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Victory slips through Alabama’s fi ngers

By Marquavius BurnettAssistant Sports Editor

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For the football purists who still believe defense wins championships, Saturday’s ‘Game of the Century’ lived up to the hype when Alabama and Louisiana State clashed in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

It was a defensive battle for the ages, with nei-ther offense able to produce any touchdowns. The defenses imposed their will, and even though the

offenses were able to get inside the red zone, nei-ther could get more than three points on their possessions.

“I told the players that I was proud of the way that they played in the game,” head coach Nick

Saban said. “Certainly, we’re all disappointed, but nobody’s more disappointed than the players. The players wanted to win more than anybody else.”

“Two very physical football teams played tonight and it definitely didn’t go by script. The most interesting thing is that you just have to keep fighting and finding a way to win,” LSU head coach Les Miles said.

Alabama’s offense outgained LSU to the tune of 295 yards to 239, but LSU did a better job of execut-ing on the rare chances they had to make plays.

See FOOTBALL, page 8

After weeks of hype before the game, Crimson Tide suffers tough loss to Tigers

CW | John Michael SimpsonTrent Richardson (3) attempts to catch an AJ McCarron pass in overtime Saturday against the LSU Tigers in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

“Certainly, we’re all disappointed, but nobody’s more disappointed than the players.

The players wanted to win more than anybody else.”

— Nick Saban

Key Matchups to watch:Nov. 12 Oregon at StanfordAlabama will be rooting for Oregon to take down Stanford, which would move the Tide one team closer to the No. 2 spot.

Nov. 12 Auburn at GeorgiaTide fans will find themselves in an odd sce-nario with the Tide pulling for an Auburnwin to boost strength of schedule.

Nov. 25 Arkansas at LSU Alabama could win the SEC West by virtue of a three-way tie. First Bama would need a big Arkansas win in Baton Rouge.

Nov. 26 Penn State at Wisconsin A Penn State win would clinch the Leaders Division in the Big Ten for the Nittany Lions. That would help the Tide’s strengthof schedule.

Dec. 3 Oklahoma at Oklahoma StateAlabama will be rooting for an Oklahoma upset in Stillwater to keep OSU from having an undeafeated season.

ROAD TO BCS CHAMPIONSHIP

By Melissa BrownStaff Reporter

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Do you ever get those late night cravings after a night out on the town, but the normal greasy fries or drive-thru Taco Bell just isn’t appealing?

UA grads Craig Williams and Jordon Warren hope to fix that with Brothers Street Eats, a new mobile food unit offering a cooked-to-order southern cre-ole style menu that has recently opened in the downtown area.

“We wanted to be mobile but still serve people with a high quality product,” Williams said. “We weren’t comfortable with having another hamburger and

hot dog stand. We have gumbo, fried green tomato BLTs, beig-nets – fresh ingredients, we’re not ordering anything from food distributors.”

Williams and Warren, who both graduated with degrees in restaurant and hospitality management, have a combined 15 years of experience as res-taurant managers, having started in the industry as teens.

“We’ve always wanted to go into business together, and decided this opportunity would be great,” Warren said. “The food truck industry is really big right now, especially in big cities.” CW | Bryce Denton

Jordon Warren, owner, stands in front of Brothers Street Eats on Nov. 2.

Brothers Street Eats adds fl avor to Tuscaloosa

See EATS, page 3

By Victor LuckersonEditor-in-Chief

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Student Government Association Executive Secretary Kelsey Kurth resigned Friday in rela-tion to the altering of First Year Council applications in September, said SGA Attorney General David Simpson.

As executive secretary, Kurth’s responsibilities under the SGA constitution included blinding applications for First Year Council, a freshman lead-ership forum, and reducing the applicant pool to a number appropriate for interviewing. However, Simpson, who led an SGA investigation into the FYC violations, said these duties were not carried out.

“One of the problems that I identified in my investiga-tion was that FYC applications were not blinded in a manner that would keep applicants’ information anonymous when reviewed for grading,” he said in an email.

In October, SGA Speaker of the Senate Ryan Flamerich said in an interview with The Crimson White that SGA

officials altered the GPAs of FYC applicants and purposeful-ly selected applicants from spe-cific fraternities and sororities.

Kurth is the third SGA lead-er to resign during the inves-tigation, after former FYC Director Sara Lavender and former SGA President Grant Cochran. The Office of Student Judicial Affairs took over the investigation from the SGA in late September after Simpson recognized violations of the Code of Student Conduct had occurred.

When asked why she resigned and whether the Office of Judicial Affairs was involved in her resignation, Kurth provided the follow-ing statement: “It has been an honor to serve the stu-dents in this capacity and I am very appreciative for the opportunity.

SGA Executive Secretary resignsResignation comes after problems with First Year Council selection process

“Kelsey will be missed, but we recognize the need to

move forward.”

— Stephen Swinson,SGA president

See SECRETARY, page 2

3| Alabama is ranked No. 3 in the current BCS standings, ahead of

undefeated Stanford.

46 | The number of points Oregon scores per game. Alabama will hope for

Oregon to light up the scoreboard against Stanford, as the Tide looks to avoid being jumped by the Cardinal.

13-8| Tommy Tuberville’s record at Texas Tech. Alabama will be

cheering for Tuberville to get win number 14 as a Red Raider against No. 2 Oklahoma State.

8 | The number of wins Penn State has this season. The Nittany Lions success has

been a key component in the Tide’s strength of schedule. If Penn State keeps winning, it will help the Tide’s odds come December.

