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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 118, Issue 55 SPORTS SPORTS 8 8 Tide prepares for Tide prepares for Georgia Southern Georgia Southern P l e a s e r e c y c le t h i s p a p e r P l e a s e r e c y c l e th i s p a p e r P.O. Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom: 348-6144 | Fax: 348-8036 | Advertising: 348-7845 | Classieds: 348-7355 Letters, op-eds: [email protected] Press releases, announcements: [email protected] Briefs ........................ 2 Opinions ................... 4 Lifestyles.................... 6 WEATHER today INSIDE today’s paper Sports ....................... 8 Puzzles...................... 7 Classifieds ................. 7 Chance of T-storms 74º/65º Wednesday 68º/38º Chance of T-storms By Rich Robinson Staff Reporter [email protected] Former Associate Justice to the Supreme Court John Paul Stevens will visit the University of Alabama Wednesday for a speech host- ed by the Law School. Stevens will be the tenth justice of the nation’s high- est court to speak at the UA School of Law since 1996. The 91-year-old Stevens was appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 and served on the bench until last year when he announced his retirement. Stevens’ visit also coincides with the release of his memoir, Former Justice Stevens to discuss career on bench By Tony Tsoukalas and Laura Owens The Crison White Penn State University play- ers and fans experienced something Saturday they hadn’t experienced in nearly 46 years – the absence of coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was fired Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the wake of a child abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. “I think the general theme is people cannot believe it,” The Daily Collegian football edi- tor Ryan Loy said on Friday. “They want to know more information.” The firing occurred hours after Paterno announced that 2011 would be his last season with the team and caused mass hysteria among the sports world as well as the Penn State campus. Many Penn State fans were appalled by how abrupt the firing of the legendary coach was, as well as the fact that Paterno was fired over the phone. “That is one thing that I know people are unhappy about,” Loy said. “I am doing an assignment for class and they had us go downtown to talk to people. One guy in his fifties said, ‘a guy with Joe’s tenure, I can’t believe they did it over the phone.’ They thought he deserved more Students sound off on Penn State’s scandal Penn State student journalist offers insight on the mood in Happy Valley following Paterno’s firing MCT Campus Penn State and Nebraska players pray at the start of their game. The Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions, 17-14, at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 12. Fear Tide’s freshmen respect.” Chaos ensued Wednesday night as Penn State students, enraged by the firing of Paterno, took to the streets of State College, rioting, throw- ing rocks at police and eventu- ally tipping over a local televi- sion station news van. Police with tear gas eventually dis- persed the rioters after army officers in riot gear could not break up the crowd. “It is unfortunate that it happened,” Loy said. “It just added to the negative percep- tion of the entire situation.” Many lashed out against Penn State assistant Mike McQueary, who initially reported the information to Paterno, though he has not been fired by Penn State. “From what I’ve heard, that’s the opinion of a lot of people,” Loy said. “A few peo- ple said McQueary reported it to his higher-ups and so did Paterno, so they essentially did the same thing. A lot of people feel that way, that it just doesn’t add up.” Late last week ESPN, as well as other news stations, flooded Penn State, running constant coverage of the scandal. See PENN STATE, page 8 See JUSTICE, page 3 By Kyle Kozak Contributing Writer Two University of Alabama students have been named finalists for the Rhodes schol- arship, an international award for study at the University of Oxford. Senior Nathan Corder and spring 2011 graduate Parker White are one round away from receiving two years of paid tuition for study in Oxford and the distinction of being a Rhodes Scholar. Corder, a mathematics major and member of the Computer Based Honors pro- gram from Pickerington, Ohio, wants to use his research in data-mining and not-for-profit fundraising to help solve the world’s hunger problem. “Hunger is something I’m passionate about,” Corder said. “It’s the universal uni- fying tragedy. We’ve all been hungry. Every person on the planet knows what that feel- ing is. Now take that feeling and extrapolate it out that now you’re living with it day in and day out. But, hunger can be cured. There does exist enough food that, if distrib- uted properly and with all the resources allocated, you could feed everyone in the world.” Corder was named a first- team Academic All-American as a cross-country runner for the Crimson Tide. He serves as the vice president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which works to improve the lives of student- athletes. White, who double-majored in English and classics and minored in creative writing and the Blount Undergraduate Initiative, wants to use his background in literature to promote social justice. “I plan to become a teacher, hopefully a professor at a uni- versity level, and work with UA boasts two Rhodes finalists One current student, one alumnus in running See RHODES, page 2 See BASKETBALL, page 8 See BOMB, page 2 “Five Chiefs,” which details his interactions and the rela- tionships he had with five Supreme Court Chief Justices, from his time as a court clerk to Fred Vinson, to being the senior member of the court under John Roberts. Los Angeles Times book critic Jim Newton describes “Five Chiefs” as being “laced with observations on the court’s architecture, tradi- tions and even its seating arrangements, it is the col- lected ruminations of a man who has served his country in war and peace, across the decades.” Stevens, always known in the court for his donning of a bow tie, was one of its more liberal members. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens By Taylor Holland and Stephen Dethrage The Crimson White The threat of a bomb that was alleged- ly set to go off by 5:30 p.m. Monday led to the closing of several campus buildings and investigations by the University of Alabama Police Department, Tuscaloosa Police Department, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to UA officials. Officials alerted students of the pos- sible bomb threat via email at 2:46 p.m. Monday after UAPD received an anony- mous call. Immediately following the threat, officers from the various departments launched a campus-wide investigation. “Even though a preliminary search of the buildings indicated that this was not a credible threat, UA asked stu- dents and employees to be proactively cautious and avoid the buildings for 30 minutes before and after the 5:30 p.m. timeframe specified by the caller,” said Deborah Lane, assistant vice president for media relations, in a campus-wide email. Bomb threat closes campus buildings UA sends campus-wide email updates By Brett Hudson Senior Sports Reporter [email protected] @Brett_Hudson Alabama’s NCAA tourna- ment resume won’t be lacking a solid non-conference win this season, as the Crimson Tide beat the Oakland Grizzlies 74-57. The Oakland Grizzlies may not strike fear into a casual fan just by the name, but they are a proud program. Last year, head coach Greg Kampe had his Grizzlies take on Ohio State, Purdue, Illinois, Tennessee and Michigan, all on the road. Oakland also did something last year’s Crimson Tide could not: gain a bid to the NCAA tourna- ment. When the battle-tested pro- gram came to Tuscaloosa, the likely suspects of Trevor Releford, JaMychal Green and Tony Mitchell were thought to be the ones who would carry the team to a vic- tory or fall trying. This was the story of the first half, as all three scored in double- digits in the first 20 minutes of play. “We really got in a flow tonight,” Alabama head coach Anthony Grant said. “Our guys understood their job more in terms of what we’re trying to do from an offensive standpoint.” Strong defense from Bama newcomers sets positive tone Grant added, “I think our focus, our intensity tonight was really good. Anytime you have that, good things are going to happen.” Then freshmen Rodney Cooper, Trevor Lacey and Levi Randolph took the court and the Grizzlies by storm in the second half, trans- forming a would-be nail-biter into a 17-point win. Freshman Levi Randolph goes up for a dunk against Oakland on Nov. 14. CW | Pete Pajor 7:52 p.m. – UA News emails students to clarify the situ- ation and the investiga- tion, also vows to continue searching for the source of the threat using all avail- able legal resources. 1 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 5 p.m. 4 p.m. 3 p.m. 2 p.m. UAPD receives an anonymous call early in the afternoon detailing the threat of a bomb on campus. 2:46 p.m. – Mass email is sent to students, faculty and staff alerting them of the situation. Beginning at roughly 3 p.m. - The University of Alabama Police Department, Tuscaloosa Police Department, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation start searching buildings and structures on campus. 4:45 p.m. – Mass email is sent saying preliminary searches and investiga- tions have not discov- ered a credible threat but also advises every- one on campus to avoid certain buildings on campus until 6 p.m. 6 p.m. – Campus-wide loud speaker announce- ment is made, giving students and staff the all clear. LIFESTYLES LIFESTYLES 6 6 Denny Chimes lit Denny Chimes lit up for diabetes up for diabetes

