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SPORTS | SOFTBALL NEWS | DOWNTOWN EXPRESS

SPORTS | BILL BATTLE

NEWS | GUY BAILEY

Keeping Mal’s momentum

By Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

When Bill Battle first stepped on the campus of The University of Alabama as a football player, Bryant-Denny Stadium seated 31,000 fans, Paul “Bear” Bryant hadn’t won a

national championship and football players rarely weighed more than 200 pounds. Fifty-two years later, he sits in an office overlooking a multi-million dollar football practice facil-ity and weight room, down the street from a stadium with a capacity of six figures on the campus of a school that’s won 15 national champion-ships, including three of the last four.

Battle, 71, was approved as ath-letic director last Friday by the UA

Board of Trustees and is tasked with sustaining what his predecessor, Mal Moore, left behind. Moore died Saturday because of a pulmonary condition and is responsible for the success of the current Crimson Tide athletic department, which is in the midst of an unprecedented run in its on-field success and facilities upgrades.

CW | Austin BigoneyNew Athletic Director Bill Battle discusses the past, present and future of the athletics department and state of the University as a whole during a meeting with The CW Tuesday morning.

Battle talkes attendance at games in CW interview

SEE BATTLE PAGE 2

By Adrienne BurchAssistant News Editor

Former president of The University of Alabama Guy Bailey said the two English professors he had his freshman year at the Capstone changed his life.

“It’s really unbelievable the effects teach-ers have on the lives of their s t u d e n t s , ” Bailey said dur-ing a discussion of his linguis-tics research Tuesday after-noon in Room 205 of Gorgas Library.

Bailey will have the chance to fill the shoes of those two professors he had in 1968 when he returns to Morgan Hall this fall to teach two courses, Intro to Linguistics and History of the English Language.

“For four years everything I knew about linguistics I learned in Morgan Hall and Gorgas Library,” Bailey said.

Bailey said in some cases he even taught when he served as president and provost. He did post-doctoral studies and taught classes at Emory University after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He served as

provost of University of Texas at San Antonio, chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and president of Texas Tech University before accepting the presidency at The University of Alabama last fall.

“I’ve never really gotten out of the classroom, and I’ve always kept a hand in both teaching and research,” he said. “I’m ready to be back.”

Bailey stepped down as pres-ident on Oct. 31, 2012, just two months after he was hired. He cited his wife’s health issues as his primary rea-son for resign-ing.

“What I’ve done since Nov. 1 is focus on Jan’s

health,” Bailey said. “Helping her gain the weight she lost in the fall and my preparing to go back to the classroom.”

Bailey said when he dis-cussed giving up the presi-dency with Chancellor Robert Witt, they also talked about him going back into the class-room.

“With my wife’s health prob-lem it would not be a problem for me to teach at all,” he said. “I mean at some point in the future, it may not be a problem for me to do administrative work either.”

Bailey open to administrative work in futureFor now, former president to teach

“I’ve never really gotten out of the classroom, and I’ve always kept a hand in both teaching and research. I’m

ready to be back.

— Guy Bailey

By Ellen Coogan and Justin HeckCW Staff

UA’s Downtown Express initiative has seen an average of 250 riders per weekend since its implementation in February of last year.

In the first three months of 2013, the Express had more than 2,000 riders. In 2010, a sim-ilar Student Government Association busing ini-tiative called the E-Bus [Entertainment Bus] was shut down because of a lack of participation.

In an attempt to revive the idea, the Downtown Express was created as an weekend evening bus-ing service to connect the UA campus with downtown Tuscaloosa. More than 450 students used the service on its inaugural weekend.

The Downtown Express runs from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursdays and Saturdays and from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Fridays.

Ralph Clayton, director of transit ser-vices at The University of Alabama, said the Downtown Express was only one part of the university’s late-night trans-portation suite.

“The Downtown Express is a

component of the late-night transit services, which support safe transpor-tation options for The University of Alabama community. The Downtown Express primarily focuses on provid-ing transportation to the downtown entertainment area,” Clayton said. “The Downtown Express supports the on-demand 348-RIDE service, eliminating the calls to downtown during the hours of the downtown express is in service. The service allows the 348-RIDE to

focus more on providing service to other areas.”

The SGA and the UA Transportation Services worked together to form the program. The origi-nal purpose of the ini-tiative was to provide a safe way for students to access restaurants and entertainment down-town without the worries of driving or parking.

“The Downtown Express is a great option for students to go to the down-town entertainment area without hav-ing to drive or walk,” Clayton said. “The downtown area has nice restaurants and entertainment establishments that appeal to the student population, and the Downtown Express offers conve-nient transportation to get there with-out a cost to ride.”

One year after creation, bus route still a successDowntown Express more successful than precursor

“The Downtown Express is a great option for students

to go to the downtown entertainment area without

having to drive or walk.

— Ralph Clayton

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Lauren Sewell improved to 7-0 as the Tide’s starting pitcher in an 11-3 defeat of Jacksonville State. What started out as a shaky start

for Sewell, who walked four batters and hit three, ended up as another win. Leslie Jury earned her first save of the season after she took over for Sewell in the top of the fourth inning.

“I think when your starting pitcher hits, walks, hits, walks but gets out of an inning and strikes out seven or eight. … It just doesn’t make sense to me. If [Sewell] can strike out seven or eight, she doesn’t

need to hit or walk a couple of them. So we need to work on that, but she got out of a bases-loaded [situa-tion] at the beginning,” head coach Patrick Murphy said. “We had a real good second inning, a real good fourth inning, and then I thought we finished it well. Two out rallies are awesome, and we’ll take it.”

CW | Austin BigoneyHitter Kallie Case dashes to fi rst base following a high hit.

Crimson Tide improves to 33-5 with 11-3 victory

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“The challenge is great,” Battle said in an interview with The Crimson White Tuesday. “The challenge is to keep our momentum going that Mal and these great staff members and coaches have generated. And not only to keep it going, but I believe you either get better or get worse. So our challenge is

to keep working hard.”Battle called the last three

weeks “a whirlwind” for him. Four weeks ago, the position wasn’t even on his radar, but after a period of wrestling with the decision, he has embraced the new role and begun his work. Even at 71, he said he is still learning everyday.

