07.13.11

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 118, Issue 7

LIFESTYLES1313Art exhibits showcase

local talent

Plea

se recy

cle this paper • Please recycle this paper•

P.O. Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom: 348-6144 | Fax: 348-8036 | Advertising: 348-7845 | Classifi eds: 348-7355

Letters, op-eds: [email protected] Press releases, announcements: [email protected]

Calendar ...................2

Opinions ...................4

Lifestyles .................. 11

WEATHER todayINSIDE today’s paperSports ..................... 13

Puzzles .................... 15

Classifieds ............... 15

Chance ofthunderstorms

95º/76º

Thursday 94º/74ºChance of thunderstorms

THE FINAL CHAPTER

By Robert MooreCourtesy of The Daily Prophet

Across the world, fans are gearing up to say goodbye to the well-known and loved wiz-ard, Harry Potter. On July 15 at midnight, the final installment of the series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2,” will open to scores of sold-out theaters. Audiences were introduced

to the boy wizard in 1998 when the first book, “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone,” was published by author J.K. Rowling. Three years later, the movie was released, and millions throughout the world were consumed by wizardry. After 10 years, seven books and eight movies, fans are forced to say goodbye to the beloved characters. The series tells the story of

a young boy, Harry, whose par-ents are murdered by a dark wizard, Lord Voldemort. When attempting to kill Harry, the dark lord himself is destroyed. Through the use of magic, the dark wizard is able to bring himself back to life and becomes determined to seek revenge on the boy and become ruler of both the magical and non-magical communities. It is up to Harry and his friends to

stop him and save the world. “This boy will be famous. There won’t be a child in our world who doesn’t know his name,” said Professor McGonagall in the first install-ment; this is true in both fiction and reality. The books have been published worldwide in 67 languages, and the movies have grossed over $6.3 billion. Ashley McDaniel, a senior, said she is excited about the

“This boy will be famous. There won’t be a child in our world who doesn’t know his name.”

— Professor McGonagall, professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

movie and is planning to see it at the midnight showing. She already purchased her ticket and said she is going to arrive

about two hours early to make sure she gets a good seat.

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. PicturesEmma Watson as Hermione Granger, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley prepare for the fi nal confrontation in Warner Bros. Pictures’ fantasy adventure “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”

See POTTER, page 6

UA encourages bike registration

By Lauren CrainContributing Writer

Across the city of Tuscaloosa, homes are being rebuilt and repaired after the devastating effects of the April 27 tornado. UA students are helping out with relief efforts by collaborat-ing with Auburn University to build a home for a family that lost their house in Tuscaloosa. The project, House United, was scheduled to be held in Baldwin County, Ala., during the month of June as a joint Habitat for Humanity build with Auburn University. However, due to the tornado, the build has been relocated to Tuscaloosa and rescheduled for July 18 through 22. Wahnee Sherman, director of the Community Service Center, said House United is a new opportunity for students to get involved in helping families in Tuscaloosa. The idea is to have

By Sarah MasseySenior Staff Reporter

[email protected]

Beginning in fall 2011, stu-dents will be introduced to a new bicycle policy. Generated out of concern for both pedes-trians and cyclists, this new policy encourages students to register their bicycles if they plan to park them on campus. Registration is currently free to all students and not manda-tory for the fall semester. On July 19, students will be able to go online at bamaparking.ua.edu to reg-ister their bikes, where they will be required to provide the serial number, brand name and color of the bike. They may also attach a photo

of their bike online if they desire. Each registrant will be given a decal with a specific

REGISTERING• On July 19, students can register their bikes at bamaparking.ua.edu, where they will be asked to provide the serial number, brand name and color of the bike.

• Bike permits can then be picked up at Student Services Center, Room 101.

See BIKES, page 2

Alabama, Auburn team up to rebuild home

students from these two rival institutions come together to do something positive in the state of Alabama. Despite being rivals on the football field, the two institutions will come together to make a positive impact. Caroline Dorning, a gradu-ate student at the University of Alabama, is assisting with the

“This collaboration is one way of showing that community and good will go beyond school rivalries. It is a benefi t to get to work with students from another school to help those in need.”

— Caroline Dorning, a graduate student the

University

See HABITAT, page 2

This is a photo from last year’s Habitat for Hu-manity Project.This year, students from Ala-bama and Auburn will again work together to build a home.

Submitted photo

Former UA players stay in shape during lockout

SPORTS1010

ON

TH

E G

O

The Crimson White is the community newspaper of The University of Alabama. The Crimson White is an editorially free newspaper produced by students. The University of Alabama cannot influ-ence editorial decisions and editorial opinions are those of the editorial board and do not represent the official opinions of the University. Advertising offices of The Crimson White are on the first floor, Student Publications Building, 923 University Blvd. The adver-tising mailing address is P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, AL 35403-2389. The Crimson White (USPS 138020) is published four times weekly when classes are in session during Fall and Spring Semester except for the Monday after Spring Break and the Monday after Thanksgiving, and once a week when school is in session for the summer. Marked calendar provided. The Crimson White is provided for free up to three issues. Any other papers are $1.00. The subscription rate for The Crimson White is $125 per year. Checks should be made payable to The University of Alabama and sent to: The Crimson White Subscription Department, P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, AL 35403-2389. The Crimson White is entered as peri-odical postage at Tuscaloosa, AL 35401. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Crimson White, P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, AL 35403-2389. All material contained herein, except advertising or where indicated oth-erwise, is Copyright © 2010 by The Crimson White and protected under the “Work Made for Hire” and “Periodical Publication” categories of the U.S. copy-right laws. Material herein may not be reprinted without the expressed, written permission of The Crimson White.

• Wednesday,July 13, 2011

ADVERTISING

EDITORIAL

• Emily Richards, Advertising Manager, 348-8995, [email protected]• Dana Anderzejewski, Advertising Coordinator, 348-8044• Brittany Key, Territory Manager, 348-2598• Emily Frost, National Advertising/Classifieds, 348-8042• Greg Woods, Zone 3, 348-8054• Jessica West, Zone 4, 348-8735• Robert Clark, Zone 5, 348-2670• Will DeShazo, Zone 6, 348-6876• Amy Ramsey, Zone 7, 348-8742• Rachel Childers, Zone 8, 348-8054• Tori Hall, Zone 44, 348-6153• Lauren Aylworth, Creative Services Manager, 348-8042

ONLINE ON THE CALENDAR

FRIDAY

What: House United Habi-tat for Humanity Blitz Build 2011

Where: Community Service Center, Room 346 Ferguson Student Center

When: All Day

Submit your events to [email protected]

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TOMORROW

What: Free photos with Big Al

Where: Ferguson Center SUPe Store

When: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

What: Homegrown Ala-bama Farmers Market

Where: Canterbury Epis-copal Chapel

When: 3 – 6 p.m.

• Jonathan Reed, editor-in-chief, [email protected]• Adam Greene, managing editor• Katherine Martin, news editor, [email protected]• Stephanie Brumfield, lifestyles editor • Tony Tsoukalas, sports editor • Wesley Vaughn, opinions editor • Brandee Easter, design editor • Brian Pohuski, graphics editor • Drew Hoover, photo editor • Brian Connell, web editor• Daniel Roth, multimedia editor • Malcolm Cammeron, community manager, [email protected]

Weekly volunteer updates

Check cw.ua.edu for updates on how to volunteer around Tuscaloosa

and what parts of the city are in need of what.

Follow @TheCrimsonWhite on

Twitter and visit cw.ua.edu for the latest updates on Tucaloosa’s recovery and everything going on

around campus.

UA student to find love on CMT reality show

By Katherine Mitchell

“Sweet Home Alabama,” a new “Bachelorette”-style show on CMT, debuts Thursday night at 8 p.m. It stars UA junior Devin Grissom as she decides between 10 “city

slickers” and 10 “country boys” to find love.

What: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive Showcase

Where: Moody Recital Hall

When: noon

By Robert MooreContributing Writer

The University of Alabama, The University of Alabama in Huntsville and Auburn University have launched a consortium that will join the three schools together to com-pete among the top aerospace programs in the country. John Jackson, a professor and alumnus of the University of Alabama, said this agree-ment has been 18 years in the making. Separately, the only

three aerospace programs in the state did not have the resources or means to compete among the top schools in the nation. With this agreement, the three schools will work together to help the state be more competitive in the aero-space field. “Because of the consortium, we can now compete against the top schools such as MIT and Georgia Tech,” Jackson said. The purpose of the partner-ship is to bring the three colleg-es together and make it possi-

ble to share resources, courses and faculty. According to Stanley Jones, head of the aerospace engi-neering and mechanics depart-ment, a program is already in the works to offer a class that will allow students from all three schools to be taught by one professor, which will be implemented in the spring 2012 semester. This program is said to be the first of its kind in the state and will primarily benefit the Ph.D. program.

The college of engineer-ing hopes the new program will attract more people to the aerospace engineering pro-gram and give students a better opportunity to compete with others. Before the consortium, the separate programs were relatively small and lacking in resources, as well as funding. The agreement allowed them to see what the others have and provide better research oppor-tunities and experience for the students. John Burkhalter, a profes-

sor at Auburn University, said he believes the program is a great idea. He said the ability to leverage funds and jointly use resources will benefit each college. “The concept is good,” he said, “we hire students for research projects all the time, and sometimes we need certain people with expertise, and if they are at another college, we can now utilize them and pro-vide greater research results that benefit not just us, but everyone.”

State colleges launch aerospace program

BIKESContinued from page 1

identification number that should be placed on the bicycle frame below the seat. Bike per-mits can be picked up in 101 Student Services Center. Ronnie Robertson, director of transportation services, said the bicycle policy “seeks to balance the needs and concerns of all parties.” “With the growing num-ber of bicycles on campus, the University recognizes that con-cerns exist within the University community regarding the safe use of bicycles on campus. Pedestrians are concerned with potential physical encounters with cyclists, particularly in heavy traffic areas,” Robertson said. “Cyclists also have con-cerns, including safety, being aware of rules for bicycle use on campus, the availability of bicy-cle racks and theft of bicycles

and their parts.” According to Robertson, University Transportation Services will be charged with enforcement action, fines, penal-ties or other actions against the cyclist. The policy states that it “is not intended to be highly punitive in nature to those that do not comply. However, it will be necessary to use nominal fines, storage or retrieval fees and other assessments when violations occur.” Some students, however, have not received this new policy favorably. Jake Smith, a senior in New College, does not see many incentives to register his bike. “I’m glad that [UA has] taken an interest in cycling, but there definitely seem to be fewer incentives for pedalers to reg-ister than the fines that are likely to occur,” he said. “For example, if my bike is stolen, it’s not the University’s problem. Though they may have more of a chance to recover [it], the first

thing that’s going to come off is that registration sticker. On the other hand, if I park my bike to a tree for five minutes, and I’m in a hurry, I could catch a $25 fine, which will add up. I sup-pose we’ll see how much more bike parking space there is and where they put it.” Ross Owens, a senior major-ing in anthropology, has rid-den his bike to class every day for three years and said the bike lanes on campus are not observed as solely bike lanes, as they are either shared with buses or also used as walkways. “If UAPD gives me a ticket for riding on a sidewalk, they better ticket anyone who walks in the bike lanes or through the lanes without looking,” he said. “If this policy is to be taken legitimately, campus has to become car-free and/or bikes have to be treated as vehicles.” The UA bike policy can be accessed at bamaparking.ua.edu/pages/bicycle.html.

project and helping to make sure everything administra-tively works out. Dorning said House United is a great way to support the community and help rebuild Tuscaloosa. It will be a vital part of helping provide a home for a local family, while strengthening ties with stu-dents from Auburn University. “It is a wonderful oppor-tunity to help a person in the community who is in need,” she said. “It is also a great way to inform those in Tuscaloosa about what the local branch of Habitat for Humanity does and how they can get involved. This collabo-ration is one way of showing that community and good will go beyond school rivalries. It is a benefit to get to work with students from another school to help those in need.” Though many students left immediately following the tor-nado and have been gone for the summer, the Community Service Center has created numerous events and oppor-tunities to get involved with during the upcoming school year. Sherman recognizes that many students want to make an impact and a differ-

HABITATContinued from page 1

ence in the community. “With initial service days, as well as weekly service oppor-tunities starting a few weeks after classes begin, we will be working to give students the chance to get involved in the Tuscaloosa community,” Sherman said. “Opportunities will exist in a variety of non-profits across Tuscaloosa to assist with storm recovery, as well as assisting with sys-

temic problems that face our community.” Incoming new students can sign up right now to be part of a new initiative called Crimson for a Cause, Sherman said. New students will arrive to campus early and be able to engage in meaningful service in the Tuscaloosa community working in one of three areas: senior services, poverty and youth.

