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Volume 49|Issue 36
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Howdy Folks, Today is the day that you Blazers ought to be out casting ballots, and I hope that’s the case. I’m not going to tell y’all who I’m voting for, but I definitely would love to hear about why you decided to vote for people through our social media. Tweet us at @UABkscope, or search UAB Kaleidoscope on Facebook and give us a piece of your mind. So Birmingham is hosting the C-USA tournament this year, and we’re lucky enough to have a great spread where we give you the scoop on what it means for the fans around campus. We follow Mr. Matt Owens, a gentleman that has attended every home game for the Blazers so far, and he gives us his in-depth predictions for the upcoming tournament. UAB students will remember that last year, we took the title for the first time since the tournament began back in 1996. The support for this season has been through the roof, and it’ll be exciting to see how students support the Men’s and Women’s teams in their own backyard. It may seem like the two topics are totally unrelated, but I think that we’re starting to get a big picture of the full college experience with these two big events in these next couple of weeks. We get a dose of political involvement which makes the college experience great. You’re gonna want to spend this wealth of free time wisely for your career, trust me. Then, we have an opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow Blazers as our teams take another shot at the title. It’s an exciting time to be a Blazer, see y’all next week!
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TC Cannon and UAB football ne million plus Blazers live in O poverty. The 30 percent plus nonwhite Birmingham Blazers live with Third World quality of life issues. State constitutional law mandates that Birmingham’s University be the “best it can be”. Our mission statement lists five educational areas to accomplish this. - Research - Education - Patient Care - Community Service - Economic Development
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s the world and its abundance of information becomes more accessible through smartphones, tablets, and laptops, it is vitally important for universities around the country to adapt to better serve the needs of its students. My generation and the generations that follow have long left behind the days of dial-up and overhead projectors. Classroom settings have also transformed to include smart boards and tablets for students to keep up with the changing times. Why not do the same in order to make syllabi, grades, and academic resources so readily available? UAB has adopted, through a vote by the Faculty Senate, the Canvas Learning Management System. This was a major step in ensuring that UAB students have the most current systems to compete with the best universities in the country. But, if faculty are not fully and adequately using this system, then the students are not getting the best experience they can while at UAB. The Undergraduate Student Government Association, by unanimous vote in the Senate, is calling for faculty members to increase their usage of the Canvas Learning Management System. This is not a vote to ask faculty members to change the way that they teach in the classroom. From experience, we are strong believers that we have some of the best educators in the world. We ask that instructors begin to fully manage Canvas to ensure that students are getting the best experience while in their classroom. This starts with implementing dynamic syllabi which can easily sync with a student’s calendar. This will begin the snowball effect of greater student engagement in the classroom leading to greater retention at UAB. The world and how we learn from it is changing and it is important for our time here at UAB to reflect that.
Is there something horribly wrong with this picture? Football was killed at UAB based solely on an egotistical whim by the Board of Trustees. A one hundred million plus economic impact was flushed away instantly. Without reason or compassion, Dec. 2, 2014 was a black day for the Nation. Unknown to most, this crippling decision was made Nov. 2013. Dr. “Kevorkian” Watts was given a year to plan and execute the crime. This uncivilized, premeditated insanity and its destructive magnitude defies logic, has no precedents as it defeats the essence of our University. There should be a full forensic investigation. 2015 and a 2014 bowl game are history. 2016 and its 50 million plus impact can be salvaged. We must play six games at Legion Field this year. The Nation is plagued with poverty, criminal municipal failures, massive blight, epidemic health issues and other low quality of life issues. The replacements for VP’s that “chose” early retirement and fired executives (participants & witnesses) i.e. Dr. Garrison and Brian Mackin, et al, are not vested relations in the Blazer program. Their allegiance and intelligence are certainly questionable as evidenced by the stupid,
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unwarranted omission of 2016 football! On behalf of those that suffer and those without a voice, I directly accuse our theoretical leaders - political, social, religious, economic - and a latent media of fiscal irresponsibility and dereliction of duty as starters. As always and with enthusiasm, the Hail Blazer Club invites investigation, offers access and dares debate. To this end, I challenge all Blazers to take this test. 1. Name one factual, logical reason for the Blazers not to play football in 2016? 2. Are 2016 schedules set in stone? 3. What advantage will UAB have in skipping 2016 to play 2017 when the team will have never made one snap — zero experience? 4. Your estimate of economic impact of six games w/50,000 average attendance? 5. When the media uses UAB as a noun, who is UAB? Who made the decisions to kill football, build a new rec center, become smoke free, support a stadium in North Birmingham, skip 2016? 6. State law does not allow the BOT to manage UAB. Is it legal for the BOT to violate this law by functioning in disguise as The UAB Athletics Foundation? 7. Is there a problem with a tax exempt non-profit 501c3 controlling a 5 billion plus economic impact institution, i.e. banking with Bryant Bank? 8. Why is there no political, social, religious or economic leader battling for Blazer Football and why does the media not report this? 9. What is the logic for keeping an unapproved president? 10. Is there evidence that the mentality of the BOT has changed from the immoral and illegal concept of “extension center”? I am a Hail Blazer, TC Cannon
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Rubio and Clinton campaign in Alabama Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton campaigned at Alabama colleges Feb. 27.
