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BY JEFFREY KELLY CONTRIBUTING WRITER @JEFFKELLYJR MUSIC hen thinking about how Wto engage with students The inaugural Druid City Music Festival from underrepresented groups on campus, one program has a electrifi ed downtown Tuscaloosa strategy: building bridges. With the help of a committee of faculty and staff at The SEE PAGE 8 University of Alabama, First Year Experience’s BRIDGE program is striving to foster a sense of community with incoming male freshmen of color while also broadening their knowledge of campus. “BRIDGE is an extended orientation program,” said Kiara Summerville, Assistant Director of First Year Experience and Retention Initiative. “It is a three- day, two-night program that’s supposed to expand [the incoming male freshmen’s] knowledge about campus beyond the formal orientation program that they had in the summer.” Nationally, the enrollment and graduation rates of men of color in higher education lag behind not only those of white male students but also those of women of color. According to research by the Postsecondary National Policy Institute, in 2014 only 38% of African-American students, 43% of Latino students, 40% of Native American students and 48% of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students were men. Summerville said throughout the SEE PAGE 3 CW / Austin Bigoney

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EDITOR Rebecca Griesbach newsdesk@cw,ua.edu NEWS August 26, 2019 3 hear from people that came before CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 us,” said Jermarcus Lewis, a senior kinesiology major and BRIDGE ...program, the men go through Builder. “We were able to speak to a curriculum together that helps them and that was huge.” foster brotherhood, builds a sense of Lewis said he gained confi dence community and informs them about seeing other successful students and academic resources on campus. mentors from backgrounds similar “We want to make sure they are to his. plugged in academically,” she said. “It kind of took the stress off my “We do want them to know that mind of thinking could a person like it’s great going to The University me make it to where I’m trying to of Alabama and we’re excited that go,” Lewis said. they’re here, but the fi rst priority For Terrence Watts, a freshman is for them to be successful in biology major on the pre-med track, their coursework.” the program as a whole taught him According to UA institutional data, that one should not judge a book by black or African American students its cover. made up about 12% of the University’s “Don’t be afraid to go out and talk student population in 2018, a fi gure to people because you never know that increased slightly from a steady what it might lead to, may lead to a Utz McKnight, chair of the Department of Gender and Race Studies, speaks to an incoming class of BRIDGE participants. CW / Hannah Saad decline over the past eight years. connection,” he said. Conversely, the percentage of Not only was making a connection said that they would be interested they can market and recruit young Hispanic students (4.8%) has nearly with alumni relevant to the in being a BRIDGE Builder the next men to participate in the program in doubled since 2011. BRIDGE program, so was making a year,” Summerville said. “It goes August 2020. The program had a three-day connection with each other. back to the point of what I said about “If you are coming to UA and want schedule full of events, including “It used to be times where I sat how that relationship they built to meet other men of color, you want a tour of Bryant-Denny Stadium, at lunch or dinner alone, but if we, with the mentors was so important. to meet faculty and staff and go the UA Hallowed Grounds Tour, BRIDGE participants, see each I think that the BRIDGE Builders ahead and form these relationships a dinner and reception with other, we’ll sit with each other,” absolutely modeled the way, so [the pretty early on before classes start, UA alumni and a forum called Ayuk said. “It’s a sense of friendship, participants] want to come back especially the peer group piece, then “Barbershop Talk.” community and brotherhood we and be that for the class to come I think that BRIDGE will be a very, have. So, I think that is a great behind them.” very meaningful experience for thing for anyone to associate Summerville said freshmen and you,” Summerville said. themselves with.” transfer students who may be For those who are interested For Lewis, the camaraderie and eligible participants are already in being a part of the BRIDGE It kind of took the support that the program provides is applying to the University. Because program, Summerville said FYE will stress off my mind something he wished he had earlier. of this years’ success, organizers be releasing information about being “For me, my fi rst semester on this have already started thinking of ways an August 2020 mentor in late fall. of thinking could a campus as a junior was kind of pretty person like me make it much alone outside of researching and stuff with professors,” said to where I’m trying Lewis. “Now when I’m walking to go around campus, I’m talking to about 72 freshmen from the program.” Lewis said that it is monumental JERMARCUS to have an event where men of LEWIS color are able to come together, be shown resources, introduced to the “My favorite day was day two,” said staff and be serious about different Ian Ayuk, a freshman fi nance major circumstances, but he also stressed who participated in the program. how important it is to just enjoy Ayuk said what made day two each other. stand out for him was the Hallowed “I think [the students’ connections] Grounds Tour and the networking. are the biggest takeaway for me,” “Our BRIDGE Builders, the title of Summerville said. “We do want the mentors, had a little skit for us them to learn about the resources and basically showed us the wrong on campus, but if they are forming ways to network and the right ways a peer group here that makes them to network,” Ayuk said. “After that, feel connected and feel like they we had an alumni dinner where have a sense of community at the we had to network with them. So, institution, then that is the most not only was it practice, but then it important thing,” was a live, actual lesson on how to She said the response to BRIDGE network. I think that was one of my has been overwhelmingly positive favorite parts.” from faculty, staff and departments Summerville said the purpose on campus. of the dinner and reception with “It’s been fun leading this program UA alumni was to not only connect and seeing how much the students them with graduates, but to show got from the program,” Summerville the freshmen that while they should said. “I will say that in my career have fun on campus, they should this has been one of the most if also be thinking years ahead about not the most enjoyable experience where they’re going to be when they I’ve gotten.” complete their degree and what that Summerville also said she noticed process will look like for them. a sustained interest in the program, “It all really revolved around the something that’s important for such networking, and I think that was my a new initiative. favorite part because in that time “I also think something that is period when we were going through really cool is that I feel like 90% of the networking, we were able to [the participants] if not more all OPINIONS 4 August 26, 2019 TWITTERTWIT- REACTIONSTER