By Tray SmithSpecial Projects Reporter

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The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees approved stage one of construction for a new Fresh Foods Dining facility at a meeting Friday. The new dining hall will be located on the current site of the Kilgore House, which sits between Rodgers Science and Engineering Library and Hackberry Lane. Tim Leopard, UA assistant vice presi-dent for construction, said the new Fresh Foods will seat 700 students, with the capacity to serve 3,000 lunches a day. That is more than double the cur-

rent Fresh Foods Dining in the Ferguson Center, which seats 250 students and is capable of serving about 1,200 meals dur-ing a typical lunch cycle. The project will cost an estimated $15 million. The board also authorized University administrators to execute an architec-tural agreement for the second phase of the North Bluff Residential Community, a project that is estimated to cost $62.5 million. The project will begin construc-tion after Rose Towers is demolished in the summer of 2012. Along with the construction of the new residence hall, the board voted to increase the budget for the North Campus Student Center to $24.7 million in order to build a 23,700 square foot

FEMA-compliant storm shelter. The center will be located in the North Bluff area and include dining and recreation facilities. The board’s Friday meeting at the Bryant Conference Center on the UA campus was preceded by a series of board committee meetings Thursday afternoon at which UA Provost Judy Bonner was recognized for a memorandum she sent trustees regarding race relations at the University. The memo was sent after racial slurs were chalked on the Moody Music Building last month. “I appreciate you doing this,” Trustee John England said. “We’ve made prog-

Board of Trustees approves new Fresh Foods

See BOARD, page 5

Bama’s chances of making it to a national championship despite loss

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What: Religion in Culture Lecture featuring Rekha NathWhere: 205 Gorgas LibraryWhen: 3 p.m.

What: The Authentic Animal: Reading and Talk with Dave MaddenWhere: Second Floor, W. S. Hoole Special Collections LibraryWhen: 5 to 6:30 p.m.

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CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney dies at 92

In order to establish permanent electrical power to the new East Quad Energy Plant, new circuits will need to be installed. This will require an electrical shutdown for the following buildings: Lloyd Hall, WB Jones Hall and Smith Hall. The dates and time for the electrical shut down will be Friday Nov. 11, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. the follow-ing day and on Saturday Nov. 12, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. the following day. Please be sure to save all work and turn off computers before leaving at the end of the day. If you have perishable items in refrigerators it may be good idea to take those with you. The Alabama Museum of Natural History operating hours will be from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the 11th and the 12th. If you have any questions or con-cerns please call the UA Project Manager: Carl McKinney 348-2210.

Planned electrical shutdowns this week

University of Alabama students are partnering with the Alabama Credit Union to raise awareness and funds for Secret Meals For Hungry Children through Nov. 8. Fundraising events include a trivia night at the Bear Trap in Tuscaloosa, an awareness campaign at Innisfree Irish Pub and a donation drive at Piggly Wiggly. The students and Secret Meals will also host a “textathon” to raise money. The donation drive at Piggly Wiggly will take place through Nov. 8 at the four locations in the Tuscaloosa area: Northport, Alberta, West End and Greensboro Avenue. Participating customers will donate $1 at the register to help a child in need. Upon making a donation, Piggly Wiggly customers can sign a backpack to hang in the store window and receive a sticker signifying they helped feed a hungry child. The “tex-tathon” will run through Nov. 7. Sending the text message “food” to 27722 will automatically donate $10 to feed an impoverished child for a month. The event at Innisfree was held Nov. 3, and it provided customers with an inside view of childhood hunger and informed them of how Secret Meals helps. Informational materials were distributed and donations were accepted.

UA students help organize Secret Meals for Hungry Children fundraiser

From MCT Campus

Andy Rooney, the curmud-geon who delivered more than 1,000 commentaries during a 33-year career on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” died Friday night, a little more than a month after retiring, CBS News said Saturday. Rooney, 92, who joined CBS News show “60 Minutes” in 1978, died in a hospital in New York City of complications after minor surgery, the news division of CBS said in a state-ment. “It’s hard to imagine not having Andy around. He loved his life and he lived it on his own terms. We will miss him very much,” Jeff Fager, chair-man of CBS News and the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” said in the state-ment.

“This has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my college career. I have strong faith in the Swinson admin-istration and am confident in

their ability to move forward.”SGA President Stephen

Swinson thanked Kurth for her service to SGA in an emailed statement.

“Kelsey will be missed, but we recognize the need to move forward,” Swinson said in the statement. “We will move for-ward swiftly to fill this vacancy in accordance with our SGA Constitution.”

Applications for the position of executive secretary will be

available on Monday, Nov. 14, and interviews will follow. All students who are interested in SGA are encouraged to apply, Swinson said.

SECRETARYContinued from page 1

In this 1979 fi le photo, Andy Rooney strikes the eru-dite Everyman pose so famil-iar to viewers of the CBS News show “60 Minutes.” Rooney died in a hospi-tal in New York City of complications after minor surgery, the news division of CBS said in a statement.

Los Angeles Times/MCT

Rooney delivered his 1,097th and final essay on “60 Minutes” on Oct. 2, telling viewers he would no longer appear regularly, CBS News said. Rooney worked for the net-work for more than 60 years, half of them behind the cam-era as a writer and producer, first for entertainment and then for news, CBS News said. Rooney described himself as never getting comfortable with the role of television personality, and instead pre-ferred to be known as a writer, the statement added. CBS News first aired a Rooney-delivered commen-tary on July 2, 1978, in which he complained about tracking the number of deaths stem-ming from holiday-weekend car accidents, according to an accounting by the Associated

Press. In fact, July Fourth is “one of the safest weekends of the year to be going some-place,” the AP recounts him as saying. A native of Albany, N.Y., Rooney worked in his teens as a copy boy for the Albany Knickerbocker News. He was drafted into the Army while attending Colgate University, and was assigned to work for the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes, according to The Wall Street Journal. M a r g u e r i t e R o o n ey, Rooney’s wife of 62 years, died in 2004, according to the AP. They had four children. They had homes in Norwalk, Conn., and upstate New York. Services will be private, Brian Rooney, Andy Rooney’s son and a longtime ABC News correspondent, said Saturday, according to the wire service.

“I have strong faith in the Swinson administration and am confi dent in their ability to move forward.”

— Kelsey Kurth

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According to NPR, hundreds of food trucks roam Los Angeles’ street spe-cializing in everything from tacos to grilled cheeses. New York Magazine calls food trucks “the next step up the evolutionary ladder from the tradition-al sidewalk food cart,” and lists a falafel truck and whoopee pie truck among their favorites in the Big Apple.

“They’re doing everything from sushi to cupcakes in the big cities,” Williams said. “This is something that Tuscaloosa doesn’t have.”

Williams and Warren bought their bright yellow truck in March. The idea of a mobile food unit in Tuscaloosa was so new that it became a bit troublesome to get the proper licenses and permits.

“This was something new to us, but it

was entirely new to the city,” Williams said. “It took a while to get all the leg-islation and permits worked out. Now we have a franchise with the City of Tuscaloosa that allows us to operate on city streets. We have to get permission from the Department of Transportation to park in a new place to make sure we’re not blocking traffic or a fire haz-ard.”

