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MONTEVALLO, ALABAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013 VOL. 87, ISSUE 9

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UM Opera Ensemble takes first prizeBY KOREY WILSON

BY KYLE JONES, ASSISTANT EDITOR

BY PERRIN WINDHAM

Crossroads boasts new BBQ

College Night commences

Driving down 119 into Montevallo you may have noticed smoke coming from a small building in front of the Texaco station.

No the building is not perpetually on fire, it is Mike Checchi’s KC’s Finest BBQ.

Last month with the help of Forza Financial, a non-profit microfinance institution founded by University of Alabama students, Checchi was able to realize his dream.

Working in construction most of his life, Checchi jumped into pursuing his pas-sion for cooking and opened his own business.

This loan will allow expansion in signage and will help the business purchase additional equipment. This is considerable because the project began on a shoe-string budget and supplies were bought along the way.

KC’s Finest BBQ offers ten percent off to students who show their student ID and a one time addition-al ten percent off for liking their page on Facebook, which will make your first visit 20 percent cheaper.

The University of Montevallo’s Homecom-ing tradition, College Night, officially kicked off with the ribbon hang-ing on Sunday, Jan 6.

This long-running tra-dition is a competition be-tween Purples and Golds with the culmination of all events happening this year on Feb 9. This competitive tradition was in full-swing at ribbon hanging. Where Purples hung ribbon, Golds had to do the same.

As in all competi-tions, there are rules.

One, the purple and gold ribbons could only be hung on trees, no bushes this year, on Main Quad and around the Student Life Building; two, rib-bons could only be hung as far as could be reached, as well as no climbing of trees. Also, the purple and gold ribbons could

not touch each other.The sides met on the

steps of Palmer, and as one reached the steps, they were greeted by each side taking turns with their cheers. The level of ex-citement was high as the Purples were cheering for a victory and the Golds were cheering in hopes of getting a third win for the 2013 College Night season.

Sophomore Alysia Campbell stated that, “It was really exciting! It’s my favorite part of the whole experience.”

Few trees were left un-covered in tons of ribbons and even a few bows after about an hour of hanging.

At the end of the night, each side circled-up and sang their side songs, and the first Col-lege Night event of the year was complete.

When a PACT is brokenBY REED STRENGTH

Alabama college students may be familiar with the popular tu-ition trust fund PACT. “The Pre-paid Affordable College Tuition” trust fund was introduced in 1990.

If parents chose to use the PACT program, they would buy PACT contracts which would then obli-gate the state of Alabama to pay for their child’s college tuition in full if they attended an in-state school.

After a string of lawsuits that began in 2009, several remedies were offered to ensure the cur-rent contract holders their paid-for benefits. However, as cur-rent PACT students may have noticed when they looked at their student bills near the be-ginning of the semester, the pro-gram seemed to have disappeared.

This was due to a cur-rently pending settlement in the Alabama Supreme Court.

In March of 2012, the Supreme Court voided a settlement that would allow PACT to pay contract holder’s tuition at 2010 tuition rates. Because tuition goes up every year, a difference would re-main that PACT students or their parents would have to pay for.

The court threw out the settle-ment originally on the basis that it violated the original contract’s legal obligation to pay full tu-ition. PACT’s lawyer, Doyle Full-er, acknowledged in an AL.com article that the program would like to pay full tuition as it origi-nally stated, but ultimately it would “not be realistic consid-

ering the program’s resources.”However, the remaining mem-

bers of the PACT board filed for a bill that struck the language out of the original PACT contract stat-ing it could pay full tuition. The bill was passed in April 2012, and the Supreme Court granted PACT a rehearing the following July.

According to the state trea-sury’s website, PACT will “make spring 2013 payments to all in-state public institutions at the full value of each institution’s tuition and qualified fees” as the final decision is mulled over in court.

As the legal system attempts to churn out an answer, the Ala-bamian found current UM stu-dents who are PACT beneficia-ries to express their feelings about the financially dry program.

Freshman theater major Ricky Umstead was aware of PACT’s troubles in the courts. Umstead said that with the 2010 tuition rates applied to his current account, a substantial sum was left over for his family to take care of. Um-stead worries about the financial future of his family, stating that he has a sibling who faces paying for a college education in four years.

“We don’t want to take out loans…especially if PACT goes under,” says Umstead. “Us having to pay the balance when we weren’t accounting for it is affecting her college fund,” he worries. Umstead says he hopes the state Supreme Court can somehow find a way to pay the tuitions at the full rate, but

in the meantime, he says the situa-tion is “worrying and infuriating.”

Junior art major Kyle Rich-ardson, another PACT recipi-ent, shared his thoughts on the situation. “Honestly, I think it’s better to look at it realistically,” Richardson admits. He says that students should at least feel lucky about the proposed settlement, because “that’s the best…maybe we can salvage in this situation”.

However, Richardson thought that PACT’s actions to remove the original language from the bill, excusing them of paying cur-rent tuition rates was “sketchy.” Richardson concluded that he was “not happy about it,” but “couldn’t see what could be done at this point to get PACT to pay everyone’s full tuition.”

Kathleen Kryger, a senior Eng-lish major, offered the final word on the PACT program. When Kryger looked at her student ac-count the first day of classes, she was shocked to see that PACT money was nowhere to be found. Kryger explained that in addi-tion to her refund check that she uses for books being less, fur-ther financial trouble due to the court case could affect her sis-ter’s future at the university too.

While PACT’s case in the Su-preme Court is pending, the Ala-bamian will soon bring you an interview with our cashier’s of-fice about their experience deal-ing with the PACT settlement.

