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Vol. 114, Issue 87
Serving the University of Alabama since 1894
Let the SGA Professor shows dedication
games begin
Penick wins national
teaching award
BY LIZ LANE
Contributing Writer
SGA Elections Board
announces candidates
BY DAVE FOLK
Staff Writer
It’s that time of year
again, when the temperatures begin to rise and the
sidewalks begin to fill with
campaign slogans for the
upcoming SGA elections.
The SGA Elections Board
has announced the 11 candidates for SGA Executive
Council and the 51 candidates for SGA Senate.
The School of Law and
the School of Social Work
do not have any candidates
running for Senate spots.
Emily Crawford, SGA press
secretary, said if no one
runs the spots will remain
open until Homecoming,
when someone can run for
election to fill the vacancies.
Running for SGA president are current SGA Vice
President for Student
Affairs, Cason Kirby, and UA
table tennis club President
Stephen Saucier.
Kirby, a junior majoring in political science and
public relations, said his
experience with the SGA
would help him accomplish much as president.
“It’s something I have
been giving a lot of thought
to and I just felt that I have
the experience it takes to
do the job well,” he said.
“[The] SGA is something
I’ve been involved with
since freshman year and I
think the experience I’ve
gained has prepared me
well to be SGA president.”
Saucier, a junior majoring in management information systems, said his
leadership skills will help
him obtain the position.
“I have good problemsolving skills, especially in
dealing with inefficiency.
As a president I think it
would be a perfect spot for
me to do almost a consulting to fix the problems
that we do have,” he said.
“Also, I’ve been the table
tennis club president for
two years now and in that
role I do all sorts of different leadership things, such
as fundraising, recruiting
and management. It’s not
an adequate symbol of my
skills but it has been a good
manifestation.”
Current SGA President
R.B. Walker said he feels
students should examine
the race before making a
decision.
“I encourage students to
look at all the candidates
See SGA, Page 2
CW/ Andrea Mabry
Amanda Penick, a professor of music, has been named the Music Teachers National Association Teacher of
the Year for 2008. Penick has been teaching at the University for 54 years.
they leave because you feel
like you have helped and
nourished them,” Penick
said.
Charles Snead, director
of the University’s School of
Music, said in a letter that no
one could be more deserving than Penick for the award
BY CHRISTI COWAN
■ Cason
Kirby, junior, political science and public
relations
Contributing Writer
Some students come to
college with a plan to have
fun, make new friends and
take some interesting classes.
Some come with an idea of a
potential major or minor, but
it takes some students longer
to make that decision than
others.
The “Finding a Major and
Minor that Fits” workshop
will be held Tuesday from 4
p.m. to 5 p.m. in 205 Amelia
Gayle Gorgas Library. It will
be focused towards students who are still exploring
their options for majors and
minors. The workshop will
■ Current
SGA vice president for Student Affairs
■ Stephen
Saucier, junior,
management information
sciences
table tennis club
president
based on all the accepted
criteria.
“Professor Penick is in her
54th year of dedication to the
University of Alabama having established an unparallel
record of teaching and scholarly achievement,” Snead
said.
When Penick received the
letter, she said she responded differently than she
usually does to excitement.
“When I first received the
letter in the middle of the
year for teacher of the year, I
See PROFESSOR, Page 2
Workshop helps select majors
A&S advisers assist
students with choices
SGA Presidential Candidates
■ Current
Holding the longest tenure
position for higher learning
in the state, Amanda Penick
has been part of the music
department for 54 years.
Due to her dedication to
teaching throughout her lifetime, Penick was nominated by many of her students
and colleagues for the title
of Music Teachers National
Association Teacher of the
Year.
Earning the nickname the
“Grand Dame” of piano, a
concert to honor Penick will
also be held March 2 at 2 p.m.,
where many of her previous
students will perform.
“I started as a child,” said
Penick. “I began taking lessons at a music office in
Doster [Hall]. Then the music
program moved to Manley
music and speech building. I
have seen the growth of the
University’s music department.”
While Penick has accomplished many things, she said
her greatest accomplishments
and inspirations have come
from her student’s success.
“I feel blessed to be a part
of someone’s progress when
If you go
What: “Finding a Major and Minor that Fits”
When: Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: 205 Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library
Cost: Free
cover topics including advising, changing divisions, the
declaration process, resources and career information.
Several academic advisers
from within the College of
Arts and Sciences will be
available to interact with students at the workshop.
Students who have not yet
chosen a major are automatically placed into the College
of Arts and Sciences. Wendy
McMillian, an academic
adviser for the college, said
she coordinated this workshop with the help of her fellow advisers.
“This workshop is an
opportunity to work with students outside the office and
give them information about
the different resources available in helping them decide
on a major that works best
for them and one that they
will be able to do well in and
be happy with,” she said.
McMillian
said
students should come to the
workshop with their interests
in mind.
“They don’t necessarily
have to know what they might
want to major or minor in but
they should come knowing
what they enjoy and are good
at, maybe an idea of what
their goals are,” she said.
She said it is recommended that students bring their
UA undergraduate catalogs
so they can look at requirements for different areas of
study.
Students are required to
declare a major by the beginning of their junior year.
McMillian said if students
were to wait any longer than
that, they might run into
problems including finishing
college in a timely manner,
See WORKSHOP, Page 3
Hunger and Homelessness Week raises awareness
Students to donate time
to local charities, spend
night on the Quad
BY DAVE FOLK
Staff Writer
Students walking across
the Quad after a late night
of studying at one of the
libraries may see 50 to 100
students sleeping under the
stars Wednesday evening.
Are they casualties of
overcrowded
residence
halls? No, these students
will be participating in the
Today
50º/30º
Grate American Sleep Out,
one of many events going
on during the Hunger and
Homelessness Week.
Hunger
and
Homelessness Week is
being put on by the UA
Community Service Center
to help raise awareness
about poverty and related
issues that affect millions
around the nation.
Regina Pena, the event
coordinator, said she also
wants students to not only
learn about homelessness,
but also go out and help
solve the problem.
“I
think
it’s
just
Partly cloudy.
Tuesday
58º/35º
Wednesday
66º/46º
Clear.
Partly cloudy.
volunteering time. A lot of
the agencies we go through
do a lot for the community
as far as they get a lot of
donations from the people
all throughout Tuscaloosa,”
she said. “I sat down with
the West Alabama Food
Bank and they have tons
and tons of food but it’s
hard for them to get it out
there to all the families. It’s
not really anything as far
as buying stuff and donating it. For students it’s just
donating time and caring
about others.”
She said students will
have the opportunity to
get involved multiple times
during the week. There will
be blood drives today and
Tuesday at Amelia Gayle
Gorgas Library sponsored
by the American Red Cross,
and every day this week at
the Salvation Army.
“One of my goals is to
have people participate
and be aware of the poverty
issues in Alabama,” Pena
said. “We’ll have a lot more
volunteering opportunities
this year. We’re volunteering with Meals-on-Wheels,
the Salvation Army, the Red
Hunger and Homelessness Week
The Grate American Sleep Out will be held
Wednesday, with a speaker from the Old Firehouse Shelter in Birmingham and a screening
of the documentary film “Invisible Children.”
■
On Thursday, participants may attend a “Hunger Banquet” at the Ferguson Ballroom.
■
Hunger and Homelessness Week is sponsored
by the UA Community Service Center, located in
231 Ferguson Center.
■
See HUNGER, Page 6
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Career Center to hold mock interview day
The University’s Career Center will host a mock interview
day Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 330 Ferguson Center.
Anyone interested in participating should apply online
through his or her CrimsonCareers account. For questions
regarding Mock Interview Day or the sign-up process, contact Brenda Porter at [email protected] or 348-8224.
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is Wednesday at noon.
“Last Lecture” accepting nominations
The Manderson Graduate School is accepting nominations for the second annual Last Lecture. The Last Lecture,
to be held May 1, will feature a UA faculty member nominated and selected by students to answer one question in
the form of a highly engaging lecture: “If this were your last
time to address a group of students, what would you say to
them?”
Nomination forms will be accepted until Feb. 29.
Nominations can be submitted electronically at graduate.
ua.edu/events/lastlecture.html. The winner will receive a
cash award from the graduate school and have the opportunity to present their lecture. For more information contact Natalie Adams, assistant dean of the graduate school,
at [email protected].
