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By Drew TaylorAdministrative Affairs Editor

Sometimes the best con-versations happen during lunch. At least that’s what UA Provost Judy Bonner and Vice Provost Mark Nelson think. In this light, Bonner and Nelson are inviting students, faculty and staff to join them for food and discussion at this year’s first “Pulse Check Lunch,” which will go on Thursday at noon in Room 204-A at the Ferguson Center. “Pulse Check,” which was started last year as a way for the two administrators to meet with the student body, is set in a relaxed, informal envi-ronment where students are free to eat their lunches and discuss whatever is on their minds. Nelson said another reason for the lunch is to let students know that he and Bonner exist. “I think some students go through college not even knowing that there is a pro-vost and a vice provost of stu-dent affairs,” Nelson said. Despite their busy sched-ules, Nelson said it was a pri-ority for both him and Bonner

to carve out a couple of times out of the year to be able to meet with students. “The students are the rea-son that we are here,” Nelson said. “Our calendars are very tight, but we felt it a priority to carve out time throughout the semester so that no one appointment was necessary.” As opposed to their normal routines of planned, orga-nized presentations, Nelson said he and Bonner go into the lunch “completely unpre-pared.” “We don’t go in with an agenda,” Nelson said. “We’re not there to do the talking, we’re there to hear from the students, faculty and staff

From staff reports

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has ruled that sophomore Alabama football players Julio Jones and Mark Ingram did not commit rule viola-tions on a fishing trip last spring and will be eligible to play on Saturday against Virginia Tech, according to a written statement released Wednesday evening. The trip was paid for by an Athens businessman, who the University con-cluded was neither a booster for the athletic program or connected to the University. The NCAA determined the relationship between the businessman

and Jones was one begun prior to the star wide receiver’s enrollment at the Capstone. “We are gratified that this matter has been resolved,” Athletics Director Mal Moore said in a statement. “Our compli-ance department, the SEC and the NCAA worked closely throughout this process and we appreciate the professional man-ner in which it was handled.” The statement also revealed Jones and Ingram had, in fact, been considered ineligible until the issue was resolved. The reinstatement is dependent on Ingram and Jones repaying the costs and benefits of the trip.

By Patty VaughnSenior Staff Reporter

Jerry Coyne, a professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, will be on campus tonight to discuss the theory of evolution. This is the beginning of the upcoming Alabama’s Lectures on Life’s Evolution series. The title of Coyne’s lecture will be “Why Evolution is True.” This is the fourth year that

ALLELE has put on the lecture series, bringing many promi-nent anthropologists, philoso-phers, geologists and biologists to the university to educate stu-dents and the public. “It should be really exciting, and we’re really pleased with the speaker series this year,” said Leslie Rissler, an associ-ate professor of biological sci-ences. According to the UA College of Arts and Science’s Web

site, Coyne’s primary focus is research concerning the mechanism of speciation, the process of populations of organisms to become separate species. Coyne has authored or co-authored more than 110 scientific publications and has written more than 80 columns, articles and book reviews for various other publications. Recently, he published a new book entitled “Why Evolution is True.”

“Jerry Coyne is a very promi-nent evolutionary biologist,” Rissler said. “Evolution is the foundation of biology and many other sciences because that’s the point of the evolution working group on campus so that people understand the rel-evance of evolution to science in general. He’ll be demonstrat-ing some of the major aspects of evolution.” Following the lecture, Coyne will be available to sign books

and talk with students and audience members. “The lecture series is only controversial in the sense that some people do not believe in evolution,” Rissler said. “There’s no belief in science, but evolution is a fact. It is also a theory, and when peo-ple understand how sciences use the term theory, which is more important than facts, the

By Amy CastleberryStaff Writer

The U.S. Department of Education proposed a set of regulations in August con-cerning the use of Federal Pell Grants and forcing colleges to increase the transpar-ency of job placement rates after graduation, according to InsideHigherEd.com, an online news source for higher education. Congress will enact these regulations as part of last year’s renewal of the Higher Education Act. For the first time, the Higher Education Act has made it possible for students to receive enough Pell Grant support, an entitlement pro-gram and the result of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to cover them year-round as opposed to just two terms, according to the

article. Helen Allen, associate director of student financial aid, said 20 percent of UA students receive and use Pell Grants, ranging from $976 to $5,350 per year, depending on the eligibility of each student. “Historically, students were allowed to receive two terms of Pell Grant if they attend-ed full time for both terms,”

By Sam SusockStaff Writer

8 On Repeat Vintage Clothing will be hosting a vintage t-shirt sale today downstairs in the Ferguson Center beginning at 8 a.m. Brandon Gardner, 34, is a UA graduate as well as the coordinator and owner of the traveling vintage t-shirt showcase. “I am very excited to be back at the University for my third year,” Gardner said. “I have a lot of new additions to my collection, and they all are dated back to the ‘70s and ‘80s. They are all authentic. No reprints or reproduction allowed.” Gardner’s first t-shirt show was held at Rojo, a restaurant in Birmingham, about four years ago. He said throughout high

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Pell grants revised

Provosts check campus pulse through lunch

University of Chicago prof. Coyne to talk evolution at UA

Jones, Ingram cleared by NCAA

Julio Jones Mark Ingram

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• About 20 percent of UA students use Pell Grants.

• Students will now be able to use Pell Grants year-round rather than for just two terms.

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• What: “Pulse Check Lunch”

• Where: Room 204 - A, Ferguson Center

• When: Today at noon

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• What: “Why Evolu-tion is True”

• Where: Biology auditorium

• When: Tonight at 7:30 p.m.

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NEWS in briefCORRECTION In Wednesday’s edition of The Crimson White, a story titled “Shelby brings nation-leading $40 million to UA” said: “He said Congress can simply send a check to the school.” The sentence should have read: “He said Congress cannot simply send a check to the school.”

CAMPUS | SGA encourages participation in College Colors Day Under the leadership of the Higher Education Partnership, Alabama’s thirteen public universities will be participating in National College Colors Day 2009 on Friday. College Colors Day is an annual event where individuals show their school spirit by wearing their team’s colors on the Friday prior to the first Saturday of the college football season. The day strives to promote higher education through increased public awareness and celebrates the achievements of colleges and universities. The SGA encourages all students to wear crimson and white on Friday in support of College Colors Day and Alabama’s first football game of the year against Virginia Tech.

NATIONAL | Hurricane Jimena swirls past southern Baja resorts LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Jimena brushed passed the resort towns at the southern tip of the Baja California, lashing them with driving rain and winds as its fierce core bore down on a stretch of desert coastline to the north. Despite the pummeling by the fringes of the Category 3 hurricane, the Mexican peninsula’s biggest resort, Los Cabos, appeared to be escaping major damage beyond power out-ages and mud-choked roads. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Erika formed in the open Atlantic, east of Antigua and Barbuda. The storm had top winds around 60 mph (95 kph), and could grow stronger in the next couple of days.

LOCAL | Jefferson County wants loan to get employees to workBIRMINGHAM (AP) — Alabama’s most heavily populat-ed county is seeking a loan to get more than 1,000 laid-off employees back to work. Regions Financial Corp. said Wednesday it’s negotiating a possible loan that would let Jefferson County recall laid-off employees. The layoffs began after courts struck down a tax that provided about one-quarter of the county’s revenues. The Legislature has approved a new tax, but the money has yet to start coming in and Jefferson County residents are still deal-ing with reduced services. Aside from that problem, Jefferson County also is trying to avoid filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history over some $4 billion in bond debt on its sewer system.