For now, Brothers Street Eats can be found in the Temerson Square area downtown, at the corner of 4th and 23rd. They operate from Thursday through Saturday, 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., except on Friday nights when they stay open until 4 a.m.

While they’ve only been in operation at their current location for four week-ends, both men say they enjoy the atmo-sphere every night.

“We have a good relationship with the bar owners down there, and they like

having us there,” Williams said.“It’s a fun atmosphere,” Warren said.

“Everyone down there is always having a lot of fun.”

The franchise is currently on the wait-ing list for a vendor spot on the Quad on game days, and is also looking into other location options for the truck.

“Our overall goal is to be open seven days a week, for lunch and dinner,” Warren said. “But we figured we’d take these weeks to work the kinks out. We’re trying to ease into being open more hours, more days.”

Williams said they could be interested in acquiring several additional trucks in the future, with a different menu and style for each truck. But for now, the Brothers Street Eats can be found downtown, serving up some late night home cooking.

You can follow Brothers Street Eats on Twitter @ttownstreeteats.

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By Jared DowningStaff Reporter

What do you eat with the game of the century? The gumbo of the century. At least, that’s what chefs from across the Southeast thought when they made the world’s largest pot of seafood gumbo in the Ferg Plaza on Saturday. The gumbo, setting the Guinness record at 4,000 pounds and feeding 10,000 people, was something sub-stantial. Starting at 6:30 Saturday morning, former Alabama lineman Bob Baumhower, famous Louisiana chef and restaurant owner John Folse and their team of Cajun chefs slaved over the 500-gallon pot, stirring it with canoe paddles and checking its temperature with a thermometer the size of an umbrella. The proceeds went to Nick’s Kids and Caring Days, the respective charities of Nick Saban and LSU coach Les Miles. Baumhower and Folse wanted the “LouisiBama Gumbo Pot” to bring Alabama and LSU fans together. “It should be something all the fans everywhere should enjoy, but we hope Alabama fans enjoy it a little bit more

Guinness World Record raises money for Nick’s Kids

after the game,” Baumhower said, in a dream tragically crushed. Jackie Maynor came to see gumbo history in the making, but decided to pass on sam-pling it. “I don’t know…look at that big thing of stuff coming out of there. Ugh!” she said, as the team shoveled more than a ton of raw seafood into the pot from a plastic tub on a forklift. Fishermen from both

Louisiana and Alabama donated all of the gumbo’s seafood. Chef Folse hoped the event would help clear Gulf seafood’s name after the BP spill. “We now know the seafood is perfectly safe in the Gulf,” Folse said. “Why not show-case the finest seafood on the globe?” Louisiana and Alabama may share the largest gumbo, but they also share gumbo’s histo-

ry. The first pot was cooked in Mobile, Ala., which at the time was the capital of Louisiana. “It’s the perfect marriage coming together in Alabama,” Folse explained. “First of all, you have to have the pot.” Folse’s pot is a literal iron bowl – a one-ton basin that was sand-cast in the bank of the Mississippi River 220 years ago. Originally made for boiling sugar, Folse has also used it to break the world

records for biggest macaroni-and-cheese and biggest Swiss fondue. Gene Fox, a contestant from Dauphin Island, said good gumbo is all about the ingredients. “You need good Andouille sausage, a dark room and proper seafood stock,” he explained, “And the most important ingredient of good gumbo, don’t burn it.” The event featured a gumbo cookoff in which eight teams -

four from Louisiana and four from Alabama – vied for the LouisiBama Gumbo title. Folse and Baumhower plan to bring the giant pot to B aton Rouge and break the record again when Alabama and LSU square off next year. Folse says his pot’s big enough for 10 more years of Gumbo his-tory and if they keep it up, the SEC just might give the LSU-Bama game a new label: The Gumbo Bowl.

Jesse DowningThe LouisiBama Gumbo Pot set a guinness record at 4,000 pounds and fed 10,000 people.

Jordon, owner, works with the food truckʼs deep fryer in “Brothers Street Eats” on Nov. 2.

CW | Bryce Denton

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MCT Campus

By R.B. Walker

Painful news came to Montgomery on Friday when I received word of former faculty senate president Karen Steckol’s untimely passing. After the initial shock, I reflected warmheartedly on a classy lady’s amazing impact on a university she loved. Being president of the faculty senate is a difficult job – certainly one of the most difficult on a col-lege campus, because of its con-stantly differing constituencies. Doing it while defending the rights of faculty, while simulta-neously raising their standards, improving student life through challenges instead of mandates, and enhancing the college expe-rience for all members of the UA family all at the same time is real-ly an impossible job.

Only an individual as charis-matic and refreshingly stirring as Professor Karen Steckol could have done it, and nobody will be able to do it like her again. Steckol made everybody around her want to be better and it didn’t matter if it was President Witt, one of her students or even a student body president. I vividly remember her leaning over a table in a campus coffee shop and telling me to “shape up” over an issue students were butting heads with faculty over. I recall thinking that I really needed to do what this lady said, which was OK because she had a laugh and a wit that would make anyone feel ener-gized, important and up to her challenge. She was warm and wise and had a remarkable passion for people. It didn’t matter if she was rooting for

the UA softball team, negotiating a deal for her faculty colleagues that she respected so much or helping countless of our fellow citizens with communicative disorders, everything she did was done with this passion. What an incredible legacy she leaves us. I did not keep in touch with Dr. Steckol the way I wish I would have – especially now that she’s gone. But her impact on me and the students of this University will be with us for a long, long time. The University of Alabama has lost a brilliant supporter, friend and teacher and it is on the behalf of a generation of UA grads that I say, “thanks, Doc.”

R.B. Walker is a graduate of The University of Alabama. He served as SGA President during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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Karen Steckol will be missed

By John Davis

The SGA Senate is made up of 50 senators from nine colleges (graduate and law school included). Unlike the U.S Senate, it is not two per college.

