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Witt, Trustees replace Bailey with Judy BonnerNEWS | BOARD OF TRUSTEES
That was quarterback AJ McCarron’s response Saturday when asked about Les Miles calling Death
Valley a place where opponents’ dreams go to die.
The reality is that No. 1 Alabama (9-0, 6-0 SEC) has all but locked up the Southeastern Conference’s Western Division and still controls its own destiny of making the BCS National Championship game in January.
The reality is that No. 5 LSU (7-2, 3-2 SEC) had its national championship dreams squashed by Alabama for the second year in a row.
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“By Adam Mills and Melissa BrownCW Staff
When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, they will have the opportunity to vote on Amendment 4, an amend-ment that one side claims will remove racist language from the State Constitution, while the other side believes it will threaten Alabamians’ right to public education.
The amendment has been met with controversy and unlikely opponents: the Black Caucus and the Alabama Education Association, among others.
The Alabama Constitution is one of the longest constitu-tions in the world, with 800 amendments, and both sides on the Amendment 4 fight are entrenched in technicalities dealing with language dating from 1901 and 1954.
“It is a mess,” Gerald Johnson, emeritus professor of political science at Auburn University, said. “This is one of the biggest messes I have observed in a messy situation.”
Johnson joins others in claim-ing passing the amendment will remove racist language but will also “reaffirm” a 1956 amend-ment, Amendment 111. The language mandates separate schools for “white and colored children.”
HistoryIn 1954, the Supreme Court
declared state laws establish-ing separate schools for blackand white students to be uncon-stitutional in Brown v. Board ofEducation.
In an attempt to find a wayaround the ruling, Alabamapoliticians responded two yearslater with the Amendment 111,declaring “nothing in this consti-tution shall be construed as cre-ating or recognizing any right toeducation or training at publicexpense.”
Rather than provide state-funded education to blacks, theamendment removed the state’sburden of having to offer publicschools to any Alabama children.This opened the door for privatelyfunded segregated institutions.
‘Messy’ statewide amendment goes to vote Tuesday
NEWS | STATE POLITICS
By Chandler WrightStaff Reporter
A Florida task force has proposed charging differ-ent tuition rates based on a student’s major, and The University of Alabama may be on the track to implementing such changes, as well.
Many schools in the U.S. have recently been subject to tuition increases. In July,
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved a tuition increase to apply to all three campuses in the system. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University, said this is related to state budget cuts to higher education.
“The Delta Cost Project and other similar studies have consistently shown as state support has been cut, tuition has been increased. The tuition funds are supplanting state funding, and institutions are typically falling behind,”
Katsinas said. “It’s not uncom-mon to find when states cut higher education budgets by three or four percent, that tuition is forced to increase by double that amount, seven or eight percent, because of the sheer amount of funds.”
The Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform proposes a system of differentiated tuition cost based on major.
“There should be no resi-dent student tuition increases applied in high-skill, high-wage, high-demand (market
driven) bachelor degrees, as identified by the legislature,” the task force recommends in the current draft of the pro-posal.
In such a system, the state legislature would identify market demands for the state, and schools would choose pro-grams related to those fields. As the proposal recommends, tuition for students in those programs would not go up, as an incentive to draw students to the programs, according to Dale Brill, chair of the task force.
“This should help the 12 schools that make up the State University System of Florida think more like a sys-tem and less like individual institutions,” Brill said. “Let’s take, for instance, a journal-ism degree. Why can’t three of the 12 schools in the system pursue fantastic programs in journalism, instead of all 12 having programs just to have them? By implementing this system, schools will be able to identify those programs that they want to pursue.”
However, Katsinas said this
could affect an institution’s autonomy.
“It is one thing for the state to say what higher education investments they would like to make, it’s another thing for the state to push institu-tional use of internally real-located funds, such as tuition paid by students and fami-lies,” Katsinas said. “If this proposal does that – and I’m not entirely sure it does or not – I don’t think that it will work well.”
Florida task force proposes beating cuts by basing tuition on major
Some say Ala. public education is at stake
SEE VOTE PAGE 13
UA education policy expert forsees issues
SEE TUITION PAGE 2
BALLOT LANGUAGEThe ballot language of the
amendment will read:“Proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to repeal portions of Section 256 and Amendment 111, now appearing as Section 256 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, relating to separation of schools by race and to repeal Section 259, Amendment 90, and Amendment 109, relating to the poll tax.”
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By Chandler Wright and Melissa BrownCW Staff
The University of Alabama’s president Judy Bonner addressed the Board of Trustees Friday morning, a day after being hired as the first permanent woman presi-dent in the school’s history. Bonner previously served as
provost and interim presi-dent.
“The job before us now is to continue to build on the prog-ress to maintain the momen-tum and to seize the new opportunities that lie before us,” Bonner said. “Working on behalf of the hardworking tax payers of our great state – and our students and their parents – my commitment
to you is that we will build on the progress of the last decade, and we will make you proud of your University.”
Bonner, who was named president Thursday after-noon following the resigna-tion of Guy Bailey, discussed enrollment and application increases, among other exam-ples of recent success at the Capstone.
“We began this year with a record enrollment of 33,602 students. This is a 5.8 percent increase in enrollment, with
some 1,855 more students this year than last year,” Bonner said. “Applications for a seat in our freshman class are increasing at a rapid rate. We have 8,000 more students applying for a seat in our freshman class this year than just five years ago. That is a 43 percent increase.”
Bonner also used the opportunity to express her gratitude to the board and the University.
CW FileGuy Bailey
CW FileJudy Bonner
Board of Trustees approved Alabama’s next president in a unanimous vote on Friday
SEE BONNER PAGE 2
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However, Brill said the task force hopes to contribute to a discussion that will lead to the end of status quo thinking in higher education.
“We’re trying to introduce some semblance of a mar-ket dynamic information in an environment where there is none,” Brill said. “Most students couldn’t tell you what they pay in tuition. In
economics, pricing is all we have to determine and work out supply and demand. So, when the consumer is completely separated from the cost of a product, then the cost rises.”
Once the proposal is com-pleted, Brill said the task force will hand over their findings toFlorida governor Rick Scott.
“We do nothing more than hand it to the governor, and he does what he sees fit,” Brillsaid. “These are nothing more than recommendations to inform the governor and the legislature for their consider-ation.”
TUITION FROM PAGE 1
Tuition based onmajor possible for UA
“Our University holds a very special place for all who have been touched by it, from the newest faculty to staff who have been here for the longest
period of time to students who are walking across the Quad for the very first time,” Bonner said. “Everyone who has crimson in their blood understands the life-changing way in which the Capstone impacts individuals.”
Bailey resigned Wednesday afternoon after holding office for just 60 days. UA students
received an e-mail at 3:13 p.m. with statements from Bailey, trustee Paul Bryant, Jr. and Chancellor Robert Witt.
Bailey cited his wife’s health for his resignation.
“This is a decision my wife Jan and I made together after much discussion about how we can best address her health, which is the most important
priority in our lives,” Bailey wrote. “We want to thank the faculty, staff, students, alumni and our many friends for your warm welcome. My family and I appreciate your under-standing and your prayers.”
Bailey did not attend the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, where Bonner was voted in unanimously by the Board.
For now, Bonner’s previous position of provost remains open, but she said Thursday that she will name an interim quickly. Bonner said the UA System has asked that inter-ims not be candidates for the position, a policy not in place when Bonner sat as interim president between the Witt and Bailey presidencies.
Bonner said it was her deci-sion not to enter the presiden-tial search following Witt’s
move to chancellor.“I was serving as provost
and as interim president, and I felt that I had enough balls in the air that I did not need to be a candidate for the position at that time,” she said.
Bonner said she is devoted to continue building upon the recent success of the University.
“With the sense of commu-nity that has been built over the last decade, I am confident that our faculty, our staff, our students, our alumni, our par-ents will continue to work together,” Bonner said. “My commitment to you is that we will build on the promise of the last decade; we will seize the opportunities that lie before us, we will main-tain the momentum, and we will make you proud of your University.”
BONNER FROM PAGE 1
Board names Bonner 1st female president
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HACKENSACK, N.J. — Megan Byrne, of Hillsdale, N.J., lived on campus her first year of college for a simple reason: She figured she would make more friends in a dorm than at her parents’ house 20 minutes away.
But after freshman year, she decided to move back home for another simple reason.
“It was basically just the eco-nomics,” said Byrne, a sopho-more at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J. “It was too expen-sive.”
A recent study suggests that Byrne now is in the majority. As college tuition continues to rise and students contribute more toward their education, 51 per-cent of American college students decided this year to live at home, compared with 43 percent in 2010, according to the student lender Sallie Mae.
The numbers make sense in light of the ever-rising cost of a college education.
Student loan debt, which reached $867 billion, eclipsed
credit card debt for the first time in the country’s history earlier this year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Average tuition at public four-year colleges went up 26 percent more than inflation did over the past four years. And federal aid is stagnant after years of rapid growth, according to a study released recently by the College Board.
It is unclear, however, how much higher costs play into stu-dents’ decision to commute.