An interview with Charles Wood

The University of Mon-tevallo Opera Ensemble took first prize in the Na-tional Opera Association’s (NOA) Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition Jan 5.

Under the direction of Charles Wood, senior (so-prano) Nidia Riley, junior (baritone) Devin Bur-ton and junior (mezzo-soprano) Marie Brewer, performed a scene from

Ambroise Thom-as’ opera, “Hamlet.”

In an interview Wood explained the significance of winning the competi-tion and the process of readying for competition and performance at UM. Training for the NOA competition, and for UM Opera Scenes as a whole, takes place in Wood’s Opera Ensemble class.

According to Wood, the class is focused on rehearsal of the music, not learning it—mean-ing that students in the class are responsible for teaching themselves com-plicated opera pieces so that they can be ready to work the scenes in class.

Q: Dr. Wood, what does it take to get a group together and go from re-hearsals at UM to win-ning it all in Portland?

A: Well, hopefully, it’s just a progressive thing, right? We actually got [the “Hamlet”] scene started as soon as school started because we had to videotape it to enter into the preliminary round, and that was sent to about seven judges. Then, cer-tain schools are invited to the finals. The judges don’t know who they’re judging; it’s completely anonymous--they just re-ceive a DVD in the mail.

We had to get that done by the middle of October. School start-ed in September, so we

had about five weeks to get it videotaped, in costume, in French.

So, of course those are going to be our more ad-vanced singers, we coach the language, then we stage and block it. After the [UM Opera Scenes] concert we have one class session. Then [the stu-dents] came back Jan 1 —we rehearsed it one time, and we went to Portland.

When we got there, we just sat our suit-cases down, went in the room and had a re-ally horrible rehearsal, as you can imagine. We’ve been in the air for about 12 hours, and we had to go all over the place to get there (about three or four flights), and then that was it.

I talked to them—be-cause they know how to do it—I just said what I knew would work. Their voices are beautiful, we were really working on the acting, on focusing See OPERA, page 3

Above: Students per-form “Opera Scenes” on campus. Left: UM students Marie Brewer, Devin Burton and Nidia Riley recently competed in and won the National Opera Association Col-legiate Opera Scenes Competition, held Jan. 3-5 in Portland, Ore.

Students gather on the quad for the an-nual ribbon hanging.

The Unchained Tour at Eclipse

Meet the contestants for Ms. Montevallo

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1. What is your New Year’s Resolution?2. How are you going to do it?3. What is going be the hardest part about keeping your resolution?

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Editor-in-Chief Heather BucknerAssistant EditorKyle JonesBusiness Manager Daniel FarrisLayout EditorHannah SteinEntertainment EditorSam PhillipsNews EditorAndrew MechumCampus Life EditorKorey WilsonSports Editor Jordon SemienColumnistDrew GranthumContributing Writers:Jacob BobstConnor BucyAlyse HartdegenSarah LiferSammy SchiffmanReed StrengthPerrin WindhamAdviser:Tiffany Roskamp-Bunt

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The opinions expressed on this page are not necessarily those of the university, its of-ficials, its faculty, or the student body.

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On the bricksWith Sammy Schiffman

Beau Buchanan1. To stop smoking.2. I replaced it with going to the gym.3. It hasn’t been hard at all.

Candice Hardwick1. To finish writing a novel I started when I was younger.2. Just sitting down and getting it on paper.3. Being in classes and just trying to get the right mindset.

Amanda Metcalfe1. To finish getting my degree this year.2. Stay focused in all my classes.3. The commuting from Birmingham.

Emily Wilbanks1. To make all A’s.2. By working hard in all my classes.3. Trying to balance everything I’m involved in—like being the social chair of Alpha Delta Pi, double majoring and hanging out with friends.

Alex Demers1. To build more body mass.2. Go to the SAC.3. Just a lack of motivation.

Guide to second semesterFor many of us, the second part of

our academic year is one of redemption.It’s a fresh slate wiped clean of all past

academic and social transgressions. For freshmen it’s a way to put into use the tips and tricks they’ve acquired since they ar-rived in August. For the rest of us its a way to calm ourselves down from the ex-citement and calamity of the fall, or for seniors, the light at the end of the tunnel.

Though the spring semester may seem rid of newness and back-to-school excitement there are still many things that can get in the way of our suc-cess. These are the Alabamian’s five tips to a successful spring semester.

1. The curse of the College Night catastrophe

Our homecoming tradition has a long reputation of being physically and mentally demanding as well as extremely time consuming. The pure fanaticism of the event drives people into spending entirely too much time toiling over all different aspects of the production or administration for their respective sides.

It drives once studious participants into full blown zombism. The lack of sleep and fervent dedication de-vours them into not attending class or if they do attend simply renders them a shell of the human they once were.

The takeaway from this is, as we’ve all been told, we’re here for school first and all other worthy student activi-ties second, figure out what’s really im-portant to your survival and success.

Plus, points are deducted from your side when you do not attend class.

2. The weather outside is delightful/frightful

Spring in Alabama, or any season for that matter, is a roulette of possi-bilities. Recently we’ve experienced tu-multuous groggy days of overcast skies and inconvenient bouts of rainfall.

For a weaker being this would prompt many to curl up in the safety of their warm beds and curse the sky for sub-mitting us to such treachery. Do not let this less-than-inviting weather halt your

academic pursuits; be persistent and power through, sunny days are coming.

Be wary, though, because when the sun does come and the days begin to warm up, Main Quad will look much more appetizing than a midday math class.

3. PCB 2013 y’allSpeaking of sunny days and warm

weather, spring break will be upon us faster than we expect. Let this idea and romanticism of warm beaches and lost inhibitions fuel you to carve out a secure spot of academic excel-lence in each of your classes so that you can truly enjoy “just a few friends and I at the condo” this March.

