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By Brittney KnoxStaff Writer

With the first home game-day on Saturday, businesses in Tuscaloosa are preparing for the busiest part of the year — football season. This weekend, thousands will enter the city for Alabama’s first home game, and along with these people come the millions of dollars they put into

the economy to aid local busi-nesses. The economic impact of an average football weekend is about $12 million to $15 million, said Robin Jenkins, Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama spokeswoman. She said that number is higher for big games such as Auburn or Tennessee, but lower for the less important games. David Jones has owned

Alabama Book Store for 30 years and Alabama Express for the past eight years. Alabama Express is located on the Strip next to Alabama Book Store. Both stores sell Alabama attire and hats, among other things. He said every home game has a huge impact on business. “We spend most of the sum-mer preparing for the fall season,” he said. “During the football season is when we turn over a large percentage of our profits.” As a result of the additional

Buffalo Phil's is a popular place for stu-dents to eat on The Strip. Gameday visitors are expected to boost shops in Tuscaloosa, including those on the Strip.

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CW | Daniel OwenStudents, faculty and military personel gather in front of Gorgas Library to remember the 9/11 tragedy and honor American soldiers and veterans.

By Lindsey SheltonStudent Life Editor

Bama Hockey player Steve Fillo IV will be remembered by his teammates, family and friends as a dedicated, hard-working and humble young man on and off the ice. Fillo, a sophomore who was majoring in business, died in the early morning hours of Aug. 30 from injuries he sustained in a one-car accident while travel-ing back from the team’s train-ing camp in Pelham. In the car with Fillo was his brother Joey, who is a freshman at the

University and was trying out for the hockey team. Joey sus-tained minor injuries and was released on Sept. 1 from UAB medical center. Bama Hockey head coach Jeff Cheeseman said a memo-rial service was held Sept. 5 in Fillo’s hometown of Monument, Colo. He said between 800 and 1,000 people attended the ser-vice. “It shows what kind of impact this young man had on his high school, his family and his friends and the hockey world out in Monument.” Fillo attended Lewis-Palmer

UA hockey player dies in car crash

High School, where his father, Steve Fillo III, coached him. His father said as a senior, Fillo was named the city’s best defensive player by a local newspaper. He also received First Team All-City and Second Team All-State honors. “Hockey was his first love,” Mr. Fillo said. “It was the one

thing where he went all out.“ Fillo’s father said he had talked to Fillo right before they took the ice at training camp, and he was excited and looking forward to having his brother on the team. “This awful, awful tragedy

By Karissa BurschStaff Reporter

The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new 348-RIDE Express program took place Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in front of Gorgas Library. A CrimsonRide bus decorated with red and white balloons stood outside of Gorgas for the ceremony. Using a pair of oversized scissors, SGA

President Steven Oliver cut the ribbon at the event. James Fowler, the vice presi-dent for external affairs, said a few words to start the new bus route. Oliver said he was happy to see all of those who attended and was very thank-ful for the efforts from SGA, Auxiliary Services and Transportation Services. The 348-RIDE Express began Thursday at 9 p.m. The route runs from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays

and Saturdays. Standard Crimson Ride buses will travel the express route, which has been mapped out along popular locations such as the Riverside area, Tutwiler, Gorgas Library and more stops. The information on how many students use the 348-RIDE Express over the week-end will be available by Monday morning, Fowler said. Officials expect it to have a lot of riders, he said.

CW | Jerrod SeatonSGA President Steven Oliver offi cially introduces 348-RIDE Express Thursday behind Gorgas Library. The express route is ex-pected to allow better effi ciency for the CrimsonRide system.

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In an undated photo, Steve Fillo competes with the Bama Hockey team. He died in a car crash leaving hockey practice in Birming-ham.Submitted photo

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“He came to us as a humble, talented young man and was an immediate asset to the team on and off

the ice. He will be missed by all those who knew him.”

— Jeff Cheeseman, Bama Hockey head coach{ }

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By Kyle D. PierceStaff Writer

“It’s all about them, those who sacrificed for us.” That’s how Michael Barnes, president of Capstone Conservatives and a junior majoring in electrical engi-neering, summed up the event held Thursday night at Gorgas Library to commemorate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The event was organized by Barnes and Corderrol Harris, a senior in communication studies, and featured a slate of speakers and guests, including UA President Robert Witt, Chief Alan J. Martin of the Tuscaloosa Fire Dept., UA Vice President for Facilities and Grounds Ret. Col. Dewayne Lamb (Air Force) and Chief Steven D. Anderson of the Tuscaloosa Police Department. In addition, the service featured local musicians such as UA stu-dent D. Sharpe. On a rainy Thursday after-noon, the moving service still had a strong attendance from the student body and the surrounding community. According to several students in attendance, the memorial was a great idea, and it went off even better than they expected. “The service was a per-fect way to display the love we all hold for our great nation,”Amanda Brewer, a freshman majoring in educa-tion, said. A.J. Collins, a freshman majoring in economics, said he

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enjoyed the service. “It was nice to see a lot of members in the community and campus come out to the event,” Collins said. “It was inspiration-al.” The guest speakers, includ-ing Witt, focused on the “time of sacrifice” around Sept. 11. “It is a very important reason to be here, to remember the vic-tims and, equally important, to celebrate the heroes.” Witt said. “That day, firefighters, police-men and Port Authority police went to work expecting an ordi-nary day. Some were not able to go home that night, but many others were because of their heroism.”

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NEWS in briefCAMPUS | UA enrollment hits 28,000 The University has reached UA President Robert Witt’s goal of 28,000 students. Campus enrollment hit 28,807 this semester, a 47 percent increase since 2002. For fall 2009, 1,755 more students enrolled than fall 2008, a 6.5 percent increase, according to a UA news release. “Our enrollment is a tribute to our excellent faculty and staff and their dedication to our students,” Witt said. “We are pleased to welcome both new and returning students to campus this fall and look forward to a productive year.” More than 5,000 students make up this year’s freshman class, the largest in school history. Total campus enrollment includes students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and more than 70 foreign countries.

CAMPUS | UA honor society receives top national honor The UA chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars has been awarded gold status as an outstanding campus chapter. Based in Washington, D.C., NSCS invites first and second year students into membership, which is based on grade point average and class rank and can only be given by invitation. The NSCS chapter had many things to do before they could be awarded gold status. To obtain this exceptional honor, the society created a student-mentoring program, held campus-wide events to uphold the NSCS’ integrity initiative, held an induction ceremony for new members and created an on-campus membership recruitment campaign. Stacy Jones, faculty advisor for the chapter and UA direc-tor of student leadership, said achieving gold status means the organization is living up to its potential on campus through its leadership and service. “I commend the executive board for their leadership and helping the organization make a difference in the Tuscaloosa community,” Jones said.