TODAY• Capstone Alliance Meeting: Ferguson Center Room 313, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

•ALLELE Lecture Series with Dr. Jerry Coyne: UA Biology Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

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Allen said. “If a student was not full time, [the grant] was awarded proportionately, for example. If a student is half time then they received half of the full time allotment. If enrolled nine hours, then they received three-fourths the amount of the full time allot-ment.” Now, if the regulations are enacted, Pell Grants will be awarded year round for fall, spring and summer terms. The Federal Pell Grant changes, related to the Higher Education Opportunity Act, enacted on Aug. 14, 2008, reau-thorizes the Higher Education Act of 1965 and will help UA students to possibly achieve their degrees more quickly, Allen said. The only down side to the Pell Grant program is that Pell Grants only allevi-ate some of the financial pres-sures of tuition. “With the Pell Grant being $2,675 and tuition being $3,500, I don’t know if people would take advantage of it because

it doesn’t cover full tuition,” Allen said. However, the University encourages students to seek out scholarships and loans on campus to help alleviate finan-cial pressures, she said. “The University is excited about this option for stu-dents,” Allen said. “Students that are eligible for Pell and would like to attend school year-round will be able to ben-efit from the program. They will also be able to receive a Pell Grant for fall, spring and summer terms based on their enrollment. This will allow students to possibly graduate sooner than originally planned.” According to Inside Higher Ed, the U.S. Department of Education also petitioned for colleges to allow more trans-parency in reporting infor-mation as a part of the con-sumer disclosure section of the Higher Education Act. The legislation requires colleges to annually publish the “place-ment of and types of employ-ment obtained by graduates of the institutions’ degree or certificate programs,” forcing

universities to make as much information about the institu-tion public. Jerry Paschal, executive director of the Career Center, said the University already complies with these federal regulations. “At UA, the College of Business and the College of Engineering currently collect first destination data,” Paschal said. “This includes, profes-sional employment, graduate school admittance, part-time or temporary employment, military service and those who state that they are delay-ing searching for a job or going to graduate school.” He said there are several reasons why colleges collect this data. “When each of these col-leges are up for a review to continue their accreditation, this data is required by the accreditation review commit-tee, “ Paschal said, “If a par-ticular college within a univer-sity is ranked by the media, first destination data is one of the factors used in rankings, along with the selectivity for admission to those colleges

and other factors.” Paschal also said the infor-mation is used as a recruiting tool to show prospective stu-dents what opportunities are available to them. “This information is cur-rently on our website, so it could be made available to the National Department of Education,” Paschal said. “The information we currently col-lect is public information, so we would submit that informa-tion when requested.” According to the article, many universities are con-cerned that revealing this type of information could hurt their image and present con-sequences. However, Paschal isn’t concerned. “Since they will only want composite data, I don’t see this as a problem,” Paschal said. “If, however, they wanted specific information on indi-vidual graduates, it may pres-ent some privacy issues, but I doubt that will ever happen in our country.” According to both Allen and Paschal, the University of Alabama complies with all federal regulations.

GRANTSContinued from page 1

that want to come.” Nelson said speaking with students in an informal setting stresses the idea of a family sit-ting around the dinner table. “A lot of times when you sit around the dinner table, it’s the best time to have conversa-tion,” Nelson said. “We didn’t want people to think that this would be some stuffy meeting of some kind.” In addition, Nelson said the Pulse Check Lunch has proven to facilitate many different ini-tiatives for students in the past.

One particular example was last year’s lunch, when a small group of students stressed the need for a central location to mentor students. However, he said what these students didn’t realize was that Corrie Harris, director of student involvement, was there too, with a very similar plan. What result-ed was the UA Peer Mentors, a program designed to help new freshman become aware of the various mentoring programs around campus through an easy-to-find Web site. “They were able to connect together and pull their ideas together, which actually made both ideas better,” Nelson said.

Harris said since then, the program has grown to con-necting the web of various mentoring programs, as well as make referrals to specific ones. For more information into these programs, visit bama.ua.edu/~uapeer. Harris, who has attended sev-eral meetings since then, said it is important for students to express their concerns to admin-istrators because, ultimately, a problem can’t be addressed if no on knows it exists. “I believe that the purpose behind this is to make UA administration more accessi-ble,” Harris said. “If people don’t take advantage of it, then it won’t

work the way it’s supposed to.” Nelson said he has no expec-tations for Thursday, aside from hoping he can learn more about what is affect students. “I just hope that we come away from it knowing more about what people are think-ing about on campus,” Nelson said. “If there is something that we can do to address a problem that we did not know about, then we have been successful.” This week’s lunch will hap-pen Thursday at noon in Room204-A at the Ferg. There will be two more lunches, Oct. 1 and Nov. 13. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to cometo these meetings.

CAMPUSContinued from page 1

theory actually combines multiple facts under this over-arching body of knowledge so it is an incredibly important field of study. Our goal is for people to not be afraid of evo-

lution and to think it some-thing different than what it actually is.” Rissler said it is important for students to attend the lec-ture as well as members of the community. “I think being in college and in the university is to under-stand in a liberal arts sense

the vast body of knowledge in the world,” Rissler said. “When you grow up in a very small isolated area and culture we don’t have an opportunity to see how other people in the world view the world, and this lecture series gives you an opportunity to see some of the brightest minds in the world

talk about one of the most fun-damental theories in history.” The lecture will begintonight at 7:30 in the BiologyBuilding auditorium. For moreinformation on future speak-ers in the series, visit theALLELE Web site at bama.ua.edu/~evolution/alleleindex.html.

EVOLUTIONContinued from page 1

Here is the statement from the NCAA in full: “The NCAA student-ath-lete reinstatement staff has reinstated the eligibility of University of Alabama football student-athletes Julio Jones

and Mark Ingram based on a condition of repayment. “According to the facts of the case submitted by Alabama, the student-athletes received impermissible food, lodging, transportation and entertain-ment from an individual with whom one of the student-ath-letes had become acquainted prior to enrolling in college.

“Consistent with NCAA membership requirements, the institution reported the viola-tion and declared the student-athletes ineligible. As part of the reinstatement request, the institution required the stu-dent-athletes to make repay-ment of the value of the imper-missible benefits to charity. “During the reinstatement

process, the NCAA staff con-siders a number of factors including guidelines estab-lished by the NCAA Division I Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement, relevant case precedent, the student-ath-lete’s responsibility for the vio-lation, as well as any mitigating factors presented by the insti-tution.”

NCAAContinued from page 1

By Gustavo RuizThe Associated Press

MORELIA, Mexico — Gunmen in cars chased down and killed the No. 2 security official in the home state of President Felipe Calderon, where drug cartels are waging their biggest offen-sive yet against Mexico’s gov-ernment. Three others died in the ambush Wednesday. Attackers drove up along-side a car being driven by Michoacan deputy public safety director Jose Manuel Revuelta and opened fire, state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said. Revuelta tried to speed away, but only made it a few blocks before he was intercepted by two vehicles. Six gunmen got out and sprayed Revuelta’s car with bullets, killing him, two bodyguards and a truck driver caught in the crossfire, Montejano said. Revuelta had held the post less than two weeks in the western state, the cradle of the ruthless La Familia drug cartel, which has been blamed for a string of assassinations of federal police and soldiers in recent weeks. Revuelta is the highest-ranking government official killed in the wave of vio-lence sweeping Michoacan. An AP reporter at the scene saw the bodies of Revuelta and his bodyguards in the car, which had at least 15 bullet holes in the front windshield. Soldiers and federal police rushed to the site — just three blocks from the headquarters of the Michoacan Public Safety Department — and a helicopter circled overhead. Calderon first launched his crackdown against drug car-tels in Michoacan, sending thousands of federal police and

APForensic experts remove the bodies of Michoacan stateʼs Deputy Public Safety Director Jose Man-uel Revuelta and his bodyguard from a car after they were slain by gunmen in Morelia, Mexico, Wednesday. State offi cials said Revuelta, two bodyguards and a bystander were killed.

Mexico’s top state security offi cer slain

soldiers to his home state after taking office in late 2006. Tens of thousands more have since been deployed to drug hotspots across Mexico. The government intensified its fight against La Familia since accusing the cartel in a series of deadly attacks across Michoacan in July. In the worst attack, 12 federal agents were slain and their tortured bod-ies piled along a roadside as a warning for all to see. It was the boldest cartel attack yet on Mexico’s government. Authorities say La Familia was retaliating for the arrest of one of its top members. The cartel controls illicit trades in

Michoacan ranging from drug trafficking and methamphet-amine production to kidnap-ping and extortion. Last week, soldiers captured another suspected La Familia leader, Luis Ricardo Magana, who is alleged to have con-trolled methamphetamine shipments to the United States for the gang. Days before his capture, prosecutors detained the moth-er of reputed La Familia leader Servando “La Tuta” Gomez despite his threat to retaliate if police bothered his family. The woman was released after two days “for lack of evidence” of involvement in the cartel.

Drug gang violence has surged under Calderon, claiming more than 13,500 lives, including more than 1,000 police. Calderon, whose National Action Party lost big in July legislative elections because ofpublic unease with the violenceand an economic recession, defended his battle against drug trafficking in a speech to Congress on Wednesday. He said the government has taken on the cartels as no previous Mexican administration has dared to do. “As never before, we have weakened the logistical and financial structure of crime,” the president told legislators.

