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Lessons to learn New Dylan album Fourth year from Katrina shows growth predictions for Shula OPINIONS, Page 4 ENTERTAINMENT, Page 6 SPORTS, Page 8 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 113, Issue 14 ■ ONE YEAR LATER: KATRINA STORIES Students talk ‘It makes you not parking troubles limited to only the bottom Parking changes mean two levels of the Ferguson inconvenience for some parking deck, long lines of want to go home’ students often form at the bottom entrance. BY KATIE BARZLER Senior Staff Reporter “I had class at 12, and I got in line at the parking ■ [email protected] UA student from deck at 11:35,” she said. “When it was 11:45, I real- Mississippi helps rebuild Like hyped-up children ized I only had 15 minutes with grass-stained knees home a year after Katrina to get to class, so I parked at fighting in the bushes to the gravel parking lot behind snag plastic eggs on Easter BY NICHOLAS BEADLE Publix and was almost late.” morning, UA students are Senior Reporter Holmes lived on campus having a hard time with each ■ [email protected] last year and said parking other and UA Transportation was much less of a problem. Services to find the easter This is the first in a two-part “This is my first year to be egg of a parking space. series of stories on UA students a commuter, and I feel like In lieu of several chang- who faced Hurricane Katrina’s I’m being punished for it,” es in parking this year with destruction and upheaval she said. additions of lavender decals head-on, marking the first Helen Frey, a senior for Lakeside residents, some anniversary of the storm this majoring in public relations, commuter students are say- week. The second part will said usually when she parks ing it is more difficult than appear Thursday. on campus, she parks at her ever to find a parking spot sorority house, but finding with a red decal, especially The backyard is the only a spot on the north side of in enough time to make it to sliver of home left for Luca campus is much more dif- class. Giardino. ficult. This year, UA Transportation Within a day last August, he “Coming from 15th Street, Services removed red com- went from living comfortably traffic flow is horrible,” Frey muter parking from the large — sleeping in a comfortable said. “People who can’t find lot adjacent to the Ferguson 120-year-old house when he parking spots back things Center and limited it to the drove home to Bay St. Louis, up.” bottom two levels of the Miss. — to living however Chris D’Esposito, assistant parking deck across from the he could, stringing together director of parking opera- Ferguson Center, which pre- money for rent and for school tions, said that this year’s viously accommodated all wherever he could get it. parking confusion is simply parking decals. Also, com- For a couple of weeks in a result of an initial adjust- muters must now enter on September, he went from ment period. the back side of the Ferguson keeping in touch with his He said that one problem parking deck. family to making phone calls in particular is that many Three faculty/staff parking in class on the chance that students try to find parking options were also nixed this someone would answer and as close to their classes as year — those on the east and let him know they survived. they can. west sides of the Quad, as In the past year, he has gone “I know we’re a driv- well as parking along Marr’s from spending his off time ing society. Everyone has Spring Road in front of ten fishing on the beach that was a car and wants to drive Hoor Hall. According to the a quick walk from his house from point A to point B,” Transportation Services’ to cobbling together a new D’Esposito said. “But you Web site, the parking options home from the bones of his can save yourself a lot of were removed for the Quad’s neighborhood. beautification project and to See PARKING, Page 3 So the back yard, the place make way for where he practiced for the a future bus soccer games that tent-poled CW/ T.G. Paschal route, as well his youth, is the only sliver as to “improve of home Giardino has left. It Luca Giardino, a junior majoring in marketing, shows pictures of his house before and after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home. Giardino and his brother have been rebuilding their family home during the summer. sight distance is the only thing that could for drivers and survive the winds and 10 feet pedestrians.” of water that turned his child- “It makes you not want to go his house. was boarding up his house However, hood home into a shriveled home.” It was neat, he said, to and wavering on whether he it is the stu- mess that cowered under the A year ago, Giardino watch whitecaps crash over would stick with the house dent parking weight of an untouched roof. thought hurricanes were cool, the pavement. or take shelter at his office in causing most It is all that is left of the his perspective tilted by a So for a day, Katrina was a NASA’s Stennis Space Center. of the confu- 20 years