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tickets, 1,262 seats will be occupied. Members of the Million Approximately 12,240 Dollar Band are also included students applied for SEC in the allocation, Walker said. Championship tickets over the Band members will receive course of two days at Coleman 550 tickets, which include Coliseum, said Doug Walker, space for sound equipment director of media relations and large instruments. The tickets allocated for for UA athletics. Of those students, only 631 were qualified students added to the Million Dollar Band seats add up to to buy tickets. Walker said the 12 percent 1,812 tickets. Walker said the SEC chamof 15,900 tickets given by the SEC will still round out to the pionship was no light matter student allocation of 1,908 tick- and the University took into ets because students have the account many possible ways opportunity to buy two tickets of distribution, in addition for the game. If each student that qualified reserves two See TICKETS, page 2
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It’s a scene common enough in college: a couple friends get together and start talking about who they’ve hooked up with. Soon, someone loses track and is reminded: “Wait, do you remember that girl at that party…” and then recollection washes over their mind: “Oh yeah how could I forget that?” This is the typical conversation the Web site www. myblackbook.org was founded on. A couple guys wanted to keep track of their sexual activity and thought the traditional black book that kept track of past hookups was now outdated with the advent of new technology. Founder Robert Ianuale and his friends started gathering ideas by going to a mall and
surveying people. There, they found a staggering two-thirds of people did not keep track of who they had slept with. Therefore, they created the site, which is the first and only completely free online service that helps members keep track of all the details of their sexual histories. It allows people to log their sexual activities and assess their risks for sexually transmitted diseases. All entries to the site are confidential and will not be shared with anyone. “[We] hope that through selftaught education about sexually transmitted diseases, as well as personal assessment through the act of keeping track of their sexual history, that we can make a difference in society and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases,” he said. To utilize MyBlackBook, you must register with a username
The Eta Chi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi hosted its 10th annual “Straight to the Top” forum featuring UA administrators including UA President Robert Witt. The forum seeks to provide students the opportunity to openly discuss pressing campus issues with those who are responsible for the campus policy making. “The individuals who served on the panel were essential for this discussion because it is important for the student voice to be heard to allow the administration to take action,” said event coordinator Joseph Seals, a senior majoring in English. “Students need to know that their opinions matter, even though they may feel that they are just a number.” The SEC Championship ticket allocation process was the first issue that was brought to the nine-member panel. Students
wanted to know why so few students received tickets. Chris Besanceney, the assistant athletic director for Ticketing and Tide Pride, said the University was allotted 15,900 tickets and of that amount 12 percent was set aside for students. He said more than 12,000 students applied for the tickets, and the tickets were awarded based on credit hours. “We’ve implemented the same plan of allocation for all road games,” Besanceney said. “We give them out based on credit hours. Now, maybe, we could have sent an e-mail telling students that if they didn’t have at least 100 hours, they may not want to bother trying.” Besanceney said the students aren’t the only group the University has to consider. ten percent of the tickets went to football lettermen, 5 percent went to faculty and staff members, and 57 percent went to donors. Other sources indicated that, after
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“[MyBlackBook] is a novel idea, but its advocacy is questionable. It’s not effective, because it works on a shame and guilt principle,” said Christy Nyathera McGee, a junior in New College. The purpose of this site, to prevent the spread of STDs, is fulfilled when users access VDnote, which stands for Venereal Disease Notification,
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Tickets, tuition both topics at forum By Jessica Alexander Contributing Writer
Brownʼs Corner delivers laughs with a trio of comedians and open mic on Friday night. See the Scene, on page 12, for more.
and password. From there, you can add new entries, or sexual partners, as well as multiple sessions with each entry. Users can input the person’s name, age and sexual experience, as well as peripheral topics, like hotness rating and nationality. Each session entry includes a time and date, as well as length and type of sexual encounter and whether the activity was protected.
before the football game on Saturday. Hickson said the closing to The Corner Store and JD’s remodel and restock was not Food Market and Deli on Paul due to the recent death of W. Bryant Drive temporarily William Whitehead, manager closed last week due to remod- of the Corner Store. Hickson said management eling and restocking, said Michael Hickson, supervisor decided to close the stores while some students went out of the Corner Store. Hickson said the stores will of town for Alabama’s away reopen at the end of the week game at LSU.
Political poster on faculty’s door defaced By Brett Bralley News Editor An offensive message was written over a political poster on the door of a faculty member’s office Monday, said UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen. An e-mail was sent out Tuesday afternoon to students and faculty members from Provost Judy Bonner and Vice President of Student Affairs Mark Nelson regarding the defacing of a candidate’s poster Monday night. Andreen said the e-mail was a response to the incident. Andreen had no further information regarding the defacing of the poster but said when the University responds to situations such as this, each situation is individually evaluated by the University. In the e-mail, Bonner and Nelson called the actions “disrespectful and offensive to members of the UA family.” “The University of Alabama finds such behavior totally unacceptable,” Bonner and Nelson said in the e-mail. “Individuals who live, work, teach and study within this community are expected to contribute positively to the environment and to refrain from behaviors that threaten the freedom and respect that every member of our community deserves.”
the 27 percent allocated for students, lettermen and faculty and staff members, 73 percent of the University’s allotted tickets will go to Tide Pride members. Witt said he received several angry emails concerning the issue, and he came upon one that had a good suggestion. One student said the University should track who is actually using their tickets and award post-season tickets to students who attend the games. “I talked to Mal Moore about it, and we are going to take a look at this,” Witt said. “It is electronically do-able.” The president said he also received emails about the number of seats being left empty when students do not sell or donate their tickets. He said they are looking into ways to make sure those tickets do not continue to go to waste. “We are looking into a way to track
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New course on campus focuses on poverty issues By Christy Roach Staff Reporter This year, students have the opportunity to participate in an eight-week course that focuses on poverty issues called SaveFirst poverty. SaveFirst poverty is a one credit-hour course offered from Jan. 9 to March 6. SaveFirst Coordinator Sarah Louise Smith said the course allows students to combine coursework and discussions on poverty issues with service preparing free tax returns at a local site for low-income families. She said discussions in class will focus on issues like perceptions and misperceptions of poverty, race and poverty, and poverty issues in Alabama. Requirements for the course include a six-hour tax training session, passing the IRS certification test and participation in a team that goes around the state assisting other tax preparation sites. Students are also required to perform four hours of service at a local free tax preparation site serving lowincome families. Smith said the course is open to all UA students through UH 400-02 or MGT 491-015. Class will be held in 34 Bidgood Hall on Fridays from 10 to 10:50 a.m. “The goal of the SaveFirst Initiative is to train college, graduate and law students to
offer free tax preparation services, financial literacy information and opportunities for savings and investments to low-income families, especially targeting those eligible for an Earned Income Tax Credit refund,” Smith said. Smith said the initiative exists to make sure lowincome individuals receive the full Earned Income Tax Credit and other credits that they are entitled to so as to encourage long-term financial planning and asset building. “Students will gain a clearer understanding of the issues facing individuals and families living in poverty and some of the policies that address these issues,” Smith said. Smith said students who have never experienced poverty or interacted with anyone close to the poverty line, will find that this course provides an invaluable experience that often serves to get rid of stereotypes they might have about low-income families. SaveFirst will be taught by Stephen Black, the director of the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility. Black said poverty is the singular moral challenge to our society. He said that this class focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty in the U.S. “As a class, we focus on what
See POVERTY, page 2
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Flicks to catch UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS’ DRIVE-IN MOVIE • “The Dark Knight” (PG-13)
COBB HOLLYWOOD 16 • “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” (PG) • “Changeling” (R) • “Eagle Eye” (PG-13) • “Fireproof” (PG) • “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” (PG-13) • “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” (G) • “House” (R) • “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” (PG) • “Quantum of Solace” (PG-13) • “Role Models” (R) • “Saw V” (R) • “The Secret Life of Bees” (PG13) • “Soul Men” (R) • “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” (R)
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Brownʼs presents ʻComedy at the Cornerʼ By Josh Hedrick Comedy at the Corner at Brown’s Corner hopes to turn a few smiles around town into an evening of laughs as two local comedians open for rising professional comedian Patton Smith. Doors open at 7 p.m Friday., and the two-hour show, which will feature a cash bar and light snacks, kicks off at 8 p.m. Brad Fischer and Max Karrh will be opening for Smith. “We are hoping for a crowd that is ready to show up and laugh, and have a few adult beverages,” said Fischer, who is a local comedian. “Patton Smith is a pro, he does this for a living, and due to his age, he has an appeal with the younger crowd. We are expecting to see that in the audience turn out.” Smith, a Tuscaloosa native and UA graduate, has only been doing comedy professionally for eight months, but has already seen his fair share of success. He has opened for Charlie Murphy and features an edgier style that will appeal to a college-aged crowd. “My comedy has a laid-back energy to it,” Smith said. “I’m looking forward to performing in a hometown venue with a younger crowd that gets my jokes.” He has participated in comedy competitions throughout the southeast and won the “Funniest Human in Chattanooga Award” at Chattanooga’s Comedy Hatch comedy club. Karrh is a semi-professional comedian who has performed at open mic nights at Birmingham’s Star Dome. Karrh is a young man with a family, and is known for his routines about family life. Fischer’s comedy is suited to a more mature audience. Fischer is a former news reporter and a part-time journalism teacher at the University. His professional experience is reflected in his routines, which focus on cultural and political subject matter.
