Volume 81, Issue 22 Feb. 28, 2013 www.FlorAla.net Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama Police investigate alleged gang rape attempt UNA police are investigating an at- tempted rape that reportedly occurred Feb. 21 in the on-campus apartments on Circular Drive. Police are still investigating the case and have made no arrests, said UNA police Chief Bob Pastula Feb. 26. The victim reported no injuries from the inci- dent, according to police reports. The police questioned two suspects, one white male and one black male, ac- cording to reports. Neither suspect was armed. “Some guys brought a girl home from the bar, and she said it was a gang rape type of situation,” Pastula said. The victim reported to police that she went home from a bar in Muscle Shoals at approximately 2:20 a.m. with two men, according to the report. When she arrived at their on-campus apart- ment, there were several other males I NSIDE this week’s paper NEWS................2A IMAGES..............4A VIEWPOINTS.........7A SPORTS........... 1B LIFE...............5B EXTRA.............8B FESTIVAL REMEMBERS LINDSEY... 5A 15 PERCENT SPENT Movies, games, tailgating and novel- ties. That’s what UPC has spent approxi- mately 15 percent of their overall budget on during 2012-2013. Each semester, students pay a $27 Student Activities Fee to the university. The fee automatically sets aside $2 for the Lion’s Den game room, and the re- maining $25 divides among student allo- cation, leadership and volunteerism, and UPC, a division of the SGA. “UPC gets about 45 percent of that $25,” said Laura Giles, SGA treasurer. UPC has spent $20,503 of its $141,750 budget for the fiscal year, ac- cording to the organization’s February budget update. CAMPUS CRIME ALEX LINDLEY BLYTHE STEELMAN STUDENT GOVERNMENT Country club sale contract under review INTEGRATIVE HEALTH Sale contracts are being drafted by the city of Florence to sell the Flor- ence Golf and Country Club to UNA’s parter Shenqi Medical College in Chi- na, officials with the university said. The property has been proposed as the new home for a newly started inte- grative health program, officials said. “We have seen the first draft (of the contract), and (it) is back with the city now,” said UNA Vice Provost for International Affairs Chunsheng Zhang. Zhang said the university and Shenqi Medical College Chairman Zhang Zhiting will move forward with the development of the property after contract negotiations take place. “Basically we look forward to getting him here soon for the actual purchase of the land and for the de- velopment of architecture plans and the development of the property,” said UNA Spokesman Josh Woods. The city council unanimously vot- ed at their Jan. 8 meeting to approve a resolution authorizing Florence Mayor Mickey Haddock to negotiate the purchase of the land for the uni- versity’s new integrative health pro- gram and residential village. During their Feb. 19 meeting, the council also voted to rezone the property for use by the university. Zhiting placed an offer with the city for $2.1 million with a promise of $50,000 in earnest money to be paid to the city earlier this year. Zhang said the next steps include getting Zhiting to Florence to negoti- ate contracts and start the design pro- cess for the property. Officials would not speculate on when building would begin on the site once contracts are approved. JOSH SKAGGS ”BASICALLY WE LOOK FORWARD TO GET- TING (CHAIRMAN ZHANG) HERE SOON FOR THE ACTUAL PURCHASE OF THE LAND. JOSH WOODS photo by KAYLA SLOAN I Chief Photographer Students and members of UPC participate in Condom Casino in the GUC. 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Volume 81, Issue 22Feb. 28, 2013 www.FlorAla.net Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama
Police investigate alleged gang rape attempt
UNA police are investigating an at-tempted rape that reportedly occurred Feb. 21 in the on-campus apartments on Circular Drive.
Police are still investigating the case and have made no arrests, said UNA
police Chief Bob Pastula Feb. 26. The victim reported no injuries from the inci-dent, according to police reports.
The police questioned two suspects, one white male and one black male, ac-cording to reports. Neither suspect was armed.
“Some guys brought a girl home from the bar, and she said it was a gang rape
type of situation,” Pastula said.The victim reported to police that
she went home from a bar in Muscle Shoals at approximately 2:20 a.m. with two men, according to the report. When she arrived at their on-campus apart-ment, there were several other males
Movies, games, tailgating and novel-ties. That’s what UPC has spent approxi-mately 15 percent of their overall budget on during 2012-2013.
Each semester, students pay a $27 Student Activities Fee to the university. The fee automatically sets aside $2 for the Lion’s Den game room, and the re-maining $25 divides among student allo-cation, leadership and volunteerism, and UPC, a division of the SGA.
“UPC gets about 45 percent of that $25,” said Laura Giles, SGA treasurer.
UPC has spent $20,503 of its $141,750 budget for the fi scal year, ac-cording to the organization’s February budget update.
CAMPUS CRIME
ALEX LINDLEY
BLYTHE STEELMAN
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Country club sale contract under review
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
Sale contracts are being drafted by the city of Florence to sell the Flor-ence Golf and Country Club to UNA’s parter Shenqi Medical College in Chi-na, offi cials with the university said.
The property has been proposed as the new home for a newly started inte-grative health program, offi cials said.
“We have seen the fi rst draft (of the contract), and (it) is back with the city now,” said UNA Vice Provost
for International Affairs Chunsheng Zhang.
Zhang said the university and Shenqi Medical College Chairman Zhang Zhiting will move forward with the development of the property after contract negotiations take place.
“Basically we look forward to getting him here soon for the actual purchase of the land and for the de-velopment of architecture plans and the development of the property,” said UNA Spokesman Josh Woods.
The city council unanimously vot-ed at their Jan. 8 meeting to approve a resolution authorizing Florence Mayor Mickey Haddock to negotiate the purchase of the land for the uni-versity’s new integrative health pro-gram and residential village. During their Feb. 19 meeting, the council also voted to rezone the property for use by the university.
Zhiting placed an offer with the city for $2.1 million with a promise of $50,000 in earnest money to be paid to the city earlier this year.
Zhang said the next steps include getting Zhiting to Florence to negoti-ate contracts and start the design pro-cess for the property.
Offi cials would not speculate on when building would begin on the site once contracts are approved.
JOSH SKAGGS
”BASICALLY WE LOOK FORWARD TO GET-TING (CHAIRMAN ZHANG) HERE SOON FOR
THE ACTUAL PURCHASE OF THE LAND.
