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I Student Q & A 3 Tutoring 4 Opposing Views 6 Pablos Ramos Ferrer The University’s Center Since its wide release, moved to the United for Academic Success “Selma” has inspired States from Ibiza, offers free math and a number of debates. Spain, when he was science tutoring toto Former Congressman 18. Now a student students in Artur Davis and George at the University, he need.needd. Wallace, Jr. weighed is adjusting to life in in on its depiction of thethe SoSouth.uth Governor George Wallace.Wallace.

CULTURE | JOBS Site ranks best cities to fi nd jobs Seattle named best city in WalletHub rankings

By Laura Testino | Assistant Culture Editor

The spring semester began Jan. 7 and several University of seniors celebrated their last first day SEC FACE OFF of school. This final first day coin- cides with the start of a new year and The Crimson Tide team and to assist recent and upcoming grad- uates in the job search, WalletHub men’s team both face SEC analyzed 150 of the most populous U.S. cities to produce an article challengers at home. SEE GAMEDAY titled, “2015’s Best and Worst Cities to Find a Job.” I think it’s just The cities were analyzed important for across 16 met- students to factor rics divided into two cat- in the realities egories: job market and of what socio-econom- the job market ic environ- ment. The city looks like ... could earn 10 points in the – Travis Railsback – job market cat- CW File egory, which included fac- tors like job opportunities, employ- ment growth and monthly median starting salary. The socio-economic Photo Illustration by Sloane Arogeti environment category, worth five points, included factors like time spent working and commuting, social life and housing affordability. Prioritizing these factors is one of the first steps to the job search, Travis Railsback, executive director for the Career Center, said. Last year, 6,500 students met individually with career consultants at the Career

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TODAY’S EVENTS CAMPUS BRIEFS P.O. Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom: 348-6144 | Fax: 348-8036 Productivity lecture Deontay Wilder parade set for Saturday Advertising: 348-7845 WHAT: The Get Organized (GO) The city of Tuscaloosa will honor Tuscaloosa na- Amphitheater, the city announced via Twitter Tuesday. EDITORIAL System tive and WBC Heavyweight Champion of the World editor-in-chief Andy McWhorter WHEN: 8 a.m. – noon Deontay Wilder Saturday at 2 p.m. on Greens- [email protected] WHERE: G-54 Rose Administration boro Avenue and 2:45 p.m. at the Tuscaloosa Compiled by Kelly Ward managing editor Tara Massouleh visuals editor Sloane Arogeti Photography exhibit 39-year-old distance learning student dies online editor Beth Lindly WHAT: “Juvenile-in-Justice” Madelaine Sauk Kingsbury, a distance learning memorial service will be scheduled for a later date. opinions editor Patrick Crowley photographs by Richard Ross student pursuing a Master of Library & Information Kingsbury is survived by her mother, Patricia Sauk- Studies, died Jan. 12, according to a notifi cation Jacobs, of Wallingford, Pennsylvania. chief copy editor Peyton Shepard WHEN: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. sent by the University. Kingsbury was born April 20, news editor Rachel Brown WHERE: 103 Garland Hall 1975. She will be buried in Pennsylvania, and a Compiled by Mackenzie Ross culture editor Reed O’Mara sports editor Kelly Ward Law school fair Rankings used 16 metrics Bachelor of Science in accounting and Spanish. photo editor Pete Pajor WHAT: Information for students “I’m from Birmingham, so I wanted to branch out but still stay in the South,” Burgin lead designer Ashley Atkinson interested in law school to determine fi nal order said. “Nashville ended up being perfect for me. community manager Francie Johnson WHEN: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. JOBS FROM PAGE 1 It’s still close to my family, but it’s new and fun.” WHERE: Ferguson Center Ballroom Maci Arms graduated from the University in ADVERTISING Center, and more than 16,000 students partici- May 2014 after completing her major in dance. advertising manager Keenan Madden pated in other Career Center programs. She moved to New York City, fulfilling a dream 251.408.2033 [email protected] Chemistry tutoring “In addition to career exploration type dis- she said began when she visited the city at 14. territory manager Chloe Ledet WHAT: Free chemistry 101, 102, 105 cussions, [individual appointments are] help- “For me, it was a no-brainer. I was moving to 205.886.3512 ing students with their résumés, helping them New York City,” Arms said. “It was going to be [email protected] walk-in tutoring WHEN: 3-5 p.m. do mock interviews or prepare for interviews,” the place that I’d make my career.” special projects manager Taylor Shutt Railsback said. “We’re also assisting [students] New York City is ranked 90 of 150 cities by 904.504.3306 [email protected] WHERE: 310 Gorgas Library with job search strategies, during which is WalletHub, and is at the bottom for the number creative services manager Hillary McDaniel sometimes where the topic of the [WalletHub] of job opportunities. New York City presents its 334.315.6068 article comes up, in terms of the process of own set of challenges and may require more Math tutoring thinking through where to go and where the sacrifices than other cities in order to find job WHAT: Free math walk-in tutorial job opportunities are.” security, but it is still the new home of many is the community newspaper of The University assistance According to WalletHub, Seattle is the best successful University alumni, Railsback said. of Alabama. is an editorially free newspaper produced WHEN: 5-7 p.m. city to find a job, followed by Des Moines, Iowa; Arms attended a summer internship with by students.The cannot infl uence editorial deci- Gilbert, Arizona; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Broadway Dance Center, which allowed her to sions and editorial opinions are those of the editorial board and do not WHERE: 137 Osband Hall Fremont, California, for the top five spots. “Hot” get a foot in the door and network, she said. represent the offi cial opinions of the University. Advertising offi ces of The cities are often determined by the career field Through the internship, Arms was also able to Crimson White are in room 1014, Student Media Building, 414 Campus and the job growth in the city, Railsback said. sign with a dance agency, McDonald Selznick Drive East. The advertising mailing address is P.O. Box 870170, Tus- Faculty lecture Engineering students who would like to work Associates, helping her find more auditions. caloosa, AL 35487. 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By Alessandra Delrose | Contributing Writer at the Center are students who strive academically, Winston said. The University of Alabama’s Center Jordan Colbert, a senior majoring in for Academic Success allows students finance and economics, has been a stu- in any kind of math or science course to dent tutor for the past three years. She receive free tutoring. said she believes one aspect of the pro- Anthony Winston, the manager of gram is the ability to get assistance from Tutorial Services and Supplemental fellow students such as herself. Instruction, said his main goal is to see “I believe in this program students students succeed in college. are able to come up and learn from fel- “When you go to college, its a com- low students their age and that not only pletely different situation verses back in makes the tutoring process less stress- high school,” Winston said. “You see a lot ful but also allows a bond to be placed of great students fail or make mistakes so students are more likely to come back because they take college like they took and get help instead of being afraid,” high school and that’s not the case.” she said. Winston said one of the main goals Awai Baptiste, a freshman majoring in for the CAS is to have a place where stu- international studies, said the program dents feel comfortable to come in with and tutors have helped her a lot with her any questions. math work. “I want to clarify to any student out “This is now my third time coming and there that you aren’t dumb if you are its already helped me so much, I even coming in for help, you are actually just know how to factor now,” Baptiste said. Tyler Duffey tutors Awai Baptiste at The University of Alabama’s Center for Academic Success. CW / Layton Dudley the opposite,” he said. Devin Radloff, a junior majoring in Richard Livingston, the assistant electrical engineering and physics, said director for the CAS said the center he decided to become a tutor to make a has transformed over the years he has difference in student lives. worked there. “If you are nervous about a class or Stormwater runoff is the rain and melting precipitation that flows off streets, rooftops, “The Center started off as a place for think it may be challenging, don’t wait lawns, and farmland. The flowing water carries salt, sand, soil, pesticides, fertilizers, leaves, oil, litter, and many other pollutants into nearby waterways. In developed teachers to come get assistance them- until the last second to come get help,” areas much of the land is covered by buildings and pavement, which do not allow selves and has transformed over the he said. “We are willing to help you out water to soak into the ground. Storm Sewers are used to carry the large amounts of runoff to nearby years to what is today,” Livingston said. weeks ahead of time so when the exam waterways. The CAS is made up of student tutors comes, you aren’t as nervous or anxious who are the top of their classes at the because by that time we will have gotten University. The students chosen to tutor you prepared.”

