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Dear Kaleidoscope Readers, Some weeks are more major than others. Of the 52 weeks in a year, you’ll probably only remember 26. You might wake up on a Sunday morning (or afternoon) and think “did I do anything this week?” Your Netflix account may suggest that you were alive, but seven days went by and all you know is that Don Draper from Mad Men has relationship problems. Other weeks, you don’t wake up on Sunday, you simply are awake because you’ve been filling every second of every hour with work and assignments. Your eye twitches as you pour yourself a cup of coffee from an unwashed pot and a manic smile spreads across your face as you upload a twelve page paper to Canvas.

On the contrary, some weeks, are filled with experiences. These weeks are important simply because you remember them. The past ten days for me have been nothing but go, go, go, and while lack of sleep has hurt me in some ways, I don’t regret getting four to five hours of sleep each night because it allowed me not only to finish my work but also to spend time with my friends.

While you may have tunnel vision to “get this or that done,” I think it’s important to realize that people matter, and sharing laughter or going on an afternoon hike with someone can’t be replaced with life’s “numbers.” Whether you work three jobs or have nothing but free time, try to enjoy time spent with others—whether they are your family, friends, coworkers or roommates.

The last week at UAB has been major as well. On Wednesday, Coach Bill Clark told a crowd of football fans that the Board of Trustees and UAB Administration had extended his contract from 3 years to 5 years—meaning that he will be UAB’s football coach until 2020. With news of Coach Clark’s contract, a Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday and Friday and a town hall discussing the vote for raising student fees to fund football, bowling and rifle, members of the UAB community have spent their week meaningfully on the go.

This week’s cover story is about the vote to raise student fees by $25 to support bowling, rifle and football. I’ve spoken to both our University President and our USGA President about why we are having this vote and about the backstory leading up to this vote on September 29-30.

However, as the vote is for students only, they were the most important group I spoke to for the article. According to Courtney Campbell (most likely UAB Football’s biggest fan) the vote means more than just increasing student fees.

“If the students vote yes on this, the students will become the biggest and most important contributors to the athletic department. That puts the power in our hands. These are our sports and our games and we need to support them. Things are moving up for UAB, and I want to say that the students were the biggest part of that. We’ve marched and rallied and now it’s time for us to show those in power that we aren’t done yet,” she told me.

As she said, having a vote puts power directly into your hands. So whether you want to vote no or vote yes, take this opportunity to make a decision that reflects how you want to experience UAB. Turn to page 8 and 9 to read more.

Make these next few weeks memorable and Go Blazers!

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Bill Clark contract breakdown Brandon Varner Managing Editor managing@insideuab.com n Wednesday, Sept. 16, UAB announced that it had reached an agreement with Football coach Bill Clark to bring him back on with a new contract.

Clark’s new contract is a five-year, $550 thousand dollar agreement, with tiered incentives built in for fundraising, longevity, competitive play-reaching a certain amount of wins in a season, reaching the postseason, ticket sales and academic success.

The longevity incentive states that for every year that Clark is still with the team over the five years, that he will automatically receive a payment of $25,000.

At the press conference, Mark Ingram—also the recipient of a new contract—thanked the Blazer fans that had donated to make it all possible, and set forth his vision for the future of UAB Athletics.

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“Now it is time for us to look forward, and to look at the great days that lie ahead for all of us and today is an example of that. The Department of Athletics at UAB intends to follow that at our great university, which is to achieve excellence in all that we do,” said Ingram. “Our coaches and our student athletes stand ready to compete in championships. We will bow down to no one.”

Now that the Clark contract matters have been settled, the coach announced his intentions to advance the mission of the UAB football program and asked UAB fans to lend even more support to the rising athletics teams on campus.

“What we’re talking about is getting these facilities. So what can you do right now? Number one? Support the teams we got everything we’ve got going on at this school,” said Clark.

“It’s become a we thing, it’s become a community thing. It’s a family. That’s what we’re selling. It’s a we thing. We want to do it first class.”

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Bill Clark addresses media at the press conference announcing his new contract

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Rape on Campus: Guns Are Not the Answer Courtesy of “PeaceVoice”

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everal days ago, the Miami Herald published an editorial from a college student who argued that allowing students on college campuses to carry concealed weapons was not only a constitutional right but would help prevent rape.

While I appreciate her passion for the subject and am saddened to read about anyone’s victimization, this position is deeply problematic. I don’t wish to take up the constitutional argument here, but I cannot in good conscience fail to respond to the argument that a woman with a gun can prevent a rapist from sexually assaulting her.

First, studies do not bear out that arming women helps prevent sexual assault or domestic and dating violence. In part, this is because most frequently sexual assault occurs within a dating relationship. Since most victims are not only “acquainted” with their assailant but are actually in a relationship of sorts with them, it is unlikely that they will arm themselves with a weapon before heading out for the night with their partner. Thus the weapon would do no good.

Further, since most sexual assaults occur when students (both offenders and victims) are under the influence of alcohol, having a gun involved is unlikely to make things better. In fact, numerous studies have found that guns actually make the situation worse. Far worse. Even when the disinhibiting and aggression-promoting effects of alcohol are not a factor. Studies show that

women are far more likely to be murdered with a handgun than kill a stranger in self-defense.

In fact, 300 times more likely. Rape rates are consistently higher in states where gun ownership is also higher. A woman is 83 times more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than to kill him in self-defense. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation has been estimated to increase the risk of homicide (to the victim of sexual attack, largely) 500 percent. Because of our easy access to guns, a woman in the U.S. is 11 times more likely to be murdered with a firearm than are women in other high-income countries. I could go on, but there’s no need...

Add to the equation that allowing concealed weapons on campus can only confuse the first responders, who don’t know the context or details of the situation, and will inevitably incite fear and trepidation amongst other faculty and students who worry about nervous people packing heat, and the result is a powder keg that is based on rhetoric, not reality...