Prior to the comedians taking the stage, there will be an open mic competition in which audience members will be able to step up to perform. There is a limited number of open mic spots, so it is best to try to reserve them in advance, said Mary Jane Watson, the bar’s co-owner. The open mic performers will have four to five minutes to attempt to entertain the crowd. “If you do the best and we like your performance, we will ask you to come back and perform again,” Fischer said. But, he warned, it isn’t as easy as people may think, and “some stuff you thought would kill just lies there and twitches.” Past open mic standout Dwight Lammon is also set to take the stage. Not featured is Rick Dowling, who, along with Fischer, is responsible for bringing Comedy at the Corner to Brown’s Corner and has performed in the previous two shows. Comedy at the Corner is a relatively new comedic endeavor for Dowling and Fischer, but it is not their first foray in the world of comedy. The pair has been doing routines for “Stand Up for Autism,” a fundraiser for the Covenant Presbyterian Church’s Arts For Autism Program. “It just so happened that Brown’s Corner owner Rush Watson was at the show and saw our routines,” Dowling said. The trio discussed taking the act from the annual charity event to a broader venue at Brown’s Corner. “We’re hams and we love performing, so of course we said, ‘Yes,’” Dowling said. The pair continue to perform for “Stand Up for Autism,” but hope to expand Comedy at the Corner and attract more and more famous comedians. Everyone involved hopes to make Tuscaloosa a new stop on the professional comedy circuit. Brown’s Corner is prominently located at the corner of Greensboro and University. Tickets are available for $10 at the door, but reserving seats in advance is recommended. The venue seats 125 to 150 people and is non-smoking.
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No love back from the ticket system By Kiley Maddox
could. I have cried over losses and can proudly say I’ve never My mom went to Auburn. had a voice any Sunday these My dad went to Alabama. I past four falls. I’ve even yelled grew up ambivalent to the at some of our own fans for wars that went on in our liv- criticizing our quarterback ing room late November when or booing a coach’s decision. the Iron Bowl came around. To I guess you could say I’ve remained tell you the truth, I You can imagine my surprise, then, true to my team my didn’t even when I registered to get tickets know what to the SEC championship and came whole stay a first down out empty handed ... I know this here — and seen was. That business is all about money. And I I’ve some rough was then. My fresh- know that without, there would be t i m e s . no athletic program. Now I find man year, myself facI bought — Kiley Maddox ing my last a student two regular football games in package. Thankfully, when I was a the student section, and I can freshman, you could still do definitely say that this year this and go to every home — my fifth year — has been game. I understand it’s dif- the culmination of my footferent now. When the end ball experience. From barely of August rolled around, having a winning season and I clutched my ticket and losing four times to Auburn entered the gates to Bryant- to winning the SEC West and Denny Stadium. As I passed becoming the number one through the tunnel into the ranked team in the nation, it student section, I got chills. has been quite a ride. It took my eyes a moment to This was the season I’d been adjust to the bright sunshine waiting for, and I’m not alone. reflecting off the bleachers, I know there are thousands of but when they did, I saw thou- other seniors and fifth-years sands of crimson-and-white- that feel the same way. And clad fans screaming at the top with the time and money I’ve of their lungs and passionate- invested in the University thus ly wielding their shakers. As far, I was confident it would the breeze rushing through return the love. You can imagthe tunnel whipped through ine my surprise, then, when I my own crimson dress and registered to get tickets to the brand new shaker, I paused SEC championship and came a moment. As cheesy as it out empty-handed. In fact, of sounds, I knew right then that the entire allotted Alabama this was a moment I’d never tickets, only 700 students forget. That was the moment came away with one, most of I began my love affair with these being graduate students Alabama football. or law students. Correct me Fast forward four football if I’m wrong, but I think our seasons. I now know every enrollment is now way past starting football player’s the 20,000 mark. name, number and stats. Not I know this business is all only have I learned what a first about money. And I know that down is, I can hold my own in without money, there would be football conversations, underno athletic program. But I also standing what lineups signal know that students make up a run or a pass, being able the athletic teams. Students to tell you when the defense are the ones that will evenneeds to bring the blitz or play tually make up the alumni man-to-man and defining each and booster contributions. position and what their job Students are the ones cheeris. I’ll never forget my dad’s look of surprise when I asked ing the loudest, singing the him halfway through my first fight song with the most passeason what the spread on a sion and representing their game was or this year when team with the most pride. It is I correctly identified a flea- our team. Our University. And we should have first priority flicker play. I’ve been to every home to support both when we have game. I’ve never sold my tick- the opportunity to. ets and once I had the hour requirements, I bought and Kiley Maddox is a senior majorattended every away game I ing in English.
Open letter to the SEC By Max Castiglione
cares about is making money. In the future, I would like to know that the SEC has either expanded the student ticket allotment or disbanded student tickets all together, because it is useless trying to be 1,900 out of 25,000 and I missed my opportunity to buy general admission tickets. So now, I will be sitting at home wishing I were cheering on the Crimson Tide live from the stadium. My only hope is that the SEC does not control the BCS Championship tickets, and I could possibly get to watch the Tide win another national title.
I attend the University and am an avid football fan. I was, of course, quite excited to be able to watch the Crimson Tide take on the Florida Gators in the SEC Championship game. I thought I was so lucky! I believed that, being a student, I might have a better chance to get a ticket than the average Joe. But wait, how many tickets does the SEC — an organization of universities around the Southeast — allocate to each school for students? Just 1900. Of the 71,228 people going to the game, only two percent are going to be sitting in the Max Castiglione is a senior Alabama student section. I majoring in history. can see now that all the SEC
MCT CAMPUS
The T-shirt campaign By Liz Lane “What if the military had to have bake sales to raise money and the PTA got the Pentagon budget?” Blake Brunson, an art history major at the University, is trying to answer that question with the start up of the “Tshirt campaign.” Today, several students, including myself, will be wearing simple white T-shirts with this question painted on them. No, we do not want the military to take cooking lessons from Martha Stewart (though it may help persuade some foreign diplomats). However, the goal of this campaign is to wake up apathetic students and make people ask, “What if?” Blake got the idea when reading “Dance of the Dissident Daughter” by Sue Monk Kidd. Kidd tells of an encounter with an elderly lady who wears a Tshirt with this question on it. When Kidd applauds her, the elderly lady responds by saying, “Some people may call me
subversive for wearing it. But I don’t care. One day, we may owe our survival to subversive women.” “This is not an original idea,” Blake said, “but I wanted to take it to the next level. This is radical thinking, but anyone who has ideas and thoughts can do this.” The campaign will last from now until the end of the school year with scheduled “wear days” held today and Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of next week. Other college campuses, including Stanford and Florida State, are following Blake’s lead; both schools are making T-shirts to wear either this week or next. Campaigns similar to this one, including Duke’s “Gay — Fine by Me” T-shirts have begun to creep up across college campuses. “Save 2nd base,” another T-shirt campaign raising breast cancer awareness, was started by Illinois students. T-shirt topics will range from campus to global issues,
with a strong focus on feminism. Blake has started a Facebook group called “The Tshirt Campaign,” where more information can be found. Want to be a part of this new movement? Simply join and let yourself be heard through collaboration with others who want to make a difference. Who knew a fashion trend could make such a statement? Of course, fashion has been used to make a statement since Eve ate the apple, in a Biblical sense anyway. People have used it to signal wealth, and continue to do so today. Fashion is used to portray emotions and to represent the surroundings and events taking place. For example, two years ago, the economy was great, or so we thought. Hence, fashion was free and loose. This year, the minimalist trends have taken winter style into its icy grips while our economy goes through a scary time.
