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By Alexandra EllsworthStaff Reporter
In spring 2010, Gayle Howell began believing in Linkedin.
Howell, the manager for the Career Center Satellite of the College of Engineering, said that was when she saw the professional social network
work to beat one man’s unem-ployment.
“I worked with a gentle-man who found himself laid off from work,” Howell said. “He was 50 years old and had two daughters who were stu-dents on campus, for whom he was paying tuition and he lost his job. He came to me
because we serve our alumni here at the career center. He was pretty afraid of what was going to happen to his fam-ily.”
Howell said they worked together to update his resume and polish it up. The man had just started using Linkedin.
“He said he thought Linkedin has potential for a job seeker,” Howell said. “He worked his job search very hard, very strategically, eight
hours a day. At the end of two months, he had nine offers, and he gave all the credit to Linkedin. And then kept get-ting offers after he accepted a job. That was the turning point for me.”
At the beginning of this year, Howell was approached by a student with a Linkedin success story, shoring up her love for the network.
Linkedin provides space for online resumes, connects students with possible employers
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NEWS | BENSON
By Mazie BryantAssistant News Editor
Newly-appointed University of Alabama President Judy Bonner selected long-serving faculty and administration member Joe Benson as interim provost on Monday, Nov. 12.
Benson has served as the vice president for research and vice provost at the University since 2009, after a two-year stint as an interim for the position. Benson joined the University faculty as an assis-tant professor of geology in 1978 and worked his way up to chair of the department of geological sci-ences in 1990. He also served as president of the Faculty Senate from 1993-1995 and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1998-2001.
“I asked the UA Council of Deans and the UA Faculty Senate Steering Committee for nomi-nations for consideration for the position of interim provost. After carefully considering each nomination, I have asked Dr. Joe Benson to serve in that role,” Bonner said in a press release announcing the selection. “Dr. Benson is a respected member of the faculty and an academic leader. He plans to retire in the sum-mer after 35 years of service at The University of Alabama.”
Benson said he was surprised by the appoint-ment, but honored.
Bonner taps Joe Benson as provost
By Ashley TrippStaff Reporter
One annual challenge many out-of-state students face during Thanksgiving break is whether or not to attend the Iron Bowl game.
Per tradition, the Iron Bowl is played during Thanksgiving weekend. For some, this tradi-tion is the most exciting game of the season, while for others it’s just another chance to sell their student tickets and stay home with their families.
Since this year’s Iron Bowl is taking place two days after Thanksgiving, some out-of-state students feel they aren’t given enough time to spend with friends and family if they want to be back in time for the game.
Lauren Anderson, a sophomore majoring in international studies, said last year she had to catch glimpses of the Iron Bowl at the airport and buy Internet access to stream the game on the plane traveling from Danville, Calif., to Tuscaloosa.
Anderson said she’ll actually watch the game at home this year because, with no Monday classes, she’ll have an additional day to spend in California.
Vice provost of 3 years named interim, will retire this summer
Rivalry affects Thanksgiving traveling daysIron Bowl tradition forces tough choices for out-of-state students
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SEE BENSON PAGE 2
Military affairs offi ce provides home for veterans
By Alan AlexanderContributing Writer
The Office of Veteran and Military Affairs has only been on campus for a year, but The University of Alabama is already ranked in the top 15 percent of mil-itary-friendly universities.
Whether they are active-duty members, veterans or dependents, VMA helps students with military affiliations make an easier transi-tion into college life.
Jasmine Scott, a student worker for VMA and daughter of a lieuten-ant colonel in the U.S. Army, has received extra support from the VMA as a dependent while her dad is overseas.
“Being a dependent, we don’t actually serve, but our parents do,” Scott said. “We are able to meet and connect with other stu-dents here whose parents are also active duty, and it really brings us together.”
The idea for the office came
from veterans on campus who noticed the lack of a social struc-ture among the veterans who returned from duty. To combat the growing rate at which veterans dropped out of the University, the Campus Veterans Association was created in 2009 and began lobbying for more support on campus. The University listened.
“They finally decided that the University needed to put a greater support system in place for their returning veterans,” said Laura Hurter, a U.S. Air Force veter-an studying anthropology. She has completed tours in Japan, Germany and Kuwait.
The VMA office, located in the basement of B.B. Comer Hall, offers a variety of programs and resources for its students. It boasts multiple study rooms and its own computer lab.
The University office also offers three transition assistance pro-grams to ensure academic success at the University.
The Freshman Learning Community is a semester-long class for veterans who have just returned from duty and are entering their first year at the University.
NEWS | IRON BOWL
NEWS | VETERANS
VMA offers programs to help veterans, active duty members and dependents adjust to college
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“He said he wanted to tell me what happened to him,” she said. “He updated his Linkedin file with the skills that he acquired with his summer internship and within two days of doing that, he got a call from Apple Computers. They asked him if he wanted to fly out to California for a job interview.”
Linkedin is the world’s larg-est professional network on the Internet, with more than 187 million members in more than 200 countries. It’s free to create an account and what is basically an online resume.
“I am seeing more and more employers using Linkedin,” Howell said. “In fact, I participat-ed in a webinar and one of the corporate recruiters said she doesn’t even post job openings anymore. She just uses Linkedin, the free part of Linkedin, to find people with the skill sets she is looking for and filling positions for her company.”
Howell said according to the National Association of Colleges and Employees, 80 percent of all jobs are filled through networking.
Students can join now and begin networking while they are still in school. Within Linkedin, there are groups a person can join. One can join up to 50 at a time.
“I belong to Capstone Engineering Societies group, and that is the alumni chapter for this college, so there are a lot of alumni who have member-ship in that group,” Howell said. “When I learn of a job that is for an alum, I post it in that group and only members of that group can see it.”
Howell said students can join the CES group for the alumni now if it is clear in their pro-file that he or she is a student at The University of Alabama. There is also a group for the Alabama International rela-tions club on campus and other interest groups.
Even if Linkedin doesn’t land a person an interview, it can still be an asset as employers research potential employees.
Josh Andrews, a lawyer and owner of his own firm in the Birmingham area, The Outsourced Associate, said he used Linkedin to make hiring choices more in the past than he does now. Recently, he said, he uses it more as a networking tool and as a way to get to know potential employees.
“I check it every once and a while as a way to meet people, and it is something I look for in potential employees,” he said. “I can see what [potential employees] are doing and if they are trying to make a name for themselves.”
Andrews said it was also good to go on Linkedin and learn about someone from the business standpoint before meeting them.
“You know I don’t want to see your Facebook page and what you did on the weekend, but Linkedin is a good way to get to know other people and busi-nesses,” he said. “I can see what you are doing to put yourself out there and network and also see who you are networking with,” he said. “As a lawyer, I have to be able to see that you can bring
business in.”Lauren Lassiter, a senior
majoring in marketing and Spanish, said she got a Linkedin account because some of her friends started getting them.