Most schools don’t ask stu-dents their reasons for eschewing the dorms. And economic pres-sure to commute is often offset by a common understanding that the college experience is fuller for students who live on campus.
“It has to be a financial deci-sion, but if that’s not the major factor, I certainly would advo-cate living on campus,” said Courtney McAnuff, vice presi-dent for enrollment management at Rutgers University. “It’s a very important part of the growth of the students.”
Commuter students also need
to factor in hidden costs of living off campus. Besides fuel and park-ing, commuter students often take longer to graduate than their peers in the dorms, McAnuff and other administrators said.
There isn’t a lot of research that ties trends in college com-muting with the economy, said John Rury, a University of Kansas professor who studied the rising number of American commuter students from 1960 to 1980. That increase had more to do with the expansion of the American mid-dle class and more students being able to afford college, he said.
The present-day statistics are difficult to decipher because researchers don’t know how many students are traditional college students living at home to save money and how many are commuting for other rea-sons, including working adults who return to school for job skills when they are worried about impending layoffs.
“There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that students and their families turn to commuter institu-tions in tight times, as it’s a rather
obvious way to cut costs,” he said. “On the other hand, I haven’t seen reports of institutions having trouble filling the dorms.”
The on-campus population could be shielded from dips tied to the recession because the eco-nomic downturn had a dispropor-tionate impact on families with lower levels of education, who are less likely to send children to resi-dential institutions. In addition, federal financial aid and student loans generally make it possible for students to pay for on-campus housing despite their family’s financial situation, he said.
One Ramapo senior, Gabrielle Mondo, who commutes from her parents’ house in Parsippany, N.J., discovered firsthand how difficult it is to track such trends when she investigated rumors of empty floors in residence halls for an article in the student newspa-per.
Lower numbers of students liv-ing on campus had indeed allowed the school to reduce the number of students who had to triple up in dorm rooms she found. But the number of students living on cam-
pus, 2,771, is only 83 fewer than last year, said a spokeswoman, Anna Farneski. The school has 52 new commuters this year.
Most commuters Mondo inter-viewed for her article said the economy played a role in their decision, but it wasn’t the only factor. The research matched her own experience, she said.
“Even though my parents could afford to keep me there, it didn’t seem financially respon-sible when I could save so much money by staying at home,” she said. The decision has saved her parents about $40,000 over the past three years, she said.
She added, however, that she probably would have decided to commute anyway. She simply wanted to be closer to her par-ents. She said she has been able to maintain the same social life as during her freshman year when she lived on campus. Commuting, she said, has another often over-looked advantage.
“My parents aren’t going to be saying, ‘do shots’ when I have an exam tomorrow,” she said. “I see that as a big plus.”
Students choosing to live in Mom’s house instead of Animal House
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Students participate in fi lm pitch
By Madison Roberts and Katherine LangnerCW Staff
Two University of Alabama students were invited to compete in the Perfect Pitch Competition at the New Orleans Film Festival in October and tested their skills pitching film ideas to a panel.
John Avent, a senior majoring in media production, competed in the festival after he pitched his idea to his TV Production class, and Jazzmine Franklin, a senior majoring in telecommunica-tion and film, won an honorable
mention for her documentary idea, which included a $250 cash prize.
Both contestants were required to submit a one-page proposal to the telecommunication and film faculty members, who then approved each proposal and selected the students to move for-ward with the competition. While in New Orleans, La., both Avent and Franklin were required to pitch their proposal verbally to judges.
“We only had five minutes to talk about our idea, and that’s not very long when you’re
CW | Bryce DentonJazz Franklin, a senior majoring in telecommunication and fi lm, recently received an award at the New Orleans Film Festival student pitch competition.
trying to give someone the full picture-setting, characters, plot, theme,” Avent said. “Simple and effective is what you’re going for when pitching. To say the least, it was a much more tedious under-taking than I had imagined when I submitted the treatment.”
Each contestant enlisted the help of Nick Carrao, a pro-fessor in the Department of Telecommunication and Film who had a short film screening at the festival. Avent said Carrao helped coach him through the process.
“I had never been to a film fes-tival before, and I was nervous about pitching my idea in front of a bunch of industry people, but, thankfully, Prof. Carrao coached me through the whole thing, which helped me out tre-mendously,” Avent said. “We met several times leading up to the festival and went over the pitch again and again until I had it down.”
Normally, the judges select only one winner in each cat-egory, but this year, they decided last minute to give out honor-able mention awards. Franklin received an honorable mention for her idea about Jesse Maple, the first African American film-maker who has been excluded from multiple history books and does not have an IMDB page. Along with her two friends who are also African American women film producers, Franklin will film her search to find out who Maple was.
“We’re going to document our experience of finding out who she is and how that makes us feel,” Franklin said. “We’re learning about this woman who paved the way for us.”
Franklin said she was excited when she won the honorable mention because she felt she was spreading knowledge and passion.
“It was decided at the last min-ute that they would give honor-able mentions,” she said. “I was so excited. I was happy that the judges felt the same passion that I felt about my idea, so it was a good feeling.”
She hopes the festival will open opportunities for her in the future because she wants to continue to make documen-taries throughout her career. If anything, though, she says the festival was a great networking experience.
“Overall, it was a great expe-rience. I met a lot of folks, and hopefully, I will see them again,” Franklin said. “I hope it opened up opportunities for me in the future.”
Although Avent did not win anything at the festival, his TV Production class voted his pilot television proposal for a series “Backlash” to premiere at the Bama Theatre in January 2013.
The pilot includes a charac-ter named Norman who lives an unhappy life as an “old-fash-ioned journalist” while trying to civilize his students.
“My idea was to display the ironic contrast between how media is produced and how we interpret it,” Avent said. “I think my idea was, for the most part, a result of my frustration with the dominance of lewd reality TV and programming that you can’t seem to get away from these days.”
Although Avent’s pitch did not win an award at the New Orleans Film Festival, he hopes to send his pitch for a series to other fes-tivals after it premieres.
“We’ll be submitting to sev-eral film festivals across the country,” Avent said. “Past pilots have been screened at New York Television Festival and The International Television Festival in Los Angeles. This year, we’re aiming to exceed that success.”
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To put it col-loquially, one of the candidates for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice on the ballot tomor-row is a snake in the grass. And, if this state elects him into office, it should expect him to bite. Again.
The last time around, we had to watch as he adamantly disregarded the will of a federal judge in favor of the “will” of his god. We had to watch as the Alabama Court of the Judiciary removed him from office – the same office he’s seeking now – because he wouldn’t remove from the Alabama Supreme Court Building a 5,280-pound, solid-granite monument to everything the First Amendment protects us from when it forbids Congress from passing “any law respect-ing an establishment of religion.”
We’re talking, of course, about Roy Moore, the marshal of the parade of incompetents, bigots and idiots that make their name in Alabama politics by latching their fangs to the concept of separation of church and state hoping to poison it to death. Moore first bit back in 2004, when he insisted he had the right to erect a monu-ment of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court Building.
The problem was that he had absolutely no such right as a public official. To be sure, any citizen has the right to believe, as Moore says he does, that the Ten Commandments are the “moral foundation” of U.S. law. But every citi-zen has the right, guaranteed by the First Amendment, to not have that view thrust upon him or her by the government.
But Moore did not understand that concept in 2004. It got him fired then. He still does not, and we have no idea what this fundamental mis-understanding of the role of the chief justice could get him and our state into if he’s elected on Tuesday.
That makes this election more than a partisan contest, and that is the first reason The Crimson White endorses Moore’s opponent, Bob Vance. The second is, somewhat sadly, this election could be close.
Vance entered the race in August after the Alabama Democratic Party realized it made a bumbling error by nominating Harry Lyon, who subsequently called proponents of gay marriage sick and perverted.
As a result, Vance has had only a few months to raise funds and campaign. By contrast, Moore’s whole life is a campaign, a moral crusade that unfortunately won’t end even if he does lose
Tuesday.Moore has said
that gay marraige “will be the ulti-mate destruction of our country because it destroys the very foundation upon which this nation is based.” Gay marriage is a divisive political issue, but it would not destroy the country nor would it erode its foun-dations. The Chief
Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court should be concerned with applying Alabama law, not sav-ing the country from social policies he opposes.
While Democrats refused to let Lyon remain a spokesman for their party after he made his disaparaging remarks, if Moore is elected, he will be a spokesman for the entire state.
Vance got his undergraduate degree from Princeton and studied law at Virginia. He’s been a trial judge in Jefferson County for ten years, and he says he’ll keep his politics, not to mention his religion, out of the courtroom. That’s where it belongs – in the hearts and minds of individu-als.
The Crimson White Editorial Board is as divided politically as any group of nine people in our country today. This, though, we can agree on. Bob Vance is not young, but he represents an opportunity for young people to salvage the system that Roy Moore and his generation have poisoned. Or, at least, he would allow them to be able to say they attended college in Alabama and not be ashamed to do so because of the perennial embarrassment that would be Roy Moore’s sec-ond go-around as Chief Justice.
Our View is the consensus of The Crimson White Editorial Board.