What campuses need to do is address the fact that rape is a crime that offenders choose to commit because they are immersed in the broader rape culture.... Rather than changing the perceived target, we need to change the motivation of the offender... Let’s move from rhetoric to reality so that we can actually prevent rape on campus—

Laura Finley, Ph.D.

Laura Finley, Ph.D., teaches in the Barry University Department of Sociology & Criminology and is syndicated by “PeaceVoice.”

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one of the sorority’s five new “colony” branches this fall, according to Mettler.

Each Panhellenic sorority at UAB AB has seen a tremendous increase supports a specific philanthropic in Greek life on campus; in 2015 organization, and Sigma Kappa works alone, the university has chartered with the Alzheimer’s Association. a new fraternity and a new sorority.

According to their website, “Since This new sorority on campus is Sigma 1989, the Sigma Kappa Foundation Kappa, whose has granted more purpose is than $2 million to “provide in research and women lifelong psychosocial grants opportunities to investigators and and support practitioners who are for social, on the front lines in intellectual the fight against this and spiritual debilitating disease.” development Colonization of by bringing the sorority at UAB women together took place Sept. 16to positively 20, with bid day on impact our Sunday, Sept. 20. The communities,” process included a according to philanthropy night, their website. sisterhood night At schools like and an invitational the University preference event. of Alabama, The sorority also Greek life has a met individually long tradition. with potential A Sigma Kappa road sign on University Blvd. promoting the new new members.

However, in UAB’s relatively sorority. (Photo by Casey Marley) The philanthropy young age - only becoming an night consisted of Sigma Kappa independent institution in 1969 - Greek representatives explaining the life has only recently began to see importance of the Alzheimer’s growth and allow students the unique Association and their role in opportunity of founding new Greek supporting it. Sisterhood night was organizations and creating a legacy for a more lighthearted event where the them. representatives shared their pride Sigma Kappa, however, already has a and love for the organization. The long-standing legacy behind it coming preference event on the final night of to UAB. The organization was founded recruitment explained to potential new in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, members the impact that Sigma Kappa Maine. Today, the organization boasts could have on their lives and why they 156,000 members worldwide, with should choose to become part of the 116 collegiate chapters in 36 states, organization. according to their website. Director of Sophomore student and Sigma Extension for Sigma Kappa Melinda Kappa rushee Sami Foster said, “I Mettler said that, when it was known decided to rush Sigma Kappa because that UAB Panhellenic council was open I love the idea of being part of a new for extension, the sorority began to organization on campus. Now that we research the institution to decide if it started the UAB colony chapter, I’m was a good fit for their organization. more excited than ever to make new “Through our research and our friends, grow as a person and develop exploratory visit to campus, we have Sigma Kappa!” Foster accepted her learned that UAB has remarkable story bid on Sept. 20 and is a member of the to tell,” said Mettler. This observation, founding pledge class. said Mettler, prompted their further For her part, Mittler also feels pursuit of becoming the new chapter positively about the future of Sigma on campus, and eventually the Kappa on campus; “We are so excited organization was selected to give an to join this outstanding Fraternity/ on-campus presentation to members Sorority community!” she said. of the UAB Greek community. UAB is

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SafeZone hosts peer training session for LGBT awareness

Photo by Sarah Adkins On Sept. 16, SafeZone held a training session on sex and sexuality issues, terminology and campus resources.

Ulric Cowley Staff Writer ucowley@uab.edu

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n Sep. 16, UAB’s SafeZone program hosted a peer training class called Safezone 101 for LGBT counseling and awareness.

SafeZone is a part of the Gender and Sexuality Diversity program and functions as a resource to the UAB community. The program consists of people who are trained to serve as a safe haven for LGBT-identifying students and staff. The SafeZone curriculum consists of three classes this semester: SafeZone 101, SafeZone 201 and Trans 101.

SafeZone 101, hosted in the Cahaba Room of the new freshman residence hall was an introduction to the terminology involved, and it took a close look at the nature of coming out, what it entails for individuals and what it means to be SafeZone certified. SafeZone 201 will take place on Oct. 21 and will be an exploration of identities, “systematic privilege, oppression and social justice,” according to the SafeZone website.

Trans 101 will take place on Nov. 18 and will be an introduction to an “in-depth understanding of Trans identities and issues Trans people face on campus.”

“The goal is to make the campus safer for LGBT students, to give them

support and to encourage them to be more out with themselves,” said Isaac Jones, a peer educator with the program. “We have certain events that happen on campus that you can find through Bsync. We have Out Week that’s coming up in October, which is a whole week of LGBT-themed events.”

There were about 18 people present at the class, including the three peer educators, and undergraduate and graduate students, alumni and teachers.

The discussion covered the concepts of sex, gender and sexuality. There was also an exercise focused on the intricacies and challenges that are involved with coming out, and how it can affect an individual’s life. The program also featured scenarios where the individuals explored how they could use the knowledge gained in the class and the resources they learned about to benefit the parties involved. Afterward, there was a question-and-answer session between the peer educators and the trainees.

“It helps educate people who are not LGBT in how to talk to those people and how to make them feel safer,” Breezy Ivey, a student present at the class said about the SafeZone program. “In general, being LGBT is still not safe no matter how many strides we make towards it, but it’s getting here and programs like this help.”

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ROTC commanders share their leadership experiences Luke Richey Staff Writer lrichey@uab.edu

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n Sept. 17, at 3:30 p.m., UAB ROTC presented its annual Leadership and Mission Command Forum in Bell Theatre.

The Reserve Officer Training Corps, or ROTC, is a nationwide college program for training officers in the United States Armed Forces.

Army uniforms crowded the theatre. Servicemen and women accompanied their family and friends to the forum.