JOSH WOODS
photo by KAYLA SLOAN I Chief Photographer
Students and members of UPC participate in Condom Casino in the GUC. The event was hosted by the programming organization and cost students approximately $4,000.
Students: bulk of UPC budget spent during spring months, concerts
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MEN LOSE TO UAH AT HOMESPORTS 2B
John Cartwright, owner of River-town Coffee Co., located on North Sem-inary Street downtown, is not the aver-age business man.
In fact, he said he is not shaken by the threat of competition from the Star-bucks branch promised for the Academ-ic Commons Building on UNA’s cam-pus next year; although, he understands that he could lose a few customers as a result of its opening.
“I don’t have that competitive mind-set, and if everyone can survive, then I’m happy,” he said.
In October 2004, Cartwright and his wife (girlfriend at the time) acted on their dream to create a locally-owned coffee shop to draw in people from all corners of the community.
Cartwright recalled how much he has enjoyed getting Rivertown rooted in the community, pausing occasionally to greet customers by name as they en-tered.
“I feel like we have an established customer base and can offer something very different from a corporate business on a college campus,” he said.
This “customer base” includes peo-ple like Alicia Threet, a UNA student.
Threet considers herself a regular at Rivertown, having grown up in Florence and having watched the shop take root in the community for the past eight years.
“I can say without hesitation that Starbucks will have no effect on how of-ten I go to Rivertown,” she said. “To me, choosing Rivertown is a no-brainer.”
Threet said part of the allure of going to Rivertown is experiencing the “down-to-earth environment” unique to the cof-fee shop.
Rivertown also has an edge over its contender because it offers lunch menu
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The UNA Center for Women’s Stud-ies opened its Pride Pantry for Necessities Feb. 20.
Genna Bradley and Jean Ann Wil-lis began the project as part of Leading Edge Institute’s nine-month program for female leadership in Alabama.
“This is something that’s been on my heart for a long time,” Willis said. “We know this will greatly impact and benefi t those less fortunate within the commu-nity.”
Lynne Rieff, UNA director for wom-en’s studies, said she hopes the pantry will be useful.
Willis said the pantry will follow cer-tain rules.
“We are asking people only apply ev-ery two weeks with valid identifi cation,” Willis said. “This is only for campus stu-dents, faculty and staff.”
Bradley said the pantry has been a product of factors coming together.
“In March of 2012 we were taught how to be better leaders,” Bradley said. “We were shown the need that is right
here in Alabama and that we do need strong female leadership.”
Donations to the pantry came from various contributors and a grant received by Bradley and Willis for their program.
“People are more than welcome to donate by bringing items to the Women’s Center,” Bradley said. “We’ve been able to get a lot from couponing so far and we hope to begin setting up drives around campus to collect.”
Items in the room contain an array of products for both men and women,
Womenʼs Center opens necessities pantryWOMEN
photo by ROGER WANG I Student Photographer
Jean Ann Willis and Genna Bradley cut the ribbon to offi cially open the Women’s Center’s Pride Pantry for Necessities Feb. 20. The pantry will provide personal items to UNA students, faculty and staff who are in need.
KALI DANIEL
DOWNTOWN
Rivertown owner not threatened
by StarbucksELISE COFIELD
PHILANTHROPY
SAAC starts text donation campaignThe UNA Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee is working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in the NCAA Division II National SAAC’s fi rst text donation campaign, which began Feb. 1 and will continue through March 10.
The texting campaign allows partici-pants to make $5 donations by texting “D2Wishes” to 5055. The donation gets
added to participants’ phone bills. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a
non-profi t organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.
A Make-A-Wish sponsor since 2003, D-II has raised more than $2.4 million and has granted more than 338 wishes, according to the NCAA’s website.
The SAAC is a student organization consisting of two student athletes from
each sport appointed by head coaches. The committee promotes and represents the interests and views of the student athletes and encourages members to get involved in community service projects.
“It’s really nice to be able to help out with Make-A-Wish Foundation and be able to help kids that are in need because I feel like, as student athletes, a lot of those kids look up to us,” said SAAC president
TRISTA IRVIN ”ITʼS REALLY NICE TO BE ABLE TO HELP OUT WITH MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION AND BE ABLE TO HELP KIDS THAT ARE IN NEED BECAUSE I FEEL
LIKE, AS STUDENT ATHLETES, A LOT OF THOSE KIDS LOOK UP TO US.
WES LONG
Feb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala 3ANEWSSENATE
Senate to finalize Lion Night detailsSGA Senate discussed further plans
for the upcoming Lion Night April 18 in their meeting Feb. 21.
Senator John Thigpen said the Offi ce of Student Affairs will again be taking part in sponsorship of the event, along-side Florence Main Street.
“This event is happening,” Thigpen said. “Now it just comes down to fi guring out details and getting things in order.”
Three bands will be booked for the event, Thigpen said. The Interfraternity Council will also be incorporating their annual “Walk a Mile (in Her Shoes)” event into Lion Night this year, where fra-ternity members will walk a mile down-town in heels to raise awareness about rape, sexual assault and gender violence.
After a guest speaker from Florence Main Street attended the Feb. 14 Senate meeting, members are also now brain-storming ways to add new features to Lion Night.
Members discussed adding guided tours for students around downtown ar-eas, and while some senators said they felt it would be unnecessary, others said it could be useful for students.
“I know that there are some places freshman students haven’t been to, even if they have lived here for seven or eight
months already,” said Mary-Francis Wil-son, senator.
Discussion of further plans for the event will come in future weeks, Senate offi cials said.
The inaugural Lion Night was held last semester and was started as a move-ment to introduce UNA students to down-town Florence and what the city has to of-fer, offi cials said.
SGA President Will Riley also gave an update on the university’s move to Di-vision I during his offi cer report. He said he met with offi cials recently, and while UNA is still waiting on a conference bid, a new conference has sparked the univer-sity’s interest.
“The Atlantic Sun Conference is something we’re looking at right now,” Riley said. “The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) would still be a good fi t for us, though.
“We’ll be D-II through at least next year, so nothing is set in stone yet. That’s just one of the options available for UNA.”
Sarah Emerson, chairperson of the Legislative Affairs Committee, presented Bill 13-11, which would allot $285.75 from the miscellaneous section of the 2012-2013 budget to buy T-shirts for Senate members.
