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After weeks of indecision, five-star prospect Reuben Foster verbally committed to The University of Alabama on Monday night.

Foster chose the Crimson Tide over in-state rival Auburn and the Georgia Bulldogs.

The five-star linebacker was committed to both Alabama and Auburn at points in the past year.

The 6-foot-2, 242-pound linebacker appeared to be

leaning toward Auburn until this weekend, when Foster reportedly left his official visit with the Tigers for an impromptu trip to Tuscaloosa. Foster is the fourth five-star prospect to switch his com-mitment from Auburn to

Alabama in the last three years.

“Everybody says coach Saban is uptight,” Foster said. “He ain’t uptight. He’s just trying to get the job done.”

The Auburn High School (Auburn, Ala.) standout is rated as the No. 1 inside line-backer recruit in the country by the 247Composite rank-ings. He recorded 80 tackles, including 22 tackles for loss and six sacks and was named the MVP of the Under Armour High School All-American game in January.

Foster, the No. 1 recruit in the state of Alabama, explod-ed onto the scene as a sopho-more at Troup County High

School in Georgia and after several visits to Tuscaloosa during the summer before his junior year, Foster committed to The University of Alabama in July of 2011.

Georgia and Auburn con-tinued their pursuit of Foster, but despite their efforts he remained committed to the Crimson Tide throughout his junior season.

His recruitment took its first turn when Foster decided to transfer to Auburn High School in April 2012 following the controversial departure of his high school head coach from Troup County.

Foster moved with his fam-ily, including his 3-year-old

daughter, to Auburn and spec-ulation began as Foster began taking more frequent visits to the nearby Auburn University campus.

On July 12, 2012, Foster held a press conference to announce what many had already anticipated, that he had flipped his commitment from Alabama to Auburn. The announcement shook up the recruiting world and put then head coach Gene Chizik and the Auburn Tigers in position to land one of the nation’s top recruiting classes for the 2013 recruiting cycle, with Foster headlining the bunch.

By Melissa Brown and Adrienne BurchCW Staff

Following overcrowding and illegal parking in and around the Riverside East park-ing lot, UA Transportation Services is opening up the Northeast Commuter Campus Drive lot to campus residents and offering $50 Bama Cash to seniors and resident advi-sors to park elsewhere.

Yellow residential per-mit-holders are having dif-ficulty finding parking spots following the removal of 290 spaces on the west side of the Riverside East Yellow Residential surface lot over winter break to accommodate parking deck construction.

By Sarah Elizabeth TookerStaff Reporter

During the month of February and other times throughout the year, a UA associate professor leads African American Heritage tours across campus, com-memorating the various sites on UA’s campus where many events in the civil right’s move-ment transpired.

Jason Black, a professor in the department of communi-cation studies, said the idea for this tour came out of his first semester on campus in the fall of 2005 when he taught an African American rhetoric course.

“We’re situated here at the crucible of the civil rights move-ment and a ton of race-related events,” Black said. “For all that history and context, I noticed my students didn’t know much about Alabama’s contribution and certainly not on campus, and, as a newcom-er to the University, I didn’t either.”

After reading “The Schoolhouse Door,” a book written by Culpepper Clark, a former dean to the College of Communication and Information Sciences, Black said he began to determine some key sites on campus that contributed to Alabama’s over-all civil right’s effort.

By Judah MartinContributing Writer

At the end of this sum-mer, Alabama Public Radio, Crimson Tide Productions and WVUA-TV will move into new production and office space in the basement of Bryant-Denny Stadium.

“Just being inside a stadium will be unique,” Lynn Brooks, news direc-tor for WVUA, said. “I believe we’ll be the only commer-cial broadcast-ing operation on planet Earth to broadcast from a football stadium.”

The WVUA staff currently share the bot-tom floor of Reese-Phifer Hall with the Alabama Public Radio staff. She said WVUA broadcasts to about three million homes between Huntsville and Montgomery each night and the staff has naturally outgrown the space.

“We have the largest broad-cast news intern program in America,” Brooks said. “If you’re a prospective broad-cast student and you visit a university that has an oppor-tunity to work inside such a unique facility it can be a real difference maker in your

decision.”Elizabeth Brock, direc-

tor of the Center for Public Television and Radio, said approximately 75 full-time employees and 100 students occupy the first floor of Reese Phifer Hall. She said the ath-letic department offered the space in the stadium.

“My best recollection is that the athletic department made the offer to the dean of the col-lege,” Brock said. “Essentially it was unfinished space, and

they offered the space for us to collect.”

Although the athletic depart-ment offered the space, the funds for the new space and equipment was provided by the University and private donors.

Brock said the new facility will be equipped with more efficient technology including new cables, wires and fiber track passageways that send data more efficiently. Additionally, fiber tracks have been laid around campus allowing high definition cameras to be set up and thereby eliminating necessity for a production truck.

“We’ll be able to do good-looking, high quality coverage from places all over campus,” she said.

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“The tour really originated out of the African American rhetoric class with student interest and we as a group gathered information and put

it into a tour,” he said. “In the fall of 2007, I piloted the first legit tour.”

Black said the original tradi-tion was for him to give a tour once a semester, but when word spread among students and fac-ulty, his tour schedule drasti-cally expanded.

Currently, he gives one tour every fall semester and every

Wednesday in February at noon. Outside of these certain dates, Black said he probably gives eight to 10 additional tours a semester.

“Before I knew it, I was doing them for student recruitment, alumni and as an annual part of black history month,” he said. “It used to last around 30 minutes, but as I’ve continued

to learn more details, I include them, so the tour is now up to an hour to an hour and a half.”

Black said it’s important to give tours like this because it memorializes such a founda-tional moment in time where our campus was right in the dead center of it all.