But be careful not to overdo the “lounging at the beach.” You’ll be back in academia soon and “sun dam-age” on the brain don’t manage.

4. School me once, shame on youRemember last semester when you

thought it was a good idea to go out on Thursday night when you had a 9 a.m. class on Friday morning? Or that time when that paper could wait because “Always Sunny” was recently added to Netflix and you just had to see what the gang was going to get into this time?

By now you’ve figured out what you can and can’t get away with when it comes to attending class and studying. This is a clean slate; overshadow those lackluster fall semester grades by sticking to posi-tive scholarly habits and improving your time management for social activities.

5. Wet Hot American SummerThere is a light at the end of the tun-

nel. Whether it’s the end of your first year or your last, the hard work is over in only a few short months. Let your planned summertime activities motivate you to finish strong. Developing a mantra or creating an end of the semester reward is a great way to push you into sticking with your scholarly duties to the end.

From all of us here at the Alabamian, we wish you the best of luck in 2013.

New Oscar record raises questions for actressesBY SAMUEL PHILLIPS, ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

On Jan 10, Seth McFarlane and Emma Stone announced the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards.

Buried among the usual snubs and half-hearted controversies came one truly unexpected moment when nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest person ever nominated for the Best Actress award and the youngest lead performer to be nominated since 1931.

The possibility of Wallis’ nomi-nation had been floated among Os-car prognosticators, but she was widely regarded as a long shot due to the sheer improbability of her age.

Wallis was, in fact, only five years old when she was cast as Hushpuppy in Sundance favorite “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” a film that has seen surprising critical success and which is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

In some ways, the nomination of such a young child shows interesting progress for the Oscars. Just two years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) raised eye-brows by nominating then 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in “True Grit,” widely regarded as the lead.

It is satisfying, then, to see this very young girl recognized as the lead per-former in a film where she dominates the screen for nearly the entire running time. However, some have questioned the wisdom of nominating a child to compete against professional actresses.

While “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is a charming film and Wallis is a precocious force on screen, the fact remains that she was so young when she performed in this movie that she could hardly be said to be acting at all.

What a professional actress does for a living can be grueling. She spends countless hours perfect-ing the nuances of her performance, studying her script and collaborat-ing with her fellow performers and

her director to develop her character.Wallis did not act in

the way these women do.She was chosen for the role on the ba-

sis of her natural five-year-old personal-ity, and what ended up on the screen is more a reflection of a director, casting people and supporting performers guid-ing her to a performance than of any tru-ly considered performance on her part.

Obviously, no one be-grudges Wallis her success.

She is a talented, charming child who anchors a lovely film. However, com-paring her performance to those of fel-low nominees like Jessica Chastain and Emmanuelle Riva does a disservice both to those women and to Wallis herself.

It would be unfair to expect Wal-lis to perform in the way professional actresses do, and few people go into her performance expecting her to. The fact is that her delivery of the film’s narration would seem repeti-tive and amateurish coming from an adult, but the audience disregards this because of the performer’s age.

This is fair, but what then seems un-fair is to nominate this little girl for the most prestigious acting award in the world. If any legitimate critical evalu-ation of Wallis is dismissed because of her age, there seems to be no fair way to compare her to her fellow nominees.

It seems unlikely that Wallis will win Best Actress. Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence are favorites to win, and AMPAS will probably see the novelty of a nine-year-old nomi-nee as exciting enough and stop there.

Unfortunately, AMPAS seems more concerned with Wallis’ preco-ciousness and her camera-ready in-terviews than with honestly evaluat-ing the performances given this year.

If Wallis does win, more power to her, but you have to wonder what all the grown women who missed out on that nomination are thinking.

BY KYLE JONES, ASSISTANT EDITOR

With your host, Kyle Jones

Catfish Noodlin’

With the success of Nev Schulman’s docu-mentary “Catfish,” which is now a popu-lar show on MTV and the recent outing of famous Notre Dame and Heisman runner up Manti Te’o, this serious problem that’s plagued internet dwell-ers for years has come into the mainstream.

As an avid resident of the internet since the late 90s, with the experience I’ve gath-ered in AOL chat rooms, it’s pretty obvi-ous that people aren’t who they say they are.

My online profile read something much like this, “16/m/cali Brown hair, buff,” when in reality I was a skinny white kid from Alabama. Sorry to break it to you like this, other dudes of the 90s pretending to be girls.

The problem here may not be that there are so many people pretending to be some-one they’re not but the amount of people who fall for it. I be-lieve that warrants a television show.

“Catfish Noodlin’” with your host Kyle Jones, where I, along with Catfishers, show

up to the people’s hous-es they’ve been leading on and totally punk them. We’ll have con-fetti, door prizes and a sign that says “You just got Catfish’d!”

I’m sure it’d be far less annoying than Ashton Kutcher jump-ing around; and I’m sure we could pick up an Axe Body Spray sponsorship.

There is nothing wrong with online dat-ing, the problem is the poor saps who get Catfish’d are so lonely or desperate that they don’t follow the simple rules. The golden rule for meeting people online is always get a picture with a time-stamp, three forms of ID, a copy of the power bill with their name on it, a written letter from their grandmoth-er confirming their identity and a copy of their birth certificate.

In reality, the best way to meet peo-ple is by going out or by participating in group activities.

Unless you’re like me and managed to meet Miss Teen South Carolina in a sin-gle’s only chat room.

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Construction at Wills HallBY ALYSE HARTDEGEN

The construction outside of Wills Hall began as a reroofing but was de-layed due to the inclement weather that descended upon Montevallo.