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Former Associate Justice to the Supreme Court John Paul Stevens will visit the University of Alabama Wednesday for a speech host-ed by the Law School. Stevens will be the tenth justice of the nation’s high-est court to speak at the UA School of Law since 1996. The 91-year-old Stevens was appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 and served on the bench until last year when he announced his retirement. Stevens’ visit also coincides with the release of his memoir,

Former Justice Stevens to discuss career on bench

By Tony Tsoukalas and Laura Owens The Crison White

Penn State University play-ers and fans experienced something Saturday they hadn’t experienced in nearly 46 years – the absence of coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was fired Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the wake of a child abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. “I think the general theme is people cannot believe it,” The Daily Collegian football edi-tor Ryan Loy said on Friday. “They want to know more information.” The firing occurred hours after Paterno announced that 2011 would be his last season with the team and caused mass hysteria among the sports world as well as the Penn State campus. Many Penn State fans were appalled by how abrupt the firing of the legendary coach was, as well as the fact that Paterno was fired over the phone. “That is one thing that I know people are unhappy about,” Loy said. “I am doing an assignment for class and they had us go downtown to talk to people. One guy in his fifties said, ‘a guy with Joe’s tenure, I can’t believe they did it over the phone.’ They thought he deserved more

Students sound off on Penn State’s scandalPenn State student journalist offers insight on the mood in Happy Valley following Paterno’s fi ring

MCT CampusPenn State and Nebraska players pray at the start of their game. The Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions, 17-14, at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 12.

Fear Tide’s freshmen

respect.” Chaos ensued Wednesday night as Penn State students, enraged by the firing of Paterno, took to the streets of State College, rioting, throw-ing rocks at police and eventu-ally tipping over a local televi-sion station news van. Police with tear gas eventually dis-persed the rioters after army officers in riot gear could not break up the crowd. “It is unfortunate that it happened,” Loy said. “It just added to the negative percep-tion of the entire situation.” Many lashed out against Penn State assistant Mike

McQueary, who initially reported the information to Paterno, though he has not been fired by Penn State. “From what I’ve heard, that’s the opinion of a lot of people,” Loy said. “A few peo-ple said McQueary reported it to his higher-ups and so did Paterno, so they essentially did the same thing. A lot of people feel that way, that it just doesn’t add up.” Late last week ESPN, as well as other news stations, flooded Penn State, running constant coverage of the scandal.

See PENN STATE, page 8 See JUSTICE, page 3

By Kyle KozakContributing Writer

Two University of Alabama students have been named finalists for the Rhodes schol-arship, an international award for study at the University of Oxford. Senior Nathan Corder and spring 2011 graduate Parker White are one round away from receiving two years of paid tuition for study in Oxford and the distinction of being a Rhodes Scholar. Corder, a mathematics major and member of the Computer Based Honors pro-gram from Pickerington, Ohio,

wants to use his research in data-mining and not-for-profit fundraising to help solve the world’s hunger problem. “Hunger is something I’m passionate about,” Corder said. “It’s the universal uni-fying tragedy. We’ve all been hungry. Every person on the planet knows what that feel-ing is. Now take that feeling and extrapolate it out that now you’re living with it day in and day out. But, hunger can be cured. There does exist enough food that, if distrib-uted properly and with all the resources allocated, you could feed everyone in the world.” Corder was named a first-

team Academic All-Americanas a cross-country runner for the Crimson Tide. He servesas the vice president of theStudent-Athlete AdvisoryCommittee, which works toimprove the lives of student-athletes. White, who double-majoredin English and classics andminored in creative writingand the Blount UndergraduateInitiative, wants to use hisbackground in literature topromote social justice. “I plan to become a teacher,hopefully a professor at a uni-versity level, and work with

UA boasts two Rhodes fi nalistsOne current student, one alumnus in running

See RHODES, page 2

See BASKETBALL, page 8

See BOMB, page 2

“Five Chiefs,” which details his interactions and the rela-tionships he had with five Supreme Court Chief Justices,

from his time as a court clerk to Fred Vinson, to being the senior member of the court under John Roberts. Los Angeles Times book critic Jim Newton describes “Five Chiefs” as being “laced with observations on the court’s architecture, tradi-tions and even its seating arrangements, it is the col-lected ruminations of a man who has served his country in war and peace, across the decades.” Stevens, always known in the court for his donning of a bow tie, was one of its more liberal members.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

By Taylor Holland and Stephen Dethrage

The Crimson White

The threat of a bomb that was alleged-ly set to go off by 5:30 p.m. Monday led to the closing of several campus buildings and investigations by the University of Alabama Police Department, Tuscaloosa Police Department, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to UA officials. Officials alerted students of the pos-sible bomb threat via email at 2:46 p.m. Monday after UAPD received an anony-

mous call. Immediately following the threat, officers from the various departments launched a campus-wide investigation. “Even though a preliminary search of the buildings indicated that this was not a credible threat, UA asked stu-dents and employees to be proactively cautious and avoid the buildings for 30 minutes before and after the 5:30 p.m. timeframe specified by the caller,” said Deborah Lane, assistant vice president for media relations, in a campus-wide email.

Bomb threat closes campus buildingsUA sends campus-wide email updates By Brett Hudson

Senior Sports [email protected]

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Alabama’s NCAA tourna-ment resume won’t be lacking a solid non-conference win this season, as the Crimson Tide beat the Oakland Grizzlies 74-57. The Oakland Grizzlies may not strike fear into a casual fan just by the name, but they are a proud program. Last year, head coach Greg Kampe had his Grizzlies take on Ohio State, Purdue, Illinois, Tennessee and Michigan, all on the road. Oakland also did something last year’s Crimson Tide could not: gain a bid to the NCAA tourna-ment. When the battle-tested pro-gram came to Tuscaloosa, the likely suspects of Trevor Releford, JaMychal Green and Tony Mitchell were thought to be the ones who would carry the team to a vic-tory or fall trying. This was the story of the first half, as all three scored in double-digits in the first 20 minutes of play. “We really got in a flow tonight,” Alabama head coach Anthony Grant said. “Our guys understood their job more in terms of what we’re trying to do from an offensive standpoint.”

Strong defense from Bama newcomers sets positive tone

Grant added, “I think our focus, our intensity tonight was really good. Anytime you have that, good things are going to happen.” Then freshmen Rodney Cooper, Trevor Lacey and Levi Randolph

took the court and the Grizzlies by storm in the second half, trans-forming a would-be nail-biter into a 17-point win.

Freshman Levi Randolph goes up for a dunk against Oakland on Nov. 14.

CW | Pete Pajor7:52 p.m. – UA News emails students to clarify the situ-ation and the investiga-tion, also vows to continue searching for the source ofthe threat using all avail-able legal resources.