“On a macro level, it’s impor-tant because of the role that civil rights played in our country and also in our region,” he said. “A university is about a market-place of ideas where people come to discuss issues, especial-ly at a public university which is designed for the people.”

He explained how UA stu-dents and faculty literally sit on history in so many ways and why it’s significant to reflect on it.

“These sites are really impor-tant and can be used to think back and remember,” Black said. “To stand on the very space where something as big as desegregation on campus happened, to feel the ghost of the past pulse through your system – we sit on history in so many ways.”

There are six stops along the tour, including Reese Phifer and Bibb Graves where protests occurred against Autherine Lucy’s enrollment to the University, the President’s man-sion where slave quarter evi-dence exists, Foster Auditorium where Governor George Wallace blocked the entrance of African American students, Nott Hall, the site of a possible eugenics lab and, finally, slave

graves commemorated in 2004 on University grounds.

“If you focus on just the bad stuff and go on a tour like this and see where black students were turned away by a disgust-ingly racist governor, you feel suffocated by it all,” Black said. “You have to balance the good and the bad so you remember the past, but don’t dwell in it.”

One student, David Dent, a junior majoring in business man-agement, said as a student origi-nally from the North, this tour seems like a great way to expand his knowledge of Alabama his-tory in a unique way.

“I believe every student can get something out of this expe-rience,” Dent said. “This defi-nitely beats a history lesson out of a textbook.”

Lauren Powell, a junior majoring in advertising from Andalusia, Ala., agreed com-memorating these events was a good idea for students.

“Recognizing African American achievements and celebrating Black History monthshould not just be for elementa-ry school children,” Powell said.“We, as University students, should continue to learn about or even be reminded of the dif-ficulties African American stu-dents faced and this tour helpsillustrate defining moments of our school’s history.”

For those with limited mobil-ity interested in participat-ing in a tour, Black said he is always willing to give a driv-ing tour and to contact him via jason.black@ua.edu.

“After 8 p.m., it is liter-ally a dog fight to find a park-ing spot,” said Hamilton Bromhead, a freshman major-ing in journalism who lives in the Presidential dorm. “Every inch of grass, and every curb is full with students’ cars. Despite the horrible parking situation, they’re still giving tickets out like candy, like this University actually needs more money.”

McCall Robinson, a freshman resident permit holder, said the parking situation was tense before construction began but is now nearly unmanageable as residents who cannot find a space are parking illegally, choking up the available lots.

“There was barely enough parking before the closing of the Riverside lot due to the fact that they didn’t build a single parking space when they built the Presidential Village,” Robinson said. “They also should have waited until school was out of session to do this construction work. The parking on this campus is

always a grievance.”Transportation Services

emailed yellow residential permit holders on Monday morning, stating that they “will allow” yellow residential parking permit holders to park in the Northeast Commuter Campus Drive lot, as a “tem-porary courtesy” through the spring 2013 semester. Students paid $280 in the fall for year-long residential permits.

“This additional parking area has been implemented to help eliminate illegal parking in the Riverside parking lot that has created safety concerns,” according to the emailed state-ment. “In the future any vehicle parked illegally will be subject to the present rules and regula-tions of the University, includ-ing citations and towing.”

Robinson said the crowd-ing has been spilling into The Highlands parking lot and, after ticketing hours, people park illegally, making it diffi-cult to drive through the lots.

The Northeast Commuter Campus Drive lot, located across the street from the Recreation Center pool, is accessed by the Crimson Ride until 10 p.m. on weekdays. Residential students parking

in the lot will have to board a Green or Blue route bus, ride to the Campus Drive Deck bus hub and then transfer to a Gold route bus to reach the Riverside, Presidential, Highland and Lakeside dorm areas.

After 10 p.m. and on the weekends, when the Crimson Ride isn’t operating, 348-RIDE Demand for Service vans will be available for travel to and from the dorms.

“I am happy that they have opened up a new lot, where we would have safe transporta-tion back to our dorm,” Abby Duncan, a freshman majoring in interior design, said. “But I am still upset it is so far away.”

Alicia Browne, director of Housing Administration, emailed residential seniors and RAs Monday night to offer $50 Bama Cash to the first 100 stu-dents who agree to park only in the Clara Verner lot, north of The Highlands apartment com-munity on Old Hackberry Lane.

“If you agree to this offer, you must be aware of the following conditions: You may only park in the eastern designated lot at Clara Verner Towers. This lot will be clearly marked. If you park in any other area

within the Clara Verner prop-erty, you are subject to being towed at your own expense,” Browne wrote. “While park-ing in the Yellow Zone you are ONLY allowed to park in this lot. You are not permitted to park in any other yellow park-ing area, regardless of time or day of week.”

The Clara Verner permit would also be valid in the Northeast Campus Drive lot.

Bromhead said he’s had parking issues in the Riverside lot all year and is glad there

will be extra parking but thinks residents shouldn’t be put in the situation of having to park far away in the first place.

“It’s ridiculous. It is forcing hundreds of students to park miles away, or park illegally, in which case the University will happily give them a tick-et – even though they are the ones messing everything up,” Bromhead said. “This is poor timing on the University’s part,and I think I speak for every student when I say that the parking here is horrible.”

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A team from the Office of Archaeological Research for The University of Alabama Museums is conducting an archaeological survey of the future site of the Embassy Suites hotel in downtown Tuscaloosa, which was former-ly the home of a Civil War pris-oner of war camp, among other things.

The Embassy Suites, which will be built on the corner of Greensboro Avenue and University Boulevard, will cost $27 million.

Matthew Gage, director of the Office of Archaeological Research for UA Museums, is overseeing the excavation project. Gage said a team of 25-30 people will work on the full-scale excavation in order to finish the project as quickly as possible.

