

so moving it sent chills through the audience.

Most films start and end with an enor-

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ing all of these people come together for a common good regardless of whether they have had snipes at each other before or whether or not they don’t like each other,” Juarez said.

After graduation, Juarez plans on going to a graduate acting program. She is applying to both Tisch and Julliard; both are fine arts schools in New York City. She said she is going to miss the warm loving environment of Montevallo and its Theatre Department.

Although, she is moving on to bigger and better things and hopes to change the world.

“I want to be an actress but I want to be more than just an actress. I want to be a successful actress so I can support humanitarian and activism works and so I can be a good role model to the girls. That is what I want do,” Juarez said.

Come and support Juarez, BFA senior Bethany Grace-Dawson, and the cast and crew of “The Heidi Chronicles” Oct. 10, 12-14.

mous bang and a rush of intense music. Silence is golden with this movie.

This movie does have some graphic violence and promiscuity, but it did not distract

the audience from the plot of the movie and did not reach the line of vulgarity. In this film, be prepared for guns, silver, and, most of all, unpredictability.

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Take Me Out To the Ball Game, One Last Time…

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.

-William Wordsworth

by Joey Antonio Sports Editor

This particular rhythmical literary piece is by the great poet William Wordsworth. The composition symbolizes what will always be great and beautiful regarding the innocence of childhood.

No worries, no stress, no obligations. It was only about having fun and enjoying with an exuberant enthusiasm the thought that you could live forever in the small world that you have created with your innate imagination.

To me, baseball is a sport where men can pretend to be little boys for a couple of hours every day and get paid handsomely to do it. Sure, professional baseball is a business, but to many who play the game, Chipper Jones in particular, it is about channeling that inner child that longs for the days of playing barefoot in a grassy ballpark where the dew has yet to dry.

I recall Chipper’s first full year in the majors.

It was 1995, and I was seven years old and just beginning to take a strong interest in the sport. The Braves during that strike shortened season where nothing short of brilliant, as you could tell by the time October crept in that

something very magical was about to happen.

Chipper was a rookie, but the Braves pitching staff was the best in the game and filled with veterans. I remember hearing those lineups through the 90s as I came of age; Chipper Jones, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Greg Maddox, Javy Lopez, David Justice, Fred “Crime Dog” McGriff and the list seemingly went on forever. Too bad those days didn’t as well.

Regardless, the Braves reached the World Series for the third time since 1991.

They were 0-2 and were already being called the Buffalo Bills of baseball, as they always seemed to come up short in the biggest of the big games. But during that particular season, everything changed.

The Braves took a 2-0 lead in the Series and never looked back. Tom Glavine, the Braves

lefty ace pitcher would be Series MVP as he won both of his appearances in the ‘95 Fall Classic. This included a two hit shutout through 8 innings of the 6th and final game. The team of the 90’s finally had its World Championship.

Unfortunately, it would be the first and last for the Braves. Atlanta would lose in the World Series the following year to the New York Yankees and again to them in 1999, Chipper’s only MVP season. They have not returned since.

For me, and maybe Chipper as well, that was the hour of splendor in the grass.

When you’re a kid everything is better, and when you appreciate sports as much as I do, the memories of your team reaching the zenith as a child is something you will never forget. The 90’s Braves had players that I hope to one day be able to

tell my children and grandchildren about.

Even though I was only eleven when that decade ended, I did truly appreciate what a special time it was. The Braves would still be quite competitive for many more years however, winning 14-straight division crowns from 1991-2005.

As the years went by, so did the players. One by one going through that proverbial cornfield, much the same as Shoeless Joe did in the movie Field of Dreams. It was hard to say goodbye to Justice, McGriff, Greg, Tommy, Javy then Smoltzie. Not to mention Bobby Cox, the longtime Braves manager who helped mold the Braves into the great success they would become. But none was harder to say goodbye to then Chipper.

Why? For starters, he was the last and final member of that 1995 World Championship

team. The only title the city of Atlanta had ever known. Another reason is because he was the final connection to my childhood, which had ended so very long ago.