ASADS to hold 33rd annual convention
The Alabama School of Alcohol and other Drug Studies will
hold its 33rd annual convention at the Bryant Conference
Center. Events will begin March 10 and end March 14. For
a list of classes and registration/vendor information visit
www.alabamaschool.org, or contact Kathy Seifried at kathy.
[email protected].
UA to host annual real estate conference
The College of Continuing Studies and The Alabama
Association of Realtors are presenting the 53rd Annual Real
Estate Salesmanship and Education Conference Wednesday
to Friday on campus. The Real Estate Salesmanship and
Education Conference is dedicated to providing a higher
level of service throughout the real estate industry. Ed
Hatch will deliver the keynote address on Thursday.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I encourage students to look at all the candidates when they arise but to take comfort in
knowing that R.B. will be behind this desk until
April 1.”
— SGA President R.B. Walker, on the upcoming SGA elections.
See “Let the SGA games begin,”
Page 1.
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Snickers brings the buzz
Promotion brought
AntiGravity to Coleman
BY STEVEN NALLEY
Contributing Writer
Caffeine is everywhere.
In 2006, caffeinated drink
sales increased more than
55 percent, according to
Beverage Digest. And consumers can chew caffeinated gum, don caffeinated lip
balm, wash with caffeinated
soap and now eat caffeinated
Snickers.
Through March 2008,
select stores will sell Snickers
Charged, a variation on the
candy bar infused with caffeine, taurine and B-vitamins.
Mars Snackfood spokesman Ryan Bowling said
Snickers Charged, the first
caffeinated candy bar from
the brand, was designed both
to satisfy hunger and to provide an energy boost.
“Whereas an energy drink
is made for just one reason,
Snickers Charged is also fulfilling a snack need,” Bowling
said. “Basically Snickers has
been known as a snack, and
now it has those extra things
for the extra boost.”
Mars conducted a survey of
18- to 24-year-old Americans
and found 64 percent of them
looked for an afternoon energy boost. Snickers Charged’s
advertising campaign refers
to 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. as the
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Hour.”
However, Bowling said
because of the product’s limited release, Mars will not
create Snickers Charged television commercials unless
the candy bar becomes popular enough to become permanent, as dark chocolate
M&M’s did in 2006.
“We’re doing P.R. promotions a little more viral in
nature,” Bowling said.
One such promotion is
the Snickers Charged Arena
Tour, where Snickers Charged
sponsors college basketball
halftime performances by
AntiGravity, a group of acrobatic gymnasts akin to Cirque
du Soleil.
The tour came to Coleman
Coliseum on Jan. 29, and
temporary employees handed out free Snickers Charged
bars after the game.
Rick Burleson, assistant
director of marketing and
promotions for athletics and
men’s basketball, said selling
Snickers Charged at concession stands instead of giving
them out for free would have
been a conflict of interests.
“We discourage folks from
selling them because a different company handles
concessions,” Burleson said.
“Basically it worked out for
everyone to hand them out
when they were leaving.”
David Anthony, a freshman
majoring in political science,
said he neither had tried
nor planned to try Snickers
Charged.
“If I know I’m going to
be up for 30 minutes to an
hour, I’ll just drink a Coke,”
Anthony said. “It’s enough to
get loaded up with sugar, but
you add caffeine and it’s just
even worse.”
Bowling said Snickers
Charged is made with the
SGA
■Vice President for Financial
when they arise but to take
comfort in knowing that R.B.
will be behind this desk until
April 1,” Walker said in an
interview with the CW in
January.
The list of students running for SGA positions is
below:
■Vice President for Student
Allison Pace
Tyler Reed
Cooper Trent
Richard Ashton Vautier
Griffith Sloan Waller
Chambers Waller
■President
Senators running for office
include:
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Cason Kirby
Stephen Saucier
■Vice President for Academic
Affairs
Brandon Clark
Aubrey Coleman
Andrew Karst
■Vice President for External
Affairs
Kendra N. Key
Michael Ryan Dodson
PROFESSOR
Continued from Page 1
said ‘Yippie,’” Penick said.
“I have never in my life used
that expression, ‘yippie,’
before.”
Before she even knew she
had received the award, she
said she made reservations
to attend the MTNA because
she gets inspiration from
hearing the other musicians.
“Lang Lang, a pianist, is
going to be there, and I really wanted to see him play,”
Penick said. “Then I found
out I had won.”
Penick said she was happy
to be chosen for this honor,
not only because she is
representing the School of
Music, but the whole state.
“Many fine people come
from fine music schools all
over the country, and I’m
receiving an award and I’m
from Alabama,” she said.
Starting piano around the
age of nine, Penick graduated with honors from Hollins
College in Roanoke, Va., and
received a master’s of music
degree from the Capstone.
Penick has appeared as a
soloist and chamber musician, a clinician and adjudicator, as well as a teacher for
many students.
And Penick has taught
hundreds of students and
influenced them in many
ways.
In his letter, Snead said
Penick has taught much
more than most teachers.
“The
sheer
number
of students far exceeds
totals matched by typical teachers demonstrating
Affairs
Philip Mahoney
Affairs
Louise Crow
■C&IS Senator
■Executive Vice President
Allen Ross
■Executive Secretary
Blair Darnell
■Arts & Sciences Senator
Paul Benton Atchison
Caitlin Chalk
Corderrol Harris
Abigail Rusenko
Tyler Valeska
■C&BA Senator
Diana Andrews
Samuel Dani Bone
Kristin Boyle
Richmond Collinsworth
Bryan A. Flick
James Cleveland Fowler
Jonathan Hill
Daniel Hinton
Marshall Houston
Amy Moultrie
Edward Patton
William Haig Wright
original recipe and the added,
energy-boosting ingredients.
He also said the bar’s total
of 60 milligrams of caffeine
included the caffeine from
the original recipe’s chocolate.
However, Jim Bailey, a
sophomore majoring in biology, said while he had not
tried the bar himself, he had
heard the difference in taste
was still noticeable.
“Somebody in my chemistry class said it had a really
bad aftertaste,” Bailey said.
Alex Cotter, a freshman
majoring in anthropology,
said there was too much caffeine on the market. He said
he had a bad experience with
caffeinated potato chips.
“They would spice it so
much to hide the caffeine
that you couldn’t even finish
a bag,” Cotter said.
Though he said he thinks
many Americans are addicted to caffeine, Cotter said he
does not drink caffeinated
drinks for the caffeine.
“I don’t really intentionally
go for a caffeine fix,” Cotter
said.
Bailey and Anthony said
they agreed that the caffeine
market was growing excessive. Anthony said he was
concerned about children
who might want to try the
new variety of Snickers.
“The poor parents of
the kids; their children will
be bouncing off the walls,”
Anthony said.
Christopher Brandt
Laura Jones
Molly McAllister
■Engineering Senator
Marcie Atchley
Branson Leswing Bennett
Nabil F. Dawahre
Meredith Gray
Gregory Poole
John Watts
■Graduate School Senator
Rob Dixon
Rebecca Rose Lutonsky
■HES Senator
Thomas McLean Bramlett
Jody Watson
Emily Wilson
Jamie Burke
Matthew Cook
Joseph Fine
Miriam Fry
Michael Frank Gleason
Sarah Beth Henson
Trey Johnson
Madelyn Jones
Matthew M. May
Meg McCrummen
Steven A. Oliver
■Education Senator
Jennie Hackett
Anna Caroline Phillips
Katie Taylor
outstanding careers, but
when one considers the
ongoing and constant success of many of these students, the standard is completely unmatched,” Snead
said.
In fact, Penick said she
has had many students that
have led a successful music
career themselves.
Among her previous students, Drew Mays placed second in the Rocky Mountain
Amateur Piano Competition
in 2006 and took first prize in
the Van Cliburn Foundation’s
Fifth
Inter national
Piano Competition for
outstanding amateurs in
2007. Mays played a concert in the School of Music’s
Celebrity Series in January at
Moody Concert Hall.
Anthony Patton has given
three recitals at Carnegie
Hall, and many of her students also go on to teach
themselves at colleges all
over the country.
Penick has been inducted
into Omicron Delta Kappa
and was the first person
to receive the Alabama
Music Teachers Association
Teacher of the Year award in
1995.
“When one is young, one
plays what they are required
to play. When one is older
and more mature, one plays
what they want to play, and
when one is much older, one
plays what one is able to
play,” Penick said.