“This event exposes cadets to higher leadership,” said Ingrid Murati, a senior PreOptometry and Business Management major and rank MS 4 in the ROTC program. “This allows cadets to gain experience from the incredible achievements these high

ranking officials have achieved. We have the highest ranking female in the Army here today.”

“Last year’s event was awesome. Professional.

It gave great insight into leadership. Showed the integration from military to civilian,” said Brian Nykanen, an ROTC serviceman rank Cadet S3 and Neuroscience major. When asked what he thought he would get out of the event this year, he said, “These are all high ranking officials. Excellent CVs [curriculum vitae, an expanded resume].

They’ve all done a lot for the country and are successful of course in the military, but also in business.”

The five panelists, Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles, Maj. Gen. James Darden, Maj. Gen. Lee Price, Col. John Grimes and Col. Steve Shepherd, had a total of

160 years of service to the U.S. Army between them.

As they were introduced, ROTC commanders at the podium spoke about mission accomplishment, complex military endeavors and trust to the on-looking cadets. Bold had a 33-year career with the U.S. Army, and at the end of his career was the assistant deputy chief of staff at the Pentagon.

Price had 38 years of military service, and was the first woman selected for general officer. She the first woman promoted to major general in the Army Acquisition and a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal.

A question-andanswer-styled forum followed after the

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the most difficult decision he had made as a leader. “The most difficult decision I made as a leader was committing servicemen to combat in Vietnam.

I had to tell them to charge the hill so to speak.”

Grimes responded to a question about what makes a great leader; “There is no such thing as a born leader. It’s a nurtured trait. You have to have the ability to inspire fellowship.”

Sheppard explained to the audience his philosophy after Army commanders shared their experiences and answered questions from ROTC cadets being in the army.

Photo by Stephanie Lockhart “I had the realization that life is short. introduction of the you had to Combat reinforces that military leaders. come and had to prove life is short. Every day is “When I came into the yourself,” said Price on a gift and I don’t want to Army, only two percent her personal experience waste it.” were women. My goal entering into the service. was to become a general An ROTC serviceman officer. For a woman, asked Darden what

Student Health leaders address student questions at town hall Mark Linn News Editor news@insideuab.com

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n Sept. 14, the USGA hosted an open meeting for students to raise awareness of and answer questions about student health services.

The event was the first of several “town hall”style meetings organized by the USGA for the fall semester. It was held in the RLC building and featured speakers from Student Health and Wellness covering the areas of primary care, sexual health, counseling and health promotion, as well as representatives from USGA like the program coordinator Mugdha Mokashi. The Vice President of Student Services Catherine McCarthy also spoke.

The event included short presentations by each of the speakers and was followed by questions submitted to the USGA and

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live questions from the which he attributed to its several training sessions audience. The speakers more centrally-located dealing with LGBT issues, included Jacob, Ph.D., premises. The medical as well as an upcoming the executive director portion of health services series of training sessions of Student Health and Wellness and Michael Faircloth, Ph.D., the medical director of Student Health.

The first speaker was Jaocb Baggott, the executive director of Student Health and Wellness. Baggot was hired to his current position in 2013 to coincide the construction of a new Student Health and Wellness program.

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by Sarah Adkins was divided into Student Health Services and the alone jumped 45 percent that plan to deal with Counseling and Wellness within the last year. Within cultural diversity training.

Services, which were the counseling services, One question concerned located in separate clients increased by lack of appointment buildings near the edge approximately 33 percent. availability on short of campus. The new Another question notice. Faircloth brought Student Health Center was concerned whether health up the option of a triage opened Aug. 4, 2014 and providers were LGBT and nurse, who is available resulted in what Baggot diversity trained. Baggott by phone for advice described as “a sharp explained that the staff without necessarily having increase in utilization,” had already taken part in to physically visit the

office, even off-hours.

He also said that even if no appointments were available, if a student has need to be seen that day, they would be.

“We can always add someone to the schedule,” said Faircloth. “We don’t have walk-ins per se, but people walk in all the time.

And if you need to be seen, you will not be turned away.”

Another issue brought up was that of student health insurance coverage.

Baggott noted that somewhere between one third and one half of UAB students are uninsured or underinsured.

“One of the things we want to work on is coming up with a plan or proposal that would give everyone access to coverage,” said Baggot. “There are different ways to approach that. A lot of institutions have a mandatory insurance requirement for students.”

Such a requirement is already implemented in limited ways at UAB. Students majoring in health profession programs, some graduate programs and international students are all required to have their own insurance or purchase it through the university.

Baggott believes that there may be value in looking at applying the requirement more broadly, with the benefit being that with a larger pool of insurance, prices would be more affordable.

“One of the things that we’re concerned about is that the people who don’t have insurance, it affects their access to services. Testing that goes along [with primary care] sometimes is expensive.

So we want to eliminate any barriers we can.” He also noted that students with non-local insurance might experience higher deductibles or co-pays.

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SPORTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

UAB volleyball splits first day of Fight Like Hall tournament Tamara Imam Staff Writer timam@uab.edu

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he UAB women’s volleyball team (5-9) opened its run in its Fight Like Hal Memorial Tournament on Friday, Sept. 18 with a 3-1 win over the University of Massachusetts at Lowell River Hawks.

The Fight Like Hal tournament served to honor Hal Messersmith, a long-time assistant coach for the volleyball team, who passed away in 2013 after battling cancer. The team partnered with the Comprehensive Cancer Center for the effort, and all proceeds collected from the tournament will benefit the Coach Gene Bartow Fund for Cancer Research.

UAB took the first set, a 25-19 win for the Blazers, with relative ease. The team stayed ahead of UMass-Lowell by a margin of at least two points the entire set, at times leading by as much as 10 points.

After dropping the second set to UMass Lowell with a close final score of 26-24,

the Blazers came back to win the third set 2522. A resounding 25-9 closed the game and UAB emerged victorious over the River Hawks.

