August 30, 2010

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VOLUME 48, NUMBER 5

August 30, 2010

FOOTBALL FIRST GAME DAY OF THE SEASON: See Coach Joey Jones lead USA’s Jags against Pikeville College at Ladd-Peebles Stadium Sept. 4. For more information, turn to page 10.

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IS HERE! Get pumped for the football season with USA’s Pep Rally at the Mitchell Center Sept. 2 at 7:30 p.m. For more information, turn to page 2.

New Student Rec Center Opens

Former Student Sentenced To Life In Prison Cameron Adkins

ASSOCIATE EDITOR cja501@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Colin McGee / Photo Editor

Students cool off in the pool at USA’s new Student Recreation Center, which opened this past Friday. The new facility features amenities like a rock climbing wall, kids’ play zone, indoor and outdoor pools, and exercise equipment.

SGA President Discusses New Goals, Projects Matthew Peterson

MANAGING EDITOR mwp601@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

As hold music plays in the background, SGA President Kimberly Proctor speaks to Vice President Colin Al-Greene and a Vanguard reporter in her office. She’s busy planning, coordinating, and, now, giving an interview. In other words, it’s just a normal Thursday for the leader of USA’s student body. Proctor started in SGA about four years ago as the co-chair of its Social Develop-

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Police Blotter p. 2

So Many Mass E-mails, so Little Time. See News, page 2.

ment committee. After that, she was elected to a Senate position, then vice president, and now president. Out of all of those positions, though, she found being a senator the “most rewarding.” “You’re always in direct contact with students,” she said. Proctor was elected to SGA president with one of the largest margins in recent memory, and she plans on using that mandate to make changes she believes necessary for this growing, changing university. Etc. p. 6

Topping her agenda is security, which Proctor said SGA is going to “focus very highly on.” “We’re looking at doing some security initiatives,” she said. “Our committees are in the early stages of planning right now.” One of the major projects will come in an expansion of the lighting around the SGA pavilion. The Senate recently passed a rape defense package for the Police Department, too, but Proctor said more is on the way.

Sports p. 10

Miss Out On Beerfest? Get The Highlights Here. See Etc., page 6.

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Opinion p. 12

Lady Jags Look For A Winning Season In 2010. See Sports, page 10.

Paul Bryan Young Jr., a former USA student, was sentenced to life in prison Aug. 23 after pleading guilty on charges of murder and attempted murder. On June 8, 2009, 42-year-old Young shot his ex-wife, Anne Claire Alger-Young, 37, multiple times after she had returned to Young’s home in Tillman’s Corner to retrieve some of her belongings. Young Young was also charged with three counts of attempted murder for shooting at three people who were with Alger-Young the night of the incident. The Admiral Semmes Avenue resident was booked at Mobile Country Metro Jail June 11, 2009 with no bail posted, according to online jail records. The case could not have come to a better conclusion, because Young received the maximum sentence allowed, according to Mobile County assistant district attorney Ashley Rich, who represented the victim and the victim’s family. Young took a plea in order to keep his and the victim’s family from an extremely painful appeal, Young’s attorney said at the hearing. According to court documents read by Rich at Young’s hearing, Young shot Alger-Young in the leg, chased her as she attempted to escape, shot her multiple times in the back after she fell and proceeded to shoot himself in the chest. The day of the shooting, Alger-Young was see YOUNG | 5

Distractions p. 14

The Real Factors Behind the NYC Mosque Debate See Opinion, page 13.


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