However, Wilson said since she has a quote from a company, she is currently
working on a separate bill to purchase polo shirts for the organization. She will be presenting the bill at the next Senate meeting, she said.
Bill 13-11 failed in Senate, but the group will be looking at both options for shirts at the next meeting.
file photo by CHRISTINA COVINGTON I Staff Photographer
Local band SCM Electrix performs on Mobile Plaza in downtown Florence dur-ing last semester’s Lion Night. Senate offi cials are fi nalizing details for upcoming Lion Nights to be held several times a year.
BLYTHE STEELMAN
”THIS EVENT IS HAPPENING. NOW IT JUST COMES DOWN TO FIGURING OUT DETAILS AND
GETTING THINGS IN ORDER.
JOHN THIGPEN
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My friend Jason the Kid, a musician/rapper, made an ap-pearance this week at the end. theater in downtown Florence for an open event.
He comes all the way from Atlanta, where he has a large following, but in Florence he has a pretty large following also. He’s an independent artist who has several music videos out, such as “White Boy Swag,” “Frigid,” “Hold on Shut Up Re-
mix” and others just to name a few. Jason has made several appearances for shows in Florence
before, including some of UNA’s Greek Life events. So, I decided it would be cool follow him around a little
since he’s somewhat of a big name and another guest in our town of aspiring musicians.
WHITE BOY SWAGby Staff Photographer Christina Covington
NEWSFeb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala 5AGiles said she is responsible for
creating and monitoring the budget throughout the year.
“The budget starts on October 1,” she said. “A lot of what is in the budget will be spent in August and September.”
UPC Vice President Jori Chatman said it’s diffi cult to pinpoint exactly what UPC does.
“It’s hard to identify what UPC is,” she said. “We do so much on campus.”
SGA Chief of Staff KeKoria Greer said she agrees.
“When it comes to UPC, students may not know exactly who it is, but if you bring up a lot of the events they do, they’ll know what you’re talking about,” Greer said.
UPC is split into fi ve committees: Movies and Novelties, Culture and Ed-ucation, Live Acts, Service, and Spirit, offi cials said. Each committee has their own line in the budget, with Live Acts allotted $75,000 — the largest portion of the overall budget.
There is no dollar amount yet on what will be spent for the spring con-cert, but Aaron Lovelady, chairman of the Live Acts committee, reported to UPC members the tentative double headliner show with Phillip Phillips and Mat Kearney will be under budget, according to the Jan. 28 UPC meeting minutes.
The Spirit committee is allotted $20,000 for the fi scal year, and the com-mittee has currently spent $3,962.35, according to budget documents.
“The Spirit committee handles all of the tailgating at every football game, as well as two baseball games and one
softball game,” Giles said. “They feed a guaranteed 100 students at each tail-gate.
“They also take care of the ban-ners, bows and T-shirts during Purple Reign week. This year, they took care of Foamapalooza and Laserpalooza.”
The $15,000 line for the Movies and Novelties committee has paid $6,485.95 for three movies during the 2012-2013 school year, as well as Fright Night last fall.
“We’ve shown ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and ‘Breaking Dawn 2,’ and we’ll be showing ‘Brave’ soon,” Giles said.
The Culture and Education commit-tee recently hosted a Condom Casino, which they spent $4,000 on and only 50 to 70 students attended, Giles said.
“Everything was done on our end months in advance, but the company slacked,” Giles said. “It’s hard to pro-mote an event that you’re not even sure is going to happen.”
UPC Adviser Tyler Thompson said he has no part in deciding what the or-ganization chooses to spend their mon-ey on.
“I think the best way to describe the adviser’s role is like a driver’s educa-tion course,” Thompson said. “It’s a student-run group by elected student leaders, and it’s student money, so they get the opportunity to make the deci-sions. And just like a driver’s education teacher, if someone’s going to get hurt or there are legal issues or something that will potentially hurt the campus, that’s where I come in.”
University Program Council 2012-2013 Budget*:
Movies & NovelMovies & NoveltiestiesMovies (3)Movies (3)Lennyʼs Lennyʼs Fright Night Fright Night
Condom CasinoCondom Casino
Subtotal:Subtotal:
Purple Reign WeekPurple Reign Week
SpiritSpirit
MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
TailgatingTailgating
Miscellaneous SpiritMiscellaneous Spirit
THE BREAKDOWN:THE BREAKDOWN: WHATʼS BEEN SPENT:WHATʼS BEEN SPENT:
*Budget funded by 42 percent of Student Activity Fee each semester.
TOTAL:TOTAL: $20,503.87$20,503.87
SPENDING FROM 1A: UPC officials to spend bulk of budget on concert
present, according to the report.She reported that the two suspects
tried to rape her after forcing her into a bedroom on her way to the bathroom, ac-cording to reports. She was able to fl ee the apartment and was picked up nearby by police, according to reports.
Responding offi cers interviewed the suspects, who denied the allegations and said the victim began accusing them of attempted rape when they could not ar-range a fast enough ride home for her, according to reports.
The event was reported at 2:35 a.m. Feb. 21, according to police reports. The suspects were at the apartment when po-lice arrived, Pastula said.
Responding offi cers transported the victim to the university police station,
where Pastula interviewed her. Pas-tula said he interviewed the victim be-cause UNA Sexual Assault Investigator Shequanda Jenkins was out of town at the time of the incident.
UNA police investigated two reports of sexual crimes last September, accord-ing to campus crime logs. No other sexu-al crimes were reported in 2012, accord-ing to the crime logs.
Between 2009 and 2011, there were three reported forcible sexual offenses on
campus, according to the National Cen-ter for Education Statistics’ UNA profi le. None of the incidents occurred in resi-dence halls, but they were all on campus, according to the profi le.
To see more statistics on UNA crime and other topics, visit http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator and search for the Uni-versity of North Alabama.
For campus emergencies or to report a crime, call campus police at 256-765-4357 or 911.
North Alabama is no stranger to tor-nadoes. February 17-22 marked Severe Weather Awareness Week for the state.
Leah Pease, Athens State University student, recalls her connection to storms that took her home March 2, 2012.
“I was at the back door of my house with my stepmother and brother, when I saw this big pink and red triangle in the sky,” she said. “I got to the hallway, covered myself with a blanket and heard
the metal street lamps outside snapping in half. When I heard all of the windows bust open and the house begin to shake, I slipped my fi ngers under the door nearest to me and asked myself, ‘What do I do in the last seconds of my life?’”