Rather, the number of sen-ators from each college is pro-portional to the size of the col-lege. Thus, the business school has nine sena-tors, while the college of nurs-ing has two. One main issue is that while the busi-ness college may have more representatives than the nurs-ing college, senators don’t

necessarily operate with the interest of their respective college in mind due to the fact that most legislation doesn’t deal with specific colleg-es (with the notable exception of block seating). The problem this creates is that while sena-tors may come from two different colleges, their backgrounds could still be very similar. (By back-ground, I mean either socio-economic upbringing pre-college or involvement in certain organiza-tions such as the Honors College, greek system, Mallet, etc.) This creates a lack of diversity not necessarily related to race, gender, etc., but rath-er of thought. A lack of diversity of thought presents prob-lems of its own. The first, and most obvious, is that if everyone has just one special interest in mind, then other areas of campus become neglect-ed. Moreover, thinking becomes rigid; alternative solutions become harder to come by and a brute force approach is utilized to solve problems that prove themselves trickier than usual. Finally, an atmosphere is created in which objections are stifled before they are made because of a fear of social chastisement. It is no secret that many of our SGA Senators are also involved in UA’s greek system. This has created (perhaps unfairly, perhaps not) a perva-sive belief that those senators first and foremost look out for this community above all else. While not inherently unreasonable – after all, why wouldn’t a person take steps to provide for his or her community – it creates a situation in which independent senators view themselves as an entirely opposite political faction. This is ineffec-tive because it makes the assumption that all stu-dents who aren’t greek all want the same thing. The goal, and I admit it sounds somewhat coun-terintuitive, is to create a legislative body consist-ing of members who, at their core, hold the inter-est of specific groups of people above all else. In doing so, and gathering representatives from all organizations and subcultures, we create a leg-islature that most represents the student body and, through consensus, we achieve diversity of thought and government action that reflects it. This plan means senators from the Honors College specifically, not just a senator from the engineering school who is also an honors student. This means senators from Mallet, too, as well as from the fraternity system and the sorority sys-tem (I think it is important for those last two to have their own senators), and any other major stu-dent organization on-campus now or in the future. Since these are the largest student organizations on campus (and thus have the most influence), I believe the number of senators should be capped at two, or at least some equal number. This is in addition to the various colleges, whose senators would also be capped at the agreed-upon limit. The second major change in this plan is the cre-ation of a second legislative body. This body would be made up of the minor clubs and honor societies at UA. The number of representatives from each club and honor society would be determined by the size of the club, since the organizations do not have the same sort of campus influence as the organizations in the Senate. The representatives would be chosen by the organizations’ members in whatever manner they choose. In fact, par-ticipation by the club could be optional, though I imagine some sort of incentive could be estab-lished to encourage participation. Obviously, there are still details that would need to be discussed, including which club or organization falls into which legislative body and why. However, I think that by following this plan to overhaul the way the SGA legislative branch operates, we can create a student government that is held more accountable because its mem-bers would best reflect the people who elected them.

John Davis is the chief copy editor of The Crimson White. His column runs on Monday.

Fix the SGA, don’t kill it

By Alex Steadman

I usually only read The Crimson White for the opinions page or to catch up on whatever new scandal the “Machine” has created in the last week. When I read a national newspaper, however, I always find myself reading the sports section first. Sad? Probably, but that’s not my point. There is a reason I do not read about UA sports in the campus newspaper often. Simply put, the sports reporters for the CW are embarrassing. That may sound harsh, but it is the sad truth. I have a fairly limited knowledge of journalistic style, but I would think the CW writers actually check their facts

every now and then. Apparently my expectation is misplaced. A recent example is from Thursday’s paper; the CW offered readers a chance to “learn about more moments from Tradition video.” When discussing the LSU game in 2009, however, the caption claimed the score to be 24-13. While not too far off, we actually defeated LSU 24-15 that year. Additionally, contrary to the caption, Tyrone Prothro’s mirac-ulous grab, although certainly a magnificent catch and a season-changing play for Alabama in 2005, was not a touchdown. He went down near the goal line (Bama did score on the drive). Are these minor factual

inaccuracies? Yes, they are. But if the CW really wants to educate its readers who may be new to the Crimson Tide tradition, or help lifelong fans remember some of our glorious moments, shouldn’t they be correct? Additionally, wouldn’t we rath-er our potential future journal-ists learn to take the extra step to, you know, actually look up a fact? They may be talking about something more important than the result of a pass play in a game against Southern Mississippi in the future.

Alex Steadman is a senior major-ing in economics and political science.

By Cody Jones

I can honestly say I have never been more disgusted or angry as an Alabama fan as I was after the LSU game. But unlike what a lot of the other armchair quarterbacks are in a fury about, it is not bad calls from the officials and coaches or the performance of offense and special teams that has me upset. It’s the conduct of the student fans after we were beaten that has me on the warpath. There is a difference between knowing how to lose and being a loser and many of my fellow students need to understand that. To begin, let me say I’m a native Alabamian and I wasn’t brought home in baby-boy blue – I was brought home in crimson. I wasn’t taught the cheers as an incoming freshman by upperclassmen; I’ve known them since I was a boy. There are many more in our fan base like me. That doesn’t make us any better as fans, but I do believe it makes us more respon-sible for setting the tone of behav-ior. Considering over half of the people I was greeting and meeting before entering the stadium were from out-of-state (most were from Maryland, which I found strange), I assume that being an Alabama

fan is relatively new to many of my fellow students. That being said, the loss to LSU was not the end of the world – try enduring what many of us in the Crimson Nation have done since the mid-90s and scale that bump of defeat. But let me levy the two most seri-ous charges of classlessness dis-played by our fan base. First, when you lose a pivotal game, don’t sit down with your head in your hands. The camera pans around and the national televi-sion audience does not need to see dejection, they need to see pride. Instead, do what I did – clap for our team and sing the fight song as The Million Dollar Band plays. You stand, you hold your chin up, give a Roll Tide and live to sing Rammer Jammer another day. The next and more serious crime of sportsmanship is the throwing of debris on our field. From my van-tage, this mostly occurred from block seating. Let me touch on something here: I am a non-greek who lives with two greeks. Nearly half of the best people I have met since I came on this campus are greek. There is nothing I detest more than the greek and non-greek relations on campus and frankly, I can’t stand that much of the “news”

I read about is based on that frivo-lous cleavage. But let me say this as to how block seating pertains to what occurred after the game. I don’t care how much tuition you pay, I don’t care what your GPA is, I don’t care how many volunteer hours you have accrued, I don’t care how much money your family has given the University. I don’t care if you’re a part of a post-graduate or honors organization. If ever a reason was given to abolish the block, it was given after the game. Block seating, much less student seating, is a privilege and if someone can’t support the team in a manner that displays class they have no business being in Bryant-Denny. There are a lot of student tickets from the block over to the general section that need to be revoked until they learn how to step back in that stadium with class. Someone once said, “I ain’t never been nothin’ but a winner.” Its about time we all act like it, even when we lose. How you walk off from a loss says a lot more about you than how you accomplish a win.

