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Culture 8

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GAMEDAY

NEWS | BLOCK SEATING CULTURE | GARDEN PROJECT

By Sarah Elizabeth TookerContributing Writer

The SGA will release on Friday the results of its reformed block seating alloca-tion process along with a map showing where student organi-zations blocks will be in the sta-dium according to SGA Press Secretary Meagan Bryant

Bryant said in a statement that the Student Organization Seating map will be publicized Friday Sept 7 by 5 pm

ldquoAfter applications were submitted along with an appli-cation fee the applicationsrsquo scores were determined by Campus Labs software and a map was made accordinglyrdquo Bryant said ldquoThe grading scores and applications are password protected which eliminates the possibility of altering any scoresrdquo

While SGA is tackling the issue of block seating the ACT card office is working to remind students of the Universityrsquos rules for seating in the sta-dium advising students to get into the game a minimum of an hour before kickoff as gates open two and half hours before

ldquoLines will be very long so expect delaysrdquo the ACT card website says ldquoGive yourself 60 to 90 minutes to get into the stadium whether or not you participate in student organi-zation seatingrdquo

The website also makes clear that block seating is only in effect for a while before the game

ldquoStudent organization seat-ing is in effect until 45 min-utes before kickoff or capacity is reached in the lower bowl whichever comes firstrdquo it says

Additionally for every ticket a student does not use or trans-fer by halftime 15 penalty points will be assigned to their account If you do not donate

SGA to release seat map Friday

CULTURE | PRESIDENT GUY BAILEY

Welcome home Guy BaileyPresidentrsquos Mansion

Bathroom

Kitchen

Living Room

Parlor

Dining Room

Stair Hall

Rear Dining Room

Portico

Elevator

CW | Shannon Auvil and Whitney Hendrix

By Lauren FergusonCulture Editor

Set back from the bus-tling traffic of University Boulevard sits the icon-ic white house of the University the Presidentrsquos Mansion Overlooking the heart of campus the ante-bellum home represents not just the residence of campus leaders but a historical arti-fact preserved for over 170 years

ldquoEarly on the building was so big and stunning

that it was a focal point of the campus and it survived the Civil Warrdquo Tom Land insti-tutional records analyst for The University of Alabama said ldquoYou have a his-tory with it ndash itrsquos one of those b u i l d i n g s that did sur-vive So itrsquos something that we all have in com-mon that every alum has ndash itrsquos the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo

The building which was constructed between 1839

and 1841 was not origi-nally included in the cam-pus plans according to University records UArsquos second president the Rev

Basil Manly and the Board of Trustees passed a reso-lution in 1838 appropriating funds for the building

ldquoOriginally it was not intended to be thererdquo Land

said ldquoDr Manly wanted it to be a part of campus near the academic buildings and thatrsquos why it was located in

the place that it is I like it better this way because it makes the president a part of the campus He is right there in the middle of every-thingrdquo

The mansionrsquos construc-tion was planned and super-vised by architect Michael Barry and was designed on a large scale for the era The original cost for building totaled $18000 and exceeded what the Board of Trustees intended to spend Included in the plans were a wooden barn and carriage house a privy a washhouse a kitch-en and two slave quarters

ldquoItrsquos something that we all have in common that every alum has ndash itrsquos the

Presidentrsquos Mansion

mdash Tom Land

Antebellum house an Alabama icon

SEE MANSION PAGE 7

By Courtney StinsonStaff Reporter

Gardening is more than just a hobby for the Druid City Garden Project The nonprofit organization uses gardening in schools to teach children skills likes math nutrition and science The project will further branch out and host its first Garden Party fund-raiser with food drinks and live music Sunday from 5 to 7 pm at LampN Train Station

At the fundraiser sever-al local restaurants will be paired with local farmers to serve dishes using that farm-errsquos produce Carpe Vino will host a wine tasting for the VIP section and beer and spir-its will be provided by Good People Brewing Company

The Druid City Garden Project began in 2010 as a way to connect Tuscaloosa residents with locally grown sustainable food Students at University Place and Stillman Heights Elementary School work in the garden twice a week and sell their produce at subsidized prices at their weekly on-site farm stand

For DCGP executive direc-tor Lindsay Turner the proj-ectrsquos success is apparent in the positive enthusiastic response from both students and administrators It has also succeeded in getting children excited to try new unconventional foods In the past students have even declared Kohlrabi also known as a German turnip as their favorite vegetable

ldquoThe biggest indicator [of our success] is that the admin-istration teachers and school board are really enthusiastic and they want us to expand into other schoolsrdquo Turner said ldquoThe biggest thing for me personally is to see all these kids at such a young age get so excited and willing to try different foodsrdquo

Druid City gardeners raise funds with party

UArsquos point system to discourage skipping

SEE GAMEDAY PAGE 3

Wine tasting and music on schedule

SEE GARDEN PARTY PAGE 9

NEWS | DENNY CHIMES

By Jared DowningContributing Writer

The University of Alabama already honors nationally recognized stu-dents with scholarships and grants but it is add-ing a new accolade to the list a song played from Denny Chimes

Twice a day for the past two weeks the Chimes jingled UArsquos brand new tune ldquoCelebrating Achievementrdquo to honor Rhodes scholars Truman scholars National Merit winners and any other recipients of awards at the

national levelNow the Chimes will

play the song every time a student or faculty member receives a national award along with an email from Student Affairs identify-ing the honoree

ldquoItrsquos using one tradition to honor anotherrdquo said Debbie Lane University spokeswoman who helped with the project

Lane said the idea came from Provost Judy Bonner who thought it was time to add academic achieve-ment to the list of occa-sions for the University to fire up the 83-year-old

25-bell campanileldquoWe feel like it will be

played a lotrdquo Lane saidThe University already

boasts 15 Rhodes Scholars 37 Goldwater Scholars and eight T r u m a n S c h o l a r s and thatrsquos not includ-ing faculty and staff who are also eligible for a musical s h o u t - o u t for national recognition

The song was com-posed this summer by UA School of Music graduate student Amir Zaheri and was played multiple times

over the past two weeks to make it as recogniz-able as anything else on the Chimes playlist Lane said

N a t i o n a l M e r i t Scholarship winner Katie

Bauer said she appre-ciates the honor but h a d n rsquo t noticed the song at all during the last two weeks

ldquoI feel like even if I had

heard it I wouldnrsquot have known what it was aboutrdquo she said ldquoBut I really think itrsquos a cool idea espe-cially if they advertise

it morerdquoBut Bauer says the

University always cel-ebrated achievement in an even deeper way The National Merit Corporation gave her a textbook grant but the University topped it with full tuition and housing a study abroad grant and a laptop computer Without the aid she wouldnrsquot have been able to pay for col-lege

ldquoIrsquom proud of the stu-dents but Irsquom really just proud of the University for being good Irsquove had great classes great professors and great opportunitiesrdquo Bauer said

Now she has a place in the Chimes

Denny Chimes celebrates success of Universityrsquos national scholars

ldquoItrsquos using one tradition to

honor another

mdash Debbie Lane

New song lsquoCelebrating Achievementrsquo to play for Bamarsquos academic accolades

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Where L amp N Station

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When 3 - 6 pm

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When 5 - 9 pm

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CHARLOTTE NC mdash In dam-age control the Democratic Party abruptly reversed course Wednesday and reinstated lan-guage to the partyrsquos platform asserting that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel The party also reinstated the word ldquoGodrdquo in the platform

The last-minute reversal

followed a day of Democrats defending their platform a per-sonal intervention by President Barack Obama to put God and Jerusalem back into the partyrsquos statement of principles and dissent from some Democrats who were angry that the party changed course again so quick-ly

ldquoObviously it makes me feel a little frustrated that this is

not being truly discussed in a fair just wayrdquo said Rashida Tlaib the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan state Legislature and one of those who objected to the partyrsquos decision to again recog-nize Jerusalem Israelis and Palestinians have competing claims over the city

One of the reversals rein-stated a statement affirming

the God-given potential of Americans which had been dropped from the platform adopted Tuesday

ldquoAs an ordained United Methodist minister I am here to attest that our faith and belief in God is central to the American story and informs the values wersquove expressed in our partyrsquos platformrdquo former Ohio Gov Ted Strickland said ldquoIn addition President Obama recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and our partyrsquos platform should as wellrdquo

In drafting the original plat-form spelling out the partyrsquos principles a party commit-tee dropped language from the 2008 document that sup-ported Jerusalem as the capi-tal of Israel The Democratic National Convention adopted the platform without debate The omission appeared to track US policy as the Obama administration has maintained the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and stressed that the capital of Israel should be determined in a final peace negotiation with the Palestinians White House Press secretary Jay Carney refused earlier this summer in response to questions to say whether Jerusalem was the capital

Republicans whorsquove stressed their support for Jerusalem as

Israelrsquos capital pounced on the party platform Tuesday

ldquoDoes the document accu-rately mirror Barack Obamarsquos viewsrdquo asked former Sen Norm Coleman of Minnesota Republican candidate Mitt Romneyrsquos liaison to the Jewish community ldquoGiven that his top aides have said that the plat-form reflects his policies and given that his official White House spokesman has also refused to name Jerusalem as Israelrsquos capital that is now an urgent question to which the American people deserve an immediate and unequivocal responserdquo

Coleman said the Democratic Party was signaling ldquoa radical shift in its orientation away from Israelrdquo

Democrats went on the defense as they realized theyrsquod caused problems with a key constituency Jewish voters

Republicans claimed victory then pressed Obama to go fur-ther himself

ldquoMitt Romney has consis-tently stated his belief that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel Although todayrsquos voice vote at the Democratic National Convention was unclear the Democratic Party has acknowl-edged Jerusalem as the capital of Israelrdquo Romney spokeswom-an Andrea Saul said

After furor Democrats change platform position on Israel include ldquoGodrdquo

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newsdeskcwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012NEWSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

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Additionally for every ticket a student does not use or trans-fer by halftime 15 penalty points will be assigned to their account If you do not donate your ticket by 5 pm Friday you will receive 5 penalty points

Students with over three pen-alty points will not be eligible

for postseason tickets this year or regular and postseason tick-ets in 2013

Some students agree with the penalties of the point system

Tyler Shaw a junior major-ing in management information systems explained it was a fair way to stop students from sell-ing or not using all their tickets and making a profit

ldquoIf you donrsquot use or want your ticket why not donate it and not lose the pointsrdquo Shaw said ldquoItrsquos that simplerdquo

Caroline McNair a junior majoring in accounting said the point system helps the south end of the stadium look full of Alabama student pride

ldquoIt not only encourages stu-dents who have bought tickets to attend the game and fill up the student section but also it prevents students from con-stantly purchasing and then wasting tickets that are in such high demandrdquo McNair said

SGA President Matt Calderone agreed that getting

in as early as possible to avoid the long lines is the right idea for students

ldquoI have gone to every football game two hours early since I have attended the Universityrdquo Calderone said

For students who did not pur-chase a student package the waiting list for the ticket bank becomes available at 1 pm Sunday before a home game

Parking is also disrupted due to games so the University requires that students who

park on Colonial Drive and in the Tutwiler lot must move to other orange lots such as Hayden Harris or the Campus Drive Parking Deck Fines of $100 will be issued to cars that are not moved from these lots by 5 pm Friday and cars will be towed at their ownersrsquo expense

UA students enter Bryant-Denny through Gate 31 and block seating will be in effect until 45 minutes before game time

GAMEDAY FROM PAGE 1

University restates stadium rules ldquoIt not only encourages students

who have bought tickets to at-tend the game and fill up the

student section but also it pre-vents students from constantly purchasing and then wasting tickets that are in such high

demand

mdash Caroline McNair

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Statistically speaking you should be waryBy Nathan JamesStaff Columnist

Paul Ryan can run a mara-thon in two hours and fifty minutes Itrsquos an impressive figure until you learn that itrsquos not true

When Paul Ryan told the public about his supposed (and if true wildly impres-sive) marathon time he was unhesitating and confident So when it came to light that his actual time was nowhere near that fast he apologized and blamed the error on a ldquoback injuryrdquo

For most this is simply a laughable blunder And compared to many lies itrsquos relatively harmless But in this political climate itrsquos also an example of an alarming trend in political dialogue

Dishonesty is an intrinsic part of politics and ostensi-bly always will be Itrsquos some-thing that we learn to accept and deal with as best we can having long ago accepted that we canrsquot really put a stop to it But by learning to spot new kinds of lies and sift out the genuine from the false we can protect ourselves from the sway of dishonesty

However politicians respond in kind by coming up with new creative and devious ways to disguise questionable information One of their most popular techniques at this time is to take statistics out of context or simply invent numbers to support their claims

The beauty of this tech-nique is that it often allows public figures to bypass the publicrsquos internal filters If Ryan had said that he was very fast Americans would assume that he was exagger-ating and ignore the claim

But when he says that he can run 262 miles in

two hours and fifty minutes his

claim sounds precise offi-

cial and gen-uine

This applies even if he made the number up

By creating statistical data out of thin air or by taking it out of context politicians can take the most outland-ish claims and give them-selves an air of legitimacy For claims that already have some support an invented or out-of-context number can take an embattled prem-ise and set it in concrete

For example during the Democratic National Convention a keynote speaker Julian Castro said that the president has cre-ated 45 million new jobs during his term This is only true if you ignore all the jobs that have been lost during that time According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the actual net gain in jobs during Obamarsquos presidency is closer to 300000

In other words the sta-tistic of 45 million ndash which was recited by the keynote speaker and two others during the convention ndash is inflated by 1400 percent

You may have also heard about US Rep David Cicillinersquos claim that the United States will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year Romneyrsquos unabashed and almost uncontrolled use of the word ldquotrillionrdquo dur-ing his speech or even Clint Eastwoodrsquos exaggerated unemployment claims

Now more than ever poli-ticians are shamelessly cov-ering misinformation with meaningless or conjured ldquostatisticsrdquo

So when yoursquore listen-ing to a speech or reading a statement try not to take things for granted Just because it has a number attached doesnrsquot make it true

Nathan James is a sophomore major-ing in public rela-tions His column runs on Thursday

MCT Campus

Bailey needs to succeed where Witt struggledBy Tray SmithStaff Columnist

The University of Alabama got a new president this week a moment that invites yet another discussion on the lega-cy of our last president Robert Witt may have just moved down the street into the quiet confines of The University of Alabama System but the leg-acy he leaves after eight years in Rose Administration offers several lessons for the next eight years and beyond

Wittrsquos story is by now famil-iar a tremendous increase in the size of our student body an increased emphasis on out-of-state recruiting more financial independence from the state legislature a greatly improved and expanded campus infra-structure and a return to national pre-eminence in ath-letics

The results have been phenomenal for both the University and the surround-ing Tuscaloosa community which has managed to grow and prosper despite the nation-al economic recession

But Wittrsquos success in the business and academic areas of the University have not translated into the cultural growth many students want and need if UA is going to pre-pare students for success in an increasingly diverse society

No President Witt didnrsquot segregate the greek system Many of the premier campus

groups that make only token efforts at inclusivity existed long before he arrived But he didnrsquot really do anything about those issues either

Maybe Witt looking back on a history of morally ambi-tious UA administrators who saw their tenures end quickly chose to focus on areas where he thought he could have the greatest impact Or maybe he just chose to neglect any issue that could threaten his ambi-tious business plan

Whatever his motives his choices can only be understood in the context of the great moral paradox that confronts all lead-ers at UA Is it more prudent to dive straight into the most controversial issues and likely fail or to work within existing structures and traditions to advance gradual changes hop-ing the eventual result will be astounding progress

So far neither approach has proven very successful

Despite the infusion of new students from new places under Wittrsquos leadership the traditions that shape our student life havenrsquot changed much Universities form insti-tutions that reinforce them-selves over time Although we are bringing in thousands of new freshmen each year with diverse backgrounds and dif-ferent perspectives these stu-dents are quickly separated into existing structures and adopt attitudes that reflect those communities

Breaking that cycle takes leadership Today we com-memorate Foster Auditorium as a testament to our prog-ress as a university ndash the place where UA was integrated in 1963 But integration only hap-pened after President Kennedy sent National Guard troops to force the sitting governor of Alabama aside and allow two black students to enroll

Sometimes bold interven-tion is necessary to challenge people to overcome prejudic-es and embrace the highest notions of American equality

On financial and enrollment growth Robert Witt was cer-tainly bold On other issues not so much

Itrsquos not that he didnrsquot call out the National Guard to force a social justice agenda on a reluctant student popu-lation Itrsquos that Witt a vision-ary leader who carried out his plans with remarkable preci-sion at times refused to even have a conversation about the growth of UA as a community And if any president in UA his-tory had the political capital to initiate such a conversation Robert Witt did

His failure to do so prompted criticism not only from people who dislike him but also from people with strong ideologi-cal convictions about the very purpose of public higher edu-cation From the day Abraham Lincoln signed legislation cre-ating land-grant colleges to the passage of the GI Bill and the

establishment of the Pell Grant program public colleges have been seen as gateways to eco-nomic and social opportunity for the middle class Indeed public colleges are responsi-ble more than any other insti-tutions for creating the middle class

When instead they protect privilege so that even students who have pushed themselves to the limit of human potential to earn a spot in college and figure out a way to pay for it are not given the full opportu-nities their college offers they fail not only morally but they fail at their single most impor-tant purpose

UA has opened the gateways of opportunity for thousands of former students across the state and nation both before Witt got here and since he arrived But our love for the University should compel us to open those gateways for every-one who has rightfully entered our campus so that the true breadth of the Alabama expe-rience we have come to love is available to the entire student body

Fulfilling that dream now falls to Guy Bailey who has inherited from Witt a much healthier campus than Witt found when he arrived in 2003 Hopefully he can pick up where Witt left off and succeed where Witt struggled most

Tray Smith is the Online Editor of The Crimson White His column runs on Thursday

Shoes donrsquot make you fast dedication cannot be replaced by governmentTo anyone whorsquos ever run

or merely entertained the thought of running the above statement should seem inher-ently obvious Who hasnrsquot bought a shiny new pair of sneakers in hopes of real-izing their inner Usain Bolt If yoursquore like me that dream never quite materialized No shoe can replace the endur-ance training and devotion necessary to improving onersquos running ability