“We’re working to finish the project as fast as pos-sible,” Gage said. “We know that [Embassy Suites] needs to begin construction pretty soon and we’ve devised our research design to address that so we can get everything out of the ground quickly but main-tain the methodical approach that is necessary for the data recovery.”

Gage said he did not know the exact date the excavation project of the completion of.

Deirdre Stalnaker, the direc-tor of communications for the city of Tuscaloosa, is work-ing with Gage and the Office of Archaeological Research to provide weekly updates of archaeological discoveries to the public. Stalnaker said the excavation has already turned up several notable artifacts.

“They have been finding some ceramics and bottle frag-ment, animal bones, floors and structural bases for old build-ings that date from the late 19th to early 20th centuries,” Stalnaker said.

Gage said these discoveries are not a surprise to the team of archaeologists.

“We have late 1800s Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, so we know the locations of the struc-tures from that time period,” Gage said.

The insurance maps, along with a previous excavation project conducted by The University of Alabama, shows that the current parking lot was once the site of first Bank of the State in Tuscaloosa, the Broadway Hotel and the Drisch warehouse, which was turned in to a Union prisoner of war camp during the Civil War.

With such a large amount

of history buried under this single lot in Tuscaloosa, Gage hopes Embassy Suites will dis-play and promote the history of Tuscaloosa by incorporating some of it into the hotel.

“What Embassy Suites is try-ing to do here is take advantage of all the people that want to come in for football, all the peo-ple that want to come in and see Tuscaloosa and the University for what it is,” Gage said. “This lot gives them just an absolutely fantastic opportunity to look at the whole history of Tuscaloosa from start to now.”

In terms of the archaeologi-cal significance of the site, Gage is excited to study in detail what life in Tuscaloosa has been like through the years.

“You’ve got the mother bank of the state of Alabama here, you’ve got the Civil War facil-ity, you’ve got one of the earli-est hotels in town here, you’ve got poor individuals living in close proximity with wealthy individuals. This is an urban environment that is very early for the South,” Gage said. “An opportunity to explore this is great.”

Gage said working with the city has helped expedite the archaeology project and will continue to help as they work to finish the project as quickly as possible.

“Because we’re in such a time crunch to finish this project, it is going to be important that we restrict access [to the site],” Gage said. “We know there are a lot of people that are interested in this project and we’re going to try to keep it so that the city remains informed through our weekly progress reports. We’re going to put up posters around the outside of the property so people can see exactly what we’re doing. Hopefully that will answer people questions and allow us to get our job done as fast as possible.”

Gage said the survey is good opportunity for an uncom-mon look into the history of Tuscaloosa and the day-to-day life of its past citizens.

“This block is going to be destroyed. They’re going to build a hotel here. They’ve got to excavate the whole damn thing. What we want to do is mitigate the impact of that by collecting the data from it,” Gage said. “If we can get all this information from the data then we can reconstruct the life ways of those people and compare it to other places in town that we’ve excavated, other places in the South that have had similar excavations. It will really help us to understand what these people were going through on a daily basis.”

UA archaeologists surveying future hotel site

CW| Shannon AuvilUniversity archaeologists are surveying the site of the Embassy Suites hotel downtown, which sits on a Civil War prisoner of war camp.

Brock said the new facil-ity will allow hands-on learn-ing observation for incoming interns.

“There are very few hard walls,” she said. “A lot of the space is flexible so, as staffing changes, as the needs change

we’ll be able to reconfigure ourselves pretty easily.”

Victoria Sheehan, a pro-ducer and weekend anchor for WVUA, said she was excited for the move to the stadium.

“I’m excited to have win-dows,” Sheehan said. “There’s no natural sunlight where we are now, so that’s definitely something to look forward to.”

With the move date approaching, Joseph Phelps, professor and chairman of the

department of advertising and public relations, is serving as chair of a space allocation com-mittee to decide a new use for the first floor space in Reese Phifer Hall.

“Each department needs a space for students to be able to work on creative projects. We have faculty with no offices,” Phelps said. “Right now what we have to think about is that space will be made available in Reese Phifer.”

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To add fuel to the already heated rivalry of the Alabama-Auburn recruiting battle, in announcing his change of com-mitment Foster read a state-ment that was nearly identi-cal to the statement read by Alabama running back T.J.

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A little more than four months later, Auburn fired Chizik and left the Tigers foot-ball program in shambles.

Once it was announced that Auburn would not retain assis-tant coach Trooper Taylor, with whom Foster had a close relationship, Foster announced that he was no longer commit-ted to Auburn.

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“They are the men who are not brought up but are obliged to come up.” These are the words Frederick Douglass used to describe the age-old archetype of America’s “self-made man.” The lone figure, who has just arrived in the land ofopportunity. He strives to own his own piece of land and live off it, to sling the deer he has just hunted over his shoulder and take it home to the family dinner table. In this coun-try of immi-grants, anyone can make it. Or so the American dream has told us for years.

But there is something missing in this picture.The self-made woman. Her powerful form is so often over-shadowed by stereotype. Like any other country, America has churned out its fair share of women assembled, very obviously, by anyone but themselves. The blonde Hollywood hoards have filled our cinema and TV screens for years. They’ve even wiggled their way into our newspapers so we can drool over their care-fully tailored dresses. Again, a garment very definitely put together by a third party with theintention of impressing anyone but the uncom-fortable woman wearing it.

But probably the most glaring example of thistype of manufacturing of the female is the Miss America contest. This is a cultural phenomenon, especially in the South. Although this year’s win-ner, Mallory Hagan, was attributed to Brooklyn,N.Y., she was born in Tennessee and brought up here in Alabama. The myth of the Southern Belle. She is honoured for a prancing around, scantily clad in a bathing suit and beamed out toTV sets across America whilst rolling off a four point plan to world peace, only to end up promot-ing products in a Dairy Queen – as the last Miss America did.