“What I learned a long time ago is that you never quit learn-ing,” Battle said. “Or if you do, you get in trouble.”

One issue students will keep an eye on is his handling

of student tickets and atten-dance, specifically at football games. A Crimson White study in November found that only 69.4 percent of student tickets were used by students during the 2012 season, and many who come to games leave during the middle of the fourth quarter or earlier, especially in blowout games.

“All event managers and entertainment and sports are facing problems of getting peo-ple to the venues,” Battle said. “High-definition television is

so good, there’s so many other things to do, and it’s really dif-ficult to get people to spend money to come do those things. So I want to take a long hard look at all of our programs in that area.”

However, he said student attendance is vital to the ath-letic department and is some-thing they will research further as he settles into his role.

“It’s important to me. It’s cer-tainly important to our players and coaches that our students are engaged,” he said. “It hurts their feelings when they don’t come or they come late or leave early. I don’t know what the answer is, but I think we better start figuring out all the ques-tions and engage the students to try to do that.

“We are concerned about that, and we do need to do a better job, and we need to com-municate better with the stu-dents. We need to understand why it’s not important to them and what would make it more important to them.”

Moore’s commitment to facil-ities was widely recognized, but one venue went almost untouched during his tenure: Sewell-Thomas Stadium, which hosts Alabama baseball games.

The most recent addition was a clubhouse upgrade in 2010 and an added video board in 2007. But the fan atmosphere leaves a lot to be desired for most fans, and Battle said it will be addressed.

“I know there’s been some improvements made over the last few years to the baseball stadium, but I think we all agree that there needs to be a lot more,” Battle said. “I’m not sure what the timeline is, but I

know that’s on our agenda.”For coaches already on staff,

Battle said he will begin a thor-ough review process over the next six weeks and make judg-ments going forward. A few programs, like women’s basket-ball and volleyball, have under-achieved as of late, but Battle said nothing will be rushed.

“I don’t want to do anything until I get a chance to look at the big picture,” Battle said. “This hasn’t been built piece-meal. There’s been a plan to it, and I want to understand the plan and understand where we are and understand what our priorities are.”

Battle constantly repeated that “you either get better or you get worse” during the course of an approximately 30-minute interview, and it seems this will be his mantra as he takes over one of the most successful athletics depart-ments in the country. It will be a daunting task and one he was unsure of at first.

But for Battle, the greatest joy, and the biggest influence in his decision to take this posi-tion, will be giving back to the place that gave him so much 52 years ago.

“It gives me a chance to pay back some of the debt that I owe to the University for the difference they made in my life, and I hope we can help make a difference in some other people’s lives as well,” he said. “I’m not doing this to get a bet-ter job somewhere after I leave here. I’m not doing this for the money. I’m doing this because I want to see the progress and the momentum that Mal and his team has built continue, and I want it to improve.”

Bailey said he will have more flexibility as a professor than as an administrator. He also said the two positions, administra-tion and linguistics, are more alike than one would think.

“If you look at what I was doing, I was solving problems, problems of research. I was interviewing people. If you interview people and do field

work with people, those are really the two key things for administration – solving prob-lems and interacting with peo-ple,” he said.

Tuesday, Bailey gave a lec-ture titled, “Demography and Linguistic Destiny,” in which he discussed his research on linguistics.

Bailey has published more than 100 articles and books on the subject of linguistics. Some of his major studies that he dis-cussed in the lecture included a two-decade long-term study of the language of a small tenant

farming town in Texas, with a population of 150, and a large scale linguistics survey he did in Oklahoma.

“There are a lot of great things you can do with linguis-tics,” Bailey said. “Linguistics also lends itself to collabora-tion. It gives insight into many different subjects.”

Bailey has studied every-thing from the transforma-tion and spread of the word “y’all” to the effects the Great Migration after the Civil War had on language across the country.

“How language is changing is a good index of how the cul-ture is changing,” Bailey said.

Jane Stanfield, associated provost for international edu-cation and global outreach, worked with Bailey while they were getting their graduate degrees at the University of Tennessee.

“He was an outstanding teacher, and his abilities only increased outside of grad school,” Stanfield said.

She said she would not be surprised if many of the stu-dents who attended Tuesday’s

lecture signed up for Bailey’s courses next fall.

“They seemed truly inter-ested in the subject matter,” she said.

Jake Boyd, an English and French major, is from Dayton, Ohio, and said a lot of what Bailey said about speech in theSouth resonated with conver-sations he has had since living in Alabama.

“His work is impressive,” Boyd said.

Boyd also said he would be interested in taking Bailey’s courses in the fall.

Justin Holle, a sophomore majoring in international rela-tions and economics, said the service is a valuable resource for students who do not have cars on campus.

“The Downtown Express

comes in handy for trips to the grocery store or to meet with friends on the weekend,” Holle said. “It’s also very convenient for students without cars who can’t explore the many attrac-tions of Tuscaloosa.”

Holle also said the Downtown Express helps stu-dents connect with the city of Tuscaloosa.

“Providing transporta-tion to and from downtown

and campus gives students a way to become more con-nected to their city,” he said. “It’s too easy to stay in the bubble of campus and not form a real relationship with Tuscaloosa.”

It is not yet clear whether there will be any changes made to the Downtown Express with the incoming SGA administration.

“The Student Government

Association is currently in its transition phase. The success of the Downtown Express has made an impact on many stu-dents, and I hope that success is continued,” Meagan Bryant, SGA press secretary, said.