How do you feel about the University of Alabama’s on-campus parking situation? Gunter ”Junior Senator of Greenland” Moon @GunterMoon The University of Alabama is all about tradition. The parking situation has been hot garbage for decades...and CW / Aneshia Turner we don’t mess with tradition. COLUMN: PARKING Why would the university ever fix parking when they make Campus parking passes are a scam millions of dollars a year on ticketing students? home millions every year. come to campus for class. BY IAN CAPOBIANCO Not only is parking ridiculously On top of that, students in STAFF COLUMNIST expensive, but the number of Greek life feel an even deeper Niklas Fahl places you can actually park at is burn when they realize just f there’s one thing everyone laughable. Northeast Commuter how hard it is to drive to their @nikfahl Ican agree on, it’s that the passes, one of the more popular fraternity or sorority house – Way too expensive. As price of parking passes is far passes with a hefty $345 price yes, the same house that they too high. Not only that, but tag, are, in my experience, nearly pay thousands of dollars a factulty/staff having to pay for you better be fighting to get useless due to how few spots close semester in dues to be a part of. parking is a joke! It’s about $2 a spot, or you’ll miss out and to academic buildings are actually Those students either have to per day for the ability to come be forced to walk all the way available on a daily basis. get on their knees and pray that across campus. It’s no wonder a spot is available in their tiny, to work because of parking. many students just risk getting private house lots or risk getting a parking ticket rather than buy a ticket on Jefferson Avenue the pass ... It costs less! just to run into the house and Robb Stark Fan I pay tens of thousands of get a bite to eat. The problem Account dollars to go to this university. It is downright extends to the faculty as well. @jasonderul0o0 Why in the world should I have shameful that the It is downright shameful that to spend another $300-plus just the University makes its own The fact that someone with to be able to get around? I can University makes its employees pay for a parking confidently say, and I am sure pass. Not only that, but they are a disability still has to pay I will be preaching to the choir own employees pay often forced into the sorority to use handicapped spots is on this one, that the University for a parking pass. parking deck, which rapidly hits absolutely rediculous! I have parking system is a racket! capacity early in the day. As if the whopping $177 million Yes, I will admit that with a temporary disability and the that comes solely from Alabama a massive school like the fact I have to pay $200+ to Athletics wasn’t enough, the University of Alabama, it’s get to class safely is mad. parking revenues are a nice simply not going to be possible to addition to the University’s The same applies to pretty let everybody park. But, parking pockets. While we don’t know much all of the parking passes. prices need to be controlled so SB_PF the exact figures for parking Quite frankly, it’s absurd that both students and faculty can revenue, other similarly sized I’m breaking the bank for a spot have a fair chance to park on @SBVT1100 schools make somewhere in in a lot that I find is more often campus without being extorted A joke for visiting, thank the millions, so it’s safe to say than not completely full or a out of hundreds of dollars. that the University follows staggering distance away from goodness my kids graduated suit. It’s a pretty big slap in the where I need to be. Any commuter and I don’t have to fear the face knowing that I have to students can tell you that fighting Ian Capobianco is a junior parking Po Po no mo! give even more money to a for a spot is a game you will majoring in marketing. His school that already takes play just about every time you column runs biweekly.

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store is about 30 minutes away. Yet, living Church was a major catalyst that propelled BY PARKER GROGAN here for a whole month was probably the the Civil Rights Movement into action. STAFF COLUMNIST happiest, most content I’ve ever been in my What's sad is that I had never even heard of life. So, I encourage you to look beyond what Jimmy Lee Jackson or Marion until I visited people say or what the statistics imply and the city. Additionally, Marion was the site of his summer, I spent the month of May instead decide for yourself how you choose the Lincoln Normal School, which produced Tliving in Marion, Alabama. Through to see the world and this state that has so several famous graduates, including Civil the University Fellows Experience, I had much to offer. Rights activists and educators Coretta Scott the opportunity to do service work in the One day this summer, I was talking with King and Edythe Scott Bagley. Marion community – a place that is truly like a community member about psychology. He The people and history of Marion make no other. According to every statistic in the explained to me that in places like Marion, it an incredible city to explore. In closing, book, it is probably not where any students people take care of others and that being I want to share a quote about the value of fresh out of college would choose to live, but lonely isn't a widely felt condition in a small, community from Coretta Scott King: "The after getting past what the city looked like community-focused town like this. The greatness of a community is most accurately on paper, I got to see how incredible Marion resident said he felt like psychology was measured by the compassionate actions of really is. interesting