This principle also carries into the economy in which the initiative and ingenu-ity of individuals cannot be replaced by any degree of gov-ernment administration One would hope that the execu-tive leader acknowledges this guiding principle as any

chance for an economic recov-ery depends on it

In his July 13 speech in Roanoke Va President Obama took a moment to stray from the teleprompter and give America a bit of insight to his philosophy of individual success Referring to Americans who owned businesses he claimed ldquo[they] didnrsquot build that Someone else made that happenrdquo To put the remarks in context the presi-dent was highlighting some of the services government pro-vides such as ldquogreat teach-ersrdquo and ldquoroads and bridgesrdquo Therersquos no denying that the federal government exists to do that which the people and the states cannot do for them-selves But in no way can the

nationrsquos history of prosperity be attributed to government activity

Consider the function of a running shoe A good pair of running shoes does that which our feet cannot do alone Shoes protect the sole of the foot provide arch sup-port and protect the bones and joints of the leg Running barefoot would be quite upsetting to onersquos podiatric comfort In the end though shoes donrsquot make you fast The runner not the shoe takes the initiative to prac-tice train and repeat until his or her performance improves Imagine the outcry that would arise if Puma the maker of Usain Boltrsquos 2012 track shoes were to try to take credit for

the athletersquos numerous gold medals claiming their shoe had won the race Granted the 100-meter world record probably could not have been set by anyone running bare-foot but to emphasize the role of the shoe over that of the runnerrsquos initiative is sim-ply delusional

Yet the president put forth the same logic in his Roanoke speech Throughout his first term Obama tried to orches-trate an economic recovery from Washington His 2009 Recovery Act meant to revi-talize Americarsquos economic engine showered hundreds of billions of federal ndash taxpayer ndash dollars to various public works programs and private enterprises Though deemed a

failure by his own admission Stimulus Round 1 might look like a warm-up stretch com-pared to Obamarsquos agenda in the next four years If the gov-ernment could just hire more teachers build more roads and bridges and fund more public aid programs then we could experience the kind of growth necessary to climb out of the recession President Obama believes the govern-ment is and always has been what makes America prosper-ous Fortunately he is wrong

Thanks to the opportu-nity created by our free eco-nomic system Americans have an inherent desire to pursue prosperity While the Internet ldquodidnrsquot get invented on its ownrdquo as the president

pointed out only private enterprises recognized and developed the economic potential of the Internet

And though we all have ldquogreat teachersrdquo we still strive to rise to the top of our class and in the process raise the bar for our classmates Itrsquos not in our nature as a country to look for a better running shoe when wersquore not at the top of our game but to instead get out on the track and work our butts off until wersquore back at the head of the pack Before we can do this the president must realize we hired him to protect liberty and allow the competitive spirit to flourish

Cruise Hall is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engi-neering

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MCT Campus

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 5

According to Google Trends which measures the fre-quency of keywords queried in the Google search engine ldquolong-boardrdquo searches in the United States have steadily moved up in frequency with year-ly peaks coming in the summer months since 2004 when the system began tallying searches Popularity measured a sharp incline in June 2011 with Google measur-ing double the aver-age of ldquolongboardrdquo searches for 2004 through 2012

Andrew Tielking a senior majoring in economics and long-boarder since age 13 said Googlersquos numbers jive with his anecdot-al knowledge of the practicersquos rise at the University

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or four every day on my way to classesrdquo Tielking said ldquo[Conventional skateboards] had these bursts of popu-larity in the rsquo70s rsquo80s

rsquo90s and early 2000s but it seems like last year and this year have really been the first big longboard boomrdquo

Edroyal Womack a two-year longboarder and junior major-ing in pre-med biology large-ly attributes longboardingrsquos increasing popularity to its use as a mode of transportation on college campuses

ldquoIrsquom sure it is more of a West Coast thing because people that are into surfing and skate-boarding usually longboard as wellrdquo Womack said ldquoI feel like it gets big in college because itrsquos a more enjoyable way to get to class rather than riding a bike or walking

Tuscaloosa isnrsquot known for the big hills and sweeping slopes of the California coast but that hasnrsquot stopped UA stu-dents from hopping on their boards and cruising around town and campus

Madison Sharps a senior majoring in management information systems who has six years of longboarding expe-rience said she primarily rides her board to get to and from class She feels steep descents arenrsquot a prerequisite to enjoy-ing the activity

ldquoI would say itrsquos not really a West Coast thingrdquo Sharps

said ldquoItrsquos more of a transpor-tation-skater-fun thing Where Irsquom from in Florida has barely any hills but itrsquos still fun to dordquo

Brandon Batchelor a junior majoring in marketing said he got hooked two or three months ago when he saw a board in the back of his friendrsquos car and asked to borrow it Like Sharps Batchelor primarily uses his board for on-campus transportation but he never passes up an opportunity to have some fun

ldquoI ride it to class but then I always find myself taking the long way home around the Ferg to take the hill downrdquo he said

Tielking spent all of last school year with a longboard as his only form of transporta-tion He said skating anywhere between six and ten miles every day made for excellent exercise

ldquoI skated to and from class I skated to get groceries I skat-ed to pay my water bill electric billrdquo Tielking said ldquoWhen you ride a lot your calves blow up When you think about it your pushing foot is just flicking back and working that whole time I was afraid lsquoAm I going to have this one monster calf and one small onersquo But the

foot on the board is just busy stabilizing the whole time They both feel really tired by the time yoursquore donerdquo

Despite its relative surge in popularity longboarding remains a niche activity at the University one not everybody is quite used to seeing yet

Tielking and Casey Crooks a senior majoring in biology and environmental science both said their transportation method of choice draws plenty of questioning glances from onlookers

ldquoWhenever I go skate people are like lsquoYoursquore 20 years old and yoursquore on a skateboardrsquo

You have to deal with that a lotrdquo he said

Crooks said he has been told by police officers on several dif-ferent occasions both to get off of the sidewalk and to get outof the road He tries to treat hisboard like a bicycle and keep inthe bike lanes when possible

Naysayers and officers arenrsquot enough to keep Womackfrom getting out and enjoying his experience

ldquoIt makes my day better to board around to each class while listening to some good musicrdquo he said ldquoI ride for fun whenever I can Itrsquos my stress relieverrdquo

They See Me

RollinrsquoBy Jordan Cissell | Staff Reporter

Some pedestrians may hate it and authorities may try to catch them when they ride but the love for longboarding is only growing

around campus According to Michael Brooke in his 1999 book

ldquoThe Concrete Wave The History of Skateboardingrdquo skateboards were first invented in California in the early 1950s These longboard ancestors were built to resemble surfboards and emulate ldquosidewalk surfingrdquo when the waves were down

Longboardingrsquos laid-back surfer-dude origins havenrsquot stopped the trend from tenaciously making its way east and throughout the country in recent years especially in colleges and universities

CW | Caitlin Trotter

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or

four every day on my way to classes

mdash Andrew Tielking

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Let the Swanee Tiger scratch

Let the Yellow Jacket sting

Let the Georgia Bulldog bite

Alabama still is right

And whether win or lose we smile

for thatrsquos Bamarsquos fighting style

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride Crimson Tide

A-L-A-B-A-M-A

Yea Alabama Drown lsquoem Tide

Every lsquoBama manrsquos behind you

Hit your stride

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave

And if a man starts to weaken

Thatrsquos a shame

For Bamarsquos pluck and grit have

Writ her name in Crimson flame

Fight on fight on fight on men

Remember the Rose Bowl wersquoll win then

Go roll to victory

Hit your stride

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride

Crimson Tide Roll Tide Roll Tide

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[[NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 6 | Thursday September 6 2012

For most Alabama fans all it takes is hearing the first few notes to recognize The University of Alabamarsquos fight song ldquoYea Alabamardquo but few know the history of the iconic tune

ldquoYea Alabamardquo was origi-nally written by Ethelred Lundy Sykes editor-in-chief of The Crimson White from 1925 to 1926 in response to a contest held by ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo a UA student humor magazine The publication held the contest due to the stu-dent bodyrsquos desire for an origi-nal fight song according to David M Battles an American Studies Scholar and UA histo-rian

Sykes won a $50 award for his composition and in 1926 and was given the Pan-Hellenic Loving Cup for hav-ing best served the University the previous year according to ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo magazine

Originally in 1926 the fight song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the South but the verse fell out of

fashion and was dropped from the song Battles said

ldquoOmission of the verse was gradual but the verse is just not as memorable tune-wise as the chorus so people do not recall it as well as they recall the chorus which is all you hear nowrdquo Battles said

Another reason the original first verse disappeared was because the Million Dollar Band found it hard to march to in tempo Battles said

ldquoThe verse is not really writ-ten in march style mdash it is a typ-ical 1920s almost jazz tunerdquo he said ldquoThe Million Dollar Band began omitting the verse at some point in time because it is not conducive to being marchedrdquo

The last line normally sung in the fight song ldquoRoll Tide Roll Tiderdquo was not in Sykersquos original lyrics but was added later

Another notable omission from the fight song is a refer-ence to Auburn University one of the Tidersquos biggest rivals of all time

When ldquoYea Alabamardquo was written the rivalry between Alabama and Auburn was in the midst of a 41-year period during which the teams never met on the field according to a 1948 article in The TuscaloosaNews

Skyesrsquo composition replaced the former Alabama fight song ldquoSwingrdquo which belonged to Washington and Lee University

According to ldquoTides of Traditionrdquo edited by Chad Caples the song was com-posed on the Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity piano

Although the song only earned a small reward when it was first written 86 years ago it continues to energize and excite Alabama fans at every sporting event

Dissecting lsquoYea Alabamarsquo

This is a misspelling of lsquoSewaneersquo and it refers to The University of the South in Sewanee Tenn At the time

The University of the South was a member of the SEC and a rival of the

Tide [ ][ ] Both instances of ldquoYellow Jacketsrdquo

refer to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech a part of the

Southeastern conference at the time left the SEC in 1964

This verse was omitted gradually because it was ldquonot as memorable

tune-wise as the chorusrdquo

This refers to the Georgia Bulldogs

[ ]The Bleacher Report listed ldquoYea

Alabamardquo as one of 14 Fight Songs That Call Out Rivals Auburn

though is absent from the song The song was written in the midst of a long suspension of the Iron Bowl

[

[ ]On Jan 1 1926 The University

of Alabama defeated the University of Washington by one

point to win the Rose Bowl

ldquoDixierdquo is the informal name for the Southern United States of which Alabama is considered a

member [ ] This was not in the version Sykes wrote and was added

shortly following the release of the song by Bama fans[ ]

By Adam Mills and Ashanka Kumari | CW Staff

ldquoOriginally in 1926 the fi ght song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the

South but the verse fell out of fashion and was dropped from

the song

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

thenewnormalfancom

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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CHARLOTTE NC mdash In dam-age control the Democratic Party abruptly reversed course Wednesday and reinstated lan-guage to the partyrsquos platform asserting that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel The party also reinstated the word ldquoGodrdquo in the platform

The last-minute reversal

followed a day of Democrats defending their platform a per-sonal intervention by President Barack Obama to put God and Jerusalem back into the partyrsquos statement of principles and dissent from some Democrats who were angry that the party changed course again so quick-ly

ldquoObviously it makes me feel a little frustrated that this is

not being truly discussed in a fair just wayrdquo said Rashida Tlaib the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan state Legislature and one of those who objected to the partyrsquos decision to again recog-nize Jerusalem Israelis and Palestinians have competing claims over the city

One of the reversals rein-stated a statement affirming

the God-given potential of Americans which had been dropped from the platform adopted Tuesday

ldquoAs an ordained United Methodist minister I am here to attest that our faith and belief in God is central to the American story and informs the values wersquove expressed in our partyrsquos platformrdquo former Ohio Gov Ted Strickland said ldquoIn addition President Obama recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and our partyrsquos platform should as wellrdquo

In drafting the original plat-form spelling out the partyrsquos principles a party commit-tee dropped language from the 2008 document that sup-ported Jerusalem as the capi-tal of Israel The Democratic National Convention adopted the platform without debate The omission appeared to track US policy as the Obama administration has maintained the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and stressed that the capital of Israel should be determined in a final peace negotiation with the Palestinians White House Press secretary Jay Carney refused earlier this summer in response to questions to say whether Jerusalem was the capital

Republicans whorsquove stressed their support for Jerusalem as

Israelrsquos capital pounced on the party platform Tuesday

ldquoDoes the document accu-rately mirror Barack Obamarsquos viewsrdquo asked former Sen Norm Coleman of Minnesota Republican candidate Mitt Romneyrsquos liaison to the Jewish community ldquoGiven that his top aides have said that the plat-form reflects his policies and given that his official White House spokesman has also refused to name Jerusalem as Israelrsquos capital that is now an urgent question to which the American people deserve an immediate and unequivocal responserdquo

Coleman said the Democratic Party was signaling ldquoa radical shift in its orientation away from Israelrdquo

Democrats went on the defense as they realized theyrsquod caused problems with a key constituency Jewish voters

Republicans claimed victory then pressed Obama to go fur-ther himself

ldquoMitt Romney has consis-tently stated his belief that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel Although todayrsquos voice vote at the Democratic National Convention was unclear the Democratic Party has acknowl-edged Jerusalem as the capital of Israelrdquo Romney spokeswom-an Andrea Saul said

After furor Democrats change platform position on Israel include ldquoGodrdquo

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Thursday September 6 2012NEWSNEWS

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Additionally for every ticket a student does not use or trans-fer by halftime 15 penalty points will be assigned to their account If you do not donate your ticket by 5 pm Friday you will receive 5 penalty points

Students with over three pen-alty points will not be eligible

for postseason tickets this year or regular and postseason tick-ets in 2013

Some students agree with the penalties of the point system

Tyler Shaw a junior major-ing in management information systems explained it was a fair way to stop students from sell-ing or not using all their tickets and making a profit

ldquoIf you donrsquot use or want your ticket why not donate it and not lose the pointsrdquo Shaw said ldquoItrsquos that simplerdquo

Caroline McNair a junior majoring in accounting said the point system helps the south end of the stadium look full of Alabama student pride

ldquoIt not only encourages stu-dents who have bought tickets to attend the game and fill up the student section but also it prevents students from con-stantly purchasing and then wasting tickets that are in such high demandrdquo McNair said

SGA President Matt Calderone agreed that getting

in as early as possible to avoid the long lines is the right idea for students

ldquoI have gone to every football game two hours early since I have attended the Universityrdquo Calderone said

For students who did not pur-chase a student package the waiting list for the ticket bank becomes available at 1 pm Sunday before a home game

Parking is also disrupted due to games so the University requires that students who

park on Colonial Drive and in the Tutwiler lot must move to other orange lots such as Hayden Harris or the Campus Drive Parking Deck Fines of $100 will be issued to cars that are not moved from these lots by 5 pm Friday and cars will be towed at their ownersrsquo expense

UA students enter Bryant-Denny through Gate 31 and block seating will be in effect until 45 minutes before game time

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Statistically speaking you should be waryBy Nathan JamesStaff Columnist

Paul Ryan can run a mara-thon in two hours and fifty minutes Itrsquos an impressive figure until you learn that itrsquos not true

When Paul Ryan told the public about his supposed (and if true wildly impres-sive) marathon time he was unhesitating and confident So when it came to light that his actual time was nowhere near that fast he apologized and blamed the error on a ldquoback injuryrdquo

For most this is simply a laughable blunder And compared to many lies itrsquos relatively harmless But in this political climate itrsquos also an example of an alarming trend in political dialogue

Dishonesty is an intrinsic part of politics and ostensi-bly always will be Itrsquos some-thing that we learn to accept and deal with as best we can having long ago accepted that we canrsquot really put a stop to it But by learning to spot new kinds of lies and sift out the genuine from the false we can protect ourselves from the sway of dishonesty

However politicians respond in kind by coming up with new creative and devious ways to disguise questionable information One of their most popular techniques at this time is to take statistics out of context or simply invent numbers to support their claims

The beauty of this tech-nique is that it often allows public figures to bypass the publicrsquos internal filters If Ryan had said that he was very fast Americans would assume that he was exagger-ating and ignore the claim

But when he says that he can run 262 miles in

two hours and fifty minutes his

claim sounds precise offi-

cial and gen-uine

This applies even if he made the number up

By creating statistical data out of thin air or by taking it out of context politicians can take the most outland-ish claims and give them-selves an air of legitimacy For claims that already have some support an invented or out-of-context number can take an embattled prem-ise and set it in concrete

For example during the Democratic National Convention a keynote speaker Julian Castro said that the president has cre-ated 45 million new jobs during his term This is only true if you ignore all the jobs that have been lost during that time According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the actual net gain in jobs during Obamarsquos presidency is closer to 300000

In other words the sta-tistic of 45 million ndash which was recited by the keynote speaker and two others during the convention ndash is inflated by 1400 percent

You may have also heard about US Rep David Cicillinersquos claim that the United States will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year Romneyrsquos unabashed and almost uncontrolled use of the word ldquotrillionrdquo dur-ing his speech or even Clint Eastwoodrsquos exaggerated unemployment claims

Now more than ever poli-ticians are shamelessly cov-ering misinformation with meaningless or conjured ldquostatisticsrdquo

So when yoursquore listen-ing to a speech or reading a statement try not to take things for granted Just because it has a number attached doesnrsquot make it true

Nathan James is a sophomore major-ing in public rela-tions His column runs on Thursday

MCT Campus

Bailey needs to succeed where Witt struggledBy Tray SmithStaff Columnist

The University of Alabama got a new president this week a moment that invites yet another discussion on the lega-cy of our last president Robert Witt may have just moved down the street into the quiet confines of The University of Alabama System but the leg-acy he leaves after eight years in Rose Administration offers several lessons for the next eight years and beyond

Wittrsquos story is by now famil-iar a tremendous increase in the size of our student body an increased emphasis on out-of-state recruiting more financial independence from the state legislature a greatly improved and expanded campus infra-structure and a return to national pre-eminence in ath-letics

The results have been phenomenal for both the University and the surround-ing Tuscaloosa community which has managed to grow and prosper despite the nation-al economic recession

But Wittrsquos success in the business and academic areas of the University have not translated into the cultural growth many students want and need if UA is going to pre-pare students for success in an increasingly diverse society

No President Witt didnrsquot segregate the greek system Many of the premier campus

groups that make only token efforts at inclusivity existed long before he arrived But he didnrsquot really do anything about those issues either

Maybe Witt looking back on a history of morally ambi-tious UA administrators who saw their tenures end quickly chose to focus on areas where he thought he could have the greatest impact Or maybe he just chose to neglect any issue that could threaten his ambi-tious business plan

Whatever his motives his choices can only be understood in the context of the great moral paradox that confronts all lead-ers at UA Is it more prudent to dive straight into the most controversial issues and likely fail or to work within existing structures and traditions to advance gradual changes hop-ing the eventual result will be astounding progress

So far neither approach has proven very successful

Despite the infusion of new students from new places under Wittrsquos leadership the traditions that shape our student life havenrsquot changed much Universities form insti-tutions that reinforce them-selves over time Although we are bringing in thousands of new freshmen each year with diverse backgrounds and dif-ferent perspectives these stu-dents are quickly separated into existing structures and adopt attitudes that reflect those communities