“I didn’t really get it at first, but my sorority, Pi Phi, did a couple of workshops on it, and that helped a lot,” she said. “It is basically Facebook for the pro-fessional world.”
Lassiter said she could see Linkedin becoming useful to her during job interviews, because it allows her to follow companies and current news in her poten-tial job market.
“I follow Children’s Miracle Network and other hospitals because I am doing healthcare,” she said. “It will probably be useful when going to interviews because they sometimes ask you about current events and Linkedin helps me keep up with that kind of stuff. It’s all in one place, which is nice.”
For Linkedin to be effective, Lassiter believes one has to know how to use it properly.
“One thing that helped me was looking at people’s pro-files,” she said.
Lassiter would look at peo-ple on Linkedin who she knew already had a job and see what kinds of things they put in their profile to help model hers.
Howell recommends picking a professional photo. Linkedin only allows one photo, so it should be a professional one, and preferably a headshot.
“It’s not used for letting the world know what you are doing,” she said. “It’s all very professional. I advise everyone to really read the rules. If you don’t follow the rules, they will send you an email and freeze your account.”
When working with stu-dents in a job search, Howell welcomes students to connect with her to help them network. Anyone who connects with her can then connect with anyone she is connected to.
“If a person takes the time to build their profile, and I call it a rich profile, you know you put a lot of skill sets in there, I feel they can be successful,” Howell said. “Don’t exaggerate. You have to be truthful just like on a resume, and that is what it is, an online resume.”
“I was contacted by Dr. Bonner last week, I’d say. She asked if I would be interested in the position, but she did not immediately offer the posi-tion,” Benson said. “I spent a few days considering it, but I eventually decided it was something I could do — and do it well. Eventually, I accept-ed it. We talked about gener-alities of the duties, but I’m already aware of the duties of
the provost, so we didn’t talk in detail of the specifics. I was not expecting it.”
The appointment came less than two weeks after Bonner was hastily chosen as presi-dent of the University after the resignation of former President Guy Bailey. Bailey, citing his wife’s health con-cerns, announced his resig-nation on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 31, and the Board of Trustees then chose Bonner for the position on the early afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 1.
Cathy Andreen, direc-tor of media relations at the
University, pointed toward a difference in office roles as to the time discrepancy between the appointment of UA presi-dent and the interim provost.
“The appointments were two separate things,” Andreen said. “The search for presi-dent was handled through the [University of Alabama] System Office. Dr. Bonner is in charge of the appointment of interim provost.”
In the press release, Bonner said she plans to announce the search committees for provost and vice president for the Office of Research in the coming weeks. Andreen
said the search would more than likely be internal as well as external.
Although Benson is now serving as interim provost, he will be ineligible for the formal position. At the Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 1, Bonner said interims are not allowed to be candidates for the position, according to a new policy of the UA sys-tem that was not in place as Bonner served as interim president of the University before Bailey’s appointment. Mark Nelson, vice presi-dent for student affairs and the University’s other vice
provost, would then still be eligible for the position.
Benson said he is unaware if Nelson would be interested in the position or if he would apply. However, Benson is prepared to leave his succes-sor with a stable office and university.
“I think the University has a great opportunity to build on the momentum built up over the last eight to 10 years,” Benson said. “Dr. Bonner is working very hard to build upon this, and I would hope to be able to build up and hand off the University in as good or better shape than it is now.”
BENSON FROM PAGE 1
Benson has served as vice provost since 2009
LINKEDIN FROM PAGE 1
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The Supreme Court said Friday that it would consider a challenge from several Southern states to the Voting Rights Act, setting up another landmark clash over federal power and the legacy of discrimination.
In the politically sensitive case, to be heard next year, Southern states and others once more seek to lift or revise long-standing requirements that the Justice Department preapprove changes in voting procedures. The chal-lengers say the federal oversight is onerous and no longer needed.
“Things have changed in the South,” attorney Bert W. Rein declared in a legal brief for Shelby County, Ala.
South Carolina and Texas agree, citing in their own legal
brief the “significant and unjusti-fied burdens that the law contin-ues to impose” on states covered by the law’s “pre-clearance” requirements. The state of Alaska has claimed the same in a sepa-rate brief, complaining of the law’s “extraordinary burdens.”
The current version of the Voting Rights Act enjoys the strong support of groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as well as many members of Congress, which overwhelmingly reauthorized the law in 2006. Four Alaska Natives and four tribal governments have asked to join the federal government’s defense of the act.
“Despite considerable prog-ress,” Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. wrote on behalf of the Obama administration,
“discrimination against minor-ity voters continues to be a serious problem.”
The law covers all of seven Southern states, as well as Alaska and Arizona, and portions of six states, including California, Florida and North Carolina. Citing what they called “the blight of racial discrimination,” lawmakers in 1965 first imposed the requirement that the Justice Department review and approve any voting “standard, practice or procedure” in the covered states and localities.
This federal authority covers a wide range of state and local activity, spanning some 12,000 political jurisdictions nationwide. Alabama, for instance, needed federal approval for new voting machines. Arizona needed prior approval to close several Motor
Vehicle Division offices because they’re used for voter registration.
California needed approval last year for legislative redistrict-ing in several counties, including Merced, Kings and Yuba.
“The Voting Rights Act is an essential part of American democracy,” League of Women Voters President Elisabeth MacNamara declared Friday. “The thought that the Supreme Court might overrule Congress and take away voting rights should send a chill down the spine of every American.”
Jurisdictions may apply to the Justice Department to “bail out” from the pre-clearance require-ments, as California’s Merced County did this year. Shelby County in Alabama didn’t seek to bail out, but instead filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality
of the law.Critics don’t dispute the
necessity of having the Justice Department watch out for dis-criminatory voting practices. They do, however, contend that the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act for the next 25 years swept in too many states and localities based on anti-quated data. Critics also note that some states are treated dif-ferently from others, despite the significant civil rights progress that’s been made.
“I don’t want to see the act gutted,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn, Texas, asserted during a 2006 Senate debate, while add-ing that “today, no one can claim that the kind of systemic, invidi-ous practices that plagued our election systems 40 years ago still exist in America.”
Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to Voting Rights Act
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By Chandler WrightStaff Reporter
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley addressed a group of veterans Monday morning in honor of Veterans Day at an event host-ed by the Veterans Memorial Park Association, in spite of cold rain.
“As I’m sitting here about to freeze, I thought of all the dif-ficulties that all of our men and women go through when they’re in combat and all the difficulties that they go through as they serve our country and how easy it is for us,” Bentley said. “They’re uncomfortable most of the time.”
State representative John Merrill referenced Bentley’s time in the U.S. Air Force in the
governer’s introduction.“I think that when the final
chapter is written about Robert Bentley’s public civil service, the thing that he will be most proud of is the service he spent from 1969 to 1975 as a member of the U.S. Air Force,” Merrill said. “Of the time that he spent there, serving our veterans and our wounded from Vietnam, I know it touched him in a very, very special way, and I’ve heard him tell so many stories about the lives that influenced and impacted him because of that time that he had.”