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epublican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio appeared at a campaign forum at Samford University on Saturday, Feb. 27 as part of an effort to secure votes before the primaries on March 1. The forum, which was held at the Leslie S. Wright Fine Arts center, was hosted by “YellowHammer News,” a conservative news site. Sen. Ted Cruz was also originally scheduled to appear at the forum but backed out earlier in the week. Rubio said that Americans are frustrated with the direction of the country. “What we cannot allow is for that frustration to be used against us for manipulation,” Rubio said. “Because at stake is not just the identity of America at stake it the identity of the conservative movement itself.” The candidate’s appeal to voters came just four days before “Super Tuesday,” in which more than ten states, including Alabama, will hold primary elections for both parties. As part of the question and answer session, a member of the Samford Student Government Association asked Rubio about his plans for higher education and dealing with student loan debt. “I have a multi-faceted plan to deal with this,” the senator said. “The first is called ‘right to know before you go.’ And all that means is before you take out a student loan, you have a right to know how much does somebody make when they graduate from this school with this degree.” The second part of Rubio’s plan is an alternative to student loans, referred to as a student investment plan. The candidate explained that it would allow private parties to invest in students by paying their tuition. If the student is successful, the private group would profit. The student would be required to sign a contract and pay a percentage of their income. Rubio believes this is better than loans because loans have to be paid back whether or not the student is financially successful, and the risk is on the student. The third part of Rubio’s plan would be to make income-based loan repayment, which is an option for federal loans and some private loans, the automatic method of repayment. Other topics discussed by Rubio included fixing problems with the Veterans Affairs, “rebuilding” the armed forces from what the candidate described as President Obama’s “gutting” of the military and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Surabhi Rao Staff Writer surrao@uab.edu
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residential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also took the stage at Miles College in Fairfield, Ala. She was met with a small crowd of supporters and chants of “Hillary, Hillary, Hillary” shook the bleachers in the gymnasium, where the rally was held. Clinton spent much of her speech detailing her views on contested issues and listed a few of her strategic ideas. Clinton’s plan for college students in financial need includes making tuition debtfree, so long as students commit to working ten hours a week. This is in contrast to Sen. Sanders’ plan, which includes free college tuition for all. “I don’t think that our tax dollars should be going towards paying for Donald Trump’s youngest child’s tuition,” the former Secretary of State said. Clinton also plans to increase the minimum wage and referenced her husband’s success in bettering the economy during his presidency. “I think my husband did a pretty good job. At the end of his presidency we had 23 million new jobs. I want us to remember what works,” Clinton said. “You can get discouraged sometimes, but it wasn’t long ago that the median family income went up 30 percent and the median African-American income went up 33 percent. What I’m interested in is creating a lot of winners.” Although these plans were met with roaring cheers and standing ovations at the rally, some UAB students think poorly of Clinton. According to economics student Jeremy Alexander Mock, “I think it’s about time that we have a bit more integrity in the highest office of the nation. I think that Hillary Clinton comes off as so inauthentic that I do not think she can take office. I would rather have someone with integrity like Bernie Sanders become president, because he will be surrounded by a cabinet of experienced moderates.” Dental student Michelle Abou-Haidar thinks otherwise. “I think she’s the best candidate and the most experienced candidate. You’re comparing her to Bernie Sanders, who hasn’t even passed a single thing, and as for the people on the other side, Donald Trump isn’t even a politician and the others are first time senators. She is the only reasonable choice,” she said.
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MakerSpace shows off new tech at MakerDay Students learned about circuitry, scanned different objects into models on the computer and printed replicas using the 3D printer. The original plan even included allowing students to pilot a drone outside, but the activity was cancelled due to inclement weather. Students were able to create projects with Arduino Starter Kits, packages for building pre-designed electronic projects with circuitry, and littleBits, kits that allow one to experiment with magnetic modular electronics. The fellows also provided students to Circuit Scribe, a rollerball pen that writes with conductive silver ink. The different resources were selected to give students an idea of how technology begins on a small level and expands to fit one’s vision. “[...] It takes you from littleBits where you’re just trying to get the idea together and then you’re learning about series and parallel circuits and ultimately with Arduino where you get into programming and hardware,” Satterfield said. “It all builds: if you get good at littleBits you can get good at Circuit Scribe and vice versa.” “What really blew me away was that there were just as many faculty as there were students,” Satterfield said. “We had Dean Alexander here; we had Participants gathered to witness the Grand Opening of Makerspace. Photo by Ian Keel faculty from engineering; we had faculty from departments that I had never talked to. That’s really great because to have a cross-disciplinary appeal is really Pierce Newman important so that we don’t get caught up in a silo where we don’t talk to each Staff Writer other.” pnewman1@uab.edu Satterfield emphasized that this event and MakerSpace in general exists to teach anyone how to use its creative tools, not just engineers. The example he akerSpace is a student run organization that is focused on innovation at used was that architects were able to create the first hoverboard, an act that UAB. Google had once set out to do and was unable to accomplish. The organization hosted an the MakerDay event at Mervyn-Sterne Library on “I’m of the mind that what we want to do is not only give students the Feb. 22 and 23, during which they showed around 75 to 90 students examples of opportunity to do great things, but also give them the permission,” Satterfield what they can create in the space. In addition, pins celebrating contributions to said. the MakerSpace were awarded to the MakerSpace’s Innovation Fellows: Murray An Oculus Rift was at MakerDay as well, allowing for students to experience Ladner, Rohit Borah, Forrest Satterfield and John Shelley. virtual reality through electronic goggles. “The ultimate goal [for the Oculus Rift] is we want students to develop apps on their phones,” Satterfield said. “Basically you would 3D print a headset, put your phone in it, download the app that you made, and now you have a virtual reality headset” Another piece of technology at MakerDay that Satterfield would like to see further utilized in the future is the drone, which Satterfield hoped to see raced on campus. It is unknown how long it will take to reach this goal. As for the future of MakerSpace, the organization wants to eventually allow students to reserve its space. Part of this vision includes creating the perfect environment for these students by using “smart technology” to control the environment of the room. “If you have a lot of CO—in the air, for example, it makes it hard for you to focus,” Satterfield said. “Figuring out what our environment is like right now and adjusting based off of that so that students can focus better and work better is our big thing.” Satterfield said that of all the electronics available through MakerSpace, he is especially proud of the 3D printer, with many of its parts being able to be replaced with new parts that are 3D printed themselves. He placed a special significance on this printer, because “having a 3D printer made out of 3D printed parts sums up the MakerSpace.” More information about MakerSpace can be found on their Facebook page and website. The space is open for students to visit on the first floor of Sterne Library near the circulation desk.
