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Security and Fire Safety Report shows crime drop

By LAURA HAVARD Staff Reporter

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or a fourth consecutive year, the University of South Alabama has reported a reduction in crime statistics for the 2013 calendar year. The Annual Security and Fire

Safety Report contains statistical data for the three previous calendar years concerning reported crime.

There are also three new categories being considered in this year’s report: domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

“As the Chief of Police my highest priority is the safety of the Uni-

versity of South Alabama and so I am pleased to report that through our cooperative efforts we experienced significant reductions in several key categories of crimes,” South Alabama Chief of Police Zeke Aull said in a University email. “We attribute this reduction to the combination of community reporting efforts

through our university wide education and awareness programs along with proactive enforcement efforts.”

The reported crimes included those that occurred at the Main Campus, the hospitals (USA Medical Center and USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital), associated medical clinics, the USA Springhill Avenue Campus, as well as the Baldwin County Campus. Statistics for reported crimes on public property within or immediately adjacent to Baldwin and Main campuses is included, along with fire data for all student residential facilities.

The highest categories for the year 2013 on the main campus include liquor law violations, drug law violations, burglary (non-motor vehicle) and dating violence. Liquor law violations include the violations of state or local laws or ordinances which prohibit the manufacturing, sale, purchase, transportation, possession or use of alcoholic beverages, not including driving under the influence and drunkenness. There are a total of 94 reported instances of liquor law violations resulting in arrests or referral for disciplinary action.

Drug law violations include the violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution, and/or use of certain controlled substances, and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or

use. Also included is the unlawful cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, use, possession, transportation, or importation of any controlled drugs or narcotic substance. There were a total of 93 incidents that resulted in the arrest or referral for disciplinary action across throughout the campus.

Burglary is an example of the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft; this does not include thefts from automobiles.

There were 33 reported instances for the year of 2013.

Dating violence was a new category for the 2013 calendar year. It is defined as a violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined by the factors of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship and the frequency of interactions between the persons involved in the relationship. A person commits the crime of Domestic Violence when any of the listed laws on the Fire and Safety Report are violated and the victim in any way has a relationship to the perpetrator. There was a grand total of 12 instances throughout the University’s campus and surrounding areas.

Chief Aull encourages all “If you See Something, Say Something.”

9-1-What? Most interesting blotter entries 2013-14 1.) Paraphernoiseia

4.) L.L. Burn

01/11/2014 15:20 Miscellaneous offenses Officers confiscated marijuana grinders, marijuana cigarettes, homemade marijuana pipes and 80 bottle rockets while responding to a noise complaint.

03/25/2014 20:50 Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle Victim reported that someone broke into his vehicle and removed his headphones and backpack. He then found his backpack on fire near Beta 4.

2.) Ocarina of Crime

5.) It’s all about the Washingtons

02/07/2014 16:45 Theft of property third degree Victim reported that his phone, backpack and ocarina were stolen.

3.) Chick-fil-hey that’s not yours!

01/12/2014 15:42 Theft of property second degree Victim reported that a known employee removed money valuing $2,284.70 from a business safe in the food court without permission.

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04/03/2014 14:23 Theft of article from auto Victim reported that $2 was stolen from their vehicle.

6.) The Princess Ride

09/17/2014 09:37 Theft of property third degree An unknown person removed a white bicycle with princess stickers on it from the Recreation Center parking lot.

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USAPD crime blotter 09/24/2014 17:26 Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity House Theft of property third degree Unknown subject stole the victim’s bicycle from the yard of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house. The victim did not immediately report the theft due to believing a fraternity brother borrowed it.

09/24/2014 18:30 Band Practice Field Theft of property second degree Unknown person removed items from the victim’s backpack without their consent. During the same event, a vehicle was also entered and had items removed from it too.

09/27/2014 13:38 Delta 4 Burglary second degree Unknown person made unlawful entry by unknown means to remove the victim’s property in Delta 4.

09/28/2014 19:35 New Hall Residence Disorderly Conduct A verbal argument occurred between a male and female.

09/29/2014 15:28 Shelby Hall parking lot Duty upon striking a parked vehicle, violations state law.

A female student struck another vehicle in the Shelby Hall parking lot and did not make an attempt to contact the owner.