CAMPUS | Alumni association to honor two former athletes Former baseball letterman Jerry Belk along with former football captain and basketball standout Jack V. Brown Sr. will be awarded the Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award presented by the UA National Alumni Association Saturday during half-time of the Alabama-Florida International game. Belk grew up in Tuscaloosa and played baseball from 1952-54 for the Crimson Tide. He served two years in the U.S. Army and then returned home to Tuscaloosa to teach and coach at Holt High School. In 1966, he became director of the Tuscaloosa County Parks and Recreation Authority. Growing up in Selma, Brown spent 1948-51 at the University playing football, eventually becoming a team captain his senior year. He also played basketball during the 1948-49 season and served as ROTC brigadier commander. Brown returned to his alma mater A.G. Parish High School as head football coach and athletic director after graduating in 1952. Since John Croyle received the inaugural Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award in 1988, recipients have included Bart Starr, Ozzie Newsome and Jeremiah Castille. Last year’s recipients were Barbara Mack Harding, George A. McCain, Jr. and Ben W. McLeod, Jr.

TODAY SATURDAY• University Mall exhibit for National Suicide Prevention Week: University Mall, all day

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By Karissa BurschStaff Writer

When students at the University of Alabama think of sororities, they often think of the more widely known sororities on sorority row. However, there are other opportunities growing on campus for girls to get involved in greek life. The Sigma Delta Tau soror-ity chapter at the University has more than tripled its number of members compared to a low of five members two years ago. The sorority lost its house a couple of years ago and eventually sold it to the UA Alpha Phi chapter. Sigma Delta Tau was founded in 1917 at Cornell University and was established at UA in 1935, according to the University’s

SDT Web site. Miriam Fry, the president of Sigma Delta Tau and a junior majoring in political science, said the number of members grew to 13 one year ago, and SDT now has 22 members. Fry said since coming to the University two years ago, she has been making an effort to build the sorority. “There weren’t a lot of mem-bers so I decided to rebuild it,” Fry said. “I have been recruiting since then.” Fry said her recruitment efforts include recruiting through Facebook, with tea par-ties and through family friends. Fry said because the University has been making an effort in recruiting Jewish stu-dents, this can be a good oppor-

Sigma Delta Tau expandsSorority offers another greek life option on campus

tunity for Jewish girls coming to the University. “Since it is primarily Jewish for our campus, it’s a great place for Jewish girls to go and con-nect with other Jewish girls,” Fry said. Whitney Kupferer, the presi-dent of the Alabama Panhellenic Association, said, “Each of our sororities offers a unique expe-rience to members, and SDT is no different. As a smaller chap-ter with a Jewish heritage, they offer a unique experience that few other chapters can.” Fry said SDT is just like any other sorority on campus. The sorority participates in swaps with fraternities and partici-pates in other normal sorority activities. Kupferer said the UA

Andrew Santi, a senior majoring in mathematics and Bama Hockey team president, said even though he only knew Fillo for a year, he thinks that Fillo gave “100 percent in whatever he did, and that’s what endeared him a lot to the team.” “He was a great guy,” Santi said. “I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who didn’t like the kid. He was really laid-back and quiet, and out on the ice he was a huge asset.” Fillo’s father said there has been an outpouring of support for his family. “Everyone in the UA family has been overwhelmingly sup-portive. They have really gone overboard to show their sup-port to our family.” Santi said Fillo would want the team to continue playing in his honor. General Manager Buddy Damare said that is exactly what the team intends to do this season. “We know that we have unfinished business,” he said. “And I think Steve is the kind of guy that would say, ‘OK guys, you have some unfin-ished business. Let’s go take care of it.’” Cheeseman said the Bama Hockey team will hold a memo-rial ceremony for Fillo during the weekend of their season opener against LSU Oct. 2 at the Pelham Civic Complex. Fillo’s jersey will be displayed in a shadow box and a banner will be hung in his memory at the Complex. Cheeseman added that the team will wear 83, Fillo’s number, on the left side of its jerseys. Damare added that a memo-rial fund will be set up in honor of Fillo. Bama Hockey will make a contribution to a chari-table organization of Fillo’s family’s choice each year. “He is in our thoughts; he’s in our memory,” Damare said. “We are expecting big things from our players and good things from our team. We will carry Steve’s memory with us.”

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that sales increase a great deal during football season. “We make sure that we are fully staffed on game days to be able to accommodate the influx of fans that come out to see the Tide play,” he said. “We also make sure that we have the televisions on college football all day.” “Sales are also affected by the amount of games won or loss,” he said. “There are more people out when we win because everyone wants to cel-ebrate a victory.” Businesses located on the Strip are not the only ones that benefit from the Bama fans that come to Tuscaloosa. General Manager Terrie Pate of

GAMEDAYSContinued from page 1

“He came to us as a humble, talented young man and was an immediate asset to the team on and off the ice. He will be missed by all those who knew him.”

has reminded us how fragile life can be,” Cheeseman said.

Panhellenic Association is excit-ed about the progress SDT has made and supports the rebuild-ing of SDT. “The Alabama Panhellenic Association has been proud to support SDT through this rebuilding period,” Kupferer said. “They have a proud history on our campus, and we are pleased with the great strides they are making as an organization.” Kupferer said she has seen the house grow over the years since she has been at UA. “As a senior myself, I have been able to observe SDT’s growth and expansion process since I have been at the University of Alabama,” Kupferer said. “I have been impressed with the leader-ship in their house over the past few years and believe that every member of SDT has contributed to their current success of bring-ing their membership up.”

thankfulness to the UA Honor Court for the “amazing posting of colors.” He continued to tell his story about how Sept. 11, a “personal and pivotal” moment, impacted his life. He said on the day of the attacks, he was serving in the US Air Force Strategic Command outside Omaha, Neb. In the moments after the attack, he was informed he would be brief-

ing the president, vice president and secretary of defense upon the president’s arrival at the complex. The president arrived while Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld were con-nected via secure video link. “After I had given the briefing, what sticks most in my mind was President Bush’s handling of the situation,” Lamb said. “He decid-ed to go back to Washington and

MEMORIALContinued from page 1

“There are more people out when we win because everyone wants to celebrate a victory.”

— Paul Cooke{ }Country Inns & Suites, located on McFarland Boulevard, said her hotel is booked for all home games days after the schedule is released early in the year. “We have loyal customers that have been staying with us for about the past seven years, so when the schedule comes out, we allow them to send us a registration form to reserve their rooms for the games that they plan to attend,” she said. “We place a two night

restriction on the rooms for home games such as LSU and Arkansas, but there is not that restriction on the upcoming game for this weekend,” Pate said. Hotel rates are higher for special events, including foot-ball games. “We love Alabama football and taking care of our cus-tomers,” she said. “Gamedays bring in a lot of revenue for our business.”

lead from the front.” “That’s what all leaders should do,” he added, holding back tears. As the service ended, a tra-ditional “Tolling of the Bell” for the fallen heroes of the police and fire departments was played in conjunction with taps and a moment of silence. “That moment of silence, the reverence of the occasion and the respect of all those in atten-dance was completely evident and shown by Michael Barnes’s closing statement: ‘Today, the class of the University of Alabama was shown,’” Collins said.