Junior setter Amber Treace, junior outside hitter Gabby Deshotel, and redshirt freshman middle blocker Victoria Young were starters for each of the four sets in the game. Treace led the offense with 40 assists, one kill and two service aces, while redshirt junior defensive specialist Emma Schroer led the defense with 17 digs.

In their second tournament game of the day, the Blazers lost 3-1 to SEC team Ole Miss.

“We played toe-to-toe with Ole Miss early,” said head coach Kerry Messersmith in a press release. “I am very proud of the girls. Amy [Hunter] came out and just had a fantastic night. Amber [Treace] did a great job. Even on scrambling plays, she had beautiful setbacks.

We served tough. There were times where our passing broke down, and that hurt us. The most positive thing: our kids stayed intense.

They played point-to-point, and that’s what we need them to do all year long. We will compete with anyone we play.”

The team will resume regular season play on Monday, Sept. 21 with a home game against the University of Louisiana-Monroe.

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utside the Blazer Hall Resident Life Center on Thursday night, the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity hosts their annual back to school cookout.

Music blasts from speakers and the party of about 100 people echoes throughout the Commons Plaza. Inside the RLC is a different scene. The Undergraduate Student Government Association is holding their first town hall on the Sept. 2930 vote for increasing student fees by $25 to fund football, bowling and rifle at UAB. The flyers for the town hall said that the meeting would start at 7 p.m., but 30 minutes later, after USGA President Garrett Stephens spoke with members of the Birmingham press, the event started with almost 30 people in attendance.

“I think enough people are confident in their yes vote at this point, and obviously it’s not the turnout we expected, but it’s a good test run for next week,” said Brianna Miller, the USGA vice president on attendance. “I think the big event outside is probably taking away a little bit from it. So I’m hoping we’ll have a bigger turnout next week.”

Despite a relatively low showing for the first town hall meeting, concerned members of the

“Your vote sends a message to UAB, and the Board of Trustees and to the community that students are willing to take account and take ownership of their student experience here at UAB. So this sends a very strong message.

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community asked pressing questions on how will students vote, how the voting will be monitored and when the fees will occur.

According to Stephens, the USGA Senate has written the language of the vote and senators will monitor the progress throughout the day, cooling the worries about possible tampering. He also stated that the $25 fee for the three sports will occur this semester, Fall 2015, but the details of when it will be charged to student accounts is still in the works. All voting will be done via Blazernet.

1. Voting will be done on Blazernet 2. USGA Senators wrote the vote to be “student friendly” 3. The fee will most likely be charged this semester

reevaluation prompted by President Watts and members of the UA System BoT. According to Stephens, he was notified in a phone call that a student vote would be unnecessary.

“At that time, I let Dr. Watts know that students didn’t want the student-wide vote because we felt that the USGA spoke for the students,” he said. “So we wanted to take that USGA vote and take it to the Board to approve.

Because we understood that the Board had to approve student fees in tuition so we think it should go from Student Government straight to the Board to approve. He said he would talk to the board and then around early August we reconvened and said that members of the board, specifically Dr. Witt, would strongly want there to be a student vote.”

Senior Andrew Pearson agrees with Stephens’ opinion. “They’re [the BoT] basically pushing the responsibility of paying for athletics over to the students when we’ve been funding it all this time “I’m voting yes, but I don’t know [the out of our current tuition, and they details],” said Megan Mayfield, a junior social work major when asked if she knew keep raising tuition,” said the computer the specifics of why a vote to raise fees is science major. “Now they’re basically saying, if you want it you have to pay necessary. for it extra.”

While students know when and how the vote will occur, many do not know about Stephens told Kscope that USGA is still not “on board” with the vote, but due to the events leading up to this occasion. its necessity wants all UAB students to The origin of raising the student fee goes come out and vote yes. back to May 2015. The UAB community Telling students that the $25 increase knew that money had to be pledged in order to convince the administration and can be justified as “a night out” or “two pizzas,” he urges students to the Board of Trustees that reinstating look beyond what some students may football, bowling and rifle would be a view as just another tacked on fee: viable option.

“Your vote sends a message to UAB and the Board of Trustees and to the On May 12, the newly elected USGA President Stephens announced that USGA community that students are willing had voted to create a $25 undergraduate to take account and take ownership of their student experience here at UAB. student fee that would provide a then So this sends a very strong message calculated $500,000 a year to help fund through the $25.” the athletic programs. The vote passed 19-3 amongst the senators, during an The vote is scheduled for Sept. 29 and emergency virtual meeting.

30, and students can vote by logging into Blazernet with their Blazer ID. This monetary amount went into the College Sports Solutions report, a determinant of the June 1 decision to bring back football. “Our vote made a difference; it made a difference in the process,” Stephens said.

However, in early June, the USGA fee was brought back up, this time for

The P R E S I D E NT ’ S Perspective: The USGA resolution to pass the $25 fee provides a significant contribution to the donation money needed to bring back FBR, how was this number calculated into your decision to bring back the three sports?

we talked about athletics’ funding, about the student commitment and the Trustees and our leader, and our faculty, and your parents are very concerned about the cost of higher education, tuition and fees, so take that very importantly. And this was really a voluntary fee that the students, the undergraduate students were coming forth, the leaders were. And as we talked about it within the leadership within the system, within the Trustees, and with others, it was felt that this would be so much more powerful if the student body were given the opportunity to vote.