09/30/2014 15:20 Mark Library Theft of property third degree Unknown person stole a Jagbike from the bike rack at Marx Library.

10/01/2014 12:06 Student Center Medical emergency An individual tripped and fell over a board while walking.

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OCT. 6, 2014

A broad understanding of studying abroad

By LAURA HAVARD Staff Reporter “

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feel that what truly made the (study abroad) experience worthwhile was the all the new friendships I made and the new family I received. Just being able to experience a whole new culture made the whole trip worthwhile for me,” South Alabama student Kassidy Williams said about her study abroad experience in Costa Rica.

The process of studying abroad may vary from student to student based on the goals each student has in place. However, there are five general steps that each student will experience: planning, preparing, departing, being abroad and returning. On the department’s South Alabama website, southalabama.edu/studyabroad, there is a detailed research program that can narrow a student’s studying abroad options.

General questions that are taken into consideration are destination, academic term, program type and area of study. Once a general idea is in mind, students can apply online, make an appointment or go during office hours to speak with a Study Abroad Advisor. Office hours may also be found on the department’s website. For example, Haley Hernandez travelled to Cuenca, Spain this past summer to fill a requirement for her foreign language major with a concentration in Spanish. “…While I was abroad my overall experience was enjoyable. We saw so many things that I never expected to see or even planned on experiencing,” Hernandez said.

Many students rule out studying abroad due to cost but scholarships are available. The International Education Study Abroad Scholarship

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is a new scholarship that will award 100,000 dollars to qualified students who study abroad. Also, other scholarships are available through the Study Abroad website.

“No matter what excuses you can make for why you shouldn’t go, when there is a will there is a way. I would not trade this experience for anything in the world. Yes, it is expensive, but there are some more affordable programs out there, it just takes a little research,” Williams said.

Students that currently have outside scholarships to attend the University must speak directly with his or her scholarship donor to ensure that those funds can be used to go abroad.

If one is interested in studying abroad but is concerned about it being possible financially, speak with a Study Abroad Advisor. They are willing to help each student find the means to go abroad.

“Getting to look at the world from a different lens is one of the best things about studying abroad,” Maurice Chavarry a Study Abroad Ambassador said.

Visiting another country can bring a number of learning opportunities: new cultures, cuisine and art. There are also other reasons that are important to studying abroad for some people. Other than traveling the world and broadening his or her worldview, studying abroad also gives the opportunity for students to develop valuable career skills, gain an international professional network and allows students to grow more as a person. “…Because I have always loved the Latin American culture, I wanted to truly be immersed in it for a longer amount of time,” Williams said. “I want to become fluent in Spanish so that I can become a bilingual speech pathologist, and this [study abroad program] was one way in which to help fulfill that dream.”

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LIFE

OCT. 6, 2014

The Vivid Verbs return to the stage at BayFest

By MITCHELL KAHALELY Life Editor

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fter a nine month hiatus, the Vivid Verbs are returned to Mobile stages this past weekend with a show at BayFest.

“For us this is a really big deal because it’s a chance to get back out there,” said Nick Chamblee, one of the bands vocalists and guitarists.

The Vivid Verbs formed in February of 2013 but decided to go on a break at the end of that year after their drummer moved to Birmingham to further his education.

The band says that while all the members each have their own individual influences, it’s ‘90s rock where their interests converge.

“I feel like we kind of connect on this level cause we’re similar ages, so I feel like we all grew up listening to the same kind of stuff. When I heard this band it’s like I would never write this type of music, but it makes me feel like I’m 14 again,” says Jeremy Swain, the band’s new drummer who joined earlier this year and played his first show with the band at BayFest.

Guitarist and vocalist Kevin Reagan describes the band’s sound as mix of ‘90s pop rock like Weezer, the Foo Fighters, the Gin Blossoms with a mixture of ‘60s harmonies and melodies.

Most of the songs the band played during their BayFest set were written by Chamblee and Reagan for other projects, but that doesn’t mean that other members of the band haven’t made their mark on the songs.

“Every single song that we have in here, even if we’ve played it differently beforehand, it does change with the whole band playing it,” says Reagan.

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“It’s easy for us to communicate because we have somewhat of an understanding of what Jeremy dealing with behind the kit and he has an understand of what we’re doing at a guitar. It’s easier to communicate,” says Chamblee.

