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ʻF.E.A.R. 2ʼ Review ....8

Thursday, Feburary 19, 2009 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 115, Issue 90

SPORTSNo. 1 Tide travels to

California for the Cathedral City Tournement

By Danielle DragoSenior Staff Reporter

Tuscaloosa’s mayor of three years, Walt Maddox, gave a speech at the annual legislative breakfast this year outlining several goals, including the sale of alcohol on Sundays. He talked about this, as well as his other goals and the affects of the University on the city with The Crimson White.

CW: What were your goals outlined at the legislative breakfast? Maddox: Well, they are

more of legislative goals. You have to separate goals from those that are in terms of running the city and goals that are legislative. This was all about the city’s legislative agenda for the 2009 session. Some of the main points were to continue to advocate for zoning in and around Lake Tuscaloosa. It’s a city-owned lake that provides to over 200,000 people daily, but one of the issues we have is that around the lake there is no zoning protection. The city would like to see zoning

Mayor talks alcohol sales

Economic stability also discussed

By Jessie GableStaff Reporter

As reported in The CrimsonWhite on Wednesday, the University will be institutingDegreeWorks, a degree audittool, in June 2009. On Feb. 18, the SGA hosted a roundtablediscussion for students, teach-ers and faculty members to airtheir concerns about advising. At the discussion studentsand faculty members could freely discuss their complaintsand confusion around advisingand get feedback from other sources. SGA Secretary to the Senate Meg McCrummen and SGA Vice President for Academic Affairs Brandon Clark presented several pos-sibilities that the SGA had considered to make advisingeasier and more productive for students. One of the major studentcomplaints surrounding the UA advising process is that stu-dents are only allowed to signup for one 15-minute time slotbefore they have to register. This time frame is not enoughto discuss the classes theyhave to take the next semes-ter as well as their plans forthe future, said Tyler Reeves,a senator from the College of Arts and Sciences. Chris Hutt, an adviser in theCollege of Arts and Sciences, said most professors consider the focus of that appointment to be very narrow. “Students want to discuss the next 30 years of their life and advisers are just trying to get you through the next semes-ter,” Hutt said.

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By Hannah MaskContributing Writer

Students will have the opportunity to travel to 10 countries in 101 days while they study aboard a floating campus, thanks to Semester at Sea. Semester at Sea is a program that allows students to learn more about other coun-tries and globalization through world travel while simultaneously earning cred-it hours. Ed Williams of the University’s department of theatre and dance will be teaching and traveling with the program for the first time in the fall, although the University has been involved with the pro-gram in years past.

“[Semester at Sea] puts things into a global context,” Williams said. “You get to see Islam at work in places like Turkey, Croatia and Egypt. “It’s so easy to compare other places to America,” he said. “With this, you get to compare country to country to country.” Williams’ voyage destinations include Morocco, Vietnam, China, Egypt and India. Throughout the course of the trip, stu-dents attend a variety of classes onboard. Up to 15 transferable credit hours can be earned, and there are classes offered to benefit any major, Williams said. Subjects offered include anthro-pology, biology, art, economics and

communications. Williams said at least 20percent of every course’s content is relatedto experiences students will have off the boat. Williams will be teaching a class onworld cinema. “It will be about how Hollywood portraysother countries,” Williams said. Depending on the voyage, Semesterat Sea students, faculty members and employees spend from about 60 to 100 daystravelling aboard the MV Explorer, the program’s cruise ship. The ship, which has a capacity of almost 900 people, has been re-outfitted to fit educational needs, Williams said. For

Semester at sea available for students

See ADVISING, page 2

By Karissa BurschStaff Reporter

Imagine eating only Alabama grown food — no Florida oranges, no Italian olive oil, no Chinese rice. Andrew Grace, a filmmaker at the Center for Public Television and Radio at the University and his wife, Rashmi Grace, set out to do this for one full year as a project titled Eating Alabama. Grace said he, his wife and two friends started the challenge in April of last year, thinking for four months they would only eat food grown and raised within the state. “Initially we were going to pursue this diet for one season, but decided to extend the season into six months, and then

finally, with a few more exceptions, Rashmi and I decided to continue the project for a year,” Grace said. “So, for the last ten and a half months we’ve been eating only food grown or raised here in Alabama.” The few exceptions to the food selection include cooking oil, limited spices, coffee and tea, Grace said. He said that other exceptions were made in the later part of the year when they went out to eat but all other food eaten at home is grown or raised within the Alabama’s borders. “The primary reason why we started this project was to see if it could be done,” Grace said. Grace explained that most food in the United States travels between 1,500 and 2,000 miles from “the farm to your plate”. “This system of food distribution — which relies entirely on cheap petroleum for both transportation and for the continued man-ufacturing of pesticides and herbicides used in industrial agriculture — is com-pletely unsustainable,” Grace said. “We started Eating Alabama to see if we could reverse some of these trends, if only in our

UA Filmmaker to ‘eat Alabama’Grace to eat only food grown and

prepared in Alabama

Submitted photoAndrew Grace, a fi lmmaker at the center for Public Television and Radio at the Uni-versity has only eaten state grown food for the past 10 months.

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SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES

See FOOD, page 2

See ABROAD, page 3

By Karissa BurschStaff Reporter

UA student Christopher Franklin Roman died at 25 years old Sunday due to unknown causes, said UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen. Roman was a senior major-ing in advertising, Andreen said. Roman was from Birmingham and graduated from Oak Mountain High

School in 2002, Andreen said. Roman was also involved with the Houndstooth Hut, a distributor of houndstooth apparel on gamedays and online. The visitation service was held Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Southern Heritage Funeral Home and Cemetery in Pelham. The funeral service was directly after at 2 p.m., according to the student death notification addendum.

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CW | Marion R WaldingA sign in Publix lets customers know alcohol cannot be sold on Sundays. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox wants to bring the sale of alcohol on Sundays to a referendum.

CW | Drew HooverXavier Burgin, Sy Pryor and Jazzmin Franklin perform during Poetry Slam dress rehearsal on Feb. 17.

CW | Drew HooverAssorted Flava, a dance performance group from Stillman College, performs a Caribbean-themed dance choreographed by Carlos Shephard at the Poetry Slam dress rehearsal on Feb. 17.

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T-town InkBy Kelsey Stein

Senior Lifestyles Reporter

Although people often stigmatize those with tattoos as unsavory or rebellious, some students have tattoos that represent some-thing personally meaningful or symbolic. They can serve as a statement of religion or spiritual belief, fulfill a cosmetic purpose such as tattooed eyeliner, or be strictly decorative in nature. Despite the economic downturn, some students have been able to budget their money in order to accommodate their desire for new ink. A number of shops in the Tuscaloosa and Northport area specialize in body modification, particularly tattoos and pierc-ings. Before the 21st century, people associated tattoos with the Russian mafia, drunken sailors and barbaric tribal peoples. The popularity and thus the acceptance of tattoos has escalated among the current generation, dubbed “Generation Next.” More than one-third of young adults between the ages of 18 to 25 have at least one tattoo, according to The Pew Research Center. Love ’em or leave ’em, tattoos seem to be here to stay. For this generation, at least.