Sources say that construction was scheduled to begin as soon as students left for Christmas break.

William Hughes, director of the Physi-cal Plant, said, “Ideally, we would have fin-ished before the students returned to the residence halls, but since the bad weather began, it’s really slowed the project down. After about three days of good weather we plan to have everything cleared out.”

Many people across campus are frustrat-ed with the construction. MJ Eddington, a sophomore, had this to say about the con-struction: “I would have liked to receive an

e-mail so that I knew what was going on.”Other students share similar sentiments.When asked about the level of coopera-

tion the Physical Plant and contractors have received, Hughes responded, “My initial concern with doing the project was timing and the limit to the noise and sensitivity to the academic building. We still have to put the new roof on the building. I’m very pleased that we’ve not had the amount of com-plaints that could have come.” Hughes also mentioned he had a great deal of sup-port from faculty and administrators.

There is more reroofing to be done, with Harman Hall to be done in the near fu-ture. Hughes said, however, that that a lot of reroofing will occur during the summer.

and staying and listening. One of the things I’m big on is [performers] listen-ing like they’ve never heard [the text] before. I’ve been to so many pro-ductions where actors or singers are there, but they’re not really listen-ing to what’s going on. In this case we were having trouble with that, hav-ing trouble connecting.

I made them sing the scene just walking in a circle, and they couldn’t take their eyes off of each other the en-tire time. The night of the competition they did it—I asked myself, “Was that as good as I think it was?”

I thought it was really good, but we were up against the University of Colorado, University of Massachusetts and University of Oregon.

Q: And do those universities have well-known opera programs?

A: Yeah, University of Colorado is like the MET of the West—they’ve got their own theater, they’ve got their own crew, they’ve got their own staff, they’ve got conduc-

tors, opera coaches and several pianists. I was really expecting Colo-rado to walk away with everything, and Colo-rado got third place. I thought, “Wow, this is weird, what’s going on?”

Then they called sec-ond place and I thought, “I didn’t think they were as good as us—who beat us?” Then we were first place; we really were as good as I thought we were. It was a surprise to the students, too, be-cause they knew what they were going into. We were truly honored just to be named among those schools—flagship schools of all those states.

Here comes lit-tle Montevallo—we slayed the giants.

When asked how he felt about the future of the opera program and about the support it re-ceives, Wood went on to say that he would love to see the opera pro-gram grow and that he is grateful for the support that the UM adminis-

tration, staff and stu-dents show the program.

Wood said he believes that this win is a tribute to the students who came be-fore and new standard for the ones who will follow.

Wood wrapped up the interview with an anec-dote about what it takes to produce the high level and high quality opera that UM is producing: “One night as I was leaving re-hearsal I had a costume over one arm, my orches-tra score and a paint-brush in my hand, and Laurie Middaugh looked at me and jokingly said, ‘That’s the problem with your job, right there!’”

But Wood believes that is a wonderful problem for UM to have—dedi-cated faculty, training stu-dents in their majors and helping them to achieve any height in their edu-cation, careers and life.

The UM community can check out the opera ensemble’s spring produc-tion of Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring, “from April 19 to April 20.

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Bowie returns to fameBY REED STRENGTH

David Bowie, the Brit-ish rock legend who rose to stardom in the 1970’s, will release his 30th stu-dio album on Mar 12. The album, titled “The Next Day,” was produced by Tony Visconti and was announced on Jan 8, Bowie’s 66 birthday.

The album’s an-nouncement also came with the release of its first single, titled “Where Are We Now?”

The song gave Bowie his first top ten single in 20 years, reaching number six on the Bill-board charts. The song came with an accompa-nying music video di-rected by Tony Ousler.

The album was re-portedly recorded over a two year period. In the “Guardian’”s ar-ticle about the album, several major players in its creation spoke about the apparent se-crecy of the work.

According to the ar-ticle, Bowie kept several big names in the dark about the album, such as Sony Music presi-dent Rob Stringer, who learned about the album only a month before it was announced. The ar-ticle also discusses the rumor that Sony “knew nothing right up un-til the point at which ‘Where Are We Now?’ materialized on iTunes

at 5 a.m. on [Jan 8].”The album was re-

corded at the Magic Shop in New York, but this was apparently Bowie’s second choice after the original studio “allegedly leaked information about who was working there,” the “Guardian” reports. Visconti says the Magic Shop was more coopera-tive with their top secret work, allowing interns off days when they would record and whittling the working “skeleton staff ” to a mere two people.

Visconti notes that all of the secrecy was really “a lesson for the music in-dustry,” saying the small bit of information that has been revealed acts as “a timely reminder that mystique is a valuable commodity. You can perhaps give people more by giving them less.”

As longtime fans will note, the cover of “The Next Day” pays homage to one of the artist’s better known albums, “Heroes.”

The original cover of “Heroes” is altered, featuring a large white block that covers Bowie’s face, with the title of the new album centered in-side of the square. The title “Heroes,” origi-nally found on the up-per right corner of the cover, is crossed out with a thick black line.

Jonathan Barnbrook, the creator of the cover, answered several fan concerns and comments about the cover on his blog after the image was revealed. The designer acknowledged that while the image “is only an al-bum cover with a white square on it,” he none-theless believes “often the most simple ideas can be the most radical.”

NME reports that in an interview con-ducted with Visconti about the album, the producer noted that Bowie “was never gon-na perform live again.” However, after news sites began to take the producer’s words as the belief that David Bowie would never play live, he tweeted “He won’t tour for this album--that’s all I said,” to clarify.