all the blood pumping action you crave. no lipstick required. alabama womens basketball Editor | Patrick Crowley [email protected] Thursday, January 22, 2015 4 OPPOSING VIEWS | SELMA Views differ on George Wallace’s depiction in ‘Selma’ By Patrick Crowley | Opinions Editor Alabama or are just here for an White is proud to present two George Wallace Jr., son of George Patrick Crowley is a senior education, it is incumbent on you guest columns, originally submit- and Lurleen Wallace. In the spirit majoring in mathemat- If you haven’t seen “Selma” to know Alabama’s past, learn ted on AL.com, by Artur Davis, of intellectual discourse, reflect ics, finance and economics. by now, I encourage you to do from it and create a better future. former congressman represent- upon the movie “Selma” with both He is the Opinions Editor of so. Whether you were born in To that end, The Crimson ing Alabama’s 7th District, and columns in mind. The Crimson White. Fact vs. fi ction in the movie world George Wallace’s cruelty shapes of ‘Selma’ Alabama to this day By George Wallace Jr. | Guest Columnist he raised Constitutional questions on their By Artur Davis | Guest Columnist that states’ rights meant giving the South behalf. If he went to such great lengths free sanction to lock black people in their I realize more than anyone the legacy of to maintain peace at the University, why Jesse Jackson tells a story about for- undignified place until local customs saw my father and the feelings he engendered would he so drastically deviate in Selma? mer governor George Wallace that has fit to change. That is not conservatism, it is in so many for so long and how he still Bob Ingram, a young reporter with the always moved and appalled me at the same unalloyed white racial supremacy. does today. Montgomery Advertiser at the time, was in time. In the final months of Wallace’s life, Did Wallace truly have “no sense of ill There was a time in his life when he my father’s office when news of the violence Jackson came to Montgomery to see him. feeling, malice or hate toward black peo- supported segregation because as he said, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge was received. At the end of a genuinely warm conver- ple,” as his son testifies? I have no idea “We were taught as children that a segre- Ingram wrote that my father was enraged sation, where they traded memories of what was in his heart. But if it was hate- gated society was best for both races, and as he stormed around his office and said, how they had each improbably shaken up free, he gave as skillful and as energetic a anything other than that would bring about “This is the last thing I wanted!” The fact is American politics, Wallace turned tearful performance of hate as Southern politics adverse relations between the races.” He Lingo and Clark had lost their tempers, dis- and said he wanted to clear up one piece has seen in the last century. If it is true that believed that then, as did most Southerners, obeyed his orders, and the rest is a painful of history. Wallace maintained that the the tactical choices in Selma got away from and his acceptance of segregation was with and tragic part of our nation’s history. primary reason he posted troopers at the Wallace, as George Jr. argues, it ought to be no sense of ill feeling, malice, or hate toward I often think of my father’s many calls Edmund Pettus Bridge was to prevent the remembered that neither Col. Al Lingo nor black people. over the years to Congressman John Lewis, original group of Selma marchers from Sheriff Clark were ever publicly rebuked His conscience eventually led him to who had been beaten at the bridge, and how walking into the crosshairs of Klan snip- by the governor. Lingo kept his job as the believe that the South’s commonly held during those conversations he expressed ers on the side. Wallace did not address leader of Alabama’s state troopers. What views on segregation were wrong, and he sorrow at the violence that occurred at to Jackson why these troopers had to kind of leader stays silent if Bloody Sunday publicly renounced them. He even visited the foot of the bridge. Lewis has publicly strike down innocents with billy clubs, or is something he genuinely abhorred? the Dexter Avenue Baptist church, where acknowledged how deeply emotional my to unleash tear gas, to accomplish their Of course the redemptive years ought to Martin Luther King once pastored, and father became as he spoke of the incident. “protective” mission. count in evaluating Wallace’s record (they asked the congregation for its forgiveness. I The movie “Selma” suggests that my As Jackson likes to end the story, it would count for more if they had been believe my father’s journey toward redemp- father ordered troopers to beat participants never seemed to cross Wallace’s mind that more substance than rhetoric, if Wallace’s tion helped lead the South and, indeed, in a nighttime civil rights march while he could have just as easily have used force last term as governor, secured with black much of the rest of the nation, along the television cameras were absent, which is to stifle the Ku Kluxers who were sup- votes, had actually attacked poverty in the path to reconciliation. pure, unadulterated fiction. Nor do I recall posedly lying in wait. That option simply Black Belt, or revamped a state tax struc- It is important to note that while support him ever making mention of a “mongrel” didn’t occur to the former governor, not ture that drains poor people). But George for segregation was part of his early life race that would result if segregation were in his description of March 1965, not even Jr. asks for more than a full accounting, and career, he never advocated violence. ended. The truth and facts simply do not fit in the fading weeks of a life for which he he asks for a reinvention of his father. He was defiant, charismatic, and energetic the image of my father that Oprah Winfrey was trying to make amends: what chilling He offers up an alternative history, one in his battle against what he saw as a threat and Brad Pitt wish to promote, so the pro- evidence of moral blindness, even from the where Wallace was a frustrated would- from the central government to seek and ducers needlessly changed history in order clarity of the death bed. be conciliator who did the best he could; control every aspect of our lives, but he was to tell what was an already compelling When I read George Wallace Jr.’s col- and was just his generation’s version of an never violent. story in “Selma.” umn last night, I thought of that old piece of anti-Washington conservative populist. The narrative pushed by his harsh- There are those who will never find any Wallace revisionism again, with the same The Wallace who rings true is the one est critics that suggests he ordered the redeeming qualities in my father, but he mix of emotions. I hardly fault George Jr., Tim Roth (the actor who plays Wallace) Alabama state troopers and Dallas County was a multi-faceted man who came to terms whom I have dealt with cordially the few evokes in one of “Selma’s” richest scenes: deputies to charge the marchers at the with much in his life. His forgiveness of the times our paths have crossed, for making the Oval Office encounter between the Edmund Pettus Bridge is simply untrue. man who shot him and left him in such pain his case. He is a son defending a father. But unrepentant governor and Lyndon That was the last thing he wanted. In fact, was a testament to his deep Christian faith. I have to engage the broader argument he Johnson after Bloody Sunday. Here, he ordered Col. Al Lingo and Dallas County His later work both in office and in retire- makes about the legacy of his father, and Johnson tries to appeal to Wallace’s sense Sheriff Jim Clark to protect the marchers if ment to bring people of all races together what he gets so deeply wrong about the of history by demanding that he look to they crossed the bridge while he contacted in brotherhood and understanding is one moral climate of Alabama and the South how America and the South in 1985 would President Johnson and requested federal of his greatest legacies and one we could in the mid-’60s. judge their actions in Selma. Wallace help with their security throughout their 50 certainly emulate today. Bluntly put, Governor Wallace circa responds with a sneer that he did not care mile trek to Montgomery. For those who embrace the movie myth 1965 was no peacemaker. A peacemaker what 1985 thought of him. It is the sneer Unbeknownst to many people at the time, and refuse to believe the truth that he never would have denounced the murder of four of a man who lived for power in his time, militant groups such as the Minute Men advocated violence, I am reminded of lyrics children in Birmingham 18 months earlier. who could have cared less about the future and others had vowed to have snipers in from Don McLean’s “Vincent,” which say There was no thread of peace in his inau- because there were no votes there and the wood line along Highway 80 to shoot the “They would not listen, they’re not listening gural pledge in 1963 to resist racial equality whose neglect of his state’s conditions still marchers. Not knowing if the the threats still, perhaps they never will.” in the name of people who had once waged were true or not, my father’s desire was to haunts it. Whatever the state of his soul a civil war. Nor was George Wallace a prin- protect the marchers, not attack them. George Wallace, Jr. is the son of two when he died, his actions suggested that cipled conservative who was just raising His great effort to maintain peace at the Alabama governors, George and this George Wallace was the real one. And “constitutional questions” about integra- University of Alabama before his “Stand in Lurleen Wallace, and has previously the cruelty of his legacy lives on and warps tion or federal overreach. To the contrary, the Schoolhouse Door” is well documented held statewide office as state treasurer Alabama to this day. his principle was a crude set of lies: the by critics and supporters alike. He went on from 1987 to 1995 and as a member of ugly conviction that a black American statewide television nightly and asked citi- the Public Service Commission from Artur Davis is the former representative is less of a citizen than a white one, and zens to stay away from the campus while 1999 to 2007. from Alabama’s 7th Congressional District.