Bentley discussed the impor-tant role veterans have across generations in fighting for the many freedoms of U.S. citizens.
“I always say Americans would not be free if it were not
for our veterans; everything that we enjoy as Americans and Alabamians, we need to thank our veterans,” Bentley said. “We would not be able to do that if it were not for the men and women that sacrifice so much and are willing to serve this country. I’m proud to have served this great country of ours.”
Sgt. Jordan Carpenter, a senior majoring in environmen-tal science, is president of the Campus Veterans Association at The University of Alabama and also spoke at the event. Carpenter is currently in the U.S. Army Reserves and served two deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“My family name has never been signed on any documents
of great importance, and I’m definitely not in line for any sum of money in any of my relatives’ path,” Carpenter said. “I’m just one in a long line of patriots who have become active stakehold-ers in the uniquely American enterprise of defending liberty here and around the world. My family has determined to go to battle, so that the American way of life might be preserved for future generations. It’s one of the proudest traditions I hold dear to my heart.”
Carpenter also reminded the audience to remember the sac-rifices made by military fami-lies and friends as he talked about his deployments.
“My father’s chest swelled with pride when his two sons deployed at the same time, but
my poor mother had to endure that as well – I’m just glad she has hair left,” Carpenter said. “My sister, 19 years old at the time, was on the other end of the phone when I called to tell them that my brother had been shot. ‘Keep praying,’ I said. ‘I think he’s going to be okay,’ even though I didn’t know. My story isn’t rare and my family is not an outlier, this is all too common, now and in genera-tions’ past.”
Although his military obli-gation will end in two months, Carpenter said his service to his military comrades will not conclude.
“In two months, Lord willing, my military service obligation will end,” Carpenter said. “I will leave the ranks of the U.S.
army and gladly claim the titleof civilian and veteran. My ser-vice, however, cannot end, not while my brothers and sisters at arms are returning from over-seas with life changing injuries,both seen and unseen.”
Bentley said U.S. citizens should always honor and thank all veterans every day, regard-less of when or where they served.
“The contributions made by the veterans of our nation and our state and this city are immeasurable and we’re thank-ful for their service,” Bentley said. “Honoring veterans shouldn’t be limited to Veterans Day. We should thank veterans every day. Today we honor you, and we share in our gratitude for you.”
Governor Bentley addresses local veterans Monday
By Taylor VeazyContributing Writer
The University of Alabama commemorated Veterans Day on Nov. 7 with a release of a book outlining the University’s c o n t r i b u t i o n s d u r i n g World War II.
The book, “All of Us Fought the War: The University of Alabama and its Men and Women in World War II,” by Delbert Reed, is the prod-uct of old Crimson White articles, Corolla pages and
alumni magazine articles, along with more than 100 personal interviews.
“This collects into one vol-ume what we found in pieces,” Reed said.
The book features stories from former Tuscaloosa mayor Al DuPont, Medal of Honor recipient Charles Davis, and 11 students who served as gen-erals during the war. It also includes pictures and names of the 350 students who lost their lives during wartime.
More than 8,000 former
UA students served in World War II, while a few thousand more were able to attend the University on the GI Bill after serving in the war. Many of them went on to accomplish great things, Reed said.
“Not only did they exceed during wartime, but they came back and were very successful in life,” he said.
Ken Gaddy, director of the Paul W. Bryant Museum, which published the book, said they are honored to be sharing the stories.
“We want to preserve these folks’ memories and records and distribute them,” Gaddy said. “We want to publish the book so current students can read it. These people were that age.”
The book release was the first of many events during the University’s Veterans Week, put on by the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs. A lun-cheon was held to honor 35 of the book’s featured veterans and their families.
David Blair, director of
veteran and military affairs, said he was honored to have the veterans be a part of this week and to hear their stories.
“The history behind World War II veterans speaks for itself,” Blair said. “The fact that it’s [UA] veterans brings everything to light, especially during Veterans Week.”
Reed, a UA graduate and former military historian, said the project was perfect for his qualifications.
“Doing this work has been a fulfillment of what I studied to
do and love to do,” he said.This is Reed’s fourth
book, and a follow up to his latest, “When Winning Was Everything,” a collec-tion of stories from former Alabama football players in World War II.
Reed said the main goal of the book was to create a place where all the personal stories of the veterans could be found.
“They have given so much to the country and shared their stories,” he said. “It’s our way of honoring them.”
New book catalogues UA student contribution in World War II
The Career Assistance Transition Program is a
collaboration with the Career Center that allows veterans close to graduation to develop resumes that will highlight their military service.
The Family Assistance Program assists veterans with family needs, such as local
housing and daycare. VMA works closely with local busi-nesses, realtors and com-plex managers to make sure the veterans are included in campus life.
Although the VMA emphasiz-es the academic side of college
life, it also aims to re-establish the sense of community for its veterans. The new office includes a lounge area, complete with two mounted flat-screen TVs and multiple gaming systems.
“We don’t want to just sit around and tell war stories
constantly,” said Shane Thomas, a junior who completed a seven-month tour in Iraq last year. “If someone has something going on in their life that they’re hav-ing problems with and need some more insight, we’re here for them.”
As a part of Veterans Week, VMA will be hosting events throughout the week, ending with the grand opening of the new office located in B.B. Comer Hall on Friday at 2 p.m. For more information about any of these events, visit vets.ua.edu.
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By Lucy CheseldineStaff Columnist
Sitting in the library café was Ray Mundo, a fellow inter-national student from Bavaria, Germany. His large frame tow-ered over my notebook.
“Rowers do more before 8 a.m. than most people do all day,” he told me.
Being part of the Alabama crew, Ray gets up every morn-ing at 4:30 a.m., to be out soak-ing up the morning mist on the Black Warrior River by 5 a.m. This is a physical and men-tal commitment, a little more than what your average sport asks of you. But, Ray tells me, it’s worth the commitment.
If you can imagine, then, being an exchange student with such a commitment to the sport, this semester has felt as much like an intense few months of rowing camp as a college experience. Rowing is more than just a sport, Ray tells me, but a sort of culture. It has allowed him to travel the United States, heading out to regattas and races across the country and to meet like-mind-ed people. This has played a major part in the experience.
Meeting these people has not just benefited Ray as an outsider, but it has benefit-ted the team. From his club in Germany, Ray has had the experience of rowing for the Alabama crew. Rowing for a college team is like being part of a community and has enabled a pooling of skills. The crew has been able to push
each other harder to improve their performance, helped by a member from outside the United States.
Ray explains to me his feel-ing of honor at being picked as the stroke for the crew. This means he literally sets the pace in the water. In exchange for this new skill level he brought to the team, he was proud to wear Alabama’s uni-form and be accepted as part of a team. Such an intense and demanding sport only helps to build closer relation-ships between the teammates, even if this is from across
the continent.Being a part of this team has
eased the difficulties of cultur-al exchange, Ray tells me. The rowing team is always open to new additions. Despite the slight difference in relation-ships between the sexes and the team, which Ray told me were much more formal in American row teams than in Germany; he has fit the mold of the American rower per-fectly and plans on continu-ing relations with the team. He has even invited them to visit him in his hometown of Wuerzburg to train with his
home crew. The exchange works both ways.