People can hear Penick at
a concert on Sunday at the
Moody Recital Hall, where
she will be accompanying
fellow School of Music faculty members Stephen Cary,
tenor, and Jennifer Cowgill,
soprano. The concert is at 2
p.m. and admission is free.
■Law School Senator
(No candidates)
■Nursing Senator
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NEWS ■ Monday, February 18, 2008
Prattville tornado causes major damages
BY KATE BRUMBACK
The Associated Press
PRATTVILLE, Ala. — A tornado struck Prattville on
Sunday
afternoon
and
caused significant damages
to many homes and businesses as store employees
and customers scrambled
into makeshift shelters. Two
people were critically injured
and no deaths were reported,
officials said.
Mayor Jim Byard said
emergency crews went doorto-door in a search for any
storm victims who have been
trapped in the wreckage.
Some 9,000 homes and businesses were without power.
A curfew began as darkness
fell.
Bob
Chamness
of
Prattville, a firefighter at
Maxwell Air Force Base in
Montgomery, helped search
one
neighborhood
for
storm victims and told the
Montgomery Advertiser he
had seen at least 70 homes
moderately or severely damaged.
“Some have nothing much
left but the foundation,” he
told the newspaper.
Prattville Fire Chief Dallis
Johnson said he was not aware
of any tornado-related fatalities. He said two people were
critically injured and both
were taken to a Montgomery
hospital.
“It’s very possible we may
have more injuries,” he said,
saying some people who
were trapped in wreckage
have been rescued.
Shelters opened at churches and school buses shuttled
storm victims out of the
stricken area to the city’s civic
center.
A 35-bed mobile hospital unit was set up outside a
Kmart to treat victims with
minor to moderate injuries
so that area hospitals could
take those with serious injuries, Dr. Steve Allen said.
Toppled utility poles and
storm debris littered the area
about five miles off Interstate
65. Glass and windows were
blown out of a KFC restaurant.
“You see it on TV. You can’t
imagine how it feels until it
happens to you,” said KFC
employee Rodrick Alexander.
He said there were a few
employees and customers
inside the KFC when the
tornado hit. He said they
took shelter in the rear of
AP
Bystanders gather outside of a strip mall following a severe storm in Prattville, Ala. on Sunday. Prattville
Mayor Jim Byard says a tornado has destroyed many homes and may have trapped victims in the wreckage.
IN brief
from staff reports ...
Law student removed
from class
A first-year law student
was removed from a class
on Thursday after causing a
WORKSHOP
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pre-requisite issues and
financial issues.
While not all major courses
of study require a student to
take a minor, most minors
require between 18 and 22
credit hours. McMillian said
students should refer to their
undergraduate catalog or
check with their adviser to
determine whether or not a
minor is necessary.
Some students cannot find
a major they like and therefore decide to create a new
one. New College offers students the chance to explore
other options and see what
is right for them to get a
degree.
“New College is a terrific
program opportunity available for students but it may
not be the best avenue for
everyone,” McMillian said.
“If a student thinks they
may be interested in New
College, they should set up
an appointment to speak
with one of the New College
advisors in Carmichael Hall
to see if that is the way to go
for them.”
McMillian said students
should think about their
strengths, interests, goals
and future plans in order to
choose a major and minor.
She also suggested students
use University resources like
the Career Center and their
academic advisers in order
to help them make the right
decision.
Collin Price, a freshman
majoring in mechanical engineering, said he does not plan
on attending the workshop
but thinks it’s a good idea.
“It can help students make
a more accurate decision
disturbance, according to
an e-mail that Ken Randall,
dean of the UA law school,
sent to students.
UA spokeswoman Cathy
Andreen said UAPD was
called after the student
made comments in class
that were not appropriate
or related to the course.
She said the student also
required medical attention.
No students were in
danger, Andreen said.
Randall said in the e-mail
that officials took precautionary steps after consulting with campus experts to
make sure that the school
remains secure.
Federal privacy law prevented officials from releasing some details about the
incident, but Randall said
in the e-mail that officials
have assisted the student.
about their major,” Price
said.
Karly Alexander, a sophomore majoring in communicative disorders, expressed
similar feelings about the
workshop. She said she is
absolutely certain she will
keep the same major throughout her college career, but said
the workshop could help students who need some direction in choosing a major.
“I think that the workshop
will be beneficial to undecided students because there
will be people there who
want to help guide the students in the right direction,”
she said.
In addition to Tuesday’s
workshop, the session will
be held again on Thursday,
April 3, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
in 205 Amelia Gayle Gorgas
Library.
the building.
David Shoupe, 18, assistant manager at Palm Beach
Tan, said he and a co-worker barely got into a laundry
room when the roof on the
business collapsed and winds
toss shopping carts into the
air.
“Soon as we turned the corner, the roof collapsed everywhere except the laundry
room,” Shoupe said, standing
beside his white Lexus, with a
front windshield cracked by
storm debris and the other
windows shattered.
At a nearby Food World,
employees and customers
sheltered in coolers at the
rear of the building that also
was damaged.
Jimmy Nguyen works at
Perfect Nail, next to Food
World. He said two customers were in the shop and
everyone crowded into the
bathroom.
“It was really scary and the
customers were really crying,” he said.
The shop’s windows were
blown out.
Severe
thunderstorms
packing tornadoes and brief
downpours swept the state,
damaging homes and businesses in other counties.
The National Weather
Service warned of tornado
threats and 70 mph winds in
areas including near Selma,
Andalusia, rural Coosa
County as the storm system
moved into Georgia.
Two homes were destroyed
in Dallas County.
In Escambia County, near
the Florida border, two houses were destroyed and trees
snapped in half by a possible
tornado in the rural Dixie
community, the NWS reported. No injuries were immediately reported.
In Covington County,
Assistant
Emergency
Management Agency director
Jeremie Shaffer in Andalusia
said the storm damaged some
structures on the west side of
the county and downed some
Randall also was in his
office for three hours Friday
to answer any questions
that students had about the
trees on U.S. 29. She said no
injuries were reported.
A tornado watch was in
effect until 8 p.m. for southeastern Alabama, but the
storm stretched from Mobile
to Huntsville.
AP
A bystander runs past the rubble of a destroyed strip mall while looking for injured people following a storm in Prattville, Ala. on Sunday.
incident, according to the
e-mail.
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[email protected]
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Our View
NIU too
familiar
On Thursday, a man named Steven Kazmierczak
took four guns, stormed his way into a lecture hall
on the campus of Northern Illinois University and,
without discernable cause, started shooting. Just
a few minutes later, the butcher’s bill was ghastly: five murdered, 16 wounded and Kazmierczak
dead by his own hand. This comes after a shooting
at Louisiana Technical College last week that left
two victims and a shooter dead.
The NIU event was remarkably similar to the
April 16, 2007, shooting at Virginia Polytechnic
Instuite, an episode of unspeakable horrors that
left 32 dead. Both Kazmierczak and the Tech
shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, had a history of mental
illness. Both fit the “quiet loner” stereotype. They
even got their ammunition from the same Web
site.
The tragedy at NIU will give the nation cause to
revisit two diametrically opposite proposals that
were offered in the wake of the Va. Tech shooting:
arming more people on campus and restricting
the sale of handguns. Arming more people would
do no good, but making it harder for mentally ill
people to obtain firearms would be a step in the
right direction.
Two bills before the Alabama Senate Education
Committee would arm more people on college
campuses. Sponsored by Sen. Hank Erwin, RMontevallo, one bill would prohibit colleges from
barring professors who wished to carry firearms.
Erwin’s second bill would arm students who had
the prerequisite permits, participated in a university-approved gun course and were enrolled in an
ROTC program.
Erwin’s heart is in the right place — all of us
want to make our state’s campuses safer. But his
bill is misguided. Every gun placed in a classroom
automatically becomes a safety hazard. Instead
of bringing his weapons to campus, the deranged
shooter could simply take them from his classmates. Alternatively, someone set on bringing
death to the classroom could go through the
proper channels to become privileged to bring his
weapon and then abuse that privilege. Erwin’s bills
have a certain simplistic charm, but it is not advisable, and it could lead to further tragedy.
A second course of action would be to limit the
sale of handguns. Much like Erwin’s measures, this
is overly simplistic. Most gun owners are law-abiding citizens who abhor the senseless tragedies perpetrated by Kazmierczak and Cho, and there’s no
need to punish those following the law. A sensible
reform would be mandating extra precautions
on the federal and state level to make sure someone with a history of mental illness cannot easily
purchase a handgun. Those stricken with mental
illness should have their gun rights curtailed until
they can be made well again.
