Amendment One Goes Down in Flames by CHRIS OTTS Senior Staff Reporter
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SPORTS: Croyle takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’, Page 7 OPINIONS: Commuter pass not worth envy, Page 4 Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Volume 110, Issue 22 Amendment One goes down in flames By CHRIS OTTS Senior Staff Reporter MONTGOMERY — After months of mudslinging 67% in what proved to be one of the most hotly contested bipartisan elections in state history, Alabamians finally said no to Gov. Bob Riley’s 33% tax plan Tuesday by a two-to-one margin. With 99 percent of boxes reporting statewide, the tally on Amendment One was 861,630 “no” votes, or 67 percent, and 415,472 “yes” votes, or 33 percent. Despite the defeat, Riley beamed with opti- NO 861,630 mism as he addressed a crowd of campaign sup- porters and media at the Embassy Suites in Montgomery. “I am probably more enthusiastic [about YES 415,472 Alabama’s potential] today than I was the day Registered Alabama See AMENDMENT, Page 6 voters: About 2.1 million UA voters buck trend, approve tax proposal CW/ Tom Neil By NICK BEADLE ABOVE: Area Student Life Editor residents vote on Gov. If UA voters had been the only ones who Bob Riley's tax package cast ballots in the referendum on Gov. Bob 60% Tuesday night. Sixty- Riley’s tax and accountability plan, it would have passed overwhelmingly. 40% seven percent of Alabama Of the 811 voters who cast ballots at the on- voters rejected the campus precinct at the Presidential Pavilion, proposal to raise taxes. 64.5 percent voted to approve the plan and 35.5 percent voted against it. Approximately 30 percent of voters registered RIGHT: Riley addresses at the precinct turned out, poll worker Jim Patrie YES 18,117 tax plan supporters and said. That was almost completely opposite to media at the Embassy both the statewide outcome of the referendum and the outcome in Tuscaloosa County, where Suites in Montgomery on 60.1 percent of people voted “no” and 39.9 per- Tuesday night. cent voted “yes.” NO 27,310 A Crimson White exit poll of 60 voters who cast bal- CW/ Chris Otts Registered Tuscaloosa Co. See REACTION, Page 6 voters: About 80,000 Riley puts commandments in display UA student charged as the Magna Carta, the Bill of ation of the display. Tablet included in historical Rights, the Mayflower Compact and “In recent weeks, there has been the Declaration of Independence. much discussion of both the Ten presentation in Capitol “Just as the Ten Commandments Commandments and the rule of are exhibited in similar displays in law, and it is my hope that the dis- play will illustrate the historical with felony murder By HEATHER HENDERSON the U.S. Supreme Court and in our Metro/State Editor nation’s Capitol building, I feel it is relationship of these matters,” important to display them in our Pryor said in a written statement. By HEATHER HENDERSON appeared Sellers had tried to When Gov. Bob Riley agreed to Capitol, as well,” Riley said in a Richard Cohen, general counsel Metro/State Editor gain entry to their Cherokee host a Ten Commandments display written statement Tuesday. of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Hills home, police said. in the state Capitol, he didn’t prom- “Visitors to Montgomery can now which filed a lawsuit against a Ten A UA student embarking Tuscaloosa police respond- ise the plaque would stand alone. read again and learn about those Commandments monument on a prank-like endeavor ed to a prowler call from Though the plaque bearing the historical documents upon which housed in the state judicial build- Tuesday morning may have Cabaniss and his wife about Judeo-Christian commandments our system of laws rests.” ing, said that, to his knowledge, the caused the death of an eld- 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and new display is constitutional. appeared as scheduled in the state Alabama Attorney General Bill erly man and faces a felony arrived about 10 minutes Cohen said the question of con- Capitol on Tuesday, it is just one Pryor, accused by monument sup- murder charge, police say. later. Cabaniss suffered a stitutionality rests on whether Riley part of a display entitled porters of rolling over for politi- Jack Cabaniss, 75, suf- heart attack shortly after displayed the plaque to promote Brian Charles Sellers “Foundations of our Law” that cians to win an 11th Circuit Court fered a heart attack and died their arrival, and despite an includes such historical documents of Appeals seat, assisted in the cre- See RILEY, Page 2 Tuesday morning shortly officer’s efforts to revive him after he and his wife found Brian through CPR, Cabaniss was pro- Charles Sellers, 23, lying nude on nounced dead at DCH Regional SAT vs. ACT: Which students take what? their back porch, authorities said. It See MURDER, Page 2 By KRISTEN RECORD said she does not regret taking both score, and vice versa, including Staff Reporter tests while a student at the Alabama Alabama. According to the state School of Math and Science in Department of Education, about Divya Patel was an Mobile. 