Open since: About three years ago at the current location

History: Chris Howton, the owner, is originally from Fay-ette. He has traveled around the country tattooing and owned shops in many of the places he’s been. He moved back to Tuscaloosa and opened Cynical Tattoos to be near his friends and family.

Recent tattoo trends: What-ever people see on TV shows. Cherry blossoms were popular for a while. “People are fi nally starting to get larger tattoos,” Howton said. “They are real-izing that for a tattoo to be as nice and elaborate as they want it to be, it has to have some size to it.”

UA tattoos: UA-themed tattoos are some of the most common tattoos they do, not only with students but in general. “The better the football team we have, the more of them we do,” Howton said.

Shop minimum: $40

Hours: Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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BRIAN SMITH Junior majoring in historyTattoos:1. The Ukrainian national symbol — “That’s where I grew up, and it represents home to me in a way.”2. “No one touches family” — “I value my family more than anything, so it’s part of a promise I made to them and my friends that I wouldn’t let anything happen to them.”

UA STUDENT TATTOOS:

SARAH PONDERJunior majoring in American studiesTattoos:1. The boy from the book “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein — “I got it partially in memory of my grand-mother and because I like the lesson. Life is about giv-ing as well as taking and I think people forget that.“2. Infinity symbol — “I got it because I was 18 and thought it looked cool.”3. State of Alabama — “Basically, you need to remem-ber where you came from.”

MALLORY SCOTT Junior majoring in restaurant, hotel and meetings managementTattoo:It says “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today” in Hebrew. “You shouldn’t take things for granted and tomorrow’s never guaranteed, so you should live as if every day was your last. There were instances in my life that made me want the tattoo.”

CYNICAL TATTOOS

See information on Youngblood’s Tattoos, Page 9

BUBBA’S ETERNAL ART TATTOOS

Open since: 2000

History: Bubba Huffman, the owner, is from Fayette, and he apprenticed in Kentucky. He worked for the original owner when the shop opened in 2000 and bought the shop for himself in October 2008. The stand-alone shop has two tattoo artists: Jon, who has nine years of experience, and Miller, who has 10 years.

Recent tattoo trends: Girls: some-thing small on their wrist. They want to get a tattoo, but they don’t want to show off too much. Guys: larger pieces instead of armbands. Portraits are becoming more popular, and Eternal Art has an award-winning portrait artist.

UA tattoos: “Most people just want to symbolize where they went to school and show their pride, espe-cially since the football program has gotten better,” Huffman said. Also, artists at Eternal Art have tattooed members of the swim and dive teams at the University.

Where it hurts the most to get a tattoo: Anywhere on a bone, top of the foot, or the sternum

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willing to flush you out of cover with grenades, should they feel you found too good a hiding spot. It’s up to the player to balance run and gun with sit and shoot tactics. All in all, “F.E.A.R. 2” is immensely fun and tremen-dously disturbing. It takes the good things from the first game (creepy psychic girls, ghost enemies and invisible assassins) and improves upon them with the addition of new environments, new weap-ons and the ability to drive a robot through the city streets, mowing down enemies with missiles and chain guns. The game’s major shortfall, how-ever, is lack of replayability due to its very linear design. Still, this game warrants at least a rental for both fans and newcomers to “F.E.A.R.”

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Youngblood’s Tattoos:Open since: About five years agoHistory: Youngblood, the owner, has been tattooing for almost 14 years. He has worked in Tuscaloosa for a total of 10 years, originally at a shop in Alberta. “I decided to go out on my own because I realized I could make a lot more money,” he said. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do anyway, to have my own business.”Recent tattoo trends: Girls have come in asking for stars, mainly on their wrists and hips.UA tattoos: They do a lot of Alabama-themed tattoos, especially during football season.Where it hurts the most to get a tattoo: On the sternum or ribcageShop minimum: $40Hours: Monday through Saturday from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.Location: Fifteenth Street, next to the 15th Street Diner

YOUNGBLOODCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

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By Tyler DeierhoiLifestyles Reporter

The Bama Theatre will be pre-senting the Alabama debut of the documentary “They Came to Play” tonight. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be attended by the film’s director, Alex Rotaru, and Birmingham ophthalmologist Dr. Drew Mays, who participated in the competi-tion covered by the film. “They Came to Play” is a documentary about the Van Cliburn Foundation’s Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs.

The competition involves 75 individuals over the age of 35 who work in careers that do not involve teaching or playing piano. The film premiered in Fort Worth, Texas, the location of the competition. The Foundation was founded in 1962 by a group of educators and citizens from Fort Worth who were inspired by American pianist Van Cliburn’s success in the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in 1958. Cliburn’s win, which took place during the height of the Cold War, was celebrated across the world. The first Amateur Competition was held in 1999 with the intent of highlighting the importance

of music in everyday life. The documentary was the idea of producer Lori Miller. Miller has been working with films since the early ’90s and is an amateur musician. She said she always wanted to make a movie about classical music and, after reading about the competi-tion, realized she had an oppor-tunity to make the film. “I wanted to make this film to tell a human story about people who have led full lives but kept their music alive as well,” she said. When she discovered the competition, Miller contacted the Foundation to inquire about documenting the event. The Foundation approved of the idea and gave Miller the rights. She soon set out to find investors and a director. After speaking with many directors, she eventually found Rotaru through a friend. The director was exactly what she was looking for. “I hired Alex because he was an amateur pianist and had a lot of knowledge on the subject,” Miller said. “I wanted the film to have a musical feel and I knew that he would able to give it the direction that it needed.” Rotaru has been playing the piano since he was 5 or 6 and had a love of music through-out his life. Despite receiving a degree in physics and one in film production, Rotaru said he has

never lost his passion for music and tried to reflect that in the film. “I think I just wanted people out there to realize that having a hobby at such a high level was something to be encouraged,” he said. “I feel that having such an intense and beautiful activity in your life is important.” The crew began filming months before the competition. They selected a diverse group of competitors from the list and traveled to their hometowns to interview them and find out their stories. Those who were spotlighted in the film were selected for their stories, such as one man who had overcome a drug addiction with the help of his music. One person they interviewed was Birmingham ophthalmolo-gist Drew Mays. Mays, who has been very successful since the competition, believes that the film captured the mood and experiences of those involved. “It shows a lot of the competi-tion and the competitors,” said Mays. “They really did show these people very close to their real selves.” Miller said the overall tone of the film is one of encouragement and optimism. “It’s a feel-good movie,” she said. “I think that in tough times, good movies are great medicine for the soul.”