Of course, the Miss America title does comewith a hefty scholarship, and many of these women do make successful careers out of it. But the pageant is becoming outdated. Viewing rates have dropped dramatically over the past few years. And in this waning popularity, she is finally leaving a little room for the more admi-rable form of the self-made woman to enter the stage. We can begin to praise those females who have made the most of the fruits this country has to offer, even, if the ripeness is subject to unpre-dictable weather.

It all began with Harriet Beecher Stowe. As the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” she added fuel to the abolitionist movement and went on to buildup a lifetime’s worth of literary works. This was due to the fact that a third of all American col-lege undergraduates were women in the 1880s. A remarkably high percentage compared to otheruniversities outside of the U.S. around this time.

And this tradition of educated women is per-haps most obvious today in the high public pro-file of Hilary Clinton. Here stands a female fig-ure of great political power, even triggering talks of the first female president – although this looklikes a long and still rocky road to follow for agood few more years.

The image of this strong, self-made woman was consolidated further at a recent dinner I attended, honouring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. though the “Realizing the Dream pro-gram” here at the University. The guest lectur-er and 2007 Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Cynthia Tucker, reminded the audience that we still have a long way to go before we fully realise that community and closeness will provide the courage we need to keep this country alive.

But she also reminded us that the self-madewoman is very much thriving. Thinking back to those crowned women in swimwear and theapron-wearing housewives of the 50s commer-cials living on a diet of curtain-twitching and home baking, the present looks a little differ-ent. Cynthia Tucker’s words commanded a roomfull of successful men. A driven and intellectual woman who has utilized America’s opportunity and democracy to gain an education and make something of herself.

Sometimes it’s good to step back and remind ourselves about the importance of the female position in the 21st century.

Lucy Cheseldine is an English international exchange student studying English literature. Her column runs weekly on Tuesdays.

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Local theatre puts spotlight on cliques, politics; not talentBy Beth LindlyStaff Columnist

If you’ve lived in Tuscaloosa for more than 10 minutes, you’ve prob-ably noticed how involved in the-atre this city is. Weekly, there is no shortage of musicals performed by any number of local high schools or colleges.

No one can call Tuscaloosa citizens “uncultured.” But when I think of the theatre scene, the words that come to my mind are “politics” and “nepotism.”

I grew up in this city, and I’ve been acting locally since I was in third grade. Theatre camps kept me busy during the summer, and I was excited during the school year to try out for the city’s children’s musicals. However, year after year I saw talented young actors turned away in favor of people who had been in the program practically since birth.

I understand casting the same people because they are talented, but I couldn’t ever wrap my head around newcomers never landing the lead roles.

I’m not talking about myself here. I’m mainly concerned with those who work extremely hard to even audition and are turned down because they are new in town or because their parents didn’t donate enough money to the

theatre program.It is unfair and political. I am not

sure if this “system” will change any time soon if no one does any-thing to challenge it. I have even seen shows where directors have pre-casted roles simply because they had a certain actor in mind, and obviously no one better could possibly come along in the audition process.

I have seen less-than-brilliant actors cast in lead roles simply because it was their “last hurrah” and would not have a chance to land one otherwise. Meanwhile, others who may have not paid as many dues in the community were totally overlooked.

Removing prejudices and biases is easier said than done, I real-ize, but if the theatre community doesn’t start now they will per-meate future generations. Ideally, roles in production would be based on merit, but the political aspect

discourages those not in the ‘inner circle’ from even trying.

Don’t get me wrong. I honestly do love watching the shows this city puts on. I’ve seen some pro-ductions in my years here that I feel could rival professional touring companies.

But as an outsider and someone who never quite accustomed her-self to the cliques of Tuscaloosa theatre, I would like to see some changes in its social order. Most people get involved in the arts to escape the ostracizing atmosphere of high school and middle school, not to just enter a different one under a new name. If a more accom-modating, friendly nature that kept talent in mind was adopted, then perhaps more young actors could find their place in this city.

Beth Lindly is a sophomore major-ing in journalism. Her column runs biweekly on Tuesdays.

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Last Monday, The Crimson White ran a letter to the editor, “Stop stereotyping the greek sys-tem’s view of race,” that felt very familiar to me. This is my ninth semester on this campus, and I swear that every semester there is a piece like the one to which the let-ter was responding, that complains about the current greek system’s racial biases. And every semes-ter, there is an outraged response from someone in that system, who claims that they have been unfairly accused. I don’t often care about campus issues, but I will throw in my two cents here.

I am a GDI, but I have never had any real animus toward the greek system. I think block seat-ing is a highly inefficient system and find the implicit racial barri-ers disturbing, but those are sys-temic issues, not the fault of each individual. I have friends in greek organizations, and have generally found greeks as individuals to be good people.

The quality of the people I know in white greek organizations makes the continued de facto seg-regation of these groups even more

bizarre. I know that “segregation” will come across as a harsh term for some of you.

If you doubt my use of it, then I propose the following experiment: Pick one of your white friends in a greek house, go to a picture on their Facebook page from their last swap, and look for someone who isn’t white.

While I have been here long enough to know that it would be unfair to think of the majority of greeks as bigots, the most vehe-ment racist sentiments that I have heard during my time here have come from members of fraternities.

For example, while attending the National Championship game this year, I expressed my displea-sure with one of our players for a

mental error. I believe that I unfair-ly called him an idiot. A drunken young man, who I did not know and whose specific fraternity affiliation I remember but will not reveal, responded, “That’s because he’s a nigger.” I cannot decide whether it is to my credit or my shame that my response was not harsh enough to cause my ejection. I will leave that to the reader.