Breaking that cycle takes leadership Today we com-memorate Foster Auditorium as a testament to our prog-ress as a university ndash the place where UA was integrated in 1963 But integration only hap-pened after President Kennedy sent National Guard troops to force the sitting governor of Alabama aside and allow two black students to enroll

Sometimes bold interven-tion is necessary to challenge people to overcome prejudic-es and embrace the highest notions of American equality

On financial and enrollment growth Robert Witt was cer-tainly bold On other issues not so much

Itrsquos not that he didnrsquot call out the National Guard to force a social justice agenda on a reluctant student popu-lation Itrsquos that Witt a vision-ary leader who carried out his plans with remarkable preci-sion at times refused to even have a conversation about the growth of UA as a community And if any president in UA his-tory had the political capital to initiate such a conversation Robert Witt did

His failure to do so prompted criticism not only from people who dislike him but also from people with strong ideologi-cal convictions about the very purpose of public higher edu-cation From the day Abraham Lincoln signed legislation cre-ating land-grant colleges to the passage of the GI Bill and the

establishment of the Pell Grant program public colleges have been seen as gateways to eco-nomic and social opportunity for the middle class Indeed public colleges are responsi-ble more than any other insti-tutions for creating the middle class

When instead they protect privilege so that even students who have pushed themselves to the limit of human potential to earn a spot in college and figure out a way to pay for it are not given the full opportu-nities their college offers they fail not only morally but they fail at their single most impor-tant purpose

UA has opened the gateways of opportunity for thousands of former students across the state and nation both before Witt got here and since he arrived But our love for the University should compel us to open those gateways for every-one who has rightfully entered our campus so that the true breadth of the Alabama expe-rience we have come to love is available to the entire student body

Fulfilling that dream now falls to Guy Bailey who has inherited from Witt a much healthier campus than Witt found when he arrived in 2003 Hopefully he can pick up where Witt left off and succeed where Witt struggled most

Tray Smith is the Online Editor of The Crimson White His column runs on Thursday

Shoes donrsquot make you fast dedication cannot be replaced by governmentTo anyone whorsquos ever run

or merely entertained the thought of running the above statement should seem inher-ently obvious Who hasnrsquot bought a shiny new pair of sneakers in hopes of real-izing their inner Usain Bolt If yoursquore like me that dream never quite materialized No shoe can replace the endur-ance training and devotion necessary to improving onersquos running ability

This principle also carries into the economy in which the initiative and ingenu-ity of individuals cannot be replaced by any degree of gov-ernment administration One would hope that the execu-tive leader acknowledges this guiding principle as any

chance for an economic recov-ery depends on it

In his July 13 speech in Roanoke Va President Obama took a moment to stray from the teleprompter and give America a bit of insight to his philosophy of individual success Referring to Americans who owned businesses he claimed ldquo[they] didnrsquot build that Someone else made that happenrdquo To put the remarks in context the presi-dent was highlighting some of the services government pro-vides such as ldquogreat teach-ersrdquo and ldquoroads and bridgesrdquo Therersquos no denying that the federal government exists to do that which the people and the states cannot do for them-selves But in no way can the

nationrsquos history of prosperity be attributed to government activity

Consider the function of a running shoe A good pair of running shoes does that which our feet cannot do alone Shoes protect the sole of the foot provide arch sup-port and protect the bones and joints of the leg Running barefoot would be quite upsetting to onersquos podiatric comfort In the end though shoes donrsquot make you fast The runner not the shoe takes the initiative to prac-tice train and repeat until his or her performance improves Imagine the outcry that would arise if Puma the maker of Usain Boltrsquos 2012 track shoes were to try to take credit for

the athletersquos numerous gold medals claiming their shoe had won the race Granted the 100-meter world record probably could not have been set by anyone running bare-foot but to emphasize the role of the shoe over that of the runnerrsquos initiative is sim-ply delusional

Yet the president put forth the same logic in his Roanoke speech Throughout his first term Obama tried to orches-trate an economic recovery from Washington His 2009 Recovery Act meant to revi-talize Americarsquos economic engine showered hundreds of billions of federal ndash taxpayer ndash dollars to various public works programs and private enterprises Though deemed a

failure by his own admission Stimulus Round 1 might look like a warm-up stretch com-pared to Obamarsquos agenda in the next four years If the gov-ernment could just hire more teachers build more roads and bridges and fund more public aid programs then we could experience the kind of growth necessary to climb out of the recession President Obama believes the govern-ment is and always has been what makes America prosper-ous Fortunately he is wrong

Thanks to the opportu-nity created by our free eco-nomic system Americans have an inherent desire to pursue prosperity While the Internet ldquodidnrsquot get invented on its ownrdquo as the president

pointed out only private enterprises recognized and developed the economic potential of the Internet

And though we all have ldquogreat teachersrdquo we still strive to rise to the top of our class and in the process raise the bar for our classmates Itrsquos not in our nature as a country to look for a better running shoe when wersquore not at the top of our game but to instead get out on the track and work our butts off until wersquore back at the head of the pack Before we can do this the president must realize we hired him to protect liberty and allow the competitive spirit to flourish

Cruise Hall is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engi-neering

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MCT Campus

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 5

According to Google Trends which measures the fre-quency of keywords queried in the Google search engine ldquolong-boardrdquo searches in the United States have steadily moved up in frequency with year-ly peaks coming in the summer months since 2004 when the system began tallying searches Popularity measured a sharp incline in June 2011 with Google measur-ing double the aver-age of ldquolongboardrdquo searches for 2004 through 2012

Andrew Tielking a senior majoring in economics and long-boarder since age 13 said Googlersquos numbers jive with his anecdot-al knowledge of the practicersquos rise at the University

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or four every day on my way to classesrdquo Tielking said ldquo[Conventional skateboards] had these bursts of popu-larity in the rsquo70s rsquo80s

rsquo90s and early 2000s but it seems like last year and this year have really been the first big longboard boomrdquo

Edroyal Womack a two-year longboarder and junior major-ing in pre-med biology large-ly attributes longboardingrsquos increasing popularity to its use as a mode of transportation on college campuses

ldquoIrsquom sure it is more of a West Coast thing because people that are into surfing and skate-boarding usually longboard as wellrdquo Womack said ldquoI feel like it gets big in college because itrsquos a more enjoyable way to get to class rather than riding a bike or walking

Tuscaloosa isnrsquot known for the big hills and sweeping slopes of the California coast but that hasnrsquot stopped UA stu-dents from hopping on their boards and cruising around town and campus

Madison Sharps a senior majoring in management information systems who has six years of longboarding expe-rience said she primarily rides her board to get to and from class She feels steep descents arenrsquot a prerequisite to enjoy-ing the activity

ldquoI would say itrsquos not really a West Coast thingrdquo Sharps

said ldquoItrsquos more of a transpor-tation-skater-fun thing Where Irsquom from in Florida has barely any hills but itrsquos still fun to dordquo

Brandon Batchelor a junior majoring in marketing said he got hooked two or three months ago when he saw a board in the back of his friendrsquos car and asked to borrow it Like Sharps Batchelor primarily uses his board for on-campus transportation but he never passes up an opportunity to have some fun

ldquoI ride it to class but then I always find myself taking the long way home around the Ferg to take the hill downrdquo he said

Tielking spent all of last school year with a longboard as his only form of transporta-tion He said skating anywhere between six and ten miles every day made for excellent exercise

ldquoI skated to and from class I skated to get groceries I skat-ed to pay my water bill electric billrdquo Tielking said ldquoWhen you ride a lot your calves blow up When you think about it your pushing foot is just flicking back and working that whole time I was afraid lsquoAm I going to have this one monster calf and one small onersquo But the

foot on the board is just busy stabilizing the whole time They both feel really tired by the time yoursquore donerdquo

Despite its relative surge in popularity longboarding remains a niche activity at the University one not everybody is quite used to seeing yet

Tielking and Casey Crooks a senior majoring in biology and environmental science both said their transportation method of choice draws plenty of questioning glances from onlookers

ldquoWhenever I go skate people are like lsquoYoursquore 20 years old and yoursquore on a skateboardrsquo

You have to deal with that a lotrdquo he said

Crooks said he has been told by police officers on several dif-ferent occasions both to get off of the sidewalk and to get outof the road He tries to treat hisboard like a bicycle and keep inthe bike lanes when possible

Naysayers and officers arenrsquot enough to keep Womackfrom getting out and enjoying his experience

ldquoIt makes my day better to board around to each class while listening to some good musicrdquo he said ldquoI ride for fun whenever I can Itrsquos my stress relieverrdquo

They See Me

RollinrsquoBy Jordan Cissell | Staff Reporter

Some pedestrians may hate it and authorities may try to catch them when they ride but the love for longboarding is only growing

around campus According to Michael Brooke in his 1999 book

ldquoThe Concrete Wave The History of Skateboardingrdquo skateboards were first invented in California in the early 1950s These longboard ancestors were built to resemble surfboards and emulate ldquosidewalk surfingrdquo when the waves were down

Longboardingrsquos laid-back surfer-dude origins havenrsquot stopped the trend from tenaciously making its way east and throughout the country in recent years especially in colleges and universities

CW | Caitlin Trotter

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or

four every day on my way to classes

mdash Andrew Tielking

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Let the Swanee Tiger scratch

Let the Yellow Jacket sting

Let the Georgia Bulldog bite

Alabama still is right

And whether win or lose we smile

for thatrsquos Bamarsquos fighting style

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride Crimson Tide

A-L-A-B-A-M-A

Yea Alabama Drown lsquoem Tide

Every lsquoBama manrsquos behind you

Hit your stride

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave

And if a man starts to weaken

Thatrsquos a shame

For Bamarsquos pluck and grit have

Writ her name in Crimson flame

Fight on fight on fight on men

Remember the Rose Bowl wersquoll win then

Go roll to victory

Hit your stride

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride

Crimson Tide Roll Tide Roll Tide

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[[NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 6 | Thursday September 6 2012

For most Alabama fans all it takes is hearing the first few notes to recognize The University of Alabamarsquos fight song ldquoYea Alabamardquo but few know the history of the iconic tune

ldquoYea Alabamardquo was origi-nally written by Ethelred Lundy Sykes editor-in-chief of The Crimson White from 1925 to 1926 in response to a contest held by ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo a UA student humor magazine The publication held the contest due to the stu-dent bodyrsquos desire for an origi-nal fight song according to David M Battles an American Studies Scholar and UA histo-rian

Sykes won a $50 award for his composition and in 1926 and was given the Pan-Hellenic Loving Cup for hav-ing best served the University the previous year according to ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo magazine

Originally in 1926 the fight song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the South but the verse fell out of

fashion and was dropped from the song Battles said

ldquoOmission of the verse was gradual but the verse is just not as memorable tune-wise as the chorus so people do not recall it as well as they recall the chorus which is all you hear nowrdquo Battles said

Another reason the original first verse disappeared was because the Million Dollar Band found it hard to march to in tempo Battles said

ldquoThe verse is not really writ-ten in march style mdash it is a typ-ical 1920s almost jazz tunerdquo he said ldquoThe Million Dollar Band began omitting the verse at some point in time because it is not conducive to being marchedrdquo

The last line normally sung in the fight song ldquoRoll Tide Roll Tiderdquo was not in Sykersquos original lyrics but was added later

Another notable omission from the fight song is a refer-ence to Auburn University one of the Tidersquos biggest rivals of all time

When ldquoYea Alabamardquo was written the rivalry between Alabama and Auburn was in the midst of a 41-year period during which the teams never met on the field according to a 1948 article in The TuscaloosaNews

Skyesrsquo composition replaced the former Alabama fight song ldquoSwingrdquo which belonged to Washington and Lee University

According to ldquoTides of Traditionrdquo edited by Chad Caples the song was com-posed on the Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity piano

Although the song only earned a small reward when it was first written 86 years ago it continues to energize and excite Alabama fans at every sporting event

Dissecting lsquoYea Alabamarsquo

This is a misspelling of lsquoSewaneersquo and it refers to The University of the South in Sewanee Tenn At the time

The University of the South was a member of the SEC and a rival of the

Tide [ ][ ] Both instances of ldquoYellow Jacketsrdquo

refer to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech a part of the

Southeastern conference at the time left the SEC in 1964

This verse was omitted gradually because it was ldquonot as memorable

tune-wise as the chorusrdquo

This refers to the Georgia Bulldogs

[ ]The Bleacher Report listed ldquoYea

Alabamardquo as one of 14 Fight Songs That Call Out Rivals Auburn

though is absent from the song The song was written in the midst of a long suspension of the Iron Bowl

[

[ ]On Jan 1 1926 The University

of Alabama defeated the University of Washington by one

point to win the Rose Bowl

ldquoDixierdquo is the informal name for the Southern United States of which Alabama is considered a

member [ ] This was not in the version Sykes wrote and was added

shortly following the release of the song by Bama fans[ ]

By Adam Mills and Ashanka Kumari | CW Staff

ldquoOriginally in 1926 the fi ght song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the

South but the verse fell out of fashion and was dropped from

the song

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

thenewnormalfancom

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Yoursquoll have sweeter dreams for the next few weeks Fantasies abound and are achievable Donrsquot reveal your secrets all at once Th erersquos beauty in anticipation Get into actionLibra (Sept 23-Oct 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Yoursquore very popular but your social life could cause a problem at home Your career could benefi t from the new contacts you make BalanceScorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21) -- Today is a 6 -- New opportunities arise over the next three weeks Take a few days to store away provisions as many as you can Th en go rejuvenate an old bondSagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) -- Today is a 5 -- For the next month itrsquos easier to get away All is not as it appears however Negotiate a trade New possibilities develop while this lastsCapricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Take on more work and make no expensive promises Itrsquos easier to save now Get family to help You have more together than you do apartAquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) -- Today is a 7 -- For the next fi ve weeks delegate as much as possible Investigate long-term partnerships Donrsquot fall for a trick look beyond attractive results Instead seek balance Compassion increasesPisces (Feb 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Work is more fun and gets easier for the next few weeks Yoursquore very attractive now You donrsquot have to know everything yet Your past work speaks well for you

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Additionally for every ticket a student does not use or trans-fer by halftime 15 penalty points will be assigned to their account If you do not donate your ticket by 5 pm Friday you will receive 5 penalty points

Students with over three pen-alty points will not be eligible

for postseason tickets this year or regular and postseason tick-ets in 2013

Some students agree with the penalties of the point system

Tyler Shaw a junior major-ing in management information systems explained it was a fair way to stop students from sell-ing or not using all their tickets and making a profit

ldquoIf you donrsquot use or want your ticket why not donate it and not lose the pointsrdquo Shaw said ldquoItrsquos that simplerdquo

Caroline McNair a junior majoring in accounting said the point system helps the south end of the stadium look full of Alabama student pride

ldquoIt not only encourages stu-dents who have bought tickets to attend the game and fill up the student section but also it prevents students from con-stantly purchasing and then wasting tickets that are in such high demandrdquo McNair said

SGA President Matt Calderone agreed that getting

in as early as possible to avoid the long lines is the right idea for students

ldquoI have gone to every football game two hours early since I have attended the Universityrdquo Calderone said

For students who did not pur-chase a student package the waiting list for the ticket bank becomes available at 1 pm Sunday before a home game

Parking is also disrupted due to games so the University requires that students who

park on Colonial Drive and in the Tutwiler lot must move to other orange lots such as Hayden Harris or the Campus Drive Parking Deck Fines of $100 will be issued to cars that are not moved from these lots by 5 pm Friday and cars will be towed at their ownersrsquo expense

UA students enter Bryant-Denny through Gate 31 and block seating will be in effect until 45 minutes before game time

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demand

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Statistically speaking you should be waryBy Nathan JamesStaff Columnist

Paul Ryan can run a mara-thon in two hours and fifty minutes Itrsquos an impressive figure until you learn that itrsquos not true

When Paul Ryan told the public about his supposed (and if true wildly impres-sive) marathon time he was unhesitating and confident So when it came to light that his actual time was nowhere near that fast he apologized and blamed the error on a ldquoback injuryrdquo

For most this is simply a laughable blunder And compared to many lies itrsquos relatively harmless But in this political climate itrsquos also an example of an alarming trend in political dialogue

Dishonesty is an intrinsic part of politics and ostensi-bly always will be Itrsquos some-thing that we learn to accept and deal with as best we can having long ago accepted that we canrsquot really put a stop to it But by learning to spot new kinds of lies and sift out the genuine from the false we can protect ourselves from the sway of dishonesty

However politicians respond in kind by coming up with new creative and devious ways to disguise questionable information One of their most popular techniques at this time is to take statistics out of context or simply invent numbers to support their claims

The beauty of this tech-nique is that it often allows public figures to bypass the publicrsquos internal filters If Ryan had said that he was very fast Americans would assume that he was exagger-ating and ignore the claim

But when he says that he can run 262 miles in

two hours and fifty minutes his

claim sounds precise offi-

cial and gen-uine

This applies even if he made the number up

By creating statistical data out of thin air or by taking it out of context politicians can take the most outland-ish claims and give them-selves an air of legitimacy For claims that already have some support an invented or out-of-context number can take an embattled prem-ise and set it in concrete

For example during the Democratic National Convention a keynote speaker Julian Castro said that the president has cre-ated 45 million new jobs during his term This is only true if you ignore all the jobs that have been lost during that time According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the actual net gain in jobs during Obamarsquos presidency is closer to 300000

In other words the sta-tistic of 45 million ndash which was recited by the keynote speaker and two others during the convention ndash is inflated by 1400 percent

You may have also heard about US Rep David Cicillinersquos claim that the United States will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year Romneyrsquos unabashed and almost uncontrolled use of the word ldquotrillionrdquo dur-ing his speech or even Clint Eastwoodrsquos exaggerated unemployment claims

Now more than ever poli-ticians are shamelessly cov-ering misinformation with meaningless or conjured ldquostatisticsrdquo

So when yoursquore listen-ing to a speech or reading a statement try not to take things for granted Just because it has a number attached doesnrsquot make it true

Nathan James is a sophomore major-ing in public rela-tions His column runs on Thursday

MCT Campus

Bailey needs to succeed where Witt struggledBy Tray SmithStaff Columnist

The University of Alabama got a new president this week a moment that invites yet another discussion on the lega-cy of our last president Robert Witt may have just moved down the street into the quiet confines of The University of Alabama System but the leg-acy he leaves after eight years in Rose Administration offers several lessons for the next eight years and beyond

Wittrsquos story is by now famil-iar a tremendous increase in the size of our student body an increased emphasis on out-of-state recruiting more financial independence from the state legislature a greatly improved and expanded campus infra-structure and a return to national pre-eminence in ath-letics

The results have been phenomenal for both the University and the surround-ing Tuscaloosa community which has managed to grow and prosper despite the nation-al economic recession