So as we finish up, I ask Ray for a word of advice for any-one looking to join the row-ing team. He tells me “real athletes row, others just play games.” He shook my hand and told me, “Row tide.” I had to ask him to repeat it to make sure of what he just said. Witty for a man who wakes up before dawn.
Lucy Cheseldine is an English international student study-ing English literature. Her col-umn runs on Tuesdays.
In Alabama sports, foreign exchange works both ways
SubmittedThe University of Alabama Crew takes to the water in the early morning.
By Henry DownesStaff Columnist
I was born and raised in New England, and you can probably tell.
But despite my admit-ted Yankee tendencies, I have loved my time here in Tuscaloosa. My college experience has confirmed most of the positive things I already thought to be true about the South: the people are indeed more polite, the pace of life seems more relaxed, the weather is nicer, the women are prettier, and the football is better. In these areas, my friends’ experiences at Northern universities just can’t compare.
It’s not all sunshine and magnolias, however. There are still some t h i n g s that hap-pen down here that I just can’t wrap my N o r t h e r n b r a i n around.
For exam-ple, I will likely never understand why some o r g a n i z a -tions on c a m p u s think that true broth-erhood is founded fundamentally on the ability to make fresh-men, who are all too eager to please and fit in, suffer physical and verbal abuse for weeks on end. And, until last month, I couldn’t under-stand why the administra-tion of such a prominent modern university refused to take a stand against these rampant and blatantly obvi-ous hazing violations.
Though the administra-tion did eventually act - after being prodded by this newspaper - you’re kidding yourself if you think abuses of this nature won’t contin-ue in the future – but they will only continue because campus culture allows them to continue.
Worse still, I can’t under-stand why men and women at the University choose to socially segregate them-selves based on skin color.
On a campus where de facto segregation in sorori-ties and fraternities is ratio-nalized by “tradition,” I am often left wondering what “tradition” really means. In the state of Alabama, it certainly means “Bear” Bryant and “Rammer Jammer” and dressing up for Gamedays; but it also means George Wallace and Selma marches and letters from Birmingham jails.
This obsession with “tra-dition” seems to be the final and most stubborn impediment to overcom-ing the South’s reputation for racism and injustice, a legacy that still rings too true today. When it comes to matters of racial equality, the last thing this university and this state need is more of the same “tradition.”
Finally, I can’t understand why voters in this state – who are undoubtedly intelli-gent and hard-working indi-viduals – failed to sufficient-ly educate themselves in preparation for last week’s elections. Because so many
Republicans couldn’t take the time to do a minimal amount of research on state and local races, a certifiable lunatic is now Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
Honestly, if you go into the election booth with the preconceived conviction that you will vote “straight ticket” for either party with-out educating yourself on the issues, you should prob-ably do yourself and your fellow citizens a favor and just stay home.
I don’t believe Roy Moore was elected intentionally, or even that the majority of Alabamians support his rad-ical beliefs; Roy Moore was elected because Alabamians were too apathetic to do their homework and make
an informed decision. That is the great-est tragedy of the Nov. 6 elections: A demagogue is now in power because of i n d i f f e r e n c e and willingi g n o r a n c e . Now t h e whole state – R e p u b l i c a n s a n dD e m o c r a t s , well-informed voters and misinformed voters, blacks and whites –
will suffer equally from this man’s judicial irrationality.
I get it; Southerners consider themselves reb-els. I imagine that is why Alabamians voted to keep outdated and racist lan-guage in the state consti-tution, and I assume that is also why they irrel-evantly decided to nullify Obamacare mandates – fed-eral government be damned.
But while some of our Northern neighbors capital-ized on the elections to make strides toward meaningful social progress, the South remains stagnated decades behind the rest of the coun-try in so many unfortunate ways. Both on and off cam-pus, I find myself continu-ally reminded of our accep-tance of social mediocrity.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Southerners today have two paths before them: On one hand, they can accept modern segregation and continued social back-wardness, label it “tradi-tion,” and comfortably turn away, or they can instead channel that distinctive rebellious streak and fight for the real progress that is so desperately needed in this region.
I acknowledge that I am an outsider here, and my Yankee opinions could very well fall on deaf ears. But, as someone who loves this University and loves the people of this state, I truly hope that’s not the case; I hope things can change. I believe things can change. But change must start with us – the young students, the educated, the privileged.
It is our responsibility – and the stakes are far too high to shy away now. We can do better, Alabama. We must do better.
Henry Downes is a sopho-more majoring in econom-ics. His column runs on Tuesdays.
A Yankee’s point of view: some southern traditions are not worth holding on to
By Mary Sellers ShawStaff Columnist
When I was in elementary school, each year we would put on a Veteran’s Day pro-gram, complete with red, white and blue outfits and patriotic songs we had spent months memorizing. But the purple mountain majesties and twilight’s last gleaming didn’t mean much in second grade.
As each of us get older, we increase our knowledge of our country’s history and, with that, our love for it. We’ve grown up in an important time in American history. Sept. 11 will be marked forever in our memories as well as the wars since then. But we are not the only ones who have had their childhood marked by war. Our parents had Vietnam, grand-parents had World War II,
and great-grandparents had World War I. Each of us has dealt with U.S. conflict over-seas in one way or another.
Last Sunday was Veteran’s Day, a time to celebrate our nation’s history and those who have protected it and its citizens. No matter what your political affiliation is, you should each take some time to think about the great sacrific-es that have been made for our safety. Thousands of soldiers have been wounded or killed over the years to protect us and our right to freedom.
What we forget sometimes, though, is that these soldiers
are right here beside us at the University. They are sit-ting next to us in class, walk-ing across the Quad, one table over in the Ferg. They are normal people who have com-mitted themselves to some extraordinary things.
The men and women who have bravely defended our country are just normal col-lege students, and there are many others here too who are planning to join this service once they graduate. All too often we forget the existence of our veterans on campus. But from the Veterans Affairs Office to Campus Veterans
Association and the ROTC, there are members of our armed forces here, trying to get a college education just like the rest of us.
Take a step back and thank them. Ask to listen to their stories and let them know how proud we are. Let’s show our veterans how much we appre-ciate them and what they do. In a time where many of us are divided on issues, respect for our armed forces should be a unifier. It shouldn’t mat-ter whether or not you’re in favor of war. Supporting those who fight for us surpasses all political boundaries – when it comes to the end of the day, aren’t we all Americans?
Mary Sellers Shaw is a junior majoring in communica-tions and civic engagement. Her column runs biweekly on Tuesdays.