Lamb first mentioned his

As a result of the additional revenue brought in by game-day, the two stores offer more hours to its employees and requires them all to work on those days. Jones said the University playing conference rivals has a more positive effect on business. “This weekend we expect good business because it is the first home game,” he said. “The team Alabama is playing does have some effect on the prof-its.” Paul Cooke, manager of Buffalo Phil’s on the Strip, said

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Football tickets hard to come by

By Wendy WongStaff Writer

With one day left before the Crimson Tide’s first home foot-ball game, many students are excited — even though some are not attending. Even now, there are students trying to sell their ticket to Saturday’s game against Florida International University. Jonathan Hinnen, a senior majoring in theataer, sold his ticket for only $20. He said FIU was not a quality football team, so the match-up was not going to be as interesting as last week’s game against Virginia Tech. Yet there were some die-hard football fans like Blake Richardson, a junior majoring in sports management, who said they would still go to cheer on the team. For last week’s game against Virginia Tech, the average price for tickets on campus ranged from $60 to $140. The prices for this week’s game, however, ranged from $15 to $30. J.T. Spann, a freshman in the Blount program, said he thinks tickets for LSU, Arkansas and Auburn games are going to be the most expensive because matches between two great teams are more fun to watch. However, there were not only individual tickets being sold. Flyers advertising student ticket packages from $250 up to

$600 for all seven home games are plastered all over campus. Jeremy Ekberg, a graduate student in the English depart-ment, sold his student ticket package for $375. “I’m really happy that I was able to sell my tickets,” Ekberg said. “I’m glad I could help someone and still be able to watch every game on TV.” Online prices on Facebook groups such as the UA-based “Football Tickets,” were within the same price ranges. On Ebay, there were two sets of tickets being sold for $1,400. Branden Chalmers, a senior majoring in English, com-plained about the outrageously high prices some ticket scalpers have set. Others such as Lauren McClendon, a senior majoring in pre-law, said prices were fair. “Given how rabid football fans are about football,” McClendon said, “$200 for one ticket seems like a reasonable deal.” Many students said they still remember the hassles of buy-ing student tickets. The first day tickets went on sale, there were so many buyers that the ticket Web site’s server slowed

to a crawl, and tickets for upper-classmen sold out in just over an hour. The server also kicked off students who had been waiting for an hour or more and let oth-ers who had just logged on get tickets. Another equally thorny issue for students is the University’s new rules on ticket conversions. According to the UA ticket Web site, if a student converts more than three tickets to guest tickets they are automatically disqualified from purchasing postseason tickets to a potential appearance in the Southeastern Conference championship game or a bowl game. McClendon said she did not understand why the University imposed the new penalty. Another new rule is that if a student accumulates three “resets” — unused, non-donat-ed or non-transferred tickets—they become ineligible from purchasing postseason tickets or ones for the following season. “I think it’s a great idea,” Chalmers said. “The school should penalize people [for not using tickets] because there are fans who would have wanted to use those tickets.”

“The school should penalize people [for not using tickets] because there are fans who would have

wanted to use those tickets.”

— Branden Chalmers{ }

Thus the CSL study, rushed out by the New England Journal of Medicine late Thursday, is welcome news. In a study of 240 adults, half younger than 50 and half over, one shot prompted the same kind of immune response indi-cating protection that is seen with regular flu vaccine. And a standard 15-microgram dose — not the double dose that also was tested — was enough. “It’s really striking how incredibly similar this is to every other study of a seasonal flu vaccine I’ve ever seen,” said Dr. John Treanor, a flu specialist at the University of Rochester who examined the data. CSL, which is one U.S. vac-cine supplier, found the same side effects in its study that people experience with regular flu vaccine, which is no sur-prise since this shot is merely a recipe change from the annual standby. About 45 percent of recipients had mild reactions such as a headache, sore arm or redness at the shot site. On Friday, the NIH is set to release results of its own stud-ies of hundreds of adults that confirm that one shot works, Fauci said. Plus, the U.S. work

shows that people are protected between eight days and 10 days after that inoculation, he said. One dose means tight sup-plies of H1N1 vaccine won’t be stretched so badly after all. The U.S. has ordered 195 million doses, based on the hope that 15 micrograms was indeed the right dose. Had it taken twice that dose, or two shots apiece, half as many people could have received the vaccine. The winter flu vaccine is widely available now, and U.S. health authorities urged peo-ple Thursday to get it out of the way now before swine flu shots start arriving in mid-October. Despite all the headlines about swine flu, which has become the main influenza strain circulating in the world, doctors do expect some gar-den-variety flu to hit this fall too — the kind that every year kills 36,000 Americans and hos-pitalizes 200,000. “Take some individual responsibility to stay healthy during the flu season,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who scheduled her own sea-sonal shot for Friday. Waiting to get the first inoc-ulation out of the way “is not in anybody’s best interest,” added Dr. Nancy Nielsen, past president of the American Medical Association. She saidbusy doctors need to have completed regular vaccina-tions by the time they have to deal with H1N1 shots. There’s no way to predict how much of either flu strain will circulate. “This year, we are in uncharted territory,” warned Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said some parts of the Southeast in the past few weeks have experienced as much flu as is usually seen in the middle of winter. So far, it’s all the H1N1 variety, with schools and col-leges experiencing outbreaks almost as soon as classes began. Indeed, a typical school stu-dent who catches swine flu will spread it to two to three classmates, says a stark new estimate published Thursday in the journal Science. Flu specialist Ira Longini of the University of Washington in Seattle based the estimate on how swine flu spread through a New York City school in April, and some other schools since.

Studies: 1 dose of swine fl u vaccine works

By Lauran NeergaardThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Good news in the world’s flu fight: One dose of the new swine flu vac-cine looks strong enough to protect adults — and can spark protection within 10 days of the shot, Australian and U.S. researchers said Thursday. Australian shot maker CSL Ltd. published results of a study that found between 75 percent and 96 percent of vac-cinated people should be pro-tected with one dose — the same degree of effectiveness as the regular winter flu shot. That’s remarkable consider-ing scientists thought it would take two doses. U.S. data to be released Friday confirm those findings, and show the protection starts rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press. “This is quite good news,” Fauci said. The dose question has an important ramification: It means people will have to line up for influenza vaccinations twice this year instead of three times — once for the regular winter flu shot and a second time to be inoculated against swine flu, what doctors call the 2009 H1N1 strain. Thursday’s swine flu vac-cine reports center on adults; studies in children aren’t fin-ished yet. But scientists had feared that people of all ages would need two shots about a month apart because the new H1N1 strain is so genetically different from normally circulating flu strains that most of the population has little if any immunity. Chinese manufacturers gave the first hint a week ago that one dose could be enough. But different manufacturers make different formulations of the vaccine, so more evidence was needed.

APHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ges-tures during a briefi ng about the upcoming seasonal fl u season Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington.