But Wittrsquos success in the business and academic areas of the University have not translated into the cultural growth many students want and need if UA is going to pre-pare students for success in an increasingly diverse society

No President Witt didnrsquot segregate the greek system Many of the premier campus

groups that make only token efforts at inclusivity existed long before he arrived But he didnrsquot really do anything about those issues either

Maybe Witt looking back on a history of morally ambi-tious UA administrators who saw their tenures end quickly chose to focus on areas where he thought he could have the greatest impact Or maybe he just chose to neglect any issue that could threaten his ambi-tious business plan

Whatever his motives his choices can only be understood in the context of the great moral paradox that confronts all lead-ers at UA Is it more prudent to dive straight into the most controversial issues and likely fail or to work within existing structures and traditions to advance gradual changes hop-ing the eventual result will be astounding progress

So far neither approach has proven very successful

Despite the infusion of new students from new places under Wittrsquos leadership the traditions that shape our student life havenrsquot changed much Universities form insti-tutions that reinforce them-selves over time Although we are bringing in thousands of new freshmen each year with diverse backgrounds and dif-ferent perspectives these stu-dents are quickly separated into existing structures and adopt attitudes that reflect those communities

Breaking that cycle takes leadership Today we com-memorate Foster Auditorium as a testament to our prog-ress as a university ndash the place where UA was integrated in 1963 But integration only hap-pened after President Kennedy sent National Guard troops to force the sitting governor of Alabama aside and allow two black students to enroll

Sometimes bold interven-tion is necessary to challenge people to overcome prejudic-es and embrace the highest notions of American equality

On financial and enrollment growth Robert Witt was cer-tainly bold On other issues not so much

Itrsquos not that he didnrsquot call out the National Guard to force a social justice agenda on a reluctant student popu-lation Itrsquos that Witt a vision-ary leader who carried out his plans with remarkable preci-sion at times refused to even have a conversation about the growth of UA as a community And if any president in UA his-tory had the political capital to initiate such a conversation Robert Witt did

His failure to do so prompted criticism not only from people who dislike him but also from people with strong ideologi-cal convictions about the very purpose of public higher edu-cation From the day Abraham Lincoln signed legislation cre-ating land-grant colleges to the passage of the GI Bill and the

establishment of the Pell Grant program public colleges have been seen as gateways to eco-nomic and social opportunity for the middle class Indeed public colleges are responsi-ble more than any other insti-tutions for creating the middle class

When instead they protect privilege so that even students who have pushed themselves to the limit of human potential to earn a spot in college and figure out a way to pay for it are not given the full opportu-nities their college offers they fail not only morally but they fail at their single most impor-tant purpose

UA has opened the gateways of opportunity for thousands of former students across the state and nation both before Witt got here and since he arrived But our love for the University should compel us to open those gateways for every-one who has rightfully entered our campus so that the true breadth of the Alabama expe-rience we have come to love is available to the entire student body

Fulfilling that dream now falls to Guy Bailey who has inherited from Witt a much healthier campus than Witt found when he arrived in 2003 Hopefully he can pick up where Witt left off and succeed where Witt struggled most

Tray Smith is the Online Editor of The Crimson White His column runs on Thursday

Shoes donrsquot make you fast dedication cannot be replaced by governmentTo anyone whorsquos ever run

or merely entertained the thought of running the above statement should seem inher-ently obvious Who hasnrsquot bought a shiny new pair of sneakers in hopes of real-izing their inner Usain Bolt If yoursquore like me that dream never quite materialized No shoe can replace the endur-ance training and devotion necessary to improving onersquos running ability

This principle also carries into the economy in which the initiative and ingenu-ity of individuals cannot be replaced by any degree of gov-ernment administration One would hope that the execu-tive leader acknowledges this guiding principle as any

chance for an economic recov-ery depends on it

In his July 13 speech in Roanoke Va President Obama took a moment to stray from the teleprompter and give America a bit of insight to his philosophy of individual success Referring to Americans who owned businesses he claimed ldquo[they] didnrsquot build that Someone else made that happenrdquo To put the remarks in context the presi-dent was highlighting some of the services government pro-vides such as ldquogreat teach-ersrdquo and ldquoroads and bridgesrdquo Therersquos no denying that the federal government exists to do that which the people and the states cannot do for them-selves But in no way can the

nationrsquos history of prosperity be attributed to government activity

Consider the function of a running shoe A good pair of running shoes does that which our feet cannot do alone Shoes protect the sole of the foot provide arch sup-port and protect the bones and joints of the leg Running barefoot would be quite upsetting to onersquos podiatric comfort In the end though shoes donrsquot make you fast The runner not the shoe takes the initiative to prac-tice train and repeat until his or her performance improves Imagine the outcry that would arise if Puma the maker of Usain Boltrsquos 2012 track shoes were to try to take credit for

the athletersquos numerous gold medals claiming their shoe had won the race Granted the 100-meter world record probably could not have been set by anyone running bare-foot but to emphasize the role of the shoe over that of the runnerrsquos initiative is sim-ply delusional

Yet the president put forth the same logic in his Roanoke speech Throughout his first term Obama tried to orches-trate an economic recovery from Washington His 2009 Recovery Act meant to revi-talize Americarsquos economic engine showered hundreds of billions of federal ndash taxpayer ndash dollars to various public works programs and private enterprises Though deemed a

failure by his own admission Stimulus Round 1 might look like a warm-up stretch com-pared to Obamarsquos agenda in the next four years If the gov-ernment could just hire more teachers build more roads and bridges and fund more public aid programs then we could experience the kind of growth necessary to climb out of the recession President Obama believes the govern-ment is and always has been what makes America prosper-ous Fortunately he is wrong

Thanks to the opportu-nity created by our free eco-nomic system Americans have an inherent desire to pursue prosperity While the Internet ldquodidnrsquot get invented on its ownrdquo as the president

pointed out only private enterprises recognized and developed the economic potential of the Internet

And though we all have ldquogreat teachersrdquo we still strive to rise to the top of our class and in the process raise the bar for our classmates Itrsquos not in our nature as a country to look for a better running shoe when wersquore not at the top of our game but to instead get out on the track and work our butts off until wersquore back at the head of the pack Before we can do this the president must realize we hired him to protect liberty and allow the competitive spirit to flourish

Cruise Hall is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engi-neering

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MCT Campus

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 5

According to Google Trends which measures the fre-quency of keywords queried in the Google search engine ldquolong-boardrdquo searches in the United States have steadily moved up in frequency with year-ly peaks coming in the summer months since 2004 when the system began tallying searches Popularity measured a sharp incline in June 2011 with Google measur-ing double the aver-age of ldquolongboardrdquo searches for 2004 through 2012

Andrew Tielking a senior majoring in economics and long-boarder since age 13 said Googlersquos numbers jive with his anecdot-al knowledge of the practicersquos rise at the University

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or four every day on my way to classesrdquo Tielking said ldquo[Conventional skateboards] had these bursts of popu-larity in the rsquo70s rsquo80s

rsquo90s and early 2000s but it seems like last year and this year have really been the first big longboard boomrdquo

Edroyal Womack a two-year longboarder and junior major-ing in pre-med biology large-ly attributes longboardingrsquos increasing popularity to its use as a mode of transportation on college campuses

ldquoIrsquom sure it is more of a West Coast thing because people that are into surfing and skate-boarding usually longboard as wellrdquo Womack said ldquoI feel like it gets big in college because itrsquos a more enjoyable way to get to class rather than riding a bike or walking

Tuscaloosa isnrsquot known for the big hills and sweeping slopes of the California coast but that hasnrsquot stopped UA stu-dents from hopping on their boards and cruising around town and campus

Madison Sharps a senior majoring in management information systems who has six years of longboarding expe-rience said she primarily rides her board to get to and from class She feels steep descents arenrsquot a prerequisite to enjoy-ing the activity

ldquoI would say itrsquos not really a West Coast thingrdquo Sharps

said ldquoItrsquos more of a transpor-tation-skater-fun thing Where Irsquom from in Florida has barely any hills but itrsquos still fun to dordquo

Brandon Batchelor a junior majoring in marketing said he got hooked two or three months ago when he saw a board in the back of his friendrsquos car and asked to borrow it Like Sharps Batchelor primarily uses his board for on-campus transportation but he never passes up an opportunity to have some fun

ldquoI ride it to class but then I always find myself taking the long way home around the Ferg to take the hill downrdquo he said

Tielking spent all of last school year with a longboard as his only form of transporta-tion He said skating anywhere between six and ten miles every day made for excellent exercise

ldquoI skated to and from class I skated to get groceries I skat-ed to pay my water bill electric billrdquo Tielking said ldquoWhen you ride a lot your calves blow up When you think about it your pushing foot is just flicking back and working that whole time I was afraid lsquoAm I going to have this one monster calf and one small onersquo But the

foot on the board is just busy stabilizing the whole time They both feel really tired by the time yoursquore donerdquo

Despite its relative surge in popularity longboarding remains a niche activity at the University one not everybody is quite used to seeing yet

Tielking and Casey Crooks a senior majoring in biology and environmental science both said their transportation method of choice draws plenty of questioning glances from onlookers

ldquoWhenever I go skate people are like lsquoYoursquore 20 years old and yoursquore on a skateboardrsquo

You have to deal with that a lotrdquo he said

Crooks said he has been told by police officers on several dif-ferent occasions both to get off of the sidewalk and to get outof the road He tries to treat hisboard like a bicycle and keep inthe bike lanes when possible

Naysayers and officers arenrsquot enough to keep Womackfrom getting out and enjoying his experience

ldquoIt makes my day better to board around to each class while listening to some good musicrdquo he said ldquoI ride for fun whenever I can Itrsquos my stress relieverrdquo

They See Me

RollinrsquoBy Jordan Cissell | Staff Reporter

Some pedestrians may hate it and authorities may try to catch them when they ride but the love for longboarding is only growing

around campus According to Michael Brooke in his 1999 book

ldquoThe Concrete Wave The History of Skateboardingrdquo skateboards were first invented in California in the early 1950s These longboard ancestors were built to resemble surfboards and emulate ldquosidewalk surfingrdquo when the waves were down

Longboardingrsquos laid-back surfer-dude origins havenrsquot stopped the trend from tenaciously making its way east and throughout the country in recent years especially in colleges and universities

CW | Caitlin Trotter

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or

four every day on my way to classes

mdash Andrew Tielking

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Let the Swanee Tiger scratch

Let the Yellow Jacket sting

Let the Georgia Bulldog bite

Alabama still is right

And whether win or lose we smile

for thatrsquos Bamarsquos fighting style

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride Crimson Tide

A-L-A-B-A-M-A

Yea Alabama Drown lsquoem Tide

Every lsquoBama manrsquos behind you

Hit your stride

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave

And if a man starts to weaken

Thatrsquos a shame

For Bamarsquos pluck and grit have

Writ her name in Crimson flame

Fight on fight on fight on men

Remember the Rose Bowl wersquoll win then

Go roll to victory

Hit your stride

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride

Crimson Tide Roll Tide Roll Tide

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[[NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 6 | Thursday September 6 2012

For most Alabama fans all it takes is hearing the first few notes to recognize The University of Alabamarsquos fight song ldquoYea Alabamardquo but few know the history of the iconic tune

ldquoYea Alabamardquo was origi-nally written by Ethelred Lundy Sykes editor-in-chief of The Crimson White from 1925 to 1926 in response to a contest held by ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo a UA student humor magazine The publication held the contest due to the stu-dent bodyrsquos desire for an origi-nal fight song according to David M Battles an American Studies Scholar and UA histo-rian

Sykes won a $50 award for his composition and in 1926 and was given the Pan-Hellenic Loving Cup for hav-ing best served the University the previous year according to ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo magazine

Originally in 1926 the fight song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the South but the verse fell out of

fashion and was dropped from the song Battles said

ldquoOmission of the verse was gradual but the verse is just not as memorable tune-wise as the chorus so people do not recall it as well as they recall the chorus which is all you hear nowrdquo Battles said

Another reason the original first verse disappeared was because the Million Dollar Band found it hard to march to in tempo Battles said

ldquoThe verse is not really writ-ten in march style mdash it is a typ-ical 1920s almost jazz tunerdquo he said ldquoThe Million Dollar Band began omitting the verse at some point in time because it is not conducive to being marchedrdquo

The last line normally sung in the fight song ldquoRoll Tide Roll Tiderdquo was not in Sykersquos original lyrics but was added later

Another notable omission from the fight song is a refer-ence to Auburn University one of the Tidersquos biggest rivals of all time

When ldquoYea Alabamardquo was written the rivalry between Alabama and Auburn was in the midst of a 41-year period during which the teams never met on the field according to a 1948 article in The TuscaloosaNews

Skyesrsquo composition replaced the former Alabama fight song ldquoSwingrdquo which belonged to Washington and Lee University

According to ldquoTides of Traditionrdquo edited by Chad Caples the song was com-posed on the Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity piano

Although the song only earned a small reward when it was first written 86 years ago it continues to energize and excite Alabama fans at every sporting event

Dissecting lsquoYea Alabamarsquo

This is a misspelling of lsquoSewaneersquo and it refers to The University of the South in Sewanee Tenn At the time

The University of the South was a member of the SEC and a rival of the

Tide [ ][ ] Both instances of ldquoYellow Jacketsrdquo

refer to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech a part of the

Southeastern conference at the time left the SEC in 1964

This verse was omitted gradually because it was ldquonot as memorable

tune-wise as the chorusrdquo

This refers to the Georgia Bulldogs

[ ]The Bleacher Report listed ldquoYea

Alabamardquo as one of 14 Fight Songs That Call Out Rivals Auburn

though is absent from the song The song was written in the midst of a long suspension of the Iron Bowl

[

[ ]On Jan 1 1926 The University

of Alabama defeated the University of Washington by one

point to win the Rose Bowl

ldquoDixierdquo is the informal name for the Southern United States of which Alabama is considered a

member [ ] This was not in the version Sykes wrote and was added

shortly following the release of the song by Bama fans[ ]

By Adam Mills and Ashanka Kumari | CW Staff

ldquoOriginally in 1926 the fi ght song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the

South but the verse fell out of fashion and was dropped from

the song

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

thenewnormalfancom

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

COLUMN | TELEVISION

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

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five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Statistically speaking you should be waryBy Nathan JamesStaff Columnist

Paul Ryan can run a mara-thon in two hours and fifty minutes Itrsquos an impressive figure until you learn that itrsquos not true

When Paul Ryan told the public about his supposed (and if true wildly impres-sive) marathon time he was unhesitating and confident So when it came to light that his actual time was nowhere near that fast he apologized and blamed the error on a ldquoback injuryrdquo

For most this is simply a laughable blunder And compared to many lies itrsquos relatively harmless But in this political climate itrsquos also an example of an alarming trend in political dialogue

Dishonesty is an intrinsic part of politics and ostensi-bly always will be Itrsquos some-thing that we learn to accept and deal with as best we can having long ago accepted that we canrsquot really put a stop to it But by learning to spot new kinds of lies and sift out the genuine from the false we can protect ourselves from the sway of dishonesty

However politicians respond in kind by coming up with new creative and devious ways to disguise questionable information One of their most popular techniques at this time is to take statistics out of context or simply invent numbers to support their claims

The beauty of this tech-nique is that it often allows public figures to bypass the publicrsquos internal filters If Ryan had said that he was very fast Americans would assume that he was exagger-ating and ignore the claim

But when he says that he can run 262 miles in

two hours and fifty minutes his

claim sounds precise offi-

cial and gen-uine

This applies even if he made the number up

By creating statistical data out of thin air or by taking it out of context politicians can take the most outland-ish claims and give them-selves an air of legitimacy For claims that already have some support an invented or out-of-context number can take an embattled prem-ise and set it in concrete

For example during the Democratic National Convention a keynote speaker Julian Castro said that the president has cre-ated 45 million new jobs during his term This is only true if you ignore all the jobs that have been lost during that time According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the actual net gain in jobs during Obamarsquos presidency is closer to 300000

In other words the sta-tistic of 45 million ndash which was recited by the keynote speaker and two others during the convention ndash is inflated by 1400 percent

You may have also heard about US Rep David Cicillinersquos claim that the United States will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year Romneyrsquos unabashed and almost uncontrolled use of the word ldquotrillionrdquo dur-ing his speech or even Clint Eastwoodrsquos exaggerated unemployment claims

Now more than ever poli-ticians are shamelessly cov-ering misinformation with meaningless or conjured ldquostatisticsrdquo

So when yoursquore listen-ing to a speech or reading a statement try not to take things for granted Just because it has a number attached doesnrsquot make it true

Nathan James is a sophomore major-ing in public rela-tions His column runs on Thursday

MCT Campus

Bailey needs to succeed where Witt struggledBy Tray SmithStaff Columnist

The University of Alabama got a new president this week a moment that invites yet another discussion on the lega-cy of our last president Robert Witt may have just moved down the street into the quiet confines of The University of Alabama System but the leg-acy he leaves after eight years in Rose Administration offers several lessons for the next eight years and beyond

Wittrsquos story is by now famil-iar a tremendous increase in the size of our student body an increased emphasis on out-of-state recruiting more financial independence from the state legislature a greatly improved and expanded campus infra-structure and a return to national pre-eminence in ath-letics

The results have been phenomenal for both the University and the surround-ing Tuscaloosa community which has managed to grow and prosper despite the nation-al economic recession

But Wittrsquos success in the business and academic areas of the University have not translated into the cultural growth many students want and need if UA is going to pre-pare students for success in an increasingly diverse society

No President Witt didnrsquot segregate the greek system Many of the premier campus

groups that make only token efforts at inclusivity existed long before he arrived But he didnrsquot really do anything about those issues either

Maybe Witt looking back on a history of morally ambi-tious UA administrators who saw their tenures end quickly chose to focus on areas where he thought he could have the greatest impact Or maybe he just chose to neglect any issue that could threaten his ambi-tious business plan

Whatever his motives his choices can only be understood in the context of the great moral paradox that confronts all lead-ers at UA Is it more prudent to dive straight into the most controversial issues and likely fail or to work within existing structures and traditions to advance gradual changes hop-ing the eventual result will be astounding progress

So far neither approach has proven very successful

Despite the infusion of new students from new places under Wittrsquos leadership the traditions that shape our student life havenrsquot changed much Universities form insti-tutions that reinforce them-selves over time Although we are bringing in thousands of new freshmen each year with diverse backgrounds and dif-ferent perspectives these stu-dents are quickly separated into existing structures and adopt attitudes that reflect those communities

Breaking that cycle takes leadership Today we com-memorate Foster Auditorium as a testament to our prog-ress as a university ndash the place where UA was integrated in 1963 But integration only hap-pened after President Kennedy sent National Guard troops to force the sitting governor of Alabama aside and allow two black students to enroll