Last year, the Vivid Verbs released a self produced EP, “Introducing”. The band believes their sound has progressed in the short time they’ve been rehearsing together

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since the hiatus.

“I think fans that dug the EP will be happy to move along and we’re hoping that they agree that this is our best stuff as we move forward, we think it is,” says Chamblee. “Because it’s not just me or Kevin or Jeremy or Kyle or Rachel, we’re actually doing this, it’s all about the togetherness.”

Not only has the band’s sound progressed on new songs but the sound has also developed on songs the band have been playing, including those featured on their first EP which have also seen a slight

shift.

Reagan says, “It’s not just a progression of songs to new songs, older songs now I think sound better than they did before because of that same plane because of that same progression.”

The band is currently working on an album slated for a late 2014, early 2015 release. If you missed the Vivid Verbs at Bayfest, they will be playing at Alchemy Tavern on Tuesday, Oct.14. They also will play an acoustic set a Satori Coffee House benefiting the Oracle, South’s fine arts review.

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BayFest 2014 takes over downtown Mobile

By MITCHELL KAHALELY Life Editor

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ayFest celebrated it’s 20th anniversary this weekend with one of it’s biggest lineups. Here’s some of the highlights of the weekend and some suggestions to improve the festival.

On Friday night, legendary hip-hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony played to a packed crowd at the Miller Lite stage. The “most melodic hip-hop group of all time” according to MTV, played their hits such as “First of the Month” and “Tha Crossroads” but also featured tributes to fallen rap icons such a the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur and Easy-E. Bone Thugs were followed by another rap iconic, Ludacris. This was Luda’s fourth time performing at BayFest. He was joined onstage by a live band to perform an hour of his greatest hits such as “What’s Your Fantasy,” “Get Back” and “Pimpin All Over the World.” The middle of the show featured DJ Infamous spinning some ofthe best raps songs of the 2000s.

On the Coca-Cola stage, AFI received mixed reviews. USA student Shannon House says that the band worked well together on stage, but the band seemed distracted.

House also says that Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were legendary even though she didn’t care for “TMI”, one of their new songs.

She also wished that the crowd would’ve participated more when Jett asked them to sing along.

While this year’s BayFest went off without a hitch, there a few things festival organizers could do next year to make a better experience.

BayFest provides music for all tastes at multiple stages, still the different stages are so far away from each other. The festival could be more walkable and easier to get from stage to stage, instead of having to walk a roundabout way to get there. BayFest also needs to change the size of their weekend passes. While the ticket takers did a very good job of getting people in and out of the festival swiftly, having to carry a large weekend pass without a bag is a hassle.

If it tears in your pocket, you lose admission for the next day. I would propose switching to a wristband system like other festivals use.The jazz tent was always a nice place to relax, get out of the heat and hear good music, however it was nowhere to be found this year. Hopefully the tent will make it’s return next year.

All in all, the festival made for a great weekend with great music. With BayFest come and gone, Hangout Fest is right around the corner.

The countdown starts now.

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Roxy Roca brings soul and swagger to Mobile

By MITCHELL KAHALELY

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efore hip-hop luminaries Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Ludacris took to the Miller Lite stage on Friday night, Roxy Roca of Austin, Texas warmed the crowd up with a selection of original soul and funk songs.

Roxy Roca have been together for three and a half years. Taye Cannon, the bands lead singer, hails from Alabama where he was raised on classic soul music.

“You can’t get away from Stax, Motown a lot of the blues and stuff, especially growing up in the South like I did,” said Cannon.

He’s right, some of the best soul music of all time has been produced in the South , from Stax Records in Memphis, to the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio here in Alabama. According to guitarist Errol Siegel that tradition will continue with the help of an emerging soul scene in Austin.

It started pretty small, but it’s been growing,” says Siegel.

Cannon says that the the trend will continue and he wouldn’t be

surprised if it became a trend in Austin after a while.

Cannon says that they are not only influenced by soul music, they are influenced by all the things that are going on in the world.

Roxy Roca’s live show is perpetual energy. Cannon sings with a soulful swagger and struts around the stage in the same way. Cannon’s performance was complemented by Siegel’s soulful guitar playing and backing vocals. The horn section of Thomas Hays on trombone, Houston Rawls on tenor sax and Royce Phillips on alto sax injected the performance with even more life. BayFest was drummer Christina Comley’s third show as the Roxy Roca drummer.