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shape my opinions, and to grow more insults. Utilize the opportunity to as a person. communicate your thoughts as a way WHAT I THINK I am not writing this column to call to grow and help others grow. There out and berate those who choose to has never been a single living per- • While we are all entitled to our post ideas opposing to mine. Instead, son who has known all things, and, as I want to send a message to anyone people, we are all continuously learn- opinions and have the right to express ERYNN with an opinion: While we are all ing every day. Take advantage of the them, it is not always necessary to Williams do so. Staff Columnist entitled to our opinions and have the opposition around you and explore right to express them, it where those ideas come • Be mindful of how your messages Life is a learning process; don’t is not always necessary from. You may end up can and will be received. sell yourself short by being too full to do so. Be mindful of learning more about a of yourself. This declaration comes how your messages can subject than you already • Take advantage of the opposition after being constantly assaulted and will be received. There has never knew or even come around you and explore where those ideas come from. by very radical and close-minded Granted, it’s neither been a single across something totally opinions of those on my social media yours nor anyone else’s new to you. • Social media provides a great networks. Though my frustrations job to ensure that no living person who has Social media provides platform for dialogue to take place with the ignorant and rather rude one’s feelings are hurt known all things, a great platform for dia- and should be used as more than a posts that I come across could be by whatever you say. logue to take place and tool for humiliation or trolling. eliminated by simply unfriending However, if your goal and, as people, we should be used for more or unfollowing the people who post in writing is solely to than a tool for humili- them, I choose not to. If I were to insult and not to educate are all continuously ation or trolling. With unfollow people every time they or aid in the expansion learning every day. the number of issues ourselves in our everyday lives, we post something that I do not like or of minds, maybe you facing many societ- may be passing the time of the town agree with, the result would be a should take a moment ies today, conversation hall meeting and entering a time of shallow view of the world. I would to think about what amongst citizens is cru- online forums wherein we can inter- be surrounded by either solely my purpose your opinion cial. It would be rather act and discuss issues with those own thoughts or the thoughts and is serving. interesting to see whether or around us. ideas of those who think exactly Dialogue is the foundation of not social media networks could as I do. In doing this, I would take our growth as human beings. Our become new platforms for civic Erynn Williams is a senior majoring in away my opportunity to see things thoughts and opinions have far engagement. As we continue to interdisciplinary studies. Her column from another perspective, to further more value than to be expressed as advance in technology and busy runs biweekly.