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school he helped his parents sell antiques at their shop in Cullman, so he has always had the skill and love for thrift store buying and selling. Gardner travels the coun-try and visits vintage ven-dors everywhere to find new additions to his showcase. All of the t-shirts are American made and environmentally friendly, he said. “Buying a t-shirt from me is kind of like a ‘go green’ proj-ect,” Gardner said. “In my opinion, it is like I am recy-cling because these t-shirts all have been on another person’s back before and now I am giv-ing them a new home rather than throwing them in the dump.” Gardner holds shows main-ly at bars, restaurants and col-lege towns within the state. But Gardner said coming back to the University is somewhat like a blast from the past. He said his cousins Moose and Deuce, who are UA seniors, make him feel at home and always provide him with an extra hand at the show. Donna Lake, the event coor-dinator for the University Union, reserved the space for Gardner’s show and said the t-shirt sale has been very pop-ular with students in the past. Lake said she worked with Gardner to accommodate him and help make his showcase as big of a hit as it was in the prior years.

Gardner said he thinks the success of the showcase comes from the fact that these t-shirts are all truly authentic. “They all have a history behind them,” Gardner said. “The cool thing about it is that I had to go out in the field and find them. Stores like Wal-mart and Hot Topic aren’t competition because they arenot the real deal, and my cus-tomers know it.” Gardner also said the suc-cesses of his shows are all credited to his wife, Jaclyn Gardner, who has a strong background in business and she is executive director of her company. Gardner said she is the brains behind the operation and is his most prized supporter. His wife Jaclyn tends to concentrate on the outcome ofeach show. She said she enjoys the positive faces and compli-ments by her husband’s cus-tomers after they find their shirt. “I love to see how excited people get while looking through his items,” she said. “I often see people pick up a shirt and then start talking about a great memory that the shirt musters up. It often leads to people having a good laugh or smile about whatever event they are remembering.” Gardner’s shirts range from $10 to $40 and sometimes up to $200 for hard-to-find clas-sics. There will be thousands of shirts on display, and in hiscollection, he said there is a shirt for everyone that will fitin size, quality and taste.

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By Audrey McAvoyThe Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The famous battleship where Japanese officials signed the surrender documents that officially ended World War II played host on Wednesday to about 20 aging U.S. veterans and dozens of observers as they marked the 64th anniver-sary of the war’s end. The USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, for the surrender ceremonies, has since been decommissioned and moored in Pearl Harbor. U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie told those gathered it’s fit-ting that the battleship — now known as the Battleship Missouri Memorial — is docked just a few hundred yards from the memorial for the USS Arizona. The Arizona sank when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, an event

that drew the U.S. into the war. “I can think of nothing more valuable of this complex here ... to enable generations to come to reflect and understand,” said Abercrombie, D-Hawaii. The memorial welcomes more than 40,000 tourists each month to exhibits that high-light the Missouri’s role in Japan’s surrender. Walter Lassen, a 27-year-old first gunner’s mate aboard the Missouri when the war ended, told The Associated Press in an interview last week his fellow sailors had “little love of the enemy” when Japanese offi-cials came aboard to sign the documents. The Missouri, one of the most powerful U.S. warships at the time, fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa as American forces neared the Japanese main islands. For months, sailors focused on aggressively protecting their ship and other ships in the U.S. fleet. At one point,

WWII vets mark Japan’s surrender Pearl Har-bor survi-vor George Bennet, right, salutes aboard the Battleship Missouri Memo-rial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Wednes-day at a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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the Missouri came under the attack of 95 Japanese planes, Lassen said. A kamikaze pilot slammed

into the Missouri’s hull in April 1945, though the plane’s bomb failed to detonate and only the pilot was killed. “The mood at the time of the ceremony was the culmination of all this amount of fighting we had been doing and all this shooting that had been going on,” said Lassen, 91. But with the surrender, sail-ors began to feel that their country was finally safe, he said. Lassen, who lives in Waikiki, had planned to attend Wednesday’s ceremony, but had a last minute change of plans.

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“Probably not. I feel like you see trash cans everywhere

but no recycle bins everywhere you go. I mean, theyʼre bet-ter than they were a year ago, but

theyʼre still not up to full capacity.”

— Tracy Handley, sophomore, enviromental

information

“If you want to recycle on campus you either have to go out of your way or search for a can. Then even if you do fi nd one, thereʼs a

high chance of it be-ing fi lled up.”

— Andrew McPhail, freshman, undeclared

“No. Every time I see [recycling] cans places, theyʼre usu-ally already full.”

— Paige Cummings, junior, accounting

DO YOU THINK DO YOU THINK RECYCLING RECYCLING CAPACITY CAPACITY

ON THE UA ON THE UA CAMPUS IS CAMPUS IS ADEQUATE?ADEQUATE?

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OUR VIEW

In short: The University is set to receive a staggering, nation-leading $40 million in federal aid, mostly because of Shelby{

Here is a political reality check: Earmarks arehere to stay. The line-item veto will not come tofruition anytime soon, and no matter the rhetoricof conservatives about the need to rein in federalspending, they are often just as guilty of adding indollars for their districts. There are entire debates to be had about ear-marks — ask S e n . Jo h n McCain, R-Ariz., who has long opposed pork-barrel politics — but we don’t want to take part in the philosophi-cal battle today. Rather, we want to recognize theUniversity’s champion on Capitol Hill, Sen. RichardShelby, R-Ala. Shelby is an influential member of the Senate’sCommittee on Appropriations, one of Congress’most important entities when it comes to hand-ing out tax dollars. Through Shelby’s efforts, the University is set to receive a staggering, nation-leading $40 million in federal aid. By comparison,Mississippi State University, the runner-up in oneof the unofficial contests of who has the most influ-ence on the Hill, received about $17 million. Three-quarters of the funding will go to payfor another building in the new Science andEngineering Complex, a series of gleaming labora-tories and classrooms that some gubernatorial can-didates have decried, in some respects, as extrava-gant. Regardless of whether there was some wasteinvolved — there normally will be on a project ofsuch a scale in a government agency — few canargue that science and engineering studentsneeded newer, better, more advanced facilities.Lloyd Hall, for instance, was, quite literally, fallingto pieces. Richard Shelby’s effort in Washingtonhelped to secure funding for the first building(the aptly-named Shelby Hall), and his continuing labors have come through for University studentsyet again. Earmarks might or might not be a good idea,especially in a recession. But, so long as they areavailable, it seems logical to us to pursue themwith vigor. The UA System employs a lobbying firm in Washington to present proposals to Congress, which is a prudent move. Unless the system is pay-ing out $40 million to the firm (We doubt it, con-sidering the average lobbyist makes about $96,000 annually, according to salary.com), the use of ateam of professionals seems to be a logical invest-ment. UA President Robert Witt, speaking in an inter-view on Wednesday, told a group of The CrimsonWhite editors that it is impossible to overstate the importance of the support the University receivesfrom the state’s congressional delegation. To the tune of $40 million, it is hard not to agree.

Our View is the consensus of The Crimson White’s editorial board.

MCT Campus

By Ron Buta

John Dobson, founder of the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers, is famous for having invented a telescope mounting that revolu-tionized astronomy for the gen-eral public. The Dobsonian mount allows people to own much larger telescopes than they could other-wise afford. Bigger telescopes mean greater ability to see some of the most interesting objects the universe has to offer, like galaxies, nebu-lae, quasars, and distant star clus-ters (collectively called “deep-sky objects”). Dobson’s reasoning is that, “The universe is a lot bigger than the Earth and it’s a lot bigger than the solar system and it’s a lot bigger than our galaxy and we owe it to ourselves to notice it.” Yet, countering our ability to notice the universe is a big problem: light pol-lution. As this semester’s instruc-tor of Astronomy 203, the night observing lab at the University,it breaks my heart to see how much light pollution has destroyed the view of the night sky. One would think that at the very least, in a class like AY 203, one might be able to teach students how to iden-tify the constellations so they can find their way around the sky. Yet, this is virtually impossible from campus since only the brighter stars can be seen against the back-ground glare of city lights. The cause of light pollution is obvious whenever one flies over a city: unshielded outdoorlighting. It is astonishing how bright Birmingham is, for example,

when you fly over at night. You can see bright street and parking lot lights far and wide, hardly any of them shielded. No one disputes the need for ground lighting so that people feel safe walking or driving at night, but the light reflecting off the ground does not cause most light pollution. Instead, it is caused by artificial lighting aimed directly towards the sky, where it is not needed at all. When you consider that arti-ficial outdoor lighting is not free, but that it is being paid for in some way, then light pollution can be thought of as dollar bills flying out into space at the speed of light. Light pollution is one of the most wasteful aspects of modern civili-zation. As Dobson noted, there is more to the universe than the Earth and the solar system, but unfortunately for students and the public, solar system objects and bright stars are about all we can see from campus. Although our society is mobile and my class can escape to the suburbsto get a darker sky, this is an enormous inconvenience. Getting everyone out to a dark enough site means finding adequate transpor-tation, and it can take more than an hour roundtrip because the tentacles of light pollution around Tuscaloosa extend far beyond cam-pus. By the time one or more por-table telescopes are set up, we are lucky to have one and a half hours to do an astronomy exercise. We have a sophisticated obser-vatory on campus — a comput-er-controlled 16-inch telescope housed in the dome of Gallalee Hall. The telescope is a powerful

