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CORRECTION BY THE NUMBERS 105 | Alabama has played in 105 overtime games in school history, with a record of 56-48-1 all-time in overtime games. 12 | Alabama has played in 12 double-overtime games in school history. They are 10-2 in those games. 24 | JaMychal Green notched his 24th career double-double, the most among active players in the SEC. 3 | Alabama had three players score in double figures, including Charles Hankerson Jr., who scored an SEC career-high 10 points. 28 | The Tide has won 28 of its last 30 home games, including 12 of its last 13 SEC games at home. 8 | The Tide has played eight SEC games and is 3-1 at home, but only 1-3 on the road. By Marc Torrence Sports Reporter @marctorrence It wasn’t a dominant performance. It certainly wasn’t pretty. But the Alabama Crimson Tide will take it. Alabama found a way to beat the Ole Miss Rebels Saturday night in Coleman Coliseum in a game that, if lost, would have been a big stain on the Tide’s NCAA tournament resume. After dropping four straight con- ference games, Alabama will take the wins any way it can get them. The Tide took down Ole Miss 69-67 in the second overtime of an ugly game that Alabama had to fight back to win. “I can’t express enough how proud I am of our guys for the effort they showed tonight, the fight they had and the will to win,” head coach Anthony Grant said. “That was all about heart and pas- sion tonight. We had a lot of guys tonight that really put it all out there on the line tonight. We’re just happy and very fortunate to come out with the win.” And fortunate they were. It took everything Alabama had to chip away at the early Ole Miss lead in a game in which the Tide looked lost on offense for most of the first half. Alabama shot 37.9 percent from the field in the first half and hit just one of eight 3-point attempts. It also committed 10 fouls to Ole Miss’s three. “At the half, the thing that stood out, they were shooting 56 percent from the field,” Grant said. “Just watching the game, I thought we had a level of frustration because we weren’t making shots, we were set- tling for shots.” But in the second half, Alabama battled back and was able to force overtime after being down by as many as 10 points late in the first half. Tide snaps SEC skid in OT By Adrienne Burch Contributing Writer [email protected]The University of Alabama will switch its online learning- management system from eLearning to Blackboard Learn throughout the 2012 school year, with the transi- tion set to begin this summer. The company that provides technical support and updates for eLearning will no longer support it after Dec. 31, 2012. UA has used the eLearning system since 2007. “[eLearning] is out of date and clunky compared to many of the more modern appli- cations in use today,” said Marilyn Staffo, director of the Faculty Resource Center at the University. “For example, the eLearning system does not work well with modern browsers such as [Google] Chrome.” Staffo said there has been a 45-percent increase in the use of eLearning across cam- pus in the past three years. She said she was unsure, with the continued growth of the University, that eLearning would be able to support the school’s needs in the future. eLearning is used across campus by professors and stu- dents to view grades, home- work assignments and to take tests. Blackboard Learn offers the same features, including the ability to access lecture materials and communicate through mail messages. eLearning to be phased out By Dianne Winslett Contributing Writer When the doors opened to the Campus MovieFest red carpet finale event at the Ferguson Center Theater Thursday, a mob of people had already collected outside. The doors opened at 7 p.m. for the evening’s event, but competi- tors, supporters and onlookers alike had been congregating since 6:30 p.m. During their wait, students were able to have their pic- ture taken on the 25-foot red carpet and view the 3D film set up alongside it. They came clothed in dresses and tuxes. “The red carpet made every- thing seem so fancy, and see- ing everyone dressed up made it feel like a real professional Hollywood screening. There was a very regal atmosphere,” said Emily Baxter, a freshman majoring in special education. Baxter attended the event because she was interested in seeing the talent her peers had to offer. Once inside the theater, a variety of screenshots were played to entertain people as they waited for the screen- ing to begin. Ultimately the Ferguson Center Theater reached capacity due to the plethora of people attending the event. CMF staff put out extra folding chairs, but those filled up quickly, forcing some individuals to take seats on the floor. “I think it was impressive that so many students attend- ed the event. I think movies are captivating and seeing the par- ticipation during the finale was encouraging and inspiring,” said Kyerra Dexter, a junior majoring in telecommunica- tion and film. Ferg Theater overflows for Campus MovieFest screening • Best Picture: “Buyer’s Remorse - Part 2” • Best Drama: “Here and Now” • Best Comedy: “Miss Peabody is Dead” Campus MovieFest Winners See MOVIEFEST, page 7 Scan this QR Code with the reader on your phone to watch all of UA’s Cam- pus MovieFest’s entries. [eLearning] is out of date and clunky compared to many of the more modern applications in use today. — Marilyn Staffo See ELEARNING, page 2 By Tray Smith Special Projects Editor [email protected]@ralphlsmith A proposed coal mine on University of Alabama prop- erty could threaten more than just drinking water, two Birmingham breweries wrote in letters sent to University President Robert Witt late last month. The owners of Avondale Brewing Company and Good People Brewing Company have joined with Black Warrior Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization oppos- ing the mine, out of concerns that it could discharge harm- ful materials that would dam- age water quality and lead to an increase in filtration fees. “When you mess with the water, you mess with our beer,” Avondale co-founder Coby Lake said. “You mess with our product. It’s going to cost us more money to make the product. It’s going to affect the taste…of the beers that we brew. So I think overall, [it will] affect not only us but hundreds of thousands of indi- viduals, because their bills are going to go up, and the quality of the water will go down.” A permit for the proposed mine was issued to Shepherd Bend LLC, a company owned by the Drummond family, by the Alabama Surface Mining Commission in 2010. It would be located on part of 1,300 acres UA owns in Walker County and would discharge wastewater 800 feet away from a Birmingham Water Works Board intake facility that supplies water for 200,000 Birmingham-area residents. Conflict brewing over mine Both Good People Brewing Company and Avondale Brewing Company offer a bar for customers to come and enjoy each company’s beer. CW | Daniel Roth See BREWERY, page 3 See BASKETBALL, page 10 SPORTS Women’s basketball continues losing streak 12 12 NEWS Kami-Con brings fictional characters to life 6 6 Birmingham beer makers concerned Shepherd Bend construction could affect taste quality CW | John Michael Simpson Tony Mitchell goes up for a dunk in the Tide’s win against Ole Miss Saturday in Coleman Coliseum. Screenshot eLearning, pictured above will be replaced by Blackboard Learn by 2013
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Monday, February 6, 2012 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 118, Issue 82
2012 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 2012 S i h U i i f Al b i 1894
In the article “Students remember for-mer TCF chair,” Loy Singleton, dean of the College of Communication and Information Sciences, was incorrectly
identified as the chair of the department of telecommunication and film. The Crimson White regrets the error and is happy to set the record straight.
CORRECTION
BY THE NUMBERS
105| Alabama has played in 105 overtime
games in school history, with a record of 56-48-1 all-time in overtime games.
12| Alabama has played in 12 double-overtime
games in school history. They are 10-2 in those games.
24| JaMychal Green notched his 24th career
double-double, the most among active players in the SEC.
3| Alabama had three players score in double
fi gures, including Charles Hankerson Jr., who scored an SEC career-high 10 points.
28| The Tide has won 28 of its last 30 home
games, including 12 of its last 13 SEC games at home.
8| The Tide has played eight SEC games and is 3-1 at
home, but only 1-3 on the road.
By Marc TorrenceSports Reporter@marctorrence
It wasn’t a dominant performance. It certainly wasn’t pretty. But the Alabama Crimson Tide will take it. Alabama found a way to beat the Ole Miss Rebels Saturday night in Coleman Coliseum in a game that, if lost, would have been a big stain on the Tide’s NCAA tournament resume. After dropping four straight con-ference games, Alabama will take the wins any way it can get them. The Tide took down Ole Miss 69-67 in the second overtime of an ugly game that Alabama had to fight back to win. “I can’t express enough how proud I am of our guys for the effort they showed tonight, the fight they had and the will to win,” head coach Anthony Grant said. “That was all about heart and pas-sion tonight. We had a lot of guys tonight that really put it all out there on the line tonight. We’re just happy and very fortunate to come out with the win.” And fortunate they were. It took everything Alabama had to chip away at the early Ole Miss lead in a game in which the Tide looked lost on offense for most of the first half. Alabama shot 37.9 percent from the field in the first half and hit just one of eight 3-point attempts. It also committed 10 fouls to Ole Miss’s three. “At the half, the thing that stood out, they were shooting 56 percent from the field,” Grant said. “Just watching the game, I thought we had a level of frustration because we weren’t making shots, we were set-tling for shots.” But in the second half, Alabama battled back and was able to force overtime after being down by as many as 10 points late in the first half.