Cody Jones is a senior majoring in political science.

Student section needs to get its act together

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

By Searcy Dudley

Due to the lack of knowledge about their organization on campus, the Humane Society of West Alabama does not have the amount of advertising it needs to promote their mission of find-ing shelters for all animals in need of a home. The Humane Society of West Alabama is a non-profit organization seeking safe homes for animals in need. I am afraid that the shelters in our community will get too crowded, and that some families might turn to eutha-nasia instead of putting their animals in the shelter.

I want to thank the University of Alabama Recreation Center for hosting the Dog Splash, an event that allowed dogs from the Humane Society and the community to come swim in the Rec Center pool before it was cleaned and shut down for the winter. Events like this allow the animals to get out of their normal shelter for a little while and interact with other people and animals. Other communities have the same problem as Tuscaloosa in needing homes for animals, but the situation in Tuscaloosa got worse after the April 27 tornado. Many animals were separated from their homes and

families and have been relocated to either the Humane Society of West Alabama or other humane shelters in Tuscaloosa. If the University of Alabama provid-ed more information about the humane societies in Tuscaloosa and how stu-dents can help, I believe more students would be willing to get involved with helping find safe, healthy homes for these animals. The University of Alabama should hold more events to benefit the humane shelters in our community. Whether it is a fundraiser or a chance for the ani-mals to get out of their shelter for a

while, these efforts would greatly ben-efit the animals. Since many of these animals survived the tornado, the community should be willing to help the cats and dogs that live in the shelters find a new home. With the help of the University’s advertising and events, I believe that the Humane Society of West Alabama can become even more successful in its goal to find shelters for all ani-mals in need around the community of Tuscaloosa.

Searcy Dudley is a freshman majoring in nursing.

University should help animals

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By Jared DowningStaff Reporter

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On the morning of April 27, 81-year-old Appy Jones left her little house near Rosedale Park. She came back to a driveway, a stoop, and nothing else.

Last Tuesday, a team from Habitat for Humanity broke ground on what will be her new three-bedroom home. Nick’s Kids, a charity started by Nick and Terri Saban, will fund the house.

Jones’ house, the fifth built in the project, also owes credit to former football coach Frank Thomas, who coached Alabama to its fifth national championship.

For the 13 Alabama champion-ships, 13 new houses are headed by Nick’s Kids, Habitat for Humanity and

Project Team Up. The “13 & 13” proj-ect has already built two houses with four more underway, aiming to finish all 13 by the end of this year.

Nick’s Kids is an organization for disabled kids, and it shifted its focus to

tornado relief after the April storms. “We were talking about build-

ing parks or something, but Nick said, ‘Look, we gotta put people in homes first,’” said Thad Turnipseed, director of athletic facilities. “And that’s what started it.”

Tuscaloosa’s branch of Habitat for Humanity is responsible for 10 of the houses. Habitat volunteer coordinator Jared Patterson said that before the storm, Habitat was all but non-exis-tent in Tuscaloosa.

“They made about one house every year or two,” he said. “They did as much as they could, but there wasn’t as much of a need for it. We had basi-cally an office manager and a volun-teer accountant.”

With “13 & 13” underway, Tuscaloosa’s Habitat is now equipped

with a full staff, including a director, construction supervisors, community outreach coordinators and adminis-trative volunteers.

Five months in, “13 & 13” has become something of a rallying point for a large but unfocused grassroots effort. Dozens of smaller organizations such as local churches and student groups have a hand in the project, and scores of volunteer teams have come to help out from across the country, as far as California, New Jersey and Michigan.

“Somebody from Nebraska will call in and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got 20 vol-unteers,’ and we’ll direct them to a house,” Patterson said.

But it all comes back to Nick and Terri.

“[Nick’s] the one that was adamant,” Turnipseed said.

Turnipseed said that behind the coach’s steely reputation is a very likeable guy.

“They try to do a lot of good things people don’t even know about,” he said.

In fact, Saban gives anything he makes other than his normal salary – including more than $2 million in sponsorships – to Nick’s Kids and his scholarship program for first-genera-tion students, Turnipseed said.

Nick’s Kids had planned to fund a 14th house if Alabama won the National Championship this year. Saturday’s loss hurt those odds, but Patterson said Habitat won’t stop building when “13 & 13” is over.

“Nothing is going to slow us down after that,” he said. “We just want to see our town whole.”

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By Chris Amalfitano Contributing Writer

The 36th annual Great American Smoke Out, host-ed by the American Cancer Society, will be held next week. UA’s Department of Health and Wellness aims to help cigarette smokers quit.

On Nov. 17, the department will launch a twitter campaign to help smokers quit smoking by offering weekly tobacco cessation sessions, ongoing tobacco-free support, as well as medication therapy with no copay.

According to UA’s Department of Health and

Wellness, more than 400,000 people die each year of tobac-co related disease, and smok-ing causes 87 percent of all lung cancer.

Along with the many harm-ful health effects, smoking is a large financial burden. According to the American Cancer Society’s online Tobacco Cost Calculator, if a smoker buys one pack a week every week of the school year, it can cost more than $12,000.

Kate Kaufman, a sophomore at UA, said she has many friends that smoke.

“It seems that all my friends that smoke are always trying to quit,” Kaufman said. “My

friends have tried quitting at least 50 times but are never able to kick the addiction.”

Nonsmokers are also in danger of the harmful effects of smoking. The American Cancer Society estimates that 46,000 deaths from heart dis-ease each year are the result of secondhand smoke. Also, they have found that second-hand smoke may be linked

to breast cancer. Erik Harris, a senior at UA,

described the hidden dan-ger he feels that secondhand smoke has.

“Now when I go to a party, I hardly even notice the sec-ondhand smoke in the air because I have become so accustomed to it,” Harris said. “You can see the amount of smoke in the air, and when I first started going to parties I could taste it, but after a while you get use to it. It is scary because you think as a non-smoker you are safe from the harmful side effects, however you really are as much as risk as smokers are.”