Sometimes bold interven-tion is necessary to challenge people to overcome prejudic-es and embrace the highest notions of American equality

On financial and enrollment growth Robert Witt was cer-tainly bold On other issues not so much

Itrsquos not that he didnrsquot call out the National Guard to force a social justice agenda on a reluctant student popu-lation Itrsquos that Witt a vision-ary leader who carried out his plans with remarkable preci-sion at times refused to even have a conversation about the growth of UA as a community And if any president in UA his-tory had the political capital to initiate such a conversation Robert Witt did

His failure to do so prompted criticism not only from people who dislike him but also from people with strong ideologi-cal convictions about the very purpose of public higher edu-cation From the day Abraham Lincoln signed legislation cre-ating land-grant colleges to the passage of the GI Bill and the

establishment of the Pell Grant program public colleges have been seen as gateways to eco-nomic and social opportunity for the middle class Indeed public colleges are responsi-ble more than any other insti-tutions for creating the middle class

When instead they protect privilege so that even students who have pushed themselves to the limit of human potential to earn a spot in college and figure out a way to pay for it are not given the full opportu-nities their college offers they fail not only morally but they fail at their single most impor-tant purpose

UA has opened the gateways of opportunity for thousands of former students across the state and nation both before Witt got here and since he arrived But our love for the University should compel us to open those gateways for every-one who has rightfully entered our campus so that the true breadth of the Alabama expe-rience we have come to love is available to the entire student body

Fulfilling that dream now falls to Guy Bailey who has inherited from Witt a much healthier campus than Witt found when he arrived in 2003 Hopefully he can pick up where Witt left off and succeed where Witt struggled most

Tray Smith is the Online Editor of The Crimson White His column runs on Thursday

Shoes donrsquot make you fast dedication cannot be replaced by governmentTo anyone whorsquos ever run

or merely entertained the thought of running the above statement should seem inher-ently obvious Who hasnrsquot bought a shiny new pair of sneakers in hopes of real-izing their inner Usain Bolt If yoursquore like me that dream never quite materialized No shoe can replace the endur-ance training and devotion necessary to improving onersquos running ability

This principle also carries into the economy in which the initiative and ingenu-ity of individuals cannot be replaced by any degree of gov-ernment administration One would hope that the execu-tive leader acknowledges this guiding principle as any

chance for an economic recov-ery depends on it

In his July 13 speech in Roanoke Va President Obama took a moment to stray from the teleprompter and give America a bit of insight to his philosophy of individual success Referring to Americans who owned businesses he claimed ldquo[they] didnrsquot build that Someone else made that happenrdquo To put the remarks in context the presi-dent was highlighting some of the services government pro-vides such as ldquogreat teach-ersrdquo and ldquoroads and bridgesrdquo Therersquos no denying that the federal government exists to do that which the people and the states cannot do for them-selves But in no way can the

nationrsquos history of prosperity be attributed to government activity

Consider the function of a running shoe A good pair of running shoes does that which our feet cannot do alone Shoes protect the sole of the foot provide arch sup-port and protect the bones and joints of the leg Running barefoot would be quite upsetting to onersquos podiatric comfort In the end though shoes donrsquot make you fast The runner not the shoe takes the initiative to prac-tice train and repeat until his or her performance improves Imagine the outcry that would arise if Puma the maker of Usain Boltrsquos 2012 track shoes were to try to take credit for

the athletersquos numerous gold medals claiming their shoe had won the race Granted the 100-meter world record probably could not have been set by anyone running bare-foot but to emphasize the role of the shoe over that of the runnerrsquos initiative is sim-ply delusional

Yet the president put forth the same logic in his Roanoke speech Throughout his first term Obama tried to orches-trate an economic recovery from Washington His 2009 Recovery Act meant to revi-talize Americarsquos economic engine showered hundreds of billions of federal ndash taxpayer ndash dollars to various public works programs and private enterprises Though deemed a

failure by his own admission Stimulus Round 1 might look like a warm-up stretch com-pared to Obamarsquos agenda in the next four years If the gov-ernment could just hire more teachers build more roads and bridges and fund more public aid programs then we could experience the kind of growth necessary to climb out of the recession President Obama believes the govern-ment is and always has been what makes America prosper-ous Fortunately he is wrong

Thanks to the opportu-nity created by our free eco-nomic system Americans have an inherent desire to pursue prosperity While the Internet ldquodidnrsquot get invented on its ownrdquo as the president

pointed out only private enterprises recognized and developed the economic potential of the Internet

And though we all have ldquogreat teachersrdquo we still strive to rise to the top of our class and in the process raise the bar for our classmates Itrsquos not in our nature as a country to look for a better running shoe when wersquore not at the top of our game but to instead get out on the track and work our butts off until wersquore back at the head of the pack Before we can do this the president must realize we hired him to protect liberty and allow the competitive spirit to flourish

Cruise Hall is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engi-neering

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MCT Campus

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 5

According to Google Trends which measures the fre-quency of keywords queried in the Google search engine ldquolong-boardrdquo searches in the United States have steadily moved up in frequency with year-ly peaks coming in the summer months since 2004 when the system began tallying searches Popularity measured a sharp incline in June 2011 with Google measur-ing double the aver-age of ldquolongboardrdquo searches for 2004 through 2012

Andrew Tielking a senior majoring in economics and long-boarder since age 13 said Googlersquos numbers jive with his anecdot-al knowledge of the practicersquos rise at the University

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or four every day on my way to classesrdquo Tielking said ldquo[Conventional skateboards] had these bursts of popu-larity in the rsquo70s rsquo80s

rsquo90s and early 2000s but it seems like last year and this year have really been the first big longboard boomrdquo

Edroyal Womack a two-year longboarder and junior major-ing in pre-med biology large-ly attributes longboardingrsquos increasing popularity to its use as a mode of transportation on college campuses

ldquoIrsquom sure it is more of a West Coast thing because people that are into surfing and skate-boarding usually longboard as wellrdquo Womack said ldquoI feel like it gets big in college because itrsquos a more enjoyable way to get to class rather than riding a bike or walking

Tuscaloosa isnrsquot known for the big hills and sweeping slopes of the California coast but that hasnrsquot stopped UA stu-dents from hopping on their boards and cruising around town and campus

Madison Sharps a senior majoring in management information systems who has six years of longboarding expe-rience said she primarily rides her board to get to and from class She feels steep descents arenrsquot a prerequisite to enjoy-ing the activity

ldquoI would say itrsquos not really a West Coast thingrdquo Sharps

said ldquoItrsquos more of a transpor-tation-skater-fun thing Where Irsquom from in Florida has barely any hills but itrsquos still fun to dordquo

Brandon Batchelor a junior majoring in marketing said he got hooked two or three months ago when he saw a board in the back of his friendrsquos car and asked to borrow it Like Sharps Batchelor primarily uses his board for on-campus transportation but he never passes up an opportunity to have some fun

ldquoI ride it to class but then I always find myself taking the long way home around the Ferg to take the hill downrdquo he said

Tielking spent all of last school year with a longboard as his only form of transporta-tion He said skating anywhere between six and ten miles every day made for excellent exercise

ldquoI skated to and from class I skated to get groceries I skat-ed to pay my water bill electric billrdquo Tielking said ldquoWhen you ride a lot your calves blow up When you think about it your pushing foot is just flicking back and working that whole time I was afraid lsquoAm I going to have this one monster calf and one small onersquo But the

foot on the board is just busy stabilizing the whole time They both feel really tired by the time yoursquore donerdquo

Despite its relative surge in popularity longboarding remains a niche activity at the University one not everybody is quite used to seeing yet

Tielking and Casey Crooks a senior majoring in biology and environmental science both said their transportation method of choice draws plenty of questioning glances from onlookers

ldquoWhenever I go skate people are like lsquoYoursquore 20 years old and yoursquore on a skateboardrsquo

You have to deal with that a lotrdquo he said

Crooks said he has been told by police officers on several dif-ferent occasions both to get off of the sidewalk and to get outof the road He tries to treat hisboard like a bicycle and keep inthe bike lanes when possible

Naysayers and officers arenrsquot enough to keep Womackfrom getting out and enjoying his experience

ldquoIt makes my day better to board around to each class while listening to some good musicrdquo he said ldquoI ride for fun whenever I can Itrsquos my stress relieverrdquo

They See Me

RollinrsquoBy Jordan Cissell | Staff Reporter

Some pedestrians may hate it and authorities may try to catch them when they ride but the love for longboarding is only growing

around campus According to Michael Brooke in his 1999 book

ldquoThe Concrete Wave The History of Skateboardingrdquo skateboards were first invented in California in the early 1950s These longboard ancestors were built to resemble surfboards and emulate ldquosidewalk surfingrdquo when the waves were down

Longboardingrsquos laid-back surfer-dude origins havenrsquot stopped the trend from tenaciously making its way east and throughout the country in recent years especially in colleges and universities

CW | Caitlin Trotter

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or

four every day on my way to classes

mdash Andrew Tielking

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Let the Swanee Tiger scratch

Let the Yellow Jacket sting

Let the Georgia Bulldog bite

Alabama still is right

And whether win or lose we smile

for thatrsquos Bamarsquos fighting style

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride Crimson Tide

A-L-A-B-A-M-A

Yea Alabama Drown lsquoem Tide

Every lsquoBama manrsquos behind you

Hit your stride

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave

And if a man starts to weaken

Thatrsquos a shame

For Bamarsquos pluck and grit have

Writ her name in Crimson flame

Fight on fight on fight on men

Remember the Rose Bowl wersquoll win then

Go roll to victory

Hit your stride

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride

Crimson Tide Roll Tide Roll Tide

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[[NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 6 | Thursday September 6 2012

For most Alabama fans all it takes is hearing the first few notes to recognize The University of Alabamarsquos fight song ldquoYea Alabamardquo but few know the history of the iconic tune

ldquoYea Alabamardquo was origi-nally written by Ethelred Lundy Sykes editor-in-chief of The Crimson White from 1925 to 1926 in response to a contest held by ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo a UA student humor magazine The publication held the contest due to the stu-dent bodyrsquos desire for an origi-nal fight song according to David M Battles an American Studies Scholar and UA histo-rian

Sykes won a $50 award for his composition and in 1926 and was given the Pan-Hellenic Loving Cup for hav-ing best served the University the previous year according to ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo magazine

Originally in 1926 the fight song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the South but the verse fell out of

fashion and was dropped from the song Battles said

ldquoOmission of the verse was gradual but the verse is just not as memorable tune-wise as the chorus so people do not recall it as well as they recall the chorus which is all you hear nowrdquo Battles said

Another reason the original first verse disappeared was because the Million Dollar Band found it hard to march to in tempo Battles said

ldquoThe verse is not really writ-ten in march style mdash it is a typ-ical 1920s almost jazz tunerdquo he said ldquoThe Million Dollar Band began omitting the verse at some point in time because it is not conducive to being marchedrdquo

The last line normally sung in the fight song ldquoRoll Tide Roll Tiderdquo was not in Sykersquos original lyrics but was added later

Another notable omission from the fight song is a refer-ence to Auburn University one of the Tidersquos biggest rivals of all time

When ldquoYea Alabamardquo was written the rivalry between Alabama and Auburn was in the midst of a 41-year period during which the teams never met on the field according to a 1948 article in The TuscaloosaNews

Skyesrsquo composition replaced the former Alabama fight song ldquoSwingrdquo which belonged to Washington and Lee University

According to ldquoTides of Traditionrdquo edited by Chad Caples the song was com-posed on the Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity piano

Although the song only earned a small reward when it was first written 86 years ago it continues to energize and excite Alabama fans at every sporting event

Dissecting lsquoYea Alabamarsquo

This is a misspelling of lsquoSewaneersquo and it refers to The University of the South in Sewanee Tenn At the time

The University of the South was a member of the SEC and a rival of the

Tide [ ][ ] Both instances of ldquoYellow Jacketsrdquo

refer to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech a part of the

Southeastern conference at the time left the SEC in 1964

This verse was omitted gradually because it was ldquonot as memorable

tune-wise as the chorusrdquo

This refers to the Georgia Bulldogs

[ ]The Bleacher Report listed ldquoYea

Alabamardquo as one of 14 Fight Songs That Call Out Rivals Auburn

though is absent from the song The song was written in the midst of a long suspension of the Iron Bowl

[

[ ]On Jan 1 1926 The University

of Alabama defeated the University of Washington by one

point to win the Rose Bowl

ldquoDixierdquo is the informal name for the Southern United States of which Alabama is considered a

member [ ] This was not in the version Sykes wrote and was added

shortly following the release of the song by Bama fans[ ]

By Adam Mills and Ashanka Kumari | CW Staff

ldquoOriginally in 1926 the fi ght song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the

South but the verse fell out of fashion and was dropped from

the song

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

thenewnormalfancom

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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According to Google Trends which measures the fre-quency of keywords queried in the Google search engine ldquolong-boardrdquo searches in the United States have steadily moved up in frequency with year-ly peaks coming in the summer months since 2004 when the system began tallying searches Popularity measured a sharp incline in June 2011 with Google measur-ing double the aver-age of ldquolongboardrdquo searches for 2004 through 2012

Andrew Tielking a senior majoring in economics and long-boarder since age 13 said Googlersquos numbers jive with his anecdot-al knowledge of the practicersquos rise at the University

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or four every day on my way to classesrdquo Tielking said ldquo[Conventional skateboards] had these bursts of popu-larity in the rsquo70s rsquo80s

rsquo90s and early 2000s but it seems like last year and this year have really been the first big longboard boomrdquo

Edroyal Womack a two-year longboarder and junior major-ing in pre-med biology large-ly attributes longboardingrsquos increasing popularity to its use as a mode of transportation on college campuses

ldquoIrsquom sure it is more of a West Coast thing because people that are into surfing and skate-boarding usually longboard as wellrdquo Womack said ldquoI feel like it gets big in college because itrsquos a more enjoyable way to get to class rather than riding a bike or walking

Tuscaloosa isnrsquot known for the big hills and sweeping slopes of the California coast but that hasnrsquot stopped UA stu-dents from hopping on their boards and cruising around town and campus

Madison Sharps a senior majoring in management information systems who has six years of longboarding expe-rience said she primarily rides her board to get to and from class She feels steep descents arenrsquot a prerequisite to enjoy-ing the activity

ldquoI would say itrsquos not really a West Coast thingrdquo Sharps

said ldquoItrsquos more of a transpor-tation-skater-fun thing Where Irsquom from in Florida has barely any hills but itrsquos still fun to dordquo

Brandon Batchelor a junior majoring in marketing said he got hooked two or three months ago when he saw a board in the back of his friendrsquos car and asked to borrow it Like Sharps Batchelor primarily uses his board for on-campus transportation but he never passes up an opportunity to have some fun

ldquoI ride it to class but then I always find myself taking the long way home around the Ferg to take the hill downrdquo he said

Tielking spent all of last school year with a longboard as his only form of transporta-tion He said skating anywhere between six and ten miles every day made for excellent exercise

ldquoI skated to and from class I skated to get groceries I skat-ed to pay my water bill electric billrdquo Tielking said ldquoWhen you ride a lot your calves blow up When you think about it your pushing foot is just flicking back and working that whole time I was afraid lsquoAm I going to have this one monster calf and one small onersquo But the

foot on the board is just busy stabilizing the whole time They both feel really tired by the time yoursquore donerdquo

Despite its relative surge in popularity longboarding remains a niche activity at the University one not everybody is quite used to seeing yet

Tielking and Casey Crooks a senior majoring in biology and environmental science both said their transportation method of choice draws plenty of questioning glances from onlookers

ldquoWhenever I go skate people are like lsquoYoursquore 20 years old and yoursquore on a skateboardrsquo

You have to deal with that a lotrdquo he said

Crooks said he has been told by police officers on several dif-ferent occasions both to get off of the sidewalk and to get outof the road He tries to treat hisboard like a bicycle and keep inthe bike lanes when possible

Naysayers and officers arenrsquot enough to keep Womackfrom getting out and enjoying his experience

ldquoIt makes my day better to board around to each class while listening to some good musicrdquo he said ldquoI ride for fun whenever I can Itrsquos my stress relieverrdquo

They See Me

RollinrsquoBy Jordan Cissell | Staff Reporter

Some pedestrians may hate it and authorities may try to catch them when they ride but the love for longboarding is only growing

around campus According to Michael Brooke in his 1999 book

ldquoThe Concrete Wave The History of Skateboardingrdquo skateboards were first invented in California in the early 1950s These longboard ancestors were built to resemble surfboards and emulate ldquosidewalk surfingrdquo when the waves were down

Longboardingrsquos laid-back surfer-dude origins havenrsquot stopped the trend from tenaciously making its way east and throughout the country in recent years especially in colleges and universities

CW | Caitlin Trotter

ldquoMy freshman and sophomore years I would literally see just one person [longboarding] per semester Now I see at least three or

four every day on my way to classes

mdash Andrew Tielking

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Let the Swanee Tiger scratch

Let the Yellow Jacket sting

Let the Georgia Bulldog bite

Alabama still is right

And whether win or lose we smile

for thatrsquos Bamarsquos fighting style

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride Crimson Tide

A-L-A-B-A-M-A

Yea Alabama Drown lsquoem Tide

Every lsquoBama manrsquos behind you

Hit your stride

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave

And if a man starts to weaken

Thatrsquos a shame

For Bamarsquos pluck and grit have

Writ her name in Crimson flame

Fight on fight on fight on men

Remember the Rose Bowl wersquoll win then

Go roll to victory

Hit your stride

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride

Crimson Tide Roll Tide Roll Tide

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[[NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 6 | Thursday September 6 2012

For most Alabama fans all it takes is hearing the first few notes to recognize The University of Alabamarsquos fight song ldquoYea Alabamardquo but few know the history of the iconic tune

ldquoYea Alabamardquo was origi-nally written by Ethelred Lundy Sykes editor-in-chief of The Crimson White from 1925 to 1926 in response to a contest held by ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo a UA student humor magazine The publication held the contest due to the stu-dent bodyrsquos desire for an origi-nal fight song according to David M Battles an American Studies Scholar and UA histo-rian

Sykes won a $50 award for his composition and in 1926 and was given the Pan-Hellenic Loving Cup for hav-ing best served the University the previous year according to ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo magazine

Originally in 1926 the fight song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the South but the verse fell out of

fashion and was dropped from the song Battles said

ldquoOmission of the verse was gradual but the verse is just not as memorable tune-wise as the chorus so people do not recall it as well as they recall the chorus which is all you hear nowrdquo Battles said

Another reason the original first verse disappeared was because the Million Dollar Band found it hard to march to in tempo Battles said

ldquoThe verse is not really writ-ten in march style mdash it is a typ-ical 1920s almost jazz tunerdquo he said ldquoThe Million Dollar Band began omitting the verse at some point in time because it is not conducive to being marchedrdquo