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TODAY’S TOPIC: THE ALABAMA ELECTIONThe candidates in the race
for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court provide the most polarizing vision for the direction of our state over the next decade. The election also introduces more amendments to the Alabama Constitution, an already lengthy and confusing document. Limiting the amount of amendments we continue to add is key to Constitutional reform, but we have chosen a few to support, and we discuss them below.
The state’s conservative wing has nominated former Chief Justice Roy Moore to fill the position, reclaiming the post he held until a disgraced fall from office ruined his reputation as an unbiased arbiter of the law. In 2003, Moore was removed
from his position as the state’s highest judicial officer after refusing to follow an order from a federal judge directing him to remove the large statue of the Ten Commandments he had placed in the rotunda of the federal judicial building in the middle of the night. Since his removal, Moore has maintained that he will “always acknowl-edge God” in the state’s court system and argues that liberal extremist groups are trying to remove the moral fabric of our society. He has spent the last few years as the president of the Foundation for Moral Law, a nonprofit organization based in downtown Montgomery that represents and edu-cates the public on the neces-sity of acknowledging God in
government, according to the organization’s website.
Moore has sought the gov-ernor’s office in the last two statewide elections, but lost both of his primary races. Moore now wants his job back, and has not been shy about his intent to return the court to a similar mindset that he cham-pioned during his last time in office. The state’s Democratic Party had a bit of a rocky start in choosing a candidate to face Roy Moore, eventually sup-porting Judge Robert S. Vance, Jr., a respected trial judge from Jefferson County. Vance is the son of the late Judge Robert S. Vance, Sr., a federal judge who was tragically killed by a mail bomb sent to his Birmingham home in 1989. Although Vance
has only been involved in the race for a few months, he has out raised his Republican challenger by almost 2-to-1 margins. Vance has focused his campaign for chief justice on the necessity of bringing groups together and effectively representing the entire state of Alabama, regardless of politi-cal affiliation. He is not shy about his support for biparti-sanship among all political views. Vance contends that he will not place partisan politics into the job of chief justice and will bring fairness and prag-matism to the office. Vance provides a strong challenge to Moore and would provide a more progressive and cen-trist perspective to the state’s highest court.
Vote for Bob Vance
OUR VIEW
In short: Roy Moore was a pitiful em-barassment before, and, if elected, he’ll be one again.{
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Amendment 2
Amendment 2 raises the cap on state bonds to $750 million. Governor Bentley has called this amendment one of the most important of this year. However, the lan-guage stated on the ballot seems to com-plicate what it actually does, and what it provides, to industries that want to locate or expand in the state. The amendment provides more opportunity and funding for the state in luring major businesses and creating jobs in the state.
Amendment 4
Amendment 4 plans to remove language regarding poll taxes and school segrega-tion remain in the Alabama Constitution. Their presence in the constitution is racist and outdated, but critics of the amendment claim that it could possibly deny education to some, as it does not specifically guaran-tee the “right to education.” This is obvi-ously a weak argument, as education will remain heavily protected. Voting not to remove racist language from our constitu-tion would hurt us nationally as we attempt to progress from our issues in the past.
Amendment 6
This is nothing more than a republi-can attempt to block Obama’s health care reform, but because federal law always super cedes state law, it is yet another
pointless amendment, only lengthening our already confusing constitution. Voting for this amendment would only prove how uneducated our voting populace is about how the law works. Vote against amendment 6.
Amendment 7
The language of this amendment is intentionally written to be vague. A “yes” vote would hinder union rights in the state, requiring more elections and more red tape in unions and businesses. Alabama Democratic Chairman Mark Kennedy sup-ports a no vote, but conservatives in the state are trumpeting the amendment as a way to protect unions. But the vague lan-guage protects their true motifs, whatever they may be.
Amendment 8
Amendment 8 sets the salaries of mem-bers of our state House and Senate to the median household income; it also prohibits members from increasing salaries for their own terms and requires signed vouchers for reimbursements. Current salaries will be lowered as an effect, which is need-ed in our failing economy. While some may be concerned this amendment will restrict lower-income citizens from run-ning for office, voting for this amendment will force greater accountability to our state legislators.
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Amendments
One of the major problems with the Alabama Constitution is its excessive length. Rifled with amendments pertaining to specific counties or cities, it is cluttered and inefficient. Amendments 3, 5 and 11 are examples of amendments that do not pertain to citizens of Tuscaloosa city or county, but require a statewide vote. Hope for constitutional reform remains, but for that to be possible, the skeleton of the Alabama govern-ment must change, limiting state control of min-ute county decisions. A vote for or against 3, 5 or 11 is nothing more than an uneducated guess at the correct vote. Because we are not knowl-edgeable about the best scenario for counties not applicable to us, we will not suggest a vote of support or against. However, the alternative to some sort of reform process within the state’s constitution – like writing a new constitution – could prove to be problematic on many levels. With the Republican super majority in the state legislature and a rubber stamp of approval avail-able in the governor’s office, one party would be able to dominate any significant reforms.
With recent pieces of legislation like the state’s controversial immigration law emanat-ing from these legislators, the model for a new constitution would likely be a disaster for the state’s progress. An atmosphere of bipartisan-ship is absolutely necessary for any feasible attempt at true reform – a trait not common in the state capitol.
“A society is as healthy as its orphaned, widowed and elder-ly.” This means everyone is equally valuable. A society can tell what kind of job it’s doing by measuring how it treats its most powerless.
This is true of any healthy society. We have obviously failed.
The most recent articles in The Crimson White regarding hazing practices in our greek system reflect this. These are classic issues in systems. But the University’s response through Dean of Students Tim Hebson’s words on Oct. 8 pulled Oz’s curtain back to reveal a dark and dysfunctional system that will deeply affect each and every one of us. This dysfunc-tion will cause us to fall short of our full potential, as opposed to meeting or exceeding our potential.
Hebson’s response was much like a middle school principal who claims no knowledge of bullying or bureaucratically states the complaint wasn’t made specifically enough before the student jumped off the bridge or shot forty unsus-pecting people in a movie theater.
The University’s response
belittles the complainants, empowers the bullies, and helps to form a dysfunctional society by allowing violence to occur with a wink and a nod. It also establishes an unhealthy learning environment by com-municating that we’re not all equally valuable and, therefore, we’re not all safe. It flies in the face of the University’s goals, mission and apparent desired direction if one examines recent admis-sion statistics. This approach will make neither The University of Alabama nor its graduates more competitive in a global environment.
In fact, Hebson’s words sounded too much like other regrettable, out-of-touch, his-torically wrong words across time that were proven to be so not long after they were uttered.
I think a better approach may be to think more systemically, with an eye on the broader goals and the greater good.
Listening may be a good next step. In a healthy system, if some believe there’s a problem, there IS a problem for all. To deny that reflects an unhealthy system. Looking might be a good approach, as well. A quick look with an open mind
and listening ears would reflect that the current policy employed to protect and avoid disaster is doing neither. An unhealthy system defends the sta-tus quo without thinking, listen-ing or seeing. That’s exactly what Hebson did, as I read it.
If everyone is equally valuable, then it’s time for us to treat each other that way, develop sincere and effec-tive policies that create and protect a healthy society and hold those accountable who refuse to participate in foster-ing one. But that also means that the actives in the greek system have a duty to do the same. A healthy environment requires everyone to stand up and do the right thing. The fact
that anyone feels it necessary to ask for help from the system means that the “good guys” have stood by and done noth-ing, allowing the problem to flourish. (Remember, Edmund Burke said, “All that is neces-sary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”) Fraternities and sororities can be great places to belong to and develop community. But they can also be environments full of darkness and dysfunction. The choice is up to the mem-bers, chapters and national chapters. But it’s also up to the University to ensure its goals and missions are shared or respected by all who’ve chosen to be a part of this University. We all have something to gain or lose by this.
“A society is as healthy as its orphaned, widowed and elderly.” Some courageous guys took a big risk to illumi-nate and highlight a need for change. Does the University really intend to shoot the mes-sengers, wink, nod, look the other way and thereby degrade us all?
Robin Harvey is a graduate student at The University of Alabama.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
UA’s response to hazing reveals ‘dysfunctional system’ “We’re talking, of course, about Roy Moore, the marshal of the parade of incompetents, bigots
and idiots that make their name in Alabama politics by latching their fangs to the concept of separation
of church and state hoping to poison it to death.
“Hebson’s response was much like a middle school principal who claims no knowledge of bullying or bureaucratically states the complaint wasn’t made specifi cally enough before the student jumped off the bridge or shot forty unsuspecting people in a
movie theater.
Will Tucker Editor-in-Chief
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The University of Alabama alma mater a forgotten yet ‘timeless tradition’By Ashanka KumariChief Copy Editor
As most UA students know, this year’s Homecoming theme was “Timeless Traditions.” From the parade to the thou-sands of football fans in crimson, white and houndstooth filling Bryant-Denny Stadium, tradi-tions were definitely apparent. However, some traditions con-tinue to overshadow ones that should receive more attention.
Although I have lived in Alabama since I was 9 years old, I still don’t know everything about the state and its history. When I was first accepted to The University of Alabama, I realized I knew nothing about the school, besides the informa-tion about its programs and the name Nick Saban.