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UAB’s master plan outlines future of the campus University Boulevard is one of the parts of campus scheduled to undergo renovation.
Mark Linn Staff Writer quiaego@uab.edu riving off the exit ramp from Highway 280 or I-65 and merging onto University Blvd, drivers are almost immediately confronted by UAB’s sprawling campus. One may not be immediately aware of where the campus begins and ends;but James Fowler, UAB’s Director of Planning Design and Construction, hopes to change that. Fowlers wants to create an area for UAB that feels more cohesive and less like a collection of buildings spanning 95 blocks of the city. The plans will affect:
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Parking and Transportation Parking and transportation is a major area of focus for future campus design planning. UAB has commissioned a study to find ways to improve parking and transportation on campus.
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According to Fowler, one of the primary objectives of the plan is to remove parking lots from the core of campus without losing any available spaces. “So there’s really three ways that we’ve identified to do that,” Fowler said. “One is to consolidate that parking into structured parking, so parking decks. We can do that and achieve some of our goal to consolidate surface parking, but we can’t consolidate all of it into decks because decks are very expensive.” Another strategy cited by Fowler would be to move parking spaces to the edge of campus, while also improving pedestrian access to these lots. There is already a plan to begin work on an additional parking Photo Ian Keel lot west ofbyI-65, which is expected to have around 1,200 available parking spaces. UAB is also looking at the possibility of renovating the building already at the location into a retail store, as well as adding a UAB police substation. The third strategy on the agenda is to pursue alternate modes of transportation around campus by improving pedestrian routes. As part of the effort to reduce reliance on vehicles to travel across the campus, UAB is seeking to grow and improve the transit routes. UAB’s transit network, Blazer Express, began in 2013 and currently includes three primary daytime routes, two nighttime routes and an additional route to accommodate afternoon rush hour traffic. “It’s still a relatively young system, it’s only been in place for a couple of years so what we see right now with ridership trends is it tends to be full during the evening peak hours for commuters and it’s not so full during the day,” Fowler said. “In fact, certain times of the day it’s really underutilized. TM But that’s not a function of the transit system not being effective, that’s a function of us adding buses to a very autooriented environment and having to slowly
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transition all of the infrastructure and support that is needed to make a transit system successful.” Fowler said that UAB wants to be “aggressive” with the transit system, even if it is currently underutilized. He hopes that UAB will expand the network to include more routes as demand increases.
Biking and walking routes One of the problems with improving walking and biking routes is that UAB, like many urban campuses around the country, have “auto-oriented” streets, according to Fowler. “When an intersection is designed well and geared towards other modes of transportation drivers behave differently,” Fowler said. “The way that our streets are designed today, it encourages us not to be looking for pedestrians--we’re looking for vehicular conflicts so we don’t get hit. So that changes the way we drive.” UAB is currently studying the best ways to change the character of the streets, as Fowler described. These ways include the possibility of narrowing some streets for the addition of bike routes. No decisions will be made on which streets will be changed to accommodate bike and pedestrian traffic until after the completion of the six-month parking and transit study, which is expected to be finished sometime this summer.
Other future projects The Master Plan document includes several other projects that are in the beginning stages of planning. UAB plans to break ground on a new business building, which is to be located on University Boulevard in the place of the parking lot on 12th Street South, at the end of this year. Construction of a new College of Arts and Sciences building will begin next year. The CAS building will be located on the southwest corner of the Campus Green. Other construction projects slated to begin this year are a new UAB police headquarters and an addition to the School of Nursing. The Board of Trustees also recently approved preliminary planning and budget for a football operations building. UAB facilities additionally hopes to do “something significant” with the Humanities Building at a later date. “Whether that is completely demolishing the building, or maybe it’s just taking it down to the structure and totally renovating it and making it a new space,” Fowler said. He added that any renovations to the Humanities Building would not begin until construction of other projects is completed.
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Opening Weekend for Blazers Baseball McKenzie Cavin Sports Editor
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AB baseball opened its 2016 season this past week with a three game series against the Arkansas State Red Wolves at Regions Field. There were over 1,000 spectators in attendance.
First Game of the Season Feb. 19
UAB baseball fell to the Arkansas State Red Wolves at Regions Field in the season opener on Friday, Feb. 19. The Blazers were defeated 14-5, but Head Coach Brian Shoop remains confident in the ability of his players. “The score looks terrible, but I saw a lot of really good things,” Shoop said to uabsports.com “There are going to be growing pains with a young team, but they had competitive at-bats.” The Red Wolves were up to bat first and closed the first inning with an advantage of 2-0. At the bottom of the second inning, the score was 2-1, with UAB scoring a run on an Arkansas State error. The Red Wolves hit a homerun with two players already on base, furthering their advantage to 5-1 at the bottom of the third. Arkansas State climbed to 7-1 at the top of the fourth inning, but by the sixth inning the Blazers were able to close the gap to 7-4. In the last two innings, the Blazers were unable to score and the Red Wolves sealed their win at 14-5. Many freshmen were put in the position as opening-day starters due to the team members being injured, as well as losing some juniors to the draft. Blazer players remove their hats during the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Double Header Game One Feb. 20
The UAB Blazers started the second leg of this weekend’s double header with a 5-0 shutout win over the Red Wolves on Saturday, Feb. 20. Senior outfielder Griffin Gum scored the first two runs for the Blazers, with a sacrifice fly in the first inning and again in the fourth inning with an RBI double. Freshman Carter Pharis’s fourth inning RBI double was the first hit of his collegiate career, and he scored again in the sixth with a home run. The Blazers scored their fifth run of the game on an Arkansas State fielding error. Ryan Ruggles, a sophomore left-handed pitcher from Muscle Shoals, Ala., pitched for six innings. Ruggles walked two and struck out six, and junior Thomas Lowery assured that the Red Wolves were powerless to make a comeback by allowing only two hits in the span of the remaining three innings, and striking out four to secure the win.