Afterward , any student can help out with tornado relief efforts by participating in the Ripple Effect service day, which will take place the day before classes start, she said. “We will have three other service days that students can participate in called Hands On Tuscaloosa,” Sherman said. “These service days will be a joint project between the CSC, SGA, & HRC to give

students a chance to imme-diately be involved in recov-ery efforts in Tuscaloosa when they arrive on campus. There will be other oppor-tunities throughout the fall semester for students to be involved in rebuilding efforts with Habitat for Humanity and other groups. We know that UA students will come together to help make a posi-tive impact.”

Students par-ticipate in last yearʼs Habi-tat for Human-ity House United build.

CW File

What: Free photos with Big Al

Where: Ferguson Center SUPe Store

When: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Shouldn’t the perfect job just drop into your lap (or your in-box)?

AlabamaLegals.com now offers subscriptions.• Receive daily e-mails matching your search• Keywords track the type of bid notices you are looking for• 10 counties per subscription• Only $35 per month!

If you are looking for construction bids, road repair bids, consulting or even food service bids, AlabamaLegals.com canhelp you find them easily.

the perfect job

Free public notice searches

AlabamaLegals.com is a fully searchable database of legal notices published in the newspapers of Alabama. This site is made possible by the

newspapers of Alabama and the Alabama Press Association.

The Crimson White NEWS Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3

By Jasmine CannonSenior Staff Reporter

[email protected]

After almost 10 years, the Alabama in Cuba study abroad program continues to pro-vide UA students and faculty with the opportunity to travel and learn in a nation many Americans are not allowed to enter. Every spring semester, the program, which is directed by UA professor Michael Schnepf, consists of students who are educated on different subjects inside and outside of the class-room. “We would take cultural excursions outside of Havana, and in Havana too, so we could get the whole picture of Cuba,” said Shelby Calambokidis, a spring 2011 participant. Calambokidis said they took four classes – two of them University Cuban culture class-es, one taught by Schnepf and one Cuban relations class from a Cuban perspective. “Not a lot of students know about [the Cuba study abroad program],” Calambokidis said. “But, it’s so amazing and such a unique opportunity because it is a country that we don’t have relations with. They have the richest culture. It was an amaz-ing opportunity, and I’m so glad that I did it.” Carmen Burkhalter, associ-ate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences senior and senior information officer, said univer-sities and colleges such as The University of Havana are based more on humanity subjects, and participants can learn the simi-larities between Americans and Cubans. Burkhalter, who got involved in the program while working in the modern language depart-ment, said she hopes the pro-gram will continue to grow each year. There will be a big push for recruitment and spreading knowledge about the program early in the fall semester for stu-dents of all majors and minors, ranging from political science to music to Latin American

Alabama in Cuba making progress

studies. Because of the differences between the democratic U.S. and communist Cuba, partici-pants in the program have to receive national permission to be allowed to travel to the country. Burkhalter said she feels programs like Alabama in Cuba could eventually help ease relations between the two coun-tries. “I believe that, eventually,

travel between the United States and Cuba will be open and free,” Burkhalter said. “In Cuba, [the students are] ambassadors for the Cubans, so that when there is a lifting of the regulations, there will be enough ambassadors from both countries that the transition will be much smoother. “It may not happen today, it may not happen tomorrow, it may not happen five years from

now, but I think eventually it will happen, because I see the young people. The future is in college-aged students, so I think as they get older, they’ll recog-nize the importance of the rela-tionship of the two countries.” “It’s such a rare opportunity that you get to visit a commu-nist country and see what that is like,” Calambokidis said. “This is the only country that we’re not legally allowed to visit. If you’re presented with this opportunity, why not take advantage of it? It’s so close to us and it’s such a different, amazing culture.” To learn more about the pro-gram, contact Schnepf at [email protected] or 205-348-4238 or visit as.ua.edu/cuba.

ALABAMA IN CUBA• To learn more about the program, contact Michael Schnepf at [email protected] or 205-348-4238 or visit as.ua.edu/cuba.

Submitted PhotoStudents studying abroad in Cuba get the oppertunity to study in a country that is off limits to most Americans.

Picture Yourself

Here!Housing Fair

OPIN

ION

S

WE WELCOME YOUR OPINIONSLetters to the editor must be less than 300 words and guest columns less than 800. Send submissions to [email protected]. Submissions must include the author’s name, year, major and day-time phone number. Phone numbers are for verification and will not be published. Students should also include their year in school and major. For more information, call 348-6144. The CW reserves the right to edit all submissions.

EDITORIAL BOARD

YOUR VIEW { }

Wednesday,July 13, 2011

Editor • Wesley [email protected]

Jonathan Reed EditorAdam Greene Managing EditorWesley Vaughn Opinions Editor

Drew Hoover Photo Editor

By Michael Patrick and Natalie Latta

The Perry County Herald is a small-town newspaper that began operating five years ago in Marion, Ala., the county seat of Perry County. The Perry County Herald was not created to fill a void in Perry County mailboxes or to provide the children of Marion jobs delivering papers - the inspiration was fueled by a call to counter the quiet social injustice that is all too common in Alabama’s poorest region. Though Marion was already reading its own weekly newspa-per, The Marion Times-Standard, one long-time member of the com-munity decided their soft stories about old women and gardens were not enough to inform the citizens of Perry County about what was really going on. John Allan Clark, editor and publisher of the Herald, saw a need that The Marion Times-Standard was not fulfilling. That need was substantive news. Thus The Perry County Herald was born. Clark, aided by a small team dedicated to searching for answers beneath the press releas-es, founded the small weekly pub-lication as a light that would serve to illuminate the real issues facing Perry County. Issues such as the use of the “n-word” by a leader in the County Commission, Albert Turner, Jr. on his radio show; the commission meetings held in viola-tion of sunshine laws; the threats of physical violence being thrown like punches by commissioners during public meetings. What the Herald is most known for, however, has little to do with petty-but-juicy plots of revenge and political ruin and more

to do with a recent chapter in envi-ronmental racism. In 2009, The Perry County Herald was the first publication to discover what Albert Turner, Jr. had been up to after the TVA coal ash spill in 2008. The spill at a power plant in Tennessee caused tons of black sludge to seep into the streets and backyards of the mostly white sur-rounding suburbs. The residents affected by the spill demanded that the potentially toxic waste be removed immediately, and thanks to the caring leaders of Perry County, our heroic state came to the rescue. The median annual income of a Perry County resident in 2007 was slightly over $24,000. In 2010, 68.7 percent of its population was African-American, and in 2009, 31 percent of those people were con-sidered to be living below the pover-ty line. Roane County, Tenn., home of the coal ash spill, boasts striking-ly different statistics. The county is 2.7 percent African-American, and the annual median income is near-ing $40,000. What happened here is what happened to every character you liked on The Wire: the problems of middle-class white America are placed on the too-worn shoulders of underprivileged blacks who do not donate to political campaigns and who now do not even have a news-paper to tell them what burdens are falling into their backyards. Over 4 million tons of coal ash will soon stand as the highest point in Perry County, the mouths and noses of residents now filling with gray ash every time the wind blows. The Perry County Herald broke the story involving back room deals between county commissioners

that were failing to represent the people of Perry County, a story that went on to inspire an award-win-ning documentary. The Perry County Herald, in the past few years, has kept up a stable relationship with University of Alabama students seeking to get answers from the Black Belt. Where county officials held their tongues and refused to answer hard-hitting questions about life in one of America’s poorest coun-ties, The Perry County Herald and their staff were there to engage in unclosed discourse. Last month, the Herald went down the road that too many Black Belt businesses travel: the dusty road to financial ruin. After five years of printing, the voice that had never been given the opportunity to speak, The Perry County Herald, closed its loft office for the last time, leaving that voice now silenced. When asked what legacy he hopes the Herald has left on Perry County, Clark said, “Unfortunately the big problems remain: poverty, bitter race relations, poor infra-structure and contentious lead-ers unwilling to work together to fix any of that. Like the rest of the Black Belt, Perry County’s future depends on the willingness of all its people to talk honestly about the work that needs to be done to keep their community alive. We’re still not there, but we’re getting closer, and I hope the Herald contributed to it.”

Michael Patrick is a senior major-ing in political science. Natalie Latta is a UA graduate and member of the Peace Corps.

Perry County Herald silenced too soon

By John Davis

Facebook and I have fallen into a “married with children” type relationship. We’ve been at it for so long and invested so much time into one another that, despite any real flaws, we’re pretty much content. Privacy concerns aside, Facebook performs all the necessary functions I could ever want, and even some useful ones that I didn’t know I would use until they were presented to me. It’s a cloud of its own, where all my pictures and even my thoughts are saved. All my friends are on Facebook, as is most of my extended family – for better or worse. Still, in Internet years, Facebook continues to grow longer in the tooth with each pass-ing year, and I suppose it was inevitable that at some point a legitimate challenger would appear in the guise of colorful letters and a slick, minimalist interface. Just as Xanga and LiveJournal gave way to MySpace, and MySpace eventually gave way to Facebook, it’s time for social media to reach its logical conclusion: Google+. At first glance, it’s easy to brush off Google+ as nothing but a Facebook clone with an impressive brand name. After all, there is a “friends” list of sorts, though those people are listed as “in your circles.” The stream looksvery familiar, and you can share thoughts and videos and pictures and anything else your heart desires. So why switch?

Google+: The Social Media Endgame

Google+ is, for all intents and purposes, the perfect combination of Facebook and Twitter. It takes the Twitter route when it comes to making connections, i.e. you can add aperson to a circle without that persondoing the same.