because, at its core, it's about its members ... a heart of grace and a soul people being lonely. People don't have that generated by love." feeling in Marion. They're not lonely; in fact, Parker Grogan is a junior majoring in marketing Marion's community residents are some of and advertising. Her column runs biweekly. the happiest, most fulfilled people I've ever Marion's community residents met. Maybe it's the fact that Marion is a are some of the happiest, most rural community, or maybe that it is just a one-of-a-kind place, but either way, Marion MORE INFORMATION fulfi lled people I've ever met. truly is special and can help people achieve a personal high level of happiness. To learn more about the This is not to say that Marion doesn't have its struggles just as many other rural, University Fellows Experience's low-income communities do, but there is a Perry County Partnership, visit: According to AL.com, Perry County – certain charm about the place, and that is the county that includes Marion – is the solely because of the incredible people who poorest county in Alabama, with 40% of the live there. Furthermore, Marion's history is honors.ua.edu > Programs > 57 population living below the poverty line. The remarkable and has been unjustly overlooked. population is extremely small, there are only For instance, the shooting of Jimmie Lee Miles | Perry County Partnership a few places to eat and the nearest grocery Jackson in front of Zion United Methodist

Ian Capobianco is a junior majoring in marketing. His column runs biweekly. NEWS 6 August 26, 2019 Boot camp teaches UA law students secrets to success Locke, a recebt graduate of Southern BY REBECCA GRIESBACH Illinois University. NEWS EDITOR For Emma Bykerk, an incoming @REBACH97 law student who wants to use her degree to help survivors of human hile some students may traffi cking, the boot camp was “a Wshudder at the thought of great fi rst step.” For her, it was a being picked at random to analyze move that eased concerns after a a case, Aaliyah Locke doesn’t sweat three-year stint away from school. the cold calls. “I think it’s just encouraging in “Whatever you put into law school, the sense that you know you have you’re going to get that back,” people who have your back and who Locke said. are rooting for you,” she said. That’s something she learned this This was Balch & Bingham’s ninth summer at the Susan B. Livingston year hosting the boot camp, which Boot Camp for Success, an initiative involved two days of workshops in that provides incoming law students early August. from diverse backgrounds the “I think it’s really cool to see UA law students Emma Bykerk (far right) and Aaliyah Locke (second from right) participated in a boot camp designed to prepare them for law school. Photo Courtsey of Carrie Blewitt preparation they need for the next a really big, well-known law three years of their life. Locke and fi rm really pouring into the next Whitney Della Torre, a featured With its newest class, the UA two other University of Alabama law generation and giving their heart speaker and chair of the camp's School of Law has already begun students were at the camp, which was to the next generation and giving a planning committee, is one of 300 to break records, and, some would facilitated by Balch & Bingham LLP, good rep to lawyers when they don’t boot camp alumni. The fi rst in say, glass ceilings. For the fi rst time a corporate law fi rm in Birmingham, always have that rep,” Bykerk said. her family to go to college, she in its nearly 140 years on campus, and featured practicing lawyers Bykerk, who came to the camp from said the camp allowed her to ask women make up the majority of the such as University of Alabama law Michigan, and Locke, who hails from practicing lawyers exactly why law school’s incoming class. While professor Brian Fair. Illinois, represent the program’s they had decided to be prosecutors the class is still largely white, the “If you know nothing about the reach. The program represented or litigators or work outside the fi gure is promising for Locke. law or if you come from a long line incoming students from seven law courtroom, and she found direction “I do think that says a lot of attorneys, take every opportunity schools across the country: The in their answers. about where the law school is you have to do any kind of boot University of Alabama, Cumberland “I think what boot camp provided headed,” she said. “We can’t see camps, any kind of coursework that University, Mercer University, me was a level of comfort going in, things in society and expect that to will prepare you for law school, the University of Florida, Emory and it took off some of the mystique refl ect upon an institution within because it is an experience like I’ve University, Washington and Lee and and some of the fear that I think a day, a month, even years. I think never went through before," said the University of Mississippi. would have naturally been there," the law school, everything they’re she said. doing right now, they’re making the This year, Della Torre coordinated necessary steps.” panels with the committee to make Locke credited the Black Law sure incoming students could Student Association for being a go- receive the same experience she to resource for law students who had fi ve years ago. This year come from diverse backgrounds. students got a crash course on legal The organization’s mission, she writing, learned study skills from a said, is to show students that “they panel of young lawyers and learned have a place as much as anyone to brave what some once dreaded: else to be here, and that they the cold call. matter just as well, and to provide “We really wanted to get the most opportunities that otherwise would out of having a full representation not be afforded to us.” of not only private attorneys, but For her fellow classmates, Locke also in-house attorneys and has one more token of advice: government attorneys and judges,” “Go in there with an open she said. “We wanted to have mind and to be open and willing to diversity amongst our panelists accept the change that is inevitable so that everyone can get a point to come, and to not be afraid to of view from someone that we embrace any of the hardships that related to.” come with it.” CULTURE August 26, 2019 7 ‘Choir Boy’ embraces the queer, black male narrative “Choir Boy” tackles underrepresented issues of race and sexuality in a riveting, rollercoaster sequence of heart-wrenching and humorous scenes. In its off - Broadway debut, the show marries wit and honesty for a beautifully tear-jerking coming-of-age story.