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By Matt FergusonContributing Writer

I love a game that can con-vince me things are moving around in my room, make me nervous when walking dark halls and just plain scare me. But the best scares come not just from the classic “oh no there are enemies jumping at me unexpectedly” moments, but from terrifyingly human (or inhuman) characters, eerie locales and events that just pick at those little fears in the back of your mind. Hence my anticipation for the release of “F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin,” Monolith’s long-awaited sequel to the first “F.E.A.R.” “F.E.A.R. 2” begins during the closing minutes of the first installment, though in a dif-ferent part of the city (those who didn’t play the first game can easily catch up on the back-story through the vari-ous scenes and intel items you acquire during the game). Your squad has been tasked with locating and captur-ing Armacham Technology Corporation President Genevieve Aristide, who some of you may remember from a post-credits phone call in the first “F.E.A.R.” You and a teammate are dropped off at the main entrance to the ATC headquarters building with some basic weapons and the hunt begins. Many people are likely cring-ing at the locale already, since a major complaint from the first “F.E.A.R.” was that the entire game took place in an office building, leading to repetitive and somewhat bland levels. “F.E.A.R. 2” does not suffer this malady as it has you mov-ing between office buildings, underground laboratories, nuked city streets and even a local school. Corridors are dark and splattered with gore, but the creepiest part for me is still walking into a room, realizing there is no one there and then seeing doors and cabinets slow-ly opened by unseen forces. Graphically, the game is a big step up from the first “F.E.A.R.,” which is to be expected consid-ering it is a good four years old now. The enemies (of which there are more than just

three varieties now) are verydetailed and each has its ownunique design. Environments,though generally muddled bythe all-pervading gloom and darkness, are well-designed and full of those “little touches” like bloody hand prints and bul-let holes everywhere. The controls are slightly dif-ferent from the first “F.E.A.R.,”though it is difficult to call them a true “improvement.” Move, aim and fire are all the same, though the game has added a zoom feature for more precise aiming and remapped a fewbuttons, such as the “use med-kit” button (the Y button, which now activates slow-motion).All these changes seem to put emphasis on taking it slow and using cover, since med-kits are relatively scarce and you die much faster in this game. On that note, a word of warning to players of the first “F.E.A.R.”: find new tactics. Whereas “F.E.A.R.” could be beaten rather easily by a com-bination of shotgun, slow-moand rushing blindly into the fray, you will almost certainlydie with this tactic, even in the early levels. The AI is smarter than ever and knows when to take cover for a firefight and when to rush your flanks. I can-not count the deaths I sufferedby ignoring an enemy who cir-cled behind me while I was busypopping up from behind cover to shoot his friends-in-hiding.In short, the game puts a much greater emphasis on cover and patience, as reflected by the addition of the new interactive cover system. The cover system really adds a new layer of strategy to the game. When entering an area, your first action should alwaysbe to identify any pieces of nearby interactive cover, such

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By Josh HedrickLifestyles Reporter

A recent MTV commercial officially retired the term ‘bling-bling’ from the hip vernacular. The commercial’s point was that once your grandmother starts using a term lifted from hip-hop and rap lyrics, it is no longer cool. This commercial also demon-strates just exactly how influen-tial and intertwined hip-hop has become in everyday popular cul-ture. The fourth annual Hip Hop Summit, hosted by the University’s Ferguson Center Student Union, culminates with the Hip Hop Summit main event in the Ferguson Ballroom. This year’s theme, “Expressing the Nation,” hopes to demonstrate the fluid nature of hip-hop and present various interpretations of what it means to people of dif-ferent nations around the world. “It is about what hip-hop can mean,” said LaToya Scott, Coordinator for Special Events and Student Development. “We want you to come out and

share in the culture of hip-hop. Everyone comes with precon-ceived notions of hip-hop, just like country or rock, but you leave saying, ‘Is that really hip-hop?’” This fourth edition of the Hip Hop Summit is bigger and more comprehensive than ever, Scott said. “This year we worked with Scott and added a community service aspect to the Summit and made it a week long event,” said Arielle Odem, president of the Black Student Union. Students volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club in Alberta City, painting the building and interacting with students. “We try to relate to kids on a level they understand, which is hip-hop,” Odem said. “Bringing it to the kids makes it more suc-cessful, it allows them to view the acts. It shows hip-hop in the community and puts a positive light on what it can do.” Although the educational influences and community ser-vice draws in crowds, the diversi-ty of performances it what really makes The Summit successful,

Scott said. “It shows hip-hop on cam-pus in various ways,” she said. “We have a mime group, frater-nity and sorority step shows, a marching band and we even recreate some different scenes. And it’s all students — students who perform around town or in Birmingham.” While the Summit does not have a marquee attraction, the list of acts is adorned with tal-ented and award winning per-formers, including the RipTide dance team. “If you ever watched America’s Best Dance Crew, we’re kinda like that — very choreography based performances with a little street thrown in, a little southern flavor, too,” RipTide President Amber Davis said. “We’re very diverse as a team, we represent a lot of different styles of hip-hop.” The group has performed at various events in and around campus and also travels when invited, Davis said. “One of the major events was when we danced at 106th and Park on BET,” she said. “We went in April and we won and got the chance to go back in July.” Also performing is Derryck “D-Sharp” Gleaton, a self-described “hip-hop violinist,” who has appeared at The Apollo

Theatre in Harlem. “Sometimes I guess I would call myself a rapper,” Gleaton said, “but I use music instead of words.” This will mark his second per-formance at The Summit after an enthusiastic response to his first outing, he said. “It was my first big performance on the UA campus and it was a great expe-rience. The crowd was totally into it. They were waving their arms in the air, like they just didn’t care,” he added, laughing. Most students have probably never heard of the concept of a hip-hop violinist, and that is the point of the Summit, Scott said. “Our philosophy is to challenge. You think you know what it is? Well this is our notion. We want to have people critically analyze what they listen to.”

Audience interaction is also a major element of the show. “There are parts where it is participatory,” Scott said. “You’ll be a spectator of course, but you will feel a sense of energy. It’s very energetic and fast paced but also informative. We just hope people walk away looking at hip-hop in an entirely different manner.” The Main Event of the Hip Hop Summit begins tonight at 8 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom. The room holds 1200 people with overflow in the west dining area and theater. The show will be

broadcast live to both of these areas. Last year’s attendance exceed-ed 2000 people, Scott said. “Thisyear we are hoping for even morepeople to come out, engage, and share in the experience of hip-hop at the University.” “It’s always a big performance, and a big crowd,” RipTide President Amber Davis said. “From the time it starts, the adrenaline is always there.We’re always excited to performand we’ll be there to give a killer performance. We’re ready, and I hope everybody will love it.”

Don’t call it a comebackSummit aims to challenge

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• What: Ferguson Center Student Union presents the 4th Annual Hip Hop Summit

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• Where: Ferguson Cen-ter Ballroom

CW FileRappers of A2Z Keandre “Big Kee” Jones, left, and Andrew Cotten perform at the Hip-Hop Summit in 2008.