Well, you bring up some very good points. First of all I think symbolism of our student government association voluntarily recommending that our students move to support athletics was vital and the actual dollars. The operational deficit was around $17.2 million dollars over five years. So the students volunteered contribution will Was giving the student population a create $700,000 a year. So about $3.5 voice the main reason of making the million of that $17.2 million, so it was students vote on raising the fees? very impactful: both the symbolism and Yes. And we had to have our budget the actions that said ‘we are willing to approved. Every year, we just went impose an additional fee to help. The through the Board of Trustees last week National Alumni Society, they stepped and each part of our budget has a plan up and made an additional contribution for. And then that has to be approved to help, the City of Birmingham stepped and ratified by the board. up, to not only say ‘we support you’ but to say ‘we support you with a $500,000 So I’ve heard throughout the community a year for these five years. So all of that, questions of why we are getting to vote along with the faculty, students and staff for this fee when we don’t get to vote and our alumni allowed us to make that for other fees. So why is that? decision to bring the sports back. It was Really if you look around the nation out of their support to make sure that and around our region, where students we did not have a deficit in our athletics have had an important part of athletics budget moving forward. supported by them and their fees, South Alabama, East Tennessee State University, What happened to cause the USGA Georgia State, a number of them have had resolution to raise fees to turn into a student votes, either dollars for operation, student wide vote? building a new stadium, expand a team Well several things. First of all, you’ve from Division II to Division I, or to FBS got to recognize that when we got the which is the Football Bowl Series, so report, and then the time that we had there’s a lot of precedent for that in to make the decision we only had about the last number of years---and they’ve two to three weeks. So I remember been very very positive. meeting with the Student Government leaders and telling them where we are This is the first student and meeting with our constituents and referendum in UAB making a decision. Within two days they history to vote on had got the Senate together and had raising fees, why voted this resolution to have a student now? contribution, for this important set of Well, just think about resources. So if they could speak with their actions instead of just their words what we’ve gone through over to play a pivotal role. So between then the last ten to and now, what we’ve been doing is working with all of our constituents to twelve months.

We’ve gone make sure these pledges are real and from having produce the dollars that will support athletics to support their strategic plan a plan and having an and the restoration of these activities, athletics these teams. So we have to each year propose tuition and fees to the Board of program in Trustees, and they have to approve and deficit to ratify that and we have to justify that a new plan carefully. In some of those discussions where we

are going to invest more so that they can be successful. And each constituency has been hurt and has been positive about the restoration of this. This is a special situation, for the students to my knowledge have never voted to impose a fee on themselves before for anything else for that as well. So it’s a unique sitiuation.

After USGA voted to pass the fee, were there any concerns over accurate representation of student opinion?

We asked them and they said that they had reached out to their constituents and they said that they had a positive feedback. So that’s why they voted yes, I think all of them except maybe one. So it was essentially almost unanimous.

Who suggested to have a redo vote where all undergraduate students could vote?

I think we knew that we had to take this forward and have it approved by the Board of Trustees as part of our budget. As we thought about it, honestly, we never take anything forward to approval that we don’t think is going to be highly successful. And as I told Garrett, if I wanted to impose a $25 fee on each of our Undergraduate students per semester, I would have to take it to the Board of Trustees to get that approved. And I will tell it to you If I did that and I didn’t have the student support they would say no, because they don’t want to raise fees. But since y’all said ‘we’re doing it voluntarily’ that’s going to carry a very powerful message. And they approved our athletics budget. Part of our athletics budget is this student investment. They have faith as I do and we do in the students that there’s going to be an overwhelming level of support so that there’s no ambiguity about our students wanting these athletics programs.

Mechanistically, we basically told the Student Government Association, and Dr. Jones and the student life folks, that whatever they need technologically, we’ll try to make it happen and we’ll try to make it easy as possible. So that’s in the works as well.

Ideally, how many students would you and other officials like to see turn out to the vote?

As many as possible, as robust as possible.

If students reject the student fee, will the three sports’ return be affected?

We made a commitment and we do not have any questions about success. But what it would do is, it would give us another hurdle to raise funds for our constituency to help support that. But we’re going forward, and we’re not thinking about anything but success, and we don’t want question marks in people’s minds. That’s why it would be so powerful. If students vote and the majority is yes, let’s go, let’s execute it and be successful.

If the student fee did not pass, where would UAB get the missing $700,000 a year from then to reach it’s goal of $17 million by September 2019?

We would have to find other sources for revenue. Fortunately, we have a very strong group of community leaders that have come behind the UAB athletics campaign and they’re working hard, they helped us raise the $17.2 million dollars. The students were part of that, the city was part of that, alumni were part of that, but they themselves provided over $10 million in commitments. Now they are working hard on facilities.

Anything else?

...I don’t want to leave anything to chance.

That’s one of the reasons we’ve pushed hard to have our first year pledges paid so that we have a positive balance in the athletics department so that they can expend the USGA has assured necessary expenses: rifle, bowling and the restoration of football. Our budget will go up students that a slightly over the coming years to make sure “quorum” of students is not we are providing the resources for all of them needed to pass to be successful

the vote, is this In ten years, where would you like to see true?

UAB? That’s true. We

expect, and we want students as broadly as possible to participate, because we want it to be overwhelmingly positive. But it’s going to be a majority of votes.

I want us to continue to be a leader in higher education, research, health care, community service, economic development. I believe that we will continue to ascend and that we will truly be one of the most distinguished comprehensive global universities, not just in America but in the world.

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OPINIONS

Hey Kim Davis, it’s your job.

Olalekan Dada Contributor oadada@uab.edu

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understand you not wanting to go against your higher power.

I understand you wanting to stay true to your religious beliefs. I understand you fighting for what you believe in.

Trust me, I do.

However, I do not understand why you are so against doing the job you agreed to do.

When you were elected as County Clerk, you knew that a part of your job would be issuing marriage licenses.

The gay marriage debate is not a new one; as a matter of fact, there were states that acknowledged gay marriage before you were elected as County Clerk last November (I’m hoping you stay remotely up-to-date with the issues facing the people you serve). I’m assuming you knew that there would be a possibility that your state would eventually legalize gay marriage.