4,300 Alabama seniors, only 10 per- unsure, stressed-out high No matter where a stu- cent of all seniors in the state, took school senior. Which way “I didn’t know dent goes to high school, this year’s SAT and averaged a total to go: SAT or ACT? the question for many is, score of 1,111, well above the She decided to take which test I’d which test is better for national average of 1,026. both tests, and all her standardized college By subject, Alabama test takers scores were reported to score better entrance exams: the SAT scored an average score of 559 in the University. She knew or the ACT? verbal and 552 in math. on.” High school seniors are “Alabama students taking the SAT most students in Alabama —DIVYA PATEL took the ACT, but she taking both the American in 2003 continue to show they can thought taking the SAT as College Test and compete in applying for colleges well could give her an extra edge. Scholastic Aptitude Test in record and universities anywhere in the “I thought that they would see me numbers, according to ACT.org and nation,” said Ed Richardson, state as more motivated,” she said. “Plus, Collegeboard.org. Both tests are superintendent of education, in a I didn’t know which test I would reporting record high averages. In written statement. score better on.” many states, however, there seems These scores are down slightly Now a sophomore in the to be a preference for either the ACT from 2002, dropping one point in CW/ Tom Neil Culverhouse College of Commerce or SAT. In general, the more people verbal and seven points in math. Joe Taking a chance — David Wilson, director of alumni funds, encourages students to join Future Alumni for Tradition and and Business Administration, Divya who take the test, the lower the See TESTS, Page 2 Excellence at a raffle for door prizes Tuesday night at a FATE-sponsored cookout on the front lawn of Alumni Hall. The Crimson White | Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 | e-mail — [email protected] | Check us out online at Newsroom — 348-6144 Fax — 348-4116 Advertising — 348-7845 Classifieds — 348-7355 www.cw.ua.edu Page 2 • The Crimson White NEWS Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Capitol comes after a series of room of the courthouse. Commandments should not RILEY demonstrations and debates The Christian Defense be displayed with secular doc- the Continued from Page 1 concerning a monument bear- Coalition requested last week uments. Moore could prove to ing the Ten Commandments that Riley house a small Ten be a potential rival to Riley in religion or if its effect is promo- formerly displayed in the Commandments display in the the future, Stewart said. tion of religion. rotunda of the Alabama judi- Capitol building, to which he Still, under the constraints of World “My guess is [he displayed cial building. The SPLC sued, agreed. the Thompson’s ruling, Riley the plaque] to increase the claiming the monument estab- William Stewart, former has “done about as good as he chance that the tax referen- lished a state religion, which is chairman of the UA political can do,” Stewart said. dum would pass [Tuesday],” banned in the first amend- science department, said Cohen said. “He doesn’t want ment. U.S. District Judge Riley’s move was a “moderately to pick a fight with anyone on Myron Thompson ruled in smart” one, because he suc- Brief the cusp of the most important favor of the SPLC and ordered ceeded in pleasing many on vote of his term.” the monument’s removal. both sides of the monument IN Brochures that review both Alabama Chief Justice Roy debate. “The majority of CAMPUS secular and religious contribu- Moore, now suspended over Alabama people would like tions to current U.S. laws the controversy, as well as [the Ten Commandments Capstone’s Golden Key chapter wins international honors accompany the display. members of the Christian monument] to be on display as “It’s not unconstitutional for Defense Coalition, vowed to prominently as possible,” he The UA chapter of Golden Key International Honour a state official to teach history,” keep the monument in the said. “He won’t be accused of Society received the Key Chapter Award at the Golden Key Cohen said. “It is [unconstitu- rotunda and blocked its being hostile to the Ten International Conference in Chicago last month.