I began looking into the
traditions and customs of the University after I decided I would be attending. I learned the words to the fight song, “Yea, Alabama!” and eventually even how to play the music on trombone. I learned what Denny Chimes was, some history about Alabama football and that “Roll Tide” was an appropriate phrase for dozens upon dozens of situations.
After a month at the Capstone, I had learned even more. At this point, I could locate several buildings and knew the best place to get lunch on campus. However, one of the most impor-tant things I had learned about the University was the words to the alma mater.
Almost every major institu-tion has an alma mater, a piece of music written for and about the University, often to the
tune of an older piece of music. For example, Texas A&M’s is to the theme from the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, also known as “Ode to Joy.” Ours is to the tune of H.S. Thompson’s ballad, “Annie Lisle.”
“Alabama, listen mother, to our vows of love.
To thyself and to each other, faithful friends we’ll prove.
Faithful, loyal, firm and true, heart bound to heart will beat.
Year by year, the ages through, until in heav’n we meet.”
The words normally echo some type of promise and love for the school. The song usually has several verses, though only the first, like with our National Anthem, is ever used.
During the homecoming pep rally, when the band played the fight song, it seemed as though
almost every person in the large crowd clapped and sang along. There was not the same reac-tion when the alma mater was played. Although our fight song is important in showcasing our pride for our teams, the school song should be treated equally or with even more importance.
Watching students, represen-tatives and even administra-tors who proudly chanted our fight song stand in complete silence during the alma mater was somewhat embarrassing. Shouldn’t we treat the song that truly represents our University with more care?
At Oklahoma State University, regardless of whether or not the team wins, OSU’s athletes turn to face the student section and sing their alma mater with the students, faculty, alumni and staff in the stands. Similarly,
the Million Dollar Band at our University sings our alma mater at the end of each game, although most of the fans are gone by this point. What if the entire student body joined in?
At Louisiana State University, not only does the entire student body, band, alumni and faculty sing their alma mater at each football game, their Memorial Tower (similar to Denny Chimes at UA) plays the tune of their alma mater at noon each day. The words to their alma mater are also displayed on the scrolls in their football stadium so that students can sing along and proudly display their love for their school, which they do col-lectively at each game.
The University of Alabama should consider employing similar tactics to teach our student body the words to our
school song. It would not take much effort to add the words to a graphic display in Bryant-Denny Stadium each week or to even make it so Denny Chimes plays the tune at regular inter-vals throughout each week, instead of on scattered occa-sions. If students, faculty, staff and alumni really love and care about our University as much as they claim they do on game days, they should take the time to learn and sing the four lines of lyrics written to showcase this love.
Ashanka Kumari is the Chief Copy Editor of The Crimson White.
America’s choice for 2012: more options than candidates in spotlight
By Chris BeachamStaff Columnist
When I ask people about the 2012 Presidential Election and which candi-date they favor, I usually get
the response “I don’t like either of ‘em,’ followed by “I may not vote.” I understand the feeling because some-times, when your choice is between two candidates you don’t really like, it’s all about
choosing the “lesser of two evils,” and that is a negative way to make a decision. That was how I was feeling during this election.
During the Republican primaries, like many youth in my generation, Ron Paul was my guy. His stance on foreign affairs, personal lib-erty, individual rights and the role of government, delivered with profound substance and passion, was exciting. Here was a politician who understood how so many people felt. He was authen-tic and wise. Although he ran as a Republican, he was really a Libertarian.
The Libertarian Party can-didate is now Gary Johnson, who is trying to take Dr. Paul’s previously established momentum and run on it. I considered the possibility of voting for this candidate, but when I expressed this to a family member of mine, they said, “Don’t even vote, then.”
I’ve always been taught every vote counts, but in this case, that person could be right. Why is that? Because can-didates from other parties don’t get a voice.
In 1992, Independent candi-date Ross Perot was allowed to debate with Bill Clinton and George Bush. Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein were not allowed to debate during this election. The media’s cover-age of them was little to none. When I looked at my ballot for this election, I was surprised at how many choices we have for president other than Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. There are 11 candidates run-ning for office. One could say that some of the parties, like the Prohibition Party or the We The People Party, are strange and insignificant. But if these candidates are running for office, shouldn’t they be given a platform?
Shouldn’t they be allowed to debate? There could be numerous debates, like in a party primary election.
Gary Johnson has a follow-ing because people are tired of choosing between two candidates that they don’t connect with very much, but he won’t come even close to winning. These alternative candidates, like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson, speak to a gen-eration that is ready for some sanity in politics. People are ready for more choices. In the future, I would like to read the ballot and know who every candidate on that bal-lot is because they were a part of the electoral process. It’s time for our democratic system to expand and allow more than two candidates to receive the spotlight.
Chris Beacham is a sopho-more majoring in psychology. His column runs biweekly on Mondays.
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Camp 1831 created to orient future freshmenIncoming freshmen and transfer students will be able to attend three-day event at Camp McDowellBy Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer
Preparation for entering col-lege will take on new elements this August as incoming fresh-men and transfer students of The University of Alabama will have the opportunity to attend Camp 1831, a three-day event that will incorporate features of both traditional orientation and summer camp.
Named after the University’s founding in 1831, the camp will be held at Camp McDowell in the Bankhead National Forest near Nauvoo, Ala. The First Year Experience division of the Office of Student Affairs
is planning the program to host two different sessions in August for the first year, each serving about 150 students. The program will focus on four main themes: adventure, tradi-tion, service and leadership.
Sara Hartley, the director of First Year Experience, said the program should easily mold students into the lifestyle at the University.
“By introducing these stu-dents to the history, tradi-tions, resources, opportunities and people at UA, we hope to ease their academic and social transition to the institution,” Hartley said.
David Wilson, a senior
majoring in economics, sits on the advisory committee for the planning of Camp 1831. According to Wilson, many of the days’ events will go beyond normal camp activities and will revolve around the University. They may include activities such as breakout sessions with faculty members, panels from different people on campus and presentations by various orga-nizations on campus.
“It’s like a few-day-long crash course of the University on what you can do as a fresh-man,” Wilson said.
According to Hartley, a smoother transition leads to increased student retention.
“We know from our bench-mark research that students who participate in a program such as Camp 1831 are more likely to feel connected to campus earlier in their college career and are therefore more likely to be successful and to return their second year,” Hartley said.
The First Year Experience office hopes students will leave confident, equipped with new friends and proud of being a UA student. Wilson expects the experience to be a memorable one for participants.
“The kind of students that come to this want to be involved, so we’re hoping even
the learning part will be fun for them,” he said.
Wilson believes the experi-ence will be successful and cited successes in similar pro-grams in other schools.
“They’ve kind of built it into the culture, where, like, a majority of the freshmen class all go to their camp, so we would love to see that,” he said.
Elijah Sells, a freshman majoring in biology, said he would have enjoyed more bond-ing opportunities before the semester began.
“When I came to orientation during the summer, some of the people I met, I’m friends with now,” Sells said.
Camp 1831 will be led by the A-Team, a crew of 24 cur-rent students who will share personal insight and advice for an enjoyable and success-ful first year at the Capstone. Pairs of A-Team students will each lead a small group of 10 to15 students. Students interest-ed in joining the A-Team will be able to apply online at the First Year Experience website in January.
“I would love for Camp 1831to become a new tradition for first-year students entering the Capstone and something that our incoming students look forward to each year,” Hartley said.
By Phil W. HudsonContributing Writer
Staff Sgt. John L. Hooks, a Tuscaloosa resident, was pre-sented the Purple Heart last Thursday in Bryant-Denny Stadium for a wound he received in Vietnam 43 years ago.
Hooks enlisted in the United States Air Force in March 1957 and was honor-ably discharged from ser-vice in February 1972. Hooks served three tours with the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam, one of which was served after receiving a gunshot wound in his left arm.
“It is truly an honor and privilege to be with you today to present what is a very long overdue Purple Heart to a dis-tinguished American airman and genuine war hero,” said Lt. Gen. David S. Fadok, the commander and president of
the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base.
Hooks winked at his fam-ily in attendance as Fadok handed the war hero the oldest known United States Decoration still in use, the Purple Heart.
“He is one of the quiet-est, sweet, kind-spirited men you will ever meet. He is so humble and kind, you would have never known he was a war hero,”Jared Patterson, Hooks’ nephew, said.
Hooks’ other awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 17 clusters, the Air Crew Member badge with wings, the Missile Mans Badge, the Good Conduct Medal with five loops, the Combat Readiness Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, the Viet Gallantry
Cross with palm, the VietnamService Medal, the VietnamCampaign Medal and the AirForce Longevity Ribbon.
When asked what the dif-ference was between theawards he was presentedwhile still in the Air Forceand the Purple Heart he waspresented decades later,Hooks said, “When I got theDistinguished Flying Cross,that was real nice, but to beable to have my family here isjust really great.”
War hero gets Purple Heart at Bryant-Denny Stadium
“It is truly an honor and privi-lege to be with you today to present what is a very long overdue Purple Heart to a distinguished American air-man and genuine war hero.