She formed a tight rhythm section with bassist Roger Wuthrich underpinning all the action.

This is Roxy Roca’s second year in a row playing BayFest, hopefully they’ll be back for a third. Until then, they’ll be touring the southeast over the next few months. They also have a record in the can, that will be released at the end of this year or early next year.

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Theatre USA brings “The Addams Family” to life

By JENNA MUNDAY Staff Reporter

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heatre USA has officially opened production of its 2014-15 season with the musical comedy, “The Addams Family,” embracing the spookiness of the month of October.

“The students in the theatre department were instrumental in selecting ‘The Addams Family,’” said director Christopher Peck. “Several options were considered for the musical, but the students continued to champion for this particular play.”

This is understandable as “The Addams Family” original television series gained a monumental fan base with only 2 seasons and 64 episodes. The iconic series also spawned movies, books, video games and plays.

As “The Addams Family” is such a popular name, it can be hard to grasp the essence of who the characters are. When asked about how such a well known brand can be adapted, Colgan Meanor, playing the role of Lurch, spoke about getting the looks of the characters right.

“In a normal show, you create a character look yourself,” Meanor, a junior dramatic arts major, said. “You, the designers and the makeup people say ‘this is what we’re going for’ and then you go off of that. In this show, “The Addams Family” is so well defined, everyone knows what the Addams Family looks like and it’s taking those looks and adapting them to ourselves” “The musical relies heavily on the iconic nature of ‘The Addams Family’ brand,” said Christopher Peck. “But, we have

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also taken steps to make this production uniquely our own…there are elements of the play that are exclusive to our Mobilian audience.”

The first show of the season took place on Friday, October 3 and the second show took place on Saturday, October 4, which featured a unique quality: an audience costume contest.

For the show, audience members were encouraged to participate in the contest for a chance to win prizes in the following categories: Best Children’s Costume, Best Teen Costume, Best Student Costume and Best Adult Costume.

But, don’t come to the next show dressed to scare; the costume contest was exclusive to the show on October 4.

For those who couldn’t make either of the first two performances, don’t fret. “The Addams Family” can be seen on October 9, 10 and 11 with curtain time at 7:30 p.m. and the last show will take place on Sunday, October 12 at 2 p.m.

With the first two nights of the show a success, director Christopher Peck has high hopes for “The Addams Family” and the production season.

“I think audiences will enjoy the humor of the play, the familiarity of the characters and of course, the singing and dancing,” said Christopher Peck. “But, my real hope is that everyone will take away something different from the production.”

“I hope they’re sharing their experiences with their friends. I hope they’re thinking, ‘This was really good, I had a lot of fun, I should see more theatre.’”

For more information about the production or ticket sales, please contact the USA Dramatic Arts office.

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The Prowl celebrates College Radio Day

By JENNA MUNDAY Staff Reporter

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his year, College Radio Day took place on Friday, Oct. 3. Colleges nationwide participated in this event, including the University of South Alabama.

The University of South Alabama has participated in College Radio Day for the past two years. Only five colleges currently participate from the state of Alabama.

Organizers of College Radio Day say “It’s a day of celebration. It’s a day of live music and special interviews. It’s the day college radio comes together.”

According to the official College Radio Day website, their goal is “to raise a greater, international awareness of the many college and high school radio stations that operate in the USA by encouraging people who would not normally listen to college radio to do so.”

College Radio Day is a national event that was founded by Rob Quicke. Since many universities have lost funding from state cutbacks on higher education, Quicke wanted to create an awareness campaign.

“College radio is the only free, live medium brave enough to play unsigned, local, and independent artists on a regular basis” says the website. Many famous bands like U2 owe their success to college radio.

For College Radio Day, The Prowl, the student-run radio station on campus, broadcasted live from the Student Center.

South Paw and Miss Pawla attended and prizes were given out.

“It was very successful,” said The Prowl sports director, Samuel Brown.

“We had a very solid turnout.”

The Prowl also saw this day as a chance to further inform the student body about their transition to the FM radio station, 97.1 WJGR. “We wanted to inform others about our station and the FM transition that is in the works,” said Heather Stanley, advisor for The Prowl. “For us, College Radio Day is a vehicle to let the university know

MITCHELL KAHALLEY that we are an important outlet for student expression.”