The Downtown Express has two routes – a north and south route. The north route stops at the University bus hub, Publix, Black Warrior Outdoor, the corner of 4th

Street and Greensboro Avenue and Lakeside Residential. The south route stops at the University bus hub, Bryce Lawn Apartments, Burke Hall, the south end of Bryant-Denny Stadium, Moe’s Original BBQ and the north end of of Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The Downtown Express and its routes can be seen live at ua.transloc.com

BATTLE FROM PAGE 1

Battle looking to keep improving athletics

BAILEY FROM PAGE 1

Bailey plans to return to teaching linguistics

EXPRESS FROM PAGE 1

Weekend bus route carries 250 weekly

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By Judah MartinContributing Writer

It was like an eerie trip down memory lane when Elizabeth Kelly finally saw the destruc-tion from the EF4 tornado that hit Hattiesburg, Miss., in February.

Now a sophomore majoring in early childhood and spe-cial education, Kelly narrowly avoided being caught in the calamity of the April 27, 2011, tornado.

“I was actually visiting cam-pus the day before the tornado [in Tuscaloosa],” Kelly said. “I was able to come back in the summer for Bama Bound, and it was very strange. I saw that places like the gas stations I had been to were gone.”

This year, when the opportu-nity arose to spend her spring break aiding the affected areas of the Mississippi tornado with the University’s community service center, Kelly felt obli-gated to help.

UA students return favor, help victims of Hattiesburg

By Kyle DennanStaff Reporter

Some professors at the Capstone, such as Oscar Holmes, the instructor of Management 320, are taking their classes to the next level and giving their students real world experience while also raising money for charities.

Holmes said his class is different from others because, in addition to complet-ing the usual requirements of MGT 320, students develop and execute their own project to benefit a charity.

“Instead of just having my students do in-class exercises or case studies, which we do, I also wanted them to get some practical experience where they could talk to potential employers about the actual projects they’ve done in class; as well as have them make an impact on the community’s nonprofit world,” Holmes said.

Some of the charities being served by the class are the United Way, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, the American Cancer Society and the Young Men’s Christian Association.

Some of the students in MGT 320 said Holmes’ teaching method has increased their understanding of the effort involved in planning a charitable event.

“My work in this class has definitely helped me in my leadership skills and devotion to philanthropy,” Logan Mayes, a junior majoring in operations manage-ment said. “I’ve taken part in philan-thropic events since middle school, but organizing the event itself was not only tough, but rewarding. Once the event was complete, I felt very proud of what I was able to accomplish.”

Mayes’s group is raising money for the Armed Forces Foundation, which works to improve the lives of active duty and retired military personnel.

Andrew Wash, a junior majoring in marketing, said the class has broadened his view of the world in ways that are not confined to business.

“The charitable work that I am doing in this class is helping me become more aware of my need to help and reach out to others,” he said. “Doing this work is also giving me a greater perspective [on] social issues. This class also gives me

confidence to be a leader after I gradu-ate.”

Some upcoming events include a bake sale in the Ferguson Center for theHuman Rights Campaign, which advo-cates for LGBTQ equality, on Tuesday; and a large crawfish boil on April 13, sup-porting Make-A-Wish Alabama.

“Chuck’s Fish and 5 Bar have agreed to donate, prepare, and cook 400 pounds of crawfish and Sean Rivers will be perform-ing,” Emily Duncan, a senior majoring in marketing, said. “We will also be rafflingoff memorabilia signed by members of the 2012 National Championship footballteam, with winners being announced by members of the team who will be attend-ing the event.”

Duncan said though planning such a major event has been difficult for her group, she finds the work highly reward-ing and stays motivated by focusing on the charity her group is supporting.

“After researching Make-A-Wish and reading the stories from children whose wish was granted, I knew I would work as hard as possible to be able to say I helped make a child’s wish come true,”

Management class aids national charities

“The main work we were able to do was help clear debris from the tornado,” Kelly said. “I was actually very surprised when we came across a FEMA worker who was surveying homes, and he said he hadn’t surveyed any on the next street. So it was a whole month where they weren’t doing anything.”

Jordan Colbert, a junior majoring in economics who accompanied Kelly on the trip, recalled driving down streets lined with piles of bricks and broken pieces of floors and roofs at the edges.

“Some spots you couldn’t tell anything had happened, and then we drove through others where it was like every single

house had its roof ripped off,” Colbert said. “Some houses, the people can’t do anything, because their insurance com-pany won’t comply. They say they have to have their people come out and see the damage themselves before anything can get done.”

While in Hattiesburg, Colbert volunteered at a church where, directly across the street, a house seemed to have caved in on itself.

“That part was literally a house crumpled into a pile,” Colbert said. “All you could see was the foundation and the steps, and behind that, the house was in one pile. While we were there cleaning the church, people would ride by

there and take scrap metal.”The trip was part of the

Community Service Center’s alternative break program, in which students may spend their fall break, winter break, Martin Luther King Jr. week-end, spring break or May Interim working on short-term projects addressing social issues like poverty and literacy.

On this trip, the volunteers stayed in Hattiesburg March 24-28. Once there, they divided into two groups, each deployed to the homes of private citi-zens, churches and nonprofit organizations. Their chief assignments were clearing debris and updating damage assessments, CSC director

Kim Montgomery said.“Being able to clean an area

to completion was award-ing,” Montgomery said.“Hattiesburg citizens were full of thank you’s. Appreciation always feels good.”

Colbert, who has volun-teered with several organi-zations before, said she was humbled by the optimism sheobserved when helping resi-dents clear the rubble from their yards.

“They were grateful for everything. You could tell they really appreciated it,” Colbertsaid. “They were just thankful that no one there had lost theirlives. They understood that it was just the material things that they had lost.”

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Student-athletes need to have contingency plans

By Amber PattersonStaff Columnist

I am pretty sure everyone, as they were driving home and recovering from all the activi-ties that filled their spring break, heard about the injury that shook the NCAA tourna-ment.

Louisville Cardinal guard Kevin Ware leaped to contest a three-point shot and landed in what I saw as a freak acci-dent that led to his leg practi-cally bending at a right angle, the bone coming through his skin. The actual break in his tibia occurred on impact and shot a piece of the split bone through his shin.

All of this hap-pened in front of the bench full of his teammates, who faces just read pure hor-ror and even brought some to tears; truth-fully, I shed a few out of pure sympathy for this young athlete. An injury that severe would make even the most devoted basketball player never want to step foot on the court again.