The University of Alabama will switch its online learning-management system from eLearning to Blackboard Learn throughout the 2012 school year, with the transi-tion set to begin this summer. The company that provides technical support and updates for eLearning will no longer support it after Dec. 31, 2012. UA has used the eLearning system since 2007. “[eLearning] is out of date and clunky compared to many of the more modern appli-cations in use today,” said Marilyn Staffo, director of the Faculty Resource Center at the University. “For example, the eLearning system does not work well with modern browsers such as [Google] Chrome.”
Staffo said there has been a 45-percent increase in the use of eLearning across cam-pus in the past three years. She said she was unsure, with the continued growth of the University, that eLearning would be able to support the school’s needs in the future. eLearning is used across campus by professors and stu-dents to view grades, home-work assignments and to take tests. Blackboard Learn offers the same features, including the ability to access lecture materials and communicate through mail messages.
eLearning to be phased out
By Dianne WinslettContributing Writer
When the doors opened to the Campus MovieFest red carpet finale event at the Ferguson Center Theater Thursday, a mob of people had already collected outside. The doors opened at 7 p.m. for the evening’s event, but competi-tors, supporters and onlookers alike had been congregating since 6:30 p.m. During their wait, students were able to have their pic-ture taken on the 25-foot red carpet and view the 3D film set up alongside it. They came clothed in dresses and tuxes. “The red carpet made every-thing seem so fancy, and see-ing everyone dressed up made it feel like a real professional Hollywood screening. There was a very regal atmosphere,” said Emily Baxter, a freshman majoring in special education.
Baxter attended the event because she was interested in seeing the talent her peers had to offer. Once inside the theater, a variety of screenshots were played to entertain people as they waited for the screen-ing to begin. Ultimately the Ferguson Center Theater reached capacity due to the plethora of people attending the event. CMF staff put out extra folding chairs, but those filled up quickly, forcing some individuals to take seats on the floor. “I think it was impressive that so many students attend-ed the event. I think movies are captivating and seeing the par-ticipation during the finale was encouraging and inspiring,” said Kyerra Dexter, a junior majoring in telecommunica-tion and film.
Ferg Theater overfl ows for Campus MovieFest screening
• Best Picture: “Buyer’s Remorse - Part 2”
• Best Drama: “Here and Now”
• Best Comedy: “Miss Peabody is Dead”
Campus MovieFest Winners
See MOVIEFEST, page 7
Scan this QR Code with the reader on your phone to watch all of UA’s Cam-pus MovieFest’s entries.
[eLearning] is out of date and clunky compared to many of the more modern applications in use today.
A proposed coal mine on University of Alabama prop-erty could threaten more than just drinking water, two Birmingham breweries wrote in letters sent to University President Robert Witt late last month. The owners of Avondale Brewing Company and Good People Brewing Company have joined with Black Warrior Riverkeeper, a
nonprofit organization oppos-ing the mine, out of concerns that it could discharge harm-ful materials that would dam-age water quality and lead to an increase in filtration fees. “When you mess with the water, you mess with our beer,” Avondale co-founder Coby Lake said. “You mess with our product. It’s going to cost us more money to make the product. It’s going to affect the taste…of the beers that we brew. So I think overall, [it will] affect not only us but hundreds of thousands of indi-viduals, because their bills are
going to go up, and the quality of the water will go down.” A permit for the proposed mine was issued to Shepherd Bend LLC, a company owned by the Drummond family, by the Alabama Surface Mining Commission in 2010. It would be located on part of 1,300 acres UA owns in Walker County and would discharge wastewater 800 feet away from a Birmingham Water Works Board intake facility that supplies water for 200,000 Birmingham-area residents.
Confl ict brewing over mine
Both Good People Brewing Company and Avondale Brewing Company offer a bar for customers to come and enjoy each company’s beer.
CW | Daniel Roth
See BREWERY, page 3
See BASKETBALL, page 10
SPORTSWomen’s basketball
continues losing streak1212NEWS
Kami-Con brings fi ctional characters to life 66
Birmingham beer makers concerned Shepherd Bend construction could affect taste quality
CW | John Michael SimpsonTony Mitchell goes up for a dunk in the Tide’s win against Ole Miss Saturday in Coleman Coliseum.
ScreenshoteLearning, pictured above will be replaced by Blackboard Learn by 2013
What: Screening of “The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975.” Admission is $7, $6 for students
Where: Bama Theatre
When: 7:30 p.m.
What: Bollywood Film Festival presents “Agneepath”
Where: Riverside Media Center
When: 8 p.m.
What: Recital featuring Noel Engebretson
Where: Moody Concert Hall
When: 7:30 p.m.
TODAY
What: Caring Days Adult Daycare volunteer work – Sign up at slpro.ua.edu
Where: Caring Days Adult Daycare
When: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
What: Bob Jones High School Exhibition
Where: Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall
When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
What: Endowed Chair in Musicology
Where: Moody Concert Hall
When: 5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
What: Volunteer at Temporary Emergency Services
Where: Temporary Emergency Services
When: 1 to 3 p.m.
What: Jazz and More
Where: Moody Music Building
When: 7:30 p.m.
ON CAMPUS ON THE RADAR
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LAS VEGAS – Mitt Romney spent years cultivating vot-ers in Nevada, and it paid off Saturday with a commanding victory that not only pushed him closer to the GOP nomina-tion but laid a strong marker in a state both parties will fight to carry in November. Romney also won the Nevada caucuses in 2008, one of the few impressive perfor-mances of his failed bid for the Republican nomination, and he never really stopped campaigning here. The only question was whether Romney would top the 51 percent he received four years ago; he was winning just under that in early returns. Trailing far behind were former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who were locked in a close fight for second. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who eked out a win in Iowa but has faded since, was a distant fourth. “Thank you, guys, what a great showing,” an exuber-ant Romney told supporters Saturday night in Las Vegas, as they waved white-and-blue
placards reading, “Nevada believes.” This is not the first time you gave me your vote of confi-dence,” he said, “and this time I’m going to to take it all the way to the White House.” Gingrich, at a late-night news conference, said he would stay in the race until the late summer national party convention. “I am a candidate for presi-dent of the United States. I will be a candidate for president of the United States,” he said. “We will continue to campaign all the way to Tampa.” There are 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination and Romney has staked an early lead in that count after winning three of the first five contests, including a Florida blowout on Tuesday. But more meaningful was the momentum Romney gained from his back-to-back wins, which will propel him forward to the next round of ballot-ing on Tuesday in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. Beyond that, the former Massachusetts governor dem-onstrated strengths, like an impressive get-out-the-vote operation, that will serve him
well in Nevada in the fall, should he emerge as the GOP nominee. More than a quarter of the electorate Saturday was Mormon and more than 9 in 10 of that group voted for Romney, who shares their faith. That percentage of vot-ers will shrink in the general election. Even so, Democrats acknowledge Romney starts with a strong, highly motivat-ed base upon which to build for November. But Romney’s strong perfor-mance Saturday grew out of more than religious affinity; he garnered support across much of the GOP, as he did in Florida and New Hampshire, the other states he won. Entrance polls showed him carrying just about every category of cau-cusgoer, except for the young-est voters, the secular and those making the least money, who preferred Paul. Nevada saw a truncated campaign that disappointed many here who anticipated the state’s turn on the national stage and a chance to intro-duce Nevada’s woes and Western issues, like water and land use, into the presidential discussion.
Undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni are invited to nominate the fac-ulty member they would most like to hear a lecture delivered on the following premise: “If this were your last chance to talk to a group of UA students, what would you say to them?”
Retired faculty members are not eligible for the honor. Past recipients include Drs. Bebe Barefoot, Lawrence Kohl, Utz McKnight, Jim Salem and Ron Dulek. Nominations must be submitted electronically at graduate.ua.edu/events/last-lecture.html by Feb. 10.
Nominations for 2012 Last Lecture Award now open
Spring 2 registration is open through Feb. 17. Students can pick up extra hours in this shorter semester. Spring 2 classes, many of which are offered online, begin Feb.
13 and end with the regular semester. To register, stu-dents can log in to mybama.ua.edu and link to course options by clicking on the Spring 2 logo.