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UAPD receives an anonymous call early in the afternoon detailing the threat of a bomb on campus.

2:46 p.m. – Mass email issent to students, faculty and staff alerting them of the situation.

Beginning at roughly 3 p.m. - The University of Alabama Police Department, Tuscaloosa Police Department, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff ’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation start searching buildings and structures on campus.

4:45 p.m. – Mass email is sent saying preliminary searches and investiga-tions have not discov-ered a credible threat but also advises every-one on campus to avoid certain buildings on campus until 6 p.m.

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What: Danielle McGuire to Speak on Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement

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The Health Hut is a daily outreach program of the department of health promotion and wellness in UA’s Student Health Center that educates students about healthy living. Applications are due on Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. Each position is a 90-hour-semester-long internship with a minimum of five hours each week consisting of staffing two two-hour shifts in the hut and one one-hour staff meeting. All majors are encouraged to apply.

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The new UA majors website is now available at ua.edu/majors. Visitors to the site will find helpful information on all majors available to undergradu-ate students, including student-designed programs and New College depth studies. The site provides information like accreditation, career opportuni-ties and what UA graduates are doing with their degrees. Users can access the DegreeWorks aca-demic-planning tool and the Finish in Four program that will help students to stay on track to finish their degrees in four years.

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Teenage girls who drink alcohol and have a family history of breast cancer are increasing their own risk of the disease. Researchers from Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School conducted a health survey, published Sunday, on almost 7,000 girls ages nine to 15. The surveys were repeated twice when the girls were 18 to 27. The participants’ mothers were asked about their own history of benign breast disease, breast can-cer and family history of breast cancer. Not surprisingly, the study found that girls with a

family history of breast cancer were more likely to develop benign breast disease in young adulthood more than twice as likely as girls with no family his-tory. But the study also showed that the more alcohol the higher-risk girls consumed, the more likely they were to develop benign breast disease- which is a risk fac-tor for cancer. Moreover, girls with a family history of breast cancer who had the most rapid growth spurt in height were at higher risk compared with girls without a family history. Previous studies have shown that alcohol consump-tion in adult women raises the risk of breast cancer.

The study suggests that risk factors for breast cancer are different depending on whether there is a family history of the disease. “Our study suggests that adolescent females already at higher risk for breast cancer, in light of their fam-ily history, should be aware that avoiding alcohol may reduce their risk for benign breast disease as young women, which might be accompanied by reduced breast cancer risk late in life,” Dr. Catherine Berkey, a biostatistician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said in a news release. The study was published online in the journal Cancer.

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Investigators searched the Ferguson Center, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, the Little Roundhouse, Oliver-Barnard Hall, Mary Burke Hall, Lloyd Hall, Shelby Hall, Clark Hall and Tuomey Hall, among other build-ings. Police also brought a bomb-sniffing dog to search the inside of Denny Chimes, temporarily delay-ing a memorial service taking place on the Quad. Officers carrying flashlights also searched trashcans, bushes and other structures on the Quad. Ben Burch, a graduate stu-dent in biological sciences at the University, said he saw a large number of police officers heading to Shelby Hall while conducting the campus-wide investigation. “There were about 15 of them,” Burch said. “They were walking calmly, some were talking on their radios. They did not appear to have much info and didn’t tell us

any details.” Students and employees were notified that it was safe to resume normal activity at 6 p.m. and that preliminary searches did not dis-cover a credible threat. However, specific details were not released. “I understand that UA did not understand all of the details,” said Jamie Burke, a graduate student studying library and information studies. “People were wondering what was going on, but I’m glad they’re letting us know.” Desirae Washington, a sopho-more majoring in management information systems, did not share that sentiment. “I’m worried that UA just isn’t telling us enough,” Washington said. “Don’t play with student lives.” Although the threat has passed, Lane said it is a class-C felony to make a terrorist threat and that the University will continue the criminal investigation of the event using all available legal resources.

Kris Mitchell and Melissa Brown contributed to this report.

students, teaching litera-ture and creative writing,” White said. “By teaching students and by my own writing, I want to encour-age people to think criti-cally. By helping people become thoughtful citizens and leaders of the world, I hope to directly benefit social justice.” During his time at the University, White found-ed the literary magazine Dewpoint. He currently works for Impact Alabama, a non-profit organization that fights systemic pover-ty and its symptoms in the state of Alabama. Brad Tuggle, campus representative for the Rhodes Scholarship and a Rhodes Scholar himself, said both candidates have the attributes needed to win the scholarship.

“Our two candidates this year are both superb schol-ars and leaders,” Tuggle said. “Their intellectual curiosity, philanthropic goals and well-rounded, mature outlook on the world represent the best of what UA students can strive for in their years here on campus.” The final round in the selection process is Nov. 19 in Birmingham, Ala. Each candidate will face a single, 20-minute interview that includes questions involving current events related to the candidate’s field of study. Both Corder and White have prepared by participating in several mock interviews. “I’ve done mock inter-views to the point that they’ve said you really don’t need another one, but I said it can’t hurt to practice more,” Corder said. “I’m a distance run-ner: going out and putting

in lots of miles is sort of my thing.” Rhodes Scholarship applicants are divided into 16 geographical regions. Two scholarships are awarded per region, mak-ing up the 32 scholarships awarded in the United States each year. Corder and White are in Region 7, which includes Alabama, Florida and Tennessee. “I’d speculate only 10 to 16 people from those three states have been invited to Birmingham for the final interview,” White said. “It is something to be celebrat-ed in itself. I am happy for that accomplishment. It’s amazing.” The University of Alabama had two Rhodes Scholar finalists last year, Ynhi Thai and Greg McElroy, though nei-ther won the award. The University has produced 15 Rhodes Scholars, the most recent being Tuggle in 2001.

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The Social Work Association for Cultural Awareness will hold an open discussion between students, faculty and community members who have opinions or questions about the culture of UA’s campus and the effect of the march held earlier this semester. “Operation Not Isolated: The Conversation” will be held Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Tutwiler Hall Theater. Adrienne McCollum, presi-dent of SWACA, said the pur-pose of the event is to continue to build on the foundation of Operation Not Isolated. “We told those who par-ticipated in the march that we would not allow this to die down like many incidents in the

past have and we want to stand by that,” McCollum said. “Not just because we said we would, but also because this is some-thing we are passionate about, and this is what we believe is right.” The organization needs to hear what students are saying and learn how they feel so they know which route to take in order to reach their goals, she said. McCollum said the organi-zation had heard of some stu-dents who are trying to make Operation Not Isolated a greek/non-greek or black/white issue. “This is not about just those groups, but we would like to strongly encourage the greek organizations and persons of diverse backgrounds to join us in The Conversation and pos-sibly the entire Operation Not Isolated movement,” she said.

“Everyone who joins the discus-sion does not have to agree withour purpose, but hearing theirthoughts and opinions would bebeneficial because we believethat it’s important that we tryto understand those who havedifferent views and beliefs.” From “Operation NotIsolated: The Conversation,”the organization hopes to gainmore insight from students whohave experienced being exclud-ed or who have been targetednegatively by other studentsbecause of group membership. “We want everyone to feelincluded, so we hope to seea variety of students at thisevent,” McCollum said. “Weencourage all students, faculty,and staff to join us, ask ques-tions and express their ideasabout how to create a more har-monious campus here at TheCapstone.”