A friend and Crimson White alumnus put it into perspective best: “In, like, the space of a day, Google+ has made me feel like one of those ape people at the beginning of 2001: ASpace Odyssey. If Google+ is fire and civiliza-tion, everything I have been using feels likehitting rocks with other rocks.” That’s a pretty powerful thought consider-ing the ubiquity of Facebook. There are a few key features that separate Google+ from Facebook, and even Twitter, for that matter. Chief among them is the concept of “circles.” Essentially, it works thesame way your social circles work in real life: when you befriend someone, you place them into a circle, or a type of category. So if youhave inside jokes with your college friends that your high school friends won’t get, sim-ply specify that your post be only seen by your “College Friends” circle. Alternatively, if you’re the type of person who likes to get drunk and swear a lot on Facebook, Google+ can make sure your parents never see it. Another key feature specific to the mobile app (an app that is Android-only at the moment) is the Huddle. The Huddle is basi-cally a text message chat room: choose a cir-cle, send a message, and everyone in the circle gets the message. When one person replies,everyone gets that message as well, negat-ing the need to relay one person’s text to five other people. Google+ is, for all intents and purposes, the perfect combination of Facebook and Twitter.It takes the Twitter route when it comes to making connections, i.e. you can add a person to a circle without that person doing the same. Thus, you can create a circle for news outlets and comedians, and much like a Twitter list, you can filter your stream to show only posts from a specific circle. But whereas Twitter only allows for 140 characters, Google+ lets you share as much as you’d like and even edit a post after it’s already been posted. Beyond all the cute new features, beyond the Sparks and Hangouts, beyond the appealof the new and exciting, there is one crucial piece of information, one critical little tidbit that should send social media sites running and users flocking to Google+: Google already makes money. Yes, I know Facebook technically does too, but hear me out. In the beginning, Facebook didn’t make money. There was no business plan, and outside of advertising dollars therewas no revenue. Even today, Facebook has a theoretical value (though they’re filing for anIPO in the near future). And in the beginning, Facebook had a clean interface devoid of clutter from applications. To help bring in money, Facebook created things like the Marketplace and allowed for all those little games that live off micro trans-actions – all things that took away from the Facebook experience should you choose not to participate in Farmville. With Google+, there is no incentive to be anything other than just another Google application. When you sign up for Google+, there’s even a button you can click to opt-out of having your information shared with non-Google websites (which should be an opt-in feature, but we can’t all be perfect). The scary part is Google+ hasn’t actu-ally gone live yet. There are only a hand-ful of us signed-up, though check Facebook for friends soliciting invitations. Join me, because Google+ is like Facebook, but it’s notFacebook.

John Davis is a junior majoring in Tetris theory.

By Sean Randall

We’re almost a mere year away from once again being plunged into our most popular democratic pro-cess: voting for president. In 2007 and 2008, we saw some strong Democratic contenders in Obama and Clinton, with Obama eventually edging out. Obviously. On the GOP side, we saw Mitt Romney and John McCain hold some of the strongest pull, with a strange dark horse youth movement in Ron Paul. When McCain was nominated and picked Sarah Palin as his vice presi-dential nominee, his popularity grew amongst some people. Now, the process is starting all over again. The Democrats have been largely silent, most likely because they’re supporting Obama for a second term and don’t want to weaken the party through dis-cord and disagreement. All well and good. Obama certainly hasn’t been the worst president ever and has been doing a decent job considering what he inherited and how stupid Congress seems to be. But the GOP is looking… well, kind of pathetic right now. Mitt Romney is the clear front-runner right now. He’s known, thanks to last year’s campaign, and he has good money. But even the Republican Party seems to be sort of lackluster when supporting him, almost as if they have to because they don’t have any other choice. After all, he doesn’t exactly repre-sent the party line completely, what with his socialized health care poli-cy signed into law when he was gov-ernor of Massachusetts. And there’s a good chance that, just like McCain, the party will practically force him to abandon his actual politics and spout the same cue-card rhetoric that was spouted out last time: “Grr,

socialism! No retreat! No compro-mises!” Frankly, that attitude doesn’t bring much faith to the idea that someone will actually get things done. Even Obama, who had a similar adamant stance on several social issues, has had to retreat from campaign promises in order to actually get anything done. A disap-pointment, sure, but something that seems to be an unfortunate neces-sity these days. After Romney, we see Michele Bachman. Wow, it’s Sarah Palin No. 2. Ignoring her keen ability to incor-rectly recite historical facts (no, not Paul Revere, more of John Quincy Adams) and to fail to do the appro-priate research on her own home-town (it was your third announce-ment to run for president; you had time to check and see which John Wayne lived in your town), there isn’t much she seems to be bring-ing to the table except Glenn Beck-esque angry rhetoric. Consider her recent joint venture with other GOP presidential nomi-nee, Rick Santorum (a name that, when last I heard it, was apparently synonymous with some type of sew-age). They signed a pro-traditional marriage (whatever “traditional marriage” is supposed to be, the thing has changed radically in the last 50 years) contract that opened with a statement claiming there were more stable African-American families during times of slavery than during President Obama’s term in office. From what I’ve heard talking with my black friends, they generally aren’t exactly supportive of people – especially white people – randomly making slavery comparisons: espe-cially if they’re wrong or it makes no sense. Then there’s Ron Paul, return-

ing from last year’s race. Last year, his rather radical, occasionally lib-ertarian views lit a fire under a lot of younger GOP members. College students tossed his name around quite a bit. But if you’re looking for Ron Paul politics and a person to be excited about, try his son, Rand Paul. Last year proved Ron doesn’t really have quite what it takes. Maybe a younger face would. Moving on, we see Newt Gingrich, someone who hasn’t been politi-cally important since the Clinton administration and doesn’t seem to offer much but his name. Which is, I suppose, better than those that offer only personality, like Bachman and, though she hasn’t announced anything yet, Palin. Along with Gingrich, we have Herman Cain, former CEO of a pizza company that made some pretty icky pizza. Only thing I know about him is he wants to make bills no longer than three pages. Sounds neat until you remember that being vague and incomplete in a law can cause bad things to happen, like loopholes. And, for goodness sake, the GOP almost had Donald Trump run-ning. If there’s anyone that would’ve brought nothing but shouting, a per-sonality, a name and a weird hair-piece, it’s Trump. Looking beyond the presidential election, it seems almost like the party is playing a game. Are they trying to pin economic failure on Obama’s administration to gain points toward the election? Pull it together, GOP. Stop playing politics like it’s a game you have to win. Start being honest about trying to help the nation and make compro-mises, and you might actually get to do some of the things you want.

Sean Randall is a senior majoring in theatre and philosophy.

GOP: Come on, guys, get it together

MCT Campus

TWEETS

IN RESPONSE TO “LET’S MAKE A BASKETBALL

BARGAIN: MORE CHAOS FOR

MORE COVER-AGE”

“Word. Game (and originality) needs to be stepped up.” -Greg Dawkins, @gb-dawkins

“That just goes to show how much effort @TheCrimsonWhiteʼs staff put into follow-ing the program last season...”-Chris Griffi n, @chrispgrif-fi n

“Happy to see @TheCrimsonWhite is “promising” more bkb coverage, but the article/column to announce it needed some research and less threats”-- Nic Gulas, @Nic_Gulas


By Katherine MartinNews Editor

[email protected]

The Student Government Association will begin the Bama Laundry initiative start-ing in the fall for UA students, faculty and staff, David Wilson, vice president for student affairs, said. Bama Laundry will offer two types of services: bundled service and campus cleaners. The bundled service is paid upfront, based on a weekly weight. Campus cleaners is an item-by-item service. Each student will receive one bag for each service type, a press release stated. The University has been working with Bama Laundry for nearly two years in an ongoing effort to get the initia-tive started, Wilson said. This


[email protected]

Amid the damage to the West Alabama chapter of the Boys and Girls Club sustained on April 27, the Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Psi has organized a relief and support fundraiser to help rebuild the organiza-tion. Chapter President Conner Barnes and Vice President Ryan Snyder worked to put together a plan that would spread to the fraternity’s national level. “The original plan was to pitch the idea to our other chapters around the nation and see what they could do to help out,” Barnes said. “When our nationals got word of what we were doing in Tuscaloosa to help out, they wanted to take the idea and spread it to all of our chapters in attendance at a conference this summer, as well as the alumni in atten-

dance.” The Boys and Girls Clubs of America are Phi Psi’s nation-wide philanthropic part-ner. Barnes said after they explained their plan to help out the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama, those at the national headquarters helped make the fundraiser national instead of solely local. “The damage done to the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama by the tornado has given Phi Psi an opportunity to focus the efforts of our chapters and Alumni Associations on one Boys and Girls Club,” stat-ed Tryon Hubbard, Alabama alum and national president of Phi Kappa Psi. Stephen Miller, UA alum and senior unit director at the West Alabama Boys and Girls Club said, “I think it’s important for students to always give back. And, the fact that you have a group of greek guys that want to come out and adopt us as their local philanthropy, I think

it means a lot to our kids, to the community, as well as the cam-pus of UA. It speaks volumes about college students that are not only here to get an educa-tion, but to give back in the pro-cess.” With the help of UA grad Bo Latham, Snyder and Barnes put together a video telling about their help with the local Boys and Girls Club that is now fea-tured on the national website, phikappapsi.com. Barnes said the video was also featured at the fraternity’s national confer-ence, and an article about their work will be printed in the next issue of the national magazine. “Our whole goal is to aid those who have been a part of this tragedy,” said Shawn Collinsworth, executive direc-tor of Phi Kappa Psi. “Our hearts go out to them…it really affects all of us. We want to make sure that we, as Phi Psi men, are here to help where we’re needed and where we can.”

Phi Psi teams up with Boys and Girls Club

Hubbard said, “The result of the campaign will be a better facility for the Boys and Girls Club and more focus by our chapter on working with the club in the future. The children served by the club will be the ultimate beneficiaries, not only of the facility, but of the hands-on service by our chapter down the road.” To support or donate to Phi Psi’s efforts to rebuild-ing the Boys and Girls Club, visit phikappapsi.com/Today/BoysandGirlsClub.

SGA plans Bama Laundry for fall

year, the initiative got a big push from the SGA. “We are excited to work with Bama Laundry this upcoming school year,” said DJ Jackson, assistant vice president for student affairs. “This is a ser-vice that every student can use that has the potential to vastly improve the quality of student life.” No SGA or University funds have been used to fund the

Bama Laundry program, the release stated. SGA will receive five percent of the gross reve-nue that will be put in the SGA scholarship endowment fund. “One of the great things about Bama Laundry is that it also serves as a fundraiser for student scholarships,” Wilson said. “Bama Laundry provides students with a fair-priced laundry service while also putting a share of the money

toward student scholarships.” Nathan Watkins, a represen-tative from University Laundry Services, said Bama Laundry and Campus Cleaners ensure-senergy and time efficiency. “Expansion plans include regularly scheduled stops at greek housing, special services for departmental needs and assistance with a rental pro-gram for professional wear,” Watkins said.

BAMA LAUNDRYANNUAL PLANS

10 lbs per week- $598



SEMESTER PLANS10 lbs per week- $324



HOW IT WORKSChoose a plan, pick up your bags, deliver bags to drop off locations. Get your clean clothes less than 48 hours later.