teaching and imaging resource, but its full power can’t be realized because the sky from Gallalee is a washed out glare, even on a moon-less night. This not only affects AY 203, but it also affects public nights and the observing nights our depart-ment often schedules for students taking Introductory Astronomy. I have found that when students see celestial objects through a telescope, it has a greater impact on their knowledge and interest than simply looking at pictures in a textbook. Astronomical pictures can be abstract and often show things the human eye could never really see, but there is something magical about seeing the real thing through a telescope. Light pollution can be addressed by making sure that any new and future lighting in Tuscaloosa and on campus has the correct kind of shielding so that all outdoor street lighting is directed only towards the ground, the area where it is really needed, instead of the sky. If such a thing were done, includ-ing retro-fitting older light sourc-es, then people living in cities like Tuscaloosa might be able to see the stars and the Milky Way in their full majesty once again, just from their backyards. From Gallalee, we could show people the wonder of deep-sky objects as they should be seen. If this ever happens, we in AY 203 (as well as school children, their teachers, and parents) will appre-ciate it.

Ron Buta, Ph.D., is a professor of astronomy.

Light pollution hurts learning

By Jonathan Reed

“The level of verbal and violent intimidation… has become intol-erable.” This is the reason guitarist Noel Gallagher gave for his sudden departure from the British rock band Oasis last week. Gallagher’s constant bickering with his brother Liam, the lead singer, has always been well documented. Noel claims that he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”. It’s funny that a British rock band can have so much in com-mon with political discourse in the United States. When Oasis was at its best and Liam and Noel were in synch, they worked together to put together albums like “What’s the Story, Morning Glory?” Similarly, when Americans work together, we’ve shown we can con-quer any problem. The problem is getting people to work together. It’s far too common to see peo-ple turning those with whom they disagree into the enemy. Nowhere is this more evident than in poli-tics, where some conservatives brand liberals as everything from communists to Nazis and some liberals characterize conserva-tives as everything from angry mobs to, well, Nazis. When debate is on such a low level, nobody really wins because no problems are being solved. (Well, it could be argued that Nazis win because they’re being compared with some pretty smart, good people on both sides). The lack of class when it comes to political discussion was espe-cially evident last week in the wake of the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Former Alaska

Gov. Sarah Palin posted a very classy statement on her Facebook page saying, “He believed in our country and fought passionately for his convictions,” but the note was quickly overshadowed by thousands of comments from her fans and supporters. Some applauded Palin’s sympathy and appropriate response to the pass-ing of a rival, but many were not. Comments ranged from applaud-ing the death of a “murderer” (another famous person who has killed someone in a car accident is Laura Bush, who even I find to be a great and amazing person) and a “traitor.” Some went as far as to say things like “one democrate [sic] down more to go” and “how sad that cancer takes so many people. I say it got the right one this time.” Of course, Kennedy’s death has been used by the other side as well. During his funeral, the prayer included an invocation of Kennedy’s dream of health care for all, which, given the status of a hotly debated healthcare bill in Congress, is very politi-cal. Perhaps a eulogy is a fitting place for a comment like that, but a prayer should not be about politics. We have a long-standing political doctrine relating to that about separating a few things. Seeing the other side as the enemy also leads to being mis-informed. It makes you disagree with what they believe because you don’t like them instead of not liking them because you dis-agree. If all you watch is Fox News or MSNBC, you’re being spun one way. If you base what you believe in because you don’t want to be seen as a “communist” or a “Nazi,” then who is really doing your thinking for you?

Comparing a public health care option to Nazism is an interesting proposition. National health care existed in Germany starting in 1883 under Otto von Bismarck as a way to help prevent socialism. Bismarck saw a brewing health care crisis and decided that a little socialism and a little less inequal-ity might ward off a socialist revo-lution. His plan was also mandato-ry, unlike Obama’s, and managed to improve the health of Germans up until Hitler’s rise to power. Look at it this way: if Obama is, as many protesters tell us, Hitler, then that terrible national health care plan would have been a prod-uct of a politician more like, say, Ronald Reagan. Bismarck’s health care com-promise helps to demonstrate a lesson we desperately need to re-learn today. Instead of blocking out the opposition, he conceded a little ground. Sometimes it’s better to listen, to compromise. When you alienate the other side, when you block out the ideas, wants, needs and values of those who disagree with you, you create an environment where reason and debate are replaced by dogma and combat. There can be no progress in this wasteland. Unfortunately for the United States, we can’t pull a Noel Gallagher and just leave. As a nation we must find a way to solve our problems or we will cease being the greatest and most pow-erful nation on the planet. The next time you talk politics please, as Noel would say, “don’t look back in anger”.

Jonathan Reed is a sophomore majoring in political science and journalism. His column runs on Thursdays.

America’s bickering siblingsBy Alicia Williams

UWIRE

The Bible states there is a time for everything. A time to die, a time to weep, a time to love, but a time for homework is never mentioned. Time can be a student’s worst enemy. The clock is always ticking, an ever-present reminder that we don’t have enough time. Students have lives. We all do things that cannot be eliminated, such as eating and sleeping. If youwant to eat or sleep, you have to work to financial-ly support that. But, you want to make more than $10 an hour, so you have to get an education. With education comes studying and homework. Heavenforbid you might meet someone you want to spend some quality time with. The big question: “How dowe fit it all in?” According to a study, one activity students shouldn’t be wasting time on is the social site Facebook. The study found a relationship between students’ use of Facebook and lower grades. Out of 219 Ohio State students, 148 had a Facebook account and GPAs that fell between 3.0 and 3.5, andreported studying on average one to five hours per week. In general, students without Facebookhad GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0, and studied 11 to 15hours a week. Although we can’t blame Facebook as the culprit causing college students to get bad grades, it is a means by which many of us waste vast amounts oftime. A June Nielsen release reported a 700 per-cent increase of minutes spent on Facebook dur-ing the last year, going from 1.7 billion minutes spent in to 13.9 billion minutes. The amazingly accessible Internet now goes with us everywhere. Our phones and laptops are always ready. No wonder we are obsessively checking to see if anyone sends us a message. It could happen anytime and we want to know. But time dictates the need to exercise self-con-trol. If we want to be successful students, we mustexert the will to change worthless time-consuming habits. You only have this time of your life once. Choose to take control of how you spend your time and make each moment count.

Alicia Williams is a student at the University of Utah.

Facebook a time management disaster when misused

By Jason GallowaySports Editor

Less than 48 hours after being shot in an attempted rob-bery, Alabama defensive end Brandon Deaderick was on the practice field Wednesday with a black non-contact jersey and a bandage on his left arm. His timely return to the prac-tice field does not indicate full strength, however. Head coach Nick Saban said Deaderick will probably miss Saturday’s sea-son opener against Virginia Tech. “We’re going to take his situ-ation day-to-day, and each day he’ll probably do a little bit more,” Saban said. “He has a great attitude about trying to come out and do stuff and being with the team. It’s amazing to me, from a medi-cal standpoint, the extent of his injury is not that significant. He wants to play, but we’re not going to put any player at risk relative to their future or the situation that they’re in.” Deaderick was shot Monday night in the parking lot of Rivermont apartments off Rice Mine Road and was held over-night at DCH Regional Medical Center before being released Tuesday. “I was surprised,” safe-ty Mark Barron said of Deaderick’s presence at prac-tice Wednesday. “Most people wouldn’t have come back that fast after something like that.”

Starting linebacker Cory Reamer said Deaderick’s absence will not force the front seven to make big adjustments Saturday against Virginia Tech. “It might have been [a prob-lem] a couple years ago when we were lacking a lot of depth,” said Reamer, who practiced Wednesday for the first time since coming down with the flu. “Brandon Deaderick is a great football player, of course, but we have a lot of guys that can fill in and know what they’re doing.”

Tide likes Taylor’s passing ability

Although Virginia Tech junior quarterback Tyrod Taylor is typically viewed as a running threat, the Crimson Tide is also valuing his ability as a passer. “This quarterback can scramble and make plays as well as anyone,” Saban said. “I’m talking about making plays throwing it on the scram-ble.” Taylor rushed for 738 yards and seven touchdowns last

season as a sophomore, while only tossing two scores ver-sus seven interceptions, but Alabama players and coaches believe he is capable of beating defenses through the air. “They’re definitely very ver-satile,” Reamer said. “They’ve got a guy that can move real-ly well with his feet and can throw the call when he needs to. We’ve got to be conscious of that, especially up front.”