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“It seems that all my friends that smoke are always

trying to quit.”

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“We continue to work toward creating and maintain-ing an environment where acts of intolerance do not occur on our campus,” Bonner wrote in the memo. “We will hold individuals who betray that responsibility personally accountable for their actions.” England said it was impor-tant that perspective students not be deterred from the University because of racially offensive incidents. “I think that we need to make sure that incidents like the

one that’s got all this publicity don’t have a chilling effect on our continued recruitment,” he said. “We still have to let people know that we want them to come. And it takes an aggressive recruitment effort and an aggressive message that we want you here.” UA SGA President Stephen Swinson also addressed trust-ees for the first time as the student representative to the board, thanking administra-tors for their support of stu-dent government. In other business, the board approved a request for state appropriations of $611 million for the UA System, the same

level of funding the system received in the 2008 fiscal year. That would be an increase of $153 million from current funding levels, which have been reduced as a result of state budget cuts. Board members also approved stage one of con-struction for a new Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house to be built on University Boulevard, just to the west of the Student Health Center. The house is projected to cost $6.2 million dollars. Finally, the board gave stage one approval for a new 1,000-car parking lot behind the Capstone College of Nursing.

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By Judah MartinContributing Writer

A University of Alabama creative writing professor has invited poets Maureen Thorson, Anne Boyer and Shanna Compton to read selections of their work at Green Bar on Tuesday. Daniela Olszewska facilitated the event, which is part of a tour for Bloof Books, an independent poetry press started in 2007. “I am a huge fan of Bloof Books,” Olszewska said. “When I heard that some of their poets were touring the Southeast, I begged Shanna Compton, their editor-in-chief, to make a stop in Tuscaloosa.” Among the poets are Anne Boyer, assistant professor of the liberal arts at the Kansas City Art Institute and author of the forthcoming novel “JOAN”; Maureen Thorson, a publish-er and book designer as well as author of the new book “Applies to Oranges”; and Shanna Compton, author of books like “Down Spooky” and “For Girls & Others.” “Anne and I have new books forth-coming from Bloof Books, and Maureen has a new book out from Ugly Duckling Presse,” Compton said. “So we decid-ed to travel together to celebrate the books and share our new work with audiences outside our own home cit-ies.” Each poet has also published numer-ous other works and will be reading excerpts from them on their tour. The authors will have various books and chapbooks available for sale and sign-ing. In addition, audience members may also have a chance to speak with them. “I don’t think there is a formal Q&A time,” Compton said. “But we would be very happy to talk to students before or after the reading. We’ll be hanging out a while.” Olszewska, who will be emcee-ing that night, has high hopes for the event. “I hope that this event will afford students an opportunity to hear poetry that might be flying under their English Lit. textbooks’ radars,” Olszewska said. “Each of these poets has a very distinct voice that I think will translate well from page to stage. These poets engage political and social topics with humor, charm and compel-ling imagery.” Students who are 18 and older, as well as anyone else in the community who would like to attend, will get the chance to judge for themselves when the event takes place at Green Bar at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8.

By Brett SaundersContributing Writer

Lisa Elizondo was sworn in as the new SGA director of engagement for the Student Government Association at the Senate meeting on Nov. 3. Elizondo replaced Randy Bowden, who is now serving as executive vice president. “I want to reach out to all groups,” Elizondo said, “It is our responsibility to reach out to them. People are going to talk on campus, but you must make things relevant to them.” Elizondo said she is excited to have the

opportunity and feels that Bowden did a great job. She will be working with him to follow through with previous plans already in motion. “I believe Lisa will do a great job as the new director of engagement,” said SGA President Stephen Swinson. “She is an individual who can really leave an impact.” While in office, Elizondo said there would be opportunities for organizations to speak with her and to ask for certain issues to be resolved. Present at the meeting were the newest members of the First Year Council, who had their first joint session with the Senate.

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By Rebecca Howard Contributing Writer

Two musicals in one, a Hollywood comedy and detective drama, come to the stage of the Allen Bales Theatre tonight in “City of Angels.”

This suspenseful musical with a twist is filled with a flare of con-temporary jazz styles, energy and comedy.

The Tony Award winning musical “City of Angels” was set in 1940s Hollywood and takes the audience into the mind of Los Angeles novelist Stine as he creates his screenplay. Stine’s screenplay invites suspense as its lead character, Detective Stone, gets into trouble when the socialite, Aluara Kingsley, enters his office.

Russell Stephens, a junior musical theatre major playing Stine, said the soundtrack to the musical piqued his interest.

“The soundtrack is very Broadway, jazz, swing, 1940s, scat and has very atypical vocal har-monies,” Stephens said.

Michael Luwoye, a junior musi-cal theatre major playing Stone, the private detective, said his

character brings a smart wit. “The text from ‘City of Angels’

resembles the language used in noir films such as ‘Murder, My Sweet,’” Luwoye said. “The jokes are hidden and I always think of it as smart comedy.”

Luwoye, who performs tonight in his eighth show at the University, said the musical has been a challenge because of the plot. Every character, except Stone and Stine, play two or more roles in the show making the play very complex.

While the plot is intricate, Luwoye said he has enjoyed learning from his role.

“It’s been an awesome chal-lenge because there hasn’t been a point where I can say ‘I got this,’” Luwoye said. “I’m always finding something new. There is always some facet that I’m unfa-miliar with. Since you’re never sitting down, you get to have more fun and you can add to each rehearsal.”

Karen Baker, the Masters of Fine Arts third-year graduate director, said she is impressed with the actors as they bring fresh energy to the stage each night. Baker, who chose the

musical, thought it would chal-lenge her as a director as well as the actors. She encourages actors to bring their own unique persona to each character.

“The actors are doing a good job learning how to handle the set and I’ve been very impressed during the rehearsal process,” Baker said. “It’s a joy everyday when they bring something that surprises me.”

Stephens said he enjoys per-forming in Allen Bales because of the liveliness in the theatre.

“There is a different kind of energy because you have an audience on all three sides, so you have three times the ener-gy and the energy of the show depends on the energy of the audience,” Stephens said.