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Pablo Ramos Ferrer moved to Tennessee by himself when he was 18 years old and knew no one. He finished his senior year in Sewanee but Pablo’s home is Ibiza, Spain, a major port city in the country. He decided to make the move in order to expand his education and to see what the United States had to offer. He learned English as a sophomore in high school and then made the move to America. He is now pursuing a chemical engineering degree and is planning on using his degree to work in northern Europe someday.

Why did you come to America and choose to attend What’s the most different from your home country? the University?

I got really tired of the type of life in Ibiza and want- The school systems in Spain are very different. High ed a better education. In Ibiza there are no colleges. school was much harder in Spain. We had eleven You have to go to Barcelona or Madrid, but even then subjects per year and had seven classes each day. It’s college in Spain is very different from what it’s like here. also funny how time is looked at here. In Spain, if something In Spain it is just one building with some classrooms in it. starts at 4 p.m., no one actually shows up until around 4:30 There’s nothing like the big campuses you have here. I chose or so. Here, everyone comes so early. UA because I had applied to several Southern schools and I liked this one the best. Was it hard to adjust to the culture here?

What do you like and dislike about campus? It wasn’t too hard to adjust. I do miss my family every now and then, but I know I will have a better job if I stay here. I go visit them when I can. It was The campus is huge, which hard to not kiss people on the cheek when we say hello I really enjoy. I’m also and goodbye. used to all of the humid- ity and sun so that wasn’t hard What’s the weirdest things Americans do? to transition into. I don’t like that drinking is such a big deal here. It is very different here Americans eat a lot. It’s very constant and the times than it is in Spain. Drinking is that Americans eat are different. Back home we have a much more laid-back topic late breakfast, lunch at 4 p.m. and dinner around Pablo Ramos Ferrer back home. Here it is taken 10 p.m., but here you eat breakfast very early, have lunch CW / Layton Dudley very seriously. around noon, and then have dinner at 6 or so. It’s strange. 12th annual photography exhibit to be displayed at Bama Theatre