Tide preparing indoors

Although the early September heat was bearable Wednesday, Alabama took its practice indoors to prepare for the artificial turf it will be play-ing on Saturday. “We’re going to play indoors,” Saban said. “It really wasn’t that hot this week, but it’s the same surface, and I think it gives us an opportunity to do a little bit better job of recovering [and] getting used to the surface. It’s kind of the same thing we tried to do last year before the game, and we’ll continue to do that tomorrow.”

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The University released its 2010 football schedule Wednesday,a mere three days before the Tide is set to take the field againstVirginia Tech to start the 2009 season. The schedule includes home contests against Big 10 powerPenn State, 2006 and 2008 national champion Florida and theannual Iron Bowl against the Auburn Tigers. The Tide’s open date will be the week of Oct. 30.

2010 ALABAMA FOOTBALL SCHEDULEDate Opponent Site

Sept. 4 San Jose State Tuscaloosa

Sept. 11 Penn State Tuscaloosa

Sept. 18 at Duke Durham, N.C.

Sept. 25 *at Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark.

Oct. 2 *Florida Tuscaloosa

Oct. 9 *at South Carolina Columbia, S.C.

Oct. 16 *Mississippi Tuscaloosa

Oct. 23 *at Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn.

Oct. 30 Open Date

Nov. 6 *at LSU Baton Rouge, La.

Nov. 13 *Mississippi State Tuscaloosa

Nov. 20 Georgia State Tuscaloosa

Nov. 26 *Auburn Tuscaloosa

*Southeastern Conference opponentHome games are in bold

By Laura OwensSports Reporter

Billy Pate, head coach of the UA men’s tennis team, graduated from Mississippi State as a journalism major. However, in Pate’s case, not everyone’s major in college will ulti-mately serve as a career of choice. He received his master’s at Georgia State in sports adminis-tration. After graduating, he was the sports information director at Georgia Perimeter College, a junior college in Atlanta. While there, he was offered the head coaching job for the men’s tennis team. “At first, it wasn’t something I had chosen as a career path,” Pate said. “It wasn’t something I had a goal of doing.” He left Atlanta to take an assistant coaching position at Notre Dame. Eventually, he left the Irish to take the head coaching position at the University of Alabama. “You could see there was a real plan, a real vision to be among the elite,” Pate said. “It’s evolved every year that I’ve been here.” In his six years at the University, he has led the men’s tennis team to four NCAA tournament appear-ances. He has also coached four indi-vidual players for either singles or doubles in the NCAA tournament. “There’s been a lot of good teams here and a lot of good players,” Pate said. “There probably hasn’t been the consistency that we would want. One thing that we’ve established is the last three years we’ve had a con-sistent pattern of success.” Pate said recruiting for tennis is different from other sports. Unlike in

football or basketball, a lot of play-ers do not have a high school coach to really influence their decision, so their parents really have an effect. “It’s very important to us to have a good relationship with the parents,” Pate said. “We want to make sure we recruit parents, and so we’re on the same page as the parents for what they want for their kids.” Freshman Ian Chadwell said he had many offers to play collegiate tennis, but thanks to Pate, the Tide landed his services. “He’s a big part of the reason that I came to Alabama,” Chadwell said. “I had it narrowed down to a couple of schools. A lot of them had a lot of stuff in common, and I found out that Billy’s one of the best head coaches. I’ve already started improving on things even though I’ve got a broken foot, and I can’t really move. He’s still telling me what I need to work on.” However, what Pate teaches his players goes beyond college life. Through tennis, he said he wants to instill some character and class in each of his players. “It’s very important to me to have our players succeed at whatever they want to do next,” Pate said. “I don’t think anyone coach that’s good gets into it without trying to help others and help the kids advance.” Though this year’s team is young, Pate said he has high expectations for both the team and the program overall. “People have to understand that Alabama is a very good tennis pro-gram, and I think that word’s gotten out there,” Pate said. “I think that’s the biggest thing that’s helped us.”

Pate changing the TideMEN’S TENNIS

rolltide.comMenʼs tennis head coach Billy Pate observes some ac-tion on the court during the 2008-2009 season. Pate is looking to take a young Tide squad back to the top 25.

By Johnny EsfellerStaff Writer

Fall is here, meaning that intramural sports are about to begin at the University. As a student, faculty or staff member, organizers say play-ing intramural sports can be a great way to engage in serious competition or be an organized way to simply have fun with friends. “Intramural sports at Alabama are set up to be as competitive as you want them to be,” said program assistant Shane Ashcraft. The intramural program has levels of competition designed to match teams of similar tal-ent and competitiveness. They have implemented three divi-sions for non-greek students: the Pro division for the serious-ly competitive, Semi-Pro for the somewhat less serious and the Collegiate division for people who just want to have fun. The greek system is divided into the Crimson and Ivory divi-sions that compete amongst each other. At the end of the season, the champions of the greek and Pro divisions com-pete for the Crimson Cup title. There are four steps to sign up a team. Stop by the office, located next to the front entrance of the Student Recreation Center and pick up the registration packet

between the sign-up dates, fill out the necessary documents and return the documents along with the $50 registration fee and $10 forfeit deposit. At registration, captains should also have a list of peo-ple who they anticipate will be playing on the team at registra-tion. The only requirements for registration are that partici-pants are either a student who has paid the campus activities fee or a full time faculty or staff member. “Freshmen and other new [students] on campus some-times don’t participate because they have not met enough people,” said office assistant Elizabeth Venezia. Students new to campus that wish to play should stop by the intramural office and put their name on the free agent list, and the intramural staff will place them on a team, she said. “It’s a great way to meet new people, stay active and enjoy sports,” Venezia said, encour-aging anyone without a team to sign up. For the first time in the intra-mural program, the spouses of students, faculty and staff will be allowed to participate for a semester fee of $100. For the complete list of sports, either stop by the intra-mural office Monday through Friday between 10:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. or contact by phone at

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Intramurals give students serious, casual competitionBy John Zenor

The Associated Press

AUBURN — Auburn fresh-man Daren Bates had plenty of catching up to do when he finally arrived on campus. The safety missed the first two days of fall camp and the voluntary on-campus summer workouts while waiting for academic clearance from the NCAA, but he managed to log enough extra hours with the help of safeties coach Tommy Thigpen to claim the starting job going into Saturday night’s opener with Louisiana Tech. “I’d get here at 7 o’clock in the morning and wouldn’t leave until midnight during camp,” Bates said. “We’d watch film. [Thigpen would] give me quizzes on the plays and what Louisiana Tech was doing. He kept on me and got me to where I needed to be.” Bates’ case was also helped by the injury to starter Mike McNeil and the fact that his competitors lacked experience, too. However, he caught the eye of fellow safety Zac Etheridge in the first scrimmage. “We were on the sideline watching him, like wow,” Etheridge said. “Out of every-body, he had that motor, he didn’t stop at all. He was hitting everything. He’s a person that will hit you full speed.” Bates spent the summer working out in the early morn-ings with the Olive Branch (Miss.) High School team, then again later in the day. He has relatively modest goals for his college debut. “Not getting beat or getting run over. Making plays is hope-fully what I can do,” Bates said. ON THE LINE: Auburn’s starting offensive line might be collectively the most experi-enced group on a young team. Left tackle Lee Ziemba’s 25 career starts is more than any-body else on the team though he’s only a junior. Next up is Etheridge with 24 starts.

SPORTS in brief

AU football notebook

“One thing that we’ve established is the last three years we’ve had a consistent

pattern of success.”

— Billy Pate, men’s tennis head coach{ }

The Crimson White SPORTS Thursday, September 3, 2009 7

American football evolved from Ivy League schools. Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate soccer-like game in 1869, where the ballcould be advanced only by kicking or batting it with the feet, hands, head or sides. During the next seven years, rugby became popular with majoreastern schools and modern football developed from both.

Early 1800s: A round ballwas made of heavy can-vas saturated with rubber.

Early 1870s: The leather rugbyball was used, making it easier tocarry because running with theball was allowed.

Early 1890s to 1930s: With theforward pass introduced in 1906,the easier-to-throw “watermelon”ball became popular.

1940s to present: Pointier endshelped establish the passinggame and made it easier to tuckthe ball away when running.