Whether it is reforms in gun laws or changes
in safety protocols, something needs to be done
to make our universities safer. Virginia Tech and
NIU are now forever linked in catastrophe. We
don’t need more universities on a list that’s already
tragically long.
Our View is the consensus of the CW editorial board.
NIU deals with tragedy
UWIRE editorial
On Thursday afternoon,
Northern Illinois University
was attacked by a gunman
who selfishly killed himself
after reaping the kind of
terror we could only have
hoped we would never
know.
But now we do know that
terror, and the pain and
questions wrought from it
are as perplexing as trying to figure out how or
why someone could ever
do such a thing in the first
place. The range of emotions the NIU community
will experience and will
continue to cycle through
is difficult to control, but
a few come to mind before
anything else. Anger, pain,
fear, frustration and disbelief were all in abundance
among the NIU family on
Thursday as news of the
tragedy spread. As the
police took control of the
situation, students, faculty members, parents and
spouses were left to begin
the overwhelming process
of coping with this attack
on our community, on our
family.
It isn’t fair that someone should die for going to
class, and that makes it all
the more difficult to understand and deal with. It isn’t
fair that loved ones and
friends are forced to deal
with the reality that the
lives of those close to them
have been taken away long
before their time. And it
isn’t fair that no one had or
took advantage of a chance
to stop this from happening in the first place.
NIU will never be the
same, but we will never forget those family members
we must now live without.
They will live on forever in
our memories and in our
hearts.
Northern Star,
Northern Illinois University
Editorial Board
Clinton camp is desperate
In case you haven’t noticed,
things aren’t going well for
the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. She hasn’t
won since SupercalifragilisticexpialiTuesday, when she
didn’t even take the majority of states that were up for
grabs. She has shuffled her
top campaign staff, and even
lost her once-overwhelming lead in convention delegates.
For the campaign, the
choice was clear. When the
going gets tough, the tough
get desperate.
During a Saturday conference call, senior Clinton
campaign adviser Harold
Ickes pushed for delegates
from Michigan and Florida to
be seated at the Democratic
Convention. That’s a fine
position for him to take —
Clinton did win both states.
But as it stands, the two states
will have no say at the national convention because they
violated party rules when
they bumped up their primaries. The problem with his
position, however, shows its
head in the fact that Ickes, as
a member of the Democratic
National Committee, voted
to oust the same delegates
he’s trying to get reinstated.
“With respect to the stripping, I voted as a member
of the Democratic National
Committee. Those were our
rules, and I felt I had an obligation to enforce them,” Ickes
said.
From
the High
Georgia
Pines
Will Nevin
[email protected]
Apparently, the health
and authority of the party
is nothing when compared
to the needs of the Clinton
campaign. The two offending states were well aware of
the rules when they chose
to disregard them. Stripping
their delegates isn’t the fairest
solution, but it’s the only way
to insure the national party
maintains some measure
of control over the process.
Ickes knows that, and he’d
still say that if Clinton wasn’t
signing his checks.
Base hypocrisy is nothing new in politics (It’s been
around at least as long as the
“compassionate conservative” brand was invented), but
it’s certainly surprising from
the woman who was once the
presumptive nominee of the
Democratic Party. If Clinton
wasn’t in such a pinch for
convention delegates, she
would let the issue slide,
but the campaign has done
the math. They need every
delegate they can snatch.
When they’re not begging
to have the rules changed in
the middle of the game, the
Clinton people are busy begging for superdelegate votes.
Of course, as Wolf Blitzer
has told us thousand times,
superdelegates are members
of the party elite not bound
by any election or caucus
when choosing a candidate
to support. Clinton’s best
chance to win the nomination — outside of a nasty
fight in Denver — will be to
win the far and away majority
of these super voters.
Her campaign is already
spinning a superdelegatedelivered victory. Ickes said in
the same conference call they
should be called “automatic
delegates” — as if changing what they’re called will
imbue them with some sort
of legitimacy. They should
probably give their advocacy some thought, because if
Clinton steals a victory based
on the will of the party’s elite,
Democrats could be faced
with a perfect storm for election disaster.
Obama supporters could
stay home in the fall, or they
might switch over to the much
more likable John McCain (I’m
hoping no one has registered
imademocratbuthillaryhasstolenmycountrysfuturesoimvotingformccain.com).
Obama supporters also tend
to be younger, a group the
Democrats should cultivate
for elections down the road.
Turn them off now with the
win-or-else brand of Clinton
politics, and they might not
come back. In the early years
of the Bush administration,
the Democrats faced the
idea of becoming a permanent minority, and they were
saved by a presidency that
imploded faster than a Death
Star built on the cheap. They
shouldn’t willingly hop back
into the abyss.
Outside of changing the
rules and making others
work for her in Machiavellian
power plays, Clinton is
placing her electoral hopes
in the trio of big states yet
to vote: Texas, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. She’s got leads
in all three, but she’s pinning
her hopes on them like some
other New York politician did
with a primary in Florida.
And we all saw how well that
worked for him.
These are dark times for the
Clinton campaign. She faces
decisions and contests in the
coming weeks that could win
her the party’s nomination,
earn her an honorable defeat
or destroy the party for a generation.
Whatever happens, you
can be sure Clinton will take
care to look out for what’s
most important to her.
Herself.
Will Nevin is opinions editor of The Crimson White. His
column runs on Mondays.
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Entertainment industry versus you
BY KYLE HARMAN
Hardly a month goes by
that we don’t see another
news story of the Recording
Industry
Association of
America and its lawsuits.
While these legal actions seem
to create discussion about
illegal downloading and
copyright violations, they
rarely seem to create any
discussion about whether
the copyright law we have in
the first place actually makes
any sense. This discussion is
worth having, and there are a
few things worth remembering when we have it.
Firstly, copyright law
exists to reward the creator
of the work. It does not
exist to reward the distributor — its management or
the shareholders. Capitalism
rewards those people all
on its own, assuming they
are efficient and successful
enough to earn it. Therefore,
the entertainment industry
exists at our bequest to support artists. Are they successful?
The second
thing to
remember is that because
copyright
law
grants
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Jessie Patterson Managing Editor
Will Nevin Opinions Editor
Matt Ferguson Chief Copy Editor
the
creator
monopoly
control over the work, our
entertainment industry is not
capitalistic. This monopoly
power was intended to give
the creator the ability to sell
their product as they wish, but
in modern times the license
is quickly transferred to business. In the music industry,
for example, the label ends
up with monopoly control
over the distribution of the
recorded work. If you’d like
to buy the most recent Garth
Brooks album, there is only
one company you can get it
from, and they set the price.
This is good for them.
The effects of this monopoly control can be seen
throughout our culture. The
music industry has nothing
to gain from a population of
buyers with diverse interests,
and everything to gain from
an unhealthy obsession with
a small number of celebrity
icons. Thus we end up with
pay-for-play scandals and
huge libraries of artists that
never see any promotion at all.
There’s a great irony in this:
much of the American “pop
culture” the world despises has nothing to do with
capitalism and everything to
do with government-sanctioned monopoly.
The last thing to remember is that it hasn’t always
been this way. Our founding fathers did not write
the laws we have now, nor
is there any reason to think
they would approve. Early in
our country’s history copyright law only granted a 14year license, renewable once
if the artist was alive. After
meddling throughout the
20th century, we’re now saddled with media copyrighted
for the life of the author plus
70 years. Why are we granting
a corporation total control
over art that their employees
had nothing to do with creating? Why, 50 years from now,
will we pay a premium for art
to people who weren’t alive
when it was created?
We can get an idea of how
much waste is involved comparing the cost we pay with
the pay the artist gets. For
instance, 15 cents of each
dollar spent on iTunes — at
most — goes to the artist. If
the music is electronica and
required no outside recording, that means 85 percent
of the money is going to pay
for distribution and billing,
both of which are cheap;
distribution borders on free.
People think the government
is inefficient, but it is a marvel of austerity compared
with the extravagant waste
of the entertainment industry.
Luckily, just as corporations have created the law we
have now, we have the power
to change it. With this comes
both freedom and responsibility. We are responsible
for following the law as it
exists. Downloading illegally
fails to reward the artist completely and solves nothing.
However, if we decide that
the situation we have now
is unacceptable then we have
the freedom to change it.