Leaders plan new events in Not Isolated movementBy Jasmine Cannon

Senior Staff [email protected]

The Tuscaloosa Area Volunteer Reception Center is looking for student volunteers to assist with the clean up of Alberta City and the surround-ing areas. Since the summer, the number of available volunteers has decreased, but the need for help is still there.

“There’s still a strong need for volunteers,” said Jon Lambert, TAVRC student coordinator. “Over the summer it was awe-some to have all the volunteers we wanted because they were coming daily, but now we’re kind of having to reach out to let vol-unteers know we’re still there.”

Lambert said there is also the “community led efforts in affected neighborhoods” ini-tiative available for groups of volunteers. Any organization, group of people or class can volunteer by picking a day and time. TAVRC will provide all equipment and supplies.

There are other volunteer opportunities besides hands-on

debris removal. Lambert said students could visit warehouses, help the school board and assist with administrative tasks. Students can register with and log volunteer hours on SLPro. “Volunteering with the Tuscaloosa Area Volunteer Reception Center is a great way for students to be involved in the tornado clean-up efforts,” said Amy Buchanan, research coordinator for the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, in an emailed statement. “It can be difficult to think of places to volunteer on your own, but with the TAVRC, all you have to do is show up and they will put you to work. They are sending vol-unteers out into the community daily and are always in need of extra help.” Buchanan said students from the Honor’s College Moral Forum course volunteered this past Saturday. On Sundays, the Student Government Association goes out with other members of the student body to assist with cleaning up the area. “The TAVRC is making

City needs student volunteers

a significant impact in the Tuscaloosa community and is instrumental in the clean-up and rebuilding efforts,” she said. “If you’re looking for a way to serve Tuscaloosa and assist in the rebuilding efforts, go to the TAVRC and lend a hand.” Volunteers can lend a hand any day of the week. For more information on volunteering contact Lambert at [email protected] or 205-361-0760. TVRC is located at 2512 University Blvd. E. “I hope the community will see the crisis that has hap-pened and unite to help the area recover,” Lambert said.

• Tuscaloosa Area Volun-teer Reception Center still looking for volunteers to help clean up Alberta

• Students can log hours onto SLPro

FAST FACTS

He sided with the liberal wing on issues like the controversial 2000 election recount case, Bush v. Gore, in which he lam-basted the majority decision as being a “disenfranchisement of an unknown number of vot-ers whose ballots reveal their intent – and are therefore legal votes under state law – but were for some reason rejected by ballot-counting machines.” “Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today’s decision,” Stevens said. “One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s confi-dence in the judge as an impar-tial guardian of the rule of law.” Stevens sided with the major-ity in Gregg v. Georgia, which

reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Stevens has since recanted his previous opinion saying, “I thought at the time that if the universe of defendants eligible for the death penalty is suffi-ciently narrow so that you can

be confident that the defendant really merits that severe pun-ishment, that the death penalty was appropriate. But, over the years, the Court constantly expanded the cases eligible for the death penalty, so that the underlying premise for my vote has disappeared, in a sense.” Stevens is being hosted by the Albritton Fund, which was established as part of the Law School Foundation in 1973. The fund seeks to honor the legal

legacy of the Albritton family of Andalusia, Ala. by paying for the lectures of Supreme Court Justices from the United States and around the world. The family includes Edgar Thomas Albritton, who founded the oldest continu-

ously operating law firm in Alabama in 1887 and current District Judge William Harold Albritton, III, among many oth-ers. The event is open to the public, but seating is limited. Stevens will begin his lecture at 3:30 p.m. in the McMillan Lecture Hall in the law school complex. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Bags, laptops, umbrellas and large jackets will not be allowed in the lecture hall.

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“Time will one day heal the wound to that confi dence that will be infl icted by today’s decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete cer-tainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.”

— John Paul Stevens, retired Supreme Court Justice

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these protestors done? Iʼll tell you exactly what theyʼve done; brought attention to the fact that wealth

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to the fact that not one banker has been put on trial or even

arrested after taking risks with the money of lower income families and the middle class.”

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“Occupy Wall Street is about “anar-

chy”? Who knew? Furthermore, theyʼve done something re-

markable, and thatʼs further public conver-

sation and debate about why they are doing what theyʼre doing. I think thatʼs

the point. Meanwhile, you paint them with a broad brush. Ironic!”

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In response to, “Occupy Wall Street

supporters don’t know what they’ve

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By Tarif Haque

Some claim that Occupy Wall Street has been thus far a sense-less spectacle of the jobless who break windows, push old ladies and leave cities in “shambles.” These stereotyped perceptions of Occupy Wall Street breed ignorance and sensationalism. It is equivalent to calling every Muslim a terrorist or every German a Nazi. It is easy to regur-gitate the drama while sidelining the silent activists. Perhaps it has been forgotten that Wall Street institutions cre-ated this economic situation in the first place. Of course, this will be argued, but the facts lie simply before us. To blame Washington for an economic crisis is like blaming the cop for not putting

out the fire. At the heart of the economy lies the flow of money; to examine where the money resides is only natural. Banks lending money with-out having it (in pursuit of more money, of course) sounds a little off to me. Just a little. I find it troublesome to have at the core of this nation a system where wealth is pooled into the hands of a few who can dictate the econo-my of all. Wealth I have no prob-lem with. When the greed behind it affects others, I do. Clearly, the unemployed should not be victim-ized. We then arrive at the iconic statistic: the top one percent of income earners provide 36.73 percent of federal tax revenues. To suggest they already pay enough is unfortunate, because if

anything, this should highlight how stratified wealth distribu-tion is in this nation. Regardless, because Occupy Wall Street does not aim to penalize merely the rich, as the statistic implies, this is once again irrelevant. Occupy Wall Street has been under attack as “anarchist” and “irrational.” I think it is worth pointing out the same was said about the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Rights Movement. Do we believe we represent 99 percent of Americans? Yes, we believe that 99 percent of Americans hold strong in the belief that people should fix what they break. Tarif Haque is a freshman major-ing in computer science and biol-ogy.

By Michael Patrick@MikeJohnPat

My time at the University of Alabama has afforded me many opportunities to look back on my years here with great nostalgia. My classes, my friends, and my experiences have all played a vital role in developing me into the person I am. It may be a little early to start a senior fare-well column, especially considering the reality that I will not be graduating until May. This is not a farewell column. This is, however, a reminder of sorts to seniors. This is a look at my bucket list that I created at the end of my freshman year at Alabama, and a reminder for other seniors to look at theirs. Time is quickly catching up to us and we need to make sure we have acquired as many checks as possible. The first thing that was crossed off of my bucket list was a visit to City Café in Northport at the ungodly hour that it opens – four in the morning. My first visit was clouded by some sort of spiced rum, but worry not because the outcome was a lot better than a subsequent visit to Waffle House later that semester.