“It was a great way to advertise the station to the students,” continued Brown.

“We’re one of the few schools in the state of Alabama to participate in College Radio Day.” Each state has a “headquarters” for College Radio Day and the University of South Alabama has served as the headquarters for the state of Alabama for the last two years.

“The students have put in some long hours and lots of hard work into making the station successful,” continued Heather Stanley. “College Radio Day was a celebration of their labor and their contribution to the university.”

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The Prowl station manager Stephen Spears during the station’s open house on College Radio Day.

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SPORTS

OCT. 6, 2014

Quarteerback Brandon Brrid idge ge had a careerhigh gam ame with 362 tot otal all yards becoming the second d-higheest individ i ua id u l for passing and tota to tall ya y yards.

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Jags stay undefeated on the road South Alabama defeats Appalachian State 47-21 behind Bridge’s career night

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ed by quarterback Brandon Bridge, the Jaguars stay undefeated on the road with a season-high night they defeated new Sun Belt opponents Appalachian State 47-21 in Boone, NC. Bridge had a career-high night recording 339 yards passing going 19-for-28 and three touchdowns. The offense racked up 582 total yards to mark the second-highest in program history.

“I think I played alright tonight. There were a couple of plays I would like to take back, but we did a great job offensively,” Bridge said. “The offensive line did a great job of keeping me clean, and the receivers did a good job of getting open and making the

throws easy for me. I just owe it all to the whole offense. They made it easy for me. All I have to do is just get the ball to them.

I thought we did an excellent job tonight.”

Bridge ended the night with 362 yards overall for a career night for the quarterback, recording the second-highest individual game totals for passing and total yards. Bridge was just 21 yards behind Ross Metheny’s record with 360 yards passing against LouisianaLafayette on Nov. 24, 2012.

Shavarez Smith had a seasonhigh performance with 133 receiving yards and two touchdowns, his most since his performance against Georgia State last year when set a school game record with 194 yards receiving on 10 catches. Xavier Johnson had a career-best night with 70 yards on 10 carries.

The South Alabama defense

had another strong performance against the Mountaineers.

Terrell Brigham lead the Jags with eight stops and a recovered a fumble forced by Montell Garner. Roman Buchanan, Desmond LaVelle and Damarius Racifer all had seven stops a piece. Jesse Kelley had a career best six stops and was credited with half a sack.

“We really needed this win.

We need consistency in performance every day,” Garner said. “We were able to make plays out here, and that’s what we need. We just have to make consistency in performance an everyday thing.”

After starting off slow with a blocked Grant McLaurin field goal in the first quarter, the Jags finished the quarter fast with a Brandon Bridge 8-yard See JAGS DEFEAT APP ST Page 10

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Shavarez Smith recorded his first 100yard game of the season with 133 yards.

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USA soccer wins, ties against conference foes South Alabama ties second-longest win streak in program history, leads Sun Belt Conference 10-2-1 VANGUARD ARCHIVES

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he University of South Alabama soccer team picked up a win and a tie this weekend at The Cage, improving their record to 10-21 (2-0-1 Sun Belt Conference).

Friday night, the Jaguars blew out Louisiana-Monroe (7-5-1, 1-2) 7-2 to earn their second conference win of the season. Seven different players scored for the Jaguars in a game that pushed their winning streak to eight games, the second longest in school history.

ULM’s Karlea Fehr scored first in the 27 minute to put the Warhawks up 1-0, but the Jaguars scored five unanswered

goals, including three in the excellent. During the second span of five minutes, to take a half, the Warhawks came out commanding 5-1 lead. Monique strong but once we scored a Autmon scored first for the couple goals, it became easier Jags (36’), followed by Sophie for us. I thought our first-half Haywood (37’) and Rio Hardy performance was strong—we (40’) to round out the scoring just had one error, giving the ball up and they scored, but in the first half.

Stefi Hardy kicked off the outside of that, I thought we scoring in the second half, were very good in the first knocking in a goal in the 62 half.”

The Jaguars outshot minute for USA, followed Louisiana-Monroe 36-8 for the

by Nini Rabsatt-Smith (70’). game.

Goalkeeper Sarah Hay ULM’s Lauren Palmer answered made 5 saves for USA. in the 76 minute to make the On Sunday, Louisianascore 5-2, but the game was Lafayette’s Annika Schmidt already out of reach. Danielle scored her second goal of Henley (78’) and Chelsea the day, an equalizer in the 87 Followwell (87’) capped the minute, to avoid defeat and scoring for South Alabama.