By Stephanie Gaytan | Contributing Writer

The Double Exposure Photography Exhibition is getting ready to take place at the Bama Theatre. This will be the 12th year the exhibition has taken place. The photography competition has junior and adult divisions and is open to photographers in the state of whatever way Alabama. Cash prizes, purchase awards and honorable mentions are awarded they’re seeing it, after the exhibit is up in the gallery, before the reception. let ‘em know you’re there. Eighty-three pieces were chosen out of over 300 entries, with five final winners in the junior and adult divi- support sion. Kevin Ledgewood, public rela- tions consultant for The Arts Council Alabamians’ double exposure photography will be alabama gymnastics of Tuscaloosa, works on the exhibit on display at this year’s statewide Double Exposure this season. each year. Photography Exhibition at the Bama Theatre. Photo “Artists were allowed to enter up to Courtesy of Kevin Ledgewood five works in either category and any photographic media was accepted. “Capturing the moment of such pictur- Alice Wilson, instructor of photogra- esque is such a challenge, but so gratify- phy at Shelton State Community col- ing when you do it well.” lege, judged both the preliminary and The exhibit is on display at the Bama final portions of the competition,” Theatre’s Junior League Gallery and Ledgewood said. Greensboro Room. A closing reception Emily Higginbotham, a senior major- and awards ceremony will be held Feb. ing in dance, said she is planning on 15 from 1 to 2 p.m. The galleries are open attending the gallery. Her favorite kind Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to of photo art is dance and movement noon and to 4 p.m. The Bama Theatre photography, she said. is located at 600 Greensboro Avenue in “I am interested in all kinds of pho- downtown Tuscaloosa. For more infor- tography, as I think they can teach us mation follow @tuscarts on Twitter or important aspects such as composition, like “The Arts Council – Bama Theatre emotion, et cetera,” Higginbotham said. – Cultural Arts Center” on Facebook. CULTURE Thursday, January 22, 2015 7 WEEKEND BANDSCENE BARS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Defenders of The Universe Manchino with Ensul N/A GREEN BAR & Quintessential Octopus

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By Kinsey Haynes | Contributing Writer Whitfield said. The exact origins of the band’s Birmingham band Defenders name have been tossed around. I think [being from Birmingham] of The Universe will make its Whitfield said the name came shaped us by giving our sound more Tuscaloosa debut Tuesday night. from the back of an album he “We are very excited,” said Hunter saw on Record Store Day in of a blues touch to our music. Whitfield, bass player to the band. Nashville, Tennessee. From being inspired by bands such Wesley Brewer, drummer, said he — Hunter Whitfi eld — as The Black Keys and Muse, to sim- wanted something that would “jump ply taking from the world around off the tongue and get people ready them, Defenders of The Universe’s to rock.” main influence and sound can be From the beginning, the band thought that was cool.” attributed to their hometown. constantly evolved its sound. As for what is next for the band, Defenders of The Universe will make its Tuscaloosa “I think [being from Birmingham] “I am evolving to the next stage,” Brewer and Whitfield said they will debut at the Green Bar on Thursday night. Photo shaped us by giving our sound Brewer said. “Someone once asked continue to play shows and plan to Courtesy of Wesley Brewer more of a blues touch to our music,” me when our next show was. I meet more “awesome” people. Tuscaloosa Chipotle locations pull pork from menus

By Margaret Wilbourne | Contributing Writer from,” she said. standard format fast food prevails, I don’t The restaurant’s motto, “Food with think humane conditions across supply For many Chipotle regulars in the Integrity,” highlights the company’s chains will ever be a reality,” he said. Tuscaloosa area, there will be one fewer focus on ensuring its products come “[Chipotle’s] capacity to catalyze change option on the menu. The Southwest from farms following their welfare stan- is limited by design.” cuisine-based restaurant has cut car- dards. According to Chipotle’s website, While this change may be limited, nitas, a seasoned style of braised pork, the company only sources pork that is Chipotle has continued to make head- from the menu in one third of its 1,600 “being raised outside or in deeply bedded lines in the area of animal welfare, with a restaurants after a pork supplier was pens, never given antibiotics, and fed a set of 2013 YouTube videos dealing with found to have violated Chipotle’s animal vegetarian diet.” the treatment of livestock on farms. welfare standards. Kershek, who has been a vegetarian for Lee House, a junior majoring in biology, Traditionally, diners had the option of the last three years, said while she doesn’t said his praise of the restaurant chains chicken, steak, barbacao or carnitas. In think animals should be killed, she would lies more with the concept of the quality 2013 the chain added sofritas, a braised rather see them treated under Chipotle’s of the food being sold to the consumer. He tofu, to their menu as a meat substitute. standards than none at all. said while the recent disappearance of In an effort to advertise the new “I think that being cage-free and pork from many Chipotle menus, such as product, Chipotle is offering a promo- allowed to roam is a better way for the local Chipotle locations on The Strip tion. Customers who order sofritas on them to be treated before being killed,” The Chipotle on The Strip stopped serving carnitas due and in Midtown Village, won’t directly Jan. 26 can bring their receipt back to she said. “They deserve to be happy to violated animal welfare standards. CW File affect his decision to dine there, it is an any Chipotle location through Feb. 28 to before death.” admirable move by the company. receive a free burrito, bowl, salad or order After finding their suppliers methods Mark Ortiz, a senior majoring in reli- “Does it impact whether I would still eat of tacos. to be in the company’s view unethical, gious studies and interdisciplinary there or not? No, but I think it’s cool that Abby Kershek, a freshman majoring Tiffany Heimbach, a junior majoring in studies who frequents Chipotle, said his such a large, successful chain still cares so in nutrition, said she applauds Chipotle’s biology and dance and an employee of decision to eat there is influenced by the much about their [food’s] quality,” he said. dedication to their principals, something Chipotle, said the company decided to company’s attention to animal welfare. In a statement released by Chipotle not always backed up by a company when stop doing business with their supplier. While he supports Chipotle’s strides Inc., spokesperson Chris Arnold said to it could be bad for their business. “We found out our suppliers’ meat to provide humanely raised livestock, the Associated Press, “It’s hard to say how “I think it’s really great of Chipotle to did not meet our quality standards, and he said he is skeptical of its power to long [the cuts] will last.” follow their own standards, [because instead of selling carnitas that are not fit- expand the same welfare standards to Remedies to the problem, such as using now] customers can see that they really ting to the stores’ values they decided to other chains. different cuts of meat and suppliers, are do care about where their food comes not sell them at all,” Heimbach said. “So long as the Chipotle model of currently being explored. Editor | Kelly Ward [email protected] Thursday, January 22, 2015 8 Gymnastics hosts top-ranked