The last line normally sung in the fight song ldquoRoll Tide Roll Tiderdquo was not in Sykersquos original lyrics but was added later

Another notable omission from the fight song is a refer-ence to Auburn University one of the Tidersquos biggest rivals of all time

When ldquoYea Alabamardquo was written the rivalry between Alabama and Auburn was in the midst of a 41-year period during which the teams never met on the field according to a 1948 article in The TuscaloosaNews

Skyesrsquo composition replaced the former Alabama fight song ldquoSwingrdquo which belonged to Washington and Lee University

According to ldquoTides of Traditionrdquo edited by Chad Caples the song was com-posed on the Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity piano

Although the song only earned a small reward when it was first written 86 years ago it continues to energize and excite Alabama fans at every sporting event

Dissecting lsquoYea Alabamarsquo

This is a misspelling of lsquoSewaneersquo and it refers to The University of the South in Sewanee Tenn At the time

The University of the South was a member of the SEC and a rival of the

Tide [ ][ ] Both instances of ldquoYellow Jacketsrdquo

refer to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech a part of the

Southeastern conference at the time left the SEC in 1964

This verse was omitted gradually because it was ldquonot as memorable

tune-wise as the chorusrdquo

This refers to the Georgia Bulldogs

[ ]The Bleacher Report listed ldquoYea

Alabamardquo as one of 14 Fight Songs That Call Out Rivals Auburn

though is absent from the song The song was written in the midst of a long suspension of the Iron Bowl

[

[ ]On Jan 1 1926 The University

of Alabama defeated the University of Washington by one

point to win the Rose Bowl

ldquoDixierdquo is the informal name for the Southern United States of which Alabama is considered a

member [ ] This was not in the version Sykes wrote and was added

shortly following the release of the song by Bama fans[ ]

By Adam Mills and Ashanka Kumari | CW Staff

ldquoOriginally in 1926 the fi ght song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the

South but the verse fell out of fashion and was dropped from

the song

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

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ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 11

Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Yoursquoll have sweeter dreams for the next few weeks Fantasies abound and are achievable Donrsquot reveal your secrets all at once Th erersquos beauty in anticipation Get into actionLibra (Sept 23-Oct 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Yoursquore very popular but your social life could cause a problem at home Your career could benefi t from the new contacts you make BalanceScorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21) -- Today is a 6 -- New opportunities arise over the next three weeks Take a few days to store away provisions as many as you can Th en go rejuvenate an old bondSagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) -- Today is a 5 -- For the next month itrsquos easier to get away All is not as it appears however Negotiate a trade New possibilities develop while this lastsCapricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Take on more work and make no expensive promises Itrsquos easier to save now Get family to help You have more together than you do apartAquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) -- Today is a 7 -- For the next fi ve weeks delegate as much as possible Investigate long-term partnerships Donrsquot fall for a trick look beyond attractive results Instead seek balance Compassion increasesPisces (Feb 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Work is more fun and gets easier for the next few weeks Yoursquore very attractive now You donrsquot have to know everything yet Your past work speaks well for you

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Let the Swanee Tiger scratch

Let the Yellow Jacket sting

Let the Georgia Bulldog bite

Alabama still is right

And whether win or lose we smile

for thatrsquos Bamarsquos fighting style

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride Crimson Tide

A-L-A-B-A-M-A

Yea Alabama Drown lsquoem Tide

Every lsquoBama manrsquos behind you

Hit your stride

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave

And if a man starts to weaken

Thatrsquos a shame

For Bamarsquos pluck and grit have

Writ her name in Crimson flame

Fight on fight on fight on men

Remember the Rose Bowl wersquoll win then

Go roll to victory

Hit your stride

Yoursquore Dixiersquos football pride

Crimson Tide Roll Tide Roll Tide

[

[[NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTSPage 6 | Thursday September 6 2012

For most Alabama fans all it takes is hearing the first few notes to recognize The University of Alabamarsquos fight song ldquoYea Alabamardquo but few know the history of the iconic tune

ldquoYea Alabamardquo was origi-nally written by Ethelred Lundy Sykes editor-in-chief of The Crimson White from 1925 to 1926 in response to a contest held by ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo a UA student humor magazine The publication held the contest due to the stu-dent bodyrsquos desire for an origi-nal fight song according to David M Battles an American Studies Scholar and UA histo-rian

Sykes won a $50 award for his composition and in 1926 and was given the Pan-Hellenic Loving Cup for hav-ing best served the University the previous year according to ldquoRammer Jammerrdquo magazine

Originally in 1926 the fight song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the South but the verse fell out of

fashion and was dropped from the song Battles said

ldquoOmission of the verse was gradual but the verse is just not as memorable tune-wise as the chorus so people do not recall it as well as they recall the chorus which is all you hear nowrdquo Battles said

Another reason the original first verse disappeared was because the Million Dollar Band found it hard to march to in tempo Battles said

ldquoThe verse is not really writ-ten in march style mdash it is a typ-ical 1920s almost jazz tunerdquo he said ldquoThe Million Dollar Band began omitting the verse at some point in time because it is not conducive to being marchedrdquo

The last line normally sung in the fight song ldquoRoll Tide Roll Tiderdquo was not in Sykersquos original lyrics but was added later

Another notable omission from the fight song is a refer-ence to Auburn University one of the Tidersquos biggest rivals of all time

When ldquoYea Alabamardquo was written the rivalry between Alabama and Auburn was in the midst of a 41-year period during which the teams never met on the field according to a 1948 article in The TuscaloosaNews

Skyesrsquo composition replaced the former Alabama fight song ldquoSwingrdquo which belonged to Washington and Lee University

According to ldquoTides of Traditionrdquo edited by Chad Caples the song was com-posed on the Phi Kappa Sigmafraternity piano

Although the song only earned a small reward when it was first written 86 years ago it continues to energize and excite Alabama fans at every sporting event

Dissecting lsquoYea Alabamarsquo

This is a misspelling of lsquoSewaneersquo and it refers to The University of the South in Sewanee Tenn At the time

The University of the South was a member of the SEC and a rival of the

Tide [ ][ ] Both instances of ldquoYellow Jacketsrdquo

refer to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech a part of the

Southeastern conference at the time left the SEC in 1964

This verse was omitted gradually because it was ldquonot as memorable

tune-wise as the chorusrdquo

This refers to the Georgia Bulldogs

[ ]The Bleacher Report listed ldquoYea

Alabamardquo as one of 14 Fight Songs That Call Out Rivals Auburn

though is absent from the song The song was written in the midst of a long suspension of the Iron Bowl

[

[ ]On Jan 1 1926 The University

of Alabama defeated the University of Washington by one

point to win the Rose Bowl

ldquoDixierdquo is the informal name for the Southern United States of which Alabama is considered a

member [ ] This was not in the version Sykes wrote and was added

shortly following the release of the song by Bama fans[ ]

By Adam Mills and Ashanka Kumari | CW Staff

ldquoOriginally in 1926 the fi ght song included a verse that referenced former Tide rival the Sewanee Tiger of the University of the

South but the verse fell out of fashion and was dropped from

the song

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

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ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 11

Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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37 Toward the stern40 They lead you

astray andwhat the starts of20- 24- 52- and60-Across are

44 Brian of RoxyMusic

45 ldquoYeah surerdquo46 Surpass47 Washed-out49 Bob Marley genre51 Place in

considerabledisarray

52 Itrsquos often a toughcut

57 Fighting Tigersrsquosch

59 Ness and others60 Verbally

overwhelm65 Dim66 Small pie67 Time for action68 2-Down for one69 Mother of Don

Juan70 Kerryrsquos home71 Much of the RMS

Queen Mary now72 Bank (on)73 ldquoSeasons of

Loverdquo musical

DOWN1 Not in good

shape2 Natural Bridges

locale3 Second helping

to a dieter4 Twist5 Long shot say6 Baseballrsquos Moises7 It has a campus

near the JFKLibrary

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rival10 Nitwit11 Ouzo flavoring12 Watch13 Barely sufficient21 Slangy ldquoDonrsquot

worry about itrdquo25 ldquoHigh Voltagerdquo

rockers26 Ex-GIsrsquo org27 Bernrsquos river28 1982 sci-fi film30 Superficially

fluent33 Grumpy friend35 Exist36 Mosquito

protection

38 Unfriendly types39 Fastener named

for its shape41 Have supper42 Wedding

receptionhighlight

43 Catch sight of48 Heineken brand50 All thumbs52 Winter puddle

cause

53 Scout master54 Elaborate display55 Up and at rsquoem56 Scottish feudal

lord58 Milkerrsquos handful61 Hurler Hershiser62 Large-tongued

comics dog63 Wave a red flag

at64 Nikitarsquos no

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NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 7

By Molly OlmsteadContributing Writer

Students with a knack for tak-ing care of kids can now apply to be a baby-sitter through one of two new programs aiming to connect student parents with suitable keepers for their chil-dren

The Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support have established the UA GPSUPS Babysitting Network to assist students with children Through that pro-gram eligible students can post their profile resume schedule and minimum hourly wage on a listserv for parents to look over

Both Sitters for Service and the GPSUPS Babysitting net-work are relatively new to the University The UA Graduate School founded GPS in the fall of 2009 to help parent students cope with the challenges of managing both studies and parenting

UArsquos Student Services launched UPS a few months later to meet similar needs of undergraduate students and began the Sitters for Service program that same year

According to Cori Perdue the Work Life manager for the University the Sitters for Service program is the first of its kind in the country

ldquoTwo universities have con-tacted us to try to set up a simi-lar programrdquo Perdue said

In the past three years the program has had over 150 vol-unteer sitters Savanna Barlow a sophomore majoring in accounting applied recently to join that number

ldquoI have worked as a baby-sit-ter for years and have also been involved in many community service projectsrdquo said Barlow ldquoThis program allows me to combine my love for bothrdquo

The GPSUPS Babysitting Network however is a brand

new program According to Perdue GPS founded the pro-gram to meet the needs of a larger university

ldquoSitters for Service can only help so manyrdquo Perdue said The Network she explains helps assist a large student body ldquoNow we have over 900 students with children who have signed up to be on the listserv There probably are morerdquo

Perdue a student-parent herself envisions the program expanding

ldquoWe have a vision for it to be biggerrdquo Perdue said ldquoA family helpers database ndash pet sitting house sitting geek squad lawn care tutoring ndash a place where students who are looking for short-term part-time work can post ndash kind of like our own Craigslistrdquo

Applicants must be at least 18 and have previous experience as a baby-sitter or nanny Students are then

contacted directly by interest-ed parents

Students also have the option of applying to volun-teer their services in exchange for service hours through the Sitters for Service program This program is a closed sys-tem that selects 30 volunteers and 30 parents Applicants go through a more extensive application and interview process than those applying for the Babysitting Network Selected students may volun-teer for 20 30 or 40 hours per semester

Student-parents are cho-sen randomly from an appli-cant pool of graduate and undergraduate students The deadline for students and stu-dent-parents to apply for the Sitters for Service Program is Friday Sept 14 Students can go online at gpsuaedu or contact Cori Perdue at cperduefauaedu to apply

Baby-sitting programs open employment opportunities

By Melissa Brown and Timothy LarkinCW Staff

Politicians pundits and party members have con-verged in Charlotte NC for this weekrsquos Democratic National Convention and six University of Alabama students made the trek to volunteer with the Alabama Democratic Party

Will Dodd a senior major-ing in political science and his-tory interned with the state party in Montgomery over the summer and jumped at the chance to attend the conven-tion with the state delegation

ldquoI felt it was important

enough to miss school because I knew the connec-tions and experience Irsquod have would kind of offset missing my classworkrdquo Dodd said ldquoWersquove worked 20-hour days but the connections Irsquove made working with the party on a national level mean a lot and I think thatrsquos worth it in the endrdquo

Dodd and other UA students traveled to Charlotte last week and are spending their time working at the Alabama delegationrsquos headquarters Sweet Home AlObama They work to set up events like a football tailgate Saturday or state delegation break-fasts where theyrsquove hosted

prominent speakers like Sen Tom Harkin and Howard Dean

Austen Parrish a senior majoring in economics who also interned in Montgomery over the sum-mer said he never pictured himself working in politics

ldquoItrsquos not the flashy cam-paigns or talk-ing points that keep me involvedrdquo Parrish said ldquoItrsquos the over-whelming effect politics can have on our everyday

lives that makes me feel an obligationrdquo

Dodd said he wanted to get involved with state politics

to learn more about how things work in Alabama and he enjoys rep-resenting his home state at the convention

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to repre-sent Alabama to let people

know that the Democratic Party is still alive and working in Alabamardquo Dodd said

Though the hours are long

and the workload strenu-ous the other students echo Parrishrsquos sense of duty and motivation for getting involved in politics

Beth Clayton a student at Auburn University and president of the Alabama College Democrats is work-ing in Charlotte with the UA students and said she works in politics to help her peers understand the issues

ldquoI feel like a lot of young Americans are frustrated by the divisive nature of politics and canrsquot see whatrsquos really on the line with each electionrdquo Clayton said

Prominent issues in the national political scene like

affordable healthcare and stu-dent loans that are relevant to college-aged students also piqued their interests

ldquoNot only should we advo-cate for a better community for ourselves we owe it to our children to fight for them the way our parents fought for usrdquo Clayton said

Though Dodd Parrish and Clayton will come back home to Alabama at the conven-tionrsquos conclusion their inter-est in politics and policy is not likely to wane any time soon

ldquoDonrsquot get involved in politics to elect a politicianrdquo Parrish said ldquoGet involved for the policies that affect you and your communityrdquo

UA volunteers work for state Democrats at national conventionAlabama Democratic Party interns working at delegation headquarters Sweet Home AlObama in Charlotte NC

Programs help student parents with childcare offer jobs volunteer experience to qualifi ed applicants

Simon BrubakerChicago TribuneMCT

Graduate Parent Support and Undergraduate Parent Support Baby-sitting Network can assist students who have children

ldquoMy favorite part is just being able to represent Al-abama to let people know that the Democratic Party

is still alive and working in Alabama

mdash Will Dodd

According to University records on April 6 1865 the University was set ablaze by Yankee Soldiers also known as Craxtonrsquos Raiders The president at the time Landon Garland and his family had sought refuge at Bryce Hospital but his wife Frances Louisa Garland returned to save the mansion from destruction

Today the mansion stands situated between Rose Administration and Little Hall and is now the home to the Universityrsquos 37th president Guy Bailey as of Tuesday

ldquoIrsquod never been in the Presidentrsquos Mansion and itrsquos an absolutely beautiful placerdquo Bailey said

The building which has received multiple renova-tions over the years features

three floors The first two are used for public events and tours while the third floor remains the private residence of the Universityrsquos president and his wife The most notable renovation a complete remodel was in 1908 A central steam heating system new floors new plumbing and wiring were installed in addition to the exterior being re-stuccoed and painted white

ldquoWe live on the third floor and itrsquos very comfortablerdquo Bailey said ldquoItrsquos been made into a mod-ern apartment so itrsquos a great place to liverdquo

Cathy Andreen UA spokes-woman said all UA presidents use the Presidentrsquos man-sion for official University functions and entertaining however presidents choose whether or not to live full

time in the mansion based on personal and family needs

Bailey who will be residing in the mansion full time said he enjoys living in the center of campus

ldquoItrsquos great to look out every day and see students walking

to class and see all that activ-ityrdquo he said

For some the mansion remains an elaborate house located across from Denny Chimes but for many it acts a symbol of the

Universityrsquos historyldquoThe Chimes werenrsquot built

until 1929 and people nowa-days tend to think of the Chimes and the Quad but in terms of the long-term his-tory of the University every-body has had the Presidentrsquos Mansionrdquo Land said ldquo[It] has a very long history and I donrsquot think we get too far from it itrsquos part of the charmrdquo

MANSION FROM PAGE 1

President Bailey to live on third fl oor

ldquo[It] has a very long his-tory and I donrsquot think we

get too far from it itrsquos part of the charm

mdash Tom Land

Editor | Lauren Ferguson

culturecwuaedu

Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 8

Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

thenewnormalfancom

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

STS-33154

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Thursday September 6 2012CULTURENEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

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Autumn television brings some hidden gems that will be worth watchingBy Billy Whyte

Itrsquos always exciting when fall rolls around the calendar each year the weather gets cooler Alabama starts its annual domination at foot-ball and a new batch of excit-ing mostly terrible televi-sion shows come on air

For all the time spent watching wonderful break-out shows such as last yearrsquos ldquoHomelandrdquo or ldquoNew Girlrdquo most of our time is spent watching one year duds such as ldquoCharliersquos Angelsrdquo ldquoI Hate My Teenage Daughterrdquo or ldquoAre You There Chelseardquo And really this isnrsquot that surprising considering an overall drop of quality pro-gramming of late has led to a bunch of confounding renew-als ranging from the boring ldquoTouchrdquo to the downright atrocious ldquoWhitneyrdquo

And thatrsquos why Irsquom here to go dumpster diving through a sea of mediocre television shows and find a few hidden gems worth watching this fall so you wonrsquot be wasting your time watching the hor-rible ones After conducting research and watching mul-tiple pilots here are my picks for the new shows worth watching this fall

ldquoLast Resortrdquo (Premieres Sept 27 on ABC)

The show is about a ren-egade crew of a missile sub-marine that defies order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan and then is attacked by their own gov-ernment without warning leaving the crew for dead on an island Knowing that they are enemies of their

own country they make camp and declare them-selves their own sovereign nation with nuclear capa-bility until they are able to prove their innocence and get back the United States And if that isnrsquot cool enough the show stars movie star Scott Speedman (the vampirewerewolf from the Underworld movie series) and Emmy win-ner Andre Braugher An awesome premise com-bined with great actors means it should definite-ly be an exciting show worth watching

ldquoArrowrdquo (Premieres Oct 10 on The CW)

What are the two most pop-ular individual super hero movie franchises right now The Batman and Iron Man series What do they have in common Some billionaire becomes a complete badass after experiencing a life-altering event and decides to fight crime and injustice So if we love Batman and Iron Man in theory we should love ldquoArrowrdquo a show about an arrogant billionaire play-boy coming home after being presumed dead and becomes a vigilante that devotes his time to fighting crime and righting the wrongs of his family ndash all so he can make amends for his past actions Plus Stephen Amell looks perfectly cast for the role and the show is based on the thrilling and underrated DC comic book ldquoGreen Arrowrdquo which means if the quality of the comic bookrsquos plot is any indication the TV show should be great

nchollywoodcom

ldquoRevolutionrdquo produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

ldquoThe New Normalrdquo (Premieres Sept 11 on NBC)