“I thought we played well,” snap South Alabama’s eightJaguar head coach Graham match win streak. Despite Winkworth said. “I thought not winning the match, the we moved the ball well, Jaguars are unbeaten since particularly in the first half; I thought our ball movement was See SOCCER STAYS UNDEFEATED Page 12

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touchdown run in a six play drive and a McLaurin 36-yard field goal for a 10-0 lead.

The Jags would add 10 more points to their lead with another McLaurin 39-yard field goal and the Jaguars’ longest gain since scrimmage this fall with a 67-yard rocket to Smith. Appalachian State wouldn’t go into the half without points on the board as Mountaineer quarterback Taylor Lamb completed a 20-yard pass to Malachi Jones to put 7 points on the board for App State. The Jags lead into the half 20-7.

South Alabama’s offense continued to click as they added 20 points in the third quarter, equaling the amount they racked up in the entire first half.

Bridge opened the second half with a 43-yard scoring pass to Danny Woodson II. Smith would get his second touchdown

of the night with a 14yard pass from Bridge to get the Jags up 33-7.

Terrance Timmons capped the third quarter for the Jags when he scored on a careerlong 30-yard run with a minute-and-a-half left in the quarter.

Berron Tyson had the final Jaguar score with first career carry for a 5-yard touchdown run with just over 10 minutes to go in the game to give the Jags their final score of 47.

“I always talk about our team being resilient.

We have resilient players and coaches, and a resilient program,” Smith said. “I knew we weren’t going to be affected by our last loss (Georgia Southern). It just motivated us to come back to work and work harder, prepare better and work to win the rest of our games.”

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would tack on two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter to give the final score of 47-21 for the Jaguars first ever win in North Carolina.

“I am very proud of this football team,” said head coach Joey Jones.

“Last week we travelled across the country to play Idaho and played a good game. And we came here this week to Appalachian State where they have a lot of tradition. They have great facilities here. It’s a great venue, and our kids played extremely well.

They have that look in their eyes right now, and they are understanding what it takes.”

After traveling for almost 5,000 miles in the last two weeks the Jags will have a week off before returning to action against Georgia State on Saturday, Oct. 18 for homecoming.

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their game against Kennesaw State on August 31, outscoring opponents 40-9 in that span.

USA jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first half, with goals by Steffi Hardy (16’) and Charde Hannah (20’). ULL answered with goals by Yazmin Montoya (33’) and Schmidt’s first goal of the contest (44’) to tie it up at 2-2 going into halftime. After Bailey Scott’s

goal in the 46 minute gave the Ragin’ Cajuns a 3-2 advantage, the Jaguars pulled ahead 4-3 with Rio Hardy’s eighth goal of the season (56’) and Hannah’s second goal of the match (71’).

Schmidt put the equalizer through on a long shot to knot the scoring at 4-4. South Alabama outshot the Ragin’ Cajuns 5-2 in the two overtime periods, but were unable to put

anything through, leaving the game to a tie.

The Jaguars, currently boasting the Sun Belt conference’s best record at 10-2-1, travel to San Marcos, Texas, to take on Texas State (8-3-1, 3-0) on Friday, Oct. 10, then hit the road again to Boone, North Carolina, to play Appalachian State (5-7, 2-1) on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Finding the best tweets from South Alabama athletes. #JagNation

Follow Us! @USAVGSports Hunter Vaughn @HVaughn3

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Middle seat sucks terribly on planes... #longflightahead

Stephanie Pilkington @SJPilk09

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Finally learned what SISU means.

Alyssa Linn @alyssalinn14Van

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I love how every movie is the number 1 movie in America.

Chloe Rathburn @chloerathburn

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The struggle between needing a sweatshirt to keep dry from the rain, and it being hot/humid outside

Steffi Hardy @SteffiHardy

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That nap was the best of my life

Brandon Bridge @Air_Canada_7

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Bye week couldn’t have came at a better time. Much needed.

Recharge the battery and get ready for Georgia State.

Sophie Haywood @SophieKHaywood

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Wow, you know it’s been a rough day when I finally resort resort to reading to get me to sleep.