The tornado decimated Pease’s house and numerous others in New Market, near Buckhorn High School. News re-ports confi rmed that multiple tornadoes were taking the same path and Pease, in her pajamas and shoe-less, felt unpre-pared.
“I blacked out, but when I came to,
I heard my stepmom calling me, and I grabbed her hand as soon as I felt it and she pulled me up,” she said. “We went to my neighbor’s house, who happened to be the sheriff, and got some jackets. We were drenched and kept asking people to take us somewhere safe, but they just told us to get in a house.”
No one in Pease’s family was harmed, and her insurance provided her family with a temporary residence as well as money to begin building a new home.
“If given the chance to do it all over again, the minute I heard there was a high risk, I would have gotten my wallet, my phone and charger, and gone straight to a shelter,” she said. “People need to listen to the meteorologists and offi cials that really know what they’re talking about.”
MyWARN, a weather advisory app, was created by Bill Murray and Jeff Cross in response to the April 27 torna-does.
“My son was a student at the Uni-versity of Alabama,” Murray said on the MyWARN website. “I told him that he would hear the sirens sound for the fi rst storm, but that it would miss him. But the second storm had his name on it. If I had not communicated with him, he says he would not have been in safe shelter de-spite the sirens. The sirens sound so often that students paid no attention to them.”
The case parallels frequent student complaints about Lion Alerts as well as Residence Life responses to potential storm threats.
“(Alabama) is in a bad trend right now, and things like Lion Alerts can save lives, even if they’re irritating,” Pease said.
Caroline Thomas, a UNA student, said if she were faced with severe weath-er, she knows it would change her out-look.
“I love storms,” she said. “I get an adrenaline rush when I hear about tor-nadoes, and I would always put a pillow and blanket in my bathtub when I would hear one could potentially be in the area. But a couple weeks ago when there was a tornado warning for Lauderdale County early in the morning, there was no com-munity adviser. We were dependent on Atticus Wright to knock on our doors — he was our momma. If I were in a devas-tating storm, though, I would take it more seriously.”
In the Digital Age, apps like My-WARN offer contributions to a safer situ-ation. The website and app come com-plete with lists such as “having a plan” and what to do “during a tornado watch.”
“There are only two tornado warnings on average per year for any given loca-tion even in the heart of tornado alley,” according to the MyWARN website. “So when they are issued for your specifi c lo-cation, take them seriously and act!”
“Storms are not a joke,” Pease said. “You don’t understand — you can’t, you won’t, until it happens to you.”
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SAFETY
Students discuss storm safety tips
photo illustration by ALLI OWNBY I Staff Photographer
During severe weather events, students who live in campus residence halls often have to take safety measures in the residence hall hallways.
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items, she said.From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Monday
through Friday, Rivertown serves soups, salads, sandwiches and wraps, as well as original daily specials, prepared by Cart-wright himself.
“I think a lot has to do with support-ing local businesses, but it’s more than that,” Threet said. “Starbucks, undeni-ably, has good coffee and sweets, but Rivertown provides way beyond that. They carry great coffee, sweets — and delicious food.”
Threet said Rivertown’s prices are better, too.
“Starbucks’ prices are absolutely, in-sanely high,” she said. “Any time I’ve ever purchased something from there, I feel guilty.”
Others such as Ashley White, a soph-omore at UNA, plan on frequenting both locations for coffee fi xes.
White said she plans to shop at Star-bucks occasionally between classes out of convenience but prefers Rivertown.
“Rivertown is really peaceful, and Starbucks just always feels really rushed and hectic,” she said. “Plus, Rivertown coffee is just better.”
White goes to Rivertown to read, write or meet with friends at least three times a week.
Cartwright is confi dent that River-town can withstand the competition.
“I’ve never worked in a corporate setting,” he said. “On an average day, I know the names of the people and what they order. At the end of the day, I think we can do it better than they can.”
ranging from razors to oral care.“We can keep it dignifi ed, too,” said
David Shields, vice president of student affairs. “No one needs to feel humiliated and no one needs to know why anyone is here.”
Rules, regulations and procedures for the pantry can be found in the Women’s Center.
“We need to continue to get this in-formation out to the community,” Shields said. “If the sororities and fraternities knew this existed, they could signifi cant-ly complement the cause. There are many people here on campus who struggle and have needs.”
Wes Long.SAAC raises money every year for its
Make-A-Wish campaign between Sep-tember and May.
“We raise money by selling T-shirts, we sold car wash tickets one year and we had a change drive,” said Peggy Wingo, athletics administrative assistant. “SAAC tries to raise at least $3,000 a year.”
Along with its Make-A-Wish cam-paign, SAAC participates in community outreach by volunteering for the city of Florence. SAAC has also taken part in the “Lions’ Birthday Party” held in April and hosted “Movie Night with the Lions” in December, where members collected toys for Toys for Tots.
VIEWPOINTSFeb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala 7A
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editorial board bringing reten-tion to the forefront of univer-sity discussion in their Febru-ary 7th editorial, “When It Comes to Retention… Change Directions.” I would like to contribute to this discussion by providing some clarity about the University Success Center, which will be housed on the second fl oor of the Academic Commons Building.
Research in retention tells us that the fi rst six weeks of
the semester are the most critical for getting students connected to their college or university. To that end, the University Success Center will serve as a “One Stop Shop” for students to get critical informa-tion and direction. This is not simply a relocation of CAARS or the Writing Center, but the addition of a Math Center, expanded offerings in tutoring and study and personal skills workshops, and the addition of a First-Year Experience Program to help students who choose UNA get connected to our community faster. This is also a place where we can do more to educate students on the support resources available from Student Affairs, such as
Career Planning and Develop-ment, or Counseling Services. In essence, the University Suc-cess Center will expand what we do to support students, and strengthen their introduction to UNA.
I am not convinced that increasing admission crite-ria, and thus likely reducing enrollment, is a wise move at this time. To do so ignores the larger systemic problems that lead to academic underpre-paredness and negates UNA’s ability to participate in fi nding local solutions to the issue.It also unnecessarily reduces funding at a time when we are facing constant budget cuts. It’s better, I think, to provide more support for all students
who want the education and who are willing to work for it.