as an actor auditioning, and it was BY MEGHAN MITCHELL really frustrating for me,” Bell said. “I CULTURE EDITOR remember leaving out of an audition @POMEGRANATE_27 one day, looking back at the marquis of the theatre I was walking out of, and I n impressively pitch-black, was just so fl ustered at the audition and Asilent theatre provided a I was like, ‘What is this thing that you blank canvas for the stage lights have, this power that you have over me to give way to our hero, Pharus that I can’t create myself?’ And I got on Young, singing an a cappella song Google that night, and I literally Googled at Charles R. Drew Preparatory ‘how to start a company.’” School’s commencement ceremony. It Bell, who directed the show, chose was the calm before a storm of emotions “Choir Boy” as the company’s fi rst was thrust upon the audience by the production because it depicted the musically gifted cast, no holds barred. queer black male, a narrative that is not A gaggle of chuckles and racial and often shown on stage or other aspects homophobic slurs broke the serenity of of media. the scene, and the focus of the singer, “A lot of times we see black queer giving the audience a harsh clue about people’s trauma, or black people’s the recurring issues that Young, the trauma in general, on stage,” Bell said. choir lead, was in store to face. What “Pharus has a lot of trauma that goes on, followed in the next hour and a half were but he’s not a sad kid. He is very aware Young, played by Dorian, opens the play with a chilling a cappella solo. The power struggles between members of of how good [a singer] he is, and he’s audience watches on as Marrow interrupts the proud performance. Photo courtesy of Reginald Hall. the half-a-century-old Gospel choir and not only aware of that, he’s demanding the headmaster, who happened to be the things because of it, like he’s demanding we can be the doctors, we can be the especially relatable for some members uncle of Young’s chief adversary, Bobby that space. And that resonates so much lawyers, we can be the teachers, we can of the audience. Marcus Johnson, Marrow, the chuckling, derogatory with me because that is what I’m doing.” be the fathers, we can be those good a freshman majoring in musical comment-maker. Mixed in with the Damone Williams played David characters and not just the drug dealers theater, said he felt a similar way confl ict were clear journeys of self- Heard, a student called to ministry whose or the thugs and things that Hollywood at barbershops. discovery and thought-provoking character revealed a love interest for kind of pigeonholes us to.” “It seemed as if I was an outcast dialogue that unpacked and debunked Young at the play’s climax. Williams said Despite repeated bullying throughout because everyone was so together, age-old stigmas that queer people and Tony Award-winning playwright Tarell the play, Young stayed focused on like a brotherhood, but I was over here people of color face. Alvin McCraney creates characters for his personal goals in the choir and because I like boys,” Johnson said. Carlton V. Bell II, artistic director black men to relate to with traits that are maintained an unwavering humor. In a Ultimately, “Choir Boy” didn’t and founder of the Birmingham rarely shown on-screen. scene between Young and Anthony ‘AJ’ conclude with any clear resolution Black Repertory Theatre Company “It’s a brilliant way that [McCraney] James, a cis-gendered, heterosexual to the world’s issues surrounding (BBRTC), the company behind this captures softness in black men baseball player and choir member black male queerness, or even clear production of “Choir Boy,” had especially, who are not typically able to played by UA student Christian Hatcher, up all animosity between Young and been chasing the show as an actor be soft,” Williams said. “So he allows us the two bonded while James gave Young homophobic comment-making Marrow, long before they decided to create to see ourselves as soft and gentle, and I a haircut. but it addressed and allowed audience a production company themselves. think that’s necessary.” “Seeing a cis- het- black male having a members to think about concepts that After experiencing a lack of people Dorian, the actor who portrayed positive relationship with someone who Young and other characters brought who looked like them in auditions the main character, Young, said it’s is openly black and queer, like that’s a to light. for shows and media in general, Bell necessary to feature black male narrative we don’t see ever, and it’s a “The power and beauty of theatre decided to take matters into their representation in roles outside of narrative that I know really well, so I and art in general is it makes you own hands. negative stereotypes. was really glad to show that,” Bell said. question,” Williams said. “It shouldn’t “I just wasn’t seeing people that “It’s important to see other black The haircut scene, where Young preach, it shouldn’t tell you what to do, looked like me producing stories about men play roles that are not derogatory,” described feeling out of place at but it makes you walk out of the theatre us in the rooms that I was going into Dorian said. “To understand that barbershops throughout his life, was going, ‘Hmm, let me think about that.’”