City Café proved to be everything that it was rumored to be – good, cheap food, a delightful atmosphere and wonderfully Southern ser-vice. I truly believe that every student at the University should have this experience. My only advice is that you avoid throwing up in the bath-room. It’s rude and they don’t take kindly to that tomfoolery. Coincidentally, the next checkbox I was able to fill on my bucket list of Tuscaloosa is located directly behind City Café. It’s the Northport Silo. Be forewarned that this location strictly forbids trespassing, and I do not advise that you ever go. It may seem like a good idea, but trust me, that silo has a lot more rungs to its ladders than I ever wished to climb. However, I might add that the view of Tuscaloosa from the top is unbeatable. For you nature lovers- who have my utmost respect but whom I will never understand- I have a box checked for people just like your-selves. The Tuscaloosa Cliffs are located on the other side of the city on one of Tuscaloosa’s beautiful lakes. Just one or two strange roads will lead you to this area that has a phenom-enal view of the lake and provides a great place to picnic if you are into that sort of stuff. Some people like to jump off of these cliffs, but as gravity and I have an unstable and sometimes disastrous relationship, I have never partaken in this. One of Tuscaloosa’s most infamous land-marks ,both for its creepiness and for its rep-resentation of the dedication Lurleen Wallace had to reforming mental health in the state of Alabama ,is Old Bryce. High school and college students looking to find a good scare frequent it, and as everyone has their own myths about the establishment, this usually seems to work out. Trespassing is also not advised at this loca-tion, so if you have a fear of being arrested it might be best to avoid this as well. Finally, during my tenure at The University of Alabama, I was able to cross getting to the roof of an academic building off of my bucket list. I know the University might not appreciate it, but we all know a little bit of rebellion is healthy for academic growth. You won’t find many interest-ing things atop an academic building, but you will find a unique sense of accomplishment you can’t obtain anywhere else. Being able to cross these things off of my bucket list has provided me with some of my fondest memories at the Capstone, and I hope that each student creates and completes their bucket lists before it’s too late.

Michael Patrick is a senior majoring in political science. His column runs on Tuesdays.

By Jake Gray@JAGray55

Alabama is a football school. There is no doubt about that and no point in arguing otherwise. Each year, the expectations just get higher. A down year is a ten-win season and a blowout in a big bowl game. A good year is possi-bly losing a game and competing for a national championship. An expected year is an undefeated season and a national champion-ship. Such is the life of the modern day Alabama football fan: over-inflated expectations and over-whelming energy leading to big games. Throughout the course of my life, Alabama basketball has never had that luxury. Sure, there was that time many years ago we made an incredible run in the NCAA tournament into the Elite Eight. That amazing accomplish-ment was only followed by regres-sion and mediocrity in the dwin-dling years of the Mark Gottfried era. Then came Anthony Grant. It may have taken him a few years, but he finally has the world recog-nizing him. After one game in the 2011 season, expectations may be the highest they have been since the Wimp Sanderson era of the ‘80s. The Tide, led by three returning

starters and a flurry of dynamic freshmen, is currently ranked No. 16 in the nation, according to the Associated Press. What Grant has done in his third year coaching the team is turn a program in the doldrums into an early SEC con-tender. Gone is the anemic Gottfried high-post offense. Gone are the inconsistent lineups and attitude problems that Tide fans have grown accustomed to. The 2011 team is by no means polished, but they are hungry and willing to put in the effort to become a tournament-ready team. While the team loses two senior starters in Chris Hines and Charvez Davis, they return the core group of a team that went undefeated at home and made it to the NIT championship in New York. Back is JaMychal Green. The former McDonald’s All-American has had a roller-coaster career at the Capstone. Finally in his senior season, Green seems to have developed the maturity and dis-cipline to lead a team to its first NCAA tournament since 2006. Trevor Releford and Tony Mitchell also return. Mitchell is one of the more athletic play-ers in the SEC. He also provides a substantial mismatch to many teams, as there are not many play-ers that can contain his 6’6 frame, along with his jumping ability and

speed. Releford’s ball control and awareness is what separated him from most freshmen in the SEC last year. Coach Grant has “given him the keys” to this year’s team, and he will be called on to lead a backcourt that predominantly consists of freshmen. This team is the real deal. Grant pulled in possibly the best basket-ball recruiting class this universi-ty has ever seen and each of them is prepared to compete. The only things missing are the fans. This team feeds off of crowd energy. They proved that last year with their stunning undefeated record at home. It is up to the student body to rally around this team and make Coleman Coliseum a truly difficult place to compete. If the student section in Bryant -Denny Stadium can be complete-ly full two and a half hours before a football game, there is no excuse for Coleman to not be filled every home game. As Grant says in every pre-game video, it is time to make Tuscaloosa one of the hardest places to play in the country. This team has the leadership and tal-ent to bring Alabama basketball to a level it has never been before. All it n eeds is the support.

Jake Gray is a senior majoring in economics and journalism. His column runs on Tuesdays.

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Don’t stereotype movement

This is, however, a reminder of sorts to seniors. This is a look at my bucket list that I created at the end of my freshman year at Alabama, and a reminder for other seniors

to look at theirs. Time is quickly catching up to us and we need to make sure we have

acquired as many checks as possible.

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By Ashley Smith

As a student who was home schooled since preschool, I experienced a bit of a culture shock when I began dual enroll-ing at a community college at age 16. I was suddenly surrounded by people from a huge variety of backgrounds, lifestyles, beliefs and work ethics, many of which had a penchant for using curse words in place of adjectives. But what surprised me the most was the number of people who simply did not care. Coming to class, completing assign-ments on time and getting good grades were all optional. After two years there, I got used to the culture that had been so new to me. Because of my experience in community college, I had a better idea of what to expect in entering The University of Alabama this fall. What I’ve seen so far hasn’t surprised me that much: students scraping by on

five hours of sleep, chowing down on junk food, getting plastered on weekends, watching TV for hours on end, spending a big chunk on shopping and eating out, being content with C’s on tests, mind-lessly consuming entertainment satu-rated with depravity, pulling all-nighters to throw together the paper that’s due the next morning, sleeping with the per-son they met in a drunken haze at the last frat party, complaining about their school workload without really trying to tackle it and the list goes on. All of this seems to be done in the name of embrac-ing college independence, taking advan-tage of new opportunities and having fun. But only one common thread really runs through it all: “OK” is good enough and it’s fine to be stuck at “average.” It’s really a shame that I, and a lot of other people, have come to expect low standards from our age group. We stu-dents all probably know deep down that

college is supposed to prepare us aca-demically, socially, vocationally, spiritu-ally, physically, mentally and emotion-ally to be responsible adults in the real world. Yet the habits that many of us are developing don’t lead in that direc-tion. They are more the habits of barely-made-it-through graduates who move back home after college and play video games all day than the habits of success-ful, mature, independent adults. I don’t mean to suggest that college students as a whole are lazy, irrespon-sible bums. On the contrary, a lot of students are truly driven, talented, and hardworking people. But with so many new ideas, distractions and opportu-nities all around us, it is so easy for us to fail to reach our fullest potential. It’s easy to settle for less without even think-ing that there is so much more we could be reaching for. It’s easy to take the first good sound-

ing thing to come along without pausing to consider that there might be some-thing better. And every time we take the easy way out, we cheat ourselves. I believe that we should stop viewing each day as simply another 24 hours to get through. Rather, we should make each day a step towards what we want to be. We should stop going with the flow of mediocrity and instead challenge each other to go beyond it. I recently started www.allungo.blogspot.com for the pur-pose of mutual inspiration and encour-agement, so that those of us who believe that there’s more can have a place to dis-cuss and share ideas. I don’t think there are as few of us as some might think. We need to start by not being willing to settle anymore. It’s time that we started reaching for our fullest potential.

Ashley Smith is a freshman majoring in dance and apparel design.

Students should reach for fullest potential

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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By Brett SaundersContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Restaurant and Hospitality College along with the Art College will be hosting “UA Painting with a Purpose,” tonight at 6 in the Ferguson Ballroom. There, students will paint portraits to commemo-rate Morgan Sigler, one of the six UA students who died in the April 27 tornado The event will help raise money for the Morgan Sigler fund, which gives art supplies to children in need overseas.