Spring 2 semester registration now openRomney scores impressive win at Nevada caucus
“The two programs both offer capa-bilities that faculty and students need, but the new system offers a lot more flexibility and has a more up-to-date interface,” said Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson, the University’s director of emerging technologies and research. The new Blackboard Learn will also give students and faculty the oppor-tunity to download apps for their iOS, Android or Blackberry devices. Professors will also have the option
of sending text message updates and reminders to their students via Blackboard Learn. There are many large universi-ties across the country already using Blackboard, and Thompson hopes that this means there is a valid interest in keeping the program for an extended time period. The transition has begun this semester with a small pilot program of eight course sections and will be implemented with 50 percent of the course sections offered in Blackboard Learn this summer. 75 percent of courses will be offered this fall, and all
courses will be taught in Blackboard Learn by 2013. “The transition will require a period of adjustment for students, faculty and the support staff on campus,” Thompson said. “But there will be many opportunities to get assistance.” There will be a training course available to students on how to use Blackboard Learn. Professors will be invited to several training workshops and be able to access online videos, tutorials and other resources. The next information session is scheduled for Feb. 14 from 1 to 2 p.m. in Gorgas Room 205.
ELEARNINGCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Republican presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney responds to support-ers after deliver-ing remarks to a frenzied crowd at Lanco Paint Co., in Orlando, Fla., Fri., Jan. 27, 2012.
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• eLearning will be phased out in favor of Blackboard Learn throughout 2012
• Blackboard Learn will include a mobile phone app for iOS, Android and Blackberry
• Professors will be able to send text message reminders to stu-dents through Blackboard Learn
FAST FACTS
The Black Student Union and the UA Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples are hosting the “State of the Black Union” event at 7 p.m. tonight in the Ferguson Center Ballroom. The event will include speeches from the presidents of the BSU and the NAACP and will include
comments from Mark Nelson, vice president of Student Affairs; Joyce Stallworth, president of the Black Faculty & Staff Association; Tamica Shambly, president of the Black Graduate Student Association; and Booker T. Forte, founding vice president of the African-American Association (now the Black Student Union).
State of the Black Union to be held at Ferg
SOCIAL MEDIA: WEEK IN REVIEW
Follow tweets that use the popular campus hashtags #uachat and #uatweet for a recap of last week in social media.
Ann Pellegrini, an associ-ate professor of performance studies and religious studies at New York University, will present a lecture on religion and democracy Thursday, February 16. The lecture, titled “Discomforting Democracy: Religion, Performance, and the Space of Political Exchange,”
will be at 7 p.m. in Gorgas Library Room 205. Pellegrini’s lecture will focus on the juxta-position of religion in political activity, especially the con-troversies surrounding the “Ground Zero mosque” and Oklahoma’s ban on Shariah law.
Department of Religious Studies to sponsor lecture on religion, democracy
Former Charlotte Observer Southern editor Frye Gaillard will be awarded the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing, presented every year to a writer with a strong con-nection to Alabama whose
writing has a significant impact on the South. Past win-ners of the award include Rick Bragg, Howell Raines and E.O. Wilson. Gaillard is currently a writer in residence at the University of South Alabama.
Journalism department names Mobile native as award winner
VIDEO: INSIDE BIRMINGHAM
BREWERIES
The Crimson White inter-viewed the owners of Avondale Brewing Company and Good People Brewing Company about how the development of a strip mine at Shepherd Bend could affect their businesses.
Each year, some of the big-gest parts of the Super Bowl are the creative advertise-ments shown in between game plays. Various beer, snack and electronic companies, to name a few, spend millions of dollars for these ads, but what if the University of Alabama joined the list? Joseph Phelps, professor and chair of the department of advertising and public rela-tions, said he imagines a UA Super Bowl ad showcasing championship. “The Super Bowl identifies a champion,” Phelps said. “The winner is the number one professional football team. I can envision a Super Bowl ad for the University of Alabama showing our aca-demic programs and the stu-dents in these programs as champions.” The UA department of advertising and public rela-tions has been among the top five programs in the U.S. in each of the last four years, Phelps said. “On March 1, during a cer-emony in New York, [the
Department of Advertising and Public Relations] will find out if it has been named the top program in the coun-try for this year,” Phelps said. “That is a championship moment, and such champion-ship moments can become defining moments when they are communicated well to the viewers.” Teri K. Henley, a UA ad team adviser, said the time process for creating an ad varies. A large amount of research goes into understanding the inter-nal and external environment, and the process can take weeks or months, depending on the number of factors. “First, a team has to deter-mine why it is advertising and who it wants to advertise to,” Henley said. “Sometimes the research is just secondary, but often, it involves primary research, such as surveys, focus groups or in-depth interviews. “After there is a clear under-standing of the situation, then there must be a creative brief that summarizes the informa-tion, and only then does the creative team begin coming up with ideas that communi-cate the agreed-upon strategy. Once the creative team has an
idea, they would storyboard it and present it to the client for approval or go back to the drawing board, and if it is agreed upon by all parties, it would go into production.” The Super Bowl is watched by many people and is one of the few venues where ads can become part of pop culture, Henley said. “This year, there has been an increasing trend to release the ad before the game,” Henley said. “The goal is to create buzz and excitement about the ad. The Honda ‘Ferris Bueller’ ad is an example of that, as is the Star Wars barking dogs ad. Ads in the Super Bowl often work because they are humorous and entertaining.” Gabe Fry, a junior majoring in business, said he wishes that all commercials received as much effort as Super Bowl commercials appear to get. “Sometimes it seems like the game is less important than the commercials,” Fry said. “Something that makes Super Bowl commercials interesting is when they tell a story like the Google one about the student who went to France and ended up stay-ing there and meeting the love
UA experts speak on Super Bowl ads
The brewers are asking Witt to prevent the company from mining on UA property, saying such a decision could prevent Shepherd Bend from mining any part of the area. “I understand that without participation of the UA System, it may not be cost-effective for the mining company, Shepherd Bend LLC, to mine at Shepherd Bend at all,” wrote Good People’s Jason Malone. “Please do not sell or lease UA’s land or mineral rights at Shepherd Bend for min-ing. Our drinking water depends on this decision. The same may be said for our business.” But Malone said if the water were treated correctly, it may not pose a significant threat to
Good People. “I guess it depends on how it’s handled,” he said. “You know, if the proper treatment of that water and the prop-er disposal of that water is
handled correctly, then obvious-ly, it might have minimal impact, if any. But if…pollution is to [occur] because of the mine, and that water’s not properly filtered or treated at the facility, then it
could have some lasting effects.” Malone also said that any increase in fees needed to pay for more expensive water treat-ment options would impact the economy. Despite working against the mine, Lake, a UA graduate, offered praise for the University. “We love the University of Alabama,” Lake said. “We love Dr. Witt. We love every-thing about Alabama – we just want him to make the right decision.” In response to the letters, the University said there are no plans to allow the land to be used for the strip mine. “The University has not been approached about leasing the land and has no current plans to lease or sell the land,” UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen said.
In his State of the Union address two weeks ago, President Obama discussed issues on every college stu-dent’s mind: the rise of tuition costs and interest rates on student loans. “Student loan debt has now surpassed credit card debt for the first time ever,” Obama said while addressing an audience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor three days after the State of the Union speech. “Since most [college students] were born, tuition and fees have more than doubled.” During the current aca-demic year, federally subsi-dized student loans – mainly Stafford loans – are projected
Obama tuition policy could ‘dilute’ quality of education
of his life with the help of the search engine.”
to average 3.4 percent, accord-ing to studentloanconsolida-tor.com. If Congress fails to extend the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 in July of this year, these rates will double, and students will incur thousands more dollars of debt – a figure currently averaging around $24,000. This increase arrives at a time when banks are bor-rowing federal money at the lowest rates in history. Students unfamiliar with debt might wonder: How will it all add up years down the road? Obama addressed this, too: a new initiative called “Know Before You Owe” may help students to grasp the long-term implications of their borrowing. “Accumulated interest can catch people off-guard,” said Gary Hoover, a professor of
economics at the University. “‘Know Before You Owe’ will show students all of the num-bers.” Additionally, Obama has capped student loan pay-ments for many graduated Americans at 10 percent of their monthly disposable income. This is a decrease from the recent cap set at 15 percent. Despite these positive measures, increasing tuition rates exacerbate the prob-lem. According to a College Board report, 2011 saw an 8.3 percent increase in public tuition costs from the previ-ous year. When compared to a two or three percent infla-tion rate, the discrepancy is obvious – even gasoline costs are less volatile. Economists like Hoover understand the need for higher costs.