HOW TO HELP• To support or donate to Phi Psi’s efforts to rebuilding the Boys and Girls Club, visit phikap-papsi.com/Today/BoysandGirlsClub.

Submitted photoMembers of Phi Psi work at the Boys and Girls Club after the tornado.

BLACK WARRIOR OUTDOOR

Ask about our rewards point program!

Across from Moes BBQwww.blackwarrioroutdoor.com

752-2240 • 2104 University Blvd.

NOW CARRYING

POTTERContinued from page 1

excited to see the movie, see-ing it sadly marks the end of my generation’s childhood,” Hutchins said. The show opens this Friday, July 15 at midnight. The the-

atre will also be showing a nine o’clock viewing of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.” Tickets can be pur-chased online or at the box office.

“I went to the last midnight premieres, and the line was wrapped around the building. I’ll be sure to get there early this time,” said McDaniel. Cobb Theatre of Tuscaloosa will premiere the movie on all 16 screens, and considering it is the last premiere, it is sure to be a sold out event. The movie will be featured on regular viewing screens as well as in 3D and IMAX 3D. The 3D movies will have special Harry Potter 3D glasses that are replicas of the famed glasses he wears in the movie. The theatre also features D-Box motion seats. A select number of reserved seats will feature D-Box motion technol-ogy, which will allow you to “Live the Movie” by perfectly synchronizing the movement of your seat with the action on the screen. Matthew Hutchins, a senior, said he is also planning to see the movie. He has purchased the D-Box tickets and is excited to see the show and experi-ence it in this new technology. However, Hutchins is sad to see the series come to an end. “I grew up with the actors and the series, and though I’m

6 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 NEWS The Crimson White

By Marquavius BurnettAssistant Sports Editor

[email protected]

With Crimson Café recent-ly going out of business, Buffalo Phil’s and Domino’s Pizza are the only two off-campus locations that cur-rently accept Dining Dollars. For students, Dining Dollars have been a pain to deal with at times, because there is no choice in whether or not you receive them. But for Phil’s and Domino’s, they have brought nothing but profit. “Dining Dollars is our main source of income dur-ing the fall and the spring,” said Erin Childress, assistant manager of Buffalo Phil’s. “Basically, if we didn’t have Dining Dollars, we would lose 75 percent of our busi-ness during the weekdays. Dining Dollars are what keep this restaurant together.” Mark Tidwell, general manager of Domino’s on 15th Street, said, “Dining Dollars and Bama Cash have been beneficial to everybody. Any business that goes out of business with [Dining Dollars] is doing something wrong, but it’s not because of the Dining Dollars.” One glaring downside to Dining Dollars is the fee that businesses have to pay in order to receive the services. Crimson Café owner Rhett Madden said the 21 percent fee ultimately forced him to have to close down the busi-ness. Domino’s pays a report-ed 26 percent, while Buffalo Phil’s pays 21 percent. “[The fee] does hurt, but we make up for it because

we have such a high volume of business,” Childress said. “That 21 percent does not really affect our bottom line. We are in a location and stu-dents always come in on their breaks. Dining Dollars help us more than they hurt us.” Since they do accept Dining Dollars, Phil’s may be the most visited place on The Strip. When asked if they would still eat at Phil’s and Domino’s if neither establish-ment took Dining Dollars, students supported Phil’s, but were hesitant about Domino’s. “I would eat Phil’s because I like the quality of their food and the atmosphere in the restaurant,” said Cameron West, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film. “There are other pizza places that I enjoy more than Domino’s, but the con-venience of Dining Dollars makes Domino’s appealing to me.” Emily Mims, a senior healthcare management major, said, “I love Buffalo Phil’s. They have some of the best salads, and it’s easy to just walk there when you have a break from class. I’m not so sure about Domino’s, but Dining Dollars helps.” Even though Dining Dollars has brought so much business to Phil’s, Childress said she is confident the busi-ness could survive without them. “I still think students would come in,” Childress said. “Our service is good, and we do have great lunch and drink specials. It would hurt us, but I don’t think we would be out for the count.”

Restaurants benefi t from dining dollars

By Sarah MasseySenior Staff Reporter

[email protected]

Same-sex marriage became the dominant news story for days following the June 24 passing of a bill which allows New York to both recognize and perform same-sex marriag-es. New York became the sixth state, in addition to the District of Columbia, that now grants same-sex marriage rights to its citizens. While the passing of this bill certainly provided some momentum for this issue, states such as Alabama are still dealing with other queer rights issues, rather than, specifically, same-sex marriage. Alabama is one of 29 states with a constitutional amend-ment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman and one of 12 that does not recognize same-sex marriage. Entitled the “Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment,” this 2006 amendment was approved by 81 percent of voters. Joshua Burford, coordina-tor of student development programs at the University and this year’s president of Capstone Alliance, the profes-sional organization for LGBTQ faculty, staff and allies, said he believes the amendment did not necessarily change the environment of the state. “What they sort of codified into law was what was already sort of the default for the state anyway,” Burford said. “The state’s ideas about progress have always been a little stunt-ed, historically as well as cur-rently … All [the amendment] really did was say explicitly what the people in the queer community already knew, which was that there are so many other fights that we have to have before we can get to a same-sex marriage fight.” Kaylan Johnson, a sopho-more majoring in English and the current political chair for Spectrum, said that the amend-ment creates an environment that emphasizes exclusion and “makes members of the queer community feel as if they are

N.Y. recognizes same-sex marriage

APJonathan Truong, left, his partner Ed Cowen, right, and their son Franklin Cowen Truong, 2, pose for a portrait at their home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Adoption lawyers and agencies in New York say theyʼre getting ready for a baby boom as same-sex couples emboldened by the stateʼs new gay marriage law take the next step and try to adopt children.

somehow inherently lesser.” Both Johnson and Burford said they believe it will be a while before same-sex mar-riage is allowed in Alabama. Burford said it could take at least 40 years and would have to come from the federal level. “I think that states like Alabama that have taken pro-active steps to prevent mar-riage equality are going to be among the last to gain it unless something radical happens,” Johnson said. “It’s important to remember that marriage equality is not necessarily the most pressing issue within the queer com-munity, especially among stu-dents, though it is often the most publicized … However, many people seem to think that marriage equality is the end of this fight, that once we have it, our fight for civil rights is over. Though marriage equal-ity could be a step in the right direction, it will not solve all queer issues.”

Issues currently being dealt with in Alabama include work-place equality, queer youth out-reach, queer youth homeless-ness, adoption, anti-violence and safe schools. There are a number of advocacy organiza-tions working on these issues, but two of the state’s largest include the Southern Poverty Law Center and Equality Alabama. Burford said while there is positive and effective advocacy work occurring in the state, the number of issues being dealt with that have no plan for how to work together creates an issue. “Everybody is working on something different, and I think that may be part of our problem, that there is no coher-ent narrative … I really feel like if we had a coherent strat-egy for social change, then we could work on things like mar-riage and workplace equality and youth outreach at the same time. And honestly I think

that’s the problem that we have nationally, too. “It’s that the national move-ment is all about same-sex mar-riage, and it’s all about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and so it’s myo-pic in the exact opposite way to how Alabama’s queer com-munity is. Here, there are too many people doing too many different things or not enough connected. At the national level, there are too many peo-ple working on too few issues that they feel are representa-tive of the entire community and they’re not.” Despite some hurdles, Burford said overall there is change occurring throughout the South. “Things are definitely chang-ing in Alabama, and in the South generally, and they’re changing for the better, so I never want people to give up hope about the state,” Burford said. “There’s work to be done here, and there are good people doing the work here.”

cw.ua.edu

Herm-ione in the fi nal instal-lation of the Harry Potter series.

Photo courtesy of War-ner Bros. Pictures

Deanco Auction 877-898-5905 www.deancoauction.com1042 Holland Ave (PO Box 1248) • Philadelphia, Mississippi 39350 Auctioneer: Donnie W Dean, #733, MSGL #835

HUGE PUBLIC AUCTIONHuge Contractors Equipment & Truck Auction

Wed., July 20th, 2011 • 8am1042 Holland Ave • Philadelphia, MississippiPhone: 601.656.9768 • Fax: 601.656.0192

CRAWLER TRACTORS • EXCAVATORS • CRANES • MOTOR GRADERSWHEELS LOADERS • OFF ROAD TRUCKS • LOADER BACKHOES

SKID STEER LOADERS • TRENCHERS • FORKLIFTS • COMPACTIONASPHALT EQUIP. • LOGGING EQUIP. • FARM TRACTORS • TRUCK TRACTORS

DUMP TRUCKS • SPECIALTY TRUCKS • TRAILERS • 1-TONS TRUCKSVEHICLES • ATTACHMENTS • MISC. ITEMS


By Hannah Brewer

This summer, I am interning at the Collin County District Attorney’s office, which is right outside of Dallas, where I live. I work in the office that deals with criminal misdemeanors. This internship has been valu-able to me in so many ways.

I am assigned a supervising Assistant District Attorney, whom I check in with every morning. I do many different things around the office.

I prepare documents for the attorneys to take to court, make copies of the discovery, which is all the documents the prosecut-

ing attorney is using to prepare for trial for the defense attor-neys, take notes on case files, write out recommendations for plea bargains and contact vic-tims of crimes to verify events and determine if they will be helpful to the case, should they testify. Not only have I gotten to experience what goes on in the office, I’ve also gotten to experi-ence what goes on in the court-room. I get to assist attorneys with a process called Voir Dire, where the attorneys select a jury. However, I have learned it is more of a de-selection process.

Both the prosecution and the defense attorneys ask ques-tions to determine which mem-bers of the jury pool are inca-pable of being fair in a particu-lar case. For example, a victim of abuse may not be able to put that behind her when sitting a family assault case, and a per-son who’s been found guilty of a DWI in the past may still be too bitter towards the state to come to a fair verdict in a DWI case. Once all the jury members deemed incapable of being fair have been dismissed, each attorney gets to strike three jurors for any reason besides race, ethnicity or religion. I

found this part extremely inter-esting because attorneys will strike different jury members for so many various reasons; one small detail in the jury box could change how they come to a verdict. I’ve seen jury members stricken because they were a teacher or engineer, they fell asleep, their facial expressions were odd, they had a Ph.D., etc. After the jury is selected, I have had the chance to view the trials that proceed. This is equally fascinating, as you are able to see how each attorney weaves the evidence together to create two entirely different

stories. I have learned that evidence is rarely concrete – it can be shed in so many lights and interpreted in so many differ-ent ways if you have the proper argument to back it up. Through this internship, I have been able to witness for myself how the criminal justice system functions, which is vast-ly different than reading about it from a CJ100 textbook. I have discovered what it really means to be an Assistant District Attorney, and this expe-rience has only reassured me of my desire to go on to law school.