The musical opens Monday, Nov. 7 and plays through Saturday, Nov. 12, with shows starting at 7:30 p.m. On Sunday, Nov. 13, there will be another performance starting at 2 p.m. Student tickets are $12, fac-ulty and seniors are $15 and adults are $18. Tickets can be purchased at the box office in Rowand-Johnson Hall or online at theatre.ua.edu.

By Lindsey O’Brien

Nutrition students and professors at UA are taking part in a national movement to decrease childhood obe-sity and assure the healthy development of our nation’s children.

The American Dietetic Association recently devel-oped the KidsEatRight Program to provide fami-lies with scientifically based nutrition informa-tion regarding the healthy development of children. Shopping, cooking and eat-ing tips, along with featured articles, recipes and videos are offered for toddlers to teens.

One of the most important healthy habits to encourage in children, and people of all ages, is eating breakfast. In light of this fact, Lori Greene, nutrition professor here at UA, has established a local “KidsEatRight Breakfast Initiative” in the hopes of impacting Tuscaloosa’s pre-schoolers and adolescents.

Senior level nutrition stu-dents have developed les-son plans illustrating what a healthy breakfast looks like, offering tips on implementing this habit in their daily lives. Nutritional games are played to engage the children’s imag-ination and broaden their per-spective of healthy breakfast choices and combinations.

Why, then, is breakfast so important? Breakfast liter-ally means to “break the fast” that your body has been enduring for the six to eight hours that you have been asleep. Breaking this fast is important to jumpstart your metabolism so your body can utilize the food you eat for energy.

Although this is a well-known fact, it is easy to fall into a breakfast rut, becoming

bored with the monotony of cereal and breakfast bars. We could all use a little help com-ing up with new and exciting healthy breakfast choices.

Autumn is the perfect time to rev up your breakfast rou-tine as fall flavors come into play. Pumpkin, cinnamon, and apples can add flavor, warmth and, most importantly, health benefits to this important morning meal. Here are a few ideas for autumn inspired alternatives to your usual breakfast routine:

PUMPKIN: Instead of the usual blueberry muffin, try a pumpkin muffin. Pumpkin is high in Vitamin A, fiber and low in fat. Canned pumpkin can also be used to make pan-cakes or waffles. These fluffy concoctions will warm your insides and boost your nutri-ent intake.

CINNAMON: Instead of the usual plain oatmeal, try top-ping it with fresh cinnamon. Cinnamon helps to lower cholesterol and plays a role in fighting Type 2 diabetes. This spice can also be added to whole-wheat toast with butter.

APPLE: Instead of the usual cup of coffee, try a warm cup of apple cider. Apples have cancer fighting properties, and help in managing weight. You can even add a cinnamon stick! Used in combination, cinnamon apple bread is a fresh alternative to the usual bagel or granola bar. Try any or all of these ideas as the autumn and winter seasons move forward.

Information regarding the KidsEatRight Program and specific recipes contain-ing these ingredients can be found at ADA’s website, eatright.org.

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‘City of Angels’ hits the stageAllen Bales Theatre to show 1940s-based musical starting tonight

By Erich Hilkert

There are few times of the year when it makes perfect logical sense to write about a war movie. I can think of roughly five:

1. Memorial Day – what better time is there?2. Veterans Day, which happens to be Friday,

so I’m doing it in advance3. If a new release happens to be a war movie

or some similar event, maybe a war movie wins an Oscar or maybe a 25th anniversary release.

4. If, for some reason, our country entered into a new war.

5. If Alabama football plays for another nation-al championship or something like it.

Wait a minute, something like it just happened this past Saturday. Makes perfect sense then, right? Right?

So, in honor of the upcoming Veteran’s Day and this past weekend’s battle, here’s a look at two war movies:

Restrepo

Perhaps one of the best war films of recent years is one few people have seen: the documen-tary “Restrepo.” It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and was nomi-nated for best documentary at the 2011 Oscars. Co-director Tim Hetherington, sadly, was killed on April 20 this year while covering the conflict in Libya.

“Restrepo” follows an American platoon serv-ing a year in Afghanistan’s deadliest region, the Korengal Valley. It captures the harsh truths of war, bravely portraying the men of the platoon as they are fired at, as they mourn the loss of a beloved comrade (whose last name becomes the name of their base and, subsequently, the name of this film), firing at the enemy while in combat and the sheer boredom faced in between combat.

One of the most poignant scenes, and there are many, is when Specialist Kyle Steiner explains how he loves the adrenaline rush of being in a combat situation and how it is like a drug. He questions how soldiers are expected to deal with this upon their return to civilian life. Even in a combat zone, soldiers face a difficult transition from having tedious, inconsequential assign-ments to firing automatic rifles while defending their lives.

“Restrepo,” like the greatest documentaries, doesn’t pass judgment on its subjects, and

instead allows viewers to make their own judg-ments. It presents the human face of war, show-ing the individual experiences of young service-men today, both the difficulties they face while at war and when they return home.

Open City

“Open City” is a movie from the Italian neo-realist movement where amateur actors were used and movies were shot in real locations. The material feels authentic, especially when compared to Hollywood films of the same time period. Notable film critic James Agee was a big fan and once cited the movie for having a vital-ity rarely seen in film. Basically, the message of the movie boils down to the fact that a person’s soul amounts to a lot more than their material body, a potent message amid the atrocities that accompanied World War II.

While Saturday’s game doesn’t hold a can-dle to an event of such magnitude, I’m sure a lot of people in Tuscaloosa are crushed after Alabama’s loss to LSU. As “Open City” would remind us, one must always keep hope. It seems unlikely Alabama will make the national cham-pionship now, but there’s still a chance.

Besides, even if Alabama doesn’t make it, there’s a spot in a BCS Bowl: the Sugar Bowl. Most of all, I, for one, would love to hand it to those hated cross-state rivals who left an incred-ibly bitter taste in fans’ mouths with a one-point comeback victory last year on our home turf. We may not have enacted revenge on LSU, but there’s always Auburn.

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“We had a lot of opportuni-ties that we didn’t take advan-tage of,” Saban said. “The

missed field goals, or the opportunities that created the missed field goals, an inter-ception penalty that takes us out of field position, a possi-ble touchdown that turns out to be an interception and not being able to take advantage of the field position after that to score points.”

One play with a lot of contro-versy surrounding it is a punt that was not fielded by wide receiver Marquis Maze in the fourth quarter. The punt took a bounce in LSU’s favor, trav-eling 73 yards.