There are lots of alternatives
available, and at the very
least we could undo the
damage caused in the late
20th century. If granting creators more reward for their
work and creating a more
vibrant and diverse entertainment culture comes
at the price of crushing a
few bloated monopolistic
bureaucracies, so be it.
Kyle Harman is a graduate
student in physics.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
IN brief
from staff reports ...
OCF Bama to host
lecture Tuesday
The Orthodox Christian
Fellowship at the University
will be hosting a lecture by Fr.
John Henderson, of St. Peter
Orthodox Church, Madison,
Miss., on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The topic will be “Sacred
Imagery: The Indispensable
Aid for Christian Worship
and Spirituality.”
The event will take place
at the Ferguson Center
Theater. It is free and open
to the public.
CSC holds design
contest for stole
The Community Service
Center is holding a design
competition for a community service graduation stole.
The winning design which
best represents outstanding
student volunteers will be
made into graduation stoles
to be worn by students who
have completed a minimum
of 200 hours of community
service. The winner of the
competition will receive an
iPod nano. Designs should
be sent by e-mail to [email protected] by Feb. 22.
Student preserves historic buildings
Student gets professor to
change class format to
get others involved
BY MARY CYPRESS HOWELL
Contributing Writer
“Going green” is one of the
newest trendy terms related to
protecting the environment.
Recycling, saving and conservation are some of the most
recognizable means of the
movement.
One UA student would like
to see the preservation of historic buildings added to the
list.
Ian Crawford, a sophomore
majoring in interior design,
said he plans to use the green
movement to preserve old
homes and buildings.
“Reusing a building is one
of the biggest green ideas,”
he said. “Reusing existing
hardwood floors are more
eco-friendly than getting new
ones.”
Saving the environment is
not what interests Crawford
the most, however. It is the
actual preservation process. He said he is currently
involved with opportunities that will prepare him for
a career in preservation and
interior design, with a green
twist.
Crawford, the first student
to work for the Tuscaloosa
County Preservation Society,
is a docent at the BattleFriedman House, an antebellum home in Tuscaloosa, and
the Old Tavern, a building
from the era when Tuscaloosa
was the state capital. A docent
is a person who, along with
other duties, gives guided
tours through sites such as
museums or art galleries.
Melanie Hoggle, another
docent of the house, said
Crawford’s age is a benefit.
“A
younger
person
brings new life to the
[Battle-Friedman House],”
Hoggle said.
His interest in historic
buildings began long before
he came to Tuscaloosa. As a
child, Crawford would go visit
his family’s home, an antebellum parsonage in Georgia,
and at a young age, he began
to appreciate older structures.
Lunafest to be held
March 13
Lunafest, a national film
festival featuring films by,
for and about women, is
coming to Tuscaloosa on
March 13. The event will be
held at the Bama Theatre.
A silent auction and reception catered by The Globe
Restaurant will begin at 6
p.m. and the films will begin
screening at 7 p.m. Proceeds
will benefit the breast cancer fund and the Women’s
Resource Center.
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Tuscaloosa. This is the main living room inside the house.
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“Once I started to research
antiques and old homes,” he
said, “I saw the great richness
in them, and it is better to use
them and appreciate what we
have.”
Growing up in Auburn,
Crawford said he saw Victorian
houses and other old buildings being destroyed to build
student condominiums. He
said it is now a town with no
history left.
“[Auburn] isn’t the town I
grew up in,” he said. “It sold its
soul.”
When Crawford came to
Tuscaloosa for college, he said
he found a wealth of history and began taking tours of
the different historical places
around the city.
As he toured the BattleFriedman House one day,
Susan Haynes, the executive
director of the Tuscaloosa
County Preservation Society,
offered him a job since he
spent so much time there.
Crawford said he is paid to
work as a docent at the BattleFriedman House, but he also
volunteers his time at the Old
Tavern, is a museum of old
Tuscaloosa. The Old Tavern,
which was moved to its current position in Capital Park in
1965, is a place Crawford said
he wants to show to people.
“They worked so hard saving it,” he said. “There’s no reason it should be closed now.”
He opens the Old Tavern
every Friday for visitors, and
he said there are days when no
one comes in, but that gives
him time to dig further into
the history of the place. He
said he reads about the people
who owned it and lived there.
When he reads about the families, Crawford said, he doesn’t
feel alone.
“Even though it’s empty of
people, it is full of history,”
Crawford said.
That history needs to be
shared, he said, which is why
he considers opening the Old
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4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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Ian Crawford, a sophmore majoring in interior design, stands in the
main living room of the The Battle-Friedman House.
Tavern his biggest contribution to the preservation society.
This is not the only contribution he has made, though,
Hoggle said.
“[Crawford] is very helpful
in a lot of ways,” she said. “He
brings young, new ideas.”
He said he helped discover
an underground room in the
greenhouse at the BattleFriedman House, and he has
also helped plan new ideas
for Heritage Week, a long
weekend in May dedicated
to showcasing the history of
Tuscaloosa.
“Every now and then, it
takes someone completely
new to the whole system to
start asking those questions
that will get the organization
to look into its own history,”
he said.
Crawford said while he is
trying to bring his new ideas
to the preservation society, he
is also trying to convince other
young people to do the same.
Crawford has recruited 15
of his friends to join the preservation society as student
members, and he hopes to
recruit many more. He said
he hopes to have a table at Get
On Board Day next semester for other students to hear
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Kosovo makes declaration of independence
BY WILLIAM J. KOLE
AND
red Albanian banner imprinted with a black, double-headed eagle.
Many dressed in traditional
costumes and played trumpets and drums, and an ethnic
Albanian couple named their
newborn daughter Pavarsie
— Albanian for “independence.”
“This is the happiest day in
my life,” said Mehdi Shehu,
68. “Now we’re free and we
can celebrate without fear.”
By contrast, police in the
Serbian capital Belgrade fired
tear gas and rubber bullets
in skirmishes with protesters
who opposed the declaration.
Groups of masked thugs ran
through downtown Belgrade
smashing windows and ransacking tobacco stands. At
least 30 people were injured,
about half of them police officers, hospital officials said.
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the U.S. Embassy
in Belgrade. Others broke
windows at McDonald’s restaurants and at the embassy
of Slovenia — which holds
the European Union’s rotating presidency. Later in the
evening, police kept a group
of protesters from approaching the Albanian embassy.
Kosovo had formally
remained a part of Serbia even
though it has been administered by the U.N. and NATO
since 1999, when NATO airstrikes ended former Yugoslav
leader Slobodan Milosevic’s
crackdown on ethnic Albanian
separatists.
Ninety percent of Kosovo’s
2 million people are ethnic
Albanian — most of them
secular Muslims — and they
see no reason to stay joined to
the rest of Christian Orthodox
Serbia.
The European Union and
NATO, mindful of the Balkans’
turbulent past, appealed for
restraint and warned that
the international community
would not tolerate violence.
President Bush said the
United States “will continue
to work with our allies to the
very best we can to make sure
there’s no violence.”
“We are heartened by the
fact that the Kosovo government has clearly proclaimed
its willingness and its desire
to support Serbian rights
in Kosovo,” Bush said while
on a visit to Africa. “We also
believe it’s in Serbia’s interest to be aligned with Europe
and the Serbian people can
know that they have a friend
in America.”
Underscoring fears of
renewed unrest, an explosion
lightly damaged a U.N. building housing a courthouse and
a jail in Kosovo’s tense north,
home to most of its roughly
100,000 minority Serbs. No
one was injured. An unexploded grenade was found
near a motel that houses EU
officials.
In the ethnically divided
northern city of Kosovska
Mitrovica, Serbs vowed never
to let Kosovo go.
“The Albanians can celebrate all they want, but
this stillborn baby of theirs
In another attempt to get
more students involved,
Crawford has gotten one of
his interior design professors, Shirley Foster, to redesign her class so students
learn about the history of
interiors through the different historical buildings
around Tuscaloosa. She also
will require her students to
spend one day as a docent at
the Battle-Friedman House
and volunteer with Heritage
Week.
“The historic homes in
Tuscaloosa are a treasure for
future generations and thus
are a responsibility for us
now,” Foster said. “I want to
involve my students in community service that will allow
them to experience these rich
vignettes of history and appreciate their importance.”
Getting so many young
people to come through the
house, Crawford said, will not
only educate them but will
also spread the word about
the rich history available to
them.
Crawford said when he
graduates he will use his
interior design degree to
design old homes and buildings with furniture and style
of the era in which they were
built.