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Eight years ago, Islamic extremists turned four passen-ger jetliners into mis-siles. By the end of the day, the Twin Towers were gone, a storm of dust and ash in their place, the Pentagon was smoldering and there was a massive crater in rural Pennsylvania. President George Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office on the night of the attacks, followed by a speech to Congress nine days later. In both appearances, hailed for their clarity and strength in a time of pain and crisis, the presi-dent discussed the forthcoming war against ter-rorism. Eight years later, Osama bin Laden is still free. Afghanistan, in some respects better than it was under the Taliban, still is a haven for ter-rorism and recent reports indicate that political corruption is endemic. Iraq is recovering after a poorly-planned, and subsequently mismanaged, occupation. We have reduced our constitutional structure to rubble. The Atlantic Alliance spent years in tatters. But, despite the missteps, our efforts against extremism have been worth the cost. There has not been an attack on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. The al-Qaeda network has been largely dismantled. Iraq is on the upswing. The Supreme Court — indeed, the entire judicial branch — moved to protect the Bill of Rights in the most dramatic fashion in a half-century. The election of Barack Obama paved the way for a renewed friendship with Europe. Afghanistan, a country that has historically been one of the greatest challenges for Western powers, is a question mark, but we are optimistic that an influx of troops will reduce violence and increase unity. Recent national elections were imperfect, and critics of the war effort said they were indica-tors of a broader failure in central Asia. If in 2000 the United States failed to adequately protect the rights of every voter, as some have alleged, it is unreasonable to expect Afghanistan, a country ripe with corruption, to have executed a perfect election less than eight years after toppling a regime. Some commentators have said that Afghanistan could become Barack Obama’s Vietnam. We doubt it. Obama, while far less experienced than, say, Lyndon Johnson, is a far more measured leader. He has embraced a sometimes deliber-ate and calculated, if sometimes naïve, foreign policy. Our efforts have been flawed, and they are far from finished. There is still much work to be done. It is impossible to defeat a mindset, no matter how sociopathic, in a short period of time. This will be America’s longest war. The casualties are unsettling and the finan-cial costs enormous. But, we cannot give in, yet. We’re better than that. The victims of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and all of the brave men and women who have given their lives to the cause of freedom demand our eternal vigilance. They deserve nothing less. Our View is the consensus of the Crimson White’s editorial board.

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By Ian Sams

“The post-Sept. 11 world.” We often hear that phrase in mod-ern political discourse. During the past eight years, it has been used in descriptions of the ever-constant threat of terrorism, the growth and militarization of radi-cal Islam, the American build-up of global military capacities (including the continuation of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, two stated “fronts” in the War on Terror) and the increased, intensive efforts of the executive branch to protect homeland secu-rity. Yet, it’s rarely referenced when people discuss the overwhelming, and virtually universal, sense of unity that saturated the United States immediately following the attacks of eight years ago today. “The post 9/11 world” often is cited to boost our military strat-egies and our foreign policy, but it’s almost never used to refocus America towards finding com-monality, cooperation and, at the least, respectful discourse. Today, we live in a country where right-wing tea, party attendees declare President Barack Obama lacks patriotism or, worse, isn’t even a citizen. We live in a country where left-wing bloggers brand conserva-tive lawmakers as anti-American for something as simple as vot-ing against one bill. We live in a country where it’s popular to be divided. More than that, we live in a country where it pays to be divisive. On Sept. 13, 14 or 15, 2001, would Americans have tolerated divi-siveness? What would the citizen-

ry’s reaction have been if Al Gore, only months removed from being denied the presidency by the Supreme Court, had begun blam-ing Sept. 11 on the new President Bush? What if former President Clinton had done the same? Or, what if a large delegation of con-gressional Democrats, spearhead-ed by 2004 presidential hopefuls John Edwards and John Kerry, had tried to stonewall President Bush’s plans to send troops into Afghanistan to attack the Taliban and destroy the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks? Divisiveness in times of urgen-cy is intolerable. It’s unaccept-able. And in the post-9/11 world, every moment is a moment of urgency. Global and domestic crises are as intense as ever. The war in Afghanistan is fall-ing apart, with American forces undersupplied and the Taliban and other dangerous groups regaining power. The global economy continues to sputter, showing little to no signs of short-term recovery, and even worse, economists predict that the U.S. is less prepared for long-term eco-nomic growth than perhaps ever before. Millions of Americans still lack health insurance, and reform efforts in Congress are dying. No time over the past eight years has called more for unity than the present. Instead, we’re playing games with people’s lives, peddling “death panels” and modern McCarthyism. We throw the term “anti-American” at anyone who disagrees with us. We’ve aban-doned civil discourse for the more satisfying, and often egotistic,

foot-stompin’ and voice-raisin’. We’re living in a time when unity isn’t even on the radar screen. Why does it seem to take hor-rific national disasters to pull our country together? In the past century, only the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center come to mind as catalysts for true, universal American unity. Why can’t we come togeth-er when we’re not being attacked? We’re facing an attack right now in America: an attack on reason. Too many Americans on both sides of the aisle are choosing name-calling and fear-mongering over rational, patient dialogue. The health care debate has devolved into one side ignor-ing American opinion and the other side screaming “Socialism!” Pro- and anti-war groups have employed the same tactics for more than seven years. We’ve become a nation run by Glenn Becks, Rush Limbaughs and Keith Olbermanns. When is enough enough? Is our country going to have to completely fall apart before we turn back to reason? If our modern political discourse continues on this path, we’re des-tined for ruin. Democracies fall apart when extremism sets in, and what we’re seeing is an over-flow of ideological extremism. We need a return to a post-9/11 mentality. We need to refocus our collective American life on unity and rational dialogue. If we don’t, our nation may be facing the con-sequences for decades to come.

Ian Sams is a junior majoring in political science. His column runs weekly on Friday.

By Jacob Summers

Eight years ago, we suffered a great loss. Before that, since then and in years to come we have and will continue to suffer from the misguided decisions and convic-tions of others. We suffer them abroad and at home, and there often is nothing to do in light of these other than to lick our wounds, learn what we can and move on. These are not circum-stances we can have averted, pre-vented or foreseen. Sometimes, bad things just happen — at the cost of many lives, many separat-ed families and much money, time and effort. It makes hope a little darker and change a little less expedient. And then we move on. We build walls, yes. But we also build bridges. Walls to keep those events from ever happen-ing again, and bridges to those in need — either to protect those wrongly lumped into an ignorant stereotype or any one person — because that’s what America does. We are ourselves a poorly sorted mixture of good deeds and misguided harms, but it is with the trust that we all work towards a common goal of expanding life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-ness to anyone who will take the responsibility of furthering the cause. With that cause comes the bur-den of listening to everyone, tak-ing in every opinion and empa-thizing with others, in the hopes that each of us will in turn have our opinion taken in and empa-thized with. That is a tall order.