Student interns at D.A.’s offi ce in Dallas

By Marquavius BurnettAssistant Sports Editor

[email protected]@Marq_Burnett

With so many different things to do at once, the last thing on a busy college stu-dent’s mind is sleep. Between classes, work and remembering to eat, sleep gets put on the back burner of everyone’s to-do list. Lack of sleep can have long-and-short term affects on stu-dents in several different ways. Angela Jill Cooley, a his-tory department instructor, said she was once a student and knows how difficult it is to manage sleep around a busy schedule. “Sleep is a difficult issue when you are working and in school,” Cooley said. “I try to respect that with my students because I have been through it

Students encouraged to sleep seven hours

myself.” Cooley also said the fact she has been through it makes her

want to push students harder. “The fact that I’ve been there and done that tends to make

me more strict on students,” Cooley said. “I also realize that people in my classroom aren’t going to be historians, but they are going to be profes-sionals in some field. College is about life lessons, and being able to manage things while in college is one of the most important life lessons you will ever learn.” Most students say they do not think lack of sleep has any real short-term effects, but can have long term effects if sleep-less nights become a habit.

“I get about four or five hours of sleep a night and it helps me get through the day most of the time,” said Mark Fleming, a senior majoring in exercise science. “During finals week, I don’t sleep at all and I don’t think it really affects my grades. I think it can have effects long-term though.” Christopher Wise is the facility director of Champion Sports Medicine, and he said that short-term lack of sleep can affect the way

“I get about four or fi ve hours of sleep a night, and it helps me get through the day most of the time. During fi nals week, I don’t sleep at all, and I don’t think it really affects my grades. I think it can have effects long-term though.”

— Mark Fleming, a senior majoring in exercise science

you exercise. “Lethargy can play a role in how intensely someone is able to perform an exercise ses-sion,” Wise said. “Motivation to exercise might also be com-promised due to lack of ‘ener-gy.’ Another short-term effect of sleep deprivation is impaired coordination and decreased reaction time. While exercis-ing in a controlled and stable environment, impaired coordi-nation and reaction time will likely not be too noticeable, but in activities that require these components (such as lifting free weights, running/walking outside), changes in perfor-mance may be noticeable.” Although everyone is differ-ent, research has shown that 6-7 hours of sleep per night is sufficient to offset most of these negative effects that come from lack of sleep.

MCT CampusLack of sleep can have long-and-short term effects on students.

T h e T u s c a l o o s a Amphitheater will be host-

Bud Light presents T-Town Blues & Music Festival

ing the T-Town Blues & Music Festival on Saturday. Bud Light will be presenting the event. Clarence Carter, who is famous for his song “I Be Stroking,” will headline the event. Other acts include Sir Charles Jones, Ms. Jody, Willie

Clayton, TK Soul and Jeff Floyd. There will also be free beer sampling from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Gates will open at 5 p.m. and the show begins at 6 p.m. For ticket information, visit ttown-bluesfestival.com. Fans can

also register to win free tickets and an autographed guitar.

Line Up and Show Times:6:00 p.m.: Host/Comedian6:15 p.m.: Ms. Jody6:45 p.m.: Host/Comedian/DJ7:00 p.m.: Jeff Floyd

7:30 p.m.: Host/Comedian/DJ7:45 p.m.: TK SOUL8:15 p.m.: Host/Comedian/DJ8:30 p.m.: Sir Charles Jones9:00 p.m.: Host/Comedian/DJ9:15 p.m.: Willie Clayton10:00 p.m.: Host/Comedian/DJ10:15 p.m.: Clarence Carter

By Katherine MartinNews Editor

I thought the first day of 6th grade was the end of the world. Walking through the doors of Tuscaloosa Middle School had never been more depressing. It had finally hit me that I was not

going to Hogwarts and would live in the Muggle world for the rest of my miserable life. Throughout the first day of school, my best friend Emily and I looked around the halls and classrooms to see which of our classmates had not moved up to middle school with us.

When everyone was account-ed for, aspirations to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and be placed in a house by the sorting hat had ceased. Mostly. I was introduced to the world of Harry Potter by my 3rd grade teacher at Verner Elementary,

By Tony Tsoukalas Sports Editor

I am not a hater. I am not reli-giously against it. I am not too cool for it. I am just not really that into Harry Potter. Call me a muggle, but I haven’t read the books; I think I saw a few of the movies, but I’m pretty sure I missed the last one. Anyways, it just wasn’t for me, and it wasn’t for

lack of effort. I’m sorry Ms. Rowling, I tried; It wasn’t you, it was me. Maybe it is my lack of adven-ture, maybe it is because I didn’t get into the books soon enough, maybe it was the fact that “err” is used about 1,587 times in the first book, and I have yet to ever say “err” when contemplating what to say next. Whatever the case, while

all you Pott Heads take to thestreets, I will be mugging italone. So, here is my call toanyone who is in the sameboat as I am. We need to sticktogether. Hey, if singles canmake it through ValentinesDay, and if Vanderbilt fans canmake it through bowl season,then we non-fans can make itthrough the Harry Potter pre-miere. The Non-Potter supportgroup begins now. Hit me up.

Last Owls: The CW’s Potter PerspectivesThree editors and the CW’s adviser discuss how HarryPotter affected their livesI finally admit I’m a Muggle

I’m sorry Ms. Rowling, I am for real

who would read us a chapter of “The Sorcerer’s Stone” every day during reading time. It got even better in 4th grade when my teacher would read the books with a British accent and even held a costume contest. This is about the time Emily and I started playing with “wands” made out of sticks, jumping on my trampoline with brooms and mixing together who knows what to practice potions. When the first movie came out in November 2001, Harry Potter hype skyrocketed. There were Harry Potter Legos, com-puter games, glasses, wands and action figures, which I gave as Christmas gifts to fellow Harry Potter fans. My friend Caroline even sent Daniel Radcliffe a five-page love letter and included a picture of her twin sister. She never heard

back. Our age group grew up with Harry Potter. We aged as the actors aged. In most of our minds, Hogwarts was a reality. It just had to be real. I’ve attended most of the midnight premieres of both the books and the movies, and with each release, I’ve noticed the crowd also gets a little older. With the final installation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hitting theaters Thursday at midnight, I think you’ll notice most of the people

who are standing in the line that wraps around the Cobb are not middle school-aged, but college students who have fol-lowed the saga since it began. While the last movie may offer some closure to Potter fans who are trying to move on, our generation has a new goal. We must share our love of and obsession with Harry Potter with the younger generation, because there will never be another series that captivates such a broad audience like Harry Potter did and still does.

My friend Caroline even sent Daniel Radcliffe a fi ve-page love letter and included a picture of her twin sister.

8 Monday, August 18, 2011 NEWS The Crimson White

.

1218 University Blvd. on the Strip 205-752-2990 www.locker-room.biz

e t o e k n s n

t -t

By Ashley ChaffinAssistant Lifestyles Editor

I didn’t get through the entire Harry Potter series until I was a senior in high school. This wasn’t because I didn’t love the first four when I read them as a child; it was more because I have always been a very lazy individual – the type who would love to

have magic to help her every-day. This is something I’ve con-templated a lot since I finally finished reading the books and seeing all the movies – just how useful it would have been if I had gotten my Hogwarts letter at 11 years old. I could use spells such as Accio every single time I lose my keys, I could use

Alohomora to unlock my door when I’ve got too much stuff in my hands to get to my keys, and I think we all could have used the Confundo charm to bewitch our teachers to forget we didn’t turn something in. I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point. I shared the Harry Potter series with my little brother, my only sibling who would lis-

ten to me; I’ll share them with my nephew from the day he is born, and I’ll eventually share them with my kids, whenever that day comes. The Harry Potter stories have stuck with me. I fell in love with the characters and the world from the first page of the first book and will stick with it until the final scene of the final movie.

I should have gotten a Hogwarts letter

A father’s Potter mania

We have seen all the movies, but one stands out above the others: we were lucky enough to be invited to the New York City premiere of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” in 2005.

By Mark MayfieldAssistant Director of Student

Media

Although my daughter Madison was too young to read when the first Harry Potter book was published in 1997, she and I made up for lost time in later years. We started out with my reading “The Sorcerer’s Stone” to her. With later books, as she grew up, we took turns reading them aloud together or listening to the audio versions on long trips in the car. We have seen all the movies, but one stands out above the others: we were lucky enough to be invited to the New York City premiere of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” in 2005. An entire city block was cor-doned off from traffic, and a red carpet rolled out in front of the Ziegfeld Theatre. The film’s three main stars, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, were there. It was special enough walking into the theatre on the same red carpet as the stars, but once inside, I think Madison went crazy when Radcliffe waved at her as he and the other actors walked in after we were seated. It was a night I’ll never for-get, but one that Madison remembers for quite a different

reason: Although she, like mil-lions of other girls her age, hada crush on Danny Radcliffe at the time, she also got to meet anunknown actor who made his one Potter series appearance in Goblet of Fire. His name wasRobert Pattinson. None of us could know that he would latergo on to fame in the Twilight film series. I have a grainy cellphone photo of Madison with Pattinson from that night, and needless to say, my daughter, now a Twilight fan, has made good use of that photo. Madison is 16 years old and completed the Potter series of books on her own. I also read the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, nonstop over the first weekend after it was released. It was a fitting conclusion to the series, but notan ending for me: My 8-year-old daughter Alexa is just getting started with Potter.

Top Right: Potter’s sworn enemy Voldermort and his faith-ful Death Eater Beatrix perform dark magic.Bottom Right: The heroes ride a dragon into Hogwarts.Bottom Left: Harry duels Voldemort for the last time.

Photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Top Left: Fans scream outside of Avery Fisher Hall in New York.AP

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

OOPEN CONSIGNMENT AUCTIONDO YOU HAVE ITEMS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SELL?

LET US SELL FOR YOU!!

AUTOS - EQUIPMENT - BOATS - MOWERS - ATV’S - GOLF CARTS - UTILITYTRAILERS - MOTOR HOMES & MORE

Next Auction: Saturday, July 16th Items due by: Friday, July 15th @ Noon

Southeast Auction Company14433 Highway 69 South - Tuscaloosa

(205) 758-3068www.SEAUCTION.com J. Michael Langford #528



[email protected]

After nearly four months, there is still a National Football League lockout and no profes-sional football in session. As NFL team owners and the NFL Players’ Association pon-der on forming an agreement, players themselves are still putting in work on the field. Former UA football players that are now in the NFL have been working out on their own in preparation for the season once the lockout ends. Seattle Seahawks rook-ie offensive tackle James Carpenter has been work-ing out in Duluth, Ga., at Competitive Edge Sports. He said it’s different doing things on his own, without a coach or teammates present all the time. “It’s different because I’m used to having coaches pushing me, making sure I get up, but now I have to get up myself,” Carpenter said. “I was always a hard worker, so I have no prob-lem with it, but nobody’s giving me a set time to get up now.” The New Orleans Saints held team practices without coaches for six weeks, accord-ing to Yahoo! Sports report. In an interview last month with ProPlayerInsiders.com, Saints