I welcome the opportunity to meet with the Flor-Ala Edi-torial Board should you wish to learn more about the Center as it develops. I am sure there will be more to discuss in the future, and I thank you again for raising university aware-ness to the issue of retention.
Dr. Robert Koch Jr.Associate Professor of
EnglishChair, Student Success
Advisory CommitteeDirector, Center for Writing
ExcellenceInterim Coordinator, Active
Suspension Program
UNA’s Offi ce of Institu-tional Research, Planning & Assessment sent out a campus-wide survey last week regard-ing students’ measures of fi nancial literacy.
The survey aimed to test general knowledge of concepts and skills associated with
handling fi nances and then to compare this information across demographics and place it within a national context.
Earlier in the semester, The Flor-Ala published an article about the need for fi nancial literacy classes to be taught in high school or possibly at a college level. I now whole-heartedly believe they are nec-essary and probably incredibly benefi cial.
After taking this survey I was simply embarassed at how little I understood even for the scenarios the questions posed.
Put simply, I know next to nothing when it comes to han-dling fi nances in an effi cient
and educated manner.Sure, I know the bare
basics of the game — don’t spend beyond your means, don’t use a credit card if you don’t have to and don’t hide your cash underneath your mattress.
Past that, however, it’s pretty obvious that I’m not a banker and that I might just be gullible enough to borrow money at 20 or 30 percent interest.
I hope plenty of students actually took the time to look at the survey email and respond to it. I would like to think that students don’t simply regard everything sent
from UNA Info or a similar ad-dress as being irrelevant junk mail.
Really, any survey sent out by the university should be seriously considered, since it is more than likely practical and relevant to students’ interests and benefi ts.
Hopefully, students were able to fi ll out all the survey’s questions with the utmost confi dence in their budgets and taxes and interest rates.
Even if that’s not the case, I hope students who come to a similar realization of less-than-stellar fi nance skills will take the initiative to fi nd out how to better themselves.
SPORTS Feb. 28, 2013• The Flor-Ala • Sports Editor: Malisa McClure 256-765-5098SECTION B
The Lions baseball team trampled the Kentucky State Thorobreds in a three-game sweep at home Jan. 23-24.
UNA topped KSU 21-0 in the fi rst game of a doubleheader Saturday and 15-0 in the second game.
UNA set the tone for the opener by scoring four runs in the bottom of the fi rst inning, going on to score at least one run in six of the seven subsequent innings.
Starting pitcher Chad Boughner pitched eight shutout innings in the opening game, sealing the Lions’ fi rst win of the series and making him the winningest pitcher in the history of UNA’s baseball program.
Outfi elder Eric Wilson hit a triple in the third inning that sent Taylor Bonifa-
cio and Josh Carpenter home. All three of them scored three runs each during the game.
Outfi elder Jake Ward and fi rst base-man Josh Cyr both drove home four runs each during the opener.
Relief pitcher Jacob Westerhouse came in for the ninth inning and did his job, shutting down the Thorobreds with a fi nal scoreless inning.
The Lions established their lead early in the second game, scoring seven runs in the fi rst inning.
Wilson was again a key player of the game, scoring a three-run double in the fi rst.
Senior Michael Watkins pitched, leaving the Thorobreds scoreless in ev-ery inning. He struck out 11 players and allowed only three hits during the game.
Junior Bradley Noland and sopho-more Dylan Boston both ended the game
three-for-four, while Drew Humphrey, Andrew Almon and Matthew Tittle fol-lowed closely, each scoring two runs.
Head Coach Mike Keehn said the team played good defense over the weekend and the pitching was solid.
“We challenged our pitchers to have quality outings,” he said. “One threw deep in the seventh and eighth innings, and one pitched an entire game, so that was good.”
Sunday’s game put the Lions 5-4 overall with a fi nal win and the sweep of KSU. The score was 10-3.
Cade Medley started pitching during Sunday’s game, walking four players and striking out six. This was Medley’s fi rst win for UNA, and he pitched six in-nings.
Strong runs lead to sweep of KSUBASEBALL
BLYTHE STEELMAN
Keepinʼ up with the
LionsThis weekʼs UNA scores, stats and other tidbits
TENNIS
The menʼs and womenʼs teams snagged GSC victories at home Feb. 24 against Christian Broth-ers. The men defeated the Bucs 9-0 for their fi rst win of the sea-son, while the women won 5-2 to improve to 2-4 on the year.
BASEBALL (5-4)
The Lions completed a three-game sweep of Kentucy State at home Feb. 23-24. In the se-ries, Chad Boughner broke the record for winningest pitcher in UNA history.
CROSS COUNTRY
The womenʼs cross country team was named the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team for 2012, having seventh highest cumula-tive GPA among all NCAA Divi-sion II programs last fall. UNAʼs women had a combined 3.66 cumulative GPA.
GOLF
The Lions attended the Arm-strong Pirate Invitational Feb. 25-26, but the tournament was cancelled due to rain Feb. 26 for the fi rst time in its12-year history.
SPORTS BRIEFS
SOFTBALL (13-3)
After losing its fi rst two games of the season in the fi rst day of the UNA Invitational Feb. 22, the Lions went on to split the second day before winning both games Sunday. The Lions play their fi rst GSC matches on the road against West Florida and Valdosta State March 2-3.
SHARE THE ROAD
Stop on red, go on green and use ap-propriate turn signals — most motorists know these basic rules of the road. But most drivers don’t know what to do when
they encounter a cyclist on the road.The Outdoor Adventure Center’s
Share the Road campaign this week aimed to remedy the lack of education and to advocate biking safety in the Shoals area.
“It’s hard to feel confi dent walking
or riding to class when you aren’t sure if you’re safe,” said McKenzie Martin, coordinator of outdoor programs and special events at the OAC.
KAYLA SLOAN
Outdoor Adventure Center promotes bike safetyChristian Walker and Evan Kreider ride in a bike parade on campus Feb. 26 as part of the “Share the Road” bike cam-paign. The two will continue to lead the parades each day this week.
photo by KAYLA SLOAN I Chief Photographer
BASKETBALL
The men dropped the Feb. 23 home game to UA-Huntsville, while the women defeated the Chargers. The Lions play their fi nal regular season games against West Georgia (Feb. 28 at home) and West Alabama (March 2 away) before the GSC tournament begins in Birmingham March 7.