I can remember the WWJD bracelets in elementary school. What would Jesus do? I’m not sure he would participate in any of the previous trends, but those sandals certainly said something. Remember Power beads? We would load them on our arms to the point we couldn’t write any more without struggling to move. And now, T-shirts are being used as a way to wake up apathetic students walking to class. The majority of students wear T-shirts. The majority of students also have an opinion. With the T-shirt campaign, all these students wearing Tshirts can make a statement. The more people involved with this project, the more momentum it gains, the more people pay attention, the less people who are apathetic to issues of importance and the more you are heard.
Liz Lane is The Crimson White’s fashion columnist. Her column runs biweekly on Thursdays.
Thoughts on socialism By Ethan Cross In the wake of Presidentelect Barack Obama’s impressive victory last Tuesday evening, I have begun to thoroughly mill over our next president’s viewpoints, promises and policies on various issues. Being that our new president is a believer in the socialist form of government, and that most — if not all — of his proposed solutions incorporate socialist doctrine, I’ve begun a compilation of various facts and definitions on socialism to give a better insight as to why I am in opposition of many of my next president’s policies. First, let’s take a condensed look at what socialism entails. By definition, socialism is described as the “transitional stage between capitalism and communism.” It attempts to correct the flaws of a capitalist government, which includes the concentration of wealth that can occur in a capitalist government. The means by which it accomplishes this is by redistributing the means
of sustainment (currency, production, transportation, etc.) among all members of its body politic to ensure a fair or balanced playing field for all people. By shifting the wealth around and roughly ensuring all people receive a relatively equal income, all people are assured competency with their neighbor and the competitive market is fatigued, ensuring level prices of ware. As of today, four countries profess socialism as the official means of government. They are as follows: China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. If the above list doesn’t make it clear, allow me to digress: socialist theory dysfunctions in reality. On paper, perfect equality looks like a fantasy world. So perfect, so flawless and so reassuring. Where the theory fails is how it overlooks the corruption that infests the human race. We are an imperfect and naturally selfserving people. A socialist state might be a perfect state in fantasy, but that is all it is — pure fantasy.
What occurs when you inject socialist reformation and government into society is not an equalization of the playing field that removes power and wealth from the few and gives to the many. What happens is quite the opposite. The power and wealth are initially taken from the comparatively few people and given to an even fewer number of people and those people comprise the governing body. The governing body has complete and utter control over its citizens and is free to regulate everything and anything as it sees fit to ensure the propagation of the state of equality. And that last bit, the part about giving total control to a governing body, is where the socialist theory overlooks the imperfections of humanity. Corruption inevitably occurs. Power has a funny way of corrupting those who hold it in massive quantities. Socialism slowly turns to communism, communism to decline, and decline to revolt, revolt to dysfunction and dysfunction to anarchy. Where
socialism was supposed to benefit all, it instead benefits the exclusive few. So few in fact that it would make capitalism look golden. Now, before you say I’m being unfair, consider the policies of our next president in regards to taxation, healthcare and social security or retirement funds. A swift glance at these policies yields a clear influence of socialistic idealism that is undeniable. I do not hate Obama in any way, shape or form, and I believe that the man honestly means well. I will support him as long as my moral, ethical and political convictions allow. Unfortunately, I suspect this will not be very far past his first few months in office. Perhaps the sharp pins of reality will manage to pierce his idealist fantasy of socialistic reformation and he will be able to truly lead us to real change. But I’m not holding my breath.
Ethan Cross is a network administrator for the Alabama Productivity Center.
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Doverspike ready for spring, SEC Ricky Doverspike is one of a collection of gifted players on a deep UA men’s tennis team. What separates him from many of the others is his age — as a true freshman, Doverspike has shown a tenacity and talent belied by his youth. “He’s a pure athlete — a great competitor,” coach Billy Pate said. Pate said Doverspike was a bit raw as a player, but possessed great talent which had not shown up earlier in the fall season singles matches. “What we’re trying to do is shore up a few areas of his game,” Pate said. Doverspike had a breakout performance in the final team competition of the fall season, the Crimson Tide Fall Championships. Doverspike won his singles draw, as well as the top doubles draw with veteran Mat Thibaudeau. The doubles victory was especially
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impressive, considering it was the first time the two had played together in competition. Thibaudeau had played doubles with Dan Buikema for the better part of two years before matching up with Doverspike. “Either him or [Buikema] are the best doubles players on the team,” Doverspike said. “They definitely know the most about doubles strategy … I was really excited to get to play with him.” Doverspike said the breakup of Thibaudeau and Buikema was “all about the team” and that there is no friction or lost love between the players. In fact, splitting the two stars up creates a better chance for victory in the matches. “If they split up two of the best doubles players, it makes two better doubles teams,” Doverspike said. Doverspike said he is ready for the spring season, especially getting to play against SEC competition. To prepare,
he said he has been working on several improvements to his game and overall fitness. Pate stated earlier in the year that a big goal for the first-year freshmen was to bulk them up and get them a little stronger, and it seems Doverspike has been following through, as well as improving in the technical areas needed to advance his on-court game. “I’ve been working on [strength and agility] with our personal trainer and my transition game with coach Pate,” Doverspike said. He said he hopes to make a contribution for the spring but understands he is not the only player on the team hoping to make a push. The competition will be stiff, as this year’s bunch is one of the deeper in recent memory for Pate and the team. “We have a really deep team,” Doverspike said. “Coach Pate has a ton of options. I could possibly be sitting out most of the year because our team is so good.”
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Tide looking for finish eight years in the making By NiCarla Friend Contributing Writer
Hasenbank said. “There is a and how fast they can work.” One reason that the team does lot of talent in that group. They are all very consistent. Each so well is the ability to work as The women of the Crimson of them has tremendous work just that — a team. “They have to have a common Tide will be traveling to ethic.” Speaking of freshmen, the goal and go after that common Knoxville, Tenn., for the NCAA Regionals today after finish- team’s newest runners have goal,” Hasenbank said. “They also don’t have egos. ing in seventh place The returning athout of 12 at the Cross Country SEC “I think if we go over there with the group that we letes are very welltook to the SEC [Championships] and they compete grounded. They’re Championships in Starkville, Miss., last the way that they did last Monday, we can be in the competitive, they want to win, and week. top 10.” each of them wants In Knoxville, the to be a champion in team will be compet— head coach Randy Hasenbank their own right, but ing against some 30 at the same time, teams for a chance they have absolutely to go to the NCAA National Competition. Head been doing well in their first no problem congratulating their coach Randy Hasenbank said season. Some of them have teammates and supporting each the team is expecting a top-10 even received accolades for other.” The Tide will need that supfinish in this meet, something their performances, includthe Tide has not done since ing Sara Vaughn and Kelsey port in this meet, considering 2000, when the women finished Johnson, who both received they will be facing a number of All-SEC honors in the SEC top-rated schools. 10th. “In this particular meet, there “I think if we go over there Championship meet last week. with the group that we took to They were the first two females are a couple teams right now the SEC [Championships], and to both receive the honors for — Florida and Florida State — they compete the way that they the same meet since 2000, when that are highly ranked nationdid last Monday, we can be in Aly Mills and Ashley LaBudde ally, and they have the best the top 10,” Hasenbank insists. did it. Hasenbank said he’s shots of capturing the first two “It would be a great, great big proud of the improvements he spots,” Hasenbank said. “The has seen in his young runners. rest of the field is kind of wide step for us and our program.” “Well, I know some of them open. We’re ranked seventh of Since many of the runners on the team are freshmen, the had very nice credentials com- all those schools, so we’re lookSEC Championship was the ing out of high school, but I ing to have a great day from the first conference meet most of really had no idea about how entire squad. “We’re not a team who’s good the runners on the team have they trained day-to-day and how run. The fact that the squad consistent they had been in their enough yet where we have any was able to finish in seventh in high school careers,” he said. margin for error. Every one of their first SEC meet has built “It’s hard to see improvement in them has to run well in order up the confidence of the team freshmen on the clock because for the team to do well, and I they are running races they think that this is what motivates as a whole. “Well, we don’t want to wrap have never run before, typically them. Alabama hasn’t shown our arms around a seventh- 5-ks and 6-ks. From the time well in this meet for a number place finish, but it’s definitely they’ve been on campus, they’ve of years.” If the Tide finishes first or something that we can be proud improved well on their routine, of. We’re going to continue to and they’ve been very consistent second as a team, it will travel to get better, and I think that you at their routine. Every week you Terre Haute, Ind., for the NCAA can expect them to get better can see them getting a little bit Nationals on Nov. 24. in the next couple of years,” better at what they can handle
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A ‘Neaux’ way of looking at feminism By Danielle Drago Senior Staff Reporter If the blaring Spice Girls music and lecturers sporting T-shirts printed with the word “vagina” on them were any indication, the audience to the third Brown Bag lecture series was in for an hour-long session of girl power. The lecture, titled “Five Feministas: (Re)Claiming Feminism in the Neaux Wave”, focused on the perception of feminism and what it means to be feminist in present day society. Instead of following the traditional lecture format, it used a performance as a means to communicate ideas to the audience. “We wanted to put forth women’s voices on campus in an academic way,” said Melanie Demaeyer, a graduate student that organized the lecture. The idea for the performance had its roots in a class taught by Natalie Adams, assistant dean of the Graduate School and professor of instructional leadership. This class focused on education and women’s studies. “The class could speak the talk of academic feminism, but there was a personal undercurrent going through the class about how they felt
about [feminism] in their real lives. I wanted to address that,” Adams said. Adams approached five young women in her class to conceive a project, in which they interviewed various people who either identified themselves as feminists or were sympathetic to feminists. The next task for the group was to interview people around the Tuscaloosa area. They asked random people, “Do you consider yourself a feminist?” A video of these interviews was shown, which showed diverse reactions to the question. Both women and men identified themselves as feminists. The men who claimed to be feminists said they thought women could do everything a man could do. Women claimed that the negative stereotypes of feminism need to go away. However, other women and men also tried to distance themselves from the idea of feminism. Many claimed it was too radical. One male expressed the opinion that women and men each have their designated roles, and they can’t do everything a man could do, like be a leader. One woman in the short video even dismissed the idea of the inequalities of women and men’s wages.