Locked-out players stay in shapeFOOTBALL

By O.P. Galt IVContributing Writer

@OPGaltIV

In the wake of two major lockouts in the NFL and now the NBA, I turn my attention to baseball, where the MLB has the best chance for small market teams to be successful, and unless you are a fan of the World Champion Green Bay Packers, it will grow increas-ingly difficult for your small- market teams to thrive and flourish next to their big mar-ket (big money) counterparts. But with a few of the small market MLB teams playing well through the mid-point of the season, some of the not-as-rich teams have caught my eye the past few months. There is something to be said for the small market teams like the Tampa Bay Rays. With a 49-41 record and sitting third in the American League East Division behind the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, two of the most storied, rich, and successful franchises in baseball, the Rays are com-petitive and are careful not to overspend, landing high value players at a cheaper price, i.e. former Red Sox and Yankees player Johnny Damon, who is aging but still productive, given he is healthy. If Rays Manager Joe Maddon had the financial

freedom to sign a highly paid roster similar to Steinberner’s Yankees, the World Series title wouldn’t leave Tropicana Field too often. The Rays are possi-bly the saddest of all the small-market teams, considering they won their difficult division last year and barely had any-one in the stands. What if they actually moved the stadium from St. Petersburg to Tampa Bay? In Cleveland, a city where fans (and owners, i.e. Dan Gilbert) are still reeling from the break-up of their rela-tionship with LeBron James, their best hope for a cham-pionship very well lies with the Cleveland Indians. With a 47-42 record, and only a half game back from the first place Detroit Tigers in the American League Central Division, the Indians are a well-grounded team and a good sleeper pick to make the postseason, which they have a great chance of making if their pitching holds up for the remainder of the reg-ular season. Citizens of the state of Wisconsin have a great chance of celebrating again this year with the chance of another one of their smaller-market profes-sional teams in the champion-ship hunt. Lead by the big bat of Prince Fielder, the Milwaukee Brewers have been playing

COLUMN

Small-market MLB teams fi nding success

solid baseball and are tied with the St. Louis Cardinals for first place in the National League Central Division with a 49-43 record. This season, there is a small possibility the city of Pittsburgh could celebrate a championship parade with a team not named the Steelers or Penguins. Gasp! After so many seasons of utter disappointment, the Pirates are slowly turning into a hot team to follow in baseball. Led by

All-Star Andrew McCutchen, the Pirates have finally kept themselves competitive in theirdivision. With a 47-43 record and only a game behind the Brewers and Cardinals in the NL Central, Pittsburgh fans want to think this could possi-bly be their year to do well. So there you have it: four small-market teams that have enough pieces to make a goodrun in the postseason – as long as they can pay the bills.

AP photoThe Pittsburgh Pirates are one of many small-market MLB teams having success this season.

rookie running back Mark Ingram talked about his work-outs with his teammates. “Everybody’s trying to stay in shape and keep the team chemistry there,” Ingram said. “Everybody’s out here working hard and training and getting together, even though we’re locked out. All of the guys, I think, look forward to this, and it’s good to get out here, work with the guys and get to know them.” As also stated on Yahoo! Sports, players on other teams have been holding meetings, self-organized practice and things of the like. There has been no decision reached between the owners and Players’ Association as of yet, while the first preseason game is set to kick off on Aug. 7. Other UA alumni players, including Kansas City Chiefs cornerback and punt return specialist Javier Arenas, have been in Tuscaloosa during the lockout. Arenas has been working out, as well as helping out with tornado relief efforts while in Tuscaloosa. Like many NFL players, Carpenter said he has no idea how close the league is to reaching an agreement, and he’s looking forward to its end.

“I hope it gets done pretty soon, because I’m ready to get to my coach and learn as much as I can and to work out with my teammates.” Ingram said in the ProPlayerInsiders.com inter-view, “I think it’s smart [to con-tinue working out] because you don’t know what’s going to hap-pen with the lockout situation. I think, just the fact that most of the guys are training and tak-ing initiative to get themselves in shape is good, because the lockout can be lifted at any

UA draftees waiting for a paycheck:

- Marell Dareus (Bills)- Mark Ingram (Saints)- James Carpenter (Seahawks)- Greg McElroy (Jets)- Julio Jones (Falcons)

time. Just to know that the guys are ready, I think that’s good.” A recent ESPN report stat-ed that there is belief that an agreement could be reached during the July 21 league meet-ings that will be held in Atlanta.

Some of the issues the two sides are debating are rookie wages and contract lengths. There have been 41 UA alums drafted by the NFL in the past nine years. Five players were drafted this year.

UA AthleticsJames Carpenter lines up for a play during the 2009 Iron Bowl in Auburn. He and many other former UA players are facing the challenge of staying in shape during the NFL Lockout.

CW File

SPO

RTS

• Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Editor • Tony Tsoukalas crimsonwhitesports

@gmail.com

LIFESTYLES

• Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Editor • Stephanie Brumfield

[email protected]

By Shea Stripling

My brain is a bowl of cake batter churning in the wake of silver beaters. Fuzzy-edged memories spiral in and out and through my synapses in end-less figure-eights. I watch the clips play in rapid succession like a disordered flipbook past-ed on my inner-eyelids. I cannot sleep. When I open my eyes, the colors of my mental snapshots bleed into the blackness of the ceiling. On my right, the hint of green digits suggests it is 3 a.m. Central Time. I fumble for the bedside lamp and pull a thin, silvery chain out from under my cotton tee. The watch on the end is grasping the 12 and the 8 with its sinewy hands. It is 8 p.m. today in New Zealand. My thoughts have jet lag. Now in the kitchen, I rum-mage through a bowl of can-dies before settling on some chocolaty snack that is not worth mentioning because it is replaced before the wrapper is even crumpled. I chew and stare through the darkened pane. America and New Zealand are both covered in velvet drapes, awaiting the unveil-ing of two different days. In these moments, I can pretend that underneath all this black-ness, there lies a coffee shop beside a bookstore beside a flower shop beside a fruit stand beside a thrift store beside a kebab stand beside a record store beside a bay. The beauti-ful repetition is dizzying. This is the way Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, mapped out in my mind.

Travels through time, space and New ZealandCOLUMN | STUDY ABROAD

Tonight, like most nights since I have returned to the states, I will stay awake until the sun rises and have no doubt that I am back in Alabama. Then, I will flip down the Venetian blinds, pull the covers over my head, and wan-der through the New Zealand that I have pasted together in my mind. In my dreams, I sip hot choc-olate with strawberry marsh-mallows from a porcelain cup as I shuffle down the streets of Wellington. “Baby One More Time” and other songs I haven’t heard since I had my braces removed pour out of the doors of the classy thrift stores full of Kiwis dressed in shades of grey. I buy buttercups from a bucket in front of a fruit stand and stuff them in the pocket of my pea coat. The sky is the color of liquid paper. I breathe in the smell of tandoori chick-en mingled with the perfume of freshly pressed crepes deeply. An old man with facial tattoos is singing “Norwegian Wood” (my favorite Beatles song) into a microphone knot-ted with scarves. I duck into a used bookstore and dig through stacks of cloth-bound

books that smell of old glue and dust. Back on the street, a man beside me smokes a pipe filled with tobacco that smells of burning waffle cones. A few more steps and I am seated on a rock beside Oriental Bay. I can see the mountains and the ocean and the city all in one frame. I scribble something in a notebook about how beauti-ful the city is, something about how I drink tea and write and read and dance and laugh and sing in the shower more here than anywhere in the world. I feel like I could stay here, indefinitely.

This is when I wake up. I roll over, let out a deflating sigh and begin to contemplate how I can return. The Maori people of New Zealand believe that traveling into the future is more akin to walking backwards than mov-ing forwards. The future is the path behind us that is out of view and the past is the scen-ery in front of us which has already been visited. This idea takes on a special meaning when you visit New Zealand, a land a day ahead of the rest of the world. Sans Delorean, I pull out my

By Trey Irby

In the middle section of Johnny Hanna’s 22-minute documentary “Land of Oz,” the crew interrupts the documen-tary’s main focus of covering the history of Tuscaloosa’s Oz Music to talk to seven guys on a porch. The guys, whom I’ll label as “frat-like” for short descriptive purposes, are all asked about when they’ve last gone to the music store, and one guys mumbles that it had been a year or two. Other voic-es yell that it’s too expensive and that the format is out of date. While no one directly views these guys as villains, the effort is made to show their views as silly (a comment about Oz “not carrying country music” leads to a pan to the country section, bristling with records). And, for the most part, they are silly. But the truth of the matter is that they actually make a fair argument. People will often excuse their reasons for not doing some-thing, because they don’t want to admit that they don’t want to give local businesses money. I do this a lot; I’ll buy some-thing (as in beer or coffee or diet green tea) that affects me physically because I already have a lot of fuel for thought

COLUMN | MUSIC

Oz Music prices may turn away customers

and enjoyment mentally. And it’s not because I don’t want to spend my money at a business like Oz, but it’s because I feel less affected by music. This isn’t a good excuse, and I apologize to Oz. I hope that my own efforts could change this sort of perception, and if I had more than college student money and bad excuses, by God, I would do what I could to buy every awesome record there. Unfortunately, music is a commodity that’s been unfairly devalued. I have acquaintances that will scoff at a $3 cover for a show. (Hell, I myself will “for-get” because of a $3 cover.) It’s a cyclical problem; peo-ple get mad at cover charges because people never listen to the music of the bands per-forming. Often the response is a shrug and paying more at the bar because inhibitions are gone by beer number five. To tie this back into “Land of Oz,” a late scene profiles store manager Jason Patton and former employee Reed Watson wondering why college

students don’t even know of the existence of the store. I’ve talked to Reed in the past about this, and those interviews are available at your local website or library. There’s no need to revive the subject here. However, Patton’s comments interest me because I wonder if they are consistent with the crowds of the other few remain-ing record stores, or if we just assume college students are the target audience. Amongst praise of vinyl as a superior audio experience, it’s obvious that the customers of Oz profiled in the film are true music buffs. But I think what is unfortunately hinted at is that the wide mass of college students and the espoused cus-tomer base of Oz both prove that music buffs aren’t always music buyers. I wonder if we ever will switch out of that mindset, or perhaps we’re already too far away from an experience that I fear people assume is some-how quite geeky. I guess we’ll hope Oz keeps trucking (which

journal and attempt to travel back to the future with only a pen.

Submitted PhotoThis photo shows a rainbow over the bay in Wellington, New Zealand.

they seem to be), and that any disconnect is severed with new faces. But I’m afraid that with-out disposable income, hope is all I’ve got in that fight.

I think what is unfortunately hinted at is that the wide mass of college students and the espoused customer base of Oz both prove that music buffs aren’t always music buyers.

DID THE DOG

EAT MORETHAN YOUR

HOMEWORK?