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By Will BarrySenior Sports Reporter

The No. 1 Alabama softball team will take its talent west this week to Cathedral City, Calif., near Palm Springs, to take on BYU, Oregon, No. 6 UCLA, No. 8 Oklahoma and Hawaii in the Cathedral City Classic. The 32-team tournament field will include 20 of the 32 NCAA tournament teams and four of the eight teams that competed

in the Women’s College World Series last season: Alabama, Florida, UCLA and National Champion Arizona State. “The Palm Springs tourna-ment and the Leadoff Classic the next weekend, to me, are the two top tournaments in the country, and to be invited to both is kind of special because the competi-tion goes way up,” head coach Patrick Murphy said. The Tide is 8-0 on the season after starting the year off with

back-to-back sweeps of tourna-ments by winning the South Alabama Invitational in Mobile and then the BAMA Bash in Tuscaloosa. An advantage to heading out west is to play teams outside the SEC and prepare for a grueling schedule down the stretch. “When we go out there there’s going to be Pac-10 teams,” Murphy said. “We play two — Oregon and UCLA — and then obviously Okalahoma’s top five and BYU is very good. Hawaii’s very good.” The tournament will be a homecoming for an Alabama player who will play a key role in the Tide’s success this season. “And then another reason we’re going to Palm Spring is for Charlotte Morgan, for all her family and friends to see her,” Murphy said. “It’s about 45 minutes from her home town in Moreno Valley and we’ll stop at

their house Wednesday night on the way to Palm Springs to eat. It’s just a good way for us to give back to them.” Morgan picked to play at Alabama over UCLA and Texas and is currently in her junior year for the Tide, batting .500 with one homerun and nine RBIs. From the pitching circle, Morgan is 3-0 on the season with a 1.17 ERA and 13 strikeouts in 18 innings pitched. The Tide will face BYU for the first time in program his-tory. The Cougars are 6-5 on the season with an 0-3 mark against ranked teams. Oregon is 5-5 on the season. The all-time series between the two teams is tied at 1-1. The Tide won the last contest 3-0 in Feb. 2005. UCLA is 8-2 on the season and is an 11-time national champion-ship program that won back-to-

back titles in 2003 and 2004. Alabama has never beaten Bruins, trailing the all-time series 0-8. Alabama is 3-2 all-time against Oklahoma, who is 8-2 on the sea-son. Alabama won the last meet-ing 5-0 in March 2006.

Hawaii is 2-8 on the seasonas the Tide will try to remain perfect against the RainbowWarriors by improving their 2-0 all-time record against them. Alabama and BYU will be the fourth match-up of the tourna-ment, playing today at 10:30 a.m.

SOFTBALL

No. 1 Tide heads west for showdown

Menʼs golf fourth in latest rankings

UA Athletics The first Golf World/Nike Golf Coaches’ poll of the spring season was released Wednesday with Alabama ranked fourth nationally. The Crimson Tide finished the fall season with a second-place finish at the Isleworth-UCF Collegiate Invitational and a No. 3 ranking. The first poll of 2009 was released after many colle-giate teams around the country kicked off their spring schedule last weekend. Alabama opens its spring slate Sunday at the John Hayt Intercollegiate at the Sawgrass Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla. Alabama received 463 points in the poll and one first-place vote. Georgia remains atop the rankings.

Womenʼs Cross Country inks two

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Alabama head women’s cross country coach Randy Hasenbank announced the signing of Katlyn Will and Elsbeth Denton to a National Letter of Intent. Will joins the Crimson Tide from Corinth, Miss., Denton from Vestavia Hills. Rated one of the top milers in the country, Will has garnered more than 10 individual state titles in track and cross country during her high school career. In addition, she has led her team to four consecutive state cross country and track and field team titles. Katlyn posted a time of 4:55 for the mile last spring at the Mobile Meet of Champions and ran 2:14 for 800 meters at the Mississippi State Championships in May. Denton earned 6A state cross country runner-up honors in

2007. Denton has regularly placed among the top finishersin the sectional and state trackand field championships during her four years at Vestavia Hills.

Osborne, Garrett headline 2009 coaching clinic

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Alabama’s 2009 coaching clinic will feature some of the most rec-ognizable figures in football his-tory as well as two of the more well respected young coaches in the game. Tom Osborne, Derek Dooley, Jason Garrett, Stan Hixon and Ozzie Newsome are scheduled to speak in Tuscaloosain March. Osborne was the head coachat Nebraska for 25 years and won three national title and 13 conference titles. He is current-ly Nebraska’s athletic director.Dooley serves as the head foot-ball coach and athletic director at Louisiana Tech, where last season he led his team to the school’s first bowl victory in more than 30 years. Garrett is the offensive coordinator and assistant head coach with the Dallas Cowboys, while Hixon is a 30-year coaching veteran whois currently the wide receiv-ers coach with the Washington Redskins. Newsome, a four-year starter and an All-American at Alabama, is the general manag-er of the Baltimore Ravens. “The annual coaching clinic is one of our favorite events of the year,” head coach Nick Sabansaid. “We are looking forward to hearing from some outstand-ing coaches and spending some time sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas to enhance professional development at all levels. We have a great lineupof speakers again this year, which will include several of the region’s championship-winninghigh school coaches.” The clinic begins on the eve-ning of March 26 and includes a full day of guest speakers on Friday before wrapping up on March 28 after the Tide holdsone of the 15 spring practices.

SPORTSin brief

By Mark LongThe Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. | Nick Calathes scored 22 points, Alex Tyus added 16 and Florida snapped a two-game losing streak with a 83-74 victory over Alabama on Wednesday night. Kenny Kadji had eight points and eight rebounds off the bench for the Gators, who had lost three of their last four coming into the game. F lor ida (20 -6 , 7 -4 Southeastern Conference) beat Alabama for the eighth time in the last 10 meetings. The Gators also extended their streak of 20-win seasons to 11, the second-longest streak in

league history. Tubby Smith holds the record with 12, 10 at Kentucky and two at Georgia. Alonzo Gee led the Crimson Tide (13-12, 3-8), which has dropped four in a row and nine of 12, with 17 points. Senario Hillman added 15. The Gators had two shots at getting win No. 20 last week, but lost close road games against Kentucky and Georgia. They had a much easier time with Alabama. Although Florida led by as many as 16 points in each half, Alabama had a few chances to make it much closer than the final score. The Crimson Tide kept forc-ing the ball inside and get-ting second and third shots.

Alabama also got fouled, but missed nine of 16 from the free-throw line in the second half. Still, the Tide cut it to 75-68 with 2:35 remaining. Florida responded by hitting eight in a row from the stripe — the team’s biggest weak-nesses in several close losses. Walter Hodge sank two, then Calathes followed with a pair. Erving Walker’s two with 39.3 seconds left made it 81-72, sealing the win. Walker, who added two more in the closing seconds, finished with 13 points. The Gators were 19 of 24 from the line. They were even more effective from the 3-point line, finishing 10 of 29. Florida was ahead 45-29 late

in the first half after consecu-tive 3-pointers from Hodge and Walker. Alabama closed the deficit to 47-35 at halftime and started slicing into the lead with strong post play inthe second half. JaMychal Green finishedwith 12 points and 15 boards.The Gators, though, coun-tered from outside. Calathes hit a 3-pointer to start 16-5 run that turned a 55-50 game back into a big lead. Tyus came up huge, too, beat-ing Alabama up and down the court and getting easy buck-ets in the paint. Florida improved to 14-0 at home this season, extendingits home winning streak to 16 games.