Ware’s injury, as gruesome as it may be, isn’t the first to happen to college athletes that sometimes leads to the end of college careers. Doctors do project that Ware will play next season after a success-ful surgery, but what if he doesn’t?

What if he never regains the skills he once had? Players have a hard enough time com-ing back from torn ACLs, rare-ly pushing themselves back to their full intensity. This injury in college sports brings to light

the need for college athletes to develop a backup plan before they accept scholarships to whichever school they decide to attend, because truthfully not everyone is meant to go pro.

We all remember that jock in high school whose only plan was to play football or basket-ball his whole life. He did nothave a plan B, and C and D were not even a thought. This type of thinking plagues many athletes, and their worlds are shaken when the unexpected happens. College athletes fail to grasp how fragile their time on the court or the field is; it just takes one tackle or one foul to completely change the direction of your life.

I originally thought that most universities would not just leave injured players out in the cold. Unfortunately, col-lege athletes are not employ-ees and do not fall under work-er compensation, and most scholarships are for a year – coaches decide if they will renew a player’s scholarship.

When i tcomes to medi-cal bills, allathletes arerequired to beinsured; thisbeing said, billsstill can pile up.The NCAA’sC a t a s t r o p h i cInjury InsuranceProgram report-edly comeswith a $90,000

deductible, and the majority of athletes don’t qualify for it. So this leaves players stuck in the unknown, and the only clear way out is having a planin place. College athletics is abillion dollar industry, where the main source of revenue does not receive a dime of the money; this alone should encourage players to protect themselves. Achieving the dream of being in professionalsports is not unattainable for these players, but it should notbe the only option.

Amber Patterson is a sopho-more majoring in public rela-tions. Her column runs weekly on Wednesdays.

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Pair of hats symbolizes passing on of a legacyBy Hannah WaidStaff Columnist

My house recently flooded and underwent a reconstruc-tion which forced my family to move out for three months. While moving back in over spring break, I came across some family memorabilia and heirlooms that I found very interesting, and caused me to think about life and legacy.

What I found were two Alabama baseball hats: One looked brand new, and one looked like it had been worn everyday for the past thirty years. Upon closer inspec-tion, I noticed that they were signed by Paul “Bear” Bryant.

My father then told me the story of when he was a stu-dent here at The University of Alabama and saw Bear Bryant on campus and asked him to sign these hats. He then gave one hat to his father, and one to his father-in-law.

His own father safely put his autographed hat on the top shelf of a bookcase, out of the sunlight and out of the reach of others. His father-in-law, however, wore the hat proud-ly to every occasion and even around the house.

This story reminded me of the passing of Mal Moore and the huge legacy he will leave behind, much like Bear Bryant. His hard work, his compassion and the effect he had on Alabama sports as a player, coach and administra-

tor will forever be remem-bered in the hearts of those who knew him and those who knew of him.

Both the passing of Mal Moore and the passing on of Bear Bryant autographed hats has made me think about

the way we treat the lega-cies we will receive, as col-lege students and the next generation to graduate and enter the real world.

The two baseball hats represent two ways we can handle the passing of a leg-acy. We can treasure it and respect it, putting it up on a pedestal away from the hands of others but still in view. Or,

we can use it and love it, tak-ing it with us everywhere we go, using it and displaying it on us or within us.

Neither one is right or wrong. From university lega-cies like Bear Bryant and Mal Moore to fam-ily legacies of our own, what is important is that we do not let these legacies go unnoticed. We should learn from them, strive to be like them and take

advantage of the opportuni-ties they provide.

Hannah Waid is a junior majoring in English. Her column runs biweekly on Wednesdays.

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Hannah Waid

Blount Undergraduate Initiative sparks conversation among diverse studentsBy Johnathan SpeerSenior Staff Columnist

This spring I want to cel-ebrate achievement – the achievement of the Blount Program in transforming an overconfident boy into a sensible man and fostering a community I can see still thriving long after my tenure as an undergraduate ended.

Six years ago, I walked into the bland yellow walls of the Blount Living-Learning Center and thought my life was over. Every object and every person was foreign, and I was set adrift on a sea of “new opportunity.” I was here to learn and immerse myself in a liberal arts cul-ture, but the social realm appeared completely unman-ageable, and I had no idea how to navigate these new waters. Fortunately for me, I discov-ered a rare treasure enclosed in these innocuous halls.

The walls of Blount Hall may be bland and ugly, and the furniture hideous and uncomfortable, but this cheer-less décor disguises an exu-

berant body of people. I will not rhapsodize on my own experience, but, instead, I will narrate what I see now after six years.

Most of the students in this residence hall know me; I am their friendly neighborhood TA, always here to decipher a difficult reading, answer a question that is already on the syllabus or offer scath-ing critical reviews of a paper (or so I’ve been told). Yet the trust here is something I’ve not seen or experienced in any residence hall on cam-pus. I’ve served as an RA in a different building, and I’ve witnessed the behavior of

students in other dorms, and the residents there seemed to move in and out for classes in a zombie-like haze, and when they would occasionally wan-der (sometimes by accident) into a community space, it was because an RA’s poster advertised food.

Here, we don’t require food to socialize (although we cer-tainly appreci-ate it), and our groups do not gather by acci-dent. Sitting in the spacious Blount lobby is a tradition. When I asked a group of Blount students con-gregated there what they want-ed to hear about in The CW this week, I was struck with the diversity and insight of their ideas.

They wanted me to investi-gate the reasons behind the disparity between Bryant Dining Hall and Lakeside and follow it up by questioning the

lack of healthy food options on campus. One believed I should argue that the observatory in Gallalee should be open more often and advertised more effectively for the general campus body. Another asked me to question the tradition of naming academic buildings after known segregationists. One humorously (but with

some sever-ity) quipped that I should argue that The CW sucks. Yet another student suggested that I pen a feel-good piece about Quad activi-ties and its pet-friendly envi-ronment.