SOCSEALY ON CAMPUS

KEEP THE DOG. Come To

391-60671217 University Blvd

@

12 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 LIFESTYLES The Crimson White

By Alex CohenSenior Staff Reporter

[email protected]

At some point, most of us desire to hop in our cars with a purpose. We step on the gas, on a mission, visualizing destina-tions in the forms of places and good friends. Brian Alexander, a friend to University of Alabama students, made Tuscaloosa his first stop in a two-month, cross-country road trip last Friday. “We’re flying through the country in a whirlwind,” said Alexander, who took off for Charleston, S.C. on Saturday morning. A whirlwind may fall short in quantifying his speed. The trek tentatively includes stops in nearly twenty states and two countries. Sharing driv-ing duties with Stephanie “Stevie” Long, a good friend of four years, Alexander said he believes they’ll have to main-tain a swift pace to complete the round-trip and return to Bay-St. Louis, Miss. by their target-deadline of Aug. 20. “It’s going to be a lot of stop, gas, eat and go.” Alexander said. But Alexander and Long are used to the tempo. Their last road trip included a twenty-one-hour, Los Angeles-to-Boulder car ride, during which they shared a small sedan with three friends, luggage, a cat, litter box and no air-condition-ing. “I don’t regret it,” Long said. “But I would never recreate it.” A recent graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi, Alexander formed friendships with Alabama stu-dents while interning at the American Pavilion’s Cannes Film Program in Cannes, France in May. “There were a lot of UA stu-dents there,” Alexander said. “And alcohol makes for fast friends.” Over the past few years, Alexander has grown accus-tomed to meeting and con-

Road trippers fi nd safe harbor in T-Town

1. Tuscaloosa, Ala.2. Charleston, S.C.3. Washington, D.C.4. New York, N.Y.5. Boston, Mass.6. Keene, N.H.7. Maine coast8. Montreal, Canada

9. Toronto, Canada10. Kalamazoo, Mich.11. Chicago, Ill.12. Minneapolis, Minn.13. Duluth, Minn.

17. Eugene, Ore.18. San Fransisco, Calif.19. San Juan Capistrano, Calif.

20. Phoenix, Ariz.21. Austin, Texas22. New Orleans, La.23. Bay St. Louis, Miss.

14. Grand Teton National Park, Wyo.15. Missoula, Mont.16. Seattle, Wash.

Charleston, SCTuscaloosa, AL

Washington DC

New York, NY

Boston, MA

Keene, NH

Maine Coast(No specific stop)

Montreal, QC Canada

Toronto, ON Canada

Kalamazoo, MIChicago, IL

Minneapolis, MN

Duluth, MN

Grand Teton National Park, WY

Missoula, MT

Seattle, WA

Eugene, OR

San Francisco, CA

San JuanCapistrano, CA

Phoenix, AZ

Austin, TX

New Orleans, LABay St. Louis, MS

Brian Alexander and Stevie Long’s two month, around-the country road tripTHE MAP:

,

KKKKacago

WWW

N

h,, MN

a

d T

MM

S

CP

NNe(Finish by August 20th)

Tusc

CChic

WY

AAusttiin TX

2011ROAD TRIP

necting with people on a large scale. He says it’s mostly due to his volunteer experiences as an AmeriCorps member. In fact, he met Stevie Long in New Orleans while doing recov-ery work with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps. “In such an emotion-ally compressed space, you get to know people super quickly,” Alexander said. “In AmeriCorps, I was participat-ing in a traveling volunteer

program with a team that became a family.” That same family will shel-ter Alexander and his passen-gers as they weave around the country. His brothers and sisters in service responded to Alexander via Facebook, sug-gesting their homes as stops along his initial rough route. The volume of responses illus-trated the profound depth of his relationships. “I got a dumb amount of responses,” Alexander said. “I

even had to ignore a few.” He did not ignore Colby Leopard and Sarah Massey, Alabama students who worked with him at Cannes and beck-oned him toward Tuscaloosa. But Alexander, who devel-oped a taste for disaster recov-ery in New Orleans, admits that the recent tornado-relat-ed devastation also drew him to T-town. For Long, this stop was actu-ally a return trip. Helping to heal April 27’s wounds, she contributed three days of recovery work and noted the town’s resemblance to that of post-Katrina New Orleans. “The eerie FEMA ‘X’s’ are what really struck me,” Long said. While he constantly feels a calling to service, Alexander contends that the main fuel for this trip – other than $50 tanks of unleaded – is a desire to strengthen relationships.

“Those relationships make life worth living,” Alexander said. “Even in AmeriCorps, when you’re bombarded with so many faces and names, you’re always glad to meet them. Something about it feels natural.” That natural feeling was apparent to Corey Fox, an Alabama student who shares mutual friends with Alexander. Fox provided the road-trippers with their firsts of many com-forting couches. “I love hosting people like that,” Fox said. “It puts me at ease knowing somebody can

trust others to provide happy company, even as only casual acquaintances.” If all goes according to plans, Alexander and Long should find more happy com-pany in Boston tonight. Their weekend included over 1,000 miles of interstate and stops in Washington D.C. and New York City. Long probably described the journey best: “Non-stop, get it, get it.”

We will continue to follow Brian and Stevie as their trip progresses. Please look for updates in next week’s paper.

“In such an emotionally compressed space, you get to know people super quickly. In AmeriCorps, I was participating in a traveling volunteer program with a team that became a family.”

— Brian Alexander

CW | Brian Pohuski

Follow the CW on Twitter

TheCrimsonWhite

cw.ua.edu

Order Online

Open Late

Bama Cash

We’re Open for Business!

SUMMER SCHOOL

SPECIAL

205.342.BIRD (2473)

1241 McFarland Blvd E

WingZone.com

li

10Wings (Original or Boneless)

10Shrimp

473)RD (2473)RD (2RD (2473)

gBoneless)

for JUST $10!)

UUUUSSSSTTTTUUSTJUUJU

The Crimson White LIFESTYLES Thursday, July 13, 201113

Where: Kentuck AnnexWhen: July 7- July 30

Turmoil and Transcendence is an exhibit of art in response to the April 27 tor-nado, which includes works by several UA artists and alumni. This show provides a venue for artists to share some of their work related to this devastating experi-ence as a step in maintaining and broadening the community.

Where: Kentuck AnnexWhen: July 7- July 30

The group showing is a compilation of current graduate student Barbara Lee Black and other members of the Crossroads Art Alliance. According to the official website, the CAA exists to promote and support a broad and eclectic mix of art making in Gordo and to increase art awareness and education while enhancing positive partnerships, economic development, cultural tourism and quality of life centered in Pickens County.

Where: Junior League GalleryWhen: July 7- July 27

The Arts Council is presenting Black Belt One Hundred Lenses, an exhibit featur-ing the photography from the 2011 Black Belt 100 Lenses project. You can come check out the photos Monday- Friday 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Tuscaloosa stays cultured this summerWhere: Sella-Grenata GalleryWhen: July 11- July 15

Underground + Aqueous is a two-in-one art show! Underground will feature the works of Brooke Lofton, Senior BA, and Aqueous will show-case art of student selections from ART 305 Water-based Media. You can check out this show Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

UNDERGROUND + AQUEOUS

Rachel Dodson

Where: Ferguson Center Art Gallery When: July 7- July 29

UA art instructor Tom Wegrzynowski created this solo exhibition. According to the artist, his body of work came about as an investigation into concepts of entertainment. “Of interest to me is the ambiguous relationship between what might be construed as reality and the editorialized nature of media culture.”

Rachel DodsonARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Where: The Gallery at Canterbury Chapel (near the corner of Hackberry Lane and University Blvd.)When: July 7- July 31

Aynslee Moon, a UA graduate student of painting, said she drew inspiration for her exhibit from reflection and the history of mir-rors. “I guess I find it really interesting how we go through life looking in a mirror everyday and how we reflect on ourselves personally.”

Where: Alabama Art KitchenWhen: July 7- July 29

This solo exhibition features artist Miriam Norris. According to the Alabama Art Kitchen, this is a beautiful show of found images and incredibly detailed embroidery.The art can be seen Thursday- Saturday 6 p.m.- 9 p.m. or by appointment.

SAINTS & STAMPS

APPARITIONS

Rachel Dodson

Rachel Dodson

TURMOIL AND TRANSCENDENCE

CROSSROADS ART ALLIANCE OF GORDO GROUP SHOW

BLACK BELT ONE HUNDRED LENSES

14 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 LIFESTYLES The Crimson White

By Robert MooreContributing Writer

Joining in the efforts to lift the city’s spirit through the arts, Theatre Tuscaloosa pres-ents a musical comedy that the group hopes will bring laughter to all who see it. “The Drowsy Chaperone” opens Friday at the Bean-Brown Theatre on Shelton State’s campus. This show within a show opens with the man in the chair, a music fanatic, who puts on his favorite musical album, The Drowsy Chaperone. It is the tale of a glamorous actress on her wedding day. Threatened by his chief investor, the pro-ducer of her latest show tries to stop the nuptials to keep from losing his leading lady. The audience is taken along for the ride as the musical within a comedy unfolds in the man’s apartment. Filled with twists

Musical aims to lift city spirits with laughterIF YOU GO...

• What: Theatre Tuscalo-osa’s performance of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

• Where: Bean-Brown Theatre on Shelton State’s campus.

• When: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Satur-days from July 15-24 and at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and Sundays.

and turns, including mistaken identities, dream sequences and spit takes, the 90-minute show boasts nonstop laughter. The show is directed by Theatre Tuscaloosa’s execu-tive producer and Alabama alumnus Tina Turley. With more than 25 years worth of experience as a director, actor,

writer, teacher and theater manager, she is no stranger to the stage. Turley is accredited with choosing the show for the season, telling The Crimson White that, while on a trip to New York, she saw the show by herself and was amazed by how funny it was. “I would have turned around

and gone right back in if I could’ve,” said Turley. After just over two months since the tornado, this show couldn’t have come at a better time, Turley said. “Although we had chosen this musical over a year ago, we had no idea how much it would be needed in the wake of the April 27 tornado,” she said. The musical is the original script and features original choreography. Stacy Alley, assistant professor of musi-cal theatre and dance at The University of Alabama, choreo-graphed the entire show. Alley, an Alabama alumnus as well, is noted for being a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, choreog-rapher for numerous shows throughout the country – most recently “A Chorus Line” at Forestburgh Playhouse in New York – and is the Co-Chair of the Musical Theatre Committee at the Southeastern Theatre

Conference. Alley, who has actually been choreographing five shows in the last four months, has found the time to add wonderful and entertaining choreography to the musical, which includes a roller skating number. Alley said that this show is one of the funniest she has ever seen. “The choreography in this show is fun, and the actors bring a little bit of their charac-ter into it,” she said. Turley said the show called for the triple-threat perform-er, and one of those is Drey Mitchell. A sophomore at the University, Mitchell plays the leading male role, groom Robert Martin. Initially think-ing he was going to get a sup-porting role, Mitchell was surprised when he was asked to lead. Though having only about four years of experi-ence, Mitchell brings talent and entertainment to the stage that

rivals some seasoned veterans. Mitchell said the show is non-stop energy and will definitely be fun and entertaining for the audience. “The Drowsy Chaperone” will be presented July 15-24. Performances will be 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Wednesday and Sundays. On Thursday, there will be a pay-what-you-can final dress rehearsal at 7:30 p.m., with pro-ceeds benefitting the Charlie Dennis Memorial Scholarship Fund. Tickets to the regular performances are $22 for adults, $17 for seniors and $10 for stu-dents and children. Patrons can receive $1 off tickets if they bring a non-perishable food item, which will go the West Alabama Food Bank for those affected by the April 27 torna-do. Tickets can be purchased online at www.theatretusc.com or by phone at 205-391-2277.

This Thursday will be a pay-what-you-can dress rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. with proceeds benefi tting the

Charlie Dennis Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Submitted PhotoPerformers rehearse “The Drowsy Chaperone” Moday night.

WEDNESDAY

JULY 20TH2011

ENJOY A FREE 6OZ. CUP OF OUR FAMOUS QUESO AT PARTICIPATING LOCATIONS.

LIMIT ONE 6OZ. CUP PER CUSTOMER.