What is clear is that his friends, if they disapproved, should have been vocal about their disapproval. That man’s opinions do not wind up associated with me, and I might have gotten into a fight. He might have listened to them, and they are associated with their friend’s opinions by their silence. That sen-tence was galling. It would certain-ly make me less likely to pledge, and I would imagine that nearly all young black men on this cam-pus would be turned away by that. Anyone who cares about inclusion should be worried to be associated with this.

I am aware that all fraterni-ties and sororities are nominally open to members of all races, and that some are more serious about inclusion than others. That does not matter. De facto, there is not much diversity. All greek organiza-

tions should actually accept mem-bers of all races, and they should be of such a character that mem-bers of all races feel comfortable enough to join. I do not know that we can write rules to make that happen, but we shouldn’t have to consider it.

I am certain that most students of any kind on this campus are not bigots. But if you want people to correctly surmise that you are not a bigot, then you should not be passive in the face of prejudice. Concretely, you need to police your own. When considering members of a group with whom you are asso-ciated, particularly if you are wear-ing the same letters as identifica-tion, you should be concerned with their self-expression.

If your compatriots say some-thing awful, you should let them know that you do not agree, at a minimum. If you do not speak up, then you seem to agree with them. It is important to impose social penalties on people who do or say terrible things. It is a pointless act to tell me that you are not a bigot. Go out and prove it.

Brad Erthal is a Ph.D. student in economics. His column runs on Tuesdays.

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By Rich RobinsonStaff Reporter

As many UA students sign leases at the various apartment and housing complexes across the Tuscaloosa area, questions are raised about the renter-land-lord relationship.

Can you negotiate a lease? Is it wise to purchase renters insurance? Can a landlord enter your property without notice? Some of these questions are clear-cut, while others dwell in a murky realm of legal and practical understanding.

Bill Henning, a UA law professor said as a gen-eral proposition, a lease is a contract and every term is therefore negotiable.

“Some landlords will negoti-ate and others, usually the larg-er ones, will not,” Henning said.

Julie Elmore, the assistant director for off-campus and UA greek housing, said the lease must apply to all residents in

a complex, which could mean complications in a renter’s abil-ity to bargain in a large complex.

“If the landlord changes a pol-icy during the term of the lease, it has to apply to all tenants,” Elmore said.

Shay M. Farley, legal direc-tor for the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, said both parties are always entitled to negotiate the terms of any contract. The Appleseed cen-ter issues renter’s rights litera-ture in an attempt to inform the public of its entitlements under a landlord.

“Realistically, however, the balance usually tips in the land-lord’s favor particularly since the ratio of renters in a college town outweighs prime units,” Farley said. “Renters are usu-ally limited in options of proper-ties they can afford and provide comfort and safety, along with optimal geographic location.”

Farley also said to be sure any agreements that are verbalized

are also put in writing in the lease and signed by both parties.

“Keep a copy of your lease in a safe place so if there are every any doubts or disputes, you can make reference to that agree-ment,” Farley said. “There’s no better way of protecting your rights than to have the terms spelled out in black and white.”

On the matter of purchasing renters insurance, the experts seem to be in agreement.

“We do suggest that students obtain renters insurance when they move off campus,” Elmore said. “It can be purchased from most insurance companies and is relatively inexpensive.”

Farley said it’s a good idea for all renters to carry rental insur-ance, and that some leases even require coverage.

“Renters insurance provides protection if your personal property is damaged, stolen or destroyed,” Farley said. “Some policies provide liability cover-age for policy holders against

injuries to another person on your property and help pay for your legal defense in such a case.”

R e n t e r ’ s rights have become a topic of discussion in the local news because of the recent arrest of a for-mer manager for the Summit Condominiums in Tuscaloosa. Jodi Morrison Parden, was charged with allegedly steal-ing from 19 people at the apartment complex on Veterans Memorial Parkway.

The Summit’s lease agree-ment does not seem to take into account the theft of per-sonal property by one of its employees.

“Our insurance does not cover the loss of or damage to your per-sonal property. Your own insur-ance is not required but is still

strongly rec-o m m e n d e d , ” The Summit’s lease reads. “We urge you to get your own insurance for losses due to theft, fire, water damage, pipe leaks or other similar occurrences.”

Henning said with regard to theft by a land-lord, the ten-ant would be

entitled to return of the item or to its fair market value.

“In addition to the landlord’s conduct potentially being a crime, it constitutes the tort of conversion,” Henning said.

Henning also said if the

tenant has renters insurance theitem may be covered but when-ever insurance is involved youalways have to carefully readthe policy to see what it covers.

“For example, jewelry is oftenexcluded unless the insured haspurchased a rider to the policycovering specific items of jew-elry,” Henning said. “Even ifthere is coverage, there maya deductible.”

While issues of insurance canbecome quickly complicated,state law is pretty clear whenit comes to guidelines for whenlandlords can enter a property.

“The landlord can enter therental with a 48-hour writtennotice, in order to do upkeep andrepairs, however, in an emer-gency situation they can enterwithout notice,” Elmore said.

If a UA student renter feelsthat their rights have been vio-lated, they can contact the LawSchool’s Civil Law Clinic, whichprovides free legal serviceto students.

By Ashley TrippStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama Graduate School will host its seventh annual Last Lecture Series on April 22, in which students nominate a UA facul-ty member as the featured lec-turer to address the premise of “If this were your last time to address a group of students, what would you say to them?”

Nomination forms extend until Wednesday, Feb. 13. The announced winner, selected by a student committee consisting of graduate and undergraduate students representing a range of the UA student popula-tion, will receive a cash award from the UA Graduate School in addition to presenting their lecture.