For many, many years, our country has faced ignorance and prejudice, denying groups rights and respect based on color, job, ethnicity, gender and sexual pref-erence — groups that have existed as long as human nature. Therefore, it is hard to say we should all come together when these groups have been oppressed for so long and harder even still when the nature of this day cen-ters around a misguided act of a religion that is not as popular in this country. Islam already is a minority as far as religions go in this country, and the image is not strengthened by radicals who misrepresent it. Prejudices are born of fear, anger and misunder-standing of differences and this day only served to make things more muddled. But it didn’t ruin things. Many people, in fact, were instead bumped back onto the tracks of that common goal this day, eight years ago — including myself. Anyone can claim impar-tiality, human sympathy, listening to all sides, but it takes a tragedy to both guide those who don’t to do so, and those who do claim it to stick to their words. This day, eight years since, I am still proud of my country’s people for looking past racial/gender/preferential lines and helping their fellow Americans in need, from firefighters and policemen driving cross country, to families praying for the lost, to soldiers who enlisted hoping to fight back against those who wronged us, to those who looked past racial lines and didn’t assume the worst about a whole region halfway across the

world based on the actions of a few people. Some will recall for sake of argument the ideas that our gov-ernment may or may not have been involved. Some might say we retaliated against the wrong peo-ple. Some might even say isolated groups of this country developed a callous spot for anyone with a brown skin color. (See Shahrukh Khan’s movie “My Name is Khan” when it comes out, in case you have your doubts. But the ability for him to say this in our country afterwards is a testament to bring-ing attention to these issues.) I do not deny or confirm any of those. I don’t have the informa-tion to make such accusations, and I don’t intend to propagate half-truths with my own specu-lations or half-truths. I will say each of those issues do matter, do hurt and deter the progress of this nation if and when found to be true. But what I do know is that this day, like many others — another day that lives in infamy — should always be remembered, regard-less of the fact that it will continue to lessen in notoriety with each year. Remembering days like these are never bright or jolly. But they are a part of the character of our nation, and as a nation of humans, our national character is human as well. We shone brightly that day, and much controversy came out of our reactions since.

Jacob Summers is a senior major-ing in public relations, business and computer science. His column runs weekly on Friday.

By Charles Lenn

Avery Adcock’s column on Wednesday lacked serious research. She wrote, “[o]ur involvement in Afghanistan has lasted longer than the two World Wars combined.” False. If we take her defi-nition “American occupation of Afghanistan” as the correct summation of “our involvement,” then this is a significant gaffe. Today, America maintains a military presence in Japan to the tune of 40,000 Marines. Why? Because Okinawa, where most of those Marines are based, is within 1,500 km of Taipei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Manila and Tokyo. It is about providing stability in the area. Adcock certainly would not call for the withdrawal of those troops given the danger of a radical North Korea regime — even though the troops are a carryover from World War II. We also have a military presence in Germany and South Korea. Should they withdraw as well? The frightening consequences could make Sept. 11 and the war on terror look elementary. Afghanistan is a complex and diversified cul-ture and the resolution of the war and American presence there cannot be limited to two options. The “two extremes: set a date for withdrawal or send more troops” is how Adcock summed up the only choices for the president to consider. This lacks substantive thinking and promotes danger-ous logic given the stakes at hand. Our son and daughter graduated from UA and are professionals in their field of work. Our daughter works for the Department of Mental Health in Washington, D.C. Our son is a cryptolo-gist in the U.S. Navy. Obviously, we have a great interest in the conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq. I would encourage Adcock to be more cautious in giving simplified suggestions to such a complex and crucial issues.

Charles Lenn is the parent of two graduates of the University of Alabama.

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The University started a new online navigation service for UA students and visitors. “Ask Al” is a navigation tool on myBama under the campus life tab. Ask Al, created by the Division of Student Affairs last spring, was launched within the first week of classes as a way for the University to have a more inviting approach to students and guest. “It is designed to help make the University more user-friendly and easier to navigate,” said Housing an Residential Communities spokeswoman Alicia Browne in an email. The service works by first entering an e-mail address and a desired question. After the question is submitted, a gradu-ate student conducts research on the question. As soon as the answer is found, the graduate student sends the answer to the e-mail provided by the stu-dent. The time period between the submitting of the question varies depending on what is asked. “We also are not able to answer questions over the weekend or when the University is closed. I think in general, the response is pretty quick,” Browne said. “If the question is about process or policy, I would expect that we can find an answer. Some ques-tions might take longer than others, though.” Although Ask Al is new for students, Browne said it is off

to a good start and will get bet-ter in the future. “In these early days, it is pretty labor-intensive, but that will get better as we develop a repository of topics,” Browne said. “Many questions are on similar topics, and we are archiving these, so that those with questions will eventu-ally be able to search for an answer, without having to actually e-mail it to Al,” Some students said they think Ask Al is a great idea but needs additional service to make it better. “I think having a phone ser-vice would be useful as well because some people don’t have access to a computer,” said Latigre Purdie, a fresh-man majoring in fashion design. Purdie also said the service is not only beneficial to cur-rent students, but prospective

students who want to learn more about the campus as well. “It’s great for prospective students and good for people to learn things they didn’t know about the University and Tuscaloosa in general,” Purdie said. “It’s like the University’s own Google.” Some students said they would like to have had the ser-vice available to them earlier than the first week of school. “I took the wrong bus fresh-man year,” said Cal Joy, a soph-omore majoring in civil engi-neering. “If I would have asked where a certain bus was going, it would have been helpful.” Ask Al’s purpose is to give answers to any and all of stu-dents’ questions. “It provides one place that students know they can go to for answers to questions,” Browne said.

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By Karissa BurschStaff Reporter

The SGA is taking more steps toward sustainabil-ity on campus this semester. At the SGA Senate meeting Thursday, a resolution was passed promoting the Bama Dining pilot program utiliz-ing reusable, to-go trays as an alternative to the com-mon, Styrofoam to-go trays. Peyton Falkenburg, a soph-omore majoring in finance and an author of the resolu-tion, said sustainability is an important initiative to SGA. The pilot program will begin at Burke, Falkenburg said. Burke will have 1,000 green reusable plastic to-go trays that students will be able to use. Bama Dining has ordered a total of 2,000 reusable trays in order to keep 1,000 on reserve in case any are thrown out, Falkenburg said. While these clamshell trays will only be available

for use at Burke, students can then drop off these to-go trays at any Bama Dining location, Falkenburg said. The trays do not need to be cleaned prior to drop-off. “Bama Dining is doing an incredible job to make us more sustainable,” Falkenburg said. Laura Pope, a sophomore and the other author of the resolution, and Falkenburg both said they worked close-ly with Matthew Mackey, AJ Defalco and Paul Marcaurelle of Bama Dining to shape the resolution and make the pro-gram a reality. Bama Dining notified SGA of the initiative, Pope said. Falkenburg said he is talking to Residential Hall Association so the resident advisers at Burke can get the word out to their residents. Pope said the to-go trays will be a companion to the plastic Go Green to-go cups that were offered by Bama Dining last year. “Styrofoam is not bio-degradable, and we use so much of it,” Pope said. “With this [program], less people are carrying less

Styrofoam. It’s a really good idea.” Falkenburg said he has always been motivated to care for the environment. “Personally, I am very interested in the environ-ment,” Falkenburg said. “I have taken New College classes, and it has really opened my eyes to environ-mental issues.” Falkenburg said the reus-able plastic trays will be the same build as the Styrofoam trays but will be more dura-ble and slightly heavier. “I hope people stick with it and return the trays to Burke,” Falkenburg said. “If we can do this, it will be great for the University.” Other resolutions passed at the Senate meeting include a resolution encour-aging students to attend the Constitution Day events on campus, a resolution congrat-ulating head football coach Nick Saban on the three-year extension of his coaching con-tract and a resolution encour-aging students to use the new ZipCar program and com-mending the University for providing such a program.