SPORTS Feb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala2BMen struggle, lose UA-Huntsville home game
The Lions men’s basketball team fell short against UA-Huntsville 70-67 Feb. 24 in Flowers Hall.
UNA led 30-18 with 5:55 left in the fi rst half, but a 15-6 run to end the half by the Chargers cut the Lions’ lead to 36-33.
Rashaun Claiborne hit a jump shot with 17:46 left in the game to put the Li-ons up 38-33. That was the largest lead UNA had in the second half.
Claiborne recorded a double-double as he scored 19 points and recorded 13 rebounds.
“Rashaun played well tonight,” said Bobby Champagne, head coach.
The Chargers surged back to lead 41-38, a lead they would only relinquish once the rest of the game. The Lions did not let UA-Huntsville get up by more than six points.
“We played hard,” Champagne said. “We had a number of guys who shot well.”
The Lions cut the lead to 1 with 1:04 left in the game after DeAndre Hersey completed an old-fashioned 3-point play.
“We got back into it; we tied it up and did some good things,” Champagne said. “We missed some free throws but we did a great job to get back into it. Again, this one is on me.”
The referee called a foul on DeAndre
Hersey with 24 seconds left, and Cham-pagne argued the call.
UA-Huntsville inbounded the ball to Jaime Smith while Champagne contin-
MEN’S BASKETBALL
photo by MICHAEL REDDING I Staff Photographer
UNA guard Kenyan Jackson leaps past Charger Jaime Smith (#14) and Spencer Palmer (#10) Feb. 23 at Flowers Hall.
JAMES DUBUISSON
SPORTSFeb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala 3B
UNA senior Chad Boughner be-came the winningest pitcher in UNA baseball history during the Jan. 23-24 game series against KSU.
Boughner’s career record moved to 26-11 during the opening game of the weekend series after he pitched eight shutout innings against the Thorobreds and surpassed former record holder Ken Head, who won 25 games for UNA from 1989-1992. His career in-nings pitched sits at 262.2 and he has pitched 244 strikeouts while at UNA.
Boughner has spent his entire col-lege career with the Lions, redshirting as a freshman and quickly working his way into the weekend rotation, where he has stayed for the duration of his time here, said Mike Keehn, head coach.
“He’s worked hard, and his abil-ity to throw strikes and maximize his potential has helped him get here,” Keehn said.
Keehn said Boughner’s time here has been well spent.
“He has had a great career here,” Keehn said. “Hopefully he’ll continue to win a lot of games for us this year.”
The top of the fi rst inning put the Thorobreds one up on the Lions, but UNA gained a lead in the bottom half when Tit-tle hit a double and drove home Almon and Cyr.
The bottom of the fi fth inning saw another surge in runs for the Lions, when they scored three runs on an RBI-single from Jake Ward and a two-run single from Carpenter.
After adding two runs in the seventh and one in the eighth, the Lions left KSU scoreless in the top of the ninth and took the sweep.
The Lions brought in sophomore Drew Mobley for relief in the seventh inning, and he gave up one run. Wester-house pitched a scoreless eighth and ju-nior Morgan McCarley pitched a score-less ninth.
Keehn said that even though the team won their game on Sunday, he saw mis-takes.
“We were fl at,” he said. “Our focus wasn’t well. In the game of baseball, any-thing can happen, and we’ve got to be able to maintain our focus during all three games.”
Looking ahead to the Lions’ three-game series against Shorter College this weekend, Keehn said anything is possible.
“When you start GSC play, everyone is still fi guring out the lineup,” he said. “You have to be able to handle your anxi-ety and play well. When you take away records, they’re all good players. It just comes down to which team is going to be able to catch and throw the ball better.”
UNA will host Shorter College this weekend in a three-game series, with a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. and a single game Sunday at 1 p.m.
photo by MICHAEL REDDING I Staff Photographer
Chad Boughner pitches for the Lions in the Feb. 23 shutout doubleheader against Kentucky State at Mike Lane Field.
Boughner becomes winningest pitcher in UNA history
BLYTHE STEELMAN
BOUGHNER
Martin became aware of the need for this event when she was a graduate stu-dent at Ole Miss.
“A girl in my department was hit and killed by a car,” she said. “She was do-ing all the right things: wearing bright colors and a helmet and taking the road with confi dence. That event really stuck with me.”
Martin stressed the importance for motorists and cyclists to know the rules of the road to prevent accidents.
“I witnessed a motorist yell at a co-worker riding her bike in the road, ‘Get on the sidewalk!’” she said. “It’s a lack of education.”
According to the League of Ameri-can Bicyclists, Alabama prohibits the driving of any vehicle on a sidewalk. Under this law, bicycles are considered vehicles.
The Share the Road campaign stress-es pedestrian safety as well.
Pedestrian safety is an important is-sue in densely populated areas like col-lege campuses, according to the League of American Bicyclists.
UNA student and OAC member Christian Walker hasn’t had any run-ins with cars while biking but has frequently
felt unsafe as a pedestrian.“Cars here don’t stop very well,” he
said.The OAC has been set up in the GUC
since Monday providing pamphlets and safety tip cards to students who sign the Share the Road pledge.
With the original goal of 200 sig-natures for the week, the group passed their halfway mark by Tuesday.
Martin hopes to take the program further in the future.
“I want to make this more city-ori-ented,” she said.
Support and feedback from students will be sent to Florence Mayor Mickey Haddock in hopes of getting bike lanes or more Share the Road signs in the Shoals.
“It’s easier to drive,” Martin said. “When you make the decision to bike to work, you’re not only being health con-scious but environmentally conscious as well.”
photo by KAYLA SLOAN I Chief Photographer
A “Share the Road” campaign sign is seen taped to a bike inside the GUC Feb. 26. The campaign lasts until March 1 and is aimed at promot-ing bike safety and motorists being aware of cyclists.
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ued to argue the call. Smith dribbled the ball down the sideline closest to the scorer’s table. Marquel Darrington was called for a blocking foul as he was try-ing to cut Smith off at half court. Smith hit both free throws and put the Chargers up 68-65.
UA-Huntsville called a timeout with 20 seconds left.
During the timeout, Champagne came across half court attempting to talk to the offi cials about the two calls. Having had enough, the referees called a technical on Champagne.