Rick Bragg, the 2012 Last

Lecture recipient, said he was tickled when the UA Graduate School selected him to give the lecture and first notified his wife of the news.

In addition to teaching a magazine writing course in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, Bragg has published several books and articles, and won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing in

1996, the Harper Lee Award and the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing. Bragg was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Bragg said it was a great honor to be chosen for this lec-ture because the entire process was student run.

“How could you not be grati-fied or find value in the fact that the award was given by the students themselves?”

he asked.Even with the audience feel-

ing numb in their hard seats and sweating in a room filled to max capacity, Bragg said he enjoyed talking to the students, faculty, staff and alumni and that it was great to see people from the community come out to the lecture.

Sheldon Martin, a junior majoring in public relations, said she had to get to the lec-ture early to hear Bragg speak.

“I was able to get a really good seat,” Martin said. “Even though it was hard to concen-trate because of the tempera-ture in the room, I got a lot of great advice out of his lecture.”

Even though Bragg said speaking for the Last Lecture was different from his other lectures, Bragg kept his tradition of not writing

his speeches down.“You box yourself in,” Bragg

said. “Preparing for this lec-ture, I didn’t write a speech; however, there was something different about the fact that students put it on that made me have fun with it.”

Bragg said it was a real plea-sure and described this honor as the “Genesis of the award.”

“I think whoever wins the next lecture, my advice to them would be to remember that at least one student thought so much as to nominate them in the first place,” Bragg said. “There’s a lot of smart people on campus, and I’d like to learn and hear more about them.”

Bebe Barefoot, the 2011 Last Lecture recipient, said if she could give any piece of advice or encouraging words to the next recipient, it would be to

speak from the heart.“I believe that we are all both

teachers and students, and to put that belief into practice you have to get out of your head and make it about your heart,” Barefoot said.

In reflecting on her lec-ture two years ago, Barefoot said the feedback she received from people was overwhelmingly positive.

“I approached the speech as a personal essay, so I made myself rather vulnerable,” Barefoot said. “That’s always scary, and I was so touched bythe many kind words I received not only immediately after-ward but in the weeks and months that followed.”

Barefoot said this award wasthe most special honor she has ever received because it came from the students.

Grad school accepting nominations for Last Lecture

Renters should be aware of rights, rules in individual leases

“Keep a copy of your lease in a safe place so if there are every any doubts or disputes, you can make reference to that agree-ment. There’s no better way of protecting your rights than to have the terms spelled out in

black and white.

—Shay Farley

“I think whoever wins the next lecture, my advice to them would be to re-member that at least one student thought so much as to nominate them in the fi rst place. There’s a lot of smart people on campus, and I’d like to

learn and hear more about them.

— Rick Bragg

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Bama Dining supports Meatless Mondays campaignBy Abbey CrainStaff Reporter

Americans are eating less meat than they were five years ago and Bama Dining is no exception to the trend. Fall 2012 brought more vegetar-ian options than ever in cam-pus dining halls, especially on Mondays.

Meatless Mondays is a nonprofit campaign initially developed by Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health offering information and recipes for meat-free meals according to meatless-mondays.com. Various celeb-rities such as Tamera Mowry and Emily Deschanel are on board with the campaign, pro-moting its health and envi-ronmental benefits, and the Humane Society of the United States recently recognized The University of Alabama’s devel-opment of their own Meatless Monday program.

Bama Dining supports the Meatless Mondays campaign by providing more vegetar-ian-friendly meals all over campus.

“Each dining hall has a veg-etarian, vegan and gluten-free station that features an array of meatless options,” Rachel

Barwick, residential market-ing assistant for Bama Dining, said. “We also have a variety of meatless items available at the Ferguson Center Food Court, Julia’s Market, Stewart’s Corner and throughout our on-campus convenience stores.”

Kenny Torrella, outreach coordinator for the Humane Society of the United States said they were excited to get the University on board for Meatless Mondays.

“It sends a message to other institutions that Meatless Mondays is a growing trend and shows that it’s a simple and effective way to make a dif-ference,” Torrella said.

Olivia Bensinger, a junior majoring in ecological econom-ics and Spanish, said she was happy to find out about Bama Dining’s moves towards meat-less Mondays. As the chair of the sustainable foods com-mittee for the environmental council on campus, Bensinger was already involved in her own efforts to make dining hall food more healthy for stu-dents.

“[Bama Dining] has gotten better since my freshman year, but freshman year was kind of bad,” Bensinger said. There was maybe one vegetarian

option, but no one was there to cook it or it would take forever. Some of the places like Burke I could find mostly side dish-es and I could put something together to make a meal, but it wasn’t the best.”

Bensinger said she thinks all students can benefit from cut-ting down their meat intake, even for once a week.

“My reasons [for being a vegetarian] are mostly environmental because you have less of a carbon foot-print if you’re a vegetarian,” Bensinger said. “Cows release methane and raising them in such closed quarters in feed lots is not good for the envi-ronment. It’s unhealthy for the cows because they aren’t eat-ing grass.”

Bensinger recommended the Meatless Mondays cam-paign to friends on an individ-ual basis who are considering becoming vegetarians.

“It gets them thinking about how they feel when they eat meat and how they feel when they don’t,” she said.

Allie Hulcher, a junior major-ing in journalism and English, has been a vegetarian since her senior year of high school. She said Bama Dining has been conducive to her vegetarian

endeavors, and she frequents the Fresh Foods dining hall salad bar and panini center.

“I think they’ve done really great,” Hulcher said. “They’re kind of encouraging everyone to cut back on their meat con-sumption. I think everyone can move towards eating less [meat]. I don’t think you need it for every meal or even every day.”