“I guess it’s kind of unfair. But I’ll just get married, so I’ll have all of his money too,” she said. After presenting these different reactions, the lights dimmed, margarita glasses were taken out and a performance portraying a discussion about the idea of feminism was underway. The group of graduate students — Sarah Acker, Amy Brock-Reed and Jamie Cantrell — assumed different characters, as did Adams. The underlying message of the fictional conversation was the struggle between the “Second Wave feminists,” who gained recognition in the 1970s by acting against unofficial and official inequalities between women and men, and the “Third Wave feminists”, who grew up in the late 1980s and early ’90s and have just reached the age of womanhood. “[Feminism today] is riddled with contradiction and choices in search for a feminism definition. We have to integrate the second wave with the third wave. We must be able to speak and hear each other across generations,” said Cantrell’s fictional character. A non-feminist character in the skit, portrayed by Acker, was reluctant to
accept feminism. “Its message just doesn’t resonate with women’s lives nowadays,” she said. The performance ended with Acker’s character missing out on a promotion to a male co-worker, but failed to tie up loose ends with regards to her feelings on feminism. “I thought it was important to leave the end of the skit hanging. We didn’t want a conclusion, because that’s not what happens in real life,” Cantrell said. The performance was first presented at the American Education Studies Association conference in Savannah, Ga., where the group received a positive response from the audience. The underlying theme of the contradictions and conflicts in feminism was addressed by using real quotes from people and incorporating them into
their performance. “You cannot discount these roles as being stereotypes. They came from real interviews; real people said these things,” Adams said. The idea of feminism, although Adams said it was hard to define, began taking shape throughout the performance. “The general definition of feminism is that feminism acknowledges that women are oppressed in society because of their gender as well as other intersecting identities, such as race, social class, sexual orientation, disability, age, etc. The goals of feminism are many, but a primary goal is to eliminate the oppression of women not only in the United States but throughout the world,” Adams said. “To me, feminism is about deconstructing what I’ve been told about being a woman. It
means knowing that I have choices. It also means that I’m aware of how women worldwide are treated, and work to make sure that all women have equal access to health care, education and job opportunities,” Brock-Reed said. As far as the role that feminism should play in the coming years, the performers recognized the need for collaboration. “I would encourage [college women and men] to learn about the first and second wave of feminism because the fact that they are studying on a college campus and can strive to be whatever they want to be is because of the fights of their foremothers,” Adams said. “[College-aged women should] recognize the need for feminism, and stop listening to the lie women have achieved total equality,” Brock-Reed said.
Islam education program to be held at local mosque By Brett Bralley News Editor
The Muslim Student Association will hold an open house at the Islamic Society of Tuscaloosa today at 5:30 p.m. Ranita Sharif, a graduate student studying educational psychology, said the purpose of the open house is to introduce UA students and the Tuscaloosa community to Islam, enrich their experience and meet their Muslim neighbors. This is the third annual open
house the association has put together, Sharif said. Free international refreshments will be provided, Sharif said. “[We hope those who attend] will get a basic introduction of Islam, get their questions about Islam answered, meet their Muslim neighbors, observe their worship, try new food, visit a mosque and maybe leave with some prizes,” Sharif said. The open house will last from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Appropriate dress for the mosque is long, loose clothing with good
coverage, according to an announcement sent by the Muslim Student Association. The program will include a Quran recitation followed by a translation, a call to Isha prayer and a presentation on Islam. There will also be a session allowing those who attend to quiz their knowledge of Islam. There will also be question and answer session and a tour of the mosque. The mosque is located at 1416 Paul W. Bryant Dr. For more information visit www.istuscaloosa.org.
Beat Auburn Beat Hunger deadline set for Nov. 20
Students still have a week left to donate in the annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger competition. The deadline is for donations Nov. 20. Caitlin Looney, a student coordinator for the competition, said those coordinating BABH are encouraged by how many donations they’ve received. “We didn’t really set a goal [this year] because we weren’t sure, with the economic crisis, how people would be affected and reluctant to donate,” Looney said. “But I’ve seen an outpouring support for the program from the community.” Last year, the University beat Auburn for the first time since its 1999 victory by raising 241,336 pounds of food. The food donated by the University goes to the West Alabama Food Bank and the food donated by Auburn goes to the East Alabama Food Bank. Josh Burford, coordinator of freshman community outreach for the Community Service Center, said most of the donations the drive typically receives come from students, even though the drive receives many large, one-time donations received from local businesses. Burford said part of the agreement between Auburn and the University during the competition is not to release the amount of food donated and funds donated until the very end of the competition. Looney said she is encouraged from the UA community support as well as the support of the entire Tuscaloosa community that they’ve received. She said she is also encouraged from the efforts the University has made to get students to donate. One effort the University and the CSC is the raffling a
fourth-generation iPod Nano donated by the Residence Hall Association to students and faculty members who donate canned food during the last week of the drive. The event will be held at the Ferguson Center Plaza Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Participants can bring 10 cans of food and receive a raffle ticket, according to a UA news release. Students and faculty members can receive as many raffle tickets as sets of 10
cans donated, the release said. The drawing will take place next Wednesday. Another event, “Can Formation” will be held Sunday, Burford said. The SGA has partnered with local businesses to donate money for cans, and student organizations will take the cans and create art pieces that will be on display up until Thursday, Burford said. The student-created pieces will then be taken apart and donated to the food bank.
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MOVIE REVIEW | ROLE MODELS
Wain brings humor to tired formula By Ryan Mazer Lifestyles Editor
On the advice of my analyst, I will be using this review to work through two of my life’s great fears — failure and my brother — by publicly confronting two students and agents of said fears — Zac Oyama and my brother. Whenever I’m feeling content with my position in life, a friend, family member or outgoing stranger — all of whom, I must conclude, have been dispatched by Mr. Oyama — will appear to remind me that his older sister is married to Ken Marino, the co-writer of such films as “Role Models” and “The Ten.” This brings to my attention that I am not chasing an abstract dream, but a career that can be attained by real people, leaving me with an anxious feeling, one that my brother advances to crushing self-hatred when he invariably emerges and says, “What you are chasing is not a dream, but a career that can be attained by real people, but you will never attain it because you have no brain.” Although this type of antagonism is not enjoyed by many, aside from the main characters of biopic parodies, I tell myself he is just being honest as I try to restrain from showing emotion, thereby preventing him from calling me petty before jumping into the air, knocking his heels together and running off. I dedicate this glowing
review to the two of you, so that you both can witness my maturation, as I keep from giving into my bitter instinct of hating “Role Models.” The work of David Wain, who directed and co-wrote “Role Models,” as well as “The Ten,” “Wet Hot American Summer” and the amazing Web series, “Wainy Days,” embodies my sense of humor. Though filled with absurd scenarios and nonsense dialogue, a conscious aim to confront the audience can be sensed throughout his work. Whether he is subverting the conventions of film or the logic of reality, his material hits intellectual, emotional and bitingly hilarious truths. It is for this reason that I worried when I read he was taking on such seemingly generic fare as “Role Models.” The film stars Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott as Danny and Wheeler, two energy drink representatives who travel from high school to high school promoting the product to teenagers. Dedicated to their jobs, they drink the product constantly, leading to such repercussions as their urine resembling “Shrek’s piss.” When Danny — who I could relate to as soon as he expressed his frustration at hearing someone say “ASAP” — is dumped by his girlfriend, Beth (Elizabeth Banks, who’s been in the last three movies I’ve seen), he is driven to reckless behavior, recklessly driving his car into a statue
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Bottom line: “Role Models,” Wain and company breathe life into a tired genre. outside of a high school. The two are sentenced to mentor kids for 150 hours and each is charged with the supervision of a particular child. Danny becomes responsible for Augie (Christopher MintzPlasse) and Wheeler for Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson). I am pleased to report that Wain’s typical brand of humor is clearly present here. The writers’ collective sensibility is infused in the work, rather than compromised by it. In fact, it seems that the subject granted Wain the level of discipline he sometimes seems to need when he gets lost in his work and pushes it into sloppy territory. However, I still prefer the anarchy of his previous works to “Role
rottentomatoes.com Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott mentor Chrstopher Mintz-Plasse and Bobb-E J. Thompson in David Wain and companyʼs new comedy,“Role Models,” now playing at the Cobb Hollywood 16.