This conver-sation gained

momentum as the well of ideas continued to flow, until another student suggested that I respond to the recently published opinions column asking young women to wear pants and dress appropri-ately on campus. This ended

the conversation about my column because it sparked a debate about college as a pre-professional environment.

The students engaged in a lively discussion about wheth-er or not it was our business to enforce a dress code on the campus and the perceived grand-standing of the article’s author.

At this point, you may ques-tion why any of this is neces-sary information. I respond: What other academic build-ing can gather physics, politi-cal science, philosophy, envi-ronmental science, English and education majors in such a conversation? How many of them will range from the dedicated university Fellow to the regular student with no entering laurels, whose achievement can easily be over-looked? Blount pro-vides a space where all these students can gather, and it encourages them to vigor-ously and freely debate their ideas. Not only does this pro-gram offer access to highly trained and knowledgeable faculty in the liberal arts and

immerse students in a diversereading and writing curricu-lum, but it also challengesthem to engage with oneanother. This engagementbetween wildly different indi-viduals with competing per-spectives fosters a civic spiritthat vanished long ago frommany residence halls on thiscampus.

Yet its impression is stillfelt in these halls as the pub-lic policy student engageswith the geology major andthey discuss how to handleglobal warming and theKeystone Pipeline. Blount hasserved as a safe space wherethe dreams of students areborn and nourished in a live-ly intellectual environment.Blount acts as the quintes-sential college environment,which encourages studentsto succeed in their respectivefields but, most importantly,to think about the world theyinhabit.

John Speer is a graduate stu-dent in secondary education.His column runs weekly onWednesdays.

John Speer

“College athletes fail to grasp how fragile their time on the

court or the fi eld is; it just takes one tackle or one foul

to completely change the direction of your life.

“We can treasure it and respect it, putting it up on a pedestal away from the hands of others but still in view. Or, we can use it and

love it, taking it with us everywhere we go, using it and displaying it on us or

within us.

“This engagement between wildly different individuals

with competing perspectives fosters a civic spirit that vanished long ago from

many residence halls on this campus.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

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By Sarah RobinsonContributing Writer

University of Alabama stu-dent Koushik Kasanagottu’s efforts to spread awareness about diabetes in his communi-ty have earned him recognition from national coalition Campus Compact.

Kasanagottu, a junior major-ing in biology, strives to fight diabetes through educating others on the illness and ways to prevent or manage it. His work

as president of the University’s Diabetes Education Team, host of the University’s first World Diabetes Day and volunteer for Southeastern Diabetes Education Services, among other contributions, have led to his most recent honor.

He was named a 2013 Newman Civic Fellow. The award is given by Campus Compact, a national coalition committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. Given in memory of a founder

of Campus Compact, Frank Newman, the award recognizes students across the country demonstrating an investment in seeking solutions in their communities.

Kasanagottu, who is from Birmingham, Ala., has two grandparents with diabetes. He and his father are at high risk for the chronic illness. When he learned that the disease was not only prevalent in his family but also Alabama, he devoted a significant about of his time

UA student honored for bringing attention to diabetesand energy into educating peo-ple about it.

He and fellow DiET mem-bers have visited the Alabama Black Belt regions, spread-ing basic knowledge about diabetes.

“We bring the education down to them, instead of having them come to us,” Kasanagottu said.

He said DiET was a part of his vision to have more pro-grams in Alabama dedicated to training students to educate others.

According to the American Diabetes Association, one of every 10 Alabamians has dia-betes. Kasanagottu said hav-ing programs, like DiET, will create conversation about the proper diet and exercise.

“Diabetes is not like cancer, where you can’t do anything about it,” Kasanagottu said. “If they follow some simple things,

they can at least manage it.”Newman Civic Fellows

are nominated by univer-sity or college presidents apart from Campus Compact. Maureen Curley, the presi-dent of Campus Compact, said UA President Judy Bonner’s recommendation highlight-ed Kasanagottu’s leadership skills.

“It was an extremely con-vincing and well-put-togeth-er application, which really showed this young person having great passion, par-ticularly in recruiting other students on the campus and help them organize planning some training,” Curley said. “It’s not enough just to have an idea. He actually helped develop it and then took respon-sibility to make sure other colleagues of his were well-suited and well-prepared to take on this project

very seriously.”Rebecca Kelly, director of

health promotion and wellness and co-advisor of DiET, said Kasanagottu was an excellent choice for a 2013 Newman Civic Fellow winner. She said she is confident his work has made a positive impact.

“Koushik is a passionate leader who turns ideas into action and has grown the stu-dent organization numbers and reach each year,” Kelly said. “Through the coordi-nated efforts of the Project DiET volunteers, Koushik and Project DiET are making a difference in the hundreds of lives they touch each year by increasing awareness and education of the risk factors to prevent and delay the onsetof diabetes, as well as providegeneral information to help individuals identify resources to best manage their health.”

By John BurlesonStaff Reporter

Newly elected members of the Student Government Association were inaugurated in front of the Gorgas House Tuesday. Many former mem-bers of the Executive Council were in attendance, including former SGA president Matt Calderone.

“I’m excited for the next gen-eration of leaders,” Calderone said in his welcome address. “You are looking at some of the best and brightest on the campus of The University of Alabama, not only academically but also as leaders.”

Jimmy Taylor also spoke to the crowd in a short inaugural address just moments after being sworn in by SGA Chief Justice Benjamin Sleight as the 101st Student Government Association president. He began with a short moment of silence for Mal Moore and praised the leadership of the late athletic director of The University of Alabama.

“We have worked to re-estab-lish lost trust with the student body, and I look forward to continuing the process began by the Calderone administra-tion,” Taylor said. “I also look forward to better incorporating the students and community

into the Student Government Association.”

Following the inauguration, Taylor explained his initiatives to better involve the students and community.

“The Delegates Program is something we have been work-ing on since the beginning of this past term. What we do is take a junior member and a senior member from student organizations across campus, and we meet with them to see what we can do for them,” he explained. “We then team them up with other student groups. It really helps to get the student groups better involved and work more closely together.”

Will Pylant, the newly inaugu-rated executive vice president, explained other ways in which SGA was trying to increase stu-dent engagement.