Hulcher said Mediterranean restaurants in Tuscaloosa are the most accommodating for her meatless preferences.

“My favorites are Tut’s and Hooligans,” Hulcher said. “They have really good falafel, which is ground up chick peas and fried in a little ball. They’re really good in wraps. Even Quick Grill has great veg-gie burgers. It’s really good for just $5.”

Although the new program does not completely rule out meat, Barwick said Bama Dining is aware of the health benefits of programs like Meatless Mondays and encour-ages students to take part.

“The new program has been well received by the stu-dents,” Barwick said. “Our meatless options are always popular with the students. It’s important to promote the

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By Hannah WidenerContributing Writer

For the members of the club Fashion Inc., fashion is not just a job but a way of life. These future fashionistas are not hit-ting the streets to find their next look but instead surfing the net on the hunt for the next big sale. In this club, the net-working possibilities are end-less and clothes are only half the fun.

Fashion Inc. President Kelly Druce, a senior major-ing in apparel designs said the

organization aims to provide an outlet for fashion-minded stu-dents on campus.

“We’re a student organiza-tion who is open to everyone of all majors and our main goal is to get students interested and involved in the fashion indus-try,” Druce said.

The club originally began in the mid-1970s and nearly went extinct until Project Runway and UA alumnus Anthony Williams brought it back to life.

“We sponsor Anthony Williams to come and talk to the students in the club about the

industry,” said Paula Robinson, faculty member and sponsor of the group for four years. “So we do have former students who are now kind of famous in their own right who come back and through the club we get them.”

“It’s a real important oppor-tunity for the students to expand their knowledge of the fashion industry, and the club is just one way to do it,” Robinson said.

Fashion Inc. accepts new members year round. Two of its newest members, twins Emily and Haley Helveston, juniors

majoring in materials and textiles, recently transferred from Birmingham Southern University.

“Well, I just joined last semester but mainly it involves how to get involved in the fash-ion industry,” Haley said. “In one of the meetings we learned how and where to get intern-ships, then in another meeting we watched the movie ‘The September Issue.’”

Emily said she had the oppor-tunity to help with the senior fashion show and enjoyed doing so.

Members know the impact an internship can make when first starting out in the fashion industry.

Druce has interned at both Mood Fabrics and Alexander Berardi this past summer in New York. She said when she graduates would love to get a

job at Burton Snowboards.“I would like to design out-

erwear for them and then snowboard all day after work,” Druce said.

The next fashion show, “Tea Time,” will take place in April. All the clothes will be made of recycled materials. The next meeting will be Feb. 12 in Adams Hall Room 316 at 7 p.m. where the group will be doing fashion trivia.

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Tuscaloosa Amphitheater announced their first 2013 show will be fun. featuring special guests Tegan and Sara. The concert will be held on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m.

Fun. is an American indie pop band based out of New York City and is known for its hit sin-gles “Some Nights,” “We Are Young” and “Carry On.” The group is scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony and is currently one

of the most nominated artists of the year. The concert will

be part of the group’s summer headline tour that will debut in Toronto, Canada on July 6.

Tegan and Sara is an indie rock Canadian band comprised of twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin.

Tickets for the show will go on sale Friday, Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. Prices for general admis-sion and reserved seats range from $20 to $39.50 and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Box Office or by phone. For more information, call (800) 745-3000.

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The Alabama softball team will be televised seven times during the 2013 regular season, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday. The Crimson Tide is part of a tele-vision package that will show-case the league 35 times on the ESPN, Fox and CSS networks.

Of the seven games, Alabama will be shown on ESPN four times. Alabama opens its television schedule at South Carolina on March 16, in a Saturday contest that will be shown on CSS. Two of the three games against rival Auburn will be televised as CSS will carry the Saturday game on March 23 and ESPNU will air the series finale on March 24.

ESPNU will then televise two of the three games against SEC newcomer Missouri. The network will carry the series opener on Friday, April 5 and the Saturday contest on April 6.

The lone Fox Sports game on the schedule will pit the Crimson Tide against the

Mississippi State Bulldogs on April 21. The Tide will close out its regular season televi-sion schedule against LSU in a rare Thursday night game on April 25 that will be shown on ESPN2.

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By Kevin ConnellContributing Writer

As the Alabama women’s golf team begins making its final preparations for the Lady Puerto Rico Classic held Feb. 10-12 at the Rio Mar Country Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, one question lingers at the back of all their minds: How are they going to play without Brooke Pancake?

Pancake was an invaluable asset to the Crimson Tide dur-ing her four-year career at Alabama. A four-time All-SEC selection and a three-time All-American, she is the most dec-orated player in the program’s history having also won the 2012 Honda Award as the top collegiate women’s golfer in the nation and numerous Academic All-American honors.

Pancake is best remembered for sinking a par-putt at last year’s NCAA Championships lifting the Tide to their first national championship in

program history.“[Pancake] brought a lot to

the table, with her ability and her scores and what she meant to us academically,” head coach Mic Potter said. “She gave us a lot over her four-year time span.”

The team agreed that they won’t be able to replace Pancake coming into this sea-son. However, there is one play-er that they are all very keen on: freshman Emma Talley.

Talley, a native of Princeton, Ky., has competed at a high-level for several years now. She has qualified for two U.S. Opens, having made the cut in 2012. She was a 2011 first-team Rolex Junior All-American and committed to the Tide in 2012 as the No. 1 recruit in America by Golfweek.

“We have a very good fresh-man this year, Emma Talley, who’s very talented, works real-ly hard and brings a different aspect to the team than what Brooke might have brought,”

junior Stephanie Meadow said. “I think a lot of us have a lot of confidence in her being able to score well in your freshman year fall is pretty impressive.”