— General David S. Fadok
UA Muslim community thrives despite small size
By Ashanka KumariChief Copy Editor
When Rashmee Sharif wakes up each day, she begins with a prayer. This is something that she will do four more times before the day’s end.
Sharif, a second-year mas-ter of business administration student at the Capstone, is a Muslim and said practicing her faith in Tuscaloosa has never been an issue.
“I don’t feel different,” she said. “I don’t know how other people perceive me, but I am super comfortable here.”
Islam is a monotheistic reli-gion practiced by more than a billion people around the world.
“The fundamental belief of Islam is that there is no God but God,” Sharif said. “There is only one God, and it is the same God of Christianity and of Judaism. Where Islam and Christianity divert is the ques-tion of Jesus. Muslims believe that Jesus is a prophet of God, whereas Christians believe Jesus is God in human form. We don’t believe Jesus is God; we don’t worship him, but we love and respect him as a prophet.”
Less than 1 percent of UA students identify themselves as Muslim, Cathy Andreen, direc-tor of media relations, said in an emailed statement.
“Only 92 (0.3 percent) UA students identify themselves
as Muslim,” Andreen said. “It is important to note that pro-viding information about reli-gious affiliation is voluntary and many students, including the majority of graduate and professional students, do not list a religious preference. The University does not track that religious preference in a way that would show if students are international students or not.”
To identify herself as Muslim, Sharif wears a headscarf.
“I like being identified as a Muslim, but another woman’s reasons [for wearing a heads-carf] might be completely dif-ferent,” Sharif said. “Her rea-sons for wearing a headscarf are as unique as the woman herself, and then there are some [Muslim] women who choose not to wear the heads-carf.”
Hisham Ali, a senior major-ing in aerospace engineering and an American Muslim, said although political rhetoric may suggest otherwise, he has yet to perceive any direct discrimina-tion towards his faith.
“Much like any place, there are many people here who do not agree with others’ faiths,” Ali said. “Some are just more vocal than others. I think most of the people I interact with on a daily basis understand that not all of the world’s almost two billion Muslims can be repre-sented by a few extremists.”
Muslims fast during certain times of the year as part of practicing their religion, and Ali said this does not prevent him from being able to fully participate.
“I did have to continue Ramadan Fasting through the summer and [Million Dollar] band camp this year,” Ali said. “It is pretty trying on your body to go from about 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. with no food or water in the Tuscaloosa summer, but I played about four hours of out-door soccer a week to prepare myself, and made sure I ate a nutritious meal and hydrated during the evening.”
In Tuscaloosa, there is a mosque for Muslim students, as well as other members of the community, looking for a group to practice their faith within weekly services.
“[The Islamic Center] most-ly just [offers a place for] the Friday prayers,” Sharif said. “We will have some community activities, and sometimes, we’ll have an open house and invite the entire community to come look, just to kind of demystify the activities. Just anything that any house of worship would do for its members.”
The current structure of the mosque located on Paul Bryant Drive has been around since 1999, Sharif said. Both Arabic and English are spoken in the mosque.
“All the prayers are in Arabic,” Sharif said. “Every sin-gle Muslim all over the world does their prayers in Arabic whether or not they speak it.”
Sharif said although she has heard stories of negative expe-riences, she has never had one herself.
“I have faith in people, and maybe because I’m optimistic, positive things come to me,” Sharif said. “I love it here; I love Tuscaloosa. I’ve lived in Buenos Aires, Canada, and I’ve spent some time in Spain and in Italy, but it’s just the warm fuzziness you get for your hometown. I have a houndstooth headscarf I wear on game days, and I have totally embraced my religion and my identity as someone from Alabama.”
CW | Caitlin TrotterMuslim women gather at the Islamic Society of Tuscaloosa for after-noon prayers on Friday, the Muslim holy day.
SGA concert ticket prices reducedTickets now available for Thursday, Nov. 8 RAGE concert at myBama, Ferguson Center Room 356By Mazie BryantAssistant News Editor
The Student Government Association has announced a decrease in ticket prices for the Thursday, Nov. 8 RAGE concert featuring B.o.B. at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Student and guest tickets for the concert are now on sale for $10.
The SGA previously priced the tickets at $25 for stu-dents and the additional two guest tickets at $30 each, only for purchase through a myBama account. Students can now purchase tickets with
cash, credit card or Bama Cash through myBama or in Ferguson Center Room 356.
“We feel that given the vari-ety of options, more students will be able to purchase tick-ets and ultimately give back to their fellow students,” Meagan Bryant, executive press secretary for the SGA, said.
Bryant said the money raised at the RAGE concert will fund additional student need-based scholarships. The SGA currently provides two $1,000 scholarships per month and hopes to increase that number, Bryant said.
Additionally, event attendees will be given the opportunity to swipe their ACT card at the gate for a chance to win one of five $1,000 scholarships.
“RAGE is all about students helping students,” SGA presi-dent Matt Calderone said in a press release. “Purchasing a ticket to B.o.B. is an invest-ment in the students at our University who are in need.”
Crimson Ride buses will transport students, faculty and staff members and guests to and from the concert, with hubs at Lakeside Dining Hall, Julia Tutwiler Hall and the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater.
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NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 8 | Monday, November 5, 2012
Tuesday’s ballot fi lled with choices for voters
This is a common ballot; however, some offi ces will appear only in certain pre-cincts, which will apply to your districts.
The offi ces below will not
run in all precincts.
AMENDMENT 1
Would reauthorize the Forever Wild Land Trust for 20
years. The trust was created in 1992 and has acquired over
227,000 acres of land for conser-vation and recreation purposes.
The program is funded by 10 percent of interest generated
from the Alabama Trust Fund.
AMENDMENT 2
Would allow the state to refi-nance economic development
bonds and issue more than $125 million in new bonds for eco-nomic development projects.
AMENDMENT 3*
Would create the Stockton Landmark District in Baldwin
County to prevent the com-munity of Stockton from being annexed by any municipality.
AMENDMENT 4
Would remove language that requires separate schools for black and white students and language relating to the poll tax. School segregation and poll taxes were outlawed by
the federal government during the Civil Rights Movement but remain written in the States’
constitution.
AMENDMENT 5*
Would allow the Prichard Water and Sewer Board to be merged with the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System. The
amendment will only take effect if a majority of the resi-dents served by each system
approve the amendment.
AMENDMENT 6
Would prohibit “any person, employer or health care pro-
vider from being compelled to participate in any health care system.” This would make the
health insurance mandate under President Obama’s
health reform law unconstitu-tional in the state of Alabama
but, because federal law trumps the state constitution,
won’t effect the implementation of the health law in the state.
AMENDMENT 7
Would reaffirm the right to a secret ballot in all public and
union elections. The amend-ment is targeted at federal
“card-check” legislation, which would eliminate the secret bal-lot in union elections. The legis-
lation hasn’t been passed.
AMENDMENT 8
Would set compensation for members of the Alabama
State House and Senate to the median household income in the state and prevent them
from voting to increase their own salaries.
AMENDMENT 9
Would overhaul statutes related to regulating and taxing
corporations and remove out-dated language.
AMENDMENT 10
Would change banking statutes and repeal language
related to banking.
AMENDMENT 11*
Would prevent municipalities outside of Lawrence County
from establishing police juris-dictions, ordinances or taxes in
Lawrence County.
AMENDMENT 12
Would prohibit the imposi-tion of an occupational tax in
Tuscaloosa County.
*Amendments 3, 5, and 11 are local amendments that only affect counties or communities outside of Tuscaloosa, but require statewide votes because Alabama law sets a signifi cant amount of local law.
This offi ce runs by district.
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‘100 Lenses’ changes students’ idea of homeBy Becky RobinsonStaff Reporter
Football Saturdays at The University of Alabama always begin on Friday afternoon. Tents go up, vendors set up, and visitors prowl the campus eagerly. Elliot Knight, a professor in the Honors College and the Department of Art and Art History, sits at his desk in Nott Hall, ignoring the nearby ruckus on the Quad. It isn’t football on his mind – it’s photography.
Knight grew up in Opelika, Ala. and came to the University in 2003 to major in the New College. He studied a mixture of photojour-nalism, fine arts photography and filmmaking, which laid the foun-dation for his future work with
“Black Belt 100 Lenses.”In 2006, Knight was working
for The Crimson White when he found himself at the Ferguson Center’s new Crossroads Community Center. Initially there to take a portrait of the new direc-tor, Bettina Byrd-Giles, Knight found himself with the seed that was soon to blossom into “100 Lenses.”
“She and I got to talking about photography, and she told me about a project she had done at a conference,” Knight said.
Byrd-Giles’s project involved getting into groups and pho-tographing the surrounding areas. The two began thinking of how this could translate to the University’s campus.
“We came up with a project
we called ‘100 Lenses,’ and it was because we had 100 cameras we gave out to different students,” Knight said. “After they had taken their photos, they picked their favorite three, and we built a mural.”
One year later, “100 Lenses” had expanded to several counties within the Black Belt. Working
with Samory Pruitt, vice presi-dent of Community Affairs for the Black Belt Community Foundation, Knight gave high school students cameras so they could document their day-to-day experiences.