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WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders predict-ed passage of health care leg-islation within a few months despite undimmed Republican opposition, claiming momen-tum Thursday from President Barack Obama’s speech and renewed commitment from lawmakers fresh from a month of meetings with constituents. Increasingly, events in the Senate Finance Committee appeared pivotal, precursor to

likely votes in both the House and the Senate by early October. “I’m confident the president will sign a bill this year,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California. While effusively prais-ing Obama’s speech from the night before, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada signaled separately the president may not prevail in his call for legislation that allows the federal government to sell insurance in competition with private industry. Reid said that while he favors

a strong “public option,” he could be satisfied with estab-lishment of nonprofit coopera-tives, along the lines expect-ed to be included in the bill taking shape in the Finance Committee. Pelosi, who has long favored a measure that allows the gov-ernment to sell insurance, passed up a chance to say it was a nonnegotiable demand. As long as legislation makes quality health care more acces-sible and affordable, “we will go forward with that bill,” she said.

By Marcia DunnThe Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Bad weather prevented space shuttle Discovery from returning home Thursday and kept its astronauts circling the world for at least an extra day. Mission Control skipped the first landing attempt because of wind and rain. The wind eased, but the rain lin-gered for the second attempt. Officials could not get com-fortable enough with bring-ing Discovery and its crew of seven back from their space station delivery mission, now stretching 14 days. Flight director Richard Jones waited as long as pos-sible before deciding, with just minutes to spare, to give up for the day. “Just doesn’t look like it’s coming together for us,” radi-oed Mission Control. “We know that everybody worked it as hard as they could,” replied commander Rick Sturckow, “and we’ll look forward to trying again.”

Discovery’s next chance at returning will be Friday at 5:48 p.m. Forecasters already are dubious; conditions are expected to be even worse than Thursday. The weath-er improves only slightly Saturday. Late Thursday, Jones decided to call up the back-up landing site in Southern California — Edwards Air Force Base — for the next go-around. He made it clear that if the weather remains poor in Florida, then the shuttle will be diverted to Edwards. The cross-country ferry trip eats up $1.7 million and just over a week, however, which is why NASA prefers sending shut-tles straight to their home port. Discovery has enough sup-plies to remain in orbit until Sunday. There was a bit of excite-ment earlier in the day when the shuttle astronauts had to steer clear of a mysteri-ous piece of space junk. The debris apparently came from the shuttle or international space station, while the two

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were still linked. It’s believed to have become dislodged dur-ing the crew’s third and final spacewalk Saturday. Specialists did not know how

big the piece was — or even what it was — but determined it was going to pass uncom-fortably close to Discovery beginning Thursday after-

noon. The threat went away after the pilots slightly low-ered the shuttle’s orbit. NASA kept a close watch with two other pieces of space

junk during the flight, while the shuttle still was docked to the international space station. But no dodging was required in those cases.

This image pro-vided by NASA shows Space Shuttle Discovery as seen from the International Space Station as the two space-craft begin their relative separa-tion Tuesday. Discoveryʼs astro-nauts aimed for a Thursday evening landing to wrap up their success-ful space station delivery mission, but late summer storms threatened to keep them up an extra day or two.

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NEW YORK — There is the dread of leaving the house that morning. People might stare, or worse, yell insults. Prayers are more intense, vis-its with family longer. Mosques become a refuge. Eight years after 9/11, many U.S. Muslims still struggle through the anniversary of the attacks. Yes, the sting has lessened. For the younger gen-eration of Muslims, the tragedy can even seem like a distant memory. “Time marches on,” said Souha Azmeh Al-Samkari, a 22-year-old student at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Yet, many American Muslims say Sept. 11 will never be rou-tine, no matter how many anni-versaries have passed. “I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach every year,” said Nancy Rokayak of Charlotte, N.C., who covers her hair in public. “I feel on 9/11 others look at me and blame me for the events that took place.” Rokayak, a U.S.-born convert, has four children with her hus-band, who is from Egypt, and works as an ultrasound tech-nologist. She makes sure she is wearing a red, white and blue flag pin every Sept. 11 and feels safer staying close to home. Sarah Sayeed, who lives in the Bronx, said that for a long time, she hesitated before going out

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on the anniversary. The morn-ing the World Trade Center crumbled, she rushed to her son’s Islamic day school so they could both return home. The other women there warned that she should take off her heads-carf, or hijab, for her own safety. She now attends an interfaith prayer event each Sept. 11, keep-ing her hair covered as always. “There’s still a sense of ‘Should I go anywhere? Should I say anything?’ There’s kind of that anxiety,” said Sayeed, who was born in India and came to the U.S. at age 8. “I force myself to go out.” The anniversary brings a mix of emotions: sorrow over the

huge loss of life, anguish over the wars that followed, but also resentment over how the hijack-ings so completely transformed the place of Muslims in the U.S. and beyond. A poll released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 38 per-cent of Americans believe Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence. That is down from 45 percent two years earlier. It is now common in U.S. mosques for Muslims to preface public remarks by saying they know the government is eaves-dropping but Muslims have nothing to hide.

APNancy Rokayak is shown outside her offi ce in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday. Eight years after Sept. 11, many U.S. Muslims still struggle through the anniversary of the attacks.

By Marcy GordonThe Assocaited Press

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s watchdog has recommended “employee-by-employee” action to ensure the agency fixes the break-downs that allowed Bernard Madoff’s colossal fraud to go undetected for years. The question of whether SEC employees will individu-ally be held accountable for the agency’s embarrassing failure to detect the multibil-lion-dollar Ponzi scheme that Madoff ran for more than a decade emerged at a hear-ing Thursday by the Senate Banking Committee. “The first thing you have to do is clean house,” insisted Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. No SEC employees have been fired specifically in rela-tion to the bungled investiga-tions of Madoff, though the heads of the agency’s enforce-ment division and inspections office, which conducted the probes, have left the SEC in recent months. David Kotz, the SEC inspector general, testified Thursday that more than 20 employees were involved in the failed examinations. “The entire SEC should be held accountable for what