MANFRED SCHOTTEN ANT IQUES ST. FAGAN MUSEUM PHOTO ANTIQUE ATHLETES PHOTO NFL PHOTO

Wilson’s Ada, Ohio, facility is the only football manufacturing plant in the United States. It produces morethan a million handmade footballs every year. The hour-and-a-half process involves about 50 steps.

Four equal football shapes are cut from one piece of cowhide. Each set is trimmed to the same thickness and weight to

meet official specifications.

The logos are stamped on two of thefour panels using oil-based paint.

A synthetic lining is sewn into the underside of each

panel to help the ball retain its shapeand to protect an air bladder that willbe inserted.

The football is manually turned right-side out. There are 21 men at the

factory who can perform the task, whichrequires strength and dexterity.

Each turner is equipped with a steam boxto warm and soften the leather as well asa vertical steel bar to provide leverage.

A three-ply polyurethane bladder isinserted through the opening in the

lace area, providing air retention andmoisture control.

The ball is pre-laced with a heavy linen thread.

Like turning, lacing is an accomplishedskill. Only the most experienced lacershandle the NFL footballs.

■ FAST FACT: Each of the 72balls produced for the Super Bowlis used at least once during thegame and is specially marked forauthenticity.

The balls are partially deflated and double laced

with gridcord — cotton thread covered with vinyl — that wonʼt tear or crack under adverse weather conditions.

HIRAM HENRIQUEZ /SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENT INEL

Game balls arefully inflated to13 poundsbefore gametime.

Before a final check,the ball is reinflated with

150 pounds of pressure for aminute. The pressure is then

reduced to the standard 13pounds.

The ball is subjected to stringentquality-control checks. During the final

inspection, each ball must meet stan-dards in appearance, stitching, length,

width, shape, weight and end seams.

Beforebeing

shipped, the ballis partially deflated

to take the strain offthe seams. It is placed

in a plastic bag to pro-tect the leather from

changes in temperatureand humidity.

The football is inflated with 80pounds of pressure to stretch the

linings and leather, straighten theseams and identify potential bladderproblems.

Holes for laces are punched; extra lining is added around the air valve ring and lace holes.

Panels aresewn together inside-out on a heavy-dutymachine.

Syntheticlining

SOURCES: HOWSTUFFWORKS; MANFRED SCHOTTEN ANT IQUES; JASON YOUNG, PSYCHOMEDIA ;ST. FAGAN NATURAL H ISTORY MUSEUM, WALES, ENGLAND; SUPERBOWL.COM; WILSON

Bladder

Cuttingmachine

Stencil

Specially tanned, water-resistant leather

Grip■ Spread fingers lightlyacross laces

■ Thumb, forefingerform “U” holding end ofball

■ Grip firmly withthumb, middle and ringfingers

Stance■ Feet under hips;side opposite throwingarm faces target

■ Cup ball lightly withnon-throwing hand

■ Hold legs and trunksteady and focus ontarget

Start throw■ Turn hips, thentorso, then shoulderstoward target

■ Cock ball behindyour ear, with its nosepointed behind you

End andrelease■ Move arm overhead;forearm crosses overelbow as handextends in direction ofthrow

■ Let go with thumbso fingertips can makeball spiral

Wrist-flick: Crucial to good spiral; turn handand wrist to increase spin; palm faces groundas you follow through

PAUL TRAP/MCTSOURCE: MEN ʼS F ITNESS, MCT

A spiraling football pass is a thing of beauty,and learning to throw one takes long practice,but these are the basic skills:

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To complete a long pass, a quarterback mustcontrol the ball’s spin, angle of attack, trajecto-ry and velocity.

Lift

Weight

Lacing slows spin,causes drag andshifts the center of gravity

■ Like an airplane wing, ball gains lift fromlow-pressure airflow over its top.

■ The ball must spin around its axis; air pass-ing over the football causes drag. If the ballwobbles, extra drag will slow it. The faster it isthrown, the lower the drag.

■ For maximum distance, the axis of a footballshould point 10° above its line of flight.

Airflow separation zone

High pressurezone

Flight path

LowpressurezoneSpin axis

intersects center of gravity

10° angle of attack

Spin axis

SOURCES: NORT H CAROL INA STAT E UNIVERSITY, POPULAR SCIENCE, MCT

From how it’s made to how to throw it, everything you need to know about the football

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8A pass with a high trajectory andtoo large an angle of attack will wobble in the late stages of flight.

If spin and angle are correct, the passremains stablethroughout its flight.

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By Chris TalbottThe Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi State fans will get to see some of the best football teams in the country this season. “You’ve got five games ranked in the Top 15, you have a his-toric home opener and another team that’s picked to win their conference,” said new coach Dan Mullen, the former Florida offensive coordinator. The new-look Bulldogs will host No. 1 Florida, No. 5 Alabama, No. 8 Mississippi, No. 11 LSU and No. 15 Georgia Tech in Mullen’s first season. “It’s great for fans, bad for coaches, maybe, for getting sleep and feeling good about things,” Mullen said. Mississippi State kicks off the season against Jackson State, an historically black university. It will be the first matchup between teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Southeastern Conference. The other home game is against Houston, a contender for the Conference USA title that’s beaten the Bulldogs twice this decade. Players view the schedule as more opportunity than obstacle. “No matter who comes out here to play, whether you’re the No. 1 team or the No. 116 team, you better come out here and show you belong,” middle linebacker Jamar Chaney said. “They picked us to finish last in the West and last in the whole

SEC. But I know one thing: When you come to Mississippi State, you better be prepared to play.” BERRY PICKIN’: Tennessee safety Eric Berry needs just 15 yards to set the career NCAA interception return yardage record. The junior posted a Football Bowl Subdivision-best seven interceptions in his 2008 all-American season, return-ing them for a single-season Southeastern Conference record 265 yards. He holds the SEC career record with 487 return yards on 12 interceptions. Berry says he wouldn’t mind if those 15 yards came Saturday against Western Kentucky. “That would be nice to just go ahead and get it out of the way, so I can’t think about it any-more,” Berry said. BIG 12 MEMORIES: Growing up in Columbia, Mo., Georgia’s Aron White dreamed of playing in the Big 12 Conference. He’ll get his chance Saturday.Well, sort of. White is a sophomore tight end for the No. 13 Bulldogs, who open the season against No. 9 Oklahoma State. “I was definitely a Big 12 fan growing up,” White said. “I remember seeing all those clas-sic battles: Oklahoma-Texas,

Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Missouri-Kansas, Missouri-Nebraska.” But when it came time to pick a school, White looked elsewhere. His first choice was Miami, a school known for devel-oping top tight ends, but the Hurricanes didn’t offer a schol-arship. So he turned to Georgia, which sent Randy McMichael, Ben Watson, Leonard Pope and Martrez Milner to the NFL. “It just came down to Tight End U,” White said. “I just felt at home.” STREAKING WILDCATS: Kentucky’s recent run of three straight bowl games can be traced not to what they’ve done in the SEC — they’re just 9-15 in conference play — but what they’ve been able to do out of conference. Kentucky enters Saturday’s opener against Miami (Ohio) in Cincinnati with a 14-game non-conference winning streak, the second-longest in the nation. Kentucky’s last nonconference loss was against Louisville in 2006. Though the nonconference schedule hasn’t been exactly daunting — only one of those 14 wins has come over a ranked opponent — coach Rich Brooks attributes the success to the improved talent on the roster.

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NEW YORK — Everyone’s been curious about the condition of Rafael Nadal’s knees, so it made sense that his first Grand Slam opponent in three months would wonder as well. Which might explain why Richard Gasquet tried a drop shot deep in the third set of his U.S. Open match against Nadal on Wednesday. Nadal made the long run necessary to get to the ball, and flipped it back over the net, winning the point. A moment later, as if conspir-ing with Nadal to show every-one how fit the six-time major champion truly is these days, Gasquet offered up another drop shot. Nadal got to that one, too. Starting a bid to win the only Grand Slam title missing from his resume, Nadal encountered no apparent trouble from his much-scrutinized legs in a 6-2,

6-2, 6-3 victory over Gasquet at Flushing Meadows. Gasquet, for one, was impressed. “He can win the tourna-ment,” said Gasquet, a 2007 Wimbledon semifinalist and former top-10 player. “Day after day, he will improve his level. For sure, he can win.” Nadal’s matter-of-fact assess-ment: “I played well, no?” Nadal didn’t wear any tape near his knees Wednesday, something he’s done in the past, much less the sort of bulky ban-dages Venus Williams showed up with near her left knee for a second-round match she won easily. Her sister Serena won, too, keeping the pair on track for an all-in-the-family semifi-nal. One could certainly make the case Nadal wasn’t facing the toughest competition. Gasquet has been away from the tour, too, recently. He served a 2½-month ban after testing

positive for cocaine; Gasquet successfully appealed what would have been a far more severe punishment, saying the drug entered his system inad-vertently when he kissed a woman at a nightclub. Nadal’s absence was far more run-of-the-mill. He hadn’t played at a major tournament since May 31, when his 31-match French Open winning streak ended in the fourth round at Roland Garros. The Spaniard cited knee tendinitis in deciding not to defend his Wimbledon title, and the layoff was a big reason Nadal has dropped from No. 1 in the rankings to No. 3. He ceded the top spot to Roger Federer, whose bid for a sixth consecutive U.S. Open championship — and third Grand Slam title in a row this year — progressed with a 6-3, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Simon Greul of Germany in front of a night-session record crowd of 24,206.