And with all this knowledge, you still decided to run for the seat of County Clerk. You even said yourself that now that you have been elected, you will “follow the statutes of this office to the letter.”

So, when same sex marriage became legal in all 50 states, it became your job to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.

As stated before, I understand you have deep religious beliefs and that gay marriage may be something that isn’t approved by your religion. Also, given your religious beliefs, I totally see why you may be conflicted with placing

your name on a document that stands for something you may not agree with. You may feel that you had a hand in allowing something to happen that goes against your deeply-held beliefs.

And trust me, I am not here to bash your religious beliefs.

I am not for putting anyone in uncomfortable, seeminglycompromising positions.

But I am here to remind you of what you were elected to do and

what you promised. During the election for County Clerk, you told The Morehead News that if you were elected, there would be “no break in services to our citizens” and that “[l]icenses, taxes, election-related activities and all of our other services cannot stop or slow down.” You went on to say that the public is your “boss” and you will “continue providing [a] high level of customer service [...] while

treating people with respect, kindness, and helping them with whatever situation they have.”

With that being said, it is hard for me to see why you would have an issue signing these marriage licenses. You may have strong religious beliefs, but you made a promise to abide by the law. I know you said that you “do not make political promises” that you may not be able to follow, but once gay marriage became legal,

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it was added to your job duties.

When you have been elected to serve the people, your personal religious beliefs should not be a part of your decision-making process for those who probably do not hold the same beliefs. The laws created to govern the people should be the source you reference for guidance.

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Cheap Eats: Noni’s Kafe

Jackson Hyde Social Media Editor socialmedia@insideuab.com t’s time again to educate the UAB populace about cheap eats, that is, restaurants with

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so it’s understandable how some would miss it. Inside, there are a few tables and a “bar” running along the leftside wall. It’s a little cramped, but they do what they can.

Immediately across from you when you enter the restaurant is the kitchen, in front of which you’ll find the menu and place your order at the counter.

The chefs and staff talk to you like you’ve been a regular for years, and I felt welcomed by their easygoing attitudes.

I ordered the mosa salad: three samosas around a plate of crisp, chopped lettuce topped with cheese, tomato, a hardboiled egg and bacon bits. The salad A “mosa salad” with bacon bits.

Photo by Jackson Hyde was flavorful and huge, for only $6.75. I didn’t good food at great prices. This Noni’s seems like a “holeexpect it to be much more than time we visited Noni’s Kafe, a in-the-wall” from the outside, an accessory to the samosas, Five Points bistro that serves but it’s pretty well-known to but Noni’s doesn’t shy away classic American food, Kenyan downtown locals. It’s only from serving you a salad that’s staples and their savory fried visible from the street as a pastries known as samosas. yellow awning and a glass door, a meal on its own.

I drenched my salad in ranch dressing because that’s who I am, so all nutritional value was lost, but it tasted good all the same. I appreciated the generous amount of cheese that layered the top of the lettuce, and my only qualm was the lack of cucumbers.

I’d describe Noni’s samosas as flaky, savory triangle biscuits with a meat filling that tastes like a breakfast sausage made with better spices.

I immediately regretted not ordering a platter of these bundles of meaty joy.

The salad was good, but nothing can compare to home-made pastries. I could see myself eating these as a pick-me-up food if I was ever feeling down, they’re so filling and taste like something out of your grandma’s oven.

If you’re ever short on cash but need some comfort food, Noni’s runs a “Samosalizing Sunday” deal every Sunday that gives you one free samosa with any food you purchase, which saves about a dollar.

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Art show raises questions about spirituality Ashton Cook Contributor atcook47@uab.edu

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n Wednesday, Sept. 16, the Birmingham Museum of Art held “Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Issues of Religion,” a lecture on contemporary art’s religious influences.

Erika Doss, a professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, visited the Birmingham Museum of Art to discuss the influences of religion on numerous contemporary artists ranging from Mark Tobey to Andy Warhol.

Doss talked about the influence of American culture, described as heavily Christian, on contemporary artists.

However, the artists discussed also influenced religious expression.

“The artists critiqued contemporary religious authority through their art,”

she said in her lecture. She argued that this led to an almost symbiotic relationship between the two.

Doss spoke about how members of the art community downplayed or completely overlooked certain contemporary art members’ pieces that exhibited definite religious themes.

Other topics of interest included the impact of certain pieces of contemporary art on the creation of certain spiritual movements, such as Scientology.

Doss shared some specific information on contemporary art’s influences by fostering discussion with her audience.

She explained how artists represented religions that lacked iconographic pieces.

In addition, Doss discussed the impact religion had on contemporary art through its relation to sound and color.

The lecture ended after an

hour long discussion, and afterward the audience was invited to further ask questions and express opinions.

The audience participation was lively, with many members asking for explanation on certain different religious influences.

UAB sophomore Guan-En Wun found the audience questions to be particularly enjoyable.

“I thought that some of the audience asked really good questions,” said Wun. “One of the older women had some pretty deep questions to ask the speaker, and the speaker got caught off guard by them.”

Emily Doss presenting her lecture.

Photo by Cooper Crippen

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he 16th Fire Flow Jam took place at Avondale Brewery on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Each month, a group of dancers gather at the courtyard with hoops, poi—a set of stones attached to strings—and staffs to perform for the community.

While some danced with LED-lit equipment, there are a number of experts that took some larger risks; they, quite literally, played with fire, as the dancers set coals alight for a beautiful yet potentially dangerous exhibition.

Many of the performances resembled familiar types of dance or katas from various martial arts. Unsurprisingly, the practice and level of dedication to the routine shines through, as the rhythmic contortion and rotation of dancer and apparatus allow the flames to play along with the evening sky.

UAB student Paige Bramblett, 19, began hooping four years ago as a means of staying Jared Chesnut Contributor redc@uab.edu

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active and is now a key player in the and every third Wednesday outside of fire flow community.