Although Knight said there was not a particular story that stood out to him, he noticed the students’ attitudes toward their hometowns changing. At the exhibit in Sumter County, Knight said one girl’s statement struck him.
“She was saying, ‘Well, before, people would ask me where I was from, and I’d just kind of mum-ble and say, ‘I’m from Sumter County,’ but now I say [positive-ly], ‘I’m from Sumter County.’” Knight said.
One former “100 Lenses” par-ticipant, D’Anthony Jackson, said the project inspired him to create his own photography business.
Jackson took part in “100 Lenses” from 2010 to 2012. He is now a sophomore at the University of West Alabama majoring in integrated marketing communications.
“I learned how to view – not only my community – but every-thing at different perspectives and see things in more of a future point of view,” Jackson said. “After leaving the program, I began to see it as a place for res-toration, of history and of future.”
“100 Lenses” continued devel-oping, and UA students became involved in the process.
“One thing we did with ‘Black
Belt 100 Lenses’ was we started doing a summer camp so that all of the students came here [to the University] for a week over the summer, instead of it being over the whole year in their county,” Knight said.
Knight started an Honors College course, as well, in which UA students partnered with art students from Holt High School.
In addition to teaching and community outreach, Knight’s “100 Lenses” leaves a lasting impact on the students who par-ticipate.
“Mr. Knight is one of the most intelligent, well-rounded people I have ever met,” Jackson said. “He may not know this, but I look up to him, and I consider him to be a great role model in my life.”
“I learned how to view – not only my community – but
everything at different perspectives and see things in more of a future point
of view.
— D’Anthony Jackson
By Megan MillerContributing Writer
The Alabama Repertory Dance Theater fall concert, a fac-ulty choreographed showcase of technical ability and storytell-ing performed by University of Alabama dance majors, will host the season’s first performance Tuesday, Nov. 6.
The ARDT fall concert show-cases faculty-choreographed pieces and differs from “Dance Alabama!,” which showcases student choreography.
“The company is performing truly challenging work at the highest level,” Cornelius Carter, director of the dance program and
artistic director of ARDT, said.Carter said the caliber of
talent in the dance program is so high this year that when representatives came from the Broadway Dance Center in New York to watch “Dance Alabama!” performances, they ended up awarding six scholar-ships to students in the dance program.
Rita Snyder, associate profes-sor of dance, staged one piece for ARDT and choreographed a second.
Snyder’s first piece is tra-ditional choreography staged after Marius Petipa’s choreogra-phy. Snyder said this is a piece of classical ballet repertoire, and
she staged it with the assistance of her husband.
“This is a piece tradition-ally performed by principles of major companies, so it’s a good piece for students to perform,” Snyder said.
The second piece features modern choreography that Snyder titled “Echoes in the Wind.”
“’Echoes in the Wind’ doesn’t have a specific story. It’s more like movement poetry, so I’m hoping the audience will get a sense of who these people are without a story,” Snyder said.
Aaron Carter, a freshman majoring in dance and chemis-try, participated in the “Dance
Alabama!” fall concert, but said the performances and experi-ences of both concerts are vastly different.
“’Dance Alabama!’ was cool to see the students’ choreography,” Carter said. “I’m having fun with this to see the more pro-fessional aspect. It’s interesting to see the correlation between teachers, since it’s their job, and students.”
Kathryn Annkey, a senior majoring in dance, has been able to participate in all aspects of the dance department. Annkey has choreographed for “Dance Alabama!” and is the lead in John Virciglio’s ARDT piece, “Sweet Dreams.” Annkey said
this ARDT concert is bitter-sweet for her.
“I feel like the professors here taught me in dance and in life,” Annkey said. “They give us advice on life decisions.”
Annkey said the greatest part of her experience in UA’s dance program has been the bonds she has been able to form.
“Everyone is really close and really supportive of each other,” Annkey said. “You get close as a cast and as a department.”
The concert will run Nov. 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. in Morgan Auditorium. Tickets can be purchased through the Department of Theatre and Dance web page, at the box
office in Rowand-Johnson Hall or at the door the night of the show.
ARDT fall concert showcases faculty’s choreography
IF YOU GO• What: Alabama
Repertory Dance Theater fall concert
• When: Nov. 6-8 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m.
• Where: Morgan Auditorium
Transportation ‘pecking order’
leaves a lot of bikers unhappyBy Megan MillerContributing Writer
Due to the influx of bicycles on The University of Alabama campus, the Quad has been established as a “pedestrian priority zone” to discourage bikers from riding on side-walks.
“The idea came from other universities that had implemented the program,” Ronnie Robertson, director of Transportation Services, said. “The program was presented to the Parking and Traffic Committee and assigned to a subcommittee which involved SGA last summer.”
Katie Turgeon, a sophomore majoring in chemistry, said she prefers to ride her bike on campus because she lives behind the Strip, and walking to Shelby Hall for her classes would take too long.
“I have to plan my routes differently, based on where the bike lanes are,” Turgeon said. “At times, riding in bike lanes is scary and seems dangerous being right next to cars, so, when I can, I take the sidewalks if it’s not a busy time in the day.”
Turgeon said she feels there is a pecking order on campus, with pedestrians getting least priority, followed by bikers, with cars and buses being the most dangerous but getting the highest priority.
“Some pedestrians are so involved in their phones or conversations that they don’t even look over and register the fact that a bike or car is coming,” Turgeon said. “Meanwhile, bikers have the responsibility of dodging pedestrians while command-ing cars and buses to yield to them.”
Additional bike lanes have been put in place on cam-pus, not in correlation with the pedestrian priority zone. Robertson said most of the bike lanes were already in place or already in the process of being constructed before this program was talked about.
“UA tries to install bike lanes when a roadway is repaved or constructed to assist with the bike traffic on campus,” Robertson said.
Thomas Northcutt, a junior majoring in computer science and psychology, said he tends to worry more about pedestri-
ans than himself when riding his bike on campus.
“I get nervous riding my bike because there are so many people,” Northcutt said. “I feel like I’m going to hit things, so I don’t hit people.”
Northcutt said the amount of pedestrians on campus has an effect on the routes he takes while riding his bike.
“I take longer ways because people aren’t aware of bikers, and they don’t try to move,” Northcutt said.
Jessica Hatfield, a sopho-more majoring in nursing, said she chooses to walk because she lives on the Strip.
“It’s every day that I’m dodging bikes,” Hatfield said. “I haven’t noticed a change in the bike traffic on the Quad since the ‘pedestrian priority zone’ was added.”
Most accidents between pedestrians and bikes are not reported, so Transportation Services does not keep statis-tics on these accidents.
“We feel the few accidents that are reported do not give an accurate reflection on the number of accidents that occur on pedestrian side-walks,” Robertson said.
COLUMN | FILM
Independent fi lm ‘Rubber’ unique, enlightening and confusing all at onceBy Dana Woodruff
One of the best things about Netflix is its archive of fairly obscure independent films. I recently stumbled upon a particularly unique find by the name of “Rubber.” Literally a movie about a car tire, “Rubber” is probably the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. Once you get over the ini-tial shock of realizing you’re watching a movie about an inanimate object coming to life, it’s actually rather enter-taining, with a pretty decent plot – assuming you can make it past the uncomfortably awk-ward and confusing opening scene.
Set in an eerily remote dust-and-tumbleweed desert, the film begins with a slightly creepy bespectacled man, clad in dress shirt and tie, stand-ing alone with two handfuls of binoculars. You can hear noth-ing but silence and wind as the camera focuses on the scat-tered assortment of wooden chairs that have been placed haphazardly across a gravel road for no apparent reason. At this point, I was instantly hooked because of the quirky variables at play in such a scene.
An old Cadillac slowly pulls up to the man, intentionally knocking down every chair on the way, and a police officer
steps out of the car. Walking up to face the camera, he speaks directly to his audience – profound words that mean nothing and everything at the same time.
“In the Steven Spielberg movie ‘E.T.,’ why is the alien brown? No reason. In “Love Story,” why do the two char-acters fall madly in love with each other? No reason…I could go on for hours with more examples. The list is end-less. You probably never gave it a thought, but all great films, without exception, contain an important element of no reason. And you know why? Because life itself is filled with no reason.”
At this point, you may start to see the parallels between the officer’s speech and the filming technique of the movie itself. For example, why does another officer climb out of the trunk of the Cadillac and hand the first officer a glass of water? Why did the Cadillac knock over every chair on its way up the gravel road? Why is the bespectacled man dressed like he’s going to church? You demand answers for these arbitrary oddities, answers that you will never receive because there is simply no rea-son for their existence.
The whole film contin-ues on in this fashion. Long story short, a solitary car tire
that had been buried in the dirt comes to life and rolls through the desert, only to discover that it has a super-natural psychic power to kill. The Netflix description, and I quote, reads:
“A car tire named Robert rolls through the desert Southwest using its strange psychic powers to blow up birds, bunnies, human beings and more.”
Yes, someone actually made a movie like this.
The movie follows the homicidal tire’s journey as it embarks on a killing spree at motels, on highways, etc. And it is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. Meanwhile, there’s
more to the story, as the bespectacled man hands out his binoculars to the “specta-tors” – people who have come to watch the movie live as it is taking place. It’s all incredibly confusing, with an “Inception”-like twist that messes with your mind – it’s essentially a movie within a movie.