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CW | Marion R WaldingSoftball pitcher Kelsi Dunne throws a pitch during the softball game Sunday against East Carolina University as part of the BAMA Bash. Dunne had 12 strike-outs against the Pirates in the 8-0 shut out. The Tide swept the Bash, winning all four games.

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By Christy RoachStaff Reporter

St. Francis Catholic Church is hosting the retreat SEARCH March 6 to March 8. It is being held at Hargis Retreat Center in Birmingham and costs $20 to attend. Jessica Mata, a junior majoring in nursing said SEARCH is a great time for students to get away from school and focus on God. She said the retreat is open to all students. Mata said students will carpool to the camp. Groups will leave at 3 p.m. and again at 5 p.m. Mata said students can reg-ister for the retreat online at stfrancisuofa.com, but they are still welcome if they do not register. SEARCH is a student led retreat. Mata said she decided to be a leader after her first SEARCH retreat. She served as a team member, then a co-director for two retreats and is now serving on team again. “As a team leader I help them talk and grow in their relationship with the Lord,” Mata said. Mata said the team meets once a week to plan what people will talk about, the food and any other details necessary for the retreat so students can get away and relax. St. Francis hosts a retreat each semester. Mata said her duties as a co-director were to be in charge of the team. She said they were the ones that

handle any emergencies. “My first time as a co-direc-tor the power went out and it had snowed,” Mata said. “It was fun though.” Kevin Dudek, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, is one of the co-directors for this semester’s SEARCH retreat. He said they plan the meetings and make sure the groups stay ontask. Dudek said the themefor the retreat is “Being Transformed by the HolySpirit.” “The theme changes each semester but the outline of the retreat stays the same,” Dudek said. He said students partici-pate in seven talks within their “families” of five to 10 searchers and two membersfrom the teams. Students attending the retreat who are not on teams are referred to as searchers. Dudek said students also participate in games and attend an optional service of reconciliation on Saturday,followed by Mass on Sunday.He said reconciliation is when someone confesses to the priest, but this part of the weekend is optional since the retreat is open to all stu-dents, not just Catholics.

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them talk and grow in their relationship with the Lord”

— Jessica Mata, a junior majoring in nursing

By Karissa BurschStaff Reporter

Students and other mem-bers of the community came together and painted bowls and remembered those who do not have food to fill their own bowls for Hunger and Homelessness Week’s Second Annual Empty Bowls event on Wednesday. The event was hosted by University Presbyterian Church. Those who partici-pated stretched their artistic muscle while discussing the impact of poverty and know-ing that the money spent in order to paint the bowls would go to helping stop poverty. The $10 that participants paid in order to get a bowl cov-ered the bowl itself, soup and a piece of bread.

“The bowl is supposed to remind the participants that there are people in the world who are hungry,” Simons said. “Students participated by helping serve the soup, attend-ing and buying the bowls or helping make the bowls.” Hunger and Homelessness Week, which is an annu-al event sponsored by the Community Service Center, is meant to bring awareness of poverty in Alabama and give students an opportunity to participate in volunteering events that help those who are affected by hunger and homelessness. Empty Bowls, which was held for the second year at the United Presbyterian Church, was meant to raise awareness about hunger and raise funds to support a food drive, accord-

ing to a press release sent by University Presbyterian Church. Julie Simons, a sophomore and the Community Service Center coordinator for Hunger and Homelessness Week, said she picked Empty Bowls as a Hunger and Homelessness event because of the feeling of community it brought. “Empty Bowls is a national organization,” Simons said. “I had hoped that it would be a good way to get not only the University, but the commu-nity involved. Also the money raised through Empty Bowls went to the food pantry at University Presbyterian.” Joshua Burford, the Coordinator of Freshman Community Outreach at the Community Service Center, said he also was glad about

the sense of community it brought to the University. “[This event] is an impor-tant part of Hunger and Homelessness Week because it shows the cooperation amongst the UA community,” Burford said. Simons said she thinks each participant’s hand-painted bowl turned out good. “I loved all the bowls,” Simons said. “The interesting thing about them is that they were all different.” Simons said she hoped that the help doesn’t end with those who participated in Empty Bowls. “I hope that students realize the issue of hunger and home-lessness in Tuscaloosa, and that there are many ways that

Empty bowls raise hunger awareness

By Melinda DeslatteAssociated Press Writer

BATON ROUGE, La. | A hand-ful of Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conser-vative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents strug-gling with record foreclosures and soaring unemployment. Though none has outright rejected the money available for education, health care and infrastructure, the gov-ernors of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alaska, South Carolina and Idaho have all questioned whether the $787 billion bill signed into law this week will even help the econo-my. “My concern is there’s going to be commitments attached to it that are a mile long,” said Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who considered rejecting some of the money but decided Wednesday to accept it. “We need the freedom to pick and choose. And we need the free-

dom to say ‘No thanks.” U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the No. 3 House Democrat, said the governors — some of whom are said to be eyeing White House bids in 2012 — are putting their own interests first. “No community or constitu-ent should be denied recovery assistance due to their gov-ernor’s political ideology or political aspirations,” Clyburn said Wednesday. In fact, governors who reject some of the stimulus aid may find themselves overridden by their own legislatures because of language Clyburn included in the bill that allows law-makers to accept the federal money even if their governors object. He inserted the provision based on the early and vocal opposition to the stimulus plan by South Carolina’s Republican governor, Mark Sanford. But it also means governors like Sanford and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal — a GOP up-and-comer often mentioned as a potential 2012

presidential candidate — can burnish their conservative credentials, knowing all the while that their legislatures can accept the money anyway. Jindal said he, like Perry and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, is concerned about strings attached to the money even though his state faces a $1.7 billion budget shortfall next year. Barbour spokesman Dan Turner, for example, cited con-cerns that accepting unem-ployment money from the stimulus package would force states to pay benefits to peo-ple who wouldn’t meet state requirements to receive them. In Idaho, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter said he wasn’t interested in stimulus money that would expand programs and boost the state’s costs in future years when the federal dollars dis-appear — a worry also cited by Jindal and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. A spokesman said Sanford, the new head of the Republican Governors Association, is looking at the stimulus bill to

figure out how much of it he can control. “We’re going through a 1,200-page bill to determine what our options are,” Spokesman Joel Sawyer said. “From there, we’ll make decisions.” But state Democratic Party chairwoman Carol Fowler says Sanford’s hesitation is driven by his political ambition rath-er than the best interests of a state that had the nation’s third-highest unemployment rate in December. “He’s so ideological,” Fowler said. “He would rather South Carolina do without jobs than take that money, and I think he’s looking for a way not to take it.” Not all Republican gover-nors are reticent about using the federal cash. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist lobbied for the stimulus plan and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has embraced it as he looks to close a $2.6 billion def-icit in the state’s budget this year. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley has already figured the money into his state’s budget.