The premise is a gay couple (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo star Justin Bartha and Tony Award win-ning ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo star Andrew Rannells) finds a single mother to be a surro-gate to help them start a fam-ily much to the annoyance of her mother First I would like to say itrsquos hard for me to endorse any Ryan Murphy show especially considering the recent disastrous third season of ldquoGleerdquo But like ldquoGleerdquo and ldquoAmerican Horror Storyrdquo the pilot was a lot more original and captivating than most new shows com-ing out and was funny and original enough to at least be given a shot this fall

ldquoRevolutionrdquo (Premieres Sept 17 on NBC)

The show is about a post-apocalyptic future where all technology has been perma-nently disabled forcing peo-ple to adapt to a world with-out technology and a collaps-ing society The focus of the show is on the Matheson family who possess an item that can not only tell them what caused the technology crash but maybe even a pos-sible way to reverse it The premise sounds intriguing enough and the showrsquos bud-get guarantees some cool visuals at least But really the main reason to watch it is because itrsquos produced by JJ Abrams (creator of ldquoLostrdquo) and stars ldquoBreaking Badrdquo villain Giancarlo Esposito as the showrsquos bad guy Those two men alone guarantee the show will at least be worth watching

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ldquoThe New Normalrdquo starring Justin Bartha (ldquoThe Hangoverrdquo) and Andrew Rannells (ldquoThe Book of Mormonrdquo) premieres Sept 11 on NBC

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

ldquo

Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

mdashDeAndrew White

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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Kayla Fitterer spikes over LSUrsquos block

ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Alabama Blues Project hosts concert seriesBy Mary Hendon DebrayContributing Writer

The Alabama Blues Project a local nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about Alabama blues heritage will be hosting the first concert of a fundraising series on Sept 7 at the Bama Theatre Headlining the bene-fit is internationally renowned blues band Wet Willie with Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims as the opening act

Paula Demonbreun execu-tive director of Alabama Blues Project said the concert series Operation Get Down was designed to help provide funding for their After School Blues Camp

The After School Blues Camp provides children with a healthy opportunity to express themselves while learning the importance of life skills such as team work dis-cipline self development and creativity all while working together with their peers and learning to play the instru-ment of their choice

ldquoThe Alabama Blues Project is eager to have a new gen-eration interested in the blues and also give them an oppor-tunity to share the music with at-risk kids in the Tuscaloosa and Northport communitiesrdquo Demonbreun said

The main performance will be by Wet Willie a band formed in 1969 in Mobile Ala

The group has had several top 10 hits since then including ldquoKeep on Smilinrdquo ldquoWeekendrdquo and ldquoAirportrdquo In 1990 the band was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and in 2001 they became mem-bers of Alabamarsquos Music Hall of Fame

Concert director Brad Guin who is also the Brad of Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims said Wet Willie was chosen to perform because their music is heavily influenced by the blues

ldquoThey scream Alabama musicrdquo Guin said ldquoWe want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talentrdquo

Guin said Alabama Blues project is stepping up their

game for concerts in order to build awareness and assist the children of the program He said the organizationrsquos goal is to host concerts regu-larly that will fund the non-profit while also bettering our state and local communityrsquos music scene

ldquoWe really hope to host con-certs of higher caliber and tal-ent and Wet Willie is a great startrdquo he said

Guin has taught at the Alabama Blues Project for over 10 years and currently plays with three of his former students in Bad Brad and the Sipsey Slims

ldquoWe not only teach the stu-dents about Alabamarsquos musi-cal heritage and the power of

music but we also teach the importance of professional-ismrdquo Guin said ldquoWe hope to influence at-risk kids with a form of musical mentoringrdquo

In addition to playing with former students Guin has performed with acts such as BB King Gregg Allman and Alabamarsquos own Clarence Carter

ldquoI am looking forward

the most to seeing kids we brought up get to be on stage with some of the greatsrdquo he said ldquoAnd playing in my hometown is always an added bonusrdquo

Tickets for the concert are $25 and available on the Alabama Blues Projectrsquos web-site For more information call (205) 752-6263 or visit alabamabluesorg

Wet Willie will headline Sept 7 show fundraiser for After School Blues Camp for Tuscaloosa children

Kentuck Art Center holds monthly Art NightDiverse line-up features three artists and groups who have used salvaged wood pottery as mediaBy Lauren CarltonContributing Writer

Kentuck Art Center in Northport is kicking off September with a diverse Art Night line-up designed to cel-ebrate and showcase art creat-ed through different mediums

This monthrsquos Art Night will be held Thursday Sept 6 from 5 to 9 pm at Kentuck Art Center and will feature the works of three featured artists or groups and a musical per-formance

New York-based artist Ellie Ali will open ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo in the Main Avenue Gallery

Ali a self-taught artist with more than 50 years of experi-ence is excited to be back in Northport collaborating with Kentuck

ldquoArt grows out of the earth

hererdquo she said ldquoYou could say I am a Northerner who dis-covered the South with great joy I love the art the food the peoplerdquo

Ali is heavily influenced by the writers musicians and painters of the 1950s and 60s along with ancient art She estimates about 20 paintings will be shown at Kentuck on Thursday

The title of her exhibit ldquoHow do you get to Dreamland from hererdquo was inspired by a conversation she had in 2001 at an art festival in Birmingham Ala Ali asked a colleague how to get to Dreamland Bar-B-Que but couldnrsquot focus on their answer because she was struck by the beauty of the question

ldquoItrsquos just the nicest titlerdquo Ali said ldquoI feel like everyone has a dream landrdquo

The exhibit is not specifi-cally designed to depict any particular dream land It will offer a collection with ideas inspired by dream-like quali-ties Alirsquos artistic process is a journey She said she usually does not have something in mind when she starts to paint but rather lets herself go into her artistic zone

The Friends of Hurricane Creek will present a group show in Clarke Gallery with ldquoItrsquos All Good - Hurricane Creek Reclaimed Wood Artrdquo

FOHC is a local group whose mission is to protect and pre-serve Alabamarsquos Hurricane Creek All the pieces of art are made from wood salvaged from the April 27 2011 tornado wreckage at Watsonrsquos Bend Campground near the creek

FOHC is readying them-selves for The Creek Wood Art Contest and Exhibit to be held later in the month at Kentuck The winners of the contest will be announced Sept 27 at Creekstravaganza

The featured potter of

the Kentuck Clay Co-Op on Thursday will be Fred Mitchell Identifying himself as ldquothe old guy in the over-allsrdquo Mitchell will be at the Clay Place along with mem-bers who will be hosting a gelato bowl fundraiser Gelato will be provided by Maryrsquos Cakes and Pastries

ldquoI began to make pottery around 2002 because I was drawn by the surprise factor of opening the kiln and the pure fun of playing with mudrdquo Mitchell said ldquoMy pottery is both functional and unique ndash no two pieces are alikerdquo

Local musician George McLaurine will be the fea-tured performer on Art Night His musical style is acoustic yet diverse with an empha-sis on being family-friendly McLaurinersquos repertoire fea-tures folk pop gospel early

country bluegrass and rocka-billy standards

In addition to the shows in the main galleries Kentuckrsquos studio artists will be in attendance to guide visitors through their works-in-prog-ress The Cob Oven Crew will also be on hand preparing free pizza in the Courtyard of Wonders

Ryan Landis a doctoral music student at the University of Alabama attended an Art Night at Kentuck last fall with his family He appreciated the work and knowledge of the artists present and said it would be an event he would likely attend again

ldquoI would encourage people to go and broaden their cul-tural horizonsrdquo Landis said ldquoItrsquos especially important to support local and contempo-rary artistsrdquo

Simple designs separate independent games throw them into spotlight

NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 9

ldquoArt grows out of the earth here You could say I am a Northerner who discovered the South with great joy I love the art the food

the people

mdash Ellie Ali

ldquo [Wet Willie] screams Alabama music We want to maintain a local feel and support our arearsquos talent

mdash Brad Guin

COLUMN

By Nate ProctorStaff Reporter

Outlets such as ldquoSteamrdquo and ldquoDesurardquo on PCs and their more limited siblings on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have allowed the indie gaming scene to grow exponentially in the past few years throwing them into the spotlight more than ever And since quality rarely falls in line with quantity there have been far more duds than ldquoMinecraftsrdquo released into the world What separates these productrsquos tiers criti-cally and commercially are not however related to the skill or budget of developers

but an important and succinct design philosophy simplicity

In general to earn their moniker as ldquoindierdquo game developers these indepen-dent groups are made up of small and often inexpe-rienced teams with mini-mal amounts of funding Of course these developers are aware they are physically and monetarily incapable of producing something in the vein of ldquoCall of Dutyrdquo or ldquoMass Effectrdquo However their downfall comes in attempt-ing to replicate big-budget ideas without regard for the feasible scope of their proj-ects Take the highly antici-pated but critically panned

ldquoA Valley Without Windrdquo for example which attempted to create an open-world proce-durally generated platformer with in-depth RPG and city-building elements If you had trouble following along with that description thatrsquos exactly the problem with many indie products This game and others essentially cave in upon their own flurry of underdeveloped and over-thought mechanics resulting in a confusing and unfulfill-ing experience

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy which they make clear and execute well that they gradu-ate from being a poor manrsquos

According to Turner DCGP teaches children more than just the practical aspects of gardening Students learn about nutrition and even job skills such as marketing They also get the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of their labor in the most literal sense

There are several oppor-tunities for University of Alabama students to get involved with DCGP by vol-unteering through their web-site Volunteers can work to maintain the garden during regular garden hours or work with children during educa-tion days or at the farm stand helping with nutrition pro-grams and cooking demon-strations

ldquoWersquore teaching them accounting and how to market the produce theyrsquove grown so we encourage UA students to mentor the kids during these programsrdquo Turner said

Following the Garden Party on Sunday there will be a free screening at the Bama Theatre of ldquoEating Alabamardquo a documentary film by DCGP

co-founder and UA professor Andrew Grace The film is about the year-long experi-ment during which he and his wife Rashmi ate only food pro-duced in Alabama

Gracersquos experience in ldquoEating Alabamardquo made him aware of the disparity between perceptions about agriculture in Alabama and the reality of Alabama farm-ersrsquo struggles

ldquoI think that most people in Alabama have a sense that we come from an agricultural state and wersquore very closely connected to agriculture and the landrdquo Grace said ldquoAnd the reality that there are very few farmers left and that the farmers that are left have a really hard time making a liv-ing rubs a little bit against our ideas about this placerdquo

The idea for DCGP grew out of Andrew and Rashmirsquos local eating project as a way to the make up for lack of education about food and its origins

ldquoWe started to realize that

therersquos not a lot of education about where food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that regard was to start the school gardenrdquo Grace said

Grace hopes this fundraiser will encourage restaurants to buy produce from local farm-ers and start a conversation

that will make people more mindful about from where the food they buy actually comes

ldquoWhen you have an event thatrsquos focused on the produc-ers the people that grow the food then hope-fully when the people who attend the event

eat this really wonderful food theyrsquoll maybe think more about where theyrsquore buy-ing from the market or local farmersrdquo Grace said Tickets to the Garden Party are avail-able at wwwdruidcitygarden-projectorg Student tickets are $25 general admission is $35 in advance $40 at the door VIP tickets are $50 and are reserved for ages 21 and up

GARDEN PARTY FROM PAGE 1

Party will feature local fi lm screening

We started to realize that therersquos not a lot of education about where

food comes from and one way we thought we could help affect change in that

regard was to start the school garden

mdash Andrew Grace

jack-of-all trades and into a product worth playing or at least discussing ldquoSlenderrdquo the recent product of Parsec Productions steps into the familiar boundaries of first-person gaming but contains itself to the objective of col-lecting pieces of paper in a dark forest and avoiding ldquoslender manrdquo Where its mechanics are simplistic familiar and quickly learned the focus of the game is clear-ly in its atmospheric pres-ence Its minimalistic sound effects and music paired with the overall darkness and visual impairment as slender man nears toys with your emotions and creates a chilling experience in this freeware game is unparal-leled by most of its contem-poraries in the horror game genre If you donrsquot believe me the rash of ldquoSlenderrdquo

reaction videos currently flooding YouTube may well convince you

Coming from the other end of the spectrum ldquoAaAaAA ndash A Reckless Disregard for Gravityrdquo from Dejobaan Games cares little for story-telling or atmo-sphere but focuses instead on one adren-a l i n e - b a s e d mechanic and a colorful aes-thetic As its name hints your objec-tive is simply to fall Falling through certain markers and avoiding obsta-cles through a cavalcade of lights and shapes results in a tight and addicting adrenaline rush generating

that one-more-level itch Indiehits such as ldquoMinecraftrdquoldquoBraidrdquo ldquoLegend ofGrimrockrdquo or ldquoSuper MeatBoyrdquo have an unquestion-able depth to them Howeveritrsquos their commitment to a

sharply tuned set of ideas and mechanics that separate them from the pack and allow them to punch above their weight As the com-munity grows and creativity expands indie games will con-tinue to find and unlock new

and old concepts to the gam-ing tapestry and remind usthat not every game needs tobe part of an epic trilogy ora multi-million dollar budget

Itrsquos when products have a simple idea or philosophy

which they make clear and execute well that

they graduate from being a poor manrsquos jack-of-all

trades and into a product worth playing or at least

discussing

ldquo

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Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Saban team not overlooking Kentucky HilltoppersBy Zac Al-KhateebStaff Reporter

Despite Alabamarsquos dominant performance over the Michigan Wolverines Saturday head coach Nick Saban is stressing to his team not to buy into the hype or look past the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

ldquoTherersquos a tremendous bal-ance between humility and confidence and this game is a strugglerdquo Saban said ldquoItrsquos a struggle every day Itrsquos work every day around here to keep our guys on track to have a little bit of humility and confi-dencerdquo

Saban stressed that point even in the past when his teams played against oppo-nents in neutral site games and his team didnrsquot perform up to standards the next week The first time it happened in 2008 Alabama struggled to a 20-6 win against Tulane after demolishing Clemson 34-10

The next year Alabama beat Virginia Tech 34-24 and fol-lowed up with a 40-14 win over Florida International giving up 204 yards of offense and committing seven penalties for 65 yards Sabanrsquos mes-sage seems to have hit home for his players including soph-omore receiver DeAndrew White who scored a 51-yard touchdown reception against Michigan

White said Saban has kept his team focused on improv-ing and facing the Hilltoppers rather than coasting to a win

ldquoCoach has been on us [in practice]rdquo White said ldquoPushing us pushing us to get

better not to overlook anybody and keep on pushing forward hellip For us we take it one game a time and look forward to the next game we have in storerdquo

Mandell continuing to improve

Junior punter Cody Mandell like most of his team is trying to avoid becoming complacent and working to become better at his position Mandell punted four times for an average of 47 yards per punt

Still he had three punts over 50 yards with the other being downed at the Michigan 2-yard line Mandell attributed his growth as a punter to the work he put in over the summer

ldquoOver the offseason I really worked on technique and my formrdquo Mandell said ldquoAnd just hitting all the little things right Irsquom just working every day to get a little bit better and I worked with a lot of coaches over this summer to work on my technique and my tech-nique has just shown in the gamerdquo

Saban noticed Mandellrsquos growth and consistency in the game as well Saban said he was pleased not only with Mandellrsquos in-game consistency but his consistency in practice also

ldquoEverything we saw good or bad we saw in practicerdquo Saban said ldquoSo Codyrsquos been practic-ing very very well hellip Hersquos punting better in practice hersquos punting better in the gamerdquo

Lester leadership not just for older guys

Robert Lester has been tak-ing Sabanrsquos message of con-stantly improving to heart this week Lester said the defense particularly the secondary is avoiding overlooking a com-plicated Hilltopper offensive scheme

ldquoTheyrsquore a very intelligent offenserdquo Lester said ldquoThey run a lot of shifts and motions and yoursquove got to be on your Ps and Qs to be ready for it They do a lot of things to get our guys out of positionrdquo

As part of the secondaryrsquos preparation for the Hilltoppers Lester said the defense was practicing as hard as pos-sible against the scout team Wednesday Still Lester said he hasnrsquot had trouble keeping the younger guys in the sec-ondary from working hard

ldquoWe take it upon ourselves for everybody to work hardrdquo Lester said ldquoThere might be something 10 of the other guys might not see and you might see it and yoursquore a freshman and we expect you to call it outrdquo

Injury UpdateEveryone pract iced

Wednesday except freshman linebacker Reggie Ragland Saban listed Ragland as ldquothe most questionable playerrdquo for Saturdayrsquos game

Editor | Marquavius Burnett

crimsonwhitesportsgmailcom

Thursday September 6 2012SPORTSNEWS

OPINION

CULTURE

SPORTS

Page 10

CW | Austin Bigoney

DeAndrew White prepares to catch during a receiving drill Wednesday

ldquo For us we take it one game a time and look for-ward to the next game we

have in store

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Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS Thursday September 6 2012 | Page 11

Experience at Cowboys Stadium second to none changes view of Bryant-DennyBy Marc TorrenceAssistant Sports Editor

I had heard pretty much every-thing you could about Cowboys Stadium before last weekendrsquos big game Friends who had been there as well as numer-ous sports pundits all seemed to agree that the stadium was ldquobigrdquo ldquonicerdquo and ldquofancyrdquo

But nothing I heard or read could have ever prepared me for experiencing it in person as I did on Friday and Saturday

My first in-person glimpse of Jerry World - the massive struc-ture that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones opened in May 2009 - came around 9 am on Friday morning just five hours removed from the nearly 10-hour treck from Tuscaloosa to Dallas My eyes may have been heavy that morning but what I saw shot them open immediately

The stadium looks big from the highway but so do most You donrsquot really get a feel for how big a stadium actually is until you get up close and personal with

it When the rest of The Crimson White sports crew and I walked up to the mammoth collection of steel and mortar we knew this was no ordinary stadium

The best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic five-star hotel with a football field in the middle of it Everything from the carpet to the walls to the lighting is first-class and almost feels like the inside of a palace There are TVs everywhere and murals of old Cowboysrsquo triumphs line the walls and elevators

And did I mention the video board

Itrsquos hard to put into words the glistening screen that stretches from 20-yard line to 20-yard line Yes itrsquos big but the picture is crystal clear Even sitting high up in the press box there was no mistaking what was on the dis-play Most of the time the play-ers on the screen appeared larg-er than the players on the field

But itrsquos also the little things that made my Cowboys Stadium experience one to remember The main thing that jumped out to me was the numerous friend-ly staff members located just about everywhere you looked They were always happy to point me in the right direction and never did so with a sense of annoyance

Itrsquos difficult to imagine your favorite team playing in such a venue week-in and week-out (the Cowboys in fact are my least favorite professional sports team) And on Saturday when I step into Bryant-Denny Stadium Irsquoll do something I never thought would Irsquoll think to myself ldquoIs this itrdquo