As far as the sound of the album, Visconti notes that “Where Are We Now” “isn’t particularly representative” of the rest of the album’s songs.

In a radio interview with the BBC after the album’s announce-ment, Visconti expressed confusion over why the musician released “Where Are We Now” as the first single, ex-plaining that the “The Next Day” is actually “quite a rock album.”

David Bowie performs at Tweeter Center outside Chicago in Tinley Park, IL, on Aug 8, 2002. Photo by Adam Bielawski

“Danza”LINDSAYHODGENSAlabamianColumnist

There is no denying that the differences be-tween Western and East-ern comics are substantial.

In my experiences, I’ve often run across readers who either enjoy one type or the other, which makes comics like Natsume Ono’s particularly revitalizing.

Her new collection of short stories, “Danza,” blends manga-infused visuals with Western characters and settings.

This young volume (just released Dec 11) brings the same complicated char-acterization that can be found in Ono’s other work. Because the stories vary in subject matter, readers should find at least one sto-ry that catches their interest.

One tale features an estranged father and son as they prepare the family vineyard for the yearly har-vest, and another is about a pair of brothers who be-

come trapped in an old b u i l d i n g t o g e t h e r .

The latter is a captivating treatment of the writing exercise that suggests that a writer lock two characters in a room together to get a better idea of who they are. Whether this was the origin of this short story is unknown, but Ono uses the char-acters close proximity to cause one brother to openly admit the animosity he feels towards the other.

In this story, as well as the others, the usefulness of the graphics is evident. In a situation in which two char-acters are trapped in a col-lapsed building, the graphic element of the comics genre allows Ono to easily slip in and out of her charac-ters present locale and ac-cess memories of the time they have spent together.

Of course, the same thing can—and does—ex-ist in prose, but the blending of image and text make for a richer depiction of these memories than what can be accomplished by text alone.

The art style is similar to Ono’s previous work, although my prolonged ex-

posure to her work has led me to see the art style dif-ferently than I had before.

After reading one of Ono’s previous works, “not simple,” I characterized her visuals as being some-how cohesively sketchy, as if they could be found in the notebooks of a par-ticularly artistic student, but “Danza” forced me to rethink this impression.

Ono’s characters are in-deed drawn more loosely than most comics I’ve seen—the inseam of a character’s pants usually form a simple upside-down U—but they can’t really be compared to doodles at all.

Ono draws her char-acters with large, almost catlike, eyes. Captivating, their gazes always appear to ride the line between vacant and attentive. The best part about this is that characters in this book are complex enough that most of them find themselves on both sides of this fence.

It’s difficult to review a set of stories without just recapping what happens in them. Because the sto-ries are succinct, any in-depth exploration of their individual plots would take a lot of fun out of ac-tually reading the tales.

Being familiar with Natsume Ono’s work, however, I would like for you to give this book of short stories a chance.

If Ono’s emotion-ally engaging plots aren’t enough to draw you in, her charming charac-ters should do the trick.

GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW

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Criterion at Carmi-chael is a column devoted to exploring Carmichael Li-brary’s collection of DVDs from the Criterion Collec-tion, “a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films.” “Rose-mary’s Baby” is Criterion spine #630. Carmichael Li-brary’s copy of the film is an older, non-Criterion release.

Hardly anyone agrees with me that “Rosemary’s Baby” is a comedy. Of course it is a horror movie, and there are moments that have stayed genuinely scary in the 44 years since Roman Polanski first un-leashed his tale of Satanists and morning sickness on an unwitting public.

The movie’s prevail-ing tone, though, is one of quiet satire. Yes, the waif-like Mia Farrow is manip-ulated by a coven of witch-es into carrying the child of Satan. This is ostensibly terrifying. It is difficult to be too frightened, though, when we realize that not a single member of the co-ven is under 60 years old.

No, this is not a movie about the occult, a movie about giving birth to the devil’s child or toying with the supernatural. All of those things happen in the

movie, but they are little more than a plot device de-signed to carry the movie’s truly subversive message.

What “Rose-mary’s Baby” is re-ally about is pregnancy.

The doddering old women of the coven, led by Ruth Gordon in a brilliantly funny perfor-mance, must be all too familiar to any woman who has had a baby.

Older, “wiser” women descend like vultures to tell the pregnant woman exactly what she has to do for the sake of the baby. Because she is carrying the future of the species, the pregnant woman is no longer an individual and has forfeited any right to self-determination.

That is the truly ter-rifying message of “Rose-mary’s Baby.” These wom-en strip Rosemary of her freedom and force-feed her home remedies and unso-licited advice, and nothing about their behavior is tru-ly bizarre. Nothing about this scenario would be ter-ribly different if Rosemary were carrying anyone other than Satan’s baby.

For her part, Farrow is tasked with represent-ing every woman who ever gave birth in her performance, and she does a stunning job of it.

Tiny, frail and beauti-ful, always staring out of

fearful, unnaturally huge eyes, she seems almost like a spirit or a force of nature.

She expresses pure ela-tion on discovering her pregnancy, and the sin-cerity of her performance makes it all the more heart-rending as it is revealed that this baby will not be what she expected. She moves from fear to joy on a dime, and the audience never once questions that these emotions are real.

She provides the per-fect entry point into a strange, unnatural uni-verse for an audience that, in 1968, was certainly un-prepared to suspend dis-belief. Even in the movie’s last moments, when she surrenders to mother-hood and agrees to nurse her deformed devil-child, no one in the audience can fault her because we see the pure maternal affection in her eyes.