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For more information on current vaccine recommendations and scheduling, please scan the QR code for the Back to School flyer or visit www.alabamapublichealth.gov/immunization. EDITOR Meghan Mitchell culture@cw,ua.edu CULTURE 8 August 26, 2019 Druid City Music Festival shines through weather Rain attempted to dampen the spirits of attendees, but live music, food and drinks enticed thousands of Tuscaloosans to attend the Druid City Music Festival. and a food truck like Wilhagan’s, we BY JOSEPH DANIEL always have a larger crowd than on CONTRIBUTING WRITER your average weekend.” Loosa Brews had a packed house he inaugural Druid City Music on Friday night as songwriters Matt TFestival (DCMF) escaped from Jones and Shawn Byrne showcased Mother Nature’s test unscathed their musical abilities. this weekend as music enthusiasts Attendees could fl ock to any of packed downtown Tuscaloosa in the 19 locations participating in droves to enjoy performances from DCMF for live music, good food artists. The infl ux of people was and cheap drinks. Government noticeable to local bars, restaurants Plaza was the location for most of and businesses. Saturday’s festivities, but people could arrive as early as 9 a.m. to the Tuscaloosa Rivermarket for the Battle of the Bands. Local classic-rock band GrAystone was I thought it was a the fi rst to take the main stage, followed by Birmingham’s own Lee great way to mix the Bains & the Glory Fires. The well- local community and known local jam-band CBDB was one of the most anticipated sets of college students and the weekend. gave Tuscaloosa a Unfortunately, a weather delay Wes Lee strums a tune at Black Warrior Brewing Co. The festival spanned over downtown cut their set short and eventually Tuscaloosa, bringing customers and music-lovers to local businesses. CW / Austin Bigoney sense of home to me. canceled the band Southern Avenue. Despite the setback, festival- everything has been ran,” Pugh said. set, Mayor Walt Maddox paid his BREANN SICTOR goers persevered. Cherry Pugh, a “The weather is uncontrollable, but respects to everyone who made lifetime resident of Tuscaloosa and the response to it is what will keep DCMF possible. “We were packed Friday night,” a 1979 graduate of the University of people happy.” “All of these city leaders have Jarrod Gaines, a bartender at Loosa Alabama, attended. When the doors reopened around created a party,” Maddox said. Brews, said. “Anytime we have a band “I am happy with the way 3:15 p.m., light rain continued to fall “We owe it to them to keep the periodically during electronica duo party going.” Break Science, but it did not stop By the time Turkuaz came on people from dancing to the music. at 6:30, the schedule was back on While the audience broke out their track with Atlanta-based rock band Vehicle Title dance moves, the La Mexicana food Blackberry Smoke at 8 p.m. and 8QFODLPHG$EDQGRQHG9HKLFOHV truck and Wilhagan’s were close by Grammy Award-winning artist to provide nourishment throughout Big Boi closing everything out Problem? 0RELOH+RPHV‡6XUHW\%RQGV the festival on Saturday. Stella Artois after 10 p.m. sponsored DCMF, allowing for beer Despite the rain, the Druid City :H·UH$ODEDPD·V to be sold on-site, too. Music Festival was deemed a success 9HKLFOH7LWOH DCMF used Tbbbout’s PayLater for all ages to enjoy. Breann Sictor, a We Have app on both days of the festival. senior majoring in environmental 3UREOHP([SHUWV Tbbbout serves as an easier way to engineering, enjoyed DCMF on A Solution! :HFDQKHOSZLWKPRVW7LWOHG accept instant cardless payments both days. 9HKLFOHVLQ$ODEDPDLQFOXGLQJ&DUV and run tabs that customers can pay “The crowd was a mix of locals Jason Steward instantly from their mobile phones. and students all sitting around and 7UXFNV0RWRUF\FOHV59·V  “We used it all night on Friday having a good time,” Sictor said. “I Enterprises 7UDLOHUV and plan on doing the same today,” thought it was a great way to mix Pugh said. “Everything about it has the local community and college (256) 850-0527 )UHH3KRQH&RQVXOWDWLRQ been fantastic.” students and gave Tuscaloosa a www.JasonStewardEnterprises.com After BreakScience fi nished their sense of home to me.”

For questions, comments, or concerns This is our water. about Storm Water, contact Environmental Health & Safety. Help UA protect it. Phone: (205) 348-5905 Website: ehs.ua.edu Only rain down the drain. Twitter: @EHS_UA CULTURE August 26, 2019 9 21st annual Sidewalk Fest is fi lled with UA fi lmmakers Heavy rain didn’t stop moviegoers, fi lm buff s and novices alike from showing up in droves to the annual Sidewalk Film Festival that took place this weekend in Birmingham. entailing misadventure, paper BY KYLE ASHLEY mache and fi re. CONTRIBUTING WRITER “It’s one of those things where you go into a block and you see fi lms that are from UA, you know ow in its 21st year, Sidewalk people who’ve worked on them, NFest screens hundreds of you’ve worked on them, and fi lms from all over the gamut – you think, ‘How are we going to from comedy to horror, action compete with these international to romance, the mundane to the fi lms?’” Stellon said. “And then fantastic – in venues of all shapes you go in and your fi lm really does and sizes and from a plethora of stack up to the competition. and independent fi lmmakers from a it’s a really validating feeling variety of backgrounds, including a to know that people from UA … The rain didn't quell the crowd of eager fi lm enthusiasts, who enjoyed a drink to great deal of homegrown talent. We might not have the biggest go along with their movie eye-candy. CW / Joe Will Field In addition to established venues, fi lm program, but we’ve got a such as the iconic Alabama Theatre really great group of committed known for co-writing and co- beautiful places and people ... And and the neighboring Lyric Theatre, students, and that shows.” directing the feature fi lm “Swiss not go to Wyoming.” which sits just across 3rd Avenue, Attending for the fi rst time, Army Man” starring Daniel Sidewalk, which marked this year saw the addition of the Hudson and Stellon both had great Radcliffe, “Dick Long” is a comedy- the coming out party of a new newly-constructed Sidewalk Film experiences at Sidewalk. thriller that both takes place in and generation of Alabama fi lmmakers, Center and Cinema. This year, the “The most exciting part for me is was fi lmed in Alabama. as well as a homecoming of sorts Sidewalk Film Center was mainly having a fi lm screen and listening “I wanted to shoot