Emily Messer @emily_messer20

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I thought I was supposed to grow out my ear problems.

Why do I have another ruptured ear drum. #struggle #canthear

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Man I wouldn’t want to play for any other team right now.

Let’s get it. #JagNation Drew Dearman @Drewski72_

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My beard game is so heavy. The people of Boone, NC might think I walked down from the Appalachian Mtns for the game Saturday. #Mountainman

Wes Saxton @Juice_Surpreme

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Ever since we went to Idaho my sleeping pattern has been terrible...

Amanda Minahan @Minivan_

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Jag volleyball splits weekend conference play Volleyball falls to Appalachian State Mountaineers, bounces back against Georgia State Panthers

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he South Alabama volleyball team hit the road this weekend to take on two conference rivals. The Jags lost in four sets to the Appalachian State Mountaineers on Friday, Oct. 3, 3-1. Mallory Moore led South with 14 kills, a season best, and a hitting percentage of .480.

Appalachian State won the first set 2521. South retaliated in the second set, winning 25-23. The Mountaineers won the last two sets 25-20 and 25-23 respectively to put the match away.

“We just couldn’t string together enough points tonight,” said head coach Amy Hendrichovsky to USAJags.com.

“We did fight back in three of the four sets, but starting strong is a big part of the game. If we start strong, it’s a different match. Right now we’re just fighting ourselves physically and mentally. When we figure it out, we’ll be pretty good, but we need to figure it out soon.”

Other Jags also finished in double digits, including Nikki Gittens, who finished with 13 kills and a hitting percentage of .380. Mechell Daniel finished with 13 and 11 digs and Emily Hundt finished with 24

assists and 10 digs. Abby Baker led the team in digs with 19.

After the match against Appalachian State, the Jags’ record fell to 7-8 Saturday, Oct. 4 , the team travelled to Atlanta to play Georgia State. The Jags turned around a three game losing streak against the panthers, winning 3-1.

Georgia State started out strong, winning the first set 25-21. The Jaguars bounced back afterwards, winning three straight sets 25-15, 25-19, and 25-21.

“Tonight was a good win for us and I thought it was a really good team effort,” said Hendrichovsky. “The serve and pass game is where you win matches. The team that can win the passing side of that area is going to win nine times out of ten. After the first set, we were able to win in those areas and that opened up the outside for our hitters.”

Daniel recorded 16 kills and a .385 hitting percentage. Jessica Lewis finished with 14 kills and hit .324. Gittens recorded eight kills and hit .438, while Symone Stevenson added seven kills and finished with a hitting percentage of .308.

After this weekends, the volleyball team’s record is 8-8 overall and 3-3 in Sun Belt play. The Jags will take on the Troy Trojans in Troy on Wednesday, Oct. 8.

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Michael Pienaar and Christoph Graf both placed in the top 15 of 429 runners. In his cross country debut Pienaar placed fifth overall with a time of 24:12.3, then completed the 8k race in 13th place with a 24:23.6 time. Their success helped place USA seventh out of 20 teams with a total of 167 points.

Among runners, Pienaar was fourth and Graf placed ninth.

Golf LSU’s David Toms Intercollegiate The Jaguars recorded the second-lowest round over the last 18 holes with a 294 team total to move up from 10th place into a tie for sixth in the final standings.

Matt Sheehan, Tyler Klava and Ryan Pope all climbed 10 or more places, while Ally Purdy moved up five places. Sheehan led South Alabama with an even-par 72, Klava with a 73, Purdy shot a 74 with Pope just one stroke behind to help the Jags pass nationally-ranked Iowa Stateand Sun Belt Conference rival Louisiana-Lafayette.

Jags travel to Georgia State Oct. 13 for the AutoTrader.com Collegiate Classic.

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JORDAN KNOX OPINION EDITOR kjk1103@jagmail.southalabama.edu

OPINION

OCT. 6, 2014

Is there a double standard with domestic abuse cases?

By ALEXANDER MOYLAN Copy Editor

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onths ago the NFL suspended Ray Rice following reports that he had struck his wife in an elevator.

More recently, the entire sports world was horrified when the full length elevator footage was released, providing hard evidence that Rice assaulted his wife, knocked her unconscious and subsequently dragged her out said

elevator.