“It feels great to do this; she would be the first person to sign up for this,” said Jordan Buff, a senior majoring in res-taurant and hospitality man-agement. “Morgan was very passionate about her art.” Buff, Sigler’s roommate before the tornado, decided to create this event to help Sigler’s fund at the beginning of the semester when she was asked to do a project in one of her classes. “Morgan’s parents have been helping with this all semester long and will be at the event tomorrow night,”

Buff said. “They are bringing her artwork to put on display,” Caleb O’Connor, whose work will be displayed in the new Federal building in down-town Tuscaloosa, will instruct artists of all skill levels at the event tonight. “We expect a lot of people to come out and support this event and the fund,” said Lauren Scoggan, a junior dou-ble majoring in Spanish and restaurant hospitality and meetings management. “We have also been work-ing with the art department to help us with this process,”

said Scoggan. The event will be free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted at the door. Refreshments and TCBY yogurt will be offered at the event before the instructions for the painting starts. Sigler’s paintings will be displayed at 6 p.m., and the instructions and painting will begin at 6:30 p.m. The paint-ing should last for one to two hours. For more information on this event contact the Ferguson center at 205-348-7525.

Painting event remembers UA studentBy Elizabeth Manning

Contributing Writer The first annual Chocolate Festival will raise awareness of women’s health issues while also giving students, faculty and staff members the opportunity to satisfy their sweet tooth by sampling different kinds of choc-olate. The event, hosted by the University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center and Tuscaloosa’s One Place, is this Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the University Recreation Center. Cyndi Hamner, administrative secretary at the WRC and the woman behind the festival, said she got the idea from another health center. “We went to a Southeastern Women’s Center at Virginia Tech, and some of the students were hosting a chocolate festival to raise awareness about breast cancer and other health issues,” Hamner said. Tickets for the event are avail-able for $7 online at the WRC’s website, wrc.ua.edu. Students who want to pay at the door will be charged $8, and only 250 tick-ets will be sold. The tickets will grant the par-ticipant five samples of choco-late. Vendors from multiple loca-tions in Tuscaloosa will have booths at the festival. The list of businesses includes Crimson Café, Jason’s Deli, Sam’s Club, Zoe’s, Sweet Temptations, Celebrations Bakery, Starbucks, Madeline’s, Coldstone Creamery, Full Moon BBQ, Events Catering, and Nutshop. Sheena Quizon, assistant director of nutrition educa-tion and health services for

the Department of Health Promotion and Wellness, will also talk about the nutritional side of chocolate at the festival. Paired with the sweet samples at each booth will be a small edu-cational component on a specific women’s health issue. Some businesses and issues are paired together for a specific reason. The owner of Madeline’s, for instance, requested that breast cancer be that booth’s issue because of a friend who battled the illness. Puneet Gill, the education and programming coordinator and graduate student helping with the event, said the WRC will split the proceeds from the ben-efit with Tuscaloosa’s One Place. “We have a variety of different events we do at the WRC that are non-profit driven, and we are constantly looking for ways to fund them,” Gill said. As for specific purposes for the money, the WRC is not yet sure how the funds will be put to use. Tuscaloosa’s One Place, start-ed in 1998, is a family resource center that has helped in relief efforts following the April 27 tor-nado. The mission of the center is to promote self-sufficiency, strengthen families, and prevent child abuse and neglect, accord-ing to their website. “Many storm victims still need help, and the Tuscaloosa community needs to be more aware of women’s health issues, so it’s a worthy cause,” Hamner said. For more information on the Chocolate Festival, visit the WRC Facebook page or the WRC website. Those interested in attending can purchase tick-ets to the event on uaferguson.tix.com.

First annual Chocolate Festival hosted by WRC

Professors provide academic advice to live by

• “If you are seri-ous about learn-ing something, you have to work hard.”• “Be realistic about your strengths and weaknesses.”• “Keep up with cur-rent affairs. Know what is going on around the world.”

James LeeperProfessor of Community & Rural Medicine

• “Success in college is much easier when you show up to class, turn in homework and find a study group.”• “Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” (Quoting Jim Horning)• “Don’t be afraid to go for what you want. College life is short, and the world is at your feet – enjoy.”

Pauline JohnsonProfessor of engineering

• “Much of success in life depends on time management, organization and the ability to communicate clearly. Words give you power. Every day, learn a new one and practice the craft of using them in speech and writing to work your will in the world.”• “Know it’s OK to be different – from the mainstream, from your family, from peers – and that what’s important is love, honor and taking yourself seriously.”• “Connect with your inner child’s boundless curiosity and delight with the world. Be engaged, open and passionate in your lifelong learning.”

Catherine RoachNew College professor

By Lis Garcia

• “I wish that students had a better sense of what can be gained from the study abroad experience. It can often cost as little as or less than it does to stay at the University. Learning a foreign lan-guage is one of the healthiest things you can do for your brain.”• “The central task of education is to think differently. Use this time in your life to challenge your beliefs and values. The point is not that we should all just get along, but rather to test one’s beliefs and values against others.”• “Do not leave college without feeling like you have learned to write well. Students have to seek it out.”

William NolanAssistant Professor of film and literary studies, Honors College

Wesley ChurchAssociate Professor of social work

• “It’s okay to respectfully disagree or challenge faculty members. That just leads to greater learning.”• “You really are in control of your own destiny. No one cares as much about your success as you do. Have a vision of where you want to go.”• “Professors are people, too. All the stuff you guys are going through, professors are going through that, too. Be forgiving of faculty members because we make mistakes, too.”

Jennifer GreerProfessor of journalism, also chair of the

Journalism Dept.

Michael Innis-JiménezAssistant Professor of American Studies

• “Fear is the enemy. Most bar-riers are really self-imposed.”• “A business approach, regardless of what you’re doing, can really enhance your ability of success.”• “Loving relationships are a lot more valuable than money.”

James BrownProfessor of marketing

Mike LittleAdvertising Professor in College of Communications

• “Your professors do not give you your grades – you earn them through hard work and perseverance.”• “Edit, edit, edit. Your first draft is not your best work.”• “Your attitude, habits and performance as a student are indicative of your attitude, habits and performance as a citizen in general. Now is the time to shape who you will be in the future.”

• “It’s okay to think outside the box.”• “Read before class.”• “Go out of your way to get to know your professor. Visit your professor during office hours.”

• “The very first thing that is the most helpful is to know what you want to do as soon as possible. Fully understand your major and minor choices. Those that know have so much time to take advantage of opportunities on campus. College is not a place to find yourself. It’s a place to hone yourself.”• “Interests are important. Strengths

are more important. Choose a career path based on your strengths rather than your interests.”• “Don’t treat college as 13th grade. The impressions that you make are professional.”