Models.” It seems Wain and the writers experience an uneasiness with the material, too. Just when it seems they are relying on a staple from the rowdy comedy genre, a line is tossed in that undercuts the preceding action. For instance, when Danny and Wheeler begrudgingly first meet the kids, a bucket of popcorn is instantly hurled at their faces. This prompts veteran mentor, Gary (A.D. Miles), to remark, “I’ve heard of popcorn in the face, but this is ridiculous!” The film also featured a subplot about live-action
role-playing, which became surprisingly engaging as the movie progressed, with the filmmakers first satirizing the activity before eventually using it to mock the battle scenes of war films. Due both to Danny’s vendetta with the game’s King Argotron (Ken Jeong) and to the effective direction, I was caught off-guard anytime someone would engage in casual conversation with an enemy after being killed in battle. While “Role Models” did seem to soften as it went along, this was hardly detrimental overall.
It’s no doubt to me that Oyama and my brother are scheming against me together, hatching plans that involve Oyama knocking books out of my hands before my brother comes along to light them on fire, or paying my analyst to suggest I write a horribly embarrassing review for everyone to see. Well if that is your aim, gentleman, the joke’s on you, because nobody reads my reviews. Just like, as my brother has taught me, nobody will ever read anything I write in my entire stupid life.
Aniston talks about Jolie, Pitt The Associated Press | NEW YORK | Jennifer Aniston said Angelina Jolie was out of line when she spilled details about her relationship with Brad Pitt while they were filming “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” In an interview in the December issue of Vogue, Aniston talked about the magazine’s 2007 profile of Jolie, who talked about growing chummy with Pitt — then married to Aniston — while shooting the action film in 2004. “There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” Aniston said. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. That stuff about how she couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.” Jolie recently told The New York Times she and Pitt fell in love on the “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” set. Pitt and Aniston, who were married in July 2000, announced their separation in January 2005. In the months that followed, Pitt was seen in public with Jolie. Pitt and Aniston divorced in October. In May 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh JoliePitt. The couple now has six children, including 4-monthold twins who were born in July.
Aniston tells Vogue that she and Pitt are on good terms. “We have exchanged a few very kind hellos and wishing you wells and sending you love and congratulations on your babies,” she says. “I have nothing but absolute admiration for him, and ... I’m proud of him! I think he’s really done some amazing things!” Asked about her breakup, the 39-year-old actress said: “Well, it never was that bad. I mean, look, it’s not like divorce is something that you go, ‘Oooh, I can’t wait to get divorced!’ ... But I’ve got to tell you, it’s so vague at this point, it’s so faraway in my mind,
I can’t even remember the darkness. I mean, in the end, we really had an amicable split.” Aniston, who stars in the upcoming films “Marley & Me” and “He’s Just Not That Into You,” also dished on her postdivorce romances with Vince Vaughn and John Mayer. “I call Vince my defibrillator,” she said of her co-star in 2006’s “The Break-Up.” “He literally brought me back to life. My first gasp of air was a big laugh! It was great. I love him. ... He was lovely and fun and perfect for the time we had together. And I needed that. And it sort of ran
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its course.” As for the tabloid fuss over her relationship with Mayer, she said: “Love just shows up and you go, ‘Oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and
a half.’” Aniston said she feels protective of the 31-year-old singer, who was criticized for talking to the media about how he ended their romance.
“Trust me, you’ll never see that happen again from that man,” she says. “And it doesn’t take away from the fact that he is a wonderful guy. We care about each other.”
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Suicide bomber hits Afghan gov’t office By Noor Khan The Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | A suicide bomber driving an oil tanker detonated his explosives outside an Afghan government office during a provincial council meeting Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 42, officials said. The attack in this former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan ripped through the council office, flattened five nearby homes and damaged the offices of the country’s intelligence service. The bomb dug a crater some 15 feet into the ground. Six people died and 42 were wounded in the blast, said Rahmatullah Raufi, the governor of Kandahar province. Among the dead were two intelligence agents, a police officer and three civilians, Raufi said. He blamed Taliban militants
for the attack. “The Taliban want to disrupt law and order in Kandahar,” Raufi said. The blast came as the provincial council was hearing constituent complaints. Two council members were wounded in the attack, Shafi said. Afghan police, soldiers and intelligence agents were at the site, as were Canadian soldiers. Hours earlier in Kandahar, two men on a motorcycle threw acid on eight Afghan girls walking to school Wednesday, and three of the girls were hospitalized with serious burns, said Dr. Sharifa Siddiqi. Three others were treated and released. Two of the girls who were wearing full-length burqas were not harmed. Some of the girls wore a typical Afghan school uniform — black pants, a white shirt, black coat and white headscarf. Atifa Bibi, 14, said from her
hospital bed that two men rode up to the girls and threw the acid while they were walking to school. Bibi had burns on her face, which was covered in medical cream. Girls were banned from schools under the Taliban’s hard-line Islamist regime, which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Women also were not allowed to leave the house without a male family member escorting them. Bibi’s aunt, Bibi Meryam, said the family had not received any threats not to send their girls to school, but now they would consider keeping the girls at home until security stabilized. Afghanistan’s government condemned the attack, calling it un-Islamic and perpetrated by the “country’s enemies,” a usual reference for Taliban militants. “By such actions, they cannot prevent six million children going to school,” the government said in a statement. No one immediately claimed responsibility, and Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi denied that the insurgents were involved.
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Police: Woman slain at KKK ritual By Michael Kinzelman The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS | An Oklahoma woman who was lured over the Internet to take part in a Ku Klux Klan initiation was shot and killed after the ritual went awry, and the group tried to cover it up by dumping her body on a rural roadside and setting her belongings aflame, authorities said. But the plan failed. By Tuesday, a local Klan leader sat in jail on a second-degree murder charge and seven others were charged with trying to help conceal the crime. “The IQ level of this group is not impressive, to be kind,” St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said Tuesday. The woman, whose identity was not released, was supposed to be initiated near the village of Sun, La., and then return to her home state to find other members for the white supremacist group, Strain said. It wasn’t clear what rites awaited her at the campsite, but authorities think the initiation had begun by the time the shooting happened. Strain said
the group’s leader, Raymond “Chuck” Foster, 44, shot and killed her Sunday night after a fight broke out when she asked to be taken back to town. Foster was charged with second-degree murder and is being held without bond. Capt. George Bonnett, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department, said he doesn’t know if Foster has an attorney. Seven others — five men and two women ages 20 to 30 — were charged with obstruction of justice and were held on $500,000 bond at the St. Tammany Parish jail. All eight of the suspects live in neighboring Washington Parish, but Bonnett said he couldn’t immediately identify their hometowns. Authorities said some of the suspects tried to destroy evidence by burning the woman’s belongings along with other items. At the campsite, investigators found weapons, several flags and six Klan robes, some emblazoned with patches reading “KKK LIFE MEMBER” or “KKK SECURITY Enforcement.” Strain said the woman arrived in the Slidell, La., area
last week and was met by two people connected to the Klan group and taken to the campsite on the banks of the Pearl River, about 60 miles north of New Orleans. “We haven’t completely sorted out if they finished the initiation,” Bonnett said, adding he wasn’t aware of any other KKK-related cases during his three years with the department. “I assume that they had started it, but I don’t know if they were finished.” Authorities said the group’s members called themselves the “Dixie Brotherhood.” Mark Pitcavage, director of investigative research for the AntiDefamation League, said the Dixie Brotherhood appears to be a small, loosely organized group of people. “This is not what I would call an established Klan group,” he said. “The Klan has a pretty high association with violence. Some of these guys are just crooks, sociopaths.” But the sheriff said the public shouldn’t feel endangered. “I can’t imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk by any one of these kooks,” Strain said.