Menrsquos golf team to compete in Carpet Collegiate ClassicBy David MarshburnContributing Writer

The University of Alabama Menrsquos golf team could only watch as the Texas longhorns hoisted the NCAA menrsquos cham-pionship trophy back in June After suffering a disappointing loss and placing second in last yearrsquos finals the Crimson Tide is looking to take the title in the upcoming season

Alabama enters its first tour-nament of the season ranked No 1 nationally and the play-ers aim at keeping that coveted spot all year long The team will travel to Rocky Face Ga

to compete in the 24th annual Carpet Collegiate Classic Golf Tournament at The Farm Golf Course this weekend

Five players will represent the Tide over three days of play with the winner announced after Sundayrsquos final round Each team will play 18 holes per day for three days The top four of five lowest scores count towards the teamrsquos total and the team with the lowest over-all score after 54 holes wins the tournament

Alabama lacks little in tal-ent and experience Four of the seven players return this sea-son with three earning a spot

on last yearrsquos All-American team Its ace in the hole lies in Justin Thomas the preseason top ranked play-er The sopho-more enters his second season with three indi-vidual wins under his belt one being last yearrsquos Carpet C o l l e g i a t e Classic Thomas also took home the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as well as the Haskins Award an honor bestowed to the most outstand-

ing collegiate golfer in the nation

ldquoI think our preseason rank-ing motivates us to finish what we startedrdquo said Thomas ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learn-ing experience and hope it will strengthen us this seasonrdquo

Though this may count as Alabamarsquos first tournament it resembles noth-ing close to a tune-up match

The Tide must show a top per-formance if it expects to emerge victorious Six out of the 15 teams competing this weekend enter the season ranked in the top 25 of the Coachesrsquo Poll

ldquoYou want to play the bestrdquo said head coach Jay Seawell ldquoPlaying fierce competition is how you get better and it makes you find out a lot about yourselfrdquo

Among the opposition is No 2 Texas which slightly edged out Alabama to win the 2012 NCAA Championship Other notable adversaries include the Tidersquos bitter rival No 6 Auburn as well as No 7

Georgia Tech the host for this weekendrsquos tournament

The Tide rides into Georgia with high expectations and Seawell feels his team will deliver Of all his playersrsquo strengths he feels their best attribute lies in team chemis-try With a resilient hungry core of veteran golfers return-ing Alabama expects to make a strong run for the title

ldquoWe just got to playour gamerdquo said Thomas ldquoEveryone has played on a big stage before If we just go out there and execute our game plan we should come out on toprdquo

ldquoWe came so close last year but I think we took that as a learning experience and hope it will strengthen us

this season

mdashJustin Thomas

GOLF

COLUMN

CW | Caitlin Trotter

Anchor Samantha Steele and analysts David Pollack and Desmond Howard discuss the game on the set of ESPN Gameday Saturday morning at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas

ldquoThe best way Irsquove found to describe Cowboys Stadium in the few days since Irsquove been there is a gigantic

five-star hotel with a football field in the middle

of it

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Page 12 | Thursday September 6 2012 NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS

By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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ldquoYou have to know what to do before it happens so something else can happen later down the road hellip Itrsquos just manipulating your opponent and working together as a teamrdquo

As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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Page 12 | Thursday September 6 2012 NEWS OPINION CULTURE SPORTS

By Mary Grace Showfety and Rebekah DyeCW Staff

The Alabama volleyball team returns to Foster Auditorium this weekend to host the ninth annual Hampton Inn Bama Bash

Entering into the tournament with a 6-1 record the Crimson Tide wants to walk away with four more victories

Head coach Ed Allen said the team made up of nine freshman and six returning players has started to play as one unit

ldquoI think wersquove progressed as a teamrdquo Allen said ldquoThe team is clearly starting to play better around one another and that will continue to grow with new matchesrdquo

The Tide swept the competi-tion 3-0 in each match at the Elon Phoenix Classic last week-end and saw improvement in reducing errors and increasing hitting percentage

ldquoWe did what we wanted to do and didnrsquot drop a set and we came home with progressrdquo set-ter Andrea McQuaid said

Over the course of the week-end there was a noticeable dif-ference in the Tidersquos defensive effort and it hopes to see con-tinuous improvement this week-end

ldquoWersquore definitely becoming more aggressive in defenserdquo McQuaid said ldquoDefense is just a completely different mindset in the game of volleyball Itrsquos just see ball get ball Yoursquove just got to go for stuff and never hesitat-ing and therersquos always room for improvementrdquo

McQuaid earned the tourna-mentrsquos Most Valuable Player award after ending the weekend with a hitting percentage of 410 30 kills and five errors

ldquoIt was because of my team itrsquos such a team sportrdquo McQuaid said of her MVP award ldquoItrsquos a team sport so we all contribut-ed in the wins and I donrsquot think therersquos one person more than the other - everyone on the team is importantrdquo

McQuaid attributed much of her success to freshman setter

Sierra WilsonWilson who finished the

weekend with 106 assists 20 digs and five kills does not want the team to become compla-cent heading into the upcoming weekend

ldquo[Wersquore working on] our men-tal focus at the beginning of games and also just staying con-sistent with our energy through-out the entire game and being able to just finishrdquo Wilson said ldquoThat will be something wersquore going to be working on during practicerdquo

Starting Friday Alabama will look to defend its home court as Lamar and Austin Peay start off the round robin style tourna-ment

Alabama holds a 2-1 record against Lamar and in five meet-ings since 1989 the Tide is unde-feated against Austin Peay

Moving into Saturday the Tide hopes to continue its unde-feated record against Alabama State and East Tennessee State The team anticipates the match-up not having faced East Tennessee in 14 years

Having studied film and scouting reports from all four competitors Alabama hopes to control the court despite who is on the other side of the net

ldquoI consider volleyball to be like a game of chessrdquo McQuaid said

Volleyball team hosts Hampton Inn Bama Bash

By Billy WhyteStaff Reporter

The University of Alabama womenrsquos soccer team off to its best start in program history at 5-0 will look to finish with a perfect non-conference slate against Maryland on Thursday

Maryland will be the Crimson Tidersquos toughest opponent so far this season the Terrapins have only lost one non-conference game since 2008

ldquoTheir team has the total packagerdquo head coach Todd

Bramble said ldquoThey are ath-letic and good on the ball They

are going to be well-organized and they are going to be good forward and hard to break down defensively They are just a very well-rounded teamrdquo

The game will serve as an all-important final test for the Tide before conference play begins next week Bramble said the game will be significant in terms of seeing how the Tide stacks up against an SEC qual-ity opponent

ldquoFor us to feel like we are really prepared for conference play there is nothing better

than getting a good ACC team here to give us exactly what it looks and feels likerdquo Bramble said

It will be an important game for the Tidersquos defense which has yet to be tested this year due to the teamrsquos offense domi-nating possession in their first five games Along with the questions surrounding the teamrsquos defense Bramble is looking forward to seeing if the teamrsquos offense can keep up their hot pace that carried them through the first few games

ldquoWe need to be solid defen-sivelyrdquo Bramble said ldquoWe havenrsquot had all the questions answered yet from a defensive standpoint so Irsquom looking for-ward to seeing how solid we will be against a team like Maryland Offensively we need to be relaxed and composed on the ball keep possession and knock it around and build attacks like we have been able to in some of our previous gamesrdquo

In order to be successful against Maryland Bramble said it will be important for the Tide

to keep its composure and swag-ger that has carried the team through the first five games

ldquoFrom a psychological stand-point we need to be just as confident and just as composed against a big name as we have in our previous five gamesrdquo Bramble said ldquoOur team should have a lot of confidence in them-selves Just because we have a highly-ranked big name ACC opponent coming in here for us it doesnrsquot mean we need to change our demeanor and how we feel about ourselvesrdquo

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As with every other match the Tide hopes to come out on top and walk away with a great-er understanding of each otherrsquos tendencies

ldquoOur expectation is to win our

home tournament and to prog-ress as a team and feel better collectively and individuallyrdquo Allen said ldquoIf those three things happen then wersquoll consider it a successrdquo

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nickname18 Protective trench19 Miguelrsquos gal20 Prickly

undergrowth22 Pine secretion23 More than te-hee

online24 Prop for a safety

briefing26 Brewerrsquos vessel29 Implore31 Wheels32 Mideast

language34 Finish a

gymnasticsroutine perhaps

37 Toward the stern40 They lead you

astray andwhat the starts of20- 24- 52- and60-Across are

44 Brian of RoxyMusic

45 ldquoYeah surerdquo46 Surpass47 Washed-out49 Bob Marley genre51 Place in

considerabledisarray

52 Itrsquos often a toughcut

57 Fighting Tigersrsquosch

59 Ness and others60 Verbally

overwhelm65 Dim66 Small pie67 Time for action68 2-Down for one69 Mother of Don

Juan70 Kerryrsquos home71 Much of the RMS

Queen Mary now72 Bank (on)73 ldquoSeasons of

Loverdquo musical

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shape2 Natural Bridges

locale3 Second helping

to a dieter4 Twist5 Long shot say6 Baseballrsquos Moises7 It has a campus

near the JFKLibrary

8 Turning tool9 Ancient Athens

rival10 Nitwit11 Ouzo flavoring12 Watch13 Barely sufficient21 Slangy ldquoDonrsquot

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fluent33 Grumpy friend35 Exist36 Mosquito

protection

38 Unfriendly types39 Fastener named

for its shape41 Have supper42 Wedding

receptionhighlight

43 Catch sight of48 Heineken brand50 All thumbs52 Winter puddle

cause

53 Scout master54 Elaborate display55 Up and at rsquoem56 Scottish feudal

lord58 Milkerrsquos handful61 Hurler Hershiser62 Large-tongued

comics dog63 Wave a red flag

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Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Yoursquoll have sweeter dreams for the next few weeks Fantasies abound and are achievable Donrsquot reveal your secrets all at once Th erersquos beauty in anticipation Get into actionLibra (Sept 23-Oct 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Yoursquore very popular but your social life could cause a problem at home Your career could benefi t from the new contacts you make BalanceScorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21) -- Today is a 6 -- New opportunities arise over the next three weeks Take a few days to store away provisions as many as you can Th en go rejuvenate an old bondSagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) -- Today is a 5 -- For the next month itrsquos easier to get away All is not as it appears however Negotiate a trade New possibilities develop while this lastsCapricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Take on more work and make no expensive promises Itrsquos easier to save now Get family to help You have more together than you do apartAquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) -- Today is a 7 -- For the next fi ve weeks delegate as much as possible Investigate long-term partnerships Donrsquot fall for a trick look beyond attractive results Instead seek balance Compassion increasesPisces (Feb 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Work is more fun and gets easier for the next few weeks Yoursquore very attractive now You donrsquot have to know everything yet Your past work speaks well for you

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MARKETPLACEHOUSING

JOBS

DOWNTIMEFun-filled Time Wasters

ACROSS1 Cask stopper5 Conquest for

Caesar9 Serbs eg

14 School thatexpelled JamesBond

15 Gustav Mahlerrsquoswife

16 Hilarious person17 Grandmotherly

nickname18 Protective trench19 Miguelrsquos gal20 Prickly

undergrowth22 Pine secretion23 More than te-hee

online24 Prop for a safety

briefing26 Brewerrsquos vessel29 Implore31 Wheels32 Mideast

language34 Finish a

gymnasticsroutine perhaps

37 Toward the stern40 They lead you

astray andwhat the starts of20- 24- 52- and60-Across are

44 Brian of RoxyMusic

45 ldquoYeah surerdquo46 Surpass47 Washed-out49 Bob Marley genre51 Place in

considerabledisarray

52 Itrsquos often a toughcut

57 Fighting Tigersrsquosch

59 Ness and others60 Verbally

overwhelm65 Dim66 Small pie67 Time for action68 2-Down for one69 Mother of Don

Juan70 Kerryrsquos home71 Much of the RMS

Queen Mary now72 Bank (on)73 ldquoSeasons of

Loverdquo musical

DOWN1 Not in good

shape2 Natural Bridges

locale3 Second helping

to a dieter4 Twist5 Long shot say6 Baseballrsquos Moises7 It has a campus

near the JFKLibrary

8 Turning tool9 Ancient Athens

rival10 Nitwit11 Ouzo flavoring12 Watch13 Barely sufficient21 Slangy ldquoDonrsquot

worry about itrdquo25 ldquoHigh Voltagerdquo

rockers26 Ex-GIsrsquo org27 Bernrsquos river28 1982 sci-fi film30 Superficially

fluent33 Grumpy friend35 Exist36 Mosquito

protection

38 Unfriendly types39 Fastener named

for its shape41 Have supper42 Wedding

receptionhighlight

43 Catch sight of48 Heineken brand50 All thumbs52 Winter puddle

cause

53 Scout master54 Elaborate display55 Up and at rsquoem56 Scottish feudal

lord58 Milkerrsquos handful61 Hurler Hershiser62 Large-tongued

comics dog63 Wave a red flag

at64 Nikitarsquos no

Wednesdayrsquos Puzzle Solved

By Jerome Gunderson 9612

(c)2012 Tribune Media Services Inc 9612

Crossword

Sudoku

FREEbull monitored

security system

bull gas log fireplaces

bull fitness rooms

bull 2 resort pools

CALL (205) 544-1977

palisadesapthomescom

1 2 3 bedrooms

3201 Hargrove Road East

Tuscaloosa AL

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HOUSING

DEADLINES Classified line ad deadline is the previous business day by 400 pmHow to place a classified For classified line ads visit wwwcwuaedu and click on the classifieds tab For classified display ads call (205) 348-7355 or email cwclassmgrgmailcom for a free consultation The Crimson White is published four days a week (M T W TH) Each classified line ad must run for a minimum of four days and include no less than 16 words

RATESBest Commercial Rates

4-8 days is $50 per word 9 plus days is $35 per wordStudentFaculty Rates

$35 per word You must register with a Crimson Mail address to get this rate If you enter your ad under student rate without a Crimson Mail address your charge will be adjusted to regular price

JOBS

Th e font may be tiny

But the opportunitiesare huge

Check out the rates at the top to get your word out there

JOBS

Text ldquochicrdquo to 71441 for Buy One Get One Half Off

McNeff Veterinary

Hospital PC6 minutes from Campus wellness exams vaccinations heartworm prevention amp testing grooming amp more

20 discount for all students15 discount for faculty

Call us for details

1600 Greensboro AveTuscaloosa AL 35401

205-345-6767

Need money for the week-end Turn your ldquostuffrdquo into fast cash Visit wwwcwuaedu and click on the classi eds tab Ad placement is quick and easy

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Todayrsquos Birthday (090612) Th is year is great for your career Get clear about what you want and ask for it Let go of stuff you donrsquot need Family and friends keep you grounded An autumn discovery tempts you to a course of studyTo get the advantage check the dayrsquos rating 10 is the easiest day 0 the most challengingAries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 5 -- For about fi ve weeks yoursquore even luckier than usual and your artistic creativity increases Keep concentrating on your studies Make a romantic promise that yoursquoll enjoy fulfi llingTaurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You should be able to see clearly what needs to be done no need to be overwhelmed Now is a good time for making money so brainstorm ideas Maintain objectivity if possibleGemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Conditions are excellent for expansion now in a loving context For about four weeks your curiosity will be more insatiable than usual Trust your heart to lead youCancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Gather up the harvest as quickly as possible with some help Itrsquoll be easier to make money for the next few weeks but donrsquot buy toys yet Itrsquos not a good time to travelLeo (July 23-Aug 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Romance awaits and yoursquore especially good-looking during this period Answer the call of the wild You have willing helpers nearby rely on them Listen for feedback

Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Yoursquoll have sweeter dreams for the next few weeks Fantasies abound and are achievable Donrsquot reveal your secrets all at once Th erersquos beauty in anticipation Get into actionLibra (Sept 23-Oct 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Yoursquore very popular but your social life could cause a problem at home Your career could benefi t from the new contacts you make BalanceScorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21) -- Today is a 6 -- New opportunities arise over the next three weeks Take a few days to store away provisions as many as you can Th en go rejuvenate an old bondSagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) -- Today is a 5 -- For the next month itrsquos easier to get away All is not as it appears however Negotiate a trade New possibilities develop while this lastsCapricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Take on more work and make no expensive promises Itrsquos easier to save now Get family to help You have more together than you do apartAquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) -- Today is a 7 -- For the next fi ve weeks delegate as much as possible Investigate long-term partnerships Donrsquot fall for a trick look beyond attractive results Instead seek balance Compassion increasesPisces (Feb 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Work is more fun and gets easier for the next few weeks Yoursquore very attractive now You donrsquot have to know everything yet Your past work speaks well for you

HOROSCOPES

Classi ed display ads get re-

sults Call your Crimson Whitead representative today to nd out how the Crimson White can help you create new business opportunities Call (205) 348-7355 or cwclassmgrgmailcom

XVroad to fifteen

you with us

gameday advertising

now available

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Advertise in the CrimsonWhitersquos Classi ed Market-place Visit wwwcwuaedu and click on the classi eds tab and look for the place new ad button Low cost highly effec-tive ads available in print andonline

12 OFF FIRST Month s Rent- Spacious 2 bedroom 2 bath $700 Close to Midtown amp Campus COURT WOODS 1600 Veterans Memorial Pkwy Call Denise 556-6200 wwwdelviewcom

CAMPUS 3-4 BEDROOM HOUSES very nice avail-able now Lease and deposit required No pets Call (205) 752-1277

CLAYMONT- on Trolley Line Close to UA 2602 Claybrook Dr One Bedroom $365 Call me for move-in-special- De-

nise 556-6200 wwwdelviewcom

12 OFF First Monthrsquos Rent-2 bedroom 2 bath $700 Close to Midtown amp CampusCOURT WOODS 1600 Vet-erans Memorial Pkwy Text ldquoCourtrdquo to 843644 Call Denise 556-6200 wwwdelviewcom

CUSTOMER SERVICE REP Immediate opening for custom-er service representative Tus-caloosa area Previous experi-

ence preferred not required Send resume with references tuscjobopportunitiesgmailcom

HIRING Servers and Kitchen StaffFor Bryant Denny Stadium$10 Hour and Up for Servers$8 hour and up for utilitycooks dependent on experi-enceCheck out our AD on CraigslistPosting ID 3172239525

IF YOU LOVE CHILDREN come join our caring preschool staff We offer training insur-

ance and a 50 discount on childcare Fax resume to 205-752-9941

BARTENDING $300 day po-tential no experience neces-sary Training courses avail-able (800)965-6520 Ext214

ldquoIF YOU LIKE PINA COLA-DAS And getting caught in the rain If yoursquore not into yogaIf you have half a brainIf yoursquod like making love at mid-night In the dunes on the Cape Then Irsquom the love that yoursquove looked forWrite to me and escaperdquo

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