Celebrate current and future veterans on UA’s campus
“On a campus where de facto segregation in sororities and fraternities is rationalized by
“tradition,” I am often left won-dering what “tradition” really
means. In the state of Alabama, it certainly means “Bear” Bryant
and “Rammer Jammer” and dressing up for Gamedays; but it also means George Wallace and Selma marches and letters from
Birmingham jails.
By Cheyenne PaivaStaff Columnist
Forget the man and exam-ine the record – suddenly, President Obama is a left-leaning Republican, relative, of course, to his party’s pan-derers. Now, forget the record, and examine the man, for lo and behold, Mitt Romney is what the extreme right made him to be and no longer the Massachusetts moderate he once proudly was.
Don’t let party names fool you, and don’t let context escape you. After all, the South was solid blue for 80 straight years before becom-ing the red fortress it is today. What changed? The color, the ideology or the scale by which the previous two measure themselves? I believe in the latter, and I point to today as evidence strongly supporting my answer.
America’s two standard-bearers reflect the political scale in which they reside,
a scale heavily tilted by an unwilling Congress that left the people’s president dan-gling in the air. Then-Senator Obama touted a progressive agenda in 2008, the closest American ideals had ever come to matching those of the most peaceful countries on earth, and Obama subsequent-ly won both the popular and electoral vote by the largest margin in 12 years. With both chambers behind his back, the 111th Congress became one of the most productive and pro-gressive in modern history. Equal pay for equal work, stu-dent loan reform, health care reform, an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the war in Iraq and the federal stimulus, among others – all accomplish-ments of this Congress, all actions the current Congress can’t pretend to match, and all steps in the forward direction as defined by the free world.
Two years later, when rag-ing conservatives beat ignited liberals for the House, this
next Congress earned his-tory’s lowest approval rat-ing. As of today, our current Congress is known more for the bills they didn’t pass rather than the few they did. The 2008 election proved a clear majority existed in this country. It was a call for a new future, and the progressive state of politics over the next two years became the new norm, one that sat comfort-ably with the nation consider-ing the still-reeling economy from the previous president’s term. America had adjusted as much as they could given the nation’s predetermined cir-cumstances, but impatience dealt its hand anyway when the House realigned.
The president desired the same progressivism the elec-torate advocated for in the first place, and the Senate helped smooth a path for that natural journey forward. This year, the American people spoke again by excitedly elect-ing unapologetic liberals like
Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin, two of the five women elected to the new Senate in which a historical 20 percent of its politicians are women. It is the immovable House who fails to embrace the change America and the free world have already decided upon.
What we once knew as pro-gressivism has become the new moderate, and what we currently call moderate will become the new conserva-tism. All that awaits is for the modern Republican party to accept this inevitability, and hopefully, Mitt Romney’s loss will overcome that obstacle and push a shift toward yes-terday’s center. Progressive Democrats won’t accomplish anything without progressive Republicans, and the nation won’t move forward without either.
Cheyenne Paiva is a junior majoring in biology. Her column runs biweekly on Mondays.
Democratic wins confi rm inevitable shift toward progressivism
“What we forget sometimes, though, is that these soldiers are right here beside us at the University. They are sitting next to us in class,
walking across the quad, one table over in the Ferg.
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By Adrienne BurchStaff Reporter
Beads of sweat roll down each student’s neck as alarms ring to let them know that their patients— or in this case, high-tech computer-based manne-quins— are unstable and need immediate attention.
Pressure is heavy in the room as professors observe every move from behind a glass wall.
This is a typical day for a University of Alabama upper-division nursing student, one of the most rigorous undergradu-ate programs at the Capstone.
“Nursing is difficult,” said Kelsey Williamson, a senior and forth-semester nursing student. “There are days when I leave the hospital extremely tired from working all day only to come home to study for a test the next day. One has to give it their all knowing one day they
will be able to make a differ-ence in someone’s life.”
The process of getting into the Capstone College of Nursing is difficult in itself. Unlike most other majors at the University, prospective nursing students must go through a
strenuous application process before starting upper-division courses their junior year.
The Capstone College of Nursing takes applications each summer and fall, accept-ing 96 students each term. This summer, 96 out of 199 eligible
applicants were accepted. In the fall, 96 were taken from a group of 188.
Brooke Hail, a junior first-semester nursing student, found out she was accepted to nursing school July 18, just a few weeks prior to the start of class.
“It’s very stressful know-ing from day one that you’re competing against many other outstanding academic students to try to be accepted,” Hail said.
Applicants are judged on their overall GPA as well as their GPA in science courses for their first two years in col-lege. The average overall GPA for nursing students accepted into the program for summer was a 3.9, with a 3.8 average in science courses, and in the fall it was a 3.7 overall, with a 3.5 in science courses.
First-semester nursing stu-dent Danielle Drews said it is easier to get in during the fall
because the GPA averages are typically lower.
Once accepted, nursing stu-dents spend their first semes-ter in the classroom learning the basics of nursing. Second semester, they begin simula-tions and clinicals where they get hands-on nursing practice in a doctor’s office or hospital.
Alice March, an associate professor of nursing, said the curriculum is made to be dif-ficult because when students graduate, they are going to be taking people’s lives into their hands.
“When I look up from the emergency room bed, I want to know that nurse went through a rigorous program,” March said.
Hail said she definitely feels the pressure of being respon-sible for another human being and is aware if she does not know what she is doing, it could result in someone’s death.
“At UA that is somethingthey stress constantly to us - tolearn the information, retainit and comprehend not for youbut for your patients so youcan be the best nurse possible,”Hail said.
Paige Johnson, associateprofessor of nursing, said allthe hard work students put inis worth it when they are ableto graduate and easily find ajob doing what they enjoy.
“Healthcare is one of the bestfields to go into,” Johnson said.“Our graduates will get a job.They may not get to pick andchoose, but they will have ajob.”
Johnson said between 98 to100 percent of Capstone nurs-ing graduates pass the NationalCouncil Licensure Examinationto become a registered nurseupon graduation.
“All of the hard work is worthit in the end,” Drews said, “or atleast it better be.”
High academic standards pay off for UA Nursing students
By Colby LeopardStaff Reporter
The first dedicat-ed Jewish Temple in Tuscaloosa has been slat-ed for destruction by the City Council . The original Temple Emanu-El sus-tained damages to its roof, floor and walls during the April 27, 2011, tornado.
Anna J. Singer, co-pres-ident of Temple Emanu-El, said the synagogue became the first dedicated space for the Jewish com-munity in Tuscaloosa to gather more than 100 years ago.
As the Jewish popula-tion grew in the early 1900s, it became apparent the congregation would have to relocate to accom-modate a larger number of people.
In 1953 the original Temple Emanu-El building was sold by the congrega-tion to PE LaMoreaux and Associates, an environ-mental engineering firm. The building has been used as a conference room and library since then.
“It was our first syna-gogue, so we have an emo-tional attachment to it, but we haven’t owned it since 1953,” Singer said.