in Alabama, for the fi lmmakers who have gone showing encores of shows that to the unison reaction and sort of not because I thought it was about on to establish careers in places sold out, providing opportunities feeling the energy of the room and it, but because it was about a like California or New York, to see the festival’s hottest fi lms how it ebbs and fl ows in a way you rural town, and I didn’t want to provided an experience that is for those who were excluded from might not get in a classroom or shoot it in a place I knew nothing unmatched, a platform for Alabama fi rst showings. watching it at home on a laptop,” about,” Daniel said. “And I felt that movie-makers from all sorts One fi lm that was awarded an Hudson added. “But watching it back here, I could celebrate the of backgrounds. encore was “Druid City Strong.” inside a screening room with 50 to Directed by UA senior Blake 100 people and just feeling them Hudson, “Druid City Strong” is react to every emotional moment Looking a documentary about the heroic that you’ve been working on for a efforts of health care workers as year-and-a-half to two years and Ahead. they braved the EF-4 tornado that feeling like, ‘Yeah I hit the nail on ripped through Tuscaloosa in the head there.’ They felt what I We share with our neighbors a common goal—the 2011 to provide care for those who was feeling, and they felt what I was ŚĞĂůƚŚ͕ĞĚƵĐĂƟŽŶĂŶĚǁĞůůͲďĞŝŶŚĞĂůƚŚ͕ĞĚƵĐĂƟŽŶĂŶĚǁĞůůͲďĞŝŶŐŽĨƉĞŽƉůĞƐƚĂƚĞǁŝĚĞ͘ŐŽĨƉĞŽƉůĞƐƚĂƚĞǁŝĚĞ͘ needed it most. hoping they would feel.” WWŽĂƌĐŚƉƌŽǀŝĚĞƐŽǀĞƌϵ͕ϬϬϬũŽďƐƚŽůĂďĂŵŝĂŶƐ͕ƉĂLJƐŽĂƌĐŚƉƌŽǀŝĚĞƐŽǀĞƌϵ͕ϬϬϬũŽďƐƚŽůĂďĂŵŝĂŶƐ͕ƉĂLJƐ “It’s really cool to see students But the festival was not just for ŵŝŵŝůůŝŽŶƐŝŶƐƚĂƚĞƚĂdžĞƐĞĂĐŚLJĞĂƌ͕ĂŶĚŵĂŬĞƐĐŚĂƌŝƚĂďůĞůůŝŽŶƐŝŶƐƚĂƚĞƚĂdžĞƐĞĂĐŚLJĞĂƌ͕ĂŶĚŵĂŬĞƐĐŚĂƌŝƚĂďůĞ that you work with and pieces that students. Containing pieces from cocontribuntribuƟŽŶƐƌĞĂĐŚŝŶƟŽŶƐƌĞĂĐŚŝŶŐŶĞĂƌůLJΨϵŵŝůůŝŽŶĂŶŶƵĂůůLJ͘ŐŶĞĂƌůLJΨϵŵŝůůŝŽŶĂŶŶƵĂůůLJ͘ you worked on show in front of established talent from both the tĞĂƌĞtĞĂƌĞƉƌŽƵĚƚŽďĞĂƉĂƌƚŶĞƌŝŶůĂďĂŵĂ͛ƐƉƌŽƵĚƚŽďĞĂƉĂƌƚŶĞƌŝŶůĂďĂŵĂ͛Ɛ a large audience and get a great gold and silver screens, Sidewalk ƉƉƌŽŐƌĞƐƐ͘ƌŽŐƌĞƐƐ͘ reception,” Hudson said. also had its fair share of fi lms But Hudson was not the only armed with budgets that, while AALABAMALABAMA NATIVENATIVES.S. ALABAMA NEIGHBNEIGHBORS.ORS. University student in attendance; smaller by Hollywood standards, PPoarchNeighboroarchNeighborƐ͘ĐŽŵƉĐƐ͘ĐŽŵƉĐŝͲŶƐŶ͘ŐŽǀŝͲŶƐŶ͘ŐŽǀ senior Nick Stellon produced a marked a signifi cant step up in short shown at Sidewalk called production costs compared to the “Losing Face.” Written and fi lms submitted by students. directed by University of Alabama “The Death of Dick Long” was student Magdalene Kennedy, an example of such a fi lm. Directed “Losing Face” was a short fi lm by Daniel Scheinert, who’s best 1 OUT OF 10 ELDERLY PERSONS AND ADULTS Lung, Throat, Stomach, Colon WITH DISABILITIES ARE BEING: Cancer or Breathing Problems? Abused, Neglected or Exploited If you suspect this is happening to someone you know, please report it to Adult Protective Services by contacting your local DHR office or calling the Asbestos exposure in the Military, Iron/Steel, ADULT ABUSE HOTLINE at 1-800-458-7214 Construction, Papermill, Shipyard, Manufacturing etc. may be HELP STOP THE ABUSE IF YOU SEE IT, REPORT IT the cause. $30 billion set aside for asbestos victims. Call 1-619-332-4014 or email [email protected] There’s no excuse for ELDER ABUSE

“This project was supported by Subgrant #16-VA-VS-076 awarded by the Law Enforcement / Traffic Safety Division of ADECA and the U.S. FREE SCREENING for breathing problems Department of Justice.” The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice or grant-making component.” EDITOR James Ogletree [email protected] 10 August 26, 2019 SPORTS Martin displays senior leadership on the pitch As the only senior on a team with 10 freshmen, Nealy Martin has the task of mentoring the team’s younger players and helping them adjust to the life of a collegiate athlete. In doing so, she’s investing in the team’s future. really important to us. If we’re on BY JOEY BLACKWELL the fi eld it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m an STAFF REPORTER upperclassman, I’m telling you what @BLACKWELLSPORTS to do,’ it’s like we’re all holding each other accountable.” In addition to building and hen it comes to college maintaining the team culture at Wathletics, leadership Alabama, Martin also praises the among players is crucial to the freshmen for their focus and skill development of team culture despite their young age. and performance both on and off the fi eld. For senior defender Nealy Martin, this rings home. As the team’s captain, the only Alabama native You’ve got a lot of girls and the only true senior on the team, that look confi dent Martin has anchored herself as a key member of the team’s leadership. out there — physically, With 10 of the team’s 26 players being freshmen, it has become important their soccer IQ, for team leaders like Martin to technical ability — help them acclimate to being a collegiate athlete. everything about them. “We’ve created a new culture here, and we’re trying to just continue to build on that,” Martin WES HART said. “What coach Wes [Hart] has “They’ve really all adapted created is just really great. Holding extremely well to everything we’ve everyone to the same standard is asked them to do,” Martin said. Senior defender Nealy Martin handled the ball during the team’s 1-0 loss to BYU in its season opener on Thursday. CW / Hannah Saad “They’ve come in and fi t. I think freshmen,” Hart said. “You’ve got most of them came in July to start a lot of girls that look confi dent out working out with us, and we built there — physically, their soccer Labor Day Sale bonds right away. So the way they’ve IQ, technical ability — everything adapted has helped us a lot, and they about them. You don’t look