Catholic bishops will fight Obama on abortion By Rachel Zoll The Associated Press BALTIMORE | The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration. In an impassioned
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Child in the Womb.” The prayer seeks a healthy pregnancy for the mother and makes a plea that “our civic rulers” perform their duties “while respecting the gift of human life.” Chicago Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is preparing a statement during the bishops’ fall meeting to press Obama on abortion. The bishops suggested that the final document include the message that “aggressively pro-abortion policies” would be viewed “as an attack on the church.” Along with their theological opposition to the procedure, church leaders say they worry that any expansion in abortion rights could require Catholic hospitals to perform abortions or lose federal funding. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago said the hospitals would close rather than comply. During the campaign, many prelates had spoken out on abortion more boldly than in 2004, telling Catholic politicians and voters that the issue should be the most important consideration in setting policy and deciding which candidate to back. Yet, according to exit polls, 54 percent of Catholics chose Obama, who is Protestant. The new bishops’ statement is meant to drive home the point in a way that cannot be misconstrued. “We have a very important thing to say. I think we should say it clearly and with
a punch,” said New York Cardinal Edward Egan. But some bishops said church leaders should take care with the tone of the statement. Bishops differ on whether Catholic lawmakers should refrain from receiving Communion if they diverge from central church beliefs. Each bishop sets policy in his own diocese. “We must act and be perceived as acting as caring pastors and faithful teachers,” said Bishop Blase Cupich of Rapid City, S.D. Dr. Patrick Whelan, a pediatrician and president of Catholic Democrats, said angry statements from church leaders were counterproductive and would only alienate Catholics. “We’re calling on the bishops to move away from the more vicious language,” Whelan said. He said the church needs to act “in a more creative, constructive way,” to end abortion. Catholics United was among the groups that argued in direct mail and TV ads during the campaign that taking the “pro-life” position means more than opposing abortion rights. Chris Korzen, the group’s executive director, said, “We honestly want to move past the deadlock” on abortion. He said church leaders were making that task harder. “What are the bishops going to do now?” Korzen said. “They have burned a lot of bridges with the Democrats and the new administration.”
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• Football vs. Mississippi State; 6:45 p.m., ESPN
• UP presents Drive-In Movie: “The Dark Knight”; 6:30 p.m., Softball Stadium parking lot
• Volleyball vs. Ole Miss; 7:30 p.m., The CAVE
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to collaborating with various groups into the planning process, such as the SGA and the Intercollegiate Athletic Committee. “A lot of groups had to be served in the process,” Walker said. Walker maintained that the University was able to acquire the highest ticket allocation for students in the SEC. Other schools, such as the University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Tennessee and LSU, have allocated only 10 percent of their tickets to students in the past, Walker said. Seventy-three percent of the allocated tickets will go to TIDE PRIDE members, Walker said, and 2,600 tickets will go towards internal use, which includes the UA Board of Trustees, UA staff and faculty members and family members of athletes. Faculty members received five percent of the tickets, rounding out to 795. SGA President Cason Kirby said the SGA began discussing the system with the UA Athletic Department
The Sigma Chi fraternity, the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and the UA Entrepreneurship Club will host the Barbeque and Band fundraising event this Friday at 5 p.m. For a $5 donation, event-goers will receive a barbeque dinner and enjoy the music of the band Hayden’s Corner. All proceeds will go toward the establishment of Absolute Hope, the not-for-profit organization Brad Sullivan has planned for the betterment of victims of paralysis in and around the Tuscaloosa area.
CORRECTION In the story “UA’s championship aura still lingering” in the Nov. 7 edition of The Crimson White, The CW incorrectly attributed several quotes regarding the energy on campus in 1992. The correct attribution for these quotes is Cheryl Parker, an office associate senior with the College of Communication and Information Sciences. The CW regrets the error and is happy to set the record straight.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I know that if fans had the opportunity, we could fill up all the seats [in the Georgia Dome],” — SGA President Cason Kirby on the SEC championship ticket allocation
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THIS DAY IN ALABAMA HISTORY 1833: In a spectacle seen across the Southeast, a fantastic meteor shower causes this night to be known as “the night stars fell on Alabama.” The shower created such great excitement across the state that it became a part of Alabama folklore and for years was used to date events. A century later it inspired a song and book, and in 2002 the state put the phrase “Stars Fell on Alabama” on its license plates. Source: Alabama State Archives
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last week and felt that the current system was the best way to distribute tickets. Kirby praised the University for being able to allocate 12 percent of the tickets solely to the students, as opposed to other schools who allocated only 10 percent, saying the students were the main people considered for these tickets. “I know that if fans had the opportunity, we could fill up all the seats [in the Georgia Dome],” Kirby said. There are 71,250 seats in the Georgia Dome. Kirby said no one in the executive branch of the SGA received tickets, though everyone in the branch had applied for tickets. Kirby said in the past, tickets for special athletic events were distributed on a first come, first served basis, which proved to be chaotic and unsafe. With the credit hour system, Kirby said, the ticket process can run more smoothly. “This was done in a fair way, but we can learn some lessons for how to go about this in the future,” Kirby said. Tickets will be $35 each for those who are qualified to buy them.
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MONTGOMERY| Republican Greg Shaw’s lead of some 12,800 votes is insurmountable and he will win an Alabama Supreme Court seat without an automatic recount, his campaign said, citing provisional ballots counted Wednesday. Campaign spokesman Josh Cooper said Shaw’s Democratic opponent, Deborah Bell Paseur, had picked up about 300 votes with 54 of Alabama’s 67 counties finished counting. She needed to pick up about 2,400 votes out of the remaining 13 counties to force a runoff, but the remaining counties were mostly rural and had only 1,356 provisional ballots, he said. “The election is obviously over and Judge Shaw is still the clear winner,” Cooper said Wednesday evening. Paseur’s campaign manager, Marion Steinfels, said Paseur was awaiting a complete official count from all counties.
administrators were open to suggestions and seemed interested in students’ opinions, but she isn’t sure if they will actually be taken into consideration or how fast they will be implemented. “There has to be a better system. Only about 600 students actually received tickets. People who don’t use their regular season tickets should not be able to get SEC Championship tickets,” Jones said. The rising cost of attending the University was another concern students raised. Trez Higgins, a freshman majoring in aerospace engineering, asked if students should expect another tuition increase. Witt said a tuition increase may be necessary because the state appropriation is not comparable to the University’s increasing enrollment. “I would like to sit here and tell you that we will not have to increase tuition, but that would not be honest,” Witt said. “When you have the responsibility to maintain the quality of education that we have here, you have to raise tuition. The University will never raise your tuition more than it absolutely has to.” Cory Jackson, a senior majoring in management and information systems, said he thought students who attended the forum would be more informed about their campus. “I feel the panel was very honest. They told what they could and could not do. They may not have gotten the answer they wanted, but they got a true and feasible answer,” said Jackson, the Eta Chi Chapter vice-presi-
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had one of these flare up, not nearly as bad as this, missed one day of practice and he was OK. This literally happened warming up for the game.” Last year’s leading rusher, Terry Grant, who saw extra playing time on special teams in Upchurch’s absence against LSU, should see more time, and perhaps expanded time at running back Saturday. “He’s done a good job,” Saban said. “He’ll probably have a little bigger role in the game this week, special teams and running back. I always tell these guys, ‘You never know when your opportunity is going to come’ … you’ve got to be ready to prepare to take advantage of the opportunity when you get it.”
Roy Upchurch and Earl Alexander practiced Wednesday in black non-contact jerseys, but are questionable for the game against Mississippi State, Alabama football head coach Nick Saban said in a press conference after practice. “Roy practiced some today, in a black shirt,” Saban said. “He was better. I cannot give you his status for the game; he’s going to be day to day. Earl Alexander practiced a little bit in a black shirt but wasn’t able to do much.” Upchurch is suffering from continued spasms in his neck, something Saban referred to as a “chronic problem.” Saban said he had a similar problem John Parker in his playing days, and there Wilson are ways it can be corrected. “It’s something that flares up When asked about the role on occasion. And when it flares of quarterback John Parker up … it’s tough on you,” Saban Wilson in the team’s success, said. “Early in the season, he Saban did not hesitate to
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Davey OʼBrien trophy on display this weekend UA Athletics The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award will be on display this weekend prior to the Alabama-Mississippi State game. As part of a yearlong tour, the O’Brien trophy will make a stop this weekend in Tuscaloosa as semifinalist John Parker Wilson leads the top-ranked Crimson Tide against Mississippi State at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The trophy will be on display at the Quad on Saturday and fans are encouraged to drop by the exhibit to see the trophy and cast their vote for Wilson. Fans who vote will also have the opportunity to be entered into the “Defend Your Pride. Vote The O’Brien Sweepstakes,” for a chance to win a trip to the 2009 O’Brien Awards Dinner. The O’Brien Award honors the nation’s best college quarterback of the year and inspires studentathletes to triumph both on and off the field. By recognizing and honoring athletes who excel in both sports and academics while exhibiting strong character and leadership, the O’Brien aims to help instill a lifelong moral fiber in each candidate.