Rice was immediately suspended indefinitely from playing in the NFL. It wasn’t long before another NFL player, Adrian Peterson, would also be suspended indefinitely by his team after being charged with reckless or negligent injury to a child.

However, does a double standard exist?

Not long after these NFL suspensions made headlines, attention was brought back onto a case dating back to June of this year when soccer star Hope Solo was arrested and charged with two counts of domestic abuse.

Solo is awaiting trial in November after pleading “not guilty” in connection to the alleged assault against her sister and 17 year old nephew. No subsequent suspension was filed against Solo by US Soccer.

So is there a double standard? Some think so. In essence, we need a concrete definition of domestic violence and

whether or not this definition is gender neutral. Some will argue that theses cases exemplify a gender bias in sports and punishment.

The US Olympic Committee recently released a statement on the Solo issue stating “Abuse in all forms is unacceptable.

The allegations involving Ms. Solo are disturbing and are inconsistent with our expectations of Olympians.”

Hope Solo is a superstar. She is arguably the most well-known women’s soccer player in the world today and the question of whether or not there is a better goalie in the world today is nonexistent.

Does this excuse her actions though?

Is it okay for her to continue playing for US Soccer and represent the country in various exhibition games prior to the 2015 Women’s World Cup? This issue was discussed on ESPN’s First Take where popular pundit Stephen A. Smith offered the interesting take referring to Solo’s case as a “family fight” and “at times you have to distinguish

between a fight and abuse”. Wait, what?

Solo needs to be suspended. She needs to be excused from team activities until her trial, beginning in November, is settled. Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice are both suspended indefinitely until the NFL can get to the bottom of these separate issues.

Suspending Solo will demonstrate that punishment in sports is gender neutral. This is especially important now following the United Nation’s HeForShe campaign, advocating for men to stand up for gender equality alongside women. I feel that a lack of action by US Soccer will only weaken mens’ interest in the issue if men see a prominent female athlete treated differently than male athletes in a similar situation.

US Soccer cannot be afraid of suspending one of it’s most prominent stars. Instead US Soccer must show the nation, and the world, that punishment following domestic abuse charges is gender neutral too.

What changes could be made to downtown Mobile to make it more fun and inviting?

COUREY AVERETT It would be more inviting if there wasn’t such a long drive from campus. Who wants to drink downtown and then have to figure out how to get back. There needs to be transportation back and forth sponsored by the school. UA had a hotline, 348-RIDE, that you could call and they would pick you up and take you back to campus between midnight and lasted thru Last Call

LAUREN SMITH Bring in places that have identity not another chick-fil-a

RACHEL GILES More daytime activities, more high end shopping, & the most important thing... less crime.

DANIELLE WARNER Downtown could use more open shops. Everything is either closed, a bank, or a law office.

Why do hate crimes still plague the United States?

By MICAH MESSER Contributing Writer

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n September 27, 2014 a gay male was shot in the buttocks as he fled several

individuals who were chasing him.

According to New York Daily News the young man, who was dressed as a woman, survived an anti-gay attack in Brooklyn after being chased and shot by a group of men shouting homophobic slurs.

A similar incident happened only ten blocks away in 2008.

These incidents are examples of hate crimes.

Such incidents as the recent shooting in Ferguson, Missouri automatically bring a reaction from most people.

However, the recent shooting in Brooklyn is an obvious hate crime because of what the criminals were saying to the man as the chased him.

Before we exclaim in disbelief over this incident, one must keep in mind the neighborhood this happened in.

In the post made by New York Daily News Eric Dowler, a barber, said the victim was a customer of the shop. Dowler said, “It’s a violent neighborhood — a lot of things happen,” While this neighborhood may not be the best, that doesn’t

excuse these individuals for what they did.

Hate crimes take many different forms: whites hating blacks, as we have seen in plenty of examples, blacks hating whites, which isn’t as news hyper but does indeed happen, and straight people hating gays.

Hate crimes happen to just about every group of people because as the popular saying goes, “haters gonna hate!”

However, we as a generation can take a stand against hate crimes from all people against all people. Practice common

courtesy and compassion, we are all humans on one big journey through life.

We may disagree on a lot of things but violence is not the solution to our differences.

Remember, this great country wouldn’t have been founded without these famous ideals which meant something to our founders, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

JORDAN KNOX OPINION EDITOR kjk1103@jagmail.southalabama.edu

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