“The federal government discourages the high rate of increasing tuition costs, but it also demands that schools practice more monitoring, use more technology and offer more accommodations,” Hoover said. “Of course, that all costs money, but I don’t think it amounts to 10 percent more tuition and fees.” “The president wants schools to explain those costs, and I think that’s fair,” Hoover said.
Some aspects of the econ-omy, however, don’t help the president’s cause. States like Alabama are sinking deeper into debt and cutting costs – such as university subsidies – to slow the plunge. Tuition is expected to make up the difference. Moreover, Obama has threatened to withhold federal funding from state schools that don’t keep tuition costs in check. While there are ways for states to lower the cost of
public higher education, they come with tradeoffs. In a January article by the Associated Press, Al Bowman, president of Illinois State University, expressed his concern: “You could hire mostly part-time, adjunct faculty,” Bowman said. “You could teach in much larger lecture halls, but the things that would allow you achieve the greatest levels of efficiency would dilute the product.” That product of education is the same human capital Obama is trying to preserve. “Higher education is not a luxury,” Obama said. “It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”
“Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an econom-ic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”.
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On Thursdays, some Crimson White staffers and I have made a habit of going to Wilhagan’s to play trivia. It’s a pleasant way to spend the eve-ning, and Wilhagan’s has a $2 “Beer of the Week” special that is almost always a delicious craft beer of some sort – except last Thursday, when it wasn’t. When I ordered the Beer of the Week last Thursday, what was set before me was so patently offensive, so utterly opposite of accepted standards of good taste that only my coworker could sum it up best in a moment of clarity: “I’ve never had a beer make me angry before.” A blue bottle sat before me, barely transparent. It belonged in a nightclub I’d never go to. The sparse label read Bud Light Platinum. I heard about this beer earlier in the week from a couple of people on Twitter. I heard the whole point behind Platinum was its higher alcohol content. A high
Tuscaloosa is a college town. And where we succeed in education, football and cam-pus life, we lack in shopping, restaurants and living oppor-tunities. If you’re hoping for a good meal or decent shopping, you head to Birmingham. So, when Tuscaloosa is presented with an opportunity to build a “Summit-like” shopping cen-ter with “shops, eateries and apartments,” you would think the city of Tuscaloosa would pounce on the prospect. Apparently not. Last week, the Tuscaloosa City Council rejected just this type of plan. The proposed complex would sit on the Black Warrior river-front, hold almost 700 rooms, bring in new restaurants and retail and provide over 250 jobs to Tuscaloosa. Also, it would create growth in an area of Tuscaloosa that has been rela-tively void of change, despite the prime real estate. The opposition had via-ble arguments. Mayor Walt Maddox saw the project as a short-term gain. Others said the location would be better suited for another project. And some found the project needed some major tweaking for it to be seriously considered.
By Clay Stone
The Rammer Jammer chant is one of the great things about going to Alabama foot-ball games. We do not say any-thing personal or to diminish the opposing team. When our football team wins 21-0, we did “just beat the hell out of you.” Should we rather chant, “We just won by a large amount?” Where is the fun in that? Nothing in the chant is pro-vocative or inappropriate. Chant or no chant, you can’t stop a crazed fan from doing something they’ll regret. Alabama is not the first school to have crazed fans reflect the student body, nor will it be the last. The Rammer Jammer”chant has nothing to do with how others act nor does it reflect our class. The only time I’ve seen our fans act classless was following the loss to LSU this past year and at the Iron
By Morgan Hopper
I applaud Evan Ward for the amount of readers he surely attracted with his headline in Wednesday’s paper. Surely I will not be the only person who will write with retalia-tion to Ward’s ideas for our beloved Rammer Jammer. My first question is where this guy is from, and my next is
By Shea Stripling
I was deeply offended by the comments of Michael Patrick. I know I’m not the first student to say this, but he’s made a huge mistake. As a recovering never-nude, I resent Patrick’s statement that the Arrested Development cast doesn’t “relate that well to humanity.” Who among us hasn’t harbored a cousin crush, worn a trans-radial-prosthetic or committed light treason? Just because the Bluths aren’t up to TNT’s “Real Drama” standards doesn’t mean they’re not real. I can almost understand Patrick’s distrust of Ron Paul (he looks too much like Emperor Palpatine), but I don’t under-stand his preoccupation with the duality of Paul’s character. A fiscally conservative candi-date can be socially liberal in the same way that a man mar-ried to a leggy blonde can enjoy a group of Hot Cops in hot pants.
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Bowl in 2010. We should stay classy, as our program is built so much around it, but the chant is irrelevant to how we, as a student bdy, present our-selves. The “Rammer Jammer chant is a part of Alabama, as are other chants for other schools. That’s college foot-ball, and it’s one of the little things about college football that makes it so exciting.
Clay Stone is a junior major-ing in special education.
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whether he understands the tradition of this University? Regrettably, I do not think many students or alumni will agree with his idea to do away with our celebratory cheer. Yes, we do not cheer our famous words during games anymore, because we wait until we actually beat the hell out of our opponent, then celebrate. You might want to consider what the players and coaches actually think about the cheer without just assum-ing you know. We do not have to change tradition because of two obscene fans that most likely never attended the University and both live in the same county as Auburn, surpris-ingly. In support of the free-dom of press, I think it’s great that Evan can write about such things, but he might want to consider transferring to Tennessee or Auburn. Last time I checked, “tradition” is on the pregame video right next to “class.”
Morgan Hopper is a junior majoring in public relations.
I dispute Patrick’s claim that “Barack Obama and ‘Parks and Recreation’ beat out Ron Paul and ‘Arrested Development’ any day of the week.” I think that this would most certainly depend on the day of the week. I’m all for Obama and Amy Poehler on a Thursday night, but sometimes I get burned out on of all the Hope and Knope talk. On the weekends, I like to hear a little of “Dr. No’s” gold standards with my incest and oedipal jokes. The thing is, Ron Paul and “Arrested Development” are consistently unconventional. This is why both have been able to survive in our cultural consciousness, despite los-ing three elections and being cancelled for six years (Vote G.O.B./Franklin in 2012!). Both are on the rebound, though, and who knows? Maybe in 2013 we’ll be watching the “Arrested Development” movie in theaters while enjoying legalized can-nabis sanctioned by President Paul. Only time will tell.
Shea Stripling is a junior major-ing in English and creative writing.
gravity light beer, I had been told. Displayed proudly under the neck label was “6.0% ALC./VOL.” High gravity, this was not. And all this was before I had even tasted it. Not failing to notice the twist-off cap, what occurred next was nothing short of an existential crisis. Now, I’m no sommelier, but the best I can describe of the taste is that it left a lingering suspicion that Fruity Pebbles was used in the brewing pro-cess. Given Budweiser’s pen-chant for rice, this probably isn’t too far from the truth. What is the point of this beer? Bud Light is a beer most commonly associated with binge drinking, so the theory goes that Platinum would be popular with this crowd because of its alcohol content. Except that, subjectively, this beer is disgusting; objectively, it’s so fruity I’m inclined to believe consuming too much would cause a sugar rush first, alcohol poisoning second. Anheuser-Busch sells these things by the 12-pack. I don’t want to drink a Platinum, let alone many Platinums that would necessitate an entire case. And yet, when I brought up Bud Light Platinum to a fel-low partygoer later that week, the person gushed over them.
Now, I’m no sommelier, but the best I can de-scribe of the taste is that it left a lingering suspi-cion that Fruity Pebbles was used in the brewing process.
The main sticking point was, as you can imagine, the higher alcohol content. It reminds me of a girl I sat next to in high school physics. She drank green tea every day, but would only drink a specific brand because on its label it claimed to contain “AOX.” On further inspection, AOX turned out to be a fancy way of say-ing antioxidants – something that is present in all tea, green or otherwise. But in this girl’s mind, if AOX wasn’t on the label, it wasn’t in the drink. Similarly, by putting Platinum’s alcohol content on such a prominent location and thumping its chest, Anheuser-Busch is doing the equivalent of the bottle of green tea. Six percent alcohol-by-volume isn’t high gravity, but by feeding a number to an audience who doesn’t know any better, I fear “Let’s get Bud Light Platinum so we get drunker” will be a common phrase in grocery stores and gas stations across the nation.
Confronted by the strange blue bottle at Wilhagan’s, I couldn’t help but get the impression that I was star-ing down the barrel of the next mindboggling twen-ty-something drinking scene fad, like five-dollar PBR tall boys and volun-tary consumption of Miller High Life. I wish I could wrap all this up neatly into a plea to be an intelligent con-sumer and not be fooled by marketing gimmicks, but you and I both know it wouldn’t matter. Bud Light Platinum will be a success,. It will spawn more “high gravity light beers” from the other giant breweries, and we’ll all drown in a flood of ridiculous bottles and poor taste.