Recruiting people to
appreciate preservation and
older structures will not end
on graduation day though,
Crawford said. He said he
would ultimately like to do
what he is doing now on a
larger scale. He said he wants
to get people interested in
their local structures one city
at a time, and develop preservation organizations in
these cities that show people
how to reuse the buildings.
“They don’t say ‘they don’t
build them like they used to’
for no reason,” he said.
Animals organization coming to have dogs and cats
so people can adopt an animal if they want to. We’re
going to be putting together
personal bags for homeless
people and those in need in
Tuscaloosa.”
Finally, the Community
Service Center will host
a Hunger Banquet on
Thursday in the Ferguson
Ballroom. Those in attendance will be given a ticket
for a meal based on their
status as either first second, or third world. The
ticket the person receives
will determine what kind of
meal they get. Each meal is
supposed to represent the
type of meal many people
eat in first, second or third
world countries.
For more information
contact Pena at rapena@
bama.ua.edu or stop by
the Community Service
Center,
Ferguson Center.
NEBI QENA
The Associated Press
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Revelers
fired guns, waved red-andblack Albanian flags and set off
fireworks over Kosovo Sunday
after parliament proclaimed
independence in defiance of
Serbia and Russia, which condemned the declaration of the
world’s newest nation.
A decade after a bloody
separatist war with Serbian
forces that claimed 10,000
lives, lawmakers pronounced
the territory the Republic of
Kosovo and pledged to make
it a “democratic, multiethnic
state.” Its leaders looked for
swift recognition from the
U.S. and key European powers — but also braced for a
bitter showdown.
Serbia called the declaration illegal and its ally Russia
denounced it, saying it threatened to touch off a new conflict
in the Balkans. Russia called
for an emergency session of
the U.N. Security Council,
which met later Sunday.
In the capital, Pristina, the
mood was jubilant. Thousands
of ethnic Albanians braved
subfreezing temperatures
to ride on the roofs of their
cars, singing patriotic songs
and chanting: “KLA! KLA!”
the acronym for the nowdisbanded rebel Kosovo
Liberation Army. They waved
American flags alongside the
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about the preservation society and join as student members because it is hard for
students to hear about the
organization otherwise.
“If I hadn’t been so proactive,” he said, “I might not
have been able to find it. No
one knows about [the preservation society].”
AP
Kosovars write their names on a sculpture spelling out the word “Newborn,” as they celebrate Kosovo’s
declaration of independence in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, Sunday. Kosovo’s parliament declared the disputed
territory a nation on Sunday.
will never be an independent country as long as we
Serbs are here and alive,” said
Djordje Jovanovic.
Kosovo is still protected by
16,000 NATO-led peacekeepers, and the alliance boosted
its patrols over the weekend
in hopes of discouraging violence. International police,
meanwhile, deployed to back
up local forces in the tense
north.
Sunday’s declaration was
carefully orchestrated with the
U.S. and key European powers, and Kosovo was counting
on international recognition
that could come as early as
Monday, when EU foreign
ministers meet in Brussels,
Belgium.
But by sidestepping the
U.N. and appealing directly to
the U.S. and other nations for
recognition, Kosovo’s independence set up a showdown
with Serbia — outraged at the
imminent loss of its territory
— and Russia, which warned
that it would set a dangerous precedent for separatist
groups worldwide.
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Cross and the West Alabama
Food Bank. There will be
people volunteering all
throughout
the
week
Monday through Friday.”
Personal hygiene products are also going to be
collected throughout the
week to later be donated
for emergency services she
said.
On Wednesday night students will be able to experience what it is like to be
homeless with the Grate
American Sleep Out. The
night will begin with a speaker from the Old Firehouse
Shelter in Birmingham and
a showing of the documentary “Invisible Children.”
“What we’re doing is
sleeping out on the Quad
all night and were going
to have a speaker from the
Old Firehouse Shelter in
Birmingham come down
and address the issues
of poverty in Alabama,”
Pena said. “There will also
be representatives from
the Friends of Homeless
located
in
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Dance Alabama! hits
Morgan this week
Tuesday night marks
the opening of this
semester’s production of
the Dance Alabama! concert.
The spring concert
features student-choreographed work from dance
majors in the UA department of theatre and
dance, Dance Alabama!
runs Feb. 19 through 22,
with shows at 7:30 p.m.
on Tuesday through
Thursday and 5:30 p.m.
on Friday.
Tickets are $13 for
adults, $11 for UA faculty members and staff
and senior citizens and
$9 for students, and can
be purchased online at
www.crimsonartstickets.
com.
‘Jumper’ at top of box
office with $27 millon
LOS ANGELES — The
globe-trotting thriller
“Jumper” leaped to a box
office win with $27.2 million on a weekend when
Hollywood offered something for everyone, with
new films for action fans,
teens, family audiences and the date-movie
crowd.
Starring
Hayden
Christensen and Samuel
L. Jackson in the tale of
a man who can teleport
himself instantly to any
spot on the planet, 20th
Century Fox’s “Jumper”
has rung up $33.9 million
since opening Thursday,
according to studio estimates Sunday.
The new wide releases opened a day early,
Valentine’s
Day
on
Thursday, to get a head
start at what studio
executives viewed as a
long holiday weekend,
with President’s Day on
Monday.
“Valentine’s Day has
become a great moviegoing day,” said 20th
Century Fox distribution
executive Bert Livingston.
“Even though kids are not
out of school and people
are working, it’s still a
holiday in the sense that
in the evening, men take
their wives, or girlfriends
and boyfriends go out.
Everybody goes to the
movies.”
Debuting in second
place was Disney’s teen
dance sequel “Step Up 2
the Streets,” which pulled
in $19.7 million for the
weekend and $26.3 million since Thursday.
Paramount’s
family
fantasy “The Spiderwick
Chronicles,” featuring
Freddie Highmore and
Mary-Louise Parker in
the story of a mom and
her kids who move into
a house menaced by evil
creatures, opened at No.
3 with a $19.1 million
weekend. Since Thursday,
it has taken in $26.8 million.
Universal’s romance
“Definitely,
Maybe,”
with Ryan Reynolds as
a dad looking back on
his romantic life after
he’s served with divorce
papers, premiered at No.
5 with a weekend haul of
$9.7 million.
The previous weekend’s top movie, the
Warner Bros. romantic
comedy “Fool’s Gold,” fell
to fourth place with $13.1
million, raising its 10-day
total to $42 million.
Despite the rush of solid
openings,
Hollywood
was unable to match
the weekend business of
a year ago. The top 12
movies took in $119 million, down 16 percent
from the same weekend
in 2007, when “Ghost
Rider” opened with $45.4
million, the best debut
ever over President’s Day
weekend.
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘DEFINITELY, MAYBE’
Romantic comedy mostly harmless
BY RYAN MAZER
Contributing Writer
I should forewarn that I’m
a person who’s quite easily
manipulated. Regarding the
world of film, this means that
— as long as I have not been
offended by any glaringly disgusting writing — I am quick
to give my emotional self over
to a filmmaker.
For instance, in a romantic
comedy, when the two characters who are destined for
one another are reunited in
the end, and one character
references a line used earlier by the other character
— “I love spinach and artichoke cheese dip!” — but in
a weightier manner — “You
always did … love spinach
and artichoke cheese dip,”
— I am promptly reduced to
a slobbering wreck, sniffling
like an idiot while my company is left moving to the
other end of their seats or
childishly remarking about
my sexuality.
This brings me, in the
roundabout, self-absorbed
way that has become my
custom,
to “Definitely,
Maybe,” the latest from the
producers of “Notting Hill”
and “Love Actually.“
Written and directed by
Adam Brooks, whose previous writing credits include
“Bridget Jones: The Edge
of Reason” and “Practical
Magic,” “Definitely, Maybe”
stars Ryan Reynolds — who
has potential in that he
always seems like he should
be saying something wittier
than he actually is — as Will
Hayes, a father on the eve of
divorce.
At the same time, his
daughter, Maya, played by
“Little Miss Sunshine” princess Abigail Breslin, has just
been taught about sex at
school. Needless to say, she
comes to her father with a
barrage of questions.