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LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s estate will pay what are being called “extraordinary” expenses for the pop singer’s funeral, attorneys and a judge said Wednesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff autho-rized the current administra-tors of Jackson’s estate to pay for Jackson’s funeral and inter-ment, which are scheduled for Thursday evening. Attorneys for Jackson’s moth-er, Katherine, had asked the judge to sign off on the expenses, which have not been disclosed. No one contested who would pay the costs, but Beckloff said he had concerns about whether Jackson’s estate could afford it. Jeryll Cohen, an attorney for the administrators of Jackson’s estate, said the costs will be paid. She said the debt-ridden estate has enough cash to pay for the funeral. “The expenses are extraordinary, however, Michael Jackson was extraordinary,” Cohen said. Few details about the service

have been disclosed. Cohen said during the hearing that part of the reason it was so expensive was because 12 burial spaces were being bought. Beckloff said normally, costs of a funeral would be paid by the estate after the service. But Jackson’s family couldn’t afford to pay the costs upfront and wait for reimbursement. Jackson is scheduled to be interred in a mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale, which is about eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

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If you’re in pursuit of new artwork or are simply in need of creative inspi-ration, then check out this month’s Artrageous Riverfront Arts Tour. The event will be held tonight from 5 to 9 in downtown Tuscaloosa and Northport. The monthly tours are held on the first Thursday of every month and fea-ture an array of art including paintings, photography, hand-made jewelry, pot-tery, stained glass, and metal sculpted pieces. Different galleries located in downtown Tuscaloosa and Northport will be showcasing and selling art that is displayed in the event. Not only is the Artrageous River Front Tour a celebration of visual art, but it also will highlight live music as well. “The Birmingham Seven,” a popu-lar Birmingham based jazz ensemble is scheduled to perform at Little Willie’s at 8 p.m., and other galleries will host bands at their events also. This month’s tour will promote three galleries in downtown Tuscaloosa and three galleries in Northport, according to Valerie Piette, Program Manager at the Kentuck Art Center. Current and past UA students’ work has been exhibited at the galleries in previous tours. “It’s a chance for people to come and

see local art they might not be familiar with and actually meet the artists too,” she said. The art center’s Full Moon Emerging Artists Program allows artists who have no experience in showcasing their work to apply to have their art exhib-ited and put up for sale in one of the gallery’s studios for a month free of charge. The Kentuck Gallery in Northport will feature this month’s selected emerging artist Rachel Cano’s work. Other Kentuck studio artists will also be featured, including the abstract paintings of Ann Mottershead Betak, a Kentuck studio artist with a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from UA. One of the Kentuck artists participat-ing in Artrageous is Kerry Kennedy of

Fire Horse Pottery. Kennedy said the tour was an opportunity for visitors to not only buy ceramics but also sample free food from the Tuscaloosa Farmer’s market. “It’s not so much an exhibit as an open studio,” Kennedy said. The Alabama Blues Advance Band will provide the entertainment at the Kentuck Art Center’s event and refresh-ments will be provided. The Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery will also display the work of an Alabama alumni. During the Artrageous Tour, the opening reception from 6-8 p.m. intro-ducing “30 Years of the Image,” a pho-tography collection by College of Arts and Sciences graduate Wayne Sides, will take place 6-8 p.m. The reception will be held on the sec-ond floor of the Bama Theatre. Sides’s photographs of the Ku Klux Klan from the late 70s have also been displayed at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Other galleries that will be avail-able to visit during the tour are The Harrison Galleries and Duet Art and Jewelry, both located on University Boulevard and Artist’s Row Studios and Renaissance Gallery both on Main Avenue in Northport. The event allows guests to view the six galleries at their own pace and trol-leys will be available to commute from Tuscaloosa to Northport and back. Guests will be able to catch the trolley outside the Bama Theatre. Admission for the tour and the trolley is free.

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By Peterson HillStaff Writer

Ang Lee has made a career of making films that are vastly dif-ferent from each other. His lat-est, “Taking Woodstock,” is no exception. To be up front, this film doesn’t reach the heights of his beautiful “Brokeback Mountain,” or his charming “Sense and Sensibility,” but I don’t think he was going for that. He is telling a story that is as scatterbrained as the partici-pants of the festival. However, the story centers on the Teichbergs and their son Elliot (Demetri Martin). These are undoubtedly some of the most interesting scenes of the film. Elliot concocts the plan to have the festival of Woodstock in Bethel after it has been kicked out of two towns already. The locals of the town aren’t happy, but Elliot sees a buck to be made and he capitalizes on it. Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy) sees the same dollar signs flashing so he offers his farm up for them to use. The com-munity ostracizes both men for letting the hippies take over their small, quiet town. As the hippies start to roll in, the stress begins to pile up for Elliot. He is swamped by everything he needs to do around his family’s motel, the El Monaco. His mother Sonia (Imelda Staunton) greets the money with wide eyes, but when the work starts to pile up, she can’t take it and fully blames her son. His father Jake (Henry Goodman) starts out hesitant but grows to see the beauty of the event. There is, of course, a color-ful array of characters that begin to populate Bethel. Perhaps the most interesting is Vilma (Liev Schreiber) who is a transvestite ex-marine that

offers up her services to the Teichbergs to help keep secu-rity under control. Schreiber, who doesn’t get enough work as it is, truly shines in a small but memorable role. Also, Billy (Emile Hirsch) is a shell-shocked soldier from Vietnam. Billy is never con-stant though. At the beginning he is struggling with reality; at the end he seems fine. He was given no room to grow though. We don’t spend enough time with him. I could continue on about the characters, but there are a good dozen more, from an unneeded contemporary nud-ist theatre troupe to two peo-ple who offer Elliot acid. There is just too much here. Lee is working on a script from James Schamus’ interpreta-tion of Elliot Tiber’s book that tries to encompass every piece of Woodstock. The film starts small and almost ends small until the last shot. Yes, the festival was massive and there were several hun-dreds of thousands of people there. Lee does something

smart by making the film a way that all the strings got put into place. There is actually never any concert footage. We hear it, but the film isn’t about the music. Above all the film is a com-ing-of-age story for Elliot. The problem is that he never really comes of age. He is no closer to telling his father at the end of the film that he is a homosexual than he is at the begin-ning. Elliot takes acid and he sees

things and he experiences something beautiful, but what do these experiences do for him? Martin isn’t bad in the role, there is just no arch. The major thing in his life he is still afraid to share with his father. Lee often times fills his movies with questions of America’s intrigue with sexual-ity. The best example is his film “The Ice Storm” which is about a 1970s Connecticut suburb of New York that is trying to cope with the aftermath of the

sexual revolution. In “Taking Woodstock,” he is more con-cerned with… well I don’t know really. He gives Elliot some beautiful moments, but they don’t amount to anything. We are still no closer to real-izing who he is. He wants to experience the world, but that is something we know at the beginning. The best performance of the film is from Staunton, who is as good as actresses come. She

gives an aggressive and subtle performance in the most haunt-ing of ways. You hate her and love her in equal strides. As good as Lee is as a direc-tor he can’t pull all the strings of this story into one pack-age. There is too much going on. He can’t harness his sto-rylines to give us something with actual weight. Moments are brilliant, but moments areonly that. Maybe a movie about Woodstock is destined to be as unfocused as the crowd.