I would recommend this film, classified as a French comedy, to anyone who enjoys awk-ward humor, pointless details and a perplexing plot line. Yes, it’s cheesy, and yes, it’s low budget, but it will definitely leave you feeling enlightened and confused at the same time – a dynamic extremely difficult to conjure.
COLUMN | FASHION
Season’s favorite color, oxblood, wearable on nails, bags and pantsBy Becky Robinson
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a huge advocate of the whole “color of the season” deal. But, for fall/winter 2012, I’m jump-ing on the fashion bandwagon and pledging my support for oxblood.
Oxblood doesn’t have the most glamorous name in the industry; in fact, it’s kind of gro-tesque. This aside, the actual color – a deep, brownish red – is absolutely to die for and can be worn or accessorized in a vari-ety of ways.
The easiest way to rock oxblood is accessories. As I type this, I’m sporting the deep shade on my fingernails in Essie’s Sole Mates, which you can grab at Target or Ulta for about $8. A cheaper option would be Revlon’s Vixen, which goes for about $4. Both give you deep, sultry pops of oxblood without having to swathe yourself in the color.
Another great way to acces-sorize with this season’s hot shade is with lipstick. Admittedly on the darker side, this look isn’t
for the faint of heart. For the best results, keep the rest of your makeup simple: clean black lashes and a matte foundation. Clarins Rouge Prodige lipstick is a fabulous choice for oxblood lips; it’s hydrating without being glossy and matte without being dry.
The last and bolder way to wear oxblood is a great over-sized bag. Since oxblood is such a rich color, choose a rich texture to compliment the shade, like leather. Most genuine leather bags are going to put a dent in your wallet, so my recommenda-tion is to make sure you really like this trend before diving in. That being said, Tom Ford’s calf-skin oxblood purse is my favor-ite choice. Available at Neiman Marcus, this bag is sure to go fast, so get one while you can.
So, if you’ve taken a fancy to the oxblood craze, it’s time for an even bolder way to express yourself. Instead of accessoriz-ing yourself, make oxblood your statement. One way to do this is with a great pair of pants. Everyone knows I love and wholeheartedly recommend
skinnies, but oxblood works with other styles and textures, as well. Whether you’re rock-ing high-waisted silk trousers or leather leggings, oxblood is your color. Retailers everywhere are stocking up on this trend, so wherever your store of choice is, I promise they’ll have an oxblood option.
With everyone on campus rocking knee-high brown boots, oxblood can be your way to stand apart. Dr. Martens offer their classic edgy boot with an oxblood twist that you can buy on their website. If you want a taller shoe, DSW’s online store and outlets have a plethora of oxblood shoes ranging in price from steal to splurge.
No matter how daring you feel this fall, oxblood is one trend everyone can make work. It works on every skin tone and every body type – and even in every temperature (for those November days when it’s still 80 degrees outside). If you’re trepid about trying on oxblood, start small to make sure you like this season’s hottest trend before diving in.
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Crimson Tide rallies to defeat LSU Tigers 21-17 in fi nal minute of thriller in Baton Rouge
Although the LSU Tigers dominated the clock during Saturday night’s game in Death Valley, the Alabama Crimson Tide was able to come away with the win after a few defi ning plays from some of Alabama’s big-gest names. AJ McCarron closed the fi rst half by running in a touchdown, leaving the score 14-3 at the half, while TJ Yeldon secured the win for the Tide by running in a touchdown with 51 seconds left in the game. CW | Jingyu Wan
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298 |Zach Mettenberger had a career day with 298 passing yards and a touchdown against Alabama’s vaunted defense.
104 | T. J. Yeldon gained 104 total yards and a touchdown, including a 28-yard reception for the game-winning score.
93,374 |A Tiger Stadium record of 93,374 fans were on hand to witness the showdown in Death Valley.
25 |Alabama is now 25-9-2 against LSU in Baton Rouge, La.
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By Charlie PotterContributing Writer
Alabama started off sluggish but finished strong to upend the Mississippi State Bulldogs Sunday, Nov. 4 at the Newell-Grissom Building.
The Crimson Tide dropped the first set 22-25, but it claimed the final three 26-24, 25-17 and 25-23, respectively.
Alabama improved to 15-12, with a conference record of 4-11, while Mississippi State fell to 4-20 and 0-15 in the SEC.
“We’ve got such a young team and playing so many young play-ers, I think any win continues to build confidence,” head coach Ed Allen said. “That’s important to us as we finish down the stretch. We’ve got five matchups left, and I think all five are winnable matches.”
The Tide struggled in the first set, and the Bulldogs took advan-tage of Alabama’s sloppy play.
“I think we just need to be consistent and keep our compo-sure,” senior outside hitter Kayla Fitterer said. “We came out in the first set and just weren’t consis-tent. We had a lot of errors.”
But Fitterer and company tightened their efforts and took
control of the game.Alabama blocked a season-
high 14 team blocks, but Allen thought the team could have had more on Sunday.
“We’ve got to get better defen-sively, particularly in the back row,” Allen said. “I know we had a season high in [team] blocks, but we easily could have blocked 20-23 balls today. But we spent a good chunk of the season fortunate to have three blocks, and here we’ve almost got five times that.”
Several Tide players set career highs in Starkville, Miss. Leigh Moyer, Laura Steiner and Kanesha Burch each posted per-sonal bests in total blocks and assisted blocks. Senior Kelsey Melito recorded 16 digs, her own career record.
Allen was especially pleased with junior middle blocker Burch.
“Kanesha came up huge for us,” Allen said. “She’s going to get those opportunities when people choose to release on our outside hitters, and she’s going to get a chance to go one-on-one. She did a great job for an extremely high percentage. When we’ve got a middle that’s doing, that you’ve got a chance.”
Fitterer finished with 15 kills, 15 digs and a .279 hitting
percentage. Sophomore outside hitter Pricilla Duke-Ezeji led the Tide with 19 kills. Junior defen-sive specialist Christina Areanas posted a team-high 23 digs.
Four players ended the game with double digit kills. The offen-sive balance is something that Allen wants his team to harness as it closes out the regular season.
Compared to last year’s team, the Tide has drastically improved and matured up to this point in the season. Allen has noticed the change in a year’s time.
“Oh my gosh, it’s so much bet-ter, it’s unreal, “Allen said. “We’re a whole lot more competitive.
This team’s more physical, it’s more balanced, it’s more offen-sive than last year’s team. It’s just going to continue to grow and get better.”
I’m most pleased that we chose to compete in a difficult situation because last year’s team would not have won this match. This year’s team is at least fighting to the very end and represent-ing The University of Alabama in a way that it deserves to be represented.”
Alabama’s next three games will be in Foster Auditorium, starting Friday with the Kentucky Wildcats.
Crimson Tide defeats Miss. State
By Mary Grace ShowfetyStaff Reporter
If you go to an Alabama wom-en’s basketball game this year, you may not recognize the team in crimson.
The Crimson Tide returns to action in its first exhibition game tonight at 6:30 p.m. against Stillman.
The team is anxious to get started and prove they are better than the team that finished with a 12-19 record and fell to South Carolina in the first round of the SEC Tournament last year.
Senior Celiscia Farmer said the team could not be more excited.
“We’re just going to go out there and do what we know we can do – the things we didn’t have the opportunity to do last year due to injury,” Farmer said. “We’re ready.”
To ensure improvement this season, the Tide has taken on a few additions to the coaching staff, as well as the roster.
In the offseason, the Tide announced the addition of former Palm Beach Atlantic University head coach, Clarisse Garcia, act-ing as the new assistant coach. Just a few weeks later, there was another announcement of an addi-tional three coaches; Tim Miller, Donnie Quinn and former Tide standout, Ericka Russell, as direc-tor of player development.
Miller joins the Tide after serv-ing as the women’s head coach at Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala. and Quinn, from just down the road at Hoover High School in Hoover, Ala.
On the court, the Tide has brought in three freshmen to liven things up: Nikki Hegstetter, Emily Davis and Jasmine Steele.
Head coach Wendell Hudson is very pleased with the fresh faces.
“Of the three freshmen coming in, Nikki, of course, is playing well for us,” Hudson said. “She’ll give us some help in the posts. Emily is really a unique player; she can shoot the basketball at her size and get a really good shot off. Then, there’s Jas, the little point guard, and now she’s excited.”
After transferring from
Samford and walking on to the team, Brittany Jack adds another forward to the roster.
This season also marks the end of a redshirt season after transfer-ring from Rutgers for point guard Daisha Simmons and forward Bree Hutchen.
Hutchen, a captain, was a bit unhappy with the preseason polls that landed the Tide very last in the SEC.
“It was just kind of funny. It was like a slap in the face, but we took it in a positive way, and we know that we’re not going to be dead last, and we accept the challenge,” Hutchen said. “We can’t wait to prove ourselves right and show that all the hard work we did over the summer is going to pay off.”
Hutchen is not the only one who feels secure in the team’s abil-ity. Hudson said the depth in this year’s squad is something he has not had in quite some time.