Double Header Game Two Feb. 20
The final game of the series kept the crowd on the edge of their seats for the entirety of the nine innings. Gum scored his third run of the day in the first inning with an RBI groundout, while senior Evan Peterson scored in the second inning by singling home a run. With the Blazers scoring in the first and second innings, the outcome of the game was looking to be in their favor due to their 2-0 advantage. The Red Wolves fought back in the third inning, scoring two runs on just two hits, tying the game at 2-2. After five scoreless innings, it looked like the game was going to have to go into extra innings to decide the game. By the bottom of the ninth inning, the UAB pitchers were able to hold Arkansas State at just four hits and three earned runs, but a single hit in the bottom of the inning allowed three Red Wolves to cross home due to an error. The Blazers are looking to even up their record to 4-4 this Tuesday, March 1 at 4 p.m. at Samford. For more information on the UAB baseball team, follow the Blazers on Twitter @UAB_Baseball.
April Oberman Staff Writer aprildob@uab.edu
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With another win on Thursday, Feb. 25, the Blazers pushed their grand total to 15 in Conference-USA, and put themselves in position to be the first seed of the C-USA Tournament. The Blazers won the opportunity for the C-USA to be held in Birmingham for the third year in a row. Many UAB students are looking forward to the C-USA tournament, and some never miss a game. Students like senior Matt Owens are obligated to attend a host of contests throughout the season. He formed his opinion on the team’s chances by attending every home game and four away games as a saxophonist in the Blazer Band. “UAB looks to be #1 seed unless something crazy happens, which means we should play Charlotte or Western Kentucky. We beat Charlotte on the road and lost a close one at Western Kentucky, but we played them at home Saturday so we should have a good idea of how we stack up here in Birmingham,” basketball fan and senior Matt Owens said. Owens predicts that our basketball team will do well in this tournament if they keep up the momentum. “We should win our first game without too much trouble,” Owens said. “The second round will set us up against either LA Tech or MTSU. We are 2-0 against MTSU and 0-1 against LT. MTSU would be a harder matchup, and a great rivalry game. LT beat us in Ruston, LA but would likely lose this game. An MTSU matchup would be a tougher draw. The championship game would likely be against MTSU or Marshall. We are a combined 4-0 against these teams.”
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In Owens’s opinion, senior guard Robert Brown and sophomore forward William Lee have emerged as the two leaders of the team because of their consistent play. He believes that in addition to these two, the main players to watch are sophomore guard Nick Norton, junior forward Tosin Mehinti and junior guard Dirk Williams. “Nick has had stretches of very great ball-handling and shooting this year, if he can consistently get a few threes each game and limit his turnovers this will be a big key to the game,” Owens said. “If Tosin can limit travels and walks, while getting his rebounds and putbacks, this will also be big. The team is 12-0 when Dirk Williams scores at least ten points, if he continues coming off the bench this is a huge advantage for the team. Additionally, with his speed and length his offense rebounds and putbacks from missed shots have been huge for the team down the stretch.” With a winning season comes new responsibilities for the players, as well as the coaching staff. “This season the coaches have had to manage expectations and continue to develop the team while having one of the best seasons in school history. Also, the coaches have done a great job having all of the guys buy into a team approach. With as many different players as we have had start, it’s a true testament to the team mentality when players that could be starting anywhere in the conference come off the bench without a complaint,” Owens said. According to Owens, the biggest things for UAB to do in the tournament are to limit turnovers, control the game tempo and continue to create points off of offensive rebounds. The tournament will be held at the Legacy Arena at the BJCC in Birmingham on March 8-12.
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Chris Cokley FG: 58% PPG: 13.5 RPG: 6.5
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True life: I friendzoned my boyfriend Ally Middleton Opinions Columnist allym95@uab.edu
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t sounds cliché to say I fell in love with my best friend, but that’s exactly what happened. We met in 10th grade chemistry in a small town almost two hours north of Birmingham. At first, we only talked about school and homework, but eventually, we started hanging out more outside of school. We had a lot of the same friends, so it was mostly all of us hanging out together, but one day he asked if I wanted to go out to eat, just him and me. I immediately consulted one of my other friends about this. Was this supposed to be a date? Did Chris think it was a date? I kind of got the hint that he had a crush on me, but as people say, he was deep in the friend zone. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of that word. The best relationships start as friendships, right? In fact, looking back on high school, it would’ve never worked out if we had dated then. Once we did start dating, however, everyone’s first question was, “how did he make it out of the friend zone?” It’s not a secret that we were no more than best friends for years. He still had a crush on me, but he never asked me to be his girlfriend, so I jokingly tell him now that he put himself in the friend zone. He blames it on the fact that I never showed interest; I was dating other guys all through high school, and to be honest, I really wasn’t interested in him at all. It wasn’t until after we had grown closer for four years and then went off to different colleges that I started to realize maybe there was something more than friendship there.