“One way that we are going to be able to bridge gaps between students is going to be the RAGE concert. Last year there were some issues with it, and we could have managed it bet-ter,” Pylant said. “This year we have already started working on it, trying to make it some-thing that all students are excited about. You already see students getting excited about it and tweeting about it. That might be one of the ways.”

The newly elected SGA

officials, their families and a number of members of other student groups and institu-tions met at The Zone-North at Bryant-Denny Stadium for a banquet immediately following the inauguration ceremony.

At the banquet, Matt Calderone expressed his enthu-siasm for the newly inaugurat-ed SGA and reflected on his own administration.

“I think we restored the stu-dent body’s trust in the Student Government Association. Our goals were to make sure that student government was rel-evant to every student, that we returned to a foundation of service and to make sure that we were putting students first in everything,” Calderone said. “I am excited for them. It is a strong group with a lot of people from the execu-tive council last year, and they have a strong background in leadership.”

When asked if he had any regrets in regards to his admin-istration, Calderone explained they had done everything that were able to do and he was pleased with his tenure in office.

“You know we had a great year, and I am truly happy with it. I am honored to have even had the privilege and experience,” Calderone said. “No regrets.”

SGA hosts annual dinner

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By Mary Kathryn PattersonContributing Writer

Child Abuse Prevention Services will host its fifth annual Sky Lantern Festival at Sokol Park this Saturday in honor of children who have previously suffered from child abuse.

Iris Davis, interim direc-tor of Child Abuse Prevention Services of Tuscaloosa, said the night will feature clowns and magicians as well as games, face painting and inflatable bounce houses. The evening will conclude with the lighting of the lanterns, which may be purchased for $10 each to light in honor of someone who has been affected by child abuse.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, 8,601 Alabama children in 2011 were victims of child abuse and neglect. In March, Mayor Walt Maddox made a proclamation

declaring April Child Abuse Awareness Month.

“We hope to create a fun environment that promotes the happiness and well-being of all children,” Davis said. “All of the proceeds raised through the event will go to CAPS in effort to increase aware-ness about child abuse in our community.”

Davis said the Tuscaloosa Police Department will also have tables set up at the fes-tival to provide more informa-tion on child abuse and how to report and prevent it.

“The mission of CAPS is to promote awareness and pre-vention of child abuse,” Davis said. “We want people in our community to have the infor-mation they need about prob-lems with child abuse.”

Davis said CAPS handles referrals of alleged child abuse and sets up 12-week programs for the parents and children who are referred to them. They also provide

parenting training at PTA meetings around area schools.

CAPS of Tuscaloosa hosts other annual events, like a 5K run and golf tournament to raise awareness and mon-etary donations for children affected by child abuse and neglect.

The event will take place Saturday from 6-8 p.m. It is free of charge. Food and refreshments will be provid-ed, and there will be games and activities for children to participate in.

Sky Lantern Festival honors child abuse victimsIF YOU GO...

• What: Sky Lantern Festival

• What: Saturday, 6-8 p.m.

• What: Sokol Park

SubmittedLanterns are released in Sokol Park to honor victims of child abuse and neglect.

By Bianca MartinContributing Writer

Creative Campus and the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission will be presenting the fourth annu-al Druid City Arts Festival Saturday, April 6.

The festival’s purpose is to celebrate music and art in the community of Tuscaloosa. There will be 12 musical acts throughout the day and a “Fun Zone” with activities for kids. In addition to the festival, shops and restaurants down-town will have special offers

for those who attend.Chase Sanders is a member

of Creative Campus and is in charge of the festival this year. He said those who attend can expect absolute fun.

“We will have over 40 artists displaying and selling their amazing artwork and crafts along with food vendors, live original music and many more activities,” Sanders, a senior majoring in music administra-tion, said. “The festival always brings a great atmosphere to the downtown area that peo-ple enjoy.”

Additionally, this year

the festival has teamed up with Temporary Emergency Services. They will be having a canned food drive during the day.

“All attendees are encour-aged to bring a canned food item to donate,” Sanders said. “Each donation will enter the person into a door-prize draw-ing that includes wonderful items from merchants around the Tuscaloosa community.”

The festival features a multi-genre line up and serves as a way to showcase the many dif-ferent talents in Tuscaloosa.

Laura Coby, a freshman

majoring in English, said she believes the festival opens the community up to new ideas of creativity.

“It broadens the creative spectrum that we have in town,” she said. “It really opens people up to new oppor-tunities and embraces the cul-ture that we have in the town.”

Coby also said she is excited to hear several of the local acts, including Golightly.

“I’m so excited for Golightly,” she said. “I’ve heard them before and really like their singer-songwriter feel.”

Sanders said he believes the festival helps show a new side to Tuscaloosa people may not be familiar with.

“The city of Tuscaloosa is growing at a fast rate, and visitors are taking notice of all the city has to offer besides Alabama football,” he said. “Tuscaloosa has a vibrant arts scene that is starting to gain more exposure, and this festi-val helps to bring the commu-nity together to see what all their community can offer.”

Sanders hopes the festival will one day draw in those who live outside of Tuscaloosa.

“We are striving to have the festival become a major attraction that will bring out-side visitors to Tuscaloosa on a Saturday in late spring,” he said. “It is all about growing the Tuscaloosa community and celebrating what all is available in this great city.”

The Druid City Arts Festival will be held Saturday, April 6, at Government Plaza. The festival will be from 11 a.m. to6 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, a special edition magazine will be avail-able on Crimson White news-stands for students on Friday.

Fourth annual DCAF to host 12 musical acts Saturday


By Noelle BrakeContributing Writer

Theatre Tuscaloosa is bring-ing Shakespeare with a twist to the stage this month. They will perform “I Hate Hamlet,” a dra-matic comedy by Paul Rudnick April 5-7 and 10-14.

The plot follows Andrew Rally, an accomplished actor whose TV career is at a stand-still, and is offered a position on stage as Hamlet. The only prob-lem? Andrew hates Hamlet. He is haunted by the ghost of John Barrymore, an actor famous for the role of Hamlet. Barrymore teaches Andrew how to act Shakespeare, and he learns a thing or two about appreciating the classic acting styles.