John Davis is the chief copy editor of the Crimson White. His column runs on Mondays.
But the ultimate argument was one against the type of people that would be attracted to this area: students. Tuscaloosa Neighbors Together’s representative, Joan Garth, warned the coun-cil about the “sleepovers” that student relationships tend to lead to. And the “general mess associated with housing dedicated to students” didn’t sound appealing to the council, either. So, we’re loud, sexually active, messy students, and that’s a generalization our gen-eration hasn’t heard before. But we are also Tuscaloosa residents that ultimately bring most of Tuscaloosa’s business-es into reality. There were fears this new shopping/eating/residential center would become “The Strip West,” yet the Strip is one of the largest sources of Tuscaloosa attraction for out-of-town guests. Along with Druid City Hospital, the University is the biggest employer in Tuscaloosa. During the school year, students serve as a large majority of the population; there is no denying our role in the seven-day alcohol sales vote last year. The education I am paying for is worth every cent to me, and I will be proud to hold a diploma from this institution – but I am paying for not only the hours I spend in a class-room, but also my experience here. Is it fair for me to be dis-
criminated against because of my age? Not really, especially when many of the people who look down on me rely heavily on the money UA college stu-dents pump into the economy of Tuscaloosa. This complex was rejected for many legitimate reasons, but the argument sourced from fears of students was an easy thing to sell. Even if we did get this shiny new build-ing, students would ruin it anyway, right? Yet, at the same time, we would be a large per-centage of retail and restau-rant customers. The fear that our “party
school” will create a “party town” is unwarranted. We are not trying to “run this town,” or even be an overwhelm-ing presence, but we deserve appreciation for the benefits we bring into this town. We are a considerable amount of the Tuscaloosa population. The student-city relationship needs some serious mending, but that cannot be achieved if we are condemned from the beginning as being gallivant-ing, drunken one-night-stand-ers. To me, the issue has little to do with construction and more to do with the relationship
between the students of the University of Alabama and the city of Tuscaloosa. We must meet halfway, and equally, we must be met halfway. Instead of considering us as a problem, consider us as a resource for new ideas and hard workers. We aren’t all bad, all the time. And besides, if all else fails, Tuscaloosa need not worry too much. The Black Warrior River will prevent students from escaping too far from our campus holding pen.
SoRelle Wyckoff is opinions editor of The Crimson White. Her column runs Mondays.
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The board approveddemolition of theHES Design House.The demolition is expected to providearea for future expansion of theKappa Deltasorority house.
HES Design HouseBudget: $64,100
North CampusStudent CenterBudget: $24,667,500
Board approved plansfor the student center to be located at the centerof the new North Bluffcommunity. It will include60,000 sq. ft. recreationcenter, 7,500 sq. ft. dining area, 7,500 sq. ft. office area, and a 23,700 sq. ft. storm shelter.
Parking LotBudget: $5,000,000
Board approved agreement with aBirmingham design firmto design plans for a parking lot that willaccommodate 1,000vehicles and be locatednortheast of theCapstone College of Nursing.
Ferguson CenterBudget: $35,000,000
Board authorized UAto negotiate an architect’s contract for$35,000,000 worth ofrenovations andadditions to the Ferg.The proposed planincludes adding 60,000sq ft. of space to the south end of the Ferg.
New Fresh FoodsLocationBudget: $15,000,000
Board authorized UAto negotiate a contractto build a new FreshFoods location locatedeast of Rodgers library.The dining hall will be atwo-story building that will seat close to 700students.
Biology BuildingBudget:$3,000,000
$3 million will cover a newroof and other renovationsto the Biology building.
Riverside Parking LotBudget: $15,000,000
Board approved theproject scope for a newparking lot to be locatedeast of the currentRiverside parking lot.The new lot wouldprovide approximately750 parking spaces.
ten Hoor HallBudget: $6,000,000
The board approveda plan to use $6,000,000to renovate ten Hoor hall.This cost will coverreplacing original windows,upgrading public restroomsand other maintenancecosts.
Bryant-Denny StadiumBudget: Unknown
Board approved a plan toinstall a wireless distributionsystem inside the stadiumto improve cell phone coverage during periodsof heavy usage.
Trustees approve renovations, additions to campus
Six people were shot Friday night in a Cottondale apartment. Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton, said two gunmen entered an apartment and demanded money from several teenagers, who were celebrating a birthday party. He said the two suspects then opened fire with handguns and wounded five people in the
apartment. Sexton said one of the injured teenagers had a handgun and returned fire. One of the shoot-ers was struck in the abdomen and was taken to DCH Regional Medical Center. Tuscaloosa Police Officers arrested the gunman who escaped injury, 23-year-old
Donald Deshun Wynn, at a rela-tive’s home in Cottondale. Wynn faces charges of attempted murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and first and second-degree assault. He is held at Tuscaloosa County Jail on $540,000 bond. The following day, the Arby’s restaurant on McFarland
Boulevard was robbed at gun-point. Tuscaloosa police report-ed that two men entered the res-taurant at 8:15 p.m. According to police, one carried a shotgun, and the robbers hit two vic-tims inside the store with the gun, then stole an undisclosed amount of money. No arrests have been made.
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The UA Board of Trustees met Thursday and Friday in Birmingham. They approved several improvements on cam-pus, including renovations to several buildings and major upgrades to wireless service on campus.
While the University of Alabama is accepting larger incoming freshman classes, one study says that one third of freshmen don’t feel like their high school did a good job preparing them for college. The study, performed by the College Board, surveyed more than 1,500 high school gradu-ates from the class of 2010 that had begun taking college level courses. The survey gathered stu-dents from various areas of study. Of the 1,507 high school graduates, there were both private and public four-year college students, two-year college students, training pro-gram students and some who were no longer enrolled in any institution. “I don’t think high school
prepared me for college, because my high school emphasized test scores and memorization but did not worry that much about cre-ative or critical thinking,” said Geoff Carroll, a junior major-ing in telecommunication and film. “I believe that those are important when people are interviewing you for a job, and they have been important in my college courses,” Carroll said, “I think it is especially important in the upper-level courses that teach you to think on your feet and other things to use for your career.” The other two - thirds of stu-dents felt like they were pre-pared for college and that high school did its job. “I feel that my high school prepared me very well for col-lege,” said Patrick Kiernan, a junior majoring in account-ing. “It also prepared me by
offering [Advanced Placement] courses, which allowed me to come in already having some course credit completed.” In addition to some survey respondents saying their high school did an insufficient job at preparing them for college, 55 percent of students said col-lege courses are more difficult than they had expected and 44 percent said they wished that they had chosen to take differ-ent classes. The study also found that 24 percent of students did not test high enough to be placed in even remedial classes. Remedial classes are classes that go over the very basics of a certain subject. At the University, incoming freshmen take math place-ment tests when they attend summer orientation. The score determines what level math course they will be placed in. A student placed in
remedial math will have scored anywhere from 0 to 189 on their placement test. Specifically, the course will go over introductory level alge-bra, which is commonly mas-tered in high school. “Many freshmen are coming into UA and sliding by on D and C averages in their class-es, and the University still allows them to continue onto harder and more advanced classes,” said Rami Ajjuri, a graduate teaching assistant and Masters of Science candi-date. “They are having a great deal of difficulty passing even their freshman course require-ments, and the feeling among many of the faculty and GTAs in the biology department is that they are extremely ill-prepared coming out of high school. “Many of them have very little ability to understand the concepts, and rely heavily, if
not completely, on regurgi-tation of the material. They have been taught to memo-rize and repeat rather than to use critical thinking skills to access and come to draw their own conclusions. They haven’t been taught to solve real world problems at all.” Ajjuri explained that cer-tain organizations are try-ing to promote more critical thinking into teaching plans nationwide. Instead of looking things up and writing papers based solely on fact, they are attempting to help children learn in a way that challeng-es them and forces them to make opinions using logic and
reasoning. “The way a lot of high schools are being run makes it difficult for children to excel at the college level and beyond,” Ajjuri said. “The teachers spend much of their time focusing on preparing the stu-dents for standardized tests, so that the school receives rec-ognition, which will hopefully correlate to funding. “It really promotes a sort of ‘standardized test-taking factory,’ and the real world is much more complex and challenging than assess-ing aptitude based solely on these institutionalized exam scores.”