I’m not sure if it was us being away from each other for a year besides the occasional lunch date when I came back home to visit or if it was just the way we both found ourselves in college independently of our friendship with each other, but when I came home for spring break my freshman year, something was different. I saw him differently, but he was dating someone else at the time, so I didn’t pay it much attention. Summer came, and we were spending even more time together than in high school. Summer ended, and it was harder to say goodbye than usual. Thanksgiving rolled around, and right before he left for a trip to Wisconsin, I was struggling with breaking up with my boyfriend at the time. Chris took me out to dinner and told me to do what felt right in my heart. He told me I deserved better than what I had in that relationship, and it was in that moment I realized that what felt right in my heart was being with him. Long story short, Chris confessed to me right before Christmas that he never stopped loving me, and on New Year’s Eve, under the fireworks at the park, he asked me to be his girlfriend. We haven’t been dating long, but it feels like it’s been years, and he can thank the friend zone for that.
Illustration by Thomas Baldwin When people talk about the friend zone, it always has a negative connotation, but my friendship with Chris is what made me fall in love with him. Four years of him being there for me, taking me to get frozen yogurt, going on long drives with me and always answering the phone when I called him crying helped me realize he wasn’t ever going to leave me. Friendship is healthy, and perhaps we put too much pressure on falling in love right away. We immediately think all hope is lost when our crush only wants to be friends, but being “just friends” could lead to just about anything.
Blazing red: a Republican student’s response to the minimum wage Elizabeth Earwood Opinions Columnist eearwood@uab.edu
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hey give us purpose. They allow us to provide for ourselves. They are an essential part of fulfilling the American Dream: jobs. Individuals’ jobs are often a central part of the American way, and thus the wages one earns as a part of this job is essential too. Considering the vital role jobs play both in Americans’ lives and in the economy, the government must ensure there is freedom to thrive. Beginning in 1928, the government saw its role to make a minimum wage policy. But, is this really the best way to allow the greatest free flourishing for the most Americans? Republicans often think not. The U.S. Bureau of Labor reports that of the 77.2 million workers receiving an hourly wage in 2014, 3.9 percent earn at or below the federal minimum wage. Thus, changing the minimum wage and affecting all businesses in the country would only potentially benefit 3.9 percent of workers. In fact, these workers Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Earwood are mostly teenagers and young people. Among employed workers 25 years and older making an hourly wage, only 3 percent earn the minimum wage. This is no way to help American families thrive. Business leaders must make choices every day in balancing the prices consumers pay and paying their employees. This is a fact. The facts that are lacking include how minimum wage allows American families to be empowered. Raising the minimum wage forces businesses again to choose between placing a burden on the consumer and eliminating jobs. In cities and states with a higher minimum wage, businesses often resort to reducing employees’ hours, so the improvements
are washed out. These ramifications hardly seem like tools to aid in empowering Americans or reducing poverty. I agree with my Democratic colleague in that we do have a moral obligation to help the working class. Yet, I think the worst thing we could do for them is allow government to intrude. Even if the minimum wage was increased to $12 per hour, is this really an empowering wage to ensure economic justice? The moral obligation is fulfilled rather in allowing the businesses to succeed and pay their employees well. We want people to make much more than minimum wage, but they cannot if employers are concerned with maneuvering new government requirements. One of the other significant problems with minimum wage is the unrealistic assignment of the value on jobs. Presidential candidate Senator Rubio comments, “If you raise the minimum wage, you’re going to make people more expensive than a machine. Here’s the best way to raise wages. Make America the best place in the world to start a business or expand an existing business.” If U.S. policy allows businesses to thrive on their own, this is a way to sustain provisions for families. It is not that I am considering businesses more than considering the people. Rather, Americans flourish most when they are able to work and consume while the market operates in equilibrium. This cannot happen if the government forces a minimum wage increase. Americans work hard and deserve to be paid well. Republicans know businesses can do this if government gets out of the way. The Republican Party understands that a thriving American society can be found in true freedom, absent of unnecessary government encroachment. My fellow students, as minimum wage is currently debated in Birmingham, Alabama and the United States, may we wisely join the discussion to support American families and businesses. Let us a part of a generation who seeks a prospering nation. God bless these great United States.
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On tour: The Maine can’t stop, won’t stop Tamara Imam Copy Editor copyed@insideuab.com
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scope spoke to Pat Kirch, drummer for pop-punk band The Maine. The Maine is currently on tour with Mayday Parade and will perform at Iron City on Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m. Kscope: You all went on a free tour last year. How did it feel to give back to your fans? PK: That was one of the coolest things that we’ve ever been able to do as a band. It just felt like it was time. We’ve been a band for a long time now and we have fans that have been to 150 concerts of ours and if you add up how much that costs to do and the travel and stuff, I mean, you’ll go insane cause that’s a lot of money. So we decided it’s time to give back to all those people, so I think everybody was very grateful when they came to the shows. And hopefully some people decided to come and watch us that wouldn’t have if the concert wouldn’t have been free, so really I don’t have anything to complain about. It was such a cool thing and now for us it’s just figuring out what we can do to top it. Kscope: Talk to me a little bit about “American Candy.” Did you have a new direction in mind with your new album? PK: Yeah, I think when we made “Forever Halloween” which was the album before this one, we wanted to make a raw album that just sounded like five guys in a room just performing the songs, and that’s exactly what we did. We did everything live, we recorded it analog to tape without any computers or any of that stuff. And so when we went to make the next record, I think our thought process was that we wanted to make something big, we wanted something that was very thought through and fun and short and to the point, so I think that was the whole idea: how can we make a record that’s only 10 songs and from beginning to end it just makes you want to dance and have fun? I think that’s what we were able to accomplish. Kscope: I definitely get that vibe listening to the album. PK: It was kind of like ‘Let’s just have fun and make a record that we’re gonna have a great time to play live,’ which is why we’ve been playing tons of that album at our shows. Kscope: Is there anything different we can expect from your performance at the live show that maybe some of your longtime fans haven’t seen from your older music? PK: I think this show on this tour, this is the first time we’re coming to Birmingham with a bigger show. We’re gonna have lighting and it’s gonna be a very cohesive set. I think it’s gonna be a good mix of all the albums for sure. I don’t know, I think now kind of with the live show we love to see how aggressive we can get in certain parts and how quiet we can get in certain parts, so we like it to feel like it ebbs and flows and there are ups and downs in the set.
