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SGA SENATE RESULTS PAGE 18 NEWS PAGE 3 Thursday, March 14, 2013 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 119, Issue 105 SPORTS | PRO DAY NEWS | MAL MOORE Lung problems hospitalize Moore Alabama’s AD moved woman said in a press release rector in 1999. He was a quarter- that he was scheduled to move to back for legendary head coach to Duke for more tests Duke University Medical Center Paul “Bear” Bryant, and was an Wednesday night for follow-up assistant coach from 1965-1982. He By Marc Torrence tests. coached quarterbacks under head Assistant Sports Editor Last August, Moore was hospi- coach Gene Stallings from 1990- talized in DCH Regional Medical 1993. He was named to the State UA Athletic Director Mal Moore Center in Tuscaloosa for an irregu- of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in was hospitalized for heart prob- lar heartbeat and was released two 2011. lems for the second time in less days later. His physician, Dr. James Moore has also overseen mul- than a year Wednesday. Moore was R. Robinson, said the August hos- tiple facility upgrades at the admitted to Brookwood Hospital pitalization was a “precautionary University, most recently a $9 mil- in Birmingham, Ala., for tests measure.” lion strength and conditioning and treatment regarding pulmo- The Tuscaloosa News first facility for the football team. The nary problems, a UA official con- reported the hospitalization. football building was named after CW File firmed Wednesday. A UA spokes- Moore, 73, became athleticdi- Moore in 2007. Mal Moore NEWS | ENGINEERING CW | Austin Bigoney Former Tide player Jesse Williams participates in agility drills for media and NFL scouts Wednesday afternoon. 2-D ideas become 3-D objects Twelve Tide players work out for scouts Fluker, Johnson, Jones among those looking toward NFL Draft By Marc Torrence Assistant Sports Editor Twelve draft-eligible Alabama football play- ers worked out for scouts from all 32 NFL teams in Tuscaloosa at the University’s annual Pro Day. It was a chance for players who didn’t par- ticipate in the NFL Combine three weeks ago to show NFL teams what they could do ahead of the NFL Draft, which starts Thursday, April 25. “I think that it says a lot about the total pro- gram and all the people in it and the great team of people we have here, whether it’s in personal development, academic success, developing the players, being able to recruit quality people to represent the program and develop within the CW | Jh’ordan Johnson program,” head coach Nick Saban said. “Our Printers in a lab in Hardaway Hall can create plastic objects from digital coaching staff does a wonderful job. We have a designs. great support staff here in the athletic depart- 3-D printing lab opened professor in the college of engi- ment, and the University community has been neering, said. “It’s probably going very cooperative in helping us develop players on campus in January to be as common as a printer off the field as well as helping us recruit them.” in your office or maybe in your D.J. Fluker, Kelly Johnson, Nico Johnson, By Adrienne Burch house.” Barrett Jones, Robert Lester, Jeremy Shelley, Assistant News Editor The College of Engineering 3-D Damion Square, Carson Tinker, Chance printing lab opened in January. Warmack, Jesse Williams and Michael In a small room on the first The printers create objects Williams, in addition to walk-on Ranzell floor of Hardaway Hall, ideas designed using 3-D design soft- Watkins, all worked out for NFL scouts. go from 2-D designs on com- ware programs like AutoCAD, Jones and Square were only able to bench puter screens to functioning 3-D SolidWorks and Google Sketchup. press and turned in 27 and 23 repetitions, objects in a matter of hours. The The printers take designs from respectively. Eddie Lacy, Dee Milliner and new College of Engineering 3-D these programs and slice it from Quinton Dial measured and weighed in but did printing lab has five 3-D printers the bottom to the top to figure not participate in any drills. capable of printing anything from out what each layer will look like. “It is frustrating, but at the end of the day, models of bugs to working mon- Then, they lay down each layer of CW | Shannon Auvil there’s nothing you can do but rehab and get key wrenches. plastic and build from the bottom Jarr Strydom, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, works better for next