at these comprise a huge part of our team, so girls and think that they’ve only it was really important that we all played two or three months.” supported them moving in because Freshman forward Carly Wyatt 20% off all Patriotic Bama® we’ve been there and we know how also praised the team’s leadership. Merchandise hard that transition is.” With players like Martin helping develop and strengthen the team’s fundamentals and culture, she said Alabama soccer has a bright Wednesday, August 29th - future ahead. Monday, September 2nd. After my freshman “The leadership here is amazing,” and sophomore Wyatt said. “You know Nealy Martin, Chloe Maize and then [goalkeeper] years, it really laid the Alex [Plavin], you know it’s visit us at the ferguson absolutely incredible. They’re setting foundation for having a pathway for us, so whenever we’re center, the corner on bryant more confi dence my in their shoes in the next couple drive, or online. of years, we know how to lead. We junior and senior years, know how to act and represent and having to lead the ourselves and this team and the school in the future because of them.” team and speak up has Martin takes pride in her role as helped out a lot. a developmental leader and sees her leadership as a way to not only strengthen the team but also to better herself as a player and NEALY MARTIN a person. “Coming in freshman year, it’s hard Thanks to the leadership of to have the same confi dence that you players like Martin, the Crimson would have as a junior or senior,” Tide has seen freshmen start in Martin said. “After my freshman every game so far this season. and sophomore years, it really laid While this is to be expected with 10 the foundation for having more fi rst-year players, they hardly play confi dence my junior and senior like freshmen on the fi eld. years, and having to lead the team “I don’t think they’re playing like and speak up has helped out a lot.” SPORTS August 26, 2019 11 Position-by-position outlook post-fall camp Alabama’s three-week fall camp had breakout stars, serious injuries and shifting BY JAMES OGLETREE SPORTS EDITOR positions. Check out where the team stands with five days left until the season opener. @JAMESLOGLETREE Outside labama has concluded fall camp Running Backs Aas of Saturday afternoon, and Linebackers game-week preparations for the Juniors Najee Harris and Brianrian season opener against Duke will Robinson Jr. have remained mostlyostly Saban said three outside begin on Monday. In advance of the healthy throughout fall camp and are linebackers – senior Anfernee team releasing its only depth chart the team’s top two options. Redshirthirt Jennings, redshirt junior Terrell of the season on Monday evening, freshman Jerome Ford has battleded a Lewis and redshirt sophomore Chris here is a position-by-position sprained ankle recently but shouldd be Allen – can be “very productive breakdown of where the team OK for Duke. The group’s depth tookok a players.” Lewis, after a year-long stands with less than a week to go hit when freshman Trey Sanders, the recovery from a knee injury, is before kickoff. top running back recruit in the classlass back to full health, which is a of 2019, broke his foot in practice. He is scary prospect for opposing Quarterbacks expected to miss the entire season. offensive tackles. Jennings has a steady, veteran presence on the No spot on the team is more secure Wide Receivers edge, and Allen is also poised to than junior Tua Tagovailoa’s role show his potential after a serious as the starting quarterback. First- The team’s strongest position grouproup knee injury last summer. year offensive coordinator Steve was also its quietest throughout camp.amp. Sarkisian said at the start of camp that Jerry Jeudy, Henry Ruggs III, DeVontaonta Inside Tua Tagovailoa has shown “drastic Smith and Jaylen Waddle all recordedrded improvement” in reading the entire at least 40 catches, 690 yards and six Linebackers fi eld. After battling injuries last season, touchdowns last year, and none have Tua Tagovailoa said he needs to be missed any time during camp. The It looks like Alabama smarter about sliding and getting out of group has depth, too, with 6-foot-6oot-6 will start two inside bounds instead of trying to do too much. redshirt sophomore Tyrell Shavers,vers, linebackers whose high Redshirt sophomore Mac Jones is the redshirt freshman Slade Bolden and school sits on LSU’s backup and is “way ahead of the other freshman A-Day MVP John Metchiechie Christian Harris has campus. Last year, guys,” according to coach Nick Saban. coming off the bench. impressive size for a junior Dylan Moses “The other guys” are freshman Taulia freshman at 6-foot-4 was a fi nalist for the Tagovailoa, Tua’s younger brother, and 244 pounds and is Butkus Award, and Paul Tyson, great-grandson of Tight Ends currently projected to given to college legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. start at inside linebacker. football’s best CW / Hannah Saad Saban has lamented the tight end linebacker. depth on multiple occasions. RedRedshirtshirt Senior Josh junior Miller Forristall is well-rouwell-roundednnded McMillon was slated to start alongside and reliable but took a few weekseeks Off ensive Line Moses but injured his knee and is to recover from a foot injury in the reportedly out for the season. Freshman summer. Redshirt sophomore AlexAle Leatherwood and Jedrick Wills Christian Harris has been next to Major Tennison, redshirt Jr. aare rock-solid at left and right Moses since then, and “has made plays freshman Cameron Latu tackletackle, but the team has experimented during fall camp,” according to Saban. (who converted from with several arrangements on the outside linebacker to tight interiinterior. Redshirt junior Chris Owens Defensive Backs end in the spring) and projeprojects as the starting center, but foformerrmer wwalk-onalk-on GGilesiles AAmosmos redshredshirt freshman