Wilson a finalist for Johnny Unitas Award UA Athletics Alabama senior quarterback John Parker Wilson was
selected as one of five finalists for the 2008 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award on Monday. The Golden Arm Award is presented annually to the nation’s top senior quarterback by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc., and Transamerica. “It is a great honor to be named a finalist,” Wilson said. “The Johnny Unitas is one of those very recognizable awards. The other guys on the list are just outstanding quarterbacks. To be in that same group and recognized like that is a real honor.” The five finalists for the 2008 Golden Arm Award are Wilson; Chase Daniel (Missouri); Graham Harrell (Texas Tech); Brian Johnson (Utah); and Pat White (West Virginia). Alabama has a rich tradition of signal callers, and Wilson has eclipsed nearly all of their records. He is the Crimson Tide’s season and career leader in completions, passing yards, passing touchdowns and attempts. Ten games into his senior season, Wilson has guided the Crimson Tide to a 10-0 record and a No. 1 national ranking. The Hoover native has passed for 1,627 yards while completing 59.1 percent of his passes with eight touchdowns. Wilson has been even better on the road in hostile environments this season, completing 63.4 percent of his passes with four touchdowns and a 136.18 passing efficiency rating. The 2008 winner will be presented with the Golden Arm Award at the Tremont Grand Meeting & Banquet Facility in downtown Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 5. Boston College’s Matt Ryan captured last year’s Golden Arm Award before becoming the Atlanta Falcons’ first-round draft pick. Alabama’s Jay Barker captured the Johnny
explain his importance. “I think John Parker has done a fantastic job for our team this year,” Saban said. “Not only in his production and his technical ability to functionally execute well, but also in the leadership and intangibles he has played with … He has been very businesslike in terms of his decision making ability.” Wilson was named a finalist for the Johnny Unitas award earlier this week. The senior quarterback has already been listed as a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien Award, which will be on display Saturday at the Quad.
Roy Upchurch, suffered neck spasms in pregame warm-ups and did not play in the LSU game. Head Coach Nick Saban said Upchurch is questionable for Saturday.
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Discipline Saban was asked about his method of disciplining Javier Arenas on the sideline after his fumble on a kickoff return against LSU. Saban used the question to explain a larger method of yelling at his players. Unitas Golden Arm Award in 1994. “When you consider how many great college quarterbacks have won the Golden Arm Award and have gone on to play in the NFL, it is clear that this award has become a significant barometer for future success in the professional ranks,” said John C. Unitas Jr., president of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation.
Glen Coffee selected as semifinalist for Doak Walker Award UA Athletics Alabama running back Glen Coffee was named a semifinalist for the 2008 Doak Walker Award on Tuesday. One of 10 semifinalists for the award, which goes to the nation’s top running back, Coffee has rushed for 1,020 yards in the first 10 games of the 2008 season to lead the topranked Crimson Tide. It marks only the 13th time in Alabama football history that a running back has rushed for more than 1,000 yards in a season. “This is just another thing God has touched and blessed me with,” Coffee said. “I have to give all of the credit to Jesus Christ. But I also would not have been able to accomplish any of this without the best offensive line in the country. Andre Smith, Antione Caldwell, all of those guys just open huge holes to run through.” “This team still has a lot of goals left to accomplish and needs to stay focused, but I am very appreciative of the people at the Doak Walker for recognizing my efforts this season,” Coffee said.
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McCain, GOP authors of own demise By Spencer White John McCain: Ardent patriot, moderate Republican and experienced political veteran. Why, oh why, could you not have run for president in 2008? You were there in 2000, where you were principled and disciplined, willing to make unpopular decisions that the base of your party would not agree with. You were there in 2001, when President Bush was lobbying to pass his tax cuts, stating that they would favor the rich at the expense of the middle class. You were there, once again, at the beginning of this campaign, supporting the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, an amnesty bill unpopular with the GOP extreme. But your ambition was too much. You are a man who has spent the majority of your post-Vietnam life in politics, working up and fighting to reach the office of President of the United States. Your desire was so great that you abandoned your scruples, your reason and perhaps even your sanity to obtain it. You started a path of pandering, smearing and fear-mongering, as you slowly began your shuffle right to appease the base of the GOP. It began with the Iraq War. You, who spoke of the shame and embarrassment of a 21st century country invading another one, as you pointed out during the RussianGeorgian crisis, made the claim that Americans should stay in Iraq for “one hundred years” if they have to. You
stated that when the troops could return was “not too important.” It then carried on the choice of your vice president. Instead of choosing Independent Joe Lieberman, Mitt Romney, a Mormon governor of Utah, or even Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, an outspoken Iraqi War critic and staunch advocate for mortgage regulation, you chose Sarah Palin, a feminine far-right Alaska
heartbeat away from holding the highest office in the most powerful country in the world. Your judgment, Sen. McCain, was seriously to be questioned, as well as the true motives of a man who, according to his campaign slogan, put “Country First.” Your savvy and temperament under pressure were again tested in the aftermath of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, when President Bush
I don’t want a friend, Mr. McCain. I want a leader. Of that you are unqualified, because you sold out everything that made you a valid and votable candidate, all for the sake of securing the nomination of a party that no longer understands, or indeed, even seems to care about the desires and demographics of a new American nation. — Spencer White governor. The only failure with the choice of Mrs. Palin was that whenever she happened to open her mouth, a veritable river of stupidity washed out of it, drowning Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson and every other reporter unfortunate enough to hear her words about anything remotely close to national political issues. The woman who thought Africa was a country, who stated the bailout benefited health-care reform, couldn’t name the member nations of NAFTA or a Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade and who called Columbia University and proPalestinian Middle Eastern professor Rashid Khalidi a terrorist was not ready to be a clerk for a senator, much less a 72 year-old cancer survivor’s
had tried to cancel a presidential debate to pass. You looked foolish and powerless, even more so than when you slinked to Oxford, Miss. several days later for the debate, where you received the first of your three consecutive losses. Eye-rolling, barely concealed rage and a constant repetition of the phrase “my friends” all seemed to be disingenuous and smarmy. I don’t want a friend, Mr. McCain. I want a leader. Of that you are unqualified, because you sold out everything that made you a valid and votable candidate, all for the sake of securing the nomination of a party that no longer understands, or indeed, even seems to care about the desires and demographics of a new American nation. Where you and the GOP go from here is up to you and others like you in the Republican Party. Will you stand for the ways of the old guard, the Bushes of the party who have destroyed the fiscally conservative Republican brand and lost touch with the electorate? Or will you and your party finally take the long overdue steps to modernize and reinvent your party for a younger generation? You will have two years to think about it before the mid-term elections of 2010. In the meantime, I would suggest stocking up on cookbooks and Almanacs to get ready for the many filibustering sessions to come under the continued Democratic congressional majority.
and the Democratic Congress began work to push through a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street to keep the financial sector afloat. In a panicked news conference, you declared you were going to suspend your campaign, return to Washington and seemed to imply that you would singlehandedly bring about the passage of this important legislation. You encouraged your opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, to join you and cancel the first presidential debate. If anything, a debate would be the most appropriate and prudent forum to hear the candidates’ ideas about economic reform. You then arrived in Washington, Mr. McCain, and watched as your fellow Republican congress- Spencer White is a junior men voted down the bill you majoring in journalism.