Ask-A-LibrarianWhen needing assistance from any UA Library,

you can Ask-A-Librarian by:

•FAQ – Submit a new question for a quick answer: http://ask.lib.ua.edu

•Email – Our goal is to respond within 24 hours. For subject specific questions, you can also contact a subject specialist.

•Telephone – Contact us by phone during regular library hours. Phone numbers for each branch are located on the website.

•Text/SMS – (205)377-0920 - Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

•In Person – Schedule a research consultation or visit an information desk at any of the UA Libraries.

Please visit http://www.lib.ua.edu and click on Ask-A-Librarian for more information.

Scan and learn.

Gorgas Library • Bruno Business Library Hoole Special Collections Library • McLure Education Library

Rodgers Library for Science & Engineering

*The Crimson White places these ads in good faith. We are not

responsible for fraudulent

advertising.*

House ForRent

Buy & sell using The

CrimsonWhite

classifiedsHelp

Wanted

Services

ROLLTIDE

Sublease

House ForSale

For Sale

STUDENT DISCOUNTS WITH VALID IDwww.cobbtheatres.com

STADIUM SEATING | 3D

&

248.8248 | 4250 Old Greensboro Rd.

The UPS Store1130 University Blvd

ApartmentFor Rent

Visit:www.cw.ua.edu

For more details and to apply to these and other on-campus, student

assistant job opportunities, go to http://jobs.ua.edu/, then click

‘Student Assistant’.

CAMPUS 3-4 Bedroom Houses for Rent. Fall 2011. Walking Distance. Please call 752-1277. Lease & deposit re-quired. No pets. HOUSE ROOMS TO RENT, 6 MONTH LEASE AVAILABLE. CLOSE WALK TO UNIV., GIRLS ONLY 205-300-3757 HOUSE FOR RENT 3 Bdrm, 2 bath near cam-pus, large back porch. Pet friendly. Application and background/credit check required. $875/ mo (205)792-0304 HOUSE FOR RENT 3 bedrm, 2 full bath, big family &living rm, large fenced backyard, security sys-tem630-240-4749 , $1200.00/ mon 3BR2BA ON CAMPUS. Totally furnished. All utilities paid. $1500/mo. 3BR3BA Approx 1mi from Stadium. Totally furnished. $1500/mo. Available Aug. 1. 205-887-1160

AUCTION, 2 waterfront properties, Weiss Lake. Online bidding. For de-tails www.HortonAuc-tion.com. Phone 1-256-536-7497. Pete Horton, AL #213. BEAUTIFUL 3 BED-ROOM, 2 bath home, quiet neighborhood,

with nice trees. Approxi-mately 1.5 acres, 12 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL. Asking $239,000. Call 1-205-409-3200. S P E C T A C U L A R OCEAN VIEW condo in Florida - only $149,900. Similar unit sold for $445,500. Fully fur-nished 1 bed, 2 bath Gulf-front condo sleeps six! Enjoy resort-style amenities, luxurious ac-commodations, prime Panama City Beach location! 2, 3 & 4 bed condos also available. Call now 1-877-888-2296 PanamaBeachFL-Condo.com.

CAMPUS- Behind the University Strip. Small

$300-350/ mo. Utilities included. Lease and de-posit required. No pets. Call 752-1277. WILLOW WYCK 2 bed-room, 1.5 bath, perfect

minutes from Campus. Move-In Special. Pre-leasing Available. 391-9690 CAMPUS- EFFICIENCY APARTMENTS Cam-

-ments next door to Pub-lix Supermarket. $350/ month. Water included. Cobblestone Court Apartments. Lease & Deposit required, no pets. 205-752-1277 UNIQUE DOWN-TOWN LOFT 3BR2BA $1650/mo. hardwood

-light, 2BR1BA Down-town Northport. Huge Deck! $1000/mo. 752-9020/657-3900

CRIMSON STERLING APARTMENT One bed-room and one bathroom of a 4 BR / 4 BA apart-ment for sublease. Rent is $630 per month with all utilities included ex-cept power. Comes with all appliances as well as internet and cable. First months rent free! (256)504-8078 SUBLEASER NEEDED ASAP 1 bedroom in 3 bedroom apartment at UV $475/Month. Depos-it paid. Aug 2011-July 2012 (662)549-7002 ROOMATE NEEDED 1 bedroom/1bath of 3bed-room/3 bath Apt. $600 a month, 1 yr lease. In-cludes water. Located on strip behind smooth-ie king. Kensington Square Apts. Girls Only. (205)510-2203

!BARTENDING! $300/ day potential, no experi-ence necessary. Train-ing courses available. (800)965-6520 Ext214. ALL BLOOD TYPES NEEDED Southern Blood Services, Inc. 205-759-4007 ALLIED HEALTH CA-REER training - attend

college 100% online. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Fi-

1-800-481-9409. www.CenturaOnline.com. (R) APPLY NOW, 12 driv-ers needed. Top 5% pay. Great equipment & ben-

Class A driving experi-ence. 1-877-258-8782. www.meltontruck.com. ATTENTION: DRIVER trainees needed! $800 to $1000 a week plus

training with several tu-ition options available. Everyone approved if

-ING (1-800-878-2546). (R) DRIVERS - CDL-A. Start up to $0.45 per mile! Sign-on bonus! Great home time! Lease purchase available. Experience required. 1-800-441-4271 x AL-100. www.Hornady-Transportation.com. (R) DRIVERS - GOOD miles! Regional truck drivers start at 37 cpm with 1+ years experi-ence. Home every week. Affordable family ben-

8608, or visit www.averi-ttcareers.com. EOE. (R) DRIVERS - NO Experi-ence- no problem. 100% paid CDL training. Im-

program. Trainers earn up to $0.49. per mile! CRST van expedited 1-800-326-2778. www.JoinCRST.com. (R) DRIVERS: 5 state dis-patch! Run GA, FL, SC, NC & VA. Earn up to $0.39/mi. Home week-

-bed experience. Call: Sunbelt Transport, LLC 1-800-572-5489 Joy ext. 238, Susan ext. 227. (R) FLATBED DRIVERS YEAR to date average 42 cents on total mile & got home 93% week-ends! Make more - run less. Bonuses paid on safety, MPG, clean road-side. 1-800-828-6452. GET ALL YOU need to succeed! Van and

starting pay! Plus lots of extras. $500 sign-on for

OTR. 1-888-801-5295. (R) HOTEL CAPSTONE Banquet Supervisor2 - 3 years banquet and/or restaurant supervisor experience preferred. Apply in person Monday-Friday. Email resume to [email protected]

EOE NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!NEW CAREER - CDL Training. Jobs available

start tomorrow! WIA, VA & Rehab. ESD TDS, LLC. 1-866-432-0430. www.esdschool.com. (R) OWNER OPERATORS & high fuel costs?! Aver-age fuel network savings of $0.43 per gallon. Earn over $2.00 per mile! 1-877-277-8756. www.JoinMalone.com. (R) PAID DRIVER TRAIN-ING! Refresher course available for regional truck drivers. Earn $0.35 to $0.37 per mile af-terwards! Home every week. Nice trucks, great

-reers.com. EOE. (R)

ATTENTION RURAL RESIDENTS! Are you tired of slow dial up? Get High-Speed Internet today from HughesNet. Free installation, and monthly payments as low as $39.99 per month after mail-in-rebate!. Call now! 1-256-626-2481. DISH NETWORK DELIVERS more for less! Packages start-ing at $24.99/mo, lo-cal channels included! Free HD for life! Free BlockBuster(R) movies for 3 months. 1-866-484-0056. (R) DIVORCE WITH OR without children $99.95. Includes name change and property settlement agreement. Free infor-mation. Save hundreds. Fast and easy. Call 1-888-789-0198 24/7. (R)

NEED TO ADVERTISE statewide? ALA-SCAN can place your 25-word ad in 130 newspapers across Alabama for only $210 (additional words $7.50). Make one call to this newspaper (a participating ALA-SCAN

easy it is to advertise statewide! (R) PEACHES -U- PICK. Call Ahead. Culp Fruits. I-65, Jemison Exit 219, east 1/2 mile. Open 7-6, 7 days. 1-205-688-4553. www.CulpFruits.com. (R) SAVE THOUSANDS ON steel buildings! Summer clearance sale - 20x24, 25x40, others. Repo’s and cancelled orders. Hurricane rated. Display program offers more savings. Call now! 1-866-352-0469.

PRIVATE PILOT LES-SONS Earn your private

Tuscaloosa Airport. 205-272-2231 or email [email protected]

Today’s Birthday (07/13/11). You may find yourself wanting to crawl back into your shell. But partnership opens doors and provides opportunities you could never get alone. Dare to share your wildest dreams, and discover everything you need. You grow more prosperous together.Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- New opportunities lie ahead, and you may be tested, so prepare and rest well. Focus on study and research, and reward yourself with something fun for all your work.Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- What if solitude were a conscious decision, rather than a fearful with-drawal? Then one could choose being together at any time. Romance and travel beckon.Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Let your imagination inspire you. Check over resources and finances; figure out the costs; and go for it. Unusual disruptions may arise. Take it slow to avoid accidents.Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Serenity in the morning allows for productivity at work. Around midday things shift toward team involvement. Consult other points of view, and lis-ten graciously.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s plenty going on right now, and it could feel intense. Keep to your schedule, and get help if you need it. Come up with creative solutions while handling routine tasks.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Romance takes over today and to-

morrow. Find inspiration in the words of famous poets, or write your own. Notice beautiful lyrics, and share them with loved ones and strangers.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- The next two days are good for making changes at home. Get approval from a partner on decisions to avoid upsets. Then light some candles for a little am-bience.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Some disappointment in love could be possible now. Make sure to com-municate clearly to solve any misun-derstandings. Stay close to family and loved ones.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Relationships present challenges now, especially when mixed with money. Sometimes business gets in the way. You can have it all with a little creativity.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- The moon’s in your sign, and confidence is yours. Take action toward fulfilling a long-held dream, even if it’s a small step. Pace yourself, and stick to the budget.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 5 -- You might go down the tunnel with no cheese today. If you do, try to learn the lesson and don’t just repeat that same path. Or just enjoy the stroll as its own reward.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Accept all the help you can get from your friends and community. Now’s a good time to write down your dreams and plan your future. Plot a common course for success.

Student Photography Assistant - 0805131. Applicants must have basic digital photography/photo editing experi-ence, proficiency with Photoshop and familiarity with building locations around campus. Applicants must be able to work occasional nights, weekends, and during Homecoming. Job close date: 08/08/2011.

Cashier/Sales Clerk (Temporary) - 0805132. Assistants needed for cus-tomer service support at Supply Store - Tutwiler location. Applicants must be able to work extended hours and weekends including home football game days. 8 positions available. Job close date: 07/30/2011.

Skybox Server - 0805124. Assistants needed to work on catering team to provide food service to Executive Sky-boxes, the Zone, and the Field Suites at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Applicants must be available to work any shift on all home football game days. 20 positions available. Job close date: 08/15/2011.

Support Staff – 0805054. Assistants needed to provide customer service support at various UA Recreation Cen-ter locations. Applicants must have or be able to complete specific CPR certi-fication, and be able to attend required training sessions prior to employment. Applicants with previous customer service/sales experience preferred. 07/15/2011.

16 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 The Crimson White

07.13.11

Documents

Transcript of 07.13.11