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an act that any musician has done with the song. Also, Havens’ performance of “Freedom” has a deeply patriotic bent to it. However, Sly and the Family Stone was pos-sibly the pinnacle performance of the entire event. It was a wild and raucous show that is just as much about the music as the integrat-ed band on stage. There are few bands in the history of music that can produce that type of energy. It still baffles many as to how this per-formance isn’t as widely renowned as some of the others. For those who don’t believe, just watch their performance of “I Want to Take You Higher.” Weisbard said one of the trends that came from the festival was the emergence of the singer/songwriter. People like Neil Young and Janis Joplin really grew from the experience of Woodstock. “The notion of the singer/songwriter really emerged… rock was becoming more pastoral, and Woodstock feeds that,” Weisbard said. Hall said it is interesting how the conser-vative right and evangelical Christians don’t look upon Woodstock with as much vitriolic hatred as certain other events of the 1960s. “There is a core conservative value to it,” Hall said. “It wasn’t a particularly political moment. “If you surveyed the crowd there would be a mass anti-war sentiment, but in ’69

there was plenty of that going around,” Hall said. Both Hendrix and Havens’ performance keyed in on the idea of America. Hendrix, through his own interpretation of the song that brings all Americans together, and Havens, on a song about what it means to truly be free. Hendrix performance wasn’t cynical, but was birthed out of his right to interpret “The Star Spangled Banner” as he saw fit. It was a version that, in many ways, defines the dis-tance people felt from each other in those days. There is almost violence to it, an unrav-eling of the beliefs that the country held. Ultimately, the reason people really came was to experience something with people who had similar values. People came from every-where to experience something with their own generation, the culture they had created. In the end, there are two Woodstocks: the cultural myth that we have created, and the actual event. There will always be a divide between what was and what we perceive. It’s hard to imagine that only two months before, there was an entire community turned to see man land on the moon. There was a moment that will be remembered for as long as we exist. People touched ground that seemed unattainable. Then, on the muddy banks of a hamlet in New York, there was something else that was beau-tiful. It was one generation’s way of closing their decade. Their parents had the moon. They had each other.

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Last year, I sought out all the meal-plan-compatible din-ing areas on campus and tried to rate them, just as a normal student going about his day. I found out, however, that Bama Dining decided to surprise me and many others by replacing the Lakeside Diner with a new restaurant called Maea, open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. You’ve probably already heard about it one way or another. I first heard of it when I was invited to a “Boycott Maea” Facebook group. Some people obviously are not happy with it, but oth-ers seem to be OK with it. I decided to check it out before I joined any boycotts. When you first take a look at Maea, you’ll notice they’re def-initely branding themselves as a “fancy, sit-down restaurant.” You’ve got your Maître d’, nice tablecloths, well-dressed serv-ers and even the tiny menus that note prices with a single letter. When you get an entrée, often there’s an ornamental, indiscernible squiggle of fancy. Getting a sandwich means get-ting a pile of shoestring fries. The food comes out some-what decorative and, fortu-nately, also tastes pretty good. They have a decent range of food styles from steaks to poboys, nachos to burgers and noodles to fried green toma-toes. There are appetizers, salads, sandwiches, entrées and three desserts to choose from. I feel safe in saying, as a restaurant, the food they serve is a cut above anything else on campus and is worth a try. But, to be honest, that’s the best praise I can give it. Its atmosphere is a bit awkward, as you have a fancy meal in front of you and a bird’s eye view of the clamor and bustle of Lakeside Dining Hall. The noise carries a bit, so the less-than-fancy setting offsets the fancy food. While I can understand some hiccups with it being a new facility, the service seems a little iffy at times. While they often have no more than five or six people eating at once, it seems that if they have

any more than ten, they’re swamped. It took quite a bit of time there to get any refills on drink, and I overheard they had already run out of noodles, only an hour or so after open-ing. Not terribly prepared, in my opinion. A friend of mine told me getting condiments like dressing for salads took a lot longer than it should have, and having the waiter stand over you while you fill out the tip on your check is a bit unnerving. Which brings me to cost. Maea takes Dining Dollars and Bama Cash, and you’d better have a good amount of both if you want to eat there. I’ve eaten there four times and found myself down by about $85 in Dining Dollars. Appetizers run from $4 to $8. Salads go from $5 to $9. Sandwiches are between $7 and $9. Entrées have three prices: $9, $12 and $14, and the three desserts are $4, $5 and $6. Want to add chicken to your salad? That’s $2 extra. Shrimp: $5. I’m not sure how much drinks cost since I always stuck with water, but once you add tax and throw in that line on your check labeled “Gratuity,” you’re probably looking at a $15-plus meal, and students often aren’t rolling in dough — especially dough made out of Dining Dollars. For the student with a limited budget, this is a once-every-month-or-two deal, in my opin-ion. Now, all this is tolerable, I suppose. There are a lot of fan-cier restaurants I don’t go to terribly often due to expense. But the introduction of Maea

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By Peterson HillStaff Writer

he 1960s are almost alien to a contemporary train of thought. It was a decade of breaking apart and coming together, a

decade of politics and revolu-tionary action. It was impos-sible to go through the ’60s with any sense of apathy. Your haircut said if you were with “us” or “them.” It was an era of divisiveness and hope. In 1969, in the mid-August heat of Bethel, N.Y., there was a concert that defined a generation. Only a year earlier had there been the two assassinations that changed the politi-cal and cultural land-scape of America. When Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were murdered, the nation changed from one of hope to a nation on the brink of implo-sion. That same year, there would be the patriotic, or infamous depending on who you ask, act of Tommie Smith and John Carlos making the signal of the Black Panther party during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics. And, there is no way to separate the ‘60s from the mass riots at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and the brutal force that Mayor Richard Daley’s Chicago police force used to quash those protesters.

The decade had reached the boiling point. The youth were as hopeful as they were dejected, as angry with the system as our founding fathers. When news broke of a concert festival in the

m i d -dle of a New York farm, there was no way to estimate the attendance. The early projections of 50,000 attendees were blown away. There is no way of knowing just how many people attend-ed. Jim Hall, director of New College, said the concert offered some type of com-munity for the youth. “Historical judgment on it is still

up in the air,” Hall said. “The ostensible anti-a u t h o r i t a r i a n way, the climbing of fences to get in without pay-ing was just part of the shtick.” Today, much of the debate centers on how the concert was operated. “How do you operate an

improvised space for 100,000 people?” Hall asked. Eric Weisbard, professor in the American studies department with a specialty in popular music, said that,

perhaps because of this, “Woodstock isn’t

the model forrock events.

It moved

to arena rock.” In a lot of ways, Woodstock seems to have been the last great concert. The modern spawn of it, such as Coachellaand Bonnaroo, are much more orches-trated and thought out than Woodstock. There was something spontaneous about Woodstock. Even though there was a dollar to be made, there wasn’t the same overarching consumerism put on display that there is with something like Bonnaroo. Unlike those festivals, Weisbard says, “Woodstock has this image of rock Camelot. The vision of rock that didn’t quiet happen. What does it say that this festival of peace and love was practical-ly racially segregated?” Weisbard asks. Of all the performers, there were only three black acts: Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone. Of these, Jimi Hendrix is prob-ably the one most people associate with the event. His performance of “The Star

THURSDAY

• Jupiter Bar & Grill — The Jonathan Fox Band, 10 p.m.• Little Willie’s — The Birmingham Seven, 8 p.m.• Egan’s — Glibella, 11:30

FRIDAY

• Jupiter Bar & Grill — No Means Yes, doors open 5:00, showtime 10 p.m.• Egan’s— The Tumbleweeds, 11:30 p.m.• Little Willie’s —Little G Weevil, 9:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

• Egan’s — Blue Fish, 11:30 p.m.

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• “(500) Days of Summer” (PG-13)• “All About Steve” (PG-13)• “District 9” (R)• “Extract” (PG-13)• “The Final Destination” (R) • “The Final Destination 3D” (R) • “Gamer” (R)• “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’ (PG-13)• “Halloween II” (R)• “Inglourious Basterds” (R)• “Julie & Julia” (PG-13)• “Post Grad” (PG-13)• “Shorts” (PG)• “Taking Woodstock” (R)• “The Time Traveler’s Wife” (PG-13)• “The Ugly Truth” (R)

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Editor • Steven Nalley smnalley@crimson.ua.edu

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© 2009 MCTSource: Pew Research Center poll of 1,815 adults ages 16 and older on July 20-Aug. 2, 2009; margin of error: +/– 5.3 percentage pointsGraphic: Pai, San Jose Mercury News

What’s Woodstock?About 46% of people 16-29 years old do not know what Woodstock was; percent giving correct answers:

16-29

30-49

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Rock on Back in 1966, 44% of adults said they disliked rock; today, it is the most often listened-to genre; percent of all adults saying what genre they listen to often:

RockCountry

R&BRap/hip-hop

Classical

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Forty years after Woodstock

Peace, love & musicPeace, love & musicPerception of Woodstock differs from reality

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CW | Aaron Gertler

See WOODSTOCK, page 10

CHECK OUT THE CW REVIEW OF ‘TAKING WOODSTOCK’ ON PAGE 10.

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