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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF VOLUME 126 | ISSUE 2 ALABAMA SINCE 1894 PARKING 4 SIDEWALK 9 MARTIN 10 A CW columnist criticizes Several UA students UA’s only senior soccer player UA’s parking system, citing showcased their original sets an example for a team high prices and a lack of movies at the Sidewalk Fest in loaded with young talent convenient parking spots as Birmingham major issues NEWS | BRIDGES FYE builds bridges with MAGIC IN THE male students of color 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. 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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.