“Rosemary’s Baby” re-mains a classic because it speaks to something in the human experience. The un-spoken truth among peo-ple, that pregnancy is actu-ally terrifying, is exploited to brilliant effect. Polanski has crafted a thriller that manipulates our basest instincts, and the result is creepy and hilarious, but also subtly disturbing.

Plenty of movies tried to imitate its Satanic trap-pings, but none got to the heart of what made Rosemary’s Baby one of the most perfect hor-ror movies of all time.

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Microsoft has un-veiled a new projection device called Illumi-Room, a proof of concept device that uses a projec-tor and Kinect for Win-dows to project games beyond the TV screen.

Like the holodeck from “Star Trek,” it projects the part of the game not on the screen for the area around you, mixing the physi-cal and virtual world.

Unlike the holo-deck, however, it mix-es itself with the real world, to surreal effect.

In a preview video provided by Microsoft Research, the system scanned the area with a grid and then pro-jected images around the room, covering the furniture. Some of the demoed games used the projections to extend the view of the game world, though a few only used it for ef-fects like fire or snow.

One in particular extended the view, but used an X-ray ef-fect for everything off screen. No mat-ter what effect was used, however, the furniture was still

distinct and caused the images off screen to blur while mixing with the furniture behind it.

“IllumiRoom uses a Kinect for Windows camera and a projec-tor to blur the lines be-tween on-screen content and the environment we live in, allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds,” Microsoft Research said on their website.

“For example, our system can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent mo-tion, extend the field of view and enable entirely new game experiences.”

This is only a proof of concept and will like-ly go through several stages of refinement be-fore the final version is revealed to the public.

Whether this de-

vice is intended for the Xbox 360 or a future video game console is not clear as of yet, but given that the current console generation is winding to a close, this technology will most likely find a home on the Xbox’s successor.

The Xbox 360 was one of the top selling video game consoles last generation, known for games such as the Halo series and the Gears of War series. A successor to the 360 has yet to be officially announced, though one has been mentioned by several Microsoft employees.

Microsoft promises to give more details about IllumiRoom at ACM SIGCHI Confer-ence on Human Fac-tors in Computing Sys-tems in Paris this April.

Ubuntu, arguably the most popu-lar Linux distribution, is coming to smartphones at the end of this year or the beginning of 2014, bringing a new contender into the mobile market.

With iOS and Android currently reigning supreme, Windows Phone 8 grasping for third place and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry set to make a possible comeback, Canonical’s Ubun-tu is going to have its work cut out for it, fighting for ground with some seri-ous competition already in the market.

However, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t seem too wor-ried about Ubuntu’s opposition in the smartphone environment, citing Ubuntu’s potential to bring the aver-age user into smartphone literacy with a “much easier and understandable path for those users toward using the Web and email on their smartphones.”

Essentially, Shuttleworth believes that Ubuntu as a mobile operating system is perfect for those who barely know how to use a smartphone, while offering great rewards to those that are more fluent.

“At the high end, we have had the great fortune to be coming to market late, in the sense that Moore’s Law has given us seven or eight generations of performance improvements since Android came to market, and we’ve been able to take

advantage of that,” says Shuttleworth. These generations of technological

improvements have essentially allowed Canonical to give users a full-fledged desktop-capable operating system in the palm of their hand, or as Shuttle-worth calls it, “Unix in your pocket.”

As Ubuntu is a full operating system rather than a gimped mobile one, this gives it several advantages. Basically, anything the desktop version of Ubun-tu can do, the phone version can do as well, offering multi-user support, multi-processing support and all the native Linux applications a user could need.

Simply put, Ubuntu for phones, at least on the higher end of hardware, will allow users to perform tasks that Android or iOS simply can’t do by virtue of design.

Ubuntu will also allow the creation of web applications that run indepen-dently of the browser with their own access to system services, with Ca-nonical offering facilities for their in-tegration that Shuttleworth claims are “richer than either Android or iOS and quite possibly even from Firefox OS.”

As for games, more developers seem to be paying attention to Linux, or at least Ubuntu, so it’s likely that Ubun-tu for phones will boast a game library that could exceed those available with the current titans of the mobile world.

Canonical’s biggest hurdle to jump will be finding carriers to produce devic-es for their operating system. In a market with such strong opponents, it won’t be easy to convince companies to try a new approach with entirely different software.

“We think we can hold our own in what is going to be a very vi-brant market,” says Shuttleworth.

Whether he’s right about the suc-cess of Ubuntu for phones or not, a market full of choice is certainly “vi-brant,” and the more choices the better.

Canonical hopes to make smart-phone market more “vibrant” BY CONNOR BUCY

Canonical founder Mark Shuttlesworth speaks at a meeting of an Ubuntu community.

Valve looks to Linux for the future of gamingBY CONNOR BUCY

Earlier this year, Valve Software’s head honcho Gabe Newell predicted that the release of Windows 8 would be a “catastrophe” for the PC platform, explaining that in its attempts to lock out competition, Microsoft will drive away manufacturers and developers.

Now that Windows 8 has been re-leased, the negative reviews and pub-lic backlash hint that Newell may have been right. Valve reported a 20 percent drop in the few months since the release of Windows 8.

Newell, a former Microsoft em-ployee who hasn’t exactly been quiet about his distrust for the company, argues that companies, including his own Valve, depend on the PC remain-ing an open platform. According to Newell, Linux could be the open plat-form that the PC industry needs.

However, Valve has a “hedging strat-egy” to keep itself from taking too much damage from what Newell calls a “gi-ant sadness” for the PC world. Valve is expanding into the little-known but growing world of Linux. Steam, Valve’s online PC game library along with Valve’s most popular games, recently became available for Linux users and was greeted with a great deal of jubi-lance among the citizens of this often overlooked operating environment. In addition, Valve has its own gam-ing console in development, the Steam Box, designed to play Steam’s library of games and running a flavor of Linux.