Avondale Brewery.

“Going into the class, I was kind “There was minimal hooping community of bummed and thought it would be in Birmingham in 2008, so we started lame,” Bramblett mentioned. “But I had HoopJams in the Park to bring awareness no idea that I would begin my lifelong to hooping,” said Lewis, who first learned hooping journey and meet some of the about hooping at a bluegrass music festival most inspiring women I know today.” outside of Atlanta in 2001.”This started the This sense of camaraderie and community. What I love the most about community is apparent throughout. our community is that it is open to any The performers support and cheer ages, from toddlers to 90-year-olds. It is a each other on, and any sense of family activity that can lead to talent show competition is focused on improving auditions and performances, birthday oneself. parties, girls night out events, and more.

As fellow hoop dancer Gracie Gilbert Many of our hooping community have stated, “It’s about fear conquering, not grown to perform around Birmingham fear mongering.” and share the love of hooping with their The performers come from all walks friends and family.” of life: students to professionals, “The goal of our FlowJams is to build teenagers to retirement-aged adults. community of hoopers, spinners, jugglers, It’s a level of inclusion that has helped and the like. We need room to move, so we the scene grow surprisingly large in crank up the music and let our creative Birmingham: at a recent Fire Flow flow flow,” said Lewis. “We want to have Jam event in rainy weather, Bramblett fun, build a community of like-minded estimated that “[...] close to 30 people artists, and share our love of the flow arts. or more were there.”

Hoop for Fitness started with hooping and The hooping community is open to has grown to be so much more!” novices and experts alike, and meets weekly at Linn Park, according to “It’s about fear conquering, not fear Robbie Lewis, the founder of Hoop for Fitness, the organization which puts on mongering.”

Fire Flow Jam in addition to offering hooping classes. There are two Fire Flow Jams each month: one every Sarah Faulkner contributed to this article. first Tuesday outside of World of Beer,

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Brandon’s Music Column: Something for everybody Brandon Varner Managing Editor managing@insideuab.com

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his time the rapper comes first.

This week’s mixtape is “GOD IS UNDER THE PORCH WHERE THE DOG DIED” by Slug Christ and Purpdogg, released Aug. 6, 2015.

For a little bit of a primer, Slug Christ (sometimes Slugger) is a real weirdo. From his early days as a mathcore vocalist to aligning himself early on with the up-and-coming hip hop collective Awful Records out of Atlanta, he’s always

Image from Slug Christ’s Soundcloud.

been an oddity.

Purpdogg came into the public sphere with his production on “We Made It,” Soulja Boy’s 2013 hit that later got a Drake verse on the remix.

He has released tons of

beat tapes on his own and has a loyal following.

This teamup is basically the Archie meets the Punisher of weirdo oneshots that people didn’t know they wanted but really needed.

This album keeps Purp’s peculiar loops and 808’s style under Slugger’s passing out, multilayered flow. “Drip” ft. Lord Narf is a high energy number, much faster than a lot of other Slug Christ I’ve heard over the years. Slug takes Silento’s “Watch Me” and morphs it into— something. I’ve had it

Trebel Music app coming to UAB and hoarding your gems until you need them.

Both have their benefits and drawbacks.

AB has been chosen, So, why use Trebel alongside several Music over other services other universities, in like Spotify or Youtube? order to pilot a new app.

Well, with streaming Millenials are digital services, users have to be natives. Along with the connected to the internet benefits of computer in order to listen to their know-how, there are music, with Trebel Music consequences. It has they don’t. The music become a common is actually on users’ practice for millennials devices, and as long as to pirate music rather they have the funds they than buy it because, well, can play it wherever they we can. are.

The only reason a One thing that drew pirate would stop the my attention in the app act is if there were an is the ability to easily easier way to download share playlists with and listen to music for friends. A user can make free. This is what Trebel a playlist, save it to their Music attempts to do. profile and anyone who Trebel Music is an wants that playlist app developed by Trebel Music’s app icon. Image courtesy of M&M Media. can just download it.

M&M Media to Currently, users have give millennials a If a user runs out to download each song simple and legal way of coins or feels they individually, but wholeto download music for may need more coins playlist downloading is in free. The app lets users immediately, there is an the development. download albums or option to purchase them Trebel Music can be music tracks while they directly in the app. found by searching its watch ads. Watching To make a comparison, name in the App Store or these ads gives users buying music would be Google Play, or Android in-app coins that they like purchasing a oneusers can download the can then use to play time fee app like Attack app by visiting www. the songs they’ve the Light, whereas Trebel trebel.io/dl. downloaded. A portion Music is like playing of the ad revenue goes to Clash of Clans for free Jackson Hyde Social Media Editor socialmedia@insideuab.com

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M&M Media and the rest goes to the artists the users download from.

The amount of coins needed to play a song varies by its release date.

Gary Mekikian, cofounder of M&M Media, said, “If it’s a brand new song it may be a few coins, if it’s an old song it might be one or two coins.”

stuck in my head all week.

“Honja” was previewed sometime earlier this year, and it features Keith Ape of “It G Ma” fame, who collaborated with Father, also of Awful Records, on the remix of that track earlier this year. Honja is Korean for “Lonely,” which seems like a good encapsulation of the whole vibe of this record.

My only complaint is that I’m starting to get tired of 808’s, but that’s more of a complaint about the genre overall.

If you like Father or Lil Ugly Mane, give it a listen.

The album this week is Mary Halvorson’s “Meltframe,” released on Sept. 4, 2015.

If I had to describe this album in one word, it’d be

biomechanical.

The solo guitar album of jazz standards with a few new tunes begins with a distorted track, “Cascades,” that almost sounds like an Apple Macintosh decided to try its hand at jazz as it first boots up, but eventually begins to get more tonal while still behind a wall of distortion.