GOP govs may turn down stimulus money

CW | Drew HooverMichael Venyah, a street preacher with Soulwinners Ministries International, preaches to a crowd of students gathered outside the Ferguson Center Plaza on Monday.

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By Emily Roberson

What’s more awesome than mini-golf? Not much.

Creative Campus is host-ing a contest inviting you to make a putt-putt hole out of recycled materials. You can win a thousand bucks for participating, so start col-lecting items you can use to build a transportable minia-ture golf hole.

Find the link for a contest guide on creativecampus.ua.edu. You have until April 1 to register your Planet Lovin’ Putt-Putt Hole team. If choose to build a miniature golf hole out of used materi-als, you’ll get to display your hole on the quad on April 19, which is Earthfest.

If Earthfest doesn’t ring a bell, you’re clearly a fresh-man. Earthfest is an annual celebration of the planet that happens on the quad near Earth Day. This year, Earthfest is planned to take place on Sunday, April 19.

Now on to something more serious. The University of Alabama Environmental Council may be rethinking its monthly glass recycling drives. Why? Because of the ‘costs and pollution involved’ and because ‘the transport and handling of glass is a liability.’ The latter notion is the same reason Tuscaloosa City ’s Environmental Services doesn’t provide the service. Also, a critical popu-lation doesn’t exist to make the service viable in this area.

The debate to make chang-es to glass recycling drives at your University is ongo-ing. Currently, the pollu-tion created from transport-ing the glass Tuscaloosa, to Birmingham, and from Birmingham to a cement company in Calera, raises concerns among the environ-mentally enthused. UAEC members have attempted to contact the cement com-pany in Calera to pick up glass containers collected in Tuscaloosa. However, they have been unable get in touch with the company’s recycling coordinator. The UAEC has also made attempts to con-tact other cement companies who may be able to use glass

as aggregate material. It has also been brought up that glass, which can be broken into pieces but does not necessarily decompose, can be made into sand. Furthermore, the recy-cling coordinator from the Alabama Environmental Council in Birmingham sug-gested contacting the city’s Chamber of Commerce to find another local industry with a use for glass collect-ed at UAEC glass recycling drives. Other ideas to solve the UAEC’s glass recycling drive predicament are welcome. Please send your questions, suggestions, comments, criticisms and concerns to [email protected]. Your voice is KEY in the renova-tion of glass recycling drives on your campus. Despite that the logistics of glass recycling drives are up in the air, UAEC mem-bers will be collecting glass containers on Fifth Avenue in front of the Student Recreation Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. A member from UA Recycles will be taking the glass to the AEC Recycling Center in Birmingham after the drive is over. To be part of a live, real- world debate (you know, one that isn’t in print or on-line) regarding glass recycling drives, feel free to attend the next UAEC meeting, which will be held at noon this Sunday in 109 Carmichael Hall. In the meantime, start dumpster diving. That minia-ture golf hole isn’t going to build itself.

Emily Roberson is The Crimson White’s environ-mental columnist. Her col-umn runs bi-weekly on Thursdays.

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By Jared Lauridsen

Many of you have received several e-mails from housing in the past few weeks. Most of those e-mails have been about recontracting, from Housing and Residential Communities, especially about paying next year’s on-campus housing deposit. These reminders set a prec-edent for HRC to help guide returning and incoming stu-dents through the applica-tion process. So why, pray tell, were we not reminded through this same channel that the “Stay put” option was available on Monday,

and that it was only available until 8 a.m. on Tuesday? What’s even more dis-turbing may be the factthat HRC sent out an e-mailTuesday reminding us to make selections later this week. This is a gap in the communication, a break in the established pattern that HRC would remind us of the applicable dates. Some of us need these reminders, due to busy schedules and stressfuldays. Why would housing aban-don us in our time of need?

Jared Lauridsen is a junior majoring in studio art.

As many of you may have heard, Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed in Buffalo, N.Y., last Thursday night. All 49 passengers and crew were killed along with the owner of the home it hit. Among those killed was Beverly Eckert, a Sept. 11 widow and advocate for improved anti-terrorist efforts. I read the initial report of the incident about an hour after it happened. I was shocked, not only by the tragedy, but also at my reaction to it. I skimmed the article and thought about how awful it was, later on reading the names of those who had died. My eye was drawn immediately to Beverly Eckert’s name. Her story of triumph over the loss of her husband in the World Trade Center and crusades for a safer America was heartbreaking and painful, especially in the wake of her own unfortunate death.

I noticed that almost every story about the crash began with statements such as “Sept. 11 widow dies in plane crash” or “Sept. 11 activist and widow killed in accident.” All I could think about, though, were the 49 others who also perished. Clay Yarber, a decorated Marine Corps veteran from California, was 62 years old and

had survived two helicopter crashes during the Vietnam War. Though extremely fear-ful of flying, Yarber decided to travel by air to visit a friend in New York. Susan Wehle, a cantor from a Buffalo synagogue and the daughter of Holocaust survi-vors, was 55. She was coming home from her vacation in Costa Rica. Ellyce Kausner, a Florida law student, was 24. She was return-ing to her family’s home in New York to be her nephew’s “date” for his Valentine’s Day party and spend time with her family before taking her college exams. Doug Wielinski, who was 61 and a retired engineer, lost his life when the commuter plane crash-landed into his house. As a silver lining to the horrific occur-rence, Wielinski’s wife, Karen, and daughter, Jill, escaped the

house with scratches. These are only four more faces out of the fifty lost. And even though I can’t tell you who each of the fifty was, I can say they were everyday men and women, making lives for them-selves, living each day with and for the ones they loved. As we think about the events taking place in the world, from wars in the Middle East to fires in Australia and plane crashes in New York, we need to keep in mind that headlines are not news. We are news, the famous and the ordinary, the popular and the outcast. Never for-get about the people involved, whether their names are bolded or not.

Debra Flax is a freshman major-ing in journalism. She is a regu-lar contributor to The Crimson White.