News of a gaming console natively running Linux is exciting news for Linux users as well, possibly more so than the availability of Steam. Given that the Steam Box is a successful plat-form, it’s conceivable that the PC gam-ing industry will follow Valve’s example and gradually transform the Linux en-vironment into a much lusher world for

users turned off by Linux’s lack of the fun element. Availability of games will also bring new blood into the Linux community, and with it, attention and ultimately a greater market share.

“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games,” Newell argues.

“People don’t realize how critical games are in driving consumer behavior.” Rath-er than stay on what they see as a sinking ship, Valve and Newell seem to be plac-ing their bets on Linux as an alternative.

“We want to make it as easy as pos-sible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well,” says New-ell, who doesn’t intend to stick around for the possible collaspe of Windows.

The commitment of Valve, a staple company in the world of PC gaming, to bring games to Linux is news of a major change in the computer world, in addi-tion to being very exciting to the brave few taking the open-source way of com-puting. If Valve makes good on its prom-ises, Linux could see a major surge of development in the computer industry, which is good for everyone regardless of their chosen operating system. Choice is good, it’s what ideally makes an industry grow, and more choices could mean an overall improvement across all platforms.

Tux, originally drawn by Larry Ewing, is the official mascot of the Linux kernel.

Microsoft will allow gamers to extend their experience to the surrounding room using the Kinect peripheral for Xbox 360 or its successor.

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ball team came away with a big 60-58 win on Jan 10 in a nailbiter against Peach Belt rival North Georgia, thanks to a buzzer beating put back.

Senior Guard Zena Nasiloski tipped in a missed 3-point attempt to give the Falcons their third straight win and their best start to confer-ence play since the 1995-1996 season.

Nasiloski’s tip-in was the cap to her double-double performance,

as she turned in 12 points and a new career-high of 17 rebounds.

Taylor Beverly also recorded her own double-double, notch-ing ten points and 13 rebounds.

Trena Moore-Smith and Shay Bonner backed Nasiloski and Bev-erly’s career nights with 15 points each, as the Falcons moved to 4-1 in conference play and took fourth place in the Peach Belt standings.

The Montevallo women’s basketball team had an eventful winter break as they began conference play looking for a sec-ond straight trip to the PBC tournament.

The PBC stretch began with a home game against Columbus State. The Fal-cons opened up a 25-point halftime lead, netting 49 points, the most scored in a half under Coach Hilbrich’s first two seasons.

Seniors Trena Moore-Smith (12 points, 13 assists) and Zena Nasiloski (17 points, 10 rebounds) each tallied a double-double in the dominating 77-65 win. Moore-Smith’s 13 assists not only gave her a new career high, but set the bar for future guards by setting a new school record for assists in a game.

Next was a trip to Augusta State, where Sophomore Taylor Beverly notched a double-double with 23 points and 10 re-bounds, matched by Jacquelyn Thomp-son’s 14 points (4-8 from three point). But the Falcon’s best efforts weren’t enough to out-pace Augusta State, losing 72-53.

The team then came back to Bank Trust, ready to re-bound against the Flagler Saints.

Taylor Beverly turned in her team-leading fifth double-double of the season, dropping another 23 points and adding 12 rebounds. Jacquelyn Thompson added 14 points and Trena Moore-Smith chipped in nine assists as the Falcons went on to win 72-66.

The last leg of the break came with a trip to Greenwood, S.C., for a showdown with the Lander Bearcats.

Trena Moore-Smith dropped a new career-high 21 points, shooting five of seven from the three point, while adding four rebounds and five assists.

Taylor Beverly added another 14 points and seven rebounds, along with Shay Bonner’s 13 points and Zena Nasiloski’s seven points, eight rebounds, leading the Falcons to the first win against Lander University in program history, 63-49.

Despite a career night for sopho-more Taylor Beverly, the women’s bas-ketball team fell to the undefeated and No. 4 ranked Pacers of USC-Aiken.

Beverly turned in her second double-double of the week with 12 rebounds and a career high 27 points, matched by Zena Nasiloski’s 14 points and five rebounds.

As a team, the Falcons shot just un-der 38 percent from the floor, while out-rebounding the Pacers 34-28 and

outscoring them in the paint 30-20. USC-Aiken’s 52 shooting percent-

age was too much for the Falcons to overcome but not for lack of trying.

The Falcons (9-6, 4-2), were back on the court on Jan 16, against Georgia Southwestern State for the last match in a three-game road stand before re-turning home to the Bank Trust Are-na on Jan 19, against Francis Marion.

Buzzer beater tip-in lifts Falcons

Women’s basketball goes 3-1 over break

Falcons put up fight,grounded by Pacers

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BCS beatdown“If this was a prize

fight, they’d call it!”That was ESPN ana-

lyst Brent Musburger’s attempt at describing the virtual dismantling the Alabama Crimson Tide handed the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in Jan 7’s BCS National Title game.

From the opening kick to the final whistle, it was blatantly obvi-ous that the Irish were not only thoroughly out-matched but also unbe-lievably out of their depth.

After winning the open-ing coin toss, Irish head coach Brian Kelly decided to start the game by giv-ing Alabama the ball first, which was his first mistake.

Coach Kelly believed that if his defense could will the impossible and get the Tide off the field before they could score, it would give his of-fense the momentum needed to strike first and put the preverbal “Goli-ath” Tide on their heels.

And believe it or not, the plan actually worked…for one play.