By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter to have its best possible showing this weekend. PLAN TO GO It’s no secret that rivalries run “It’s not that it’s an added amount deep in the , of pressure, it’s an added amount WHAT: Gymnatics vs. Florida and while the traditional great gym- of opportunity,” she said. “I know WHEN: Friday, 7:30 p.m. nastics rivalry has been between that once we won two back-to-back WHERE: The University of Alabama and the national championships, there was , there has been a big ole target on Alabama’s back a shift in the last few years. and everyone wanted to beat us. Filling its place I think that goes unlike anything we have done all fall is the competi- for anybody that’s in preparation.” tion between the been on top and has Now, she said, it’s time for the team Crimson Tide and the the opportunity to to move on. defending national I expect to see excellence compete against “You have a choice to overthink it, champion, Florida. the team that’s or just move forward, and we’re mov- Combined, the two this weekend. on top.” ing forward,” Duckworth said. “We’re teams have taken Last week, the a great beam team, and we will be a home the last four — — Crimson Tide fell great beam team, and I expect to see national champion- to Arkansas on the excellence this weekend.” ships, with Florida road, despite holding The team is excited to get back to tying Oklahoma for a lead going into the Coleman this weekend, and sopho- the title last year. final rotation of the more Aja Sims said she’s looking Friday night, the rivalry continues night. Three athletes fell on the beam, to see the team return to the floor as the Alabama gymnastics team a meltdown Duckworth said was and trust in the training it has had takes the floor against the Gators at somewhat unexplainable. throughout the fall, especially as it 6:30 in Coleman Coliseum. Entering “Last week was three amazing faces a top rival. Lauren Beers balances on the beam during Alabama’s the meet, the Crimson Tide is ranked events, and everything else was “I definitely think we’re get- meet with Arizona. CW / Pete Pajor No. 1 on the floor exercise and No. 2 mental from that point forward,” she ting more of a rivalry now between on the vault. said. “We’ve done nothing but pres- Florida now than Georgia, and I just excitement to take the floor in Friday’s Coach Dana Duckworth said sure this week, put them in great love it,” Sims said. “I love the change military appreciation meet. although there is significance in mental state to get the bugs out. I up and I’m just excited.” “We create our own team energy facing the defending champions, it didn’t expect them to be perfect, but For freshman Mackenzie Brannan, whether we’re at home or we’re away, is paramount that the team stays we were very disappointed in that she said returning home to com- but the fans just add to that energy,” focused on what it needs to do balance beam performance and it’s pete before fans only adds to the Brannan said. CREATIVE PEOPLE (we know you’re out there)

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The transition threat of his team. were ranked as high as coach Mike Anderson masterminded No. 19 before falling to the “Fastest 40 Minutes of Ole Miss and Tennessee, Basketball,” a full-court sending them out of the press, breakneck team national rankings and that ranks highly in turn- back into the pack of SEC I think we’ll go in there over margin and scoring teams attempting to build offense every season. a tournament resume. and try to get the win. “I think obviously when Thursday night, Alabama you look at Arkansas, has a chance to bounce — — you’re talking about a back from its loss to pressing team, a team that Kentucky when it travels really tries to get out and to Fayetteville, Arkansas run off makes, misses, The men's basketball team travels to Arkansas Thursday after a loss to Kentucky last Saturday. to take on the Razorbacks. turnovers,” Grant said. CW / Pete Pajor “I’ve been impressed watching “We’ve got to make sure we’re doing a Arkansas’ film,” Alabama coach good job on both ends of the floor offen- percent shooting and eight rebounds like he’s put on some good weight. He’s Anthony Grant said. “Obviously, they’re sively, taking care of the ball, attacking, per game, a performance Grant said got the ability to stretch it to the three- coming off a tough loss at home. I think being unselfish, being efficient with the places him in the top ranks of the SEC. point line and also post you inside, so you look at the body of work over the ball. Defensively, obviously a sense of “He’s a really good player,” he said. we’re going to have to do a great job course of the season. They’ve been urgency transition-wise. They’ve got “I said earlier this week I think he’s one as a team defensively, trying to limit really good. They’re the highest scoring very good players.” of the leading candidates for player of his opportunities.” team in our league. In their building, The Razorbacks are led by Bobby the year in our league right now with Alabama tips off in Fayetteville obviously, style of play wise, is some- Portis, a 6’11” sophomore forward, what he’s been able to do. At 6’11” he’s Thursday at 6 p.m. CT. The game will be thing our guys have to be prepared for. who averages 18 points per game on 58 got great size and physicality. It looks broadcast on ESPN2.