Gary Wise, who plays the ghost of John Barrymore, said that the character of Barrymore is fun to play from beginning to end.

“John Barrymore was a very famous actor in the early days,” Wise said. “I like the fact that he’s funny but also has serious scenes. He gets to play drunk, he

gets to just be over-the-top with everything if he wants to be or he can bring it down.”

He also does a lot of scenes with Russell Stephens, who plays main character Andrew Rally.

“It’s a great part. It’s very funny. I think he’s the least interesting character,” Stephens said. “Everybody else is crazy.”

The main characters are not the only funny ones. Tina Turley, who plays Rally’s agent Lillian Troy, said her character also brings humor to the show.

“I really get to play this sort of Nazi character,” Turley said. “She speaks with a German accent. She smokes.”

Turley said the accent was difficult to grasp.

“I had a time getting this German accent down,” she said. “Especially when you have a Southern accent and want to draw everything out.”

Brad Caleb Lee, the scene and properties designer for the show, said that it has been in produc-tion since early November.

“I came on board right before

Thanksgiving, and we had our first meetings to talk about the set and how big we wanted to go,” Lee said.

Paul Looney, the director of “I Hate Hamlet,” said although production has gone smoothly, the genre is not necessarily easy.

“Comedy is hard,” Looney said. “To do comedy is very,

very difficult, but other than the normal demands that you would expect, there are other fac-tors that require time. There’s swordplay in the show, so we had to bring someone in that was licensed to do that.”

Looney directed the same show in 1995 and said that made it easier to do it now, along with a helpful cast.

“It was so long ago, but this cast has made it easier because they’re more experienced than that group [his 1995 cast] as a whole,” Looney said. “I had some wonderful actors then, but this cast is strong from top to bottom.”

“I Hate Hamlet” will be per-formed at Shelton State’s Bean-Brown Theatre from April 5--7,

then April 10-14. All performanc-es will be held at 7:30 p.m., with the exception of the Wednesdayand Sunday performances, which are held at 2 p.m. Adult tickets are $17, with senior citi-zen tickets priced at $15, group tickets at $13 (for a group 10+), student/child tickets at $12 and Shelton State student tickets at $6.

‘I Hate Hamlet’ brings comedy to Shakespearean acting

By Matt McGrath

When a film opens with the pierc-ing noise of a Skrillex song, you know it’s either going to be an abomination, akin to the banal Project X, or it’s going to be a kind of beautiful sensory overload that you have never experi-enced in cinemas before. Thankfully, “Spring Breakers” is the latter, and director Harmony Korine is in on the joke. This is not a serious film by any stretch of the imagination. Towards the beginning we are told to “imagine like it’s a video game or a movie,” and it plays out like a movie; the spring break presented in the film is definite-ly not rooted in reality.

“Spring Breakers” stars Disney alumnae Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, along with Ashley Benson from “Pretty Little Liars” and the

director’s wife Rachel Korine. The four play a group of college girls stuck on campus for spring break because they do not have enough money to travel to Florida. The solution? Rob the local fried chicken restaurant. The film is not about the loss of innocence as they commit the robbery towards the beginning of the film; it is about finding something to replace the innocence with. From this moment on the girls immerse themselves in the debauchery that spring break presents them. The amount of Natural Light present in this film is reminis-cent of a party on Fraternity Row; you can almost smell the watered-down beer. Drink, drugs, sex … at some points a Lindsay Lohan cameo would not feel abnormal. Eventually the girls end up in jail, until they are bailed out by an unrecognizable James Franco.

Franco plays Alien, a part-time rap-per and full-time drug dealer, complete with dreadlocks and gold teeth. Alien introduces the girls to his mansion, the contents of which include a copious number of guns, stacks of Benjamins and more bags of marijuana than in the evidence room of our local police force. It is safe to say that this is the best performance of James Franco’s largely unimpressive career, and you genuinely believe him as a demented drug dealer who has Scarface playing on repeat on his TV and a white grand piano next to his swimming pool. The piano is used to perfection in the high-light of the film, which sees Alien sing Britney Spears’s ballad “Everytime,” cross-cut with images of him and the girls wielding guns and robbing drug dealers.

The marketing of the film has

definitely avoided the fact that “Spring Breakers” has clear art house roots. And Harmony Korine’s ploy seems to have worked, capitalizing on marketing this towards the main-stream as Bieberholics have flocked to the cinema, unintentionally becom-ing the butt of Korine’s joke. “Spring Breakers” does not possess a strong narrative, which could put off people who do not know what to expect from a Harmony Korine film, as most of the film just shows the girls slowly falling deeper and deeper into the seediness of spring break. But it is the film’s sec-ond half in which it truly comes to life as the girls become involved in a drug war between Alien and a rival dealer played by Gucci Mane.

The casting of Gucci Mane as a drug kingpin sums up “Spring Breakers” perfectly. We have rapper Gucci Mane,

who has an ice cream cone tattooed on his face, playing an evil drug lord. It is an inspired casting choice and per-fectly fitting for the film. Gucci Mane is not an actor, and the way he slurshis lines makes you completely aware that this film is pure fantasy. But in a film featuring montages over BritneySpears songs, former Disney starletsshooting guns and James Franco witha gold grill over his teeth, Gucci Mane hardly feels out of place.

Korine’s escapist spring break fan-tasy may not be for everyone, but his film feels alive, both celebrating and criticizing the current “YOLO” cul-ture of America. With the stunning visuals provided by art house favor-ite Benoît Debie and the deafening Skrillex soundtrack, it is hard not totake something away from “Spring Breakers.”

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With obvious art-house roots, ‘Spring Breakers’ celebrates, critiques ‘YOLO culture’

IF YOU GO...• What: “I Hate Hamlet”

• Where: Bean-Brown Theatre at Shelton State Community College

• When: April 5-7, April 10-14 at 7:30 p.m., except Wed. and Sun. at 2 p.m.