time,” Lacy, who strained his “I think 3-D printing is going up. on the design of an Alabama A keychain. UA Engineering has a 3-D hamstring running a 40-yard dash during a to be everywhere in the future,” printing lab in Room 160 Hardaway Hall for engineering students to mock combine, said. Andrew Graettinger, associate SEE 3D PAGE 2 model and build intricate parts. SEE PRO DAY PAGE 6 NEWS | ALABAMA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT Alabama Supreme Court topples barriers preventing school fl ex bill Educators withdrew support from bill after against passage of the bill this policies, such as tenure for department of political sci- Friday. But with the barrier teachers and administrators. ence, said. “When they came changes outlined private school vouchers of the injunction out of the However, different versions back from the recess, they “ picture, the bill, which was were passed in the House and had a new bill that was much When they came back from By Mark Hammontree and Montgomery Circuit Judge passed almost two weeks ago, Senate, which led to debate longer and much different. Justin Heck ordered to prevent Gov. could find its way to Bentley’s among lawmakers and resi- Part of it included tax credits the recess, they had a new CW Staff Robert Bentley from signing desk as early as Thursday dents throughout Alabama. for people whose children are bill that was much longer the Alabama Accountability morning when the House “At some point during assigned to failing schools, and much different. The all-Republican Act. convenes. the meetings of the con- and it allowed tax credits if Alabama Supreme Court Montgomery Circuit Judge The bill started as an eight- ference committee, some those parents sent their chil- — Joseph Smith decided Wednesday after- Charles Price’s original page school flexibility bill that of the Republicans called dren to private schools.” noon against the restrain- injunction mandated a hear- would allow school systems to for a recess,” Joseph ing order a Democrat ing for the AEA’s lawsuit seek waivers from some state Smith, a professor in the SEE ACCOUNTABILITY PAGE 6 ecycle thi r s p se a a p e le r Briefs ........................2 Sports .......................9 P Clear • • Friday 72º/48º • INSIDE WEATHER P P r r Opinions ...................4 Puzzles ....................17 l l e e 61º/39º e e Clear p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p a a today’s paper today a a s s e e p p p p s s r i e h c t y e c l Culture ....................14 Classifieds .............. 17 ONLINE ON THE CALENDAR TODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY What: Private screening of What: Dance Alabama! 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Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Clarke Building Newsroom: 348-6144 | Fax: 348-8036 Advertising: 348-7845 When: 7:30 p.m. Submit your events to Classifi eds: 348-7355 [email protected] EDITORIAL Will Tucker editor-in-chief [email protected] ON THE MENU Ashley Chaffin LAKESIDE BURKE FRESH FOOD managing editor LUNCH DINNER LUNCH DINNER LUNCH Stephen Dethrage production editor Steak Turkey Baked Chicken Roasted Turkey Smoked Pork Italian Green Beans Dressing Eggplant Lasagna Stuffing Macaroni & Cheese Mackenzie Brown Baked Potato Linguine with Roasted Red Pasta Primavera Salad Italian Green Beans Green Beans & Peppers visuals editor Corn on the Cobb Peppers Apple Peach Crisp Peas Coleslaw Melissa Brown Sautéed Mushrooms Four Cheese Penne Dirty Rice Cheese Pizza Penne Alfredo online editor (Vegetarian) (Vegetarian) (Vegetarian) (Vegetarian) (Vegetarian) Adrienne Burch Chandler Wright assistant news editors [email protected] Lauren Ferguson Many departments campus this past summer. toy every time I use this 3-D one would use it.” monkey wrench that works like culture editor “[Karr] knows it’s a technol- printer,” Strydom said. Graettinger said the price of a charm,” Brown said. “It works Marquavius Burnett utilize 3-D printing ogy that we need to have at the The first 3-D printers were the machines and staffing the straight out of the printer.” sports editor University, and he got the right developed in the 1980s, but had lab actually is much more than Jamey Grimes, instructor 3D FROM PAGE 1 people together to make it hap- strict patents and were very cost of the materials actually in the art department, uses John Brinkerhoff pen,” Graettinger said.

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