Study shows freshmen not always well preparedThey have been taught to memorize and repeat rather than to use critical thinking skills to access and come to draw their own conclusions.
— Rami Ajjuri
By Briana HarrisContributing Writer
If working in the nonprofit field piques your interest, then the Community Service Center’s Nonprofit Protégé Program might be a good fit for you. The eight-week program, which began last semester, pairs students interested in the nonprofit field with a nonprofit professional. Students and their mentors meet weekly and discuss topics like risk man-agement and fundraising in the nonprofit field. Rachel Edington, assistant director of the program, got the idea from a similar pro-gram that was implemented at her graduate school in South
Carolina. “I thought it would be a great idea to incorporate that here, especially since the tornadoes happened,” Edington said. “It helps students to see what goes on behind the scenes in the nonprofit spectrum and espe-cially during a busy time when the city is in more need. The students get to see how much effort goes into recovering from a natural disaster.” The program provides a workbook of topics to cover, but the students end up doing a lot of work outside of what is in the workbook, Edington said. “A lot of the time, the men-tors will take [students] to board meetings or take them to an event that they’re having on a Saturday,” Edington said.
At different points during the program, Mary Lowrey, assistant director at the Career Center, talks with the par-ticipants about what they are learning, not only about the organization they’re working with, but also what they are learning about themselves, she said. “I talk to the students about their interests in the nonprofit sector and what they hope to gain from the program,” Lowrey said. “We talk about ways to make a professional impression and about their next steps, including continu-ing the professional relation-ships they made.” Samuel Nathews, a stu-dent majoring in public rela-tions whose mentor was Walt
Larisey, CEO of the YMCA of Tuscaloosa, said he did things with his mentor that went far beyond what was provided in the workbook. “During our first meeting, I asked him some questions, but after that, I kind of did away with that and just shadowed him and saw all the things involved in running a nonprof-it,” Nathews said. “I got to sit in on budget meetings, and I even got to participate in the bud-get meetings. I also got to help write press releases, design posters and help with radio ads.” Nathews said he learned invaluable lessons during the eight weeks that he participat-ed in the program. “This is not meant to sound
bad, but before this program, I wanted to start a nonprofit to help high school kids with drug and alcohol addictions,” Nathews said. “But this pro-gram helped me figure out that before I am capable of starting a nonprofit, I need to be estab-lished and have some money saved up. It is one of those things where you have to be able to help yourself before you can help other people.” The program is currently taking applications for stu-dents who would like to partici-pate this semester and is also looking to expand into the sum-mer for students that reside in Alabama, Edington said. The plan is for students to be able to get matched with an organization from their
hometown area if they are going home for the summer, she said.Students can find an applica-tion online at volunteer.ua.edu. The deadline for applications is Feb. 14.
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Finale attendees were eli-gible for a variety of door prizes, including Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, a six-month Netflix subscription and other assorted gifts. These prizes were distributed via a ticket system throughout the night during intervals between movie showings. An anonymous panel of judges composed of select faculty, staff and students judged the film submissions in a daylong screening ses-sion. Forty-six films were sub-mitted in total this year, and the top 16 were aired at the finale. The films were screened in no particular order. Genres ranged from the comical to the serious, with the audience laughing along and tearing up throughout the evening. “I cracked up, I laughed, I cried and most importantly, I was impressed by the amount of quality these University of Alabama students have in terms of filmmaking,” Nishant Gogna, CMF media relations representative, said of the evening’s films. After the top 16 movies concluded, a reel of high-lights composed from all the film submissions was shown. Attendees were reminded of the other opportunities for CMF 3D, the Millionaire Challenge and the CMF Wild Card. The Millionaire Challenge encourages stu-dents to get the view count up on their videos. Any video with a million views or more will win a free iPad courtesy of CMF. Winners were then announced for Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Comedy, Best Drama and the audience award. The award for Best Actress
went to Natalie Riegel for her role as “Miss Peabody.” The award for Best Actor went to Zac Lovoy for his lead role in the film “Dogthulu.” The audience award win-ner was second year CMF competitor, sophomore and telecommunication and film major Daniel Barnes. Barnes earned the award for his film “Closure,” which discussed the impacts of suicide. He won last year in the comedy category, and his team says that this year he wanted to attempt a much more serious topic. “I’ve really been able to watch Daniel grow as a film-maker and person,” Alicia Perez, a sophomore majoring in journalism, said. Perez was an actress in Daniel’s film submission this year. The award for Best Drama was given to the film “Here and Now.” The film “Miss Peabody is Dead” walked away with the award for Best Comedy, and the award for overall Best Picture was given to the film “Buyer’s Remorse – Part Two.” “It’s phenomenal, and I’m extremely excited. I got to
work with a lot of the theater department, and they were incredible. That was an awe-some experience,” Hamilton Henson, the director of Best Comedy “Miss Peabody is Dead,” said of his CMF expe-rience. Henson has competed in previous CMF competitions, but this was the first year he directed a film himself. Henson and his team put an emphasis throughout the night on their appreciation to Ian Crawford at the Jemison-Van de Graaf mansion, where they taped their film. The award winners for Best Drama, Best Comedy, Best Picture and the audience award will all advance to the CMF Hollywood competition in June. The winners of the June competition will auto-matically receive invitations to the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Distinguished Filmmakers Network. To view the top 16 films as well as the other submis-sions, which were not aired at the finale, go to campus-moviefest.com and select the University of Alabama under the events tab.
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LIFESTYLESthis weekend
By Abbey Crain
Don’t put away your New Year’s Eve outfit just yet. Although the seemingly over-the-top sequin skirt or dress may be deemed unwearable by most, the common student can easily dress down either piece in order to sport the gilded spring trend. Sequined and metallic fabrics have continuously made appearances in Spring 2012 fashion shows, including Ralph Lauren, Rodarte, Rag and Bone and Tory Burch. In Vogue’s February “Fashion Flash,” it is said the “metallic sheen can be more than just an accent” and is popular among numerous celebrities, such as Michelle Williams and Felicity Jones. Both the fashionista and the student with a classic style can partake in these spring fashion trends. Depending on your level of bravery, gold and silver apparel can be worn in many different ways. If shiny fabrics seem kitschy and aren’t your thing, you may opt for a chunky gold necklace or a set of oversized metallic bangles. Chokers and tribal necklaces were shown in Prada’s new advertisement and are paired with 1940s inspired cloth-ing and hairstyles. For a toned-down, casual accent, they work best over a solid shirt with a higher neckline. Another subtle way to sport a shiny accent is in your footwear, be it silver flats or metallic
capped heels. Gold and silver can be substituted for neutrals and go great with any color. There are endless ways to pair metallic flats with jeans or leggings. A gilded accessory works great to amp up any lifeless outfit. Reusing that sequin skirt you bought for New Years Eve may seem like a feat but with care-ful planning can easily be a functional, casual go-to outfit for spring. In the unpredictable Tuscaloosa weather, a lightweight neutral sweater would accompany any sequined skirt perfectly. When pairing the bottoms with your perfect top, it is important to play with proportions. A loose sweater or T-shirt in combination with a short skirt and tight leggings is much more pleas-ing to the eye and functional for daytime wear. In transforming this look from day to night, simply swap the leggings for patterned tights and the sweater for a blazer. It is important to keep an open mind in the spirit of fashion. Even if your goal is not to stand out in a crowd, subtle changes in your everyday style can be fun and add adventure to the monot-ony of weekday classes.
Weekly southeastern concert line upBy Lauren Ferguson
Spring semester brings a fresh feel to campus – new schedules, pleasant tem-peratures and weekends not plagued with football activity. For those looking for something to fill their free time and who enjoy spontaneous weekend trips, The Crimson White Lifestyles section has cre-ated a weekly concert calendar. Not only will it list performances in Tuscaloosa, but it will also include con-certs happening in Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans. These cities not only offer appealing line-ups but also make for quick trips (four hours or shorter) and fun times. The calen-dar will appear in Monday’s paper to allow adequate, if not advanced, notice for trip planning.