Another huge issue sur-rounding last year’s squad was injury, but as this season quickly approaches, everyone remains healthy, including Kaneisha Horn, who was forced to sit out last year after having surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
“I think the biggest thing about this season is that we have enough players to compete in the SEC,” Hudson said. “We have enough players to compete. Last year, we got down to – health-wise – eight players. Seven players, really. But we have 14 now, and all are com-peting.”
The team has set aside three main goals for the season: to remain undefeated in nonconfer-ence play, to finish in the top five of the SEC and, finally, to make it to the NCAA tournament.
“This is my fifth year being the head coach at Alabama,” Hudson said, “I told Coach Moore when I took over this program, it was going to take us five years to get to where we wanted to be and to have enough SEC players to be competitive. The first three years, we got better every year; last year, with injuries, that was another story. But we’re doing it the right way with everything, and we’re headed in the right direction.”
Women’s basketball will kick off season tonight in exhibition
By Aldo AmatoStaff Reporter
The Alabama men’s tennis team showed signs of rebirth cap-ping off a weekend full of victories with an impressive individual showing Sunday at the Crimson Tide Fall Championships.
The Crimson Tide Fall Championships tournament brought out smaller schools from the region as host Alabama looked to improve on their fall season. Tulane, Jackson State, UAB and Middle Tennessee State University were among the schools invited to the tournament.
Head coach George Husack said the competition, though small, posed a challenge for his young team.
“I thought competition was
good, and I thought it was solid,” he said. “I think when you have a tournament that forces you to play this format, I don’t think it matters who your opponent is. All the schools were great and brought a different element, and, in some cases, we not only had to battle them, but also battle our-selves, as well.”
The Tide men kicked off the weekend on Friday by securing eight victories in doubles play. Sophomore David Vieyra and junior Daniil Proskura won both of their doubles matches against Tulane and UAB, respectively and advanced early on. Junior Carlos Taborga and sophomore Rens van der Vis also won a pair of their doubles matches against Southern Miss and Furman. They advanced as while red-shirt freshman Brian Conlon
and sophomore Stuart Kenyon posted wins over West Alabama. Furman and also advanced.
“I think we competed well throughout the weekend,” Husack said. “That’s exactly what we wanted to do, and we got better each match.”
On Saturday, the Tide con-tinued their winning ways, capturing 14 victories. In the doubles final, the Taborga and van der Vis tandem won their draw 8-6 over South Alabama’s Daniel Leitner and Bake Gregor. Teammates Conlon and Kenyon also won their doubles draw final match 8-6 over South Alabama.
In singles Jaryd Botha won both of his matches against MTSU and Tulane and advanced to the finals while teammates Harris Barnard and Van der Vis locked up a match against one
another in the finals after win-ning both of their matches in their bracket.
Husack said he was impressed by his young players throughout the weekend, starting with fresh-man Becker O’Shaughnessey.
“I think this weekend was a learning weekend for Becker,” he said. “In terms of maturity, he realized when you have opportu-nities, you have to capitalize on them.”
O’Shaughnessey won his singles match on Sunday, along with teammate Van der Vis, and helped the Tide secure 31 total victories for the entire tourna-ment.
“Sunday’s results were not as plentiful as the other days,” Husack said. “But, overall this weekend, I thought we competed well.”
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The reality is that champion-ship teams find a way to win.
The Crimson Tide needed all 60 minutes to escape Death Valley with a 21-17 victory over the Tigers. This game was a heavyweight slugfest, dominated by LSU for 58 minutes of play.
Alabama’s vaunted defense was gashed for more than 400 yards. LSU possessed the ball for nearly 40 of the 60 minutes. Zach Mettenberger shred-ded Alabama’s secondary for 298 yards and a touchdown. Everything fell into place for
LSU to pull the upset. But just when it looked like Alabama was knocked out, the Tide gathered its footing for a stand-ing eight count and had a Rocky-like comeback.
“I told our guys we would have to overcome a lot of adversity to win a game here,” head coach Nick Saban said.
Overcome they did. Alabama hadn’t trailed a game in the fourth quarter since the 2010 Iron Bowl. Each game has been essentially over by halftime this season, so there were questions of how McCarron and company would respond to adversity in a tough road environment.
Those questions were answered as Alabama went 72 yards in five plays for the
go-ahead touchdown, giving McCarron his Heisman moment on a national stage.
“I just love moments like that,” McCarron said. “I like having the ball in pressure situations.”
McCarron led a surgical final drive and never let the pressure get to him. The junior found wide receiver Kevin Norwood for 18 yards on the first play, 15 yards on the second and 11 yards on the third. He went to him a fourth time, but the pass sailed out of the back of the end zone. The incomplete pass was a bless-ing in disguise.
LSU played soft zone coverage on first downs, but sent pressure on second and third downs for most of the game when Alabama was behind in the down and
distance. Alabama countered with runs up the middle and quick passes.
So, when the offensive play can down the pipe line, every Alabama coach anticipated what the Tigers would call on defense.
“They blitzed,” Saban said. “When we called that play, every-one on the headset was saying, ‘I hope they pressure.’”
LSU predictably sent pres-sure with cornerback Jalen Mills, who didn’t get there in time. McCarron floated the ball over Mills’ head to running back T.J. Yeldon, who took care of the rest. Yeldon outran linebacker Kevin Minter, juked safety Craig Loston and crossed the goal line as a diving Barkevious Mingo fell to his feet.
Yeldon’s legend continues to grow at Alabama. He leads the team with 725 rushing yards and has eight total touchdowns. He finished with 104 total yards and a touchdown. After the fumble at the goal line on the exchange between him and McCarron, the duo bounced back to save the day for Alabama.
As Yeldon crossed the goal line, he took away the Tigers’ chance of making the national championship and gave Alabama fans even more reason to believe this team is built to repeat.
“I saw one guy coming towards him, but I’ll take T.J. one-on-one,” McCarron said. “That kid is a freak of nature, and I’ll take him one-on-one any day.”
A Tiger Stadium record of
93,374 screaming fans went from deafening to silent in a matter of seconds – all except a small pock-et of crimson lovers that explod-ed as Alabama took the lead.
“I kept looking around, like is there a flag or something,” cen-ter Barrett Jones said. “It felt so unreal.”
Only it was real. Just as real as Alabama’s chances of making trips to Atlanta and Miami this postseason.
Alabama only needs a win over Texas A&M to officially clinch the SEC West and earn a spot in the SEC Championship game for the first time since 2009.
So, the reality is that this Alabama team has a serious chance of making some history of its own.
FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1
Yeldon scores to win with 51 seconds left
Ballot languageJohnson, a public opinion
pollster, has been tracking the public’s reaction to the proposed amendment. He said that polled Alabamians favor “public educa-tion at public expense” 92 percent of the time, but voters may not understand the language on the ballot.
“If you use the ballot language, the amendment passes about
60/40. When you define what it does, it fails 60/40,” Johnson said. “If you read the ballot language on Amendment 4, there is no way for you to know what it really does. It’s dishonest, misleading. What it doesn’t say is that it reaf-firms the 1956 amendment.”
Opponents of Amendment 4 argue that Amendment 111 was struck down in the 1990s, declared unconstitutional by a circuit court. This ruling, they argue, revalidated the original 1901 wording of the constitution, returning the right of public edu-cation to the state.
“The 1901 statement
[claiming public education as a right] is current,” Johnson said. “If [Alabamians] vote ‘yes,’ they are reaffirming the 1956 amend-ment [eliminating the guarantee to education.]”
Proponents of Amendment 4 disagree. Senator Arthur Orr (R), sponsor of the amendment, said the narrative has been “hijacked.”
“Amendment 4 does not impact the right to public education,” Orr said. “The amendment has been narrowly tailored to avoid it.”
Orr said he proposed the amendment to make Alabama more attractive to businesses and thought the amendment would
have little opposition. He said many of the most vocal critics of the amendment are or have been on the AEA payroll.
He cited a letter from the Alabama Law Institute with the opinion that the amendment would not affect the right to public education.
Craig Baab, director of the Constitutional Revision Project at the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, agreed. The fact of the matter is, Baab said, there is no right to public educa-tion in Alabama right now.
“What’s confusing everybody is where it’s like, ‘If you vote for
this, you’re voting to remove the right to public education,’ but any way you read the constitution right now, 111 is still in there,” Baab said. “This is very unset-tled law, but you have to look to something.”
Baab said that in any copy of the state constitution viewed now, the clause against the right to public education still stands.
Martha Morgan, emeritus professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, said this is due not to law, but the legisla-ture, and has no bearing on what the law actually is. Morgan teach-es constitutional law and was an
attorney for the plaintiff in one of the cases challenging amend-ment 111 in the 1990s.
Morgan said Amendment 111 removing the guarantee to pub-lic education was struck down in 1991. After a confusing mess of more than a decade, the Alabama Supreme Court vacated the case – except to say that the denial of public education as a right was unconstitutional.
“There are good people on all sides of [the controversy],” Morgan said. “I think it’s a mess that we’ve gotten into it. Given that we’re in it, I know what side I have to be on.”
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