Emil Ekiyor Jr. and Alabama didn’t lose much from an are all at least 6-foot-4, juniojunior transfer Landon Dickerson can underwhelming secondary last season. which Tua Tagovailoa play there or at guard. Ekiyor was Sophomore Patrick Surtain II and senior saidsaid couldcould bebe an assetasset playinplaying at left guard until freshman Trevon Diggs return as versatile in thethe redred zone. SabanSaban Evan Neal got more reps at the position cornerbacks, and talented sophomore and Sarkisian have both this wweek, and junior Deonte Brown corner Josh Jobe gets his fi rst crack hinted that the team could will likelyl take over after serving a at starting. The Crimson Tide has an use more formations with four-gfour-game suspension. Dickerson and experienced safety tandem with juniors four wide receivers and seniosenior Matt Womack are the top two Xavier McKinney and Jared Mayden. zero tight ends in 2019. candicandidates to start at right guard. Senior Shyheim Carter, perhaps the team’s most knowledgeable defensive Defensive Line back, can play every position in the secondary (see page 12 for more). JuniorJun defensive end LaBryan Ray and freshman nose tackle D.J. Dale Specialists both missed parts of camp due to injuryinjury, but they now seem close to full Is this the year Alabama fi nally healthhealth. Senior defensive end Raekwon develops a reliable kicking game? Davis was projected as a future Freshman Will Reichard aims to end top-10 pick after his sophomore year years of placekicking ineptitude and but lolooks to atone for a disappointing could end up as the team’s starting juniojunior season. The team has plenty of punter as well. He is battling redshirt D-line depth but not much experience, sophomore Joseph Bulovas for the as eightei of its 12 D-linemen are true kicking job and sophomore Skyler Redshirt junior Miller Forristall is an or redredshirt freshmen. DeLong for the punting job. adept blocker and receiver and is projected to be Alabama’s starting tight end. CW / Hannah Saad SPORTS 12 August 26, 2019 Secondary’s versatility leads defense in 2019 season wide receiver Jaylen Waddle said. BY JAMES BENEDETTO “Shyheim’s been in the system a lot, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR so he knows exactly how to play and @JAMES_BENEDETTO where to play. So, his deception is really good, and me and him have The “trust the process” saying is a some real good battles.” diffi cult statement to believe in when A player like Carter is not just the it does not work. player young defensive backs turn to In Alabama’s championship loss if they get a defensive call wrong or to Clemson more than seven months blow their assignment. He also helps ago, critics were quick to point out out fellow veterans like McKinney, that the process to beat the Tigers who started all 15 games last year was outmatched by a team with a at safety. hunger for revenge and a surplus of “Shy is a smart dude,” McKinney talent at the offensive skill positions. said. “You could put Shy anywhere, Despite all of the criticism of the and he’ll get it like that. Since I’ve got team’s performance from January, Trevon Diggs and Patrick Surtain II are expected to be the team’s outside cornerbacks in its base here, he’s known the defense all the senior cornerback Trevon Diggs defense. Both can also play in the slot, also known as the “Star” position. CW / Hannah Saad way around like the back of his hand. still has faith in the Alabama “I think the most important thing For him, he picks up on stuff pretty way and how it translates to the base and nickel defenses but moves is that you have enough guys on your fast. You don’t really have to tell him team’s secondary. up to Money in dime. Surtain will team who have the diversity to learn a whole bunch of stuff.” “I feel like we have a lot more play outside in base but slide inside more than one position,” Saban said. McKinney is looked at as the confi dence, a lot of guys knowing to Star in nickel and dime. Senior “We are fortunate, I think, now that leader of the defense, according to what to do and how to do it,” Diggs Jared Mayden is a fi rst-team safety we have a lot more guys this year that his teammates. Junior Dylan Moses said. “I feel like a lot more confi dence but has also been trained to play can do this. It is very similar to the spoke highly of the safety, saying that on the back end.” Star. Freshmen Jalyn Armour-Davis offensive line. If you only have guys McKinney echoing his calls assures Diggs, who is no stranger to and Demarcco Hellams might not that can play tackle, you only have him that he’s said the right thing. head coach Nick Saban’s process of play a meaningful snap all year, guys that can play guard and you only “I pride myself on always being success, started the fi rst six games of but coaches still taught them both have guys that can play center, if one a leader,” McKinney said. “I don’t 2018 before breaking his foot against multiple positions. guy goes down, you can’t get the best think anything changes with me now Arkansas. While he recovered, true The most versatile of them all, fi ve guys in the game because there being a junior. I’m always trying to be freshman Patrick Surtain II was senior Shyheim “Shy” Carter, can is no diversity to move guys around.” a leader and make sure guys do the thrown into the fi re, starting the last play corner, safety, Star and Money. This season, the emphasis on right things … I try to remind the 12 games of the year and playing both His position fl exibility has established position diversity has shown guys of how the season ended last at Star and outside. Versatility is a him as a mentor for younger defensive throughout the secondary. Junior year. That gets me going and gets my necessity for players looking for time backs and wide receivers. Xavier McKinney plays safety in energy levels up.” on the fi eld in this year’s secondary. “It’s a mind game,” sophomore