• Cost: Adult tickets:$17, student tickets: $12CW | Jingyu Wan

Malcolm Bynum, Gary Wise and Russell Stevens rehearse ‘I Hate Hemlet’ Monday night at Bean-Brown Theater.

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Jacksonville State put the first run on the scoreboard in the top of the second inning on an Alabama error. The Tide answered in the bottom of the second with five runs after batting through the order. After starting the bottom half of the inning with a strike out, Alabama’s next five bat-ters reached base. Jacksonville State’s right fielder Sara Borders committed an error while trying to catch a fly ball, and Alabama scored its fourth and fifth runs of the inning.

In the third and fourth innings,

Jacksonville State scored two runs to cut Alabama’s lead to 5-3.

The Tide struck back in the bottom of the fourth inning after Jackie Traina hit a timely single to score Haylie McCleney from second. Jadyn Spencer hit a three-run home run with one out to extend the lead to 9-3.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, Traina ended the game after working the count full with two outs when she hit a walk-off single to score Ryan Iamurri and McCleney. Alabama improved to 33-5 with this 11-3 win.

McCleney was 4 for 4 on the night after batting 0 for 7 in the last two games of the Texas A&M series and 1 for 10 for the whole series. She scored three runs and had two RBIs against

Jacksonville State.“Haylie was very good, and you

know she got challenged before the game,” Murphy said. “She was 0 for 7 in the last two games at Texas A&M, which with the speed and the bat control that she’s got, that should never hap-pen. I thought she came back and played a good game today.”

“The more times we see a pitcher, the better we’re going to get. We’re going to make adjust-ments. We’re going to have bet-ter at bats,” McCleney said. “The more times we kept seeing her and the more times people kept getting on base, the more times we were bound to break through.”

Alabama hosts a three-game series with Missouri this weekend.

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By Kevin ConnellStaff Reporter

Third baseman Kenny Roberts and first baseman Austen Smith hit a pair of three-run home runs in the sixth inning to take a commanding 6-1 lead for the Crimson Tide en route to a 9-1 victory Tuesday night against the Southeastern Louisiana Lions at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. It was the first time since June 6, 2010, – 141 games ago – that the Tide hit two home runs in the same inning in a game.

Roberts said his home run, his first of the season, was the big-gest of his Tide career.

“It was pretty big, and to be honest, I kind of felt it,” Roberts said. “I needed to step up at the moment, and I did. I put a good swing on it.”

Alabama (19-11, 7-2 Southeastern Conference) is now 6-3 in midweek games this season, sitting in second place in the SEC standings behind LSU

and Vanderbilt.The home runs came at a

perfect time for the Tide, who improved its record to 17-0 when leading after six innings. Alabama is now 9-2 in its last 11 games played.

Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard described the result as a good win ahead of a three-game series beginning Thursday night against the No. 13 Arkansas Razorbacks.

“We talked about it before the game, we wanted to keep the momentum going, obvious-ly, with Arkansas coming in,” Gaspard said. “I thought it was a quality win against a team that has a top 50 RPI in Southeastern. They’re in position to win the Southland Conference, so good opponent and good win tonight.”

Freshman reliever Mike Oczypok (1-0) picked up the win after allowing two hits and one run in one inning of work in the sixth. Although he failed to pick up the run support, redshirt junior starter Tucker Hawley

had another quality start, throw-ing two strikeouts with no runs while allowing just two walks and five hits in five innings.

“Tucker gave us a good start, and the bullpen all came in and did a nice job,” Gaspard said. “I had some guys we wanted to get some work in tonight. Those guys all did a pretty solid job.”

“Pitching’s been carrying us,” Austen Smith added. “They’ve shown up every game, and that’s all you can ask for.”

After a slow start from both teams through five innings, the Lions took the first lead of the game in the top of the sixth inning at 1-0 after a single from freshman first base-man Jameson Fisher scored junior designated hitter Aaron Haag from second.

Southeastern Louisiana (21-9,

6-0 Southland Conference) out-hit Alabama 11 to 8 in the loss.

Senior left fielder Andrew Miller and freshman center fielder Georgie Salem hit back-to-back RBI singles in the sev-enth inning to push the Tide’s lead to 8-1. Miller later scored from third in the inning after Roberts grounded out into a double play to make it a 9-1

game.Freshman clos-

er Ray Castillo struck out all three batters he faced in the ninth to raise his sea-son total to 27, all of which have come in relief.

The Tide is as confident as ever when it hosts

the Razorbacks in its toughest series of the season to date.

“The way we’ve been playing lately, we’ll compete well, and it’ll be a great series,” Roberts said.

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CW | Austin BigoneyA player attempts to bunt a ball during the Tide’s 9-1 victory over SE Louisiana.

CW | Austin BigoneyJackie Traina bats Tuesday night in a game that was all Tide as they swept Jacksonville State 11-3.

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JOBSToday’s Birthday (04/03/13). Your con-nections keep you participating and involved. Ease with communications empowers queries, launches, promotions and networking. Th e second half of the year focuses more on home and family. Pay off debt and review investments and insurance. It’s a personal growth and love year.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Persistence pays off with a break-through. Push ahead and results add up. Don’t be stopped by old barriers. Release pent up tensions, and exceed expecta-tions. Keep studying to increase your theoretical understanding.Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Holding your tongue surpasses annoy-ing moments with minimal damage. Take care not to provoke jealousies. Spend time with a partner, and advise caution with their next move. Th ere’s plenty for all. Shift perspective and relax.Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Take slow, calculated actions and anticipate resistance. Have a backup plan. Use time-tested methods. Don’t give up or overspend. Mull it over. It’s a good day for fi guring out all the angles.Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Draw your line in the sand. Decrease personal obligations in the coming week. Your time is precious. Th is goes for your money, too. Scrutinize repeating expenses that may not be necessary. Savings hap-pens naturally.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Keep increasing your skill level this week. Shift your emotional direction. Reduce doubt. Argue key points in your head, fi rst. Don’t tell anyone about your lucky break yet. You feel better aft er exercise.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 --

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