Soon, these questions give
way to others on the topic
of Will’s divorce from Maya’s
mother. After some reluctance, Will agrees to tell Maya
the story of his relationship
with her mother, which for
whatever reason also involves
the story of his relationship
‘Definitely,
Maybe’
Director: Adam Brooks
Starring: Ryan Reynolds,
Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz,
Isla Fisher and Kevin Kline
MPAA rating: PG-13
Release date: Feb. 14
Length: 112 minutes
CW critic rating (out of four):
Bottom line: A mostly harmless romantic comedy,
“Definitely, Maybe” is a sweet
movie that stays depressingly
true to formula.
Submitted by www.rottentomatoes.com
Ryan Reynolds and Isla Fisher star in “Definitely, Maybe,” a new romantic comedy from the producers of “Notting Hill” and “Love Actually.” The film
opened on Feb. 14 and is now playing at the Cobb Hollywood 16.
to the two other loves of his
life.
So that Maya won’t know
which woman is which, he
changes their names, calling
one Emily (Elizabeth Banks),
another April (Isla Fisher),
and the third Summer (Rachel
Weisz).
The movie then proceeds
by showing us Will’s story,
with very few interruptions
from Maya as she questions
or objects to whatever Will is
currently saying.
These moments between
Will and his daughter come
off as very stiff and forced,
like Brooks is shoving the
cuteness down our throats.
When this is taken into consideration with their infrequency, it creates the impression that Brooks was using
these scenes only as a cheap
framing device for the morelively story of Will’s past relationships.
This film is absolutely
dedicated to the genre’s
formula, a notion that in and
of itself makes the affair a bit
spiritless. However, this also
means that the filmmakers
achieved their goal: crushing
audiences with unrealistic
expectations about their love
lives. This makes the film a
relative success.
While nothing special, the
stories are all sweet enough.
The film ably juggles Will’s
relationships with the three
women as they come in and
out of his life.
Also of note is his job, as
he moves to Manhattan in
the beginning of the film to
work on Bill Clinton’s 1992
presidential campaign. This
was an interesting choice on
the part of the filmmakers,
one that lends the film an
engaging historical perspective.
The performances were
fine all around. In particular, Isla Fisher impressed as
she squeezed life into her
Submitted by www.rottentomatoes.com
Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin star in “Definitely, Maybe.”
tired character, whose spirit
is so very free that it has left
her (gasp!) politically unaffiliated. Also great was Kevin
Kline in a small role as an
alcoholic author, showing
he can really do the rugged
thing well.
As the film neared its end,
I began to grip my seat and
prepare to have my critical
perspective washed away
by the wonders of emotion
manipulation. And I almost
got there.
That is until the very end,
at which point Will looks to
the sky, presumably at God,
grins, and walks away. This
unfortunate occurrence took
me completely out of the
moment, keeping my tears at
bay. It also left my company
in their original positions,
but after I smiled at them
proudly, they resumed their
remarks about my sexuality.
8 Monday, February 18, 2008
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ENTERTAINMENT
THE CRIMSON WHITE
PSP REVIEW
Handheld ‘WipEout’ does not wipe out
BY ADRIAN MORRIS
Contributing Writer
It’s been little more than
a year since I’ve even picked
up my PSP. There have
been plenty of great games,
but I just haven’t felt the
need to buy any PSP titles.
Luckily, Studio Liverpool is
back to grace the PSP with
another “WipEout” game. I
loved the previous “WipEout”
title, “WipEout Pure,” that
launched with the PSP. But
will “WipEout Pulse” bring
others back to their PSPs
again?
Story
There really isn‘t much of
a story to “WipEout Pulse,”
but the little information
the game tells you is that
“WipEout Pulse” occurs 10
years after “WipEout Pure.”
The new FX400 Racing
League has stated it will keep
Anti-Gravity Racing intense
and fast-paced. Newer crafts
have been designed by the
companies to race for glory
and to decide the king of
Anti-Gravity Racing.
many kills as possible; Headto-Head, in which you only
race against one opponent;
and Speed Lap, in which you
try to beat a given time to race
around the track.
Some of the more common modes found in all racing games are Single Race,
Tournament Race and Time
Trial. Zone is the last mode and
is exclusive to the “WipEout”
series. In Zone mode, your
speed will increase throughout each zone and your goal
is to race as many laps around
Gameplay
“WipEout Pulse” continues to keep the series fresh
and action-packed. Whereas
some racing game mechanics
seem to get stale after a couple installments in the series,
“WipEout Pulse” manages to
keep the gameplay innovative.
There are seven racing modes in “WipEout
Pulse,” four of which were in
“WipEout Pure.” The three
new modes are Eliminator,
where the goal is to get as
the spcially-designed track as
possible.
The AI is ruthless and competes aggressively. If you are
in first place, expect another
ship to pass you if you screw
up the next turn. The AI isn’t
afraid to push, ram or nudge
you or other AI into walls or
off the track.
There are only two difficulty settings on which to set
the AI, either easy or hard,
but both are still a challenge.
I recommend hard for returning veterans of the series.
Remember, the only safe
place is last place.
Two new weapons were
also added to the game, to
make a total of 13 weapons. The first weapon is
the shuriken, which causes
enough damage to drop you
two places in a race. The
second weapon is the leech,
which steals your opponents’
energy for a certain amount
of time. Both weapons are a
great addition to the weapon list, which already had
some crazy/awesome inclusions. Like in “WipEout Pure,”
weapons can be absorbed to
gain energy and sustain your
ship from exploding.
There are more than seven
new tracks in the game, and
each delivers a different experience. However, the biggest
addition to this year’s game is
the Mag-Strip, which allows
for loops, corkscrews, 90degree turns, 90-degree vertical strips of track and crazy
combinations of each. There
were times my ship was right
side up, but the track was
upside down. After being
upside down for only about
five seconds, I found myself
going 90-degrees vertically
downhill. While I can’t testify
that my head didn’t spin for
a second, I can testify that it
was definitely a fun experience that enhances the level
of racing in the game.
Controls
Controls
are
very
important in a game that has
five levels of speed difficulty.
Luckily, the game keeps the
controls simple and tight. The
analog nub or D-pad can be
used to steer, the square button fires weapons, O absorbs
weapons, X is accelerate, and
the shoulder buttons are used
to air brake. Air braking is the
most important skill in the
game and is the only part of
the game that has a learning
curve to it.
The triangle button allows
you to look behind you, but
with races being so fast, it’s
really pointless. If you can’t
find any of the default control
schemes useful, then you can
just customize your own control layout.
Graphics/sound/
presentation
Submitted by www.qf.net
“WipEout Pulse,” the sequel to the popular “WipEout Pure,” was
recently released for the Sony PSP.
“ WipEout
Pulse”
carries some of the best
graphics on the PSP. Beautiful
explosions from bombs and
even some bloom effects
in the background and
around the track make for an
engrossing experience. When
the shuriken is charged you
can see the small energy distortion around the nose of
your ship, which is pretty
awesome. The game lacks no
appreciation for details, and
displays streaming words on
futuristic billboards that can
be found around every track.
The
game
has
an
engrossing licensed techno soundtrack featuring 16
songs. Some of the artists
include Booka Shade, Mist,
Optical & Matrix and Aphex
Twin; if you’re like me, you
probably don’t know who
these artists are, but I can say
the music definitely makes
races more intense.
The best part is if you don’t
like these songs you can put
up to 30 of your own MP3
tracks on the game and listen
to them. The process is as
simple as creating a new folder on you PSP memory stick.
The customization doesn’t
stop there; you can design
custom skins for your ship on
the game’s Web site.
The presentation is wonderful. Menu interfaces are
sleek, and a ticker on the bottom of every screen shows
your personal stats like total
shots fired, best lap times,
etc.
All modes can be accessed
though a grid system. Events,
including the four other racing speeds, are all linked in
a grid, and you can unlock
these events by completing a
grid next to it. It’s all on one
screen and is separated by the
different speed difficulties, so
this makes everything easy to
access from one screen.
The game includes online
and ad-hoc for two to eight
players.
Online is simple to register,
and races stay fluid and chaotic with almost no lag. Though
there is no chat screen when
you’re in a lobby, it doesn’t
usually take to long for the
game to start. And while load
screens both online and single player can take up to 17
seconds, it’s really not that
bad of a wait.
Conclusion
“WipEout Pulse” is an
amazing game that maintains all the good qualities
for which the series is known.
This is the best racing series
on the PSP and it has only
gotten better with “WipEout
Pulse.”
The presentation, customization, modes and multiplayer are enough to push this
game over the top. With “God
of War” and “Final Fantasy
VII: Crisis Core” just around
the corner, now is the time to
play your PSP.