AtlantaSunday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. – Yonder Mountain String Band at Workplay
Friday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. – Rascal Flatts, Sara Evans and Hunter Hayes at BJCC
Friday, Feb. 10 (time TBA) – Rick Ross and Waka Flocka at University of New Orleans (UNO) Lakefront Arena
Friday, Feb 10 at 7:30 p.m. – George Strait with Martina McBride at Gwinnett Arena
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8 Monday, February 6, 2012 LIFESTYLES The Crimson White
By Walker Donaldson
To me, his roles are predict-able: his smooth voice and dash-ing good looks are accentuated by an overwhelming attempt at charm that makes him con-temptuous. Does this sound like jealousy? No, it should not. It is only a description of George Clooney. After seeing “The Descendants,” I am a changed man. Clooney stars in what could be a career-defining role as Matt King, a lawyer in Hawaii who is caught up in the chaos of family affairs. King is an over-worked lawyer whose neglect for his two daughters and wife becomes evident after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. As King tries to grapple with his wife’s coma he must
also find common ground with his daughters, to whom he is a distant and unknown father. To compound the crises sur-rounding his nuclear family is a larger crisis regarding the sale of his family’s land, of which he is the head of a trust. “The Descendants” weaves a series of complex narratives, all of which reunite around common themes of family and inheritance. To describe King as a man facing a midlife crisis would be an understatement. The audi-ence is thrust into his life after any semblance of normalcy has been destroyed, and it can be gathered that King is on the fringes of success as a hero, slowly slipping in destruction. His wife’s coma, coupled with infidelities in the past, become evident in a matter of moments, and he must cope with the
knowledge that any structure of nuclear family he previously envisioned has now dissolved into chaos. Clooney inherits the role of King as though it is his own reality. Any charm or wit from previous films is thrown away and replaced by a man who seems to understand the grief of King as though it were his own. Clooney’s brilliance is only a part of the beautifully told story. The supporting characters in “The Descendants” could easily pass as members of any family, and the well-written script and acting give the audience a vehi-cle for compassion and frustra-tion. Shailene Woodley stars in her first silver screen role as King’s temperamental teenage daughter, Alex. If it were not for Clooney’s superb performance,
By Nathan ProctorContributing Writer
As a little girl, she didn’t want to just play vio-lin, clarinet or piano as expected. She wanted to play everything; she wanted to be a percussionist. UA percussion instructor Beth Gottlieb’s career has taken her to Disney World in Orlando, orches-tras across the country, military bases all over the world with the Lt. Dan Band, and finally, to her Tuscaloosa home and the University of Alabama. Gottlieb began seriously studying music dur-ing high school in Huntsville, Ala., earned a bach-elor’s of music in percussion performance at UA and received her master’s in percussion perfor-mance and literature at the Eastman School of Music before becoming a percussionist at Walt Disney World. There, she’d perform in a plethora of Disney bands, record for hundreds of movies, commercials and soundtracks, including The Little Mermaid, and catch the eye of Gary Sinise of the Lt. Dan Band for the Common Good in 2004. Sinise, actor and founder of the band, which bears the name of his famed character in Forrest Gump, asked Gottlieb to join the group on their tours, primarily playing United Service Organization shows for U.S. troops throughout the world. Gottlieb accepted and has been touring with them since. “It’s the most rewarding thing, going to play for our troops,” said Gottlieb. “Just to bring a little joy into their lives is so important.” The 14-man band plays from a pool of 300 songs and often performs on weekends to avoid conflict-ing with Sinise’s obligations as an actor on CSI: NY. Gottlieb and the group most recently played last weekend on a military base in Kuwait, but the performance most memorable to her was a show last fall at Ground Zero in remembrance of 9/11. “In the crowd, there was a man with no legs and one arm,” recalled Gottlieb. “We pulled him on stage to play maracas, and the smile on his face…you can’t explain your feelings.” Outside of her office on the second floor of the
Moody Music Building hangs an American flag, bearing the names of those who lost their lives at Ground Zero, gifted to her by a man who lost his children during the attacks. The door itself is covered in photos and memorabilia remembering other shows and groups of her past, as well as a weekly schedule packed tight Monday to Friday. Inside lies an office cluttered with a variety of percussion instruments, each showing signs of recent use. Since joining the University as its sole percussion instructor in the fall of 2009, Gottlieb has worked with her four percussion ensembles and a class designed to educate how to teach per-cussion students, but as part of the music depart-ment’s cohesive faculty, she assists in all ensem-bles, orchestras and most events at UA. “I’m here 60 hours a week, but I can’t complain, because I just love it,” Gottlieb said. “[My stu-dents] see me daily over their four years, and we become a family.” Referred to kindly as “Ms. Beth,” she has 25 percussionists in the studio and takes pride in being able to give her students a realistic and all-encompassing musical education from her eclec-tic musical experience. “You know you need to play both some Dixieland and some traditional styles,” said Gottlieb. “You don’t know what’s going to be out there.” Scott Radock, her son and a senior percussion performance major at UA, found that his mother’s broad teachings have proven positive, as he pre-pares to audition at schools like Julliard and USC to earn his master’s degree. “You get a well-rounded look at percussion,” said Radock. “You can’t take a single look at one style. She knows that.” Kyler Starks, a sophomore majoring in music administration, had no prior experience play-ing in a band, but he said that it didn’t matter to Gottlieb. “Beth took me in,” said Starks. “It’s a different experience [at UA], and they don’t restrict you in any way.”
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Clooney shines brighter than ever in ‘The Descendants’COLUMN | FILM
Woodley would have stolen the show. Woodley takes Alex’s complicated family as a burden on her own shoulders and, like Clooney, takes ownership of the role as though it were her life. “The Descendants” is both humorous and deeply sadden-ing. The simple nuances of fam-
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Bottom line: Clooney provides a career-defi ning performance in this well-crafted tale about the burden of family.
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ily life and generational separa-tion are brilliantly illustrated in the interactions between King and his family. Towards the end of the film, King speaks to his family about the land. “We did not do anything to own this land. It was entrusted to us,” he says. Through his
simple words, King defines the film, and perhaps the audiences’ lives as well. We do not buy into the families we have, but we must accept and work with what we are given.
ESPN analyst Kara Lawson has enjoyed lots of success throughout her career. She won a gold medal, a WNBA championship and became the first female analyst to call a nationally televised NBA game in 2007. Her knowledge of the game is undeniable, and dur-ing our talk, she told me how much she respects Alabama coach Anthony Grant and what Alabama has to do to make the NCAA tournament. The Crimson White: What have you seen from this Alabama team, and do you think they can make the tour-nament? Kara Lawson: I think they are like a bunch of teams that are in the middle of the pack of their conference. They are trying to better their resume, and they still have work to do. They still have a couple wins to get. They only have two wins against the RPI Top 50 [teams]. CW: When you watch this team, what do you think their biggest weakness is - is it their outside shooting or their level of play? What do you see? KL: Obviously, they struggle to score, but it’s a part of their identity. They’re going to play really hard on defense and make it tough for their oppo-nents to score. But they’ve done that all year. Even when they were losing, they still defended very well. For them, it’s just finding consistency
By Marc TorrenceSports Reporter@marctorrence
The Million Dollar Band typically reserves “Rammer Jammer” for football and bas-ketball games. After Alabama gymnastics’ convincing win over one of the top teams in the country, it just seemed too appropriate to pass up. The No. 6 Crimson Tide turned in its best performance of the young season, defeat-ing the No. 3 Florida Gators 197.725 – 196.900 in a meet the Tide controlled from the start. Alabama swept all four events, posting season highs on three, to improve to 3-0-0 in SEC com-
petition and 6-0-0 overall. “Tonight was a huge con-fidence boost for us,” senior Ashley Priess said. “We came out here ready to light the fire and see that spark in our team, and I think we proved to our-selves what a great team we are and how much potential we have for the rest of the season.” The Tide’s score of 197.725 was the second-highest team score in the nation and the high-est for Alabama since 2004. It came at the perfect time for an
Alabama team that head coach Sarah Patterson felt hadn’t per-formed to its fullest potential through its first three meets. “We’ve been pushed to the wire the past two meets. We just hadn’t been at our best,” Patterson said. “Now what these ladies will know is what they’re capable of.” Alabama got off to a hot start on the vault, scoring a 49.600 – the Tide’s highest vault total since the 2005 NCAA Super 6. Sophomore Diandra Milliner
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ESPN’s Kara Lawson talks Bama basketball
For them, it’s just fi nding consistency from guys offensively. They have guys who have the tools to score – it’s just a matter of getting out there and doing it in the game.