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Growing up in Morgan City, Louisiana, Meoshonti Knight developed a love for bas- ketball. Knight played for Central Catholic High School. Knight was short, but she was athletic and became one of the top scoring threats in Class 1A. She was named on the All-State team all four years and scored 2,604 points in her career with an average of 18.9 points per game. Due to this, phone calls began to come in from different colleges around the area. While Knight was in the middle of her vol- leyball season she had to make one of the most important decisions of her life: where to play basketball in college. Knight nar- rowed her decision down to Arkansas, Ole Freshman Meoshonti Knight is one of the top scorers Miss, Alabama and Tulane. for the Alabama Crimson Tide. CW / Layton Dudley Now, Knight is one of the top scorers for the Alabama Crimson Tide. As a freshman, coachable,” Curry said. “She has improved, Knight has been an asset off the bench this as much as any player in a freshman season season contributing 8.5 points per game. that I’ve been a part of as an assistant or She has scored double-figures in each of head coach in 20 years.” the last three games. Since SEC play began, Though Knight is playing well, Alabama her scoring average is a stout 11.2 points lost all five conference games so far. The per game. Crimson Tide has not played at home for a “Well I just had to put it in my mind men- full weekend yet in the SEC. tally that in conference I’m going to have to “Well, we are just really looking forward step up on offense and defense,” she said. to being home for two games. That’s the Coach said one of the big- first time that has happened in a while. gest things Knight has improved is her We’ve been on the road for three straight defense. Knight agreed defense was her weekends,” Curry said. “Our team has biggest adjustment this season. She said had a chance to grow, and it’s a brand new defense in high school was not one of her week. We haven’t had time to feel sorry main priorities, because the opposition was for ourselves.” not as tough. Alabama hosts rival Auburn Thursday at “I just love the fact that she is very 8 p.m. and Vanderbilt Sunday at noon. THURSDAY January 22, 2015 11 MARKETPLACE TODAY’SDIVERSIONS How to place a classified: For classified line ads visit www.cw.ua.edu and click on the classifieds tab. For classified display ads call (205) 348-7355 or email [email protected] 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.

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Alabama at Arkansas Auburn at AlabamaFlorida at Alabama Thursday at 6:00 p.m. CT Saturday at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m. CT Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas Coleman Coliseum Coleman Coliseum TV: ESPN2 TV: SEC Network TV: ESPN Radio: WFFN 95.3 FM Radio: WFFN 95.3 FM Radio: WFFN 95.3 FM Key Stat: Arkansas has one of the most productive and effi cient Key Stat: Auburn is shooting 41 percent from the fi eld this Key Stat: Florida is allowing only 57.7 points per game, the offenses in the country, averaging 17.9 assists per game. season, the lowest mark in the conference so far. second-best mark in the SEC behind No. 1 ranked Kentucky.

Alabama looks to bounce back from its blow- Alabama coach Anthony Grant survived last Master meets apprentice as Grant’s former out loss to No. 1 Kentucky when it travels to season’s seat, while Auburn replaced the disap- boss Billy Donovan leads his Florida Gators into Fayetteville to take on a team that was ranked pointing Tony Barbee with one of the most ac- Coleman Coliseum. Normally a national title No. 19 until last week. Back-to-back losses to Ten- complished coaches in recent SEC basketball contender, Florida is on the verge of missing nessee and Ole Miss have put Arkansas under history, former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. For the NCAA Tournament for the fi rst time since pressure as it attempts to build a resume as a true Grant to retain the recruiting momentum he’s 2009 after a disappointing start to the season. SEC contender. built in the state, he’ll have to beat his biggest Alabama has never beaten Florida under Grant. rival on the court. Sub

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In Bryant-Denny Stadium, the crowd’s roar of “Coooop” meant some- “I feel like my game is an all-around game,” Cooper said. “I can pass the ball, thing specifi c: Amari Cooper, the most accomplished wide receiver in school shoot the ball and I can also defend as well. [My strengths are] just being an history, made a catch – usually for a large gain a frequent example of his all-around player.” overwhelming athleticism, but always a catch. Last season, Cooper led the Crimson Tide in rebounds, pulling down almost In Coleman Coliseum, the same call could mean a number of things: a steal, fi ve boards a game. At some point, he’s led Alabama in every statistical cat- a dunk, a breakaway basket, a block, a rebound, even a hustle play diving on egory except blocks. Alabama coach Anthony Grant said Cooper’s game has the ground for a loose ball. It’s quieter there, the product of a few thousand come a long way from his freshman year, when he averaged 5 points in 17 instead of the 100,000 or more in Bryant-Denny, but in response to senior guard minutes per game. Rodney Cooper, it could mean almost anything. “I think obviously, maturity,” Grant said. “I think he’s much more mature As the third guard in Alabama’s guard-heavy offense, Rodney Cooper can in terms of understanding who he is as a player, how to use his skills to im- be overlooked in favor of Alabama’s captain Levi Randolph or breakout point pact his team and make the game easier for his teammates and play to his guard Ricky Tarrant, but the Hurtsboro, Alabama, native has been Alabama’s strengths. I think that’s what you want to see in the development of guys as savior on more than one occasion this season. When Alabama broke its 16- they go through the process from freshman to senior.” game winless road streak earlier this month, it was Rodney Cooper’s 17 points, Over his four years, Cooper has excelled in no arena like the one he’ll fi ve rebounds and fi ve assists that led the Crimson Tide past the Tennessee compete in Thursday. In two games at Arkansas’s Bud Walton Arena, Coo- Volunteers. per has combined to go 17-28 from the fi eld, 4-9 from three-point range, Now, the senior guard is having the season of his life, shooting 49 percent with 12 rebounds, four assists and 39 points. If Alabama wants to pull from the fl oor, up from 35 percent last season. He’s led the Crimson Tide in away from the SEC contenders that currently trail No. 1 Kentucky, a scoring fi ve times this season and is the team’s leading three-point shoot- repeat performance by Cooper Thursday night would help. er. He leads the team in 20-point games, including a career-best 27-point “They’re an up-tempo team, and they press real well, so we’re going to have performance against now-No. 9 Iowa State. to execute our offense,” Cooper said of Arkansas. “We have to make a play “Every year, Rodney gets better and better,” Randolph said. “I think that’s instead of running plays.” one of the focuses of our team-to try to improve and take it one day at a time Cooper came to Alabama as a three-star recruit, one of the top guards to try to get better.” in Alabama but ignored on the national level. As his college career Cooper averages 10.6 points per game, good for third on the team be- comes to a close, Cooper could go from one of the SEC’s most overlooked hind Randolph and Tarrant. When the conditions are right, he can take guards to a crucial piece on an NCAA Tournament team. He just has to over a game, cutting to the basket with authority or raining in shots from keep improving. beyond the arc, but the senior guard said his game extends far beyond his “It’s just me steadily working, getting in the gym with coaches and points total. helping them progress my game,” Cooper said. “Like I say, just keep working.” GAMEDAY 2015 PAGE 5