At the Oct. 9 City Council meeting, the coun-cil voted to demolish the building, citing it as a pub-lic nuisance. According to Singer, it is the owner’s responsibility to repair the damages to the building, and he should have dealt with the damages right after the storm.
“We hope that the owner, that is to say
PE LaMoreaux and Associates, will do what it should have done 18 months ago and rehab it,” Singer said. “It hasn’t been our responsibility to take care of the building since 1953.”
Since moving out of the building in 1953, the Temple Emanu-El congre-gation has been housed in three different build-ings. In 2007, University of Alabama President Robert Witt invited Temple Emanu-El to cam-pus. The administration built a synagogue and Jewish community cen-ter on the “God Quad” for Temple Emanu-El.
Singer said because the Jewish community hasn’t worshipped in the origi-nal Temple Emanu-El for so long, the congregation
only has a “historical fond-ness” for the building, but that it is no longer the con-gregation’s responsibility.
Emma Fick, a senior majoring in English from Covington, La., teaches Sunday school at Temple Emanu-El. Fick said she and many other members of the Jewish community are unaware of the old temple’s fate.
“I did not know that one of the older Temple Emanu-El buildings was slated for demolition, and upon finding out, I must admit I did not feel much affected,” Fick said. “I feel like the Jewish communi-ty is moving forward—we were so excited to move into our new, perma-nent home near campus, and having the temple and the Bloom Hillel
Student Center next door to one another is ideal. Preserving our heritage is important, but person-ally I don’t think we need the physical building to remain for that preser-vation to occur. We can remember it through stories, photographs, archives.”
Ron Hood, second vice president of Temple Emanu-El, said the con-gregation would save the old building if they could, but don’t have the funding to do so.
“We just don’t have the extra money to [repair the building],” Hood said. “If we had a few million extra dollars to do whatever we needed to, we could afford to spend $60,000 or what-ever to fix the building, but it’s just not practical.”
Tuscaloosa’s 1st Jewish temple set to be demolished
SubmittedMembers of the Jewish community gather outside of Temple Emanu-El.
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By Marcus FlewellenContributing Writer
Wednesday night, a group of University of Alabama stu-dents will be competing in the University’s first Spanish Scrabble Championship.
The Spanish Club, run by faculty advisor Karina Vázquez and two UA graduate students, Jessica Hubickey and Toloo Riazi, will host the competition.
“The Spanish Club is an orga-nization created to promote and enhance the Spanish language and culture among University of Alabama students,” Hubickey said. “We felt that a Spanish Scrabble Night would be a great opportunity to allow students to unite, relax and show off their Spanish vocabulary skills while playing a fun game practic-ing and engaging with the lan-guage.”
All UA students can compete in the championship. Those not majoring in Spanish or with-out any experience with the
language can compete using a bilingual dictionary.
“I’ve done this in the past, and I’ve found that students get very excited while playing Spanish Scrabble,” Vázquez said. “It gives students the chance to play and search for words, have fun and learn something too. And this is the first time, at least as far as I know, that we are going to do this.”
The championship will start at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Spanish House, a Living-Learning Community located
on campus in the Bryce Lawn apartments.
Competitors will form teams of two and play against three other teams on a Scrabble board. Vázquez predicts there will be four or five different Spanish Scrabble boards with four teams playing at each board.
The game is played like regu-lar Scrabble with all of the letter tiles and words in Spanish.
The regular Scrabble rules apply: teams collect points by placing Spanish words on the game board. Each letter has a different point value; the more complex the word, the more points the team earns. Each team will be given a Spanish-English dictionary, which they can use to search for a word that they can make out of the letters they have.
The championship will end when all of the teams have fin-ished their games (when all the boards have run out of letters). Prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third highest-
scoring teams out of the entire competition.
If this semester’s Scrabble Championship is successful, it will become a regular Spanish Club event.
“We usually have different activities at the Spanish Club, from celebrating a particu-lar Hispanic festivity, like Las
Posadas or El Dia de los Muertos, film series, food demonstra-tions,” Vázquez said. “Spanish Scrabble would become another regular event that we would have every semester.”
Vázquez encourages all com-petitors, regardless of their Spanish proficiency, to just relax and have fun.
“When I did it in the past, it was always very successful,” she said. “Very, very success-ful. The students were sur-prised that they remembered and knew more words than they thought they knew. That’s the most interesting thing. We know more than we think we know.”
Spanish Club to host inaugural Scrabble championshipIF YOU GO...
• What: Spanish Scrabble Night
• When: Wednesday at 6:30
• Where: Lobby of the Spanish House
By Sophia Jones
Tuscaloosa will be in for a treat with the new Tropical Smoothie Café coming soon to Midtown Village. Their motto is “Eat Better. Feel Better,” and the café prides itself in provid-ing healthy, fresh food.
Tropical Smoothie Café will be opening next to Kinnucan’s at 1800 McFarland Blvd. East, Suite 306. The restaurant is set to open by the end of November.
Apart from its wide array of smoothies, the new
establishment will offer wraps, sandwiches and salads. Their breakfast menu is served all day and offers a variety of options, ranging from tradi-tional to tropical meals.
Those interested can go to tropicalsmoothie.com, look over the menu, and plug your choice into their Nutritional Calculator to get your order’s calorie count, transfat, satu-rated fat, sodium and vitamin information. The website also lets you order online so your order will be ready to go when
you arrive.From the breakfast menu, I
usually go with the Early Bird Wrap with eggs, chicken, pep-per jack cheese, tomatoes, and chipotle mayonnaise on a toasted flour tortilla. If you’re looking to go for more of a tra-ditional breakfast, the Classic Ciabatta is always toasted to perfection on Ciabatta bread with egg, cheddar cheese, American cheese, and your choice of bacon, ham or sau-sage.
For lunch, the Baja Chicken
sandwich on toasted flat-bread is delicious and defi-nitely worth trying. The wrap includes grilled chicken, low-fat mozzarella, green peppers, red peppers, onions, romaine lettuce and light southwest ranch dressing. The Jamaican Jerk Chicken wrap is also a menu favorite with chicken, southwestern rice, corn, black beans, asparagus, onions and Jamaican Jerk Sauce.
The restaurant also features a wide variety of fresh salads for those looking to stray away
from sandwiches. Tropical Smoothie Café recently kicked off their “Stoked about Spinach” campaign by adding the Loaded Spinach Salad and the Smokin’ Spinach Turkey Wrap to their menu. Both will only be offered for a limited time.
As the name suggests, Tropical Smoothie Café also offers four types of smooth-ies: Lowfat, Supercharged, Supplement and Indulgent. So whether you are looking to indulge or drink light, the café
has the smoothie for you in justabout every flavor you could imagine. The lowfat smooth-ies come in every fruit flavor. From the Indulgent menu, theMocha Madness is perfect for all chocolate and coffee lovers with chocolate, coffee, cappuc-cino and non-fat yogurt.