— Kara Lawson
from guys offensively. They have guys who have the tools to score – it’s just a matter of getting out there and doing it in the game. CW: Do you see any ‘sure-fire’ NBA guys on this team? KL: It’s hard to say, because you don’t know a guy’s drive. The two guys that stand out as far as having the NBA ath-leticism would be [JaMychal] Green and [Tony] Mitchell. But right now, I think they are inconsistent in terms of their production. Maybe they’ll get a chance, but they’ll have to work really hard to make a ros-ter. It’s about how you fit with a team and just busting your butt competing and working to get there. CW: People have a lot of respect for Coach Grant. You saw what he did at VCU, and he’s rebuilding this Alabama team. How do you see him as a coach? KL: I think Anthony has done a really good job of getting his teams to buy in and play hard. You know what you’re going to get from him, and he gets the best out of his players. I respect the fact that he remains true to what he believes, and he knows what it takes to win games. One of the hardest things to do is to
get your players to play hard on the defensive end every pos-session, and he does that.
CW: Kentucky is the class of the SEC, and you also have Florida and Vanderbilt right up there. What does Alabama have to do as a program to break into that upper echelon of the SEC and also compete on the national level?
KL: It comes down to players. Kentucky recruits top-flight talent. So does Florida. If you look at Vanderbilt, they don’t have a ton of recruits, but all of their guys are juniors and seniors. It’s about getting good players and having them buy into your system. Think back five or six years ago, we’re not talking about Vanderbilt as a top team. Any institution can raise their profile if they get continuity and consistency from the top.
CW: Gut feeling – does Alabama make the NCAA tour-nament this year?
KL: I think they will. But they still have to get a few more good wins. As you know, it’s all about how you finish, and there is still a lot of work to do for them. I wouldn’t say they are in right now, but I think ultimately, they will be. I think they’ll get enough good wins.
scored Alabama’s second per-fect 10.0 of the season to finish the rotation. “It was pretty great,” Milliner said. “We’ve had a great two weeks of practice, and on any given night, anybody in our line-up can score at least a 9.9, and it was just a good one tonight.” Priess won the all-around, posting a 39.55 in her first meet competing in all four events this year. Junior Ashley Sledge also competed in the all-around, scoring the second highest all-around score of the meet, a
39.450. “We just came out here and just kept telling each other, ‘We just want to see the spark tonight. Tonight’s our night to really shine and show everyone what we’re made of and show everybody how good we are,’” Priess said. “I think everybody came in with this attitude.” The win came just a year after the Gators handed the Tide its only loss of the 2011 season. According to senior Geralen Stack-Eaton, the key was focusing on what the Tide
was doing, instead of watching the Gators. “We were believing in one another,” Stack-Eaton said. “We could feel the energy and just how much we wanted each other to succeed. We didn’t focus on Florida, what they were doing. We just stayed within ourselves.” The meet will be replayed Tuesday night at 6 p.m. on CSS. Alabama will go back on the road next week, heading to Lexington to face the Kentucky Wildcats.
CW| John Michael Simpson
Left: Kim Jacob competes against Florida.Right: Ashley Sledge com-pletes an event against the No. 3 Florida Ga-tors.
197.725Alabama
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“Just staying the course. That’s the thing coach tells us to do. Stay the course all the time,” Steele said. “I think the thing was, we stepped up defensively. Offensively, we struggled at times, but espe-cially the second half, our defensive intensity stepped up and created a lot of offensive opportunities.” Steele would play a criti-cal role in the Alabama play-ers from the bench. The Tide played 11 players over the course of the game, while the Rebels played just seven. Names like Charles Hankerson, Moussa Gueye and Rodney Cooper showed up on the score sheet at cru-cial moments. “When you look at the effort we got tonight from a variety of guys,” Grant said, “We need that. We need that as a team.” Alabama will head to Auburn on Tuesday for anoth-er can’t-lose game if the Tide wants to keep its tournament hopes alive. Then, it’ll be off to Baton Rouge for a game against the LSU Tigers, who would love nothing more than to get revenge for their game in Tuscaloosa earlier in the year. Alabama’s goal? At this point in the season, the late Al Davis said it best: Just win, baby.
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By Aldo AmatoContributing Writer
The Alabama men’s ten-nis team (1-3) fell to Texas Christian University (1-3) Sunday afternoon at the Alabama Tennis Stadium. The Crimson Tide came into Sunday’s matchup against the Horned Frogs fresh off of their first victory of the season against UC-Irvine at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend in Los Angeles a week prior. However, after an impressive showing in the doubles match-es, the Crimson Tide came up short in the singles round. “It’s always disappointing to lose,” sophomore Carlos Taborga said. “But overall, I had a pretty good game.”
A good game it was for the junior from La Paz, Bolivia. He was the most consistent player for the Tide on Sunday, whether it was with his dou-bles partner, Vikram Reddy, or solo. “He matched up pretty well,” Pate said. “He was our highlight, in a sense, and if he can continue to improve, he’s going to be a real force for us.” Taborga and Reddy finished their doubles match with an 8-4 win over TCU’s Blake Wiggins and Daniel Sanchez. Freshman David Vieyra and junior Jarryd Botha domi-nated court two in doubles action with an 8-2 win over TCU senior Paul Chappell and freshman Will Stein. But the Tide’s Michael Thompson and
Ricky Doverspike fell on court one to TCU, 8-5. “I thought after the doubles, we came out with a lot of momentum,” Pate said. “But the singles, TCU came out and responded and jumped out on us in a couple of courts.” The Tide struggled out of the gate in singles play with Doverspike falling to TCU junior JT Sundling 6-1, 6-1. After Taborga’s singles win over junior Max Stevens, the Tide tried to rally to gain ground but was dominated on courts one and six and fell behind 4-2, sealing their fate before junior Daniil Proskura finished with a win. “I mean, we’re clearly dis-appointed,” Pate said. “At this point in the season, it is not
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Tide dominates doubles, struggles in singleswhere we’d like to be.” Taborga attributed the Tide’s tough loss to a lack of composure. “I think that we could have won,” he said. “I think that if we do a better job at that, we can do a better job at securing a win.” “I think when you get momentum, you keep momen-tum,” Pate said. “That’s what we have to do in the future matches, keep that momen-tum and finish.” Pate said he is willing to try some fresh players off of the bench in next week’s match. The Tide will face Furman and Troy University next week at 10 a.m. as part of a doubleheader at the Alabama Tennis Stadium.
CW| Jingyu WanAlabama dropped its fourth match of the year against TCU Sunday.
CW| John Michael SimpsonTrevor Releford shoots a layup against Ole Miss Saturday night
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The Alabama women’s basketball team lost its tenth straight Southeastern Conference game of the season Sunday, as the Georgia Bulldogs beat the Tide at home, 81-66. Alabama was able to keep it a close game in the first half and even managed to lead at one point. The Tide was able to make numerous big plays to keep them in the game, including a buzzer beater off an inbound pass at the half by junior Meghan Perkins.
But despite Alabama’s level of play, Alabama entered the half down 31-36. The Tide was out-rebounded 22-24 on the half and only shot 35 percent, while holding Georgia to 37 percent. Alabama had eight turnovers to Georgia’s six. Perkins led Alabama in scoring with 10 at the half. Alabama head coach Wendell Hudson spoke to the performance and effort put forth by his team. “I don’t know that we played any harder,” Hudson said. “I thought that we made some shots. I think that’s the big key. In the first half…espe-cially towards the end, we
made some shots and kept the game kind of close. Second half, we had those shots, and had some wide-open shots. But I think effort-wise, we played pretty good for the whole entire game.” Perkins echoed her coach’s thoughts on her t e a m ’s p e r fo r m a n c e . “We had a slow start to the second half,” Perkins said. “But eventually, we picked our intensity level up and made a couple good defensive stops, but we have to capitalize. We
can’t start out slow.” Despite the play at the end of the first half, Alabama was
unable to carry that momen-tum into the rest of the game. Georgia started imposing its will on the Tide, making a quick four points less than a minute into the second half. The Bulldogs were able to score early and often and won the rebound battle, 46-41. Alabama’s level of play also dropped considerably in the second half. Alabama seemed rushed to make plays, made
unforced turnovers and took shots where there were none. The Tide was unable to create the plays that kept the game close in the first half, and once Georgia took a double-digit lead with 15 minutes remain-ing, the game was essentially over. Alabama was led in scor-ing by Perkins and sopho-more Shafontaye Myers with 16 points apiece. They shot 38 percent from the court. “I think, eventually, in basket-ball, you have to make shots,” Hudson said. “And that’s what we’re not able to do right now.” Alabama’s next game will be Thursday at Ole Miss.SP
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Top Left: Jessica Merritt leaps to shoot a basket in the game against the Georgia Bull-dogs.Right: Meghan Perkins makes a three pointer.Bottom Left: Junior Celiscia Farmer shoots a layup.Middle Bottom: Georgiaʼs Khaal-dah Miller plays defense in the Bull-dogʼs win Sunday.