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By Isabela Morales

Put away your half-started manuscripts and tragic hopes, creative writing minors. In an economy like ours, your chances of publication are bleak - unless, that is, you have unlimited access to a mind-enhancing “smart pill” called MDT-48. That’s the premise of Alan Glynn’s novel “Limitless,” anyway (originally published as “The Dark Fields” in 2001). You might remember “Limitless” from theaters last spring. In any case, it was the movie with Robert DeNiro and that guy from “The Hangover,” and I guess it was pretty good. The visual effects that critics like to describe with words like “stunning” or “experimental” kept with the movie’s billing as a techno-thriller, sure, but in the end they just left me dizzy. What I found truly stunning – dizzying enough to reverse that age-old tradition of read-ing the book first and seeing the movie second – were the ideas. “Limitless” is a novel about human enhancement. And while our trans-humanist hero Eddie Spinola’s journey might end up in some unlikely situations (convincing a shady Russian loan shark to give him half a million dollars by promising to write him into a screenplay about the Mafia, for example), in terms of believabil-ity Glynn’s novel is light-years ahead of old-school science fic-tion that couldn’t see beyond evil cyborgs or disembodied brains in jars. Chances are, the future’s going to look a lot more like “Limitless” than “I, Robot.” Eddie Spinola starts the novel writing his own novel (that’s right, it’s meta from the very first page), with a day job as a copy editor at some podunk publishing firm. There may have been a point in the distant past at which he had his life together, but it certainly isn’t now, fifty pounds and one

failed marriage later. Lucky, then, that his ex-wife’s brother hasn’t changed at all. When they serendipi-tously meet on the street one mediocre morning, Eddie’s drug-dealer-in-law gives him a sample of a mysterious sub-stance that propels the intelli-gent but unmotivated Eddie to the stratosphere of genius and productivity. Lucky, also, that Eddie gets his hands on the entire existing supply of MDT-48 when his supplier gets offed in a very messy scene that I’ll happily leave to Alan Glynn for description. Taking half, then one, then two or three pills a day, Eddie finds himself playing the stock market like a true Wall Street One-Percenter – with the spare time to wax philosophical about the global trading net-work as a “template for human consciousness” or “humanity’s collective nervous system.” You don’t have to have seen the movie to guess that with great power comes great responsibility, and even greater plot twists (involving many, many terrible things happen-ing to our Eddie Spinola as he spins out of control). But even if you did see “Limitless” in theaters, the original, words-only iteration is well worth the read. In fact, it might not be fair to compare the two versions at all: the book is so much more nuanced – subtle where the movie is showy – that it makes you think even while calling itself a techno-thriller. Along those lines, what’s most impressive is how Glynn makes an apparently far-fetched plot completely believ-able – from the ideas about boosting human intelligence to the political context of the United States invading (pardon me, “liberating,”) Mexico (from drug cartel tyranny, ironically enough). By the end, you get the feeling that not only could this book happen – it could be happening right now.

By Courtney Stinson Contributing Writer

Maxim Magazine will give members of the Tuscaloosa com-munity a chance to have fun while raising funds for Tuscaloosa tor-nado relief tonight at Rounders on The Strip. The event, hosted by Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, will last from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The party will be complete with giveaways, raffles and all night drink specials. Big names such as Maxim, Crown Royal, Pinnacle, Bud Light, Fireball and several oth-ers will be giving away coozies, keychains, T-shirts and other freebies. Hungry Howie’s on the Strip is also offering a $1 dis-count on pizza for showing your ticket from the event tonight. Two footballs autographed by current Crimson Tide players will be raffled off. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 10 for $5.

The night’s entertainment will include Tuscaloosa band Trial By Fire performing onstage and DJ Spinns in the back room. Four Maxim girls will be flown in for the party and will be avail-able for photos and to help with the night’s promos and give-aways. The Maxim girls will be styled locally at Tara Lane Salon, who is also offering a Maxim makeover – which includes hair and makeup – to be given away at the fundraiser. Tickets to the event are $10 each. Money from ticket sales and raffle tickets, as well as a portion of Rounders’ sales, will benefit Tuscaloosa tornado relief. Some of the money from ticket sales will also benefit the lacrosse teams as part of their fundraising goals. “[We hope to raise] as much as possible,” said Karl Loehle, DTD Philanthropy Chair. “Hopefully it turns out to be a few thousand dollars.” Aside from raising funds for

tornado relief, Charlie White, one of the event organizers, hopes the event will raise aware-ness about the continuing needs of the city and the surrounding areas that were impacted by the April 27 tornado. “[The Maxim event] will bring attention to the fact that the recovery of this community is far from over and that contin-ued efforts need to be made to raise the necessary awareness and funds to those still suffering from the tornado’s impact,” said Jason Hebert, men’s lacrosse president and team captain. Hebert looks forward to the opportunity to work with other campus organizations to achieve a common goal. “[Men’s lacrosse is] looking forward to working with the women’s lacrosse team, Delta Tau Delta, Rounders and stu-dents from all across campus to raise funds for the victims of the natural disaster last April,” Hebert said.

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Denny Chimes was lit blue last night to raise awareness for World Diabetes Day, which is celebrated every year on Nov. 14. This date was chosen on behalf of Frederick Banting’s birthday, the man who discov-ered insulin in 1921 along with Charles Best. All across the world, recog-nized buildings, monuments and even various homes were lit in blue from sundown to mid-night in remembrance of World Diabetes Day. “Alabama has the highest rate of diabetes throughout the U.S. – every one in 20 peo-ple have diabetes,” said Mary Elizabeth Halliday, a senior majoring in food and nutrition. “The numbers are pretty out-standing…it’s shocking.” As a food and nutrition major, Halliday has learned much about diabetes in the classroom and wanted to bring diabetes awareness to the Tuscaloosa community. She got involved with World Diabetes Day to express how diabetes has become a world pandemic, not limited to the United States. Out of the 160 different coun-tries that partake in World Diabetes Day, Japan has the largest effort relative to other countries in raising awareness for diabetes. Other countries include Australia, Costa Rica, India, Kenya, Qatar and many more. “We’re behind the ball with this one as a nation,” said Genna Jones, College of Human Environmental Sciences execu-tive secretary. Jones helped guide Halliday through the process of approv-als and paper work, but

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she stressed that without Halliday’s hard work and dedication to the cause, there would be no lighting of Denny Chimes. Halliday explains the sym-bol denoting diabetes is a blue circle. This symbol comes from the United Nations flag, which is blue. The UN made World Diabetes Day an international holiday, according to Halliday. “The circle represents unity of our entire globe coming together on this day to pro-mote education about diabetes because it’s affecting so many people,” Halliday said. Jones said that there were only 10 days to get the approval for this event when she heard about the proposal. Various obstacles stood in their way, yet all those whom they need-ed agreements from were on board with the plan. “This is not just putting up a

tent on the quad,” Jones said. “This is huge.” Everyone is encouraged to change their Facebook pro-file picture to the blue Denny Chimes, found on the CHES Facebook page, for a week or just tag yourself in the pic-ture to continue to spread awareness of this cause and to remember those who suffer with diabetes, Jones said. This is the first time anything like this has happened here at the University of Alabama. Additionally, Alabama is one of the first universities in the United States to be involved in this lighting. Halliday said she wants people to realize that diabe-tes is just as important as all other diseases out there and she wants to encourage people to change certain habits they may have that can lead to or worsen diabetes.

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Power run game. Short throws. Move the chains. That’s what Alabama has seen in recent weeks from opposing offenses, but it will face an entirely new system when Georgia Southern comes to Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday. The Eagles run the triple option, a variation of the old wishbone offense that relies heavily on a running quarter-back to make the decision to hand the ball off to the fullback, keep it himself or pitch it to one of the wing backs. The team is doing extra prep-aration this week because of the different offense, and the focus has been on discipline. “You’re going to get a lot of cut blocks, a lot of different blocking schemes,” said senior nose tackle Josh Chapman, who will play a pivotal role in stop-ping the run. “But it’s about going out and doing our job, watching film and watching the path of the running backs.” Nick Saban has been in coach-ing for almost 40 years, and said that it’s been a while since he’s

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The Crimson Tide women’s basketball team won their first game of the season at home, and now they are quickly head-ing out for their first road test. The Tide will take on the Central Arkansas Sugar Bears Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Farris Center in Conway, Ark. “Because it’s our first road game, I think the players are going to be excited about going to play in somebody else’s venue,” head coach Wendell Hudson said. “Central Arkansas is a very good basketball team. They had a great crowd when they played Indiana, so we’re expecting to play in front of a really great, hostile crowd, which will tell us a lot about ourselves really ear-ly…I think this is going to be a really big test for us, and we’re really excited about it.”