The Supplement smoothie menu has numerous smooth-ies that would come in handy for the average college stu-dent, including the Energizer, Weight Management, Stress Defense and Multi-Vitamin.
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Tropical Smoothie Café in Midtown Village serves up more than just smoothies
SubmittedStudents of all majors can practice their Spanish skills Wednesday at a Spanish Scrabble competition.
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By Courtney StinsonStaff Reporter
Visitors to Moundville Archaeological Park will be able to see the making of Native American beadwork firsthand this Saturday, Nov. 17 at 10 a.m.
Beadsmith Cat Sloan will demonstrate techniques such as finger weaving, twining and beading. She will also discuss Native American textiles.
Sloan’s demonstration is part of Moundville’s new Saturday in the Park pro-gram, which is designed to educate visitors on the lifestyle of Mississippian
Indians who inhabited Moundville in the past.
So far, Saturday in the Park has included a carving dem-onstration by Daniel Bigay in which he etched tradition-al Native American designs
into different media, such as gourds and shells. Bigay also discussed the making of a flute with river cane and other wooden materials.
In addition to demon-strations, Saturday in the Park features hands-on classes where visitors can make crafts while learning about Native American cul-ture. One upcoming class taught by Moundville edu-cation coordinator Betsy Irwin will allow visitors to make holiday ornaments from unconventional mate-rials. Participants will make a corn shuck angel, a dream catcher and a decorated gourd.
Brianne Billingsley, a junior majoring in anthro-pology with a focus in archaeology, spends much of her class time at Moundville. She said programs like the beadwork demonstration are a great idea for educating the general public about the lives of Native Americans.
“[Beadwork] is a type of art that is not normally studied by other people, so it really gives participants background into the lives of Native Americans,” she said. “[Through these programs], we can get closer to learn-ing how [Native Americans] made things themselves and get a better insight into
who they were and why they made these things.”
Demonstrations like this Saturday’s are free and open to the public. However, hands-on class sizes are lim-ited and cost between $20 and $30 with a discount for muse-um members. Programs usually run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participants can reg-ister for classes by calling (205) 371-8732 or download-ing the registration form on Moundville’s website.
For more informa-tion on Saturday in the Park and other upcom-ing programs, visit m o u n dv i l l e . u a . e d u / p r o -grams.
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By Hannah WidenerContributing Writer
My “kitchenability” skills involve making grilled cheese, baking brownies from the box and, if I do say so myself, making an excellent bowl of cereal.
College life has made me appreciate all the foods I have at home that I don’t have here. As such, I found myself turning to “Kitchenability 101: The College Student’s Guide to Easy, Healthy, and Delicious Food” by Nisa Burns, which is a cookbook meant for stu-dents who live in both dorms and apartments that offers basic recipes and tips for beginning cooks.
Since breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I thought I would start off with a “Creamy, Gooey, Drippy Bagel” (34). All I need-ed was a bagel, cream
cheese, cinnamon and honey, which were all easy enough to find at Publix.
Next came “Avocado Lettuce Wraps” (56). This is where I found myself wandering through the grocery store trying to track these ingredients down. Two avocados, two tomatoes, lime juice, salt and pepper, cilantro and one head of lettuce.
Finally came the main course, “Tropical Pineapple Chicken” (78). This required three chicken breasts, but I substituted for two. I kept looking for a package that only came with one chicken breast — you know, the kind meant for single people who are more often than not making dinner for one — but that pack-age did not exist.
Reaching the check-out line, I cringed as I watched each item go through the scanner. An
action card swipe at the dining hall hurts a lot less than a credit card swipe at the grocery store. My total came to $52.93, a swift blow from reality and the reason why I have a meal plan.
Since we are not allowed to have a toast-er in our dorm room, I had to stick the bagel in the oven on a broiler pan so it could toast. Lacking a timer on our archaic oven, I had to keep checking it every few minutes to make sure it had not caught on fire. After I spread the cream cheese and sprinkled the cinnamon, the bagel didn’t look quite as dainty as the one pictured. Mine was scattered with clumps of cinnamon cemented in place by the honey.
For the lettuce wraps, what the cookbook failed to mention is that it is nearly impossible to get a leaf fully intact after you have peeled it
off the lettuce head - my lettuce “wraps” looked more like lettuce tacos. While they did taste good, most of what I ate ended up in my lap due to my beginner lettuce-wrapping techniques.
When it came to the “Tropical Pineapple Chicken,” the recipe did not specify how long to cook the chicken. It might as well have said, “If it looks good, then I guess you can eat it.” After I cut through the middle and it appeared fine, I served it to my roommate. A few bites of rubbery chicken later, it was safe to say it was actually not cooked all the way through.
Although my room-mate now believes that I tried to poison her and my bank account aches, the endeavor proved worthwhile as I discov-ered something I never knew before.
I should stick to microwave meals only.
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“I go home for such a short time, and I can’t miss class, so I’ll spend my break from Wednesday to Monday,” Anderson said. “Last year, I went from Wednesday to Sunday with two travel days, so I’m really only home for three days, but it’s definitely worth the $500.”
Anderson said with such a short break, it’s hard to realize you’re even on a break at all.
“I think we should have a full week off for Thanksgiving so more people could go home and enjoy spending more time with their families,” Anderson said.
Alex Norton, a junior majoring in elementary education, said she always planned on selling her Iron Bowl ticket because it’s one of the only times she is able to see her family. Norton bought her plane ticket early this year knowing she would be sitting in front of the TV with her dad as the game starts.
“The plane tickets to Fairfax, Va., were around $400 to $500, but the money I’m getting from sell-ing my ticket is paying for a por-tion of that to help my family,” Norton said.
Norton said she takes any chance she gets to go home and see her family.
“ I really can’t complain since I go to school so far away,” Norton said. “I chose to come here, so I’ll take what I can get.”
Sarah Shoemaker, a sopho-more majoring in exercise and sports science, said she will be going home to Long Island, N.Y., until Friday night.
“I will be back for the big game because I am a part of the UA Student Recruitment Team and we host the football recruits on game day,” Shoemaker said.
Shoemaker said if she wasn’t in the organization, she probably would not have come back for the game, at least until her senior year, since the airplane tickets are so expensive during the holi-day season.
“I am not passing up the chance to spend time with my family, even if it means missing one of UA’s big-gest traditions,” Shoemaker said.
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Many students plan to stay home for Iron Bowl
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By Marquavius BurnettSports Editor
Alabama only lost one of its last two games, but head coach Nick Saban has not been pleased with the team’s effort.
“No matter how you cut the mustard, whether we won both of the last two games or lost both of the last two games, I don’t think we’ve executed as well as a football team,” Saban said.
The biggest lack of execu-tion has come from Alabama’s defense. The Tide had the No. 1 ranked defense nation-ally, but was exposed by LSU and Texas A&M. Alabama has allowed 46 points in the last two games after holding oppo-nents to 8.1 points per game through the first eight. The Tide has also allowed 853 yards of total offense and forced zero turnovers.