“WipEout Pulse” delivers
on just about every front, and
with new downloadable content and tracks on the way
and more than 200 gold medals to earn, “WipEout Pulse”
will have you coming back for
more.
“WipEout Pulse”
Platform: PSP
Developer: Sony Studio
Liverpool
CW critic rating (out of four):
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the
rain
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was a sucess for Alabama in
many ways, as they brought
their season record to 10-0
and are looking at a new
national ranking.
The Tide was ranked No.
2 nationally in both polls
heading into the weekend, behind the Arizona
Wildcats.
Arizona was supposed to
open the season on Friday
with a double-header but it
was cancelled due to rain.
Saturday, the Wildcats
lost to No. 7 Northwestern
and No. 3 Texas A&M in a
double-header to start the
season off 0-2.
This gives the 10-0 Tide a
chance of being No. 1 in the
nation for the second time
in program history when the
rankings are released today.
The Tide’s next action will
be Friday as they travel to
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Alabama’s
Mykal
Riley hits
his shot
over South
Carolina’s
Mike
Holmes
during the
second half
of South’s
Carolina’s
67-65 win.
AP
Sports
Dan Sellers
■
Editor
10
Monday, February 18, 2008
IN brief
from staff reports ...
Tide golfers in lead
after one round
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.
— Defending its 2007 championship, the Alabama golf
team got off to a positive
start Sunday as it led a field
of 15 teams after one round
of play at the John Hayt
Collegiate Invitational.
The three-day tournament
is being held at Sawgrass
Country Club in Ponte Vedra
Beach, Fla. Alabama, ranked
No. 2 by Golf Week and No.
3 by Golf World, shot 2-over
par, 290 in Sunday’s opening
round to take a one stroke
lead over Tennessee (291)
which is coached by former
Tide golfer Jim Kelson.
The winds were blowing
out of the south at about 10
miles per hour, with temperatures into the 70s by
the end of the day. Among
the gallery following play
at the tournament was former NFL quarterback Dan
Marino, who played in the
tournament’s college-am on
Saturday.
The top of the team standings after one round find
Alabama leading at 290, followed by Tennessee at 291.
Alabama’s Joseph Sykora,
a Daphne native, is two shots
back and tied for fourth at
1-under par, 71. Two of his
Tide teammates and fellow seniors Mark Harrell
and Michael Thompson are
among those tied for eighth
at even par, 72.
Women’s tennis falls
to No. 45 Iowa
The Alabama women’s
tennis team dropped a
close match to No. 45 Iowa
Saturday at the Hawkeye
Tennis and Recreation
Complex. With the loss the
Tide falls to 2-4 in dual match
play.
In singles, Alabama fell
at No. 2 to give Iowa a 20 lead. Freshman Tiffany
Welcher responded to
the Iowa lead by downing
Jacqueline Lee, 6-0, 6-2,
from the No. 1 singles slot to
put Alabama on the board.
Paulina Bigos outlasted
Beelen, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, at the
No. 3 position to knot the
score at 2-2.
Junior Shelley Godwin
battled Poggensee-Wei at No.
6 in her first singles appearance of the dual match season and eventually fell in the
third set to give Iowa a 3-2
lead.
Svensson knotted the
score for the second time
at 3-3 by defeating Kelcie
Klockenga, 7-5, 1-6, 7-5,
from the No. 5 position. On
court four, Emery overcame
a 3-0 defecit in the second
set to send her match to a
third set. Emery eventually
fell to Dorr, 2-6, 7-6, 1-6, to
give Iowa the win.
■
SOFTBALL
No. 2 Alabama stays perfect
BY WILL BARRY
Senior Sports Reporter
The No. 2 Alabama softball
team did not win its second
home tournament of the season — but it wasn’t because
they were beaten.
The torrential rain Sunday
morning
cancelled
the
championship round of
the Hampton Inn Crimson
Classic.
The Crimson Tide hosted New Mexico, Middle
Tennessee State and Georgia
Tech over the weekend and
played each team once to
determine playoff seeding.
Alabama was unstoppable,
defeating New Mexico 10-2 in
five innings and MTSU 6-0 on
Friday night.
“[I was] happy with the
defense,” head coach Patrick
Murphy said. “It was one of
the keys for this week was to
play better defense as a team
and the second game was
■
I thought terrific. [It] might
have been the best defensive
game we’ve played all year.”
The Alabama bats also led
to the victories for the Tide
Friday by outscoring their
opponents 16-2.
“Offensively, it’s been a lot
of fun so far with so many
different people with the two
freshmen to come in big in the
top of the order, the bottom of
the order, it’s nice to have the
bottom of the order hit a tworun home run,” Murphy said.
The Georgia Tech Yellow
Jackets were next up for the
Tide on Saturday afternoon
and the Tide put its bats to
work to get a 9-5 victory.
The win gave Alabama a 3-0
record against the field and
put them in the No. 1-seed
going into the first playoff
game Saturday afternoon.
Alabama took on No. 4-seed
Middle Tennessee State, who
went 0-3 in the tournament,
to determine who would go to
the championship round.
The Tide had no problems
advancing to the championship game, defeating Middle
Tennessee State in convincing
fashion 7-1.
Senior Chrissy Owens was
dominant for Alabama, pitching five innings against the
Blue Raiders with five strikeouts and giving up one hit and
no runs.
Junior Allison Moore came
in to relieve Owens and had
two strikeouts, two hits and
one run in two innings of
work.
The Tide bats were led by
Charlotte Morgan, who had
two hits and three RBIs, and
Brittany Rogers and Ashley
Holcombe, who also had two
hits.
Georgia Tech defeated New
Mexico 6-0 to earn the right to
play Alabama in the championship game on Sunday before
See SOFTBALL, Page 9
CW/ Alex Gilbert
Charlotte Morgan connects on a pitch against Georgia Tech Saturday
at the Hampton Inn Crimson Classic. Alabama went on to down both
Georgia Tech and Middle Tennessee State Saturday.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Alabama falls to USC
on road in final seconds
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Devan
Downey capped a 29-point
performance with a fourpoint play with 14.3 seconds
left as South Carolina slipped
past Alabama 67-65 Saturday
night.
With Alabama up 65-63,
Downey nailed about a 23foot 3-pointer and was fouled
by reserve guard Mikhail
Torrance. Downey, who was
one shy of his career high,
hit the free throw, and the
Crimson Tide couldn’t get off
a shot until after the horn
sounded.
Alabama (14-12, 3-8 SEC)
was led by senior Mykal Riley,
who had 28 points, including making eight out of 10 3pointers - both career highs.
But it wasn’t enough as the
Crimson Tide fell to 0-5 on
the road in the SEC.
With South Carolina (12-12,
4-6) clinging to a one-point
halftime lead, the second half
was nip and tuck early with
six ties and two lead changes
in the first eight minutes. But
after the Gamecocks grabbed
a 54-48 lead on Downey’s
NBA-range 3-pointer with
9:26 left, the Crimson Tide
went on a 10-1 run to go up
58-55 with 6:16 remaining on
back-to-back buckets in the
lane by Alonzo Gee.
But South Carolina came
back, converting back-toback turnovers into lay-ups
by Mike Holmes and Brandis
Raley-Ross to jump ahead
61-58 with 3:56 left. It was,
however, a short-lived lead as
Riley hit a 3-pointer 20 seconds later.
After Holmes’ turnaround
jumper, Riley nailed his
eighth trey of the game after
his own offensive rebound to
give Alabama a 64-63 lead.
Richard Hendrix then hit
one of two foul shots after a
Gamecock turnover to make
it 65-63 with 36.6 seconds
left.
Hendrix had his 13th double-double of the year with
17 points and 10 rebounds.
South Carolina led 31-30
after a half in which Downey
had 15 points and five steals
for the Gamecocks while
Riley hit five of six 3-pointers to finish the first half
with 17 points along with six
rebounds.
The Tide led early 10-4, but
South Carolina rallied to go
up twice by seven, the last
time at 26-19 with 4:22 left on
Dominique Archie’s two free
throws. But Alabama outscored the Gamecocks 11-5
from there to pull within one
at intermission.
Archie finished with 17
points.
Along with his 29 points,
Downey also tied his career
high with seven steals. But it’s
his four-point play the fans
will remember.
“I just shot it with confidence,” he said. “That’s all I
really did.”
See BASKETBALL, Page 9
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