“I could not have made a spectacle of myself and gotten a technical there at the end,” Champagne said. “Our team played too hard for me to screw it up.”
Smith hit the two technical free throws to put the Chargers up 70-65.
“(The referees) were calling what
they saw,” Champagne said.The Lions could not recover, despite
getting Nathan Spehr a good look for a three at the end of the game. The fans were making noise throughout the game, as they had a “white-out” in Flowers Hall.
“(The fans) have been great all year,” Champagne said.
With the win, the Chargers clinched the GSC regular season championship, while the Lions fell to third place behind Christian Brothers.
UNA will host West Georgia Feb. 28 before playing their fi nal game of the regular season against West Alabama in Livingston.
The West Georgia game will be se-nior night, and the Lions look to send Keynan Jackson and DeAndrey Hersey out with a win.
The UNA women’s basketball team defeated UA-Huntsville 60-48 in Flow-ers Hall Feb. 23, allowing the team to stay in the GSC regular season champi-onship race.
The Lions kept the Lady Chargers from scoring a fi eld for the fi rst 10:05 seconds of the half. Three out of their fi rst four shots were 3-pointers. UNA went 11-25 on threes in the win.
“For us it wasn’t our plan to shoot a lot of 3-pointers; they were running a 2-3 zone and we began to shoot,” said Terry Fowler, head coach. “They were playing the percentages and we went 44 percent from the fi eld.”
The Lions began the game with a 15-1 run, with the single point coming off of a made free throw. Fowler credits the Lions defense for the run.
“They executed the game plan,” he said. “We couldn’t let them penetrate; they wanted to penetrate and pass the
ball out.”UA-Huntsville went 12-59 from the
fi eld, a low 20.3 percent. The Lions led the entire game with a perfect shooting performance from Lauren Faris. Faris went 7-7 from the fi eld, with six of those being 3-pointers.
“She stepped up and she knew she had to,” Fowler said. “She talked about it after the West Florida game.”
The only blemish for the Lions was their 21 turnovers.
“We tried to force it into the paint a couple of times and make some diago-nal passes,” Fowler said. “Once they got down, they could take chances. They could gamble a little bit.”
UNA will host West Georgia Feb. 28 and travel to West Alabama March 2. Fowler and the Lions will look to cap-ture the GSC regular season title.
“The last two games are huge,” Fowl-er said. “Really it depends on what hap-pens in the West Georgia-Delta game.”
Delta State defeated West Georgia Saturday Feb. 23 to stay one game ahead of the Lions. Delta State will play Val-dosta State and West Florida to end the season. If they were to lose one of the games, it would open the door for UNA to jump into a tie or even a lead in the GSC.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Lionsʼ three-pointers lead over UAH Chargers
FINAL SCOREUNA - 60UAH - 48
JAMES DUBUISSON
ProGrass announces bowl players, coaches
In two press releases sent out by the UNA Athletics Deparment Feb. 20 and Feb. 26, a partial player roster and full list of coaches for the March 15 Pro-Grass International Scout Bowl (ISB) have been announced.
UNA players who will be part of the scout bowl include former Lions play-ers Wes Holland (WR) and Josh Roberts (LS).
International players set to play in-clude Roshan Lobo, MVP of the Elite Football League of India; All-Star Kick-er Jose Maltos from Mexico; and Francis Nouvi from the Netherlands.
The two will join South Florida Bulls quarterback BJ Daniels, Daniel Borne from Alabama-Birmingham, Khiry Rob-inson of West Texas A&M, Michael Bowman of Alabama and Moses Jenkins Jr. from the University of Florida.
The head coach of the South Team will be Coach Johnny Majors, who has coached at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Tennessee and has
won one national championship and three SEC titles.
Coach Peter Vaas will coach the North Team. Vaas was a head coach in NFL Europe, where he won two World Bowl Championships, and is currently coaching at the University of South Florida.
The coaching staffs include coaches and former players from universities around the country as well as former NFL players.
Former Auburn University coach Pat Dye will be one of four coaching con-sultants.
Dye will also be the keynote speaker at the ISB Banquet March 14. The ban-quet, which was annouced Feb. 15, will be a chance for fans to meet the players and coaches.
Tickets for the banquet, along with other information about the IBS, are available at the offi cial website www.prograssisb.com.
For coverage of the ISB and the UNA Spring Scrimmage game that will be held the following day, follow @FlorAl-aSports and www.fl orala.net.
MALISA MCCLURE
LIFE 5B
The 16th annual George Lindsey Film Festival will commemorate de-ceased actor and festival co-founder George Lindsey Feb. 27 through March 1. This festival will be the fi rst in which Lindsey has not held an active role in its planning and development.
“On a surface level, it might not ap-pear that we are (honoring Lindsey), but this year at the awards show and after-party, we will be recognizing his passing and honoring his memory,” said Jason Flynn, co-chair of the festival and assistant professor of fi lm and digital media production.
Together with former UNA director of communications Bill Jarnigan and professor of communications Bobby Hurt, Lindsey, a UNA alumnus, began the George Lindsey Film Festival in 1997. The festival serves as a competi-tive fi lm festival for aspiring and profes-
sional fi lmmakers at the local, national and international level. UNA is the only university within the U.S. to offer a fi lm competition of this kind.
“All these people, particularly George and Bobby had these ideas that overlapped each other,” Flynn said. “George wanted to do something for his home school and Bobby wanted to do something for her students.”
The efforts of all those involved on the early planning committee helped Lindsey to achieve his goal of providing fi lm education to the Shoals community, said Cynthia Burkhead, festival co-chair
and UNA assistant professor of English.Flynn agreed and said Lindsey’s
stardom helped to launch the festival in its early years.
“It’s always been about education and the community,” he said. “What George brought to the table was his ce-lebrity; he was going places and doing things and he could make contacts.”
This year’s festival will not have a special guest speaker. Instead, Flynn said the festival will feature a screening of the “Muscle Shoals” documentary March 1 at 7 p.m. in Norton Auditorium. The fi lm will be introduced by musician and UNA alumnus John Paul White.
The fi lm, which was a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival, follows the history of music within the Shoals area. The 102-minute fi lm features some of the biggest names in music discuss-ing the pivotal role Muscle Shoals has played in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.