Government trying to regulate private life By Ashley Herzog UWire Editorial Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer found out last week that he will not be prosecuted for spending tens of thousands of dollars on high-priced prostitutes. Since his disgraceful resignation last March, Spitzer has maintained that his conduct was a “private matter.” Of course, that wasn’t his position when he was New York’s attorney general, when he aggressively prosecuted people for doing exactly what he did. If there’s anything to be learned from the Spitzer scandal, it’s that government has no business policing the private behavior of adults. While there are instances of forced prostitution and sex slavery (a problem directly related to illegal immigration and our de facto open-borders policy), most sex work in the U.S. is completely consensual. As immoral as prostitution is to most people, is it the
government’s place to stop a victimless exchange? Sydney Biddle Barrows, the madam of a D.C.-area prostitution ring, doesn’t think so. She told ABC’s John Stossel that prostitution laws are nothing more than an effort to save consenting adults from themselves. “We’re protecting women from making a living, and we’re protecting men from spending their money as they please,” she said. “I don’t think that anyone needs to be protected from that.” But that’s not the view of busybodies in Congress and in state legislatures, who think it’s their job to regulate what adults choose to do with each other. Consider sodomy laws. Before the Supreme Court deemed them unconstitutional in 2003, these statutes were used to arbitrarily punish gay people for having sex — even in the privacy of their own homes. Former Georgia Attorney
General Michael Bowers used sodomy laws as grounds for firing a state employee involved in a lesbian relationship. (The firing was upheld by a federal court). He infamously prosecuted a Georgia man for sodomy, taking the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. A few years later, Bowers admitted he had been carrying on an adulterous affair the whole time he was pursuing these cases — despite the fact that adultery was also illegal under Georgia law. Like Spitzer, Bowers never prosecuted himself. In some states, the government even dictates what kind of sexual behavior people can engage in when alone. Alabama bans the sale of sex toys, and violators can be punished with jail time. State officials have actually sent armed police officers to raid sex toy stores and confiscate vibrators — a questionable use of public resources, to say the least. “In the state of Alabama, I
can buy a gun,” a sex shop customer told Stossel in another ABC piece. “I can carry it in my pocket. But if I buy this [vibrator], someone could get arrested!” Like defenders of prostitution and sodomy laws, defenders of sex toy bans say they’re simply protecting the public. An appeals court that upheld Alabama’s ban said the state had a “legislative interest in discouraging prurient interests,” because they were “detrimental to the health and morality of the state.” Those judges weren’t alone. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott fought a long battle to uphold a similar ban. Abbott said that the state had “legitimate interest” in policing private, consensual behavior. Overturning the ban would “invite … challenges to previously uncontroversial criminal prohibitions” on practices such as “incest or bigamy.” As John Stossel would say: Give me a break.
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packing their bags into economic failure. A display of potential power is enough to quell even some of the more violent of actions. Teddy Roosevelt said it himself, “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” We aren’t required to use the big stick, per se, but it serves as a visible reminder that, should we be pressed into action, we do have this handy nearby item to beat you senseless with. Think hard to your action movie watching days and ask yourself: how many people really wanted to mess with Rambo? Or how many people managed to shoot him verses the number he took out? Someone with two belts of ammunition strapped across his chest, automatic weapon in hand is not someone to be messed with. Now, we already considered the inevitable chaos caused by concealed weaponry. Would an open-carrying policy be any better? I believe it would make our day-to-day activities smoother in almost every possible way. Heated arguments could be ended by a hand being firmly placed on a holster. Classes would not become raucous out of fear that the teacher would shoot into the air and scare everyone quiet, or, if the teacher is having a particularly bad day, he or she may even take a shot at a non-vital body part. Would you rather walk off a bullet in your leg or sit quietly during class? Let’s not forget that the University Supply Store could even start selling houndstooth Kevlar vests or crimson-colored magnums, bringing more revenue into the school and potentially lowering our tuition. So, let this school and your state legislation know: If we’re going to be protected, let us protect ourselves by scaring the crap out of the bad guys, not by weapons stockpiling. Note: This column is a satire intended to not only make people think but also to introduce a (very unlikely) scenario that could occur if things aren’t thoroughly thought out. This is not intended to suggest that those with concealed firearms are not responsible, nor is it intended to claim those with concealed weapons licenses would be trigger happy. Just think about it. This sort of legislation affects us all.
With the late October shooting of two students at the University of Central Arkansas, February’s NIU shooting killing six people in one attack, Virginia Tech’s massacre of 33 people and the too-close-for-comfort murders of UNC student Eve Marie Carson and Auburn student Lauren Burk, firearms on campuses are on everyone’s minds. If you weren’t thinking about it before reading this column, you probably are now. If you recall, after the Virginia Tech and NIU shootings, Alabama introduced a bill suggesting an allowance of concealed firearms on campus. The bill was shut down rather quickly, however, and rightly so. Imagine a campus where you know the chances of people having a weapon on their person is much higher than it used to be, but you cannot be sure if that bulge at their hip is their keys or their Colt. Students with twitchy fingers would fly into panics if someone reached into their jacket, fearing a drawn weapon. Arguments would be punctuated by gun fire, ending only when the person with the best aim finishes his piece. Total chaos would ensue. The idea was good and the gesture all in good intention. The real problem with this legislation is that it failed to go far enough. Why legalize concealed firearms when it would be much more effective to legalize the overt possession of weaponry? Why limit us to the right to bear arms when we should have the right to bare them, too? Never again would panicked students fear what their peers are reaching for in their jackets or pockets. The gun would be clearly visible. If a student should start to go on a violent rampage against the people of this campus, we would have no fears about who can draw more quickly, because your gun is already at your side, ready to blow the offender away. Stopping at the legalization of concealed weaponry is too soft a political move, akin to the Cold War-era USSR. Why did the United States emerge victorious? A better economy, but even more importantly, we had the bomb and everyone knew it. We’d shown off our bombs, and Russia’s not that far off from Japan. The mere Sean Randall is a junior fear of our swift retribution majoring in theatre was enough to send Russia and philosophy.
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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA’
More like ‘Badagascar,’ am I right? Jokes in animated sequel generally not as funny as the pun in the headline By Corey Craft Editor-in-Chief
I haven’t written a movie review in a long time, so it hasn’t escaped me, dear reader, that my so-called triumphant return to the movie review arena being for “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” a harmless but ultimately dull animated sequel, is pretty weak. Truth is, I haven’t seen very many movies lately, and the ones I have seen have been, by and large, pretty bad. I had an epiphany recently when I
discovered the best movie I had seen in two weeks (by default) was the recent “Journey to the Center of the Earth:” I need to start going to the movies again. With “Madagascar,”w I chose poorly. Truth be told, I’m not even sure why I bothered with the “Madagascar” sequel; I didn’t particularly like the first film (short of the penguins), which concerned itself with the deportation of four lovably sassy zoo animals. There was Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), the arrogant showboat lion;
Marty (Chris Rock) the zebra, who behaves much like Rock would if he were actually a zebra, if that makes sense; Melman (David Schwimmer) the hypochondriac giraffe; and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), a hippopotamus who does things too, but I’ll be damned if I can remember them. Anyway, in the first film, these four ended up in Madagascar, and some lovable lemur types (Sacha Baron Cohen and Cedric the Entertainer) were there, too. “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” (do you see what they did there?) picks up, after a short recap for those who came in late, right after the first ended. The four, plus the devious penguins (from the first film) and the random lemur, are preparing to fly back to New York on a shoddily
constructed airplane. This plan doesn’t work, and the animals crash onto a wildlife preserve in Africa. Wouldn’t you know it? Alex discovers his father, Zuba (the late Bernie Mac), the alpha lion on the preserve, and some pretty standard family bonding commences. (What is it with these talking animal movies and estranged fathers? What’s going on with animators?) Problem is, Zuba is being challenged by another male lion, Makunga (Alec Baldwin, the high point of the film, if only because I kept thinking of “30 Rock” whenever he spoke). Machinations ensue. The other animals have their own things going on, too; Melman becomes a tribal doctor, Gloria is romanced by a male hippo (voiced by Will.i.am) and Alex the zebra runs into a lot of other zebras (all voiced by Chris Rock) who are exactly the same as him. Pop songs
are referenced throughout. I suppose if you liked the first “Madagascar,” this one is exactly the same, but with more. Those penguins are back and shiftier than ever! That old woman who hit the lion with her purse is back too, randomly on safari! The lemurs are even more ridiculous! And that “Move It Move It” song is played a couple more times! If you’re the sort of person who values familiarity over novelty in your animated entertainment, you’re going to eat this up. Otherwise, I can’t really recommend this for anyone over the age of, oh, let’s say eight or nine years old. It’s serviceable, I would think, as a filmic babysitter, as a way to distract the kiddies, and little else. That’s about 560 words more than I ever expected to write about “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” but sometimes life takes you in strange directions.
‘Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa’ Directors: Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith
Run time: 89 minutes MPAA rating: PG Release date: Nov. 7 CW critic’s rating:
Bottom line: “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” exists. That’s about all one can really say about it.
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rottentomatoes.com The gang of animated animals returns for “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” the new film now playing in theaters everywhere.
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