Both teams won their sea-son openers. Alabama over-took Nicholls State 72-51, while Central Arkansas beat Indiana 58-46. Hudson said the Tide must be defensively aware and shut down Sugar Bear perimeter players who are a threat from beyond the three-point line. “We have to be sure that our perimeter defense is what it should be because all five of their players on the floor can really shoot the ball from the perim-eter,” he said. Central Arkansas made 61.5 percent from the three. Junior Westin Taylor made five of the team’s eight three-point field goals. Junior guard Meghan Perkins led the Tide in scoring with 13 points. Freshman Aneesah Daniels tallied 10 rebounds and seven points, while senior guard Ericka Russell tallied 11 points and moved into the 1,000 point club for her college career.

Alabama held Nicholls State to 29 percent shooting and forced 19 turnovers. The Tide shot 55 percent from the free-throw line, making 16 out of 29 attempts. Hudson says there are still improvements that can be made to become a better team. “The biggest thing that we have to improve on is being ready to play right off the bat, as soon as we get started,” he said. “What we did in the Nicholls State game, I thought we came out in the second half and real-ly played well and really had it turned up, but we did not start the game with the intensity level that we needed to start that par-ticular game with.” Alabama played Central Arkansas for the first time last year in Tuscaloosa, winning 87-76. The game will be on the airwaves on WACT-FM 1420 and can be heard on Crimson Tide Sports Network.

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seen an offense like this. “We played Army when they used to run the wishbone when I was at Michigan State as a defensive coordinator in the ‘80s,” Saban said. “We played Navy when I was head coach at Toledo [in 1990], that might be the last time.” Preparation has been ongo-ing, even before the season started. “We did a lot of research and a lot of study on these guys in

the offseason,” Saban said, “because we knew they were going to be one of the most dif-ferent teams that we play.”

Season-ending surgeries to Arie and Cyrus Kuandjio and the recent ankle injury to Barrett Jones have limited the depth on Alabama’s offensive

line. The Kuandjios were key backups, and Jones saw major playing time at almost every position on the line. However, the running game has continued to succeed, due in large part to other players being able to step in and contribute. Alfred McCullough, for exam-ple, played the entire Mississippi State game at left tackle and the Tide rushed for over 200 yards. And the rest of the offense is taking notice.

“We have capable backups, and those guys did a wonderful job Saturday,” receiver Marquis Maze said. “You really can’t ask for much more.”

Alabama got as much help off the field as they could ask for on Saturday as two undefeated teams fell and were effectively knocked out of the national championship game picture. Boise State missed a last sec-ond field goal against TCU, and Stanford was routed by Oregon, 53-30. “TCU came out and played a great game against Boise,” safety Robert Lester said. “Obviously the better team won. It betters our chances of getting to where we want to be. Sorry that Boise State had to lose, but we’re excited about getting that opportunity.” Josh Chapman was a little less enthusiastic. “We saw the score when we were on the bus on the way back,” Chapman said. “It is what it is. I kind of dozed off on the bus, so I really don’t even know.”

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CW | Harish RaoLeft: Jesse Williams (54) practiced on Monday for the home game against Georgia Southern. Ala-bama will play Georgia Southern at Bryant Denny Stadium this Saturday. Above: Alabama practiced on Monday for the home game against Georgia Southern. Alabama will play Georgia Southern at Bryant Denny Stadium this Saturday.

“I believe all of the coverage on ESPN has been very war-ranted and definitely not exces-sive,” UA sophomore Charley Irons said. “The scandal hap-pening at PSU is quite unprec-edented and deserves the 24/7 coverage. I watched parts of the PSU game on Saturday and there was a lot of mention of Joe Pa. It was warranted as well because of his effect on the school. The most moving thing was seeing his son cry after the game.” Constant negative coverage was especially hard on Penn State students. “It is unfortunate that the coverage is for something like this,” Loy said. “If you are casu-ally there and you have any kind of news station on, you see Penn State. You get to a point where you want to be like it’s not even happening.” The riots Wednesday night added to the negative view sur-rounding the Penn State cam-pus. However, UA senior Kayla Glass said the riots do not rep-resent Penn State as a whole. “As is usually the case, I believe the student riots at Penn State represent only a small percentage of their stu-dents,” Glass said. “Though we’re quick to judge them for placing all the emphasis on the firing of Joe Paterno, we for-get about the efforts of other students to honor the victims through student-led candle

light vigils and other events.” On Saturday, PSU took the field against Nebraska under the leadership of interim head coach Tom Bradley. For Penn State players, the last home game of the season added to what was an emotional day as the Nittany Lions fell to Nebraska 17-14. “You could easily see pain in the eyes of the players on senior day,” said UA senior John McWilliams, who watched the game from Tuscaloosa. “When they entered the field walking arm-in-arm, the crowd greeted them with a standing ovation. The Penn State and Nebraska players met at mid-field and were led in prayer by a Nebraska assistant coach. The Penn State players looked lost. A guy who was revered as much more than a coach wasn’t on the field. Penn State played exceptionally well despite the distractions. Even though Penn State lost by three points, the players showed resiliency.” Penn State still has two games left on its schedule and controls its own destiny in the Leaders division of the Big Ten. “I think football wise this might be the ideal group of guys to handle something like this,” Loy said. “All the games that they have come back from, or all the games that they held a late lead, they have talked about how they have a mental-ity and a comradery between the guys. I feel like they will be able to handle this well and will be able to come together even more.”

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The freshmen’s effect on the game was easy to see by all of the 9,876 people in attendance and was clearly felt by the Oakland coaching staff. “I think you have to guard them with the athleticism they have,” Oakland head coach Greg Kampe said. “I think, for freshmen, they have learned to defend very quickly. It’s hard to teach a freshman to defend. Maybe [Grant] recruited them because they could defend or maybe he’s just a hell of a coach and taught them that fast. I can’t

teach freshmen to defend like that that quickly.” “I think those guys had an impact in a lot of ways. You can-not discount the impact they had on the defensive end,” Grant said. “I do not know the numbers they had on the offensive end, but I thought those guys impact-ed the game for the majority of the time they were on the floor.” Both Cooper and Lacey had a profound effect on the second half offensively for the Tide. All of Cooper’s six points and eight of Lacey’s 10 points came in the second half, and both were per-fect from the free throw line in the second half. Near the end of the second

half, as Alabama was puttingthe game out of reach for good,the Tide got 14 straight pointsfrom the offensive onslaught ofCooper and Lacey, taking thegame from 56-41 with over 13minutes left to 70-47 with onlyfour minutes and 56 seconds left. Though a decisive win athome over a consistent tourna-ment contender may be impres-sive, Grant is keeping his playersin tune with the mental state ofhis program. “I think our guys played welltonight, but we have to under-stand that there are good signswith this team,” Grant said. “ButI don’t think we’ve scratched thesurface of how good we can be.”

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