Kscope: You all are on tour with Mayday Parade, so what’s the dynamic like traveling with them? Do any of them snore really loud and keep you up? PK: (Laughs) Oh man, they are honestly like our favorite band we go on tour with. We have toured with them from 2008 up until now, and we were just over with them in the UK on a bus together so we were right next to each other all the time. (laughs) Yeah, there’s nothing too crazy like that, but we would end up being up till like five in the morning playing games with them in the back lounge of the bus or talking about music or just hanging out. So there’s definitely a comfort there that you don’t always have
Kscope: You mentioned that you’ve been part of the band for a long time. Do you ever feel burned out, or what do you do to keep yourself from feeling burned out? PK: I think for us the reason that we don’t get burned out like a bunch of bands do is cause we’re not on a record label or anything and we haven’t been for a long time now, so we’re able to do things however we want to. I think the only reason you get burned out is if you’re not having fun, you know, and if you’re having to do things that you don’t enjoy. If you’re having to do a photoshoot with a photographer and you don’t want to be around and you’re doing a music video and you’re not happy with it and things like that, and that’s when it feels like work. And for us it never feels like work ever, cause we do whatever we want (laughs) and we are never told what to do, so I think that that is the key, is that we write the songs that we want to write, we record with who we want to record with, we tour with whoever we want to tour with, so the whole thing is fun. So there really isn’t a time when you get burned out. Obviously at the end of a tour your body is exhausted from playing shows every night, but we go home for one day and then we’re like ‘hey let’s record some songs.’ So I think as long as we can continue the trend of just enjoying what we’re doing I think that’s what is gonna promote us making the best albums that we can and just continuing. Kscope: You talked a little bit about having a bad experience with your previous record label. Is that something you care to elaborate on? PK: We basically signed to a major label back in 2010 and we were just kind of, we made a record that we felt like we were very happy with it, but we felt like they just wanted to be involved the whole time with it. So for us the biggest thing was just we were done with that. We wanted to make the albums that we wanted to make without any like outside opinion, because when you have these people bringing in their opinion it’s about what they think people are gonna buy or something, and it’s not, it doesn’t have anything to do with what’s gonna make the best album. Band image from The Maine’s Facebook page. So we were done with that. We ended up when going on tour with bands. So I imagine there’ll recording a record in secret without them knowing, be tons of them coming out to perform with us and and we just paid for it on our own and we went in vice versa and things like that, just cause we know one day to their office and put the record down on each other so well and I think the coolest thing about the desk and said ‘hey, we did a record and you can touring with them is we just have tons of respect put it out or we don’t want to be on your record label for what they do as a band on top of us just enjoying anymore.’ And they didn’t think that the record was them as buds. I think we’ve kind of gone through a very good, so we fought for about a year and a half to bunch of the same things as them: began on an indie get off the record label, and we eventually did and we label and went to a major label and kind of had a bad put out that record. And ever since then, we’ve just experience with that, and then went back to what been doing things just completely on our own. we know how to do best. I think there’s a lot we have Kscope: Is there anything you want to add? in common with them, so that just kind of makes it PK: We’re excited to be back in Birmingham, very so that we just want to be on tour with them and I excited. It’s actually the first day of the tour, so it’s think that’ll come through in the concert, it’s just that exciting. everyone is excited to be there.
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Your MyersBriggs monthly horoscope Sarah Faulkner News Editor news@insideuab.com
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ello Kaleidoscope Readers, in your time at UAB and preparing for the professional world, you may have been asked to take a Myers-Briggs Personality Test, a scientific approach to understanding what makes you tick by sorting you (and everyone else) into one of 16 distinct personality types. With this popularity of self awareness and how prevalent it is in the workplace, we’ve decided to launch a monthly column that gives each of the 16 personality types a look into themselves and into their future for the upcoming month by using non-astrological pseudoscience. This week, we are offering quasi-insight into the intuitive and thinking-based personalities. Before reading this column, please take a Myers Briggs Personality Test and then find your type below to read a totally imagined glance at what is to come for you.
INFJ
we get out what you put in,
put that recycling in the right bin.
You are one in a million, INFJ, and this month will be as special as you. You will have something to look forward to—having given so much in the past, it is time that you are properly shown appreciation. Act on your impulses and you will be rewarded. You have a good heart, so do not be afraid to trust your intuition. Perhaps take this chance to connect or reconnect with someone you have been unsure about in the past. There are plenty of people at UAB that would love to accommodate you if you need the extra nudge to get you to step out of your shell.
INFP INFP, I hope this last month has treated you well. Give yourself a break this month and don’t work as tirelessly on improving yourself. Take some time to enjoy the world around you and to take care of yourself. It’s exhausting being you, and it’s time to let yourself relax in your own zone and recharge. Read some of Jared Jones’ health and wellness columns in Kscope and treat yourself.