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T1. Oklahoma Kentucky 5-0, 18-0 T1. Florida Tennessee 4-1, 12-5 3. LSU LSU 3-2, 14-4 T4. Michigan Georgia 3-2, 12-5 T4. Utah Texas A&M 3-2, 12-5 6. Nebraska Florida 3-2, 10-8 7. Alabama Arkansas 2-2, 13-4 8. UCLA Alabama 2-2, 12-5 9. Oregon State Ole Miss 2-3, 11-7 10. Georgia Auburn 2-3, 10-8 11. Illinois-Champaign Mississippi State 2-3, 9-9 12. Arkansas Vanderbilt 1-4, 11-7 13. Penn State South Carolina 1-4, 10-7 14. Kentucky Missouri 1-4, 7-11 15. Denver 16. Stanford 17. California 18. Washington 19. Auburn T20. Michigan State T20. Ohio State 22. Arizona T23. Southern Utah T23. Iowa State T25. George Washington T25. New Hampshire CW | Pete Pajor PAGE 6 GAMEDAY 2015

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By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter

Tensions were high last Friday night as the University of Alabama gym- nastics team neared the end of its fi rst road meet of the season against Arkansas. Alabama built a solid lead heading into the fi nal rotation of the night, but things did not begin well on the balance beam. After two falls in three routines, sophomore Aja Sims took her turn on the apparatus that was not kind to her teammates. Sims wasn’t fazed, scoring a 9.9 on her routine. It was her second in as many weeks, this one coming under pressure in a road competition. Sims, an Orlando, Florida, native, said when the pressure hits she looks to her teammates for support. Feeling their confi dence in her is enough to curb her nervousness, she said. “When someone falls before me, I defi nitely get nervous, but when I look at my team and they look back at me and I can see they believe in me, that helps me fully,” she said. “And then I look at my coaches, and they just tell me to do what I have to do, nothing changes. Even though we had a mistake, nothing changes.” No stranger to competing under pressure, Sims took home fi rst place in beam, uneven bars and the all-around in the 2012 Junior Olympic Na- tional Championships. In her freshman year she earned all-SEC honors. Her skill is certainly apparent, and coach Dana Duckworth said Sims’ reliability helps to instill confi dence in her teammates, with teamwork a theme as the team gets ready to compete in its military appreciation meet this Friday. “Aja is an amazing athlete and even a better person,” Duckworth said. “What’s so wonderful about Aja is whatever you throw at her, whatever you ask of her, she adapts and she overcomes and she does it. It adds strength to the ability to know that she has my back, and that’s what this whole week is about.” Sims said though she is not always vocal, she tries to instill confi dence in her teammates on an individual basis. “I’m not as much of the vocal one when it comes to practice,” she said. PAGE 8 GAMEDAY 2015

“I’m defi nitely the one that pulls a person to the side and says, ‘You’ve got this. I’m with you, the team is with you, give it all you got,’ more of that calm leadership. I’m kind of that voice in the back of their heads.” Freshman Mackenzie Brannan said Sims excels at inspiring her teammates and the confi dence she carries is contagious. “She’s always happy, she’s always smiling, she’s always very enthusias- tic and she always has so much energy when she’s in the gym and when she’s competing,” Brannan said. “She has that calm confi dence that makes everyone more reassured in her and in the team.” Though Sims’ 9.9 score on balance beam wasn’t enough for the Crimson Tide to pull out a victory over Arkansas, she said the loss is in the past for the team. This week, she said the team has focused on trusting its training, “What’s so wonderful about Aja is whatever you throw at her, whatever you ask of her, she adapts and she overcomes and she does it.” something it did not do last week, something that is paramount if the team hopes to defeat the defending national champion as Florida comes to town this Friday. “We defi nitely were down that we lost, but I think we learned more from the experience than anything,” Sims said. “Now we just have to work on our energy as a team and make sure we keep it high and trust everyone, trust our training, and trust each other.”

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