I freaking want a chimp I was going through the Internet for a column idea when I saw it. Looking back at me is a picture of Travis, a 200-pound chimp cheesing into the camera looking a lit-tle like that really ugly uncle you have. That’s when I real-ized that I freaking want a chimp so bad. It’s not just the fact that chimps are adorable; it’s the fact that Travis is a man-eat-ing destroyer of worlds hell-bent on protecting his owner. I want that. You see, our friend Travis is (well, was) 70-year-old Sandra Herold’s pet chimp who mauled family friend Charla Nash to near death Monday afternoon in Connecticut. The ordeal started when Travis took some keys off the table and unlocked a door so he could have a little fun in the garden. Nash tries to lure him back in with an Elmo doll,

and apparently Elmo is code word for chimps to go ber-serk because Travis pounced on Nash like there was free McDonald’s at a fat camp. After a few minutes of Travis having a free-for-all on Nash’s face, police were called in, at which point Travis tore an officer’s side mirror off before

being shot and limping back to his playpen to die. Unlike 50 Cent, apparently chimps are not immune to being shot nine times. After the incident just about everyone was scratching their heads as to one: why did we just shoot a monkey, and two: what caused “Dunston Checks In” to turn into “King Kong?” Don’t worry though; police think they found a motive behind the vicious attack. Apparently Nash had recent-ly changed her hair; I guess Travis doesn’t like blondes. Although just telling her it looked like crap was probably a little more polite than eat-ing her face off. So, why should you care? Simple, this should serve as a lesson to any potential chimp owners (or blondes). Don’t f--- with human kind’s hairy cousin, the monkey. Here Connecticut police, I’ll give you a hint as to what

caused the attack. It is a freak-ing monkey in Connecticut! If God had intended mon-keys to be in Connecticut he would have upped the ther-mostat about 50 degrees and slapped a jungle down. Guess what? He didn’t, and I’m guess-ing our friend Travis probably hated Connecticut just aboutas much as, well, anyone liv-ing in Connecticut. Stop getting weird animals, people. Whatever happened to puppies and those god-awfulkitten creatures? Are they not good enough for you? You want something exotic,get a goldfish or a bunny and slap a bow tie on it. Have you ever seen a bunny with a bowtie? It’s just as cute as a chimp and a helluva lot less likely tomaul your face off and die and a hail of gunfire.

Dave Folk is a News Editor for The Crimson White. His col-umn runs on Thursdays.

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protection so that we can be able to ensure that we keep the water quality safe for the people of this community. The second thing was to get the legislature to grant us the authority to establish traf-fic light cameras. One of the things we have is a chronic problem with people running traffic lights. So, the ability to use cameras would allow us to issue citations to those who run traffic lights. The third thing was to allow the voters of this community to decide on Sunday alcohol sales. Those were some of the main points of the presenta-tion.

CW: Why do you think the sale of alcohol on Sunday should be brought to a com-munity vote? Maddox: We already have Sunday sales in Tuscaloosa — every country club in Tuscaloosa serves alcohol. So we already have legalized sales. The issue before us at this point in time is that we are unable to draw major con-ventions because of the lack of Sunday alcohol sales. And with eight percent of our work force in the hospitality indus-try, it really comes down to an economic issue, and it comes down to a fairness issue. In the end, let’s let the peo-ple vote on it. I understand it can be a very passionate issue. I think for us, we continue to have this cloud, so let people vote and let them decide if they do not want to move forward with Sunday alcohol sale. If they decide to move forward with alcohol sales, then we know which direction we need to go. I think for us, it would almost clear the issue once and for all and let the people decide.

CW: Has the sale of alcohol on Sunday ever been put to a vote? Maddox: No, it has not.

CW: When will the people get to decide about this issue? Maddox: We’re asking the legislature to call a vote. Unfortunately, without home

rule regarding the sale of alcohol, we have to request permission from the state leg-islature to hold a referendum.

CW: Are you facing opposi-tion with this? Maddox: Yeah, we’ve tried for eight straight years and it’s failed.

CW: Aside from Sunday alcohol sales, what are your goals for Tuscaloosa? Maddox: We want to be the best city in the nation. Ultimately, that is our goal and to stay in our high qual-ity of life and make this one of the most livable cities in the nation. We’re working as hard as we know how to every day to make that happen.

CW: Great. And how do you think the University affects the city of Tuscaloosa? Maddox: The University of Alabama is a significant piece of Tuscaloosa’s puzzle. The University represents a

$1.2 billion economic impact on this community, which is three times larger than the economic impact of Mercedes, just to give you some idea. Because of the University, a large number of citizens of this community can pay their mortgages, buy groceries, pro-vide for their families overall. The success of the University will directly impact the growth of this city and the success of this city. I’m proud to call the University a partner in mov-ing this community forward.

CW: With the growth of the University, how do you think the city will respond? Maddox: The city will [grow], there’s no doubt. For every 1,000 new students that Dr. Witt recruits to the University, a four million dol-lar economic impact is creat-ed. The reason that the reces-sion has not been as harsh on Tuscaloosa is because of the growth of the University. It is

sustaining us through a rough economic time.

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example, what might have once been a casino is now a lecture hall or a computer lab, he said. The MV Explorer also has two dining halls, a piano

bar and a swimming pool, according to the program’s Web site, semesteratsea.org. Semester at Sea voyagers spend about four or five days in each country visiting with other students in their homes and learning more about how their lifestyles may differ from

many Americans’. “It’s not about being tour-ists. It’s about really under-standing the local culture,” Williams said. Faculty and staff are avail-able to students 24 hours a day, Williams said. He also said he encourages

students at the University to get involved with Semester at Sea. “If [a student] knocks on my door, I have to be there,” he said. “I really want students [at the University] to know that I will be there, and they will be able to come to me if

they need to. “I’ll be there to hold their hand if that’s what it takes.” Semester at Sea costs from about $10,000 to $30,000, depend-ing on both the voyage and the room type a student requests. The cost includes tuition, lodging, meals and travel health insurance, according to the Web site. Scholarships and work grants

are available. The Institute forShipboard Education awardsabout $2.6 million in financial aid annually, according to the Web site. Registration is still openfor both the fall and summervoyages. Students interested in Semester at Sea may visit semesteratsea.org or contact Ed Williams at 348-3846 formore information.

By Karissa BurschStaff Reporter

“I challenge you all to be men of integrity, men of intelligence and men of influence,” the vice presi-dent of membership for Collegiate 100 William Garret said to a group of young men dressed in an array of suits and ties as they waited in the Ferguson Center Forum to be induct-ed into the Collegiate 100 Top 100 Black Men. Alabama’s Collegiate 100 Chapter of 100 Black Men of America had its

induction ceremony Wednesday night where a group of young men were welcomed into the organization. Along with the actual induction, the ceremony included guest speak-er Lowell Davis, the faculty sponsor for the group and a professor at the University. The theme of Davis’ speech to the Collegiate 100 was the fact that all of the men there had the ability to keep on fighting. He said that although injuries may have been sustained this group of young men has the ability to continue fighting.

Leron Gresham, a senior majoring in public relations and the chairman of the board for the Collegiate 100, said that he and two of his friends, Aubrey Coleman and Quinton Little, came up with the idea of starting a Collegiate 100 chapter after they looked at the low college retention rates for black males. In the induction it was cited that there is a 39 percent retention for col-legiate black males, which is the low-est of any group. The Collegiate 100 is focused on changing those retention rates,

Gresham said. “[The Collegiate 100] is about stu-dent involvement,” Gresham said. “For example, we give our members education opportunities like tutoring. We have a diverse board with intelli-gent guys that make sure all members have opportunities.” There is an application process for those who wish to be members, Gresham said. The board members were hand-selected and the initia-tives were chosen based on their application, school involvement and scholastics.