CORINNE BECKINGER
Festival to commemorate namesake during annual eventFile Photos by CHRISTINA COVINGTON
George Lindsey speaks at 2012 George Lindsey Film Festival in Norton Auditorium. He died 2 months later.
GOODBYE, GOOBER
”GEORGE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIS HOME SCHOOL AND BOBBY WANTED TO DO
SOMETHING FOR HER STUDENTS.
JASON FLYNN
Feb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala • Life Editor: Ann Harkey 256-765-5233
LIFE Feb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala6B
“This is about as big of a fi lm for the local audience as we could get for the lo-cal audiences,” Flynn said. “We’re doing this for the people, which, in part, honors (Lindsey)’s memory because this is why the festival got started.”
After the screening of “Muscle Shoals,” a panel consisting of White, re-cord producer Rick Hall, musician David Hood, Jimmy Johnson and cinematogra-pher Anthony Arendt will lead discussion about the fi lm.
Flynn said the Q-and-A discussions following each of the screenings during the three-day festival are one of the most important elements of the festival.
“We’re looking for that engagement with the audience,” he said. “(The fi lm-makers) get to interact with the audience about their work.”
That engagement provides an extra
dose of encouragement for some UNA fi lm students.
“For me, meeting the fi lmmakers is a good reassurance and reminder that they are real people like us and they were once in our shoes,” said Ashley Ridgeway, a se-nior fi lm student.
Despite the absence of Lindsey, the festival will still remain focused on its original purpose: providing entertainment and learning opportunities to the Shoals communities. In that sense, the legacy of Lindsey will remain intact.
“It’s not all about a person this year; it’s about an era,” Flynn said. “It’s about where we’ve been and where we’re going. We’re in our 16th year, which is at a point where we have established ourselves and could become lazy and complacent, but we’re not. As a committee, we’re going to continue to try to put on the best festival that we can.”
For a complete line-up and event schedule, visit the festival’s homepage at www.lindseyfi lmfest.com or check out their Facebook page.
GEORGE LINDSEY FILM FESTIVAL EVENT SCHEDULE THURSDAY, FEB. 28 FRIDAY, MARCH 1 SATURDAY, MARCH 2
YOUNG FILMAKER SCREENINGS
KICK-OFF PARTY (FLOBAMA)
LETTING GO
DAY OF SILENCE
ALONE TOGETHER
Q&A
5 P.M.
7 P.M.
8 P.M.
8:30 P.M. SHOALS SPOTLIGHT SCREENINGS
REDEFINING AWESOME: JOHN MUNSON’S DREAM
VANGUARD SCREENINGS
RETROCOGNITION FALLIN’ FOR YOU GRANDMOTHERS
MOUTH WIDE OPEN, EYES SHUT TIGHT
IN HER BLACKSMITH EYE
10 P.M. Q&A
10 A.M. YOUNG FILMAKERS WORKSHOP (UNA COMMUNICATION BUILDING)
STUDENT DOC SCREENINGS
BLIGHTED BEAUTY, NEVER GOT A DIME, AMENDS WITH THE PAST
Q&A10:45 A.M.
11:15 A.M.12:15 P.M.- 6 P.M.
SHORT SCREENPLAY WINNER
PRO DOC SCREENINGS
THE KINGS OF BBQ BARBECUE KUWAIT
TODAY WE SAW THE FACE OF GOD
RECONVERGENCE EATING ALABAMA
6:30 P.M. PRE-SHOW LIVE MUSIC (NORTON AUDITORIUM)
SPECIAL EVENT7:30 P.M.
10 A.M. FEATURE SCREENPLAY WINNER (UNA COMMUNICATION BUILDING)
1 P.M.- 2 P.M.
STUDENT NARRATIVE SCREENINGS
HARVEST
MADLY UNTO ETERNITY NOT AT HOME BLACK BETE
MY FRIEND ERHAN
2:45 P.M.- 4 P.M.
PRO NARRATIVE SCREENINGS
GENRE
TOWING
BARNEY AND THE MARTIANS FAVOURITE THING DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
6:30 P.M. 16TH ANNUAL LINDSEY FILM FEST AWARDS SHOW AND AFTER PARTY
LIFEFeb. 28, 2013 • The Flor-Ala 7BHEALTH
ʻEverybody Knows Somebodyʼ
UNA held National Eating Disorder and Awareness Week Feb. 26 through 28.
Jennifer Berry, licensed professional counselor for Student Counseling Ser-vices, said prior to NEDA week that the week would be an opportunity to dispel any myths and provide information about eating disorders.
“The whole week is about igniting awareness of the seriousness of eating disorders,” she said.
According to nationaleatingdisor-ders.org, the rate of development of new cases of eating disorders has been increasing since 1950. In particular, the rate in college students has risen from 10 to 20 percent in women and 4 to 10 per-cent in men.
Many believe eating disorders are the result of vanity issues, but an eating
disorder is a psychological issue that re-quires treatment, Berry said.
Students can often times help their friends seek proper treatment.
Emily Sullivan, a student at UNA, said that if she had a friend who showed signs of unhealthy eating patterns, she would simply ask how they were and of-fer advice, which is what Berry advises students to do.
“Let friends know you’re there for them,” Berry said. “Just say, ‘Hey, I’m here for you.’”
People with an eating disorder don’t typically seek help until there is a health reason.
Student Alex Rubalin said he thinks males would be less likely to report hav-ing an eating disorder simply because of embarrassment.
“It’s stereotyped more as a female disorder, even though it’s not,” Rubalin said.
Berry said men are less likely to talk
about having an eating disorder because of this perceived label, but it does not discriminate. She said an eating disorder can affect anyone, regardless of age, race or gender.
According to nationaleatingdisor-ders.org, a negative body image can be one the fi rst triggers of an eating disor-der and one of the fi nal and most diffi cult stages of recovery.
“I think college students, especially females, are worried about what society thinks about their weight,” Sullivan said. “It’s a very unhealthy way to live.”
Developing and maintaining a posi-tive body image can be diffi cult, but stu-dent Krys Eubanks said she is able do so by participating in exercise that she en-joys with friends.
“Eventually it’ll get to the point where you don’t want to go two or three days without working out,” Eubanks said.
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photo by ANN HARKEY I Life Editor
Lacey Elliot and Kayla Wick, student volunteers, hand out informational pamphlets to students in the GUC.
Students, falculty bring attention to dangers of eating disorders
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