happened,” he said. Two top SEC officials pledged to fix the problems that led to the agency’s failure to uncover for 16 years what could be the biggest Ponzi scheme on record despite numerous credible red flags raised by outsiders. The heads of the SEC’s enforcement divi-sion and inspections office said they “deeply regret” the agency’s failure in the Madoff affair and promised changes to avoid future breakdowns. SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami, who joined the agency in March, said he has started the most exten-sive restructuring of his divi-sion in at least 30 years. “We intend to learn every lesson we can,” he said. “There are no sacred cows.” Khuzami said every stone will be turned in revamping the agency, including person-nel decisions on a case-by-case basis. Harry Markopolos, the fraud investigator who brought his allegations to the SEC about improprieties in Madoff’s business starting in 2000, testified that the agen-cy’s staff “was not capable of finding ice cream in a Dairy Queen.” “They need to start weed-ing out staff. ... There’s a lot of turkeys that need to be let

go,” Markopolos said, sug-gesting that more than half of the agency’s professional staff should get pink slips. Khuzami disputed that, saying the deficiencies in the Madoff case are not “emblem-atic of the entire (enforce-ment) division.” Markopolos, who deter-mined there was no way Madoff could have been mak-ing the consistent returns he claimed, repeatedly and spe-cifically raised warnings to SEC staff members in Boston, New York and Washington about Madoff’s operations. Madoff, who pleaded guilty in March, is serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison in North Carolina for a pyramid scheme that destroyed thou-sands of people’s life savings, wrecked charities and gave the financial system another big jolt. The legions of inves-tors who lost money includ-ed Hollywood celebrities, ordinary people and famous names in business and sports — as well as big hedge funds, international banks and char-itable foundations worldwide.Kotz revealed in a detailed report last week how the agency bungled five investi-gations of Madoff’s business between June 1992 and last December, when the financier confessed.

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• Tyrone Prothro book signing “Catch and Hold”: Wilhagan’s,7 p.m. to 9 p.m

•No Means Yes: Jupiter Bar and Grill, 10 p.m.

•The Tumbleweeds: 11:30 p.m.

• Little G Weevil: Little Willie’s, 9:30 p.m.

• The Booth: Pre-game party starting at 2 p.m., grilling burgers and hot dogs.

• West Alabama Quilter’s Guild: Tuscaloosa Department of Transportation, beginner’s class at 8:45 a.m. with meet-ing and 9:30 p.m.

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Need some fun after this week’s football game? The Bama Theatre will be hosting its first “5th Quarter Concert” Saturday after the Alabama-Florida International game. Kevin Ledgewood, publicity adviser for the Bama Theatre, said the show would be a leap of faith for both the bands and the Bama Theatre. “We’re hoping that people come out. Most students forget that we have a bar and daily drink specials,” Ledgewood said. “It would be a good way to celebrate the game and listen to some good music.” Matthew Mayfield will be headlining this week’s show, along with Dylan Sneed and Judd & Maggie. Mayfield is an independent artist with a big story to tell. Starting off in a band called Moses Mayfield, he signed with Epic Records and went on tour with several large acts. But being signed by a label doesn’t provide all glitz and glamour, said Mayfield’s man-ager Sara Nagel.

“Epic dropped several of their up-and-coming artists, includ-ing Moses Mayfield,” Nagel said. “I think the whole experience left Matthew very determined to do things on his own, his way, so that he wouldn’t have to answer to anyone.” Mayfield’s “Fire” E.P. was released in September 2008, and it took the No. 1 iTunes spot in singer/songwriter after his song, “First in Line,” appeared on “Grey’s Anatomy’s” 100th episode. His album, “Five Chances Remain Hers” was released in July 2009, and it not only reached No. 1 on the iTunes singer/songwriter chart but also featured on their indie spotlight. “He has done everything himself and with the help of friends,” Nagel said. “No label has paid for anything. Our friend Bo designs the flyers and CD covers, his friends promote his shows and the radio sta-tions call him directly to play his music.” Nagel said she does not charge Mayfield for her services because she says she believes in his music. “I think he is on his way to finding greater success on his

own then he ever did with the label. I think that his personal success says a lot about the state of music, and especially the power of independent artists to be able to ‘get big’ by them-selves. No label has paid for any-thing,” she said. Mayfield will be heading out on tour in October with NeedToBreathe, and they will be opening up for The Fray in Huntsville. Mayfield said in an e-mail that he always looks for-ward to touring with friends.” “Being on the road with the NeedToBreathe guys is like touring with family,” Mayfield wrote. “Those guys are just four brothers from other mothers. “Opening for The Fray at Big

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Kent Frost wouldn’t mind becoming an American Idol, but that’s not the dream he’s chasing as a new member of Alabama’s Resonance Show Choir. “I hope to be a politician one day,” said Frost, a sophomore majoring in biology. “If I have to perform and deal with the pressures of what people think of me, it will help me in the future.” Pressure abounded for Kent and other students who audi-tioned for Resonance on Sept. 3. Kent was one of 39 singers who made the cut. Kent said while the compe-tition was fierce, it was also friendly. He said one of his fraternity brothers and some sorority girls he knew also auditioned, and it helped to be able to practice with them at the Moody Music Building and get constructive criticism. “There’s a competitive

nature to it, but overall friend-ship is stronger than competi-tiveness,” Kent said. “It was good-natured.” Kent said he enjoyed singing, which he practiced in his car but he had little experience in dance. He said he played foot-ball in high school, giving him no time for dance involvement. “It was completely different for me than for other people who have done this before,” Kent said. “I have mirrors in my apartment, so I would prac-tice slowly in front of them and then also full speed as well. “I just kept going until I thought the moves were crisp,” Frost said. Michael Zauchin, director of Resonance, said in an e-mail that anyone on campus could audition by performing a cho-reographed dance and singing a solo piece of their choosing. He said the members were preparing for their fall show, planned for Nov. 30. “Our show is a variety show where the group will perform

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Ga. show choir welcomes new memberssongs from Journey to Michael Buble to ‘Rent’ the musical,” Zauchin wrote. “We would love to perform at any venue on campus as well as off campus.” However, Zauchin said Resonance was not a compet-ing show choir because there are no collegiate show choir competitions. He also said he was looking for students inter-ested in playing guitars, drums, electric bass or horns in the live band that backs Resonance up. “If anyone is interested in playing in the band, we would

love to have you,” Zauchin wrote. Zauchin started Resonance during the fall semester of 2008, with their first performance in February 2009. Parker O’Barr, a senior majoring in political sci-ence and a former member of Resonance, said Zauchin’s inter-est in a show choir at Alabama began with high school. “Michael Zauchin was in show choir at Spain Park, and he had actually worked on it while in college,” O’Barr said. “He realized the University of Alabama didn’t really have a