Proud Mary exchanges the soulless tech for sweet soul after that, like in the Hawaiian sleepwalk jazz of the next track “Cheshire Hotel.”

The song has some weird delay effects that make it sound like an 8-bit sunset. The song makes you think of the epilogue in a late-80s racing game.

The chaos of the album subsides for a bit on the midpoint song, “Solitude.” The tremolo is less rapid, and the song

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feels like being alone.

I will say having mostly been away from the jazz world for years, it was very interesting to hear more distortion and odd effects on traditional jazz guitar arrangements.

I think she’s an extremely talented guitarist, and I look forward to hearing more work from her.

Despite her freakout influence, I feel like her style can be compared to Django Reinhardt, Chet Atkins on his jazzier days and a little bit of Thurston Moore for good measure.

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Church members preparing food for the festival.

Young dancer poses after dancing a traditional Arabic dance.

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Birmingham stuffed on Middle Eastern culture and food Sarah Faulkner Features Editor features@insideuab.com

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f there’s one thing that brings the people of Birmingham together, it’s food.

Thursday, Sept. 17, through Saturday, Sept.

19, Birmingham’s Saint George Melkite GreekCatholic Church hosted its 34th annual Middle Eastern food festival just a few blocks away from UAB, drawing in hundreds for homemade traditional food and Arabic folk dances performed by children of the church.

Young and old Birminghamians from a variety of backgrounds came in droves to the tented event throughout the days and well into the night, the excess lining up under the trees outside

the church to watch the live music performance by Amin Sultan and indulge themselves on kibee (a baked spiced steak meal), lemon-seasoned spinach pies and hot powdered Arabic donuts.

Mitra Khalili, a UAB freshman of Iranian descent, was impressed by Birmingham’s delectable and colorful window into Middle Eastern culture.

“I thought that it was really impressive; the food was delicious, the live band did an amazing job,” said Khalili, who joined in during one of the traditional dances on Friday night, commenting that dancing at Middle Eastern events is a necessity. “Having the Middle Eastern food festival annually is a great idea, especially due to its

great turnout, because it incorporates many positive aspects of the culture that you don’t necessarily see covered in the news, such as the music, dancing, food, etc, which in turn, broadens people’s minds towards the culture, which is very much needed in this country.”

Alongside the performances and food, the festival offered the chance to take a part of the culture home with them.

Nabeel’s Imported Food, a Homewood restaurant and market, sold Middle Eastern groceries at one booth—including Turkish Delight, imported meats and olives.

In addition, stained glass arts by local artist, Mary Aiken, were on sale, as well as icons, religious articles, books and hand carved

olive wood from the Holy Land.

Mindful of Alabama’s fixation on football, the festival even provided drive-through and carryout options for fans who wanted to indulge themselves in foods other than the typical game-day wings and Doritos.

According to St. George’s web page, the money garnered from this event will go towards the numerous charity organizations that the church supports, such as Habitat for Humanity, Orphans in Lebanon and Syria War Victims, as well as the church itself.

“Overall, I really enjoyed it,” said Khalili, who is also looking forward to the numerous other cultural festivals that Birmingham offers—such as the Greek Food Festival and the Lebanese Food Festival. “I definitely would go again next year!”

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SATURDAY|09.26 TUESDAY|09.22

THURSDAY|09.24

All Majors Job Fair

Student Referendum Town Hall

Campus Recreation Center 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Close to 70 employers will be present to speak with UAB students and alumni. There will also be an opportunity to get a free headshot from a professional photographer. Business attire is required, and attendees should bring copies of their resumes.

Farm Stand

UAB Kirklin Clinic 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.

The Farm Stand will bring fresh fruits and vegetables to UAB each week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Chilton County’s Boozer Farms. The stand will be in Kirklin Clinic on Tuesdays and the UAB Hospital West Pavilion on Wednesdays.

WEDNESDAY|09.23 Indigo Girls

Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center 7 p.m.

American folk rock duo Indigo Girls are set to perform at the Alys Stephens Center. Student tickets are $21.

New Freshman Residence Hall Cahaba Room 7 p.m.

A second town hall regarding the student vote to reinstate football, bowling and rifle will be held by USGA Leadership. All students are welcome.

LEAD on Demand Workshop: Elevator Pitch

Blazer RLC 1 p.m.

LEAD on Demand will hold a workshop to help students develop their elevator pitches. All students are welcome to attend.

FRIDAY|09.25

Recovery Month Walk/Rally

SUNDAY|09.27 UAB Volleyball vs. Charlotte

UAB Mini Park 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.

Join the Alabama Department of Mental Health in celebrating Recovery Month with free lunch, live music, door prizes and guest speakers. Registration for the walk is from 8:00 a.m.- 8:45 a.m. on Saturday morning.

Irondale Whistle Stop Festival

Irondale Chamber of Commerce 1912 1st Ave S, Irondale, AL 35210 10 a.m.

More than 100 vendors will be selling art, crafts and food while entertainment is on the Main Stage. Admission is free and the festival lasts from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. with a fireworks show at 9 p.m. at Grants Mill Station.

Bubble Soccer

Bartow Arena 1 p.m.

UAB will host the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 49ers.

Women’s Soccer vs. Middle Tennessee

West Campus Field 4 p.m.

The Women’s Soccer team will face off against Middle Tennessee State University at home.

Magic City AIDS Walk & 5K Run Railroad Park 3:30 p.m.

Birmingham AIDS Outreach will put on its 24th annual event, including live music, vendor fair of other local nonprofits and free health screenings. The run begins at 5:30 p.m. Complimentary bottled water and Starbucks Coffee will be available.

The Green 5 p.m.- 10 p.m.

The Student Activities Council will host bubble soccer games on the Green.

UAB Softball vs. Southern Union UAB Softball Field 3 p.m.

The UAB Softball team will play Southern Union State Community College at home.

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