Talley has already broken into the starting lineup, hav-ing played in each of the Tide’s three tournaments in the fall. She was the top individual per-former in the team’s first tour-nament – the Cougar Classic – finishing tied for 14th.

Like Pancake and the play-ers before them, the upper-classmen hope to set a good example for Talley and the rest of the underclassmen, Meadow said.

“We try to be a role model for the younger ones, because that’s what Brooke did for me and Camilla [Lennarth] the year before,” Meadow said. “If I didn’t have them, I wouldn’t be in this position now, so I just try and put myself in a posi-tion to help the younger ones come through.”

Talley will not be able to

carry the team on her own. She is only one piece to the puzzle, and the team realizes it’s going to take a total team effort to get back to what they want to achieve.

“I think everyone is kind of stepping up in their spot. Obviously we’re going to miss Brooke, but I think we will all just work together to be bet-ter as a team,” senior Jennifer Kirby said. “It’s [about] doing the best each and every person can and if that ends up we win by one or we win by ten, we’ve left it all out there and done our best.

“I know that I’m getting bet-ter, I know Jenn’s getting bet-ter, [Talley’s] going to be great, Hannah [Collier]’s getting better,” Meadow said. “I think for the first time in a while, we really have a deep team. We have eight girls, [and] pretty much everyone on the team is pretty damn good. It makes us better, and it drives everyone else.”

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Murphy, team looking to make new identity in 2013By Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Last summer, the Alabama softball team made history by winning the team’s first nation-al championship in softball, making it only second team east of the Mississippi River to win to do so since Michigan in 2005.

It was a historic season for Alabama softball, and one that will likely be etched in the pro-gram’s history for a long time.

But for head coach Patrick Murphy, that is the extent of his team’s 2012 season: his-tory. Murphy said that sea-

son belonged to an altogether different team than the one he’s fielding in 2013, and does nothing to affect their chances of success this year.

“Everybody realizes that this is a different team,” Murphy said. “Every season, no mat-ter how many you have com-ing back, no matter how many new kids you have coming in, every team takes on a differ-ent personality and a different team ego.”

Still, Murphy said this wasn’t something he had to stress to his team heading into the 2013 season. Senior outfielder Kayla Braud shared the same

sentiments as her coach.“Nobody feels like we’re enti-

tled,” Braud said. “No one is feeling laid back after winning it all last year.”

Rather, Braud said she and her team are focused on cre-ating a new identity for them-selves in 2013, one completely separate and independent of the 2012 team.

“I’m looking for our team to go out with a hunger and a new-found desire to win again,” Braud said. “It’s tough to come out after we’ve won it all because it’s easy to become complacent, but I don’t think anyone on the team

has been complacent.”The team certainly has the

talent to make its own identi-ty this season. It’s bringing in a talented group of freshmen while returning an experienced senior class. The team is also bringing back Jackie Traina, one of the best softball players in the nation.

Murphy said his team also has some advantages this year that it didn’t last sea-son, one of those being team speed. Murphy said he’s bring-ing in one of his fastest out-fields ever at Alabama, and that numerous players will have the option to steal bases

whenever they want.But one of the biggest advan-

tages Murphy said this team has over last year isn’t simply overall talent – he’s never had such a deep, experienced roster either.

“It’s probably the most depth we’ve ever had,” Murphy said. “Last year was tremendous, but this year we’re even better. I’ve got two kids at every posi-tion that can start at any time.”

Indeed, that talent has done more than boost his team’s con-fidence. Murphy said his team’s ability to practice against some of the best players in the nation – themselves – will be some-

thing that helps his team great-ly as the season wears on.

“The competition is the best we’ve ever had,” Murphy said. “There’s not an A team and a B team. You could flip acoin at every position. That’s true competition… It’s similar when you have a Mark Ingram and a Trent Richardson. They’re going to make each other better.”

While Murphy said he feels his team has all the talent andintangible factors to be suc-cessful this year, he said he only time would tell if his team can achieve its own success this year.

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The postseason is quickly approaching, and the Alabama men’s basketball team might be on the outside looking in if it can’t take care of its remaining conference games.

The Tide is 14-7 (6-2 SEC) and coming off of its latest comeback victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores It has now won six of its last seven games, all against Southeastern Conference foes.

But this team is not a stranger to impressive streaks that fizzle out just as fans thoroughly start to enjoy them. Alabama jumped out to a 6-0 record to begin the year and looked like a squad destined for the NCAA tournament.

However, the Tide narrowly fell to a tough Cincinnati team and lost control over the remain-der of its weak non-conference schedule. Losses to Dayton, Mercer and Tulane could potentially come back to bite Alabama.

A loss to Cincinnati or Virginia-Commonwealth hap-pens, but a gome loss to Mercer is completely unacceptable.

Alabama must also find a way to win on the road. This sea-son, the Tide is only 3-4 away from Coleman Coliseum – that’s excluding the two games that it won in New York as a part of the 2K Sports Classic.

With four losses staining the Tide’s record it might ultimately miss a chance to compete for a national championship. Without

those losses, Alabama and head coach Anthony Grant are look-ing swell at 18-3 (7-1 SEC).

On the bright side, the 10 games left on the schedule are manageable. The Tide will face Auburn, Georgia and LSU twice, and the only teams that pos-sess a better conference record than Alabama are Florida and Ole Miss, and the Tide only faceeach team once.

There is still a chance the Tide can squeeze into the tour-nament at season’s end, but that chance is paper-thin. Alabama will have to rely on its guard play and second half comebacksto catapult it into the postsea-son. Its sheer ability to shoot poorly, get out-rebounded and still win the game will not work every time.

Alabama basketball team still faces tough road toward NCAA tournament