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The Alabama men’s golf team, ranked No. 4 in the country, will begin the sea-son Sept. 11-13 in Rocky Face, Ga., when they tee off in the Carpet Capital Collegiate Tournament. Bud Cauley and Hunter Hamrick return to the Tide as arguably the two most prolific amateur golfers in the coun-try. Cauley was named SEC Freshman of the Year, posted a first-place finish at the U.S. Collegiate Championship and staked claim to the pres-tigious Players Amateur. Cauley was also a semifinal-ist for the Hogan Award, given annually to the nation’s top collegiate golfer. Cauley will compete Sept. 11 in Philadelphia in the Walker Cup — one of the most distin-guished honors an amateur golfer can achieve. “Bud is one of the top golf-ers in the country,” head coach Jay Seawell said. “Not having him to open the season is certainly a disadvantage. He brings a certain swagger to this team and he makes the players around him better as well.” Hamrick, an All-American honorable mention, won the

Alabama State Amateur this summer and qualified to com-pete in the US Open. “Having players like that on our team obviously gives us a huge advantage,” Seawell said. “They are a great one-two punch and carried last year’s team as true fresh-men.” The Tide will look to replace three-time All-SEC performer Matthew Swan, who posted nine top-10 fin-ishes in his career. Also gone from last year’s team is Matt Hughes, who had 20 career starts for the Tide. Not having a 2009 recruiting class poses a challenge for this year’s team, which will be predominately led by sophomores and fresh-men. “We are going to play at least three sophomores this year at every tournament,” Seawell said. “This year our younger guys will have the opportunity to step up and be leaders.” Seawell had high praise for highly recruited sophomore Spencer Cole, who played in six events for the Tide last season. “Spencer had a fantastic junior high record and we really feel like he is getting ready to have a breakout sea-son,” Seawell said.

The Tide will compete in the same four events as last sea-son, starting with the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Rocky Face, Ga. The team will then travel to Bremerton, Wash., to play in the Ping/Golfweek Invitational. The Tide will then host the Jerry Pate Invitational at Old Overton Club in Birmingham, where the team hopes to capture its fourth consecutive champion-ship. The Tide closes out the season in Windermere, Fl., at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational, where the team placed second last season. Seawell attributed the recent success and promi-nence of the Tide golf team to the tireless recruiting and hard work of the University of Alabama athletics depart-ment. “[Athletics director] Coach [Mal] Moore has spearheaded getting our facilities upgrad-ed,” Seawell said. “We have great facilities, as good as anyone in the SEC, and in the country. We are just trying to provide our guys with what they need to be the best they can be. Great players have become a part of the Capstone, and they all keep recruit-ing each other. Our goal is to continue to instill pride in University of Alabama golf.”

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The Alabama women’s soc-cer team improved to 2-2 after a dominating 5-1 victory over the University of South Alabama on Sunday. The Tide benefited from plays by junior forward Victoria Frederick, who scored three of Alabama’s goals. Head coach Todd Bramble said he has been pleased with Frederick’s play

early in the season. “I think she’s clearly get-ting better with each passing game,” Bramble said. “It comes from the work she’s putting in training. She’s a player that’s an all out attacking personali-ty. They feed off the confidence that they get from seeing the ball go in the goal. “It was a struggle at the beginning of the season but now we’re starting to see some goals go in during training,

which now translates into hav-ing that confidence in yourself and it helps to be able to score goals in games, and we saw that this past Sunday.” Frederick was leading the charge against South Alabama as she posted a game-high five shots and three goals. She was in position to score more and even managed to have an assist in the game. “It felt good,” Frederick said. “I felt that we were getting in

the box a lot. We had a lot of chances on goal, which was good. Overall I just felt like I had a good game. I think every-one has been working really hard in practice. We’ve been going over a lot of plays for the offense. I feel like everyone is doing what they’re supposed to do and it’s just making it easier for me.” Bramble said Frederick is

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An air of optimism resounds from the women’s tennis sta-dium this fall following the completion of a historic spring season. After an 11-game win-ning streak, the longest in pro-gram history, and reaching a 24th-place national ranking, the team has great momentum while entering fall play. The Tide begins the fall sea-son today, competing in the SEC Fall Coaches’ Tournament in Nashville, Tenn. Head coach Jenny Mainz looks to the new season with high expectations for her team’s ability to play competitively. “In terms of the overall sea-son I am optimistic,” Mainz said. “We came off of a strong finish last year and we have a lot of momentum from that.

That being said, it is a new sea-son.” Mainz also said a new talent-ed addition to the team will add to their ability to compete into postseason play. Ranked fifth in the nation among all 2009 high school senior tennis players, freshman Alexa Guarachi from Destin, Fla., brings fresh talent to the Tide team after compet-ing at Wimbledon and the U.S., French and Australian Opens in high school. However, with two top play-ers out with injuries, Alabama will seek to improve its skills throughout the fall season and prepare for SEC and NCAA division play in the spring. “We have a lot of work to do and we have some injuries we have to take care of,” Mainz said. “Tiffany Welcher and Merritt Emery are both injured and probably will not compete

in the fall season.” Last year, Welcher and Emery contributed significant-ly to Alabama’s success and will be key components to the Tide’s ability to stay competi-tive this spring. Welcher con-sistently held the team’s top singles position last year as a sophomore and was named SEC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week in March 2008, while Emery held the fourth singles position. Although neither is expected to compete in the fall season, the breadth of women’s tennis occurs in the spring. “We want to play well in the SEC season in March and April, and we always want to be play-ing through the end of May, that is show time,” Mainz said. “We play in the most competitive conference in the nation. We want to peak at the right times so that we are playing our best

in the NCAA championships.” Taylor Lindsey, a sophomore from Birmingham, looks for-ward to the fall season as a time for improvement. “The fall is the time to grow and get better and I just need to keep doing things to help me improve,” he said. “I expect to pick up where we left off last year and keep on improving.” Although Alabama is tal-ented, Lindsey said hard work will help the Tide accomplish its goals and advance into NCAA playoffs this May. “We have been working really hard this summer and since we got back,” Lindsey said. “We have a lot of talent but more importantly we have been working really hard. Last year was a breakthrough season and we can really go as far as we want.”

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among a group of players who can be playmakers as well as leaders the younger players can learn from as the season progresses. “Her leadership style is to lead by example,” Bramble said. “She’s one of the hardest work-ers on the team. She comes out in the afternoons when training is over and works on her game a little bit, and that’s something the younger players can certainly learn from.” Frederick’s goals on offense will bring more attention from opposing defenses, which in turn will take some pressure off some midfielders and other forwards. Bramble feels her current performance could make an even bigger impact. “From a total team aspect not just up top but defensively as well,” Bramble said. “The first few games we played we didn’t score a goal and that

put so much pressure on the defense to not concede a goal. But if we can see the goals go in, it allows the defense to play with a little bit more freedom and a little bit more relaxed and knowing they don’t have to play a perfect game for us to win a game.” Frederick is one of the few players from the state of Alabama that has been able to play in a major role for the team. Bramble is pleased to have a player of her caliber on the squad. “It’s nice to see a player from the state of Alabama being able to contribute like she is to the state university,” Bramble said. “It’s not often that we get in-state players that achieve such a high level as she is right now. That’s good for the state.” The Tide will continue to rely on Frederick as Alabama turns its focus on the Memphis Tigers Sunday. The match will be held at the Alabama Soccer Stadium at 1 p.m.

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