What then ensued was a BCS shellacking, starting with an Eddie Lacy 20 yard run, followed by a three yard pass from AJ McCar-ron to Michael Williams, a one yard run from TJ Yel-don and finally an 11 yard TD pass from McCarron to Lacey to make the score at halftime 28-0 Alabama.

McCarron finished with 264 passing yards and four touchdowns, matched by Lacy and Yeldon’s com-bined 388 rushing yards and two touchdowns, en route to the dominat-ing 42-14 win–securing Alabama’s second straight national title, its third in four years and the SEC’s seventh straight BCS title.

How do you know when a football game is over?

Answer: The announc-ers become more enam-ored with the starting quarterback’s girlfriend than with the actual game.

That’s right, for about three minutes of the broad-cast, ESPN announcers Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit decided to take their “eye off the ball,” if you will, when producers informed them that AJ McCarron’s girlfriend, and Miss Alabama, Catherine Webb had been spotted in the crowd of thousands.

In truth, we honestly cannot blame them. For one of the most antici-pated national title games in history this game was the very definition of the term “snooze fest.” Fans were more fascinated with the little nuances hap-pening within the game, rather than the game itself.

For example, at one point in the third quarter, McCarron and his center, Barrett Jones, got into a lit-tle scuffle over a play. Jones tried to warn McCarron that he observed the de-fense in perfect position to blow the play up before it started. McCarron would have no part of the warn-ing, as he waited for Jones’ snap that never came. McCarron was forced to take a timeout, and boy did he let Jones know how frustrated he was.

But the most telling sign of how outmatched Notre Dame was is the quote head coach Brian Kelly gave at halftime.

When asked what his game plan was to comeback in the second half, coach responded saying “maybe if Alabama doesn’t come back in the second half.”

That is a quote from a coach who knows that his day is officially done.

Since the 42-14 drum-ming, Coach Kelly has

fielded calls from the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cleveland Browns re-garding their head coach-ing vacancies. Word now is that he will stay on at Notre Dame, happy where he is and hungry for an-other National Title shot.

As for the Tide, it’s time to celebrate an-other dynasty; but then it’s back to the lab.

No doubt Coach Saban and his staff are already back to work, planning for National Signing Day and the upcoming season.

There are many rea-sons as to why the Tide routed the Irish: confer-ence, coaching, team, motivation and the lists go on. But sometimes, it can be as simple as this: Notre Dame was not ready for the Tide because they have never faced a foe like an SEC giant.

Notre Dame might have been undefeated on the season; however, they were fed a steady diet of close wins over midrange opponents. Contrastingly, the Tide not only faced the SEC gauntlet, playing such juggernauts as LSU, Texas A&M and Georgia, but managed to run the table with only one loss.

So now it’s time to look ahead.

It’s just over seven months until the start of a new season, the last season of the current BCS system. And, as per usual, all eyes will be squarely on the SEC.

Who will be the confer-ence’s hope for an eighth straight title? Who will be the one team to chal-lenge the conference’s dominance? Will Alabama make a run for an his-toric third straight title?

The answer to all these questions is sim-ple…it’s anyone’s guess.

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The UM men’s basketball team is now No. 1 in the Peach Belt Con-ference’s West division, thanks to a 73-54 road game, disman-tling the North Georgia Saints.

Troran Brown scored a career-high 26 points in the win, followed by Marvin Fitzgerald’s double-double performance, adding 19 points and nine rebounds.

Brown also added two assists and four steals to his final stat sheet, as the Fal-cons handed the North Georgia Saints their first conference loss of the season. Montevallo controlled the game by forc-ing 20 Saint turnovers and scoring 16 points off the North Georgia miscues.

The men’s basketball team’s three-game win streak came to an end at the hands of the USC-Aiken Pacers, 82-77 on Jan 12. It was the Falcons’ second conference loss of the young season, as both teams ei-ther tied or barely led in almost every stat.

Troran Brown scored a new career-high 28 points, shooting 10-of-24 from the floor and making just under half of his three point

attempts. Brown’s night was matched by se-niors Marvin Fitzgerald and Drico Hight-ower’s combined 32 points and 13 rebounds.

The Falcons are back in action on Jan 16 in their last game of a four game road trip. The team will face Georgia South-western State in Americus, Georgia before returning home to host the high pow-ered offense of Francis Marion on Jan 19.

UM now No. 1 in West

Men’s basketball win streak ends at USC-Aiken

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As students left campus for win-ter break, the men’s basketball team stayed behind, ready to open confer-ence play and defend their PBC title.

First out of the gate was a showdown at home with the Columbus State Cougars.

Drico Hightower led all Falcon scorers with 19 points, while fellow senior Marvin Fitzgerald recorded his sixth double-double of the season with 12 points and a team-high 16 rebounds as the Falcons went on to win 81-71.

Next was the first conference road trip of the season, as the team trav-eled to Augusta, Ga., to face the 15th-ranked Augusta State Jaguars.

Despite Drico Hightower’s dominat-ing performance, with a team high in rebounding (12) and a new career high in points (23), the Falcons suffered their

first PBC loss, losing a 75-73 nailbiter.The Falcons returned to Bank

Trust Arena looking to ring in the New Year right against Flagler.

Sophomore Troran Brown’s sec-ond double-double of the season (20 points, 11 assists) led the Fal-cons to a 78-64 win over the Saints.

Finally, the team took one last road trip before the new semes-ter began, paying a visit to the Bearcats of Lander University.

Drico Hightower turned in another dominating double-double, netting 18 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Jonas Brown and Ryan May added 13 points, four rebounds each, while Mar-vin Fitzgerald and Troran Brown net-ted 14 points each, as the Falcons held off a late Jaguar surge to win 74-65.

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