“That camera that’s on the field, it kind of hit the string

on it and it kind of messed me up on it,” Maze said. “It was better for us to get it back there than for me to try to field it and muff it.”

By rule, if the ball touches the camera or the wires, it is a dead ball. Maze said no one from Alabama’s side said any-thing about it.

“It has happened with every aerial camera out there,” said PJ Bennett, president and CEO of ActionCam. “But in three years with us it has only happened one time on a kick off, but it is in the NCAA rules that if the ball hits the cam-era or the cable it’s a dead ball

and redo the down.” The elephant in the room

for Alabama now is whether they still have a shot to play in the national championship game. The Tide dropped to No. 4 in the AP and the USA Today Coaches’ Poll, but dropped only one spot to No. 3 in the BCS standings, behind LSU and Oklahoma State.

“Whoever the folks are who make those decisions will make those decisions based on the full body of work of every team in the country and choose which teams are the best,” Saban said. “I really can’t speculate on a

hypothetical situation and it’s really not our focus right now, anyway.”

Alabama no longer controls its own destiny in the national championship race and has a slim chance at making the Southeastern Conference Championship game. The Tide can only hope the other undefeated schools from automatic qualifying confer-ences lose a game or two.

LSU head coach Les Miles said he and the Tigers would welcome a rematch against the Tide.

“I’d be honored to face that team again,” Miles said.

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Finally, the Alabama men’s basketball team can play someone other than themselves. The Tide will take to the hardwood tonight and square off against the University of Alabama-Huntsville Chargers in an exhibition game to prepare for the 2011-2012 season. “I think after a while you get used to playing against yourself and you need some variety,” said head coach Anthony Grant. “So I’m looking forward to the challenge that we have with those guys coming in.” And UAH will be no slouch. The Chargers are ranked second in the NABC Division II pre-season Coaches Poll and fourth in the Basketball Times rankings. Returning starters Josh Magette and Zane Campbell also landed on the Sporting News’ preseason All-American list for their division. “We’ve got a really tough opponent in UAH,” Grant said. “I think they’re an outstanding team, very well coached. They’re coming off of a banner year, high expectations for their team. They’ll put us in a position where we’ve got to play extremely well to have a chance.” It’ll be the second year in a row that UAH comes to Tuscaloosa for an exhibition game. Last year it took overtime for the Tide to best the Chargers, who went on to post a 29-5 record and made it all the way to the

Division II Elite Eight. “We’ll certainly be challenged with the versa-tility and variety of things they do on the offen-sive end,” Grant said. “[We’ll] try to figure out how to attack what they’re going to do to us on the defensive end.” For Alabama, tonight’s tune-up will be a chance for its young team to get some experi-ence in a game-like situation. Grant said they will treat it just like a regular game. “[We’ll be] trying to see how we react to a crowd being there, handling the officials, and an unfamiliar opponent,” Grant said. “There’s cer-tainly a lot of things I feel like as a coach we’ve got to be good at, we’ve got to be better at, as we prepare for the season. There’s really not an aspect of the game I feel like we’re going to ignore.” It will also be fans’ first chance to see the Tide’s freshman class in action. Alabama pulled in the fifth best recruiting class according to popular recruiting website Rivals.com, and Grant said all six newcomers should see some playing time tonight. “All of our freshmen have done a pretty god job in practice,” Grant said. “I think we need those guys to be ready to go, and certainly everybody will have an opportunity.” Tipoff is scheduled for seven o’clock tonight at Coleman Coliseum. It will be Alabama’s only exhibition game before opening its regular season against North Florida on Friday night in Tuscaloosa.

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tide prepares for season with exhibition game against UAH

Tide point guard Trevor

Releford goes up for a layup

against LSU last season.

Releford and the rest of the

Tide will return to the court

tonight in an exhibition game

against UAH.

CW | John Michael Simpson

Bama dominates fi rst exhibitionBy Zac Al-Khateeb

Sports [email protected]

In its first exhibition game of the season, the Alabama women’s basketball team beat the Auburn-Montgomery Warhawks 81-27 at home. For head coach Wendell Hudson, the result of the game was less important than how his team competed. “I thought we played well,” Hudson said. “I guess from my standpoint, what we were looking at was not the score, but the intensity level. The intensity level was where it should have been.” Senior Ericka Russell echoed her coach’s thoughts on the game. “I think the positive was coming out with energy,” Russell said. “We weren’t perfect every position, but just coming out with ener-gy, playing intense, just trying to be consistent. I think just playing as a team was the biggest thing.” The Tide dominated in every aspect of the game against the Warhawks. Alabama out-rebounded the Warhawks 56-36, held them to only 10 made field goals on 54 attempts, while only allow-ing nine second-half points. Hudson said where his team most excelled, however, was in its chemistry, espe-cially in the passing game. “We were real excited about the way we made the extra pass,” Hudson said. “We had 19 assists, and we were sitting down talk-ing on the bench, talking about ‘when have we had 19 assists?’ It doesn’t mat-ter who you’re playing, we shared the basketball.” The Tide was led in scor-

ing by Celiscia Farmer and Kyra Crosby with 15 points apiece. Shafontaye Myers and Erin Hogue also scored 12 and 10 points for the Tide, respectively. The Tide shot 42 percent on the game, making 29 of 69 shots. “I thought we shot the ball pretty well,” Hudson said. “I really believe that this team can shoot better.” Despite the Tide’s per-formance, Crosby said she could still see improvement in the team’s defensive tran-sitions and free throw shots. “We need to work on our defensive transitions,” Crosby said. “As a team, [we need to work] on free throws. We only shot 58 percent. So we really need to concentrate on free throws on the free throw line.” Indeed, Hudson acknowl-edged that Alabama need-ed this game to work out the kinks and prepare for the regular season. “We’re not there. We’re

not where we need to be,” Hudson said. “We know that. We needed this game, and we’re going to need other games here to get ready for the SEC. But the attitude and setting the tone for this year was laid out there because of the intensity level.”

• Alabama 81, Auburn-Montgomery• Points: Celiscia Farmer (UA), Kyra Crosby (UA), 15• Rebounds: Farmer, Meghan Perkins (UA), 9• Assists: Perkins, Jas-mine Robinson (UA), 4

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