Watching him brought back all those great summer memories from the “good ol’ days” and his leadership made you feel it could all happen again if enough talent was around him. The Braves once again became competitive, but they never regained that lost luster.

Chipper Jones bowed out Friday night as one of, if not the greatest, switch hitters of all time. His stats are first-ballot Hall of Fame worthy. Chipper’s career batting average was .303 with 2,727 hits, 1,619 runs and 549 doubles. He hit 468 home runs and batted in 1,623 runs. He was also the 1995 Sporting News Rookie of the year and the 1999 Na-

tional League MVP. Not to mention the man got the nod to play in eight All-Star games. Chipper even won the batting title in 2008 at age 36.

The 23-year old kid who often sported old school calf socks and never seemed to grow old finally did. Now age 40, Chipper moves a bit slower and with more pain from the injuries that have mounted over the years. His swing is not as strong. His eyes are much more tired now, no longer bright and full of life. The time has come for Chipper, like many other great ball players before him, to walk out into that mystical cornfield and join that elite fraternity of the games very best.

So long number 10, and thanks for the memories. It was a real blast, from start to finish.

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There is No Crying in Fantasy Football!

by Rosemary Maguire Staff Writer

Fantasy Football has been a part of my life since long before I knew what Fantasy Football even was.

Growing up, I knew that Sundays meant no phone, no TV, and, in later years, no internet. I would say this wasn’t a religious thing, but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate.

This was the Church of the MFL— the Maguire Fantasy League. I was not a member of this great institution. I was just an affected party. I did not understand.

I remember greatly the confusion I felt when I would ask my father which team he wanted to win, and he would respond, “It doesn’t matter who wins,” just before exploding in a slew of vulgarities at the tele-

vision. Fast forward some 15-20 years and here I am, the spitting image of my father.

My name is Rosemary Maguire, and I play Fantasy Football.

I had toyed with the idea of joining a Fantasy League for a few years now. Sometimes a few of my friends and I would even make grand plans about creating our own league, but nothing ever came to fruition.

I started feeling a little more serious about the idea this summer after I discovered The League, an FX comedy whose first two seasons are streaming on Netflix.

The League follows a group of grown up (but nowhere near mature) high school friends who play in a Fantasy league together.

Granted the show is more about Taco’s weird business endeavors and André’s horrifying sense of style than actual Fantasy Football, but the scenes of bitter, angry competition between good friends… inspired me.

So when a friend of mine advertised that

the league she competes in with her boyfriend needed a few more members, I jumped on the opportunity. Two more of our lady friends also joined, but the rest of the league consists of males I don’t know.

My season started off pretty shaky—I lost my first three weeks, but I’ve been making a comeback lately. So I decided to share what I have learned so far about Fantasy Football.

lost. I don’t know exactly what my different players get points for, nor do I know how many points they get.

And from what I can tell, not many other Fantasy players do either. With the rise of the internet and websites like ESPN and Yahoo hosting Fantasy leagues, no one really needs to know any of this stuff.

My team does stuff on the field and Yahoo awards me points, and I fuss over not getting enough or gloat over earning a lot, and that’s basically that.

all the advice I can get in this game, but I’ve learned to stick to those with some sort of Fantasy record to back up their suggestions.

Not all advice is bad, of course. I’m forever grateful for the tip on Seattle’s defense.

even know what a bye week is! Wrong.

There is nothing that prevents the female sex from being able to understand sports any less than men do.

The men on my team proposition laughable trades with me as if I don’t know that Ryan 3.There are no sure Mathews is coming back bets in Fantasy. from injury or that Mi Having Cam chael Vick is not worth Newton and Robert the court fees he probGriffin III on your team ably paid for the whole is usually great. This dog-fighting scandal. week they were total 1. I don’t combombs. That’s just the Okay, so I’m still figpletely understand way of Fantasy. There uring out the subtleties it, and neither does is no way of knowing of the world of Fantasy most everyone else. just what will go down. Football, but I think I’ve

This is not 2. When you play gotten the basics down. something you’ll ofFantasy Football, 4. Girls don’t know any- The concept is much ten hear admitted, but suddenly everyone thing about the NFL. less confusing that I iniI’m going full disclois an NFL expert.