Offensively, Alabama has committed five turnovers, including quarterback AJ McCarron’s first two inter-ceptions of the season. The offense continued its third quarter struggles. After gain-ing momentum going into halftime, Alabama struggled after the break against the Aggies.
“We just have to continue to improve and push ourselves as a team, especially in the third quarter,” running back Eddie Lacy said. “If we work ourselves harder in practice, we’ll be able to play the way we need to, especially in the third quarter, and I’m pretty sure that this week we’ll put a big emphasis on that.”
Injury updateCornerback John Fulton,
who saw an increased role in the Crimson Tide secondary against the Aggies, is dealing with turf toe and is considered “very questionable.”
“Pretty good one,” Saban said, referring to the injury.
“He actually finished the game with it. It really swelled up quite a bit and all that.”
Saban said Fulton was the only player who was sig-nificantly injured against Texas A&M.
Players of the weekFive Alabama players were
recognized by the coach-ing staff for their outstand-ing performances following Saturday’s game against Texas A&M. Amari Cooper and Eddie Lacy were named players of the week on offense while John Fulton and C.J. Mosley represented the defense. On special teams, Cody Mandell was selected.
Cooper recorded a game-high 136 yards on six catches with one touchdown. Cooper leads the team with 38 recep-tions, 608 yards and six touchdowns. Lacy totaled 127 yards on the day, including 92 on the ground on 16 car-ries. Lacy leads Alabama in rushing through 10 games with 771 yards and also leads the team with nine rushing touchdowns.
Mosley led all players with 14 total tackles, including nine solo stops and a sack. He leads the team with 83 tack-les on the season and is tied for the lead with four sacks. Fulton got the start at corner-back and recorded five tackles (four solo) and a career-high four pass breakups.
On special teams, Mandell averaged 56.5 yards on four punts. He had two kicks of 60 yards and two others of 54 and 52 yards, respectively. Mandell ranks 14th nationally in punt-ing with a season average of 44 yards.
Iron BowlThe SEC announced
Monday that Alabama’s home game against Auburn on Nov. 24 will kick off at 2:30 p.m. CT and will be televised by CBS.
Tide refocusing after struggling in last 2 games
CW| Cora LindholmThe Crimson Tide gets back to work this week after a loss to the Texas A&M Aggies.
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In 1964, the Texas Longhorns, the No. 1 team in the nation and defending AP college football cham-pions, held a sign in their locker room that read, “They say what goes up must come down – but who says when?”
Five weeks later, the Arkansas Razorbacks said when. The 8th-ranked Razorbacks marched into Texas Memorial Stadium and beat the seemingly invincible Longhorns in their house 14-13, proving the mighty Texas team wasn’t quite as
infallible as everyone thought it was.
Starting to sound familiar yet? The same story is being told this year, right now. The Alabama Crimson Tide, so long looked on as one of the most untouchable, unap-proachable and unbeatable teams in college football, the defending BCS champions and consensus No. 1 team in the land, proved itself to be only human in a loss to the Texas A&M Aggies Saturday.
The loss stings for Tide fans, obviously. Of course, everyone knew eventually Alabama would have to lose a game. Everyone just hoped
it wouldn’t be this year, and especially so close to what would have been an unprec-edented string of champi-onships for the Crimson Tide. And, for a team like Alabama, that is certainly saying something.
That knowledge only makes losing that much more unbearable. Some fans will try to take something from it, something to dull that unfa-miliar pain of a loss, but in the end, it doesn’t do much. Moral victories are fine and good, but for Alabama fans, real victories are preferred to moral ones any day.
Even so, this Alabama team
has a lot to play for. This team, although its chances are greatly diminished, still has a slim chance to make the BCS Championship game in Miami. And even if it doesn’t make it, the Tide can win out, earning an 11-win regular season and the SEC Championship – its first since 2009.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban has said as much and is now tasked with making sure his team heads into the remainder of its games with the right attitude.
Western Carolina doesn’t pose much of a threat, but the following week, a game against “those other guys” across the state will have a serious impact not only on this team’s immediate suc-cess, but how this team is looked at in the years to come.
Not only will it determine if Alabama makes the SEC championship in Atlanta, but any loss to Auburn marks a profoundly, fundamentally flawed season for Alabama. And I’m sure that’s nothing any fan wants.
There you have it. Perfect, this team will not be. But, the owner of 11 wins? State champions? SEC champions? All possible. Maybe even national champs, with a little luck. That’s a lot to play for, regardless of which team you are.
However, all that depends on the attitude Alabama takes into the remainder of its games. If it’s caught moping after its loss to the Aggies, this season could take a sour turn. But, if it heads into each of its games with the right mental attitude, as Saban would say, this year could still be remembered as one of the greats.
Loss to Aggies will show Crimson Tide’s true colorsBy Jasmine CannonSports Reporter
The University of Alabama women’s basketball team will have its first road test of the season Tuesday as it heads to Houston, Texas to take on the Houston University Cougars.
The Tide is coming off of an 80-43 season-opening vic-tory against Jacksonville State University at Foster Au d i t o r i u m . Ju n i o r Shafontaye Myers scored a career-high 19 points in the win that saw each of the 15 Alabama players touch the court.
Senior Meghan Perkins had 14 points, five rebounds and four steals, while senior Alicia Mitcham recorded nine rebounds and six points. Now the team is focused on defeating Houston.
“What is important right now is to improve as a team and keep getting better and doing the things we prac-ticed,” head coach Wendell Hudson said. “I think if we continue to do this, we will have the opportunities to win, such as we did tonight. One of the things that we need to do is play at a differ-ent level, defensively.”
This will be the first game between Alabama and Houston since 2004. Houston leads the series 3-1, but it is also coming off of a 3-26 record from last season and welcoming seven new play-ers to its roster.
“We mostly focus on us and how we’re going to improve as a basketball team,” Perkins said. “We really don’t focus on the
other team; we focus on us and what we need to do to become the basketball team that we want to be.”
Houston opened up the season with a 72-66 loss to Mississippi State in Starkville. Senior guard Porsche Landry led Houston scorers with 16 points. Landry also had three rebounds and four assists.
Junior forward Marissa Ashton had 12 points and six rebounds, while fresh-man guard Jessieka Palmer chipped in 10 points.
Alabama will have to be strong on the boards and play tough defense against Houston. The Cougars shot well from the floor against Mississippi State, but the Bulldogs dominated them on the glass.
Perkins said the team has to be consistent on both sides of the court in order to come away with a victory in Houston.
“There is always room for improvement on the offen-sive end and the defensive end,” she said. “We just have to work on staying aggres-sive, and once we have our opponent down we have to keep our intensity level up.”
The team must now focus on its intensity heading into a challenging matchup.
“I think the biggest improvement that this team has got to make is we’ve got to understand that we’ve got to have the same intensity the entire game,” Hudson said.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m., and the games will be broadcast on The Crimson Tide Sports Network.
Tide faces Houston for 1st time since 2004
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