ENFJ This month, be careful about cutting corners, you may be a little stressed at this point and inclined to push things to the side in favor of comfort, but you know you’d be more stressed out about disappointing yourself, since you’ve been doing so well recently. You’ve been enjoying positive attention for your recent accomplishments, so congratulate yourself! This is only the beginning of the achievements coming your way if you continue to be diligent.
ENFP This would be a great month to put your passion to good use, ENFP! Start an independent project. You naturally work well with other people, considering your charismatic nature; however, your creative vision will be best realized if you work toward your goal on your own. You blaze your own trails best outside the confines of checks and balances. Perhaps try working on a new language or read that book with some newly discovered free time.
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The UAB student body has a complicated relationship with health and fitness.
Janvi Jani Staff Writer janvinj@uab.edu AB is a major medical university but how fit are its students and faculty? Students and faculty members can work out at the Campus Rec Center for free. However, how often do students and faculty members tend to actually go to the Rec? Do students exercise often aside from walking to class? If so, how much? If not, what prevents them from doing so? “A decent amount of students go to the Rec,” neuroscience major JaVarus Humphries said. “However, I think it’s mostly the same group of people, so I wouldn’t say that they need to go more, but more so the people that have only dropped by once or twice. Working out is good for both the mind and body, especially with removing stress, so I definitely think it’s worthwhile.” Hilary Patel, an accounting major who goes to the Rec fairly often, said that she thinks others do not exercise often due to school-related reasons. “School work and exams are probably the main reason people do not work out,” Patel said. “Obviously, time management is the key. Also, some people may not find working work and their health as a priority, so they don’t go.” Senior Jeremy Jackson said he does not often work out at the Rec for similar reasons. “My only responsibility at this point is going to school, so I have no excuse other than the fact that I’m a couch potato,” Jackson said. Other reasons students may not work out at the Rec may be the result of insecurity over how others will perceive them.
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“I’ve known people that felt ashamed about their weight and didn’t want to work out for that reason,” Humphries said. “It can also be sort of tough if you’re a beginner and don’t know where to start. Personally, I think it’s a really tough mindset to get out of.” However, worrying about other’s perceptions is not necessarily due to feeling out of shape. “It really doesn’t have to even be something as superficial as weight though,” Jackson said. “I know I’m kind of shy, so perhaps it’s the anxiety of being around strangers that may prevent them from going also.” Patel says that fear of others’ opinions does not have to inhibit someone from reaching their fitness goals. “Some may feel uncomfortable but no matter what, if someone wants to change their lifestyle so that they can look, feel, and be healthier, then I’m sure they won’t care about anybody else’s opinion,” Patel said. While working out is important, it is only one facet of a healthy lifestyle. If one feels uncomfortable or unwilling to exercise, they can work towards their health goals by eating healthy and cutting out aspects of their lives that are detrimental to one’s body, including stress. “Of course these people should try to exercise when possible, but if they aren’t typical gym goers they’re still not out of the game when it comes to being healthy,” Jackson said. “[...] They should definitely go [to the Rec] more often if they can, because health later in life depends on the health decisions you are presently making.”
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Weekly Wellness: Cutting out toxic relationships
Jared Jones Staff Writer jrdjns@uab.edu
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his week we’re discussing something a little more serious than white teeth and healthy skin, so buckle up. Let me first address that I am in no way an expert on this topic; in fact, I’m growing and learning just like you. No one is perfect, and if you don’t get a single thing from this week, know that you are flawed, but you are worthy. College is a great time to learn more about yourself, your friends and what you want in life. But with that comes the unsavory; we tend to pick up stragglers on our journey and we can’t part ways. “Emotional vampires,” I like to call them: people who feed off your happiness, your self-worth, leaving you drained and off-center. Relationships are great; they can bring you joy and selflessness, but they can also cause pain. If you’re stuck in a friendship or relationship with someone who doesn’t uplift you, who doesn’t support you, who can’t pick up the phone when you need them, that’s a problem. Toxic relationships come in all shapes and sizes. It would be impossible for me to list out all the ways relationships turn sour.
What’s important here is your mental, emotional and physical health. If you feel a relationship compromises your wellbeing, it’s time to take a step back, reassess your environment and decide if that person will walk with you in your next step.
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How do you let go of someone? It’s not simple and it’s not pleasant. It might be cliché, but it truly is like ripping off a bandage: it initially hurts, but you won’t heal if you rely on a temporary cure.
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All relationships are different, so your method of action will change for each person you meet. So while I could say to burn the gifts you got from them on their front lawn, that isn’t practical. It all boils down to this: are they meeting your needs? Are you meeting theirs? Voice your discrepancies. Politely. Bring to light the issues that have been causing you stress and disharmony. And if they don’t have a resolution to correct their misbehavior, then it’s time to let go. And how you decide to cut ties is up to you. Just be respectful and understanding. Vindictive and malicious may be fun upfront, but it’s only going to cause distress in the long-run. Trust me. Listen: in life you’re going to meet people that mean nothing good for you. It’s the tragedy of life, and you’ll have to navigate hurt feelings and cold shoulders until you find the ones that stick. So decide your wants and needs and express them to others. And if you can’t decide on something that is mutually beneficial to both parties, then you need to move on. People will leave and enter your life, and you’re the captain of a single-person ship called You. You know what’s best for you. Don’t expect anything less. We all make mistakes and we’re all growing – expect hiccups along the way. Don’t let emotional vampires zap your energy. Pluck the weeds from your garden.