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The sheer num- sonal “favorite.” Ap- ly once I realized that no time I have no idea ber of NFL experts in parently being female one really understands what is happening.

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I get the basic lege football promised fies one from knowing play Fantasy Football; concept: I draft a team, land—is astounding. anything about sports. the internet takes care which is made up of

But the moment As a lady, I of all the dirty work. All players from all difI let anyone know that I must have just drafted that’s really needed is ferent real-life teams. was in a Fantasy League, my team all willy-nil- at least weekly internet Each week, my playI started receiving ad- ly, picking the hotties connection and a highly ers earn me points invice from all directions. with the cutest names. competitive demeandividually as I com Everyone and I don’t actu- or. So for the next few pete against another their great aunt have ally keep up with NFL months, I’ll be parked “team” in my league. some secret insight news such as who is in front of my TV and

In other words, on this year’s sleeper injured or what teams computer on Sundays when my players do players. Almost every- are having a bye week. screaming at players and good things, I get points. one is wrong. I need In fact, I don’t making my dad proud.

Otherwise, I’m pretty

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The Cap and Gown Experience I had an experience this past week that in my opinion was totally uncalled for and could have been prevented with just a little consideration for others and better management practices on behalf of the university bookstore.

I went into the bookstore all excited about being able to purchase my cap and gown and participate in Founder’s Day festivities with my fellow classmates but, to my surprise, this turned into an event I hope to put behind me and forget.

It is one thing to be out of stock of an item because it has sold out, but it is another to be told that the item was never ordered!

As if the bookstore assumed everyone on campus is the same size, they pre-ordered a bulk quantity of one size robes, never taking into consideration, those who are larger or smaller than the size they ordered.

I was told as I was handed my robe, “If it doesn’t fit we will order you one and have it by the time you graduate, but you won’t have one to participate in Founder’s Day festivities.”

I was then instructed to take the robe and try it on and just return it if it didn’t fit. I got one arm in and because my shoulders are so broad, nothing I did would allow me to get my other arm through the sleeve.

I took the robe back as I was instructed and the story only gets worse from here. The unprofessionalism was completely uncalled for. I was upset because I was not going to be able to participate due to something that was not my fault to begin with. At first the young lady who helped me was adamant that a robe could not be ordered and sent in to me on time unless the company had one in my size in the warehouse.

After a few minutes on “hoopla” and the lack of professionalism, the six or seven customers knew that I had an issue with my gown not fitting. After the young lady consulted with upper management, I was then told by him that a gown would be ordered and would be here on time for Founder’s Day.

You may ask, “well then, why all the stink” Well what happened to me only got worse from this point. Upper management told the young lady to get my information and just order me one.

The lack of professionalism was beginning to disturb me at this point. I was asked for my weight for her to preorder it. I have worked in retail as a manager and a sales associate, and NEVER have I been instructed to ask someone’s weight in order to pre-order an article of clothing. It is a common practice in clothing stores that pre-order items use an “old fashioned” yellow or in some cases, white tape measure to get the client’s measurements. That way, there are no gambles or guessing of the customer’s size. I gave her my weight and then told her what my usual jacket size is.

People that do not fit the stereotypical type of body are usually uncomfortable to begin with. We do not need the unprofessionalism and lack of consideration from others. Before this experience was over, my whole outlook and excitement of Founder’s Day had changed.

I felt utterly humiliated and felt that the eyes of every customer in the bookstore were focused on me. I know I am not the only person in the senior class who does not wear the average size and I am sure not everyone whose robes did not fit, had this same experience, but even one experience is enough.

I hope that in the future, the preordering issue will be more carefully planned and more consideration will be given to students who are not average size and most of all a little more professionalism would be demonstrated when such cases do arise.

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