Desiree Mahr, a sophomore major-ing in public relations, came to the induction to support her friends. “I think they’re going to be a reallypowerful organization on campus,especially for black male students,”Mahr said. “They have already been having several events. They are estab-lishing a place on campus and will continue to do so.” “We are a hard-working group of individuals trying to make a differ-ence in our community,” Greshamsaid. “We are giving opportunities todevelop student leaders.”

Collegiate 100 induction held Wednesday

CW | Norman HuynhStudents gather to discuss their interests in studying abroad. A new Semester at Sea program will be offered soon.

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DegreeWorks will provide a standardized checklist for classes and track prog-ress to graduation, said Meg McCrummen, SGA secretary

of the senate. Hutt said that the imple-mentation of DegreeWorks should allow for more time to talk about a student’s life plans, rather than just the immediate scholastic plans. “The goal will be that with DegreeWorks we will able to have three minutes of class planning and then use the rest of the time to talk about the future,” Hutt said. A n o t h e r p a r t o f DegreeWorks will allow stu-dents to make a four-year plan when they first enter the University. One issue brought up by McCrummen was how should advisers encourage new students to use the four-year plan. Beth Mann, an adviser at

the College of Nursing, sug-gested that DegreeWorks be introduced at Bama Bound. Susan Noble, an adviser forchemical and biological engi-neering, said DegreeWorksshould be introduced in the broad freshmen level classes of each major. “Every major has a intro-duction class that fresh-men must take,” Noble said. “Maybe they could require that the four-year plan be part of the course curriculum.” McCrummen also intro-duced the idea of peer advis-ing in each college. Thiswould allow students to talk with older students in their major who could tell them about their teachers, classes and workload. Most of the advisers pres-ent agreed that having one student advise another wouldnot be the most effective way to register for classes becauselearning styles differ from student to student and what works for one student may not help another. Hutt said there were alreadyways that students talk aboutprofessors, such as ratemy-professor.com, and repeatingthis would not be necessary. Another idea McCummenintroduced was the possibil-ity of having teachers put the class syllabus online beforestudents registered for class-es. This way, students could see exactly how the workloadwould be for each class beforethey register for it. Noble said some collegeshad this open to students,they just were not aware of it. Other advisers said this could be problematic becauseit would be asking profes-sors to plan a class months in advance.

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own lives.” Grace said it may be dif-ficult for UA students to eat Alabama-grown produce all year round but it would be rel-atively easy during the sum-mer and late fall months. “For most but the die-hard local food eaters, who spend a lot of time canning and preserving in the late sum-mer and fall, eating local pro-duce year round isn’t viable,” Grace said. “Even though we have an incredibly long

growing season here, most farmers who produce veg-etables and fruits are limited by their customers, and most consumers think that fresh local produce can only be had during the summer months. Therefore, our farmers mar-kets tend to be dormant from about December to May.” Fresh produce can be pur-chased at the Homegrown Alabama Farmers Market and the Tuscaloosa Farmers Market under the Lurleen Wallace Bridge during the summer months and into late fall, Grace said. Grace said it may also be fea-sible for students to organize and encourage the University to buy local produce. “There are many examples of successful farm to table programs at universities all over the country,” Grace said. “Aramark, UA’s food provider, has been involved with buy-ing local produce at other

universities. But they’re not going to implement these changes without a dedicated group of students presenting a comprehensive plan of action.” Grace teaches a documenta-ry film class at the University called Documenting Justice and applications to take the class can be found at the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility. “I have always been inter-ested in good storytelling, and filmmaking seemed like a natural way to pursue my interests,” Grace said. “True stories are most interesting to me, so I’ve always focused on documentary filmmaking.” “Eating Alabama” will be a documentary that mostly likely will not come until next winter, Grace said. “I hope that people who see the film or people who read about our project will ask questions about their own food ways and will maybe try

and change some of their buy-ing habits,” Grace said. “If everyone in this state made a concerted effort to buy locallyraised vegetables and meats,we could put a huge amount of money back into our economy. It would help all of us.” Grace writes a blog abouthis experiences while doing Eating Alabama at eatingala-bama.org. Grace also said a non-profit is also being formed called Eating Alabama, which will advocate for local food across the state through lobbyingefforts. “[This will be] through cre-ating a curriculum about agri-culture and local food for pub-lic schools, and by creatingmore opportunities for pro-ducers to sell their products locally,” Grace said. “We’ll be looking for student volunteersto help further our efforts, and interested students should contact us through the blog.”

By Amy CastleberryContributing Writer

The SGA Office of International Involvement and Capstone International hosted its Study Abroad Exchange night in B.B. Comer Wednesday, as a part of celebrating the first ever International Involvement Week. Angela Channell, direc-tor of overseas study at the University, led a casual exchange between students who had studied abroad and allowed them to share their memories and experiences while reflecting on the major differences between the U.S. and other cultures. “I’ve been working with stu-dents for 14 years now and I love working with them and watching them transform after their abroad experi-ence,” Channell said. “Some

have never left the state of Alabama, and they undergo a unique change that has given them a new perspective on life. It’s truly rewarding for me and for them because they rave about their amazing experiences.” Chanell said the Capstone International program offers a variety of summer, semester and even year-long overseas academic study programs for course credit. If you do not find one of the programs to fit your study needs, Capstone International will work with you to find a suitable program, Chanell said. The University even has affiliates with a vast selec-tion of programs all over the world with various scholar-ship opportunities. Sharon Gardner and Lekisha Gunn spoke and answered questions at the meeting hav-ing both spent semesters in

Mannheim, Germany. “Not only did I get a per-spective on German culture by making friends I know will last a lifetime and living day to day immersed in the environment,” Gardner said. “But my interactions with other exchange students from around the world allowed me to develop a global interest and perspective that I would have never received in an average college class room. It changes how you view life in general.” Gardner said the simple things including grocery shopping, traveling on the street car and learning about the backgrounds of her new friends, were the most memo-rable and rewarding memo-ries. Gunn said she enjoyed step-ping out of her comfort zone and meeting new people from all over the world.

“The experience forces youto step out of what you’ve always been taught aboutabroad,” Gunn said. “It defi-nitely makes you more aware of international affairs and news, allowing you to break out of that ugly narrow-mind-ed American stereotype.” Will Thomas, the director of SGA Office of InternationalInvolvement, said he was impressed with the turnout of students interested in studyabroad and was pleased withtheir dialogue. “With five percent of the University population being international students now, it is essential to learn and interact with students of vari-ous cultures,” Thomas said. “Studying abroad can be a great learning experience and I’m so happy so many stu-dents came out and showed an interest in this amazingopportunity.”

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