BlazeRadio presents Red Planet Reviews: Rihanna “Anti”
Jared Chesnut (DJ Red, Mondays @ 2) Staff Writer redc@uab.edu
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ull disclosure before we get started: I’ve been living on a giant red rock hurtling through space, so surprisingly I don’t have much Rihanna in my catalog. Sure, I’ve heard “Pon de Replay,” “Umbrella” and her various other hits that the radio plays ad nauseam, but I’ve never really gone much deeper than that. With the leak of her new album “Anti” and subsequent giveaway over at Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service before a proper release, it seemed as good a time as any to fix that. “Consideration” kicks things off with a drum machine and RiRi switching between “riddim” and rhyme as effortlessly as the kick and snare behind her. It’s not until “Kiss It Better” that the album really feels like it’s finally kicked off, with the hook growing along with the synths and Rihanna’s missives to her boy to “make it right.” It’s one of the strongest tracks on the album: a well-produced affair that complements Rihanna’s range. That’s followed up with the album’s first single “Work,” a tune that’s ridiculously easy to dance to. Here Rihanna puts rapid fire rhymes and syncopation together, and Drake comes in for the assist like a smoother, more stylish John Stockton. On “Desperado” there’s a tonal shift, going from sultry to a grimier, edgier feel. It’s more “Us against the world” than “Us against each other.” When “Woo” hits, it feels like a natural progression of the last track, going down a darker road. That quick stab of the synth combine with her effect-washed warbling about an old flame feel like the Act II to a tragedy, with lines like “Cause the scars on your heart are still mine,” giving the tale a more visceral,
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personal feel. It might not be a club banger, but it’s an easy song to get lost in. After that, “Needed Me” continues that story, trading in reminiscing for a contained, smoldering rage, no punches being pulled as Rihanna goes on the attack tearing down a guy that once upon a time meant something more. It could be say that “Yeah, I Said It” is the moving on point, a track that oozes sex in a two minute romp. From there, “Never Ending” takes an odd twist, with folky acoustic guitar and a melody vaguely similar to Dido’s “Thank You” standing apart from the rest of the album. It honestly feels a bit out of place, quality of the track notwithstanding. Still, it shows off the multitude of styles Rihanna can take on and emulate almost effortlessly. “Love on the Brain” keeps on experimenting, a modern age take on a golden oldies love ballad. The sexy gets toned down considerably, with the romance bumped up to 11, shifting Ri into full-on R&B queen. I’m picturing some sort of Aretha Franklin-styled
Voltron, though that image may well vary. Finally, “Close To You” closes things out with a piano ballad that sees Rihanna holding on to a lost love for a little bit longer, stuck with the adoration and the fact that there’s no longer a chance to share it. The finale is an embodiment of a melancholy winter day in 4/4, and possesses a beauty that takes on a different visage. Overall I’d say “Anti” feels like a mixture of Rihanna’s past work combined with a who’s who of top names in collaboration, including Drake, Timbaland and The Weeknd. The production is tight, cut down almost to the point of sparsity, with nearly every song clocking in at under four minutes and the album proper hovering around 45 minutes total. While I can appreciate keeping things compact and not drawing things out, I feel like some of the tracks would’ve been better off without the punkrock sensibilities. There were moments where I was craving more and promptly denied by the sound of dead air. If I had one complaint about the album, it’s that it is far too frugal: we get an aperitif of Rihanna’s exceptional talent and quality, but everyone would’ve been happier with a full course.
Pros + Rihanna shows off her exceptional range, playing well off multiple styles + Production is on point throughout
Cons - Many songs feel far too short. Conservation is for California’s water, not RiRi! - Doesn’t quite feel like there’s a standout hit a la “Umbrella” or “S&M” - Album is somewhat hampered by its slow start.
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UAB Softball vs. Auburn
UAB Women’s Basketball Alumni Night
Mary Bowers Field 6 p.m. The UAB Softball team will play No. 3 ranked Auburn University at home. Iron City 7 p.m. Rapper, singer and entrepreneur Kevin Gates will perform his “Islah” tour at Iron City. Tickets start at $27.50.
Bartow Arena 5 p.m. The National Alumni Society is hosting a dinner in the Green and Gold Room in Bartow Arena before the women’s basketball team faces off against Florida International University. Tickets are $10 and include the pregame dinner and entrance to the game. The dinner starts at 5 p.m. and tip off is at 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY|03.02
Board Game Extravaganza
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UAB Baseball vs. Troy
Regions Field 4 p.m. The Blazers host the Trojans of Troy University.
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Birmingham Museum of Art 6 p.m. The Birmingham Museum of Art will host a panel discussion with Presidential Scholar and Art Historian Dan Siedell on art and theology. Admission is free.
Saturn 7 p.m. Saturn Birmingham will host a night of board game tournaments. The event is free and a full list of available games can be found on the Birmingham Board Game Extravaganza tab on their website saturnbirmingham.com.
AEIVA 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Students from UAB, UA, Tulane University and Florida State University will present at the symposium. More information about the presentations and keynote speaker is available on the Department of Art and Art History’s website.
SATURDAY|03.05 UAB Tennis vs. ETSU
George Ward Park Tennis Center 1 p.m. The Blazers will match up against East Tennessee State University at home. UAB Women’s Basketball vs. FAU Bartow Arena 2 p.m. The Blazers will play Florida Atlantic University at home.
Black Jacket Symphony
Iron City 7 p.m. The Black Jacket Symphony will perform Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon.” Tickets are $25.
SUNDAY|03.06 Punk Rock Flea Market
Saturn 1 p.m. This event will include live music, artists and vendors selling artwork and records among other vintage items. Admission is $5.
Slow Art Sunday: Barking Up the Wrong Tree Birmingham Museum of Art 2 p.m. Judy Cook will lead visitors through a discussion of F.W. Edmond’s Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
FRIDAY|03.04 UAB Baseball vs. Kennesaw State
Regions Field 4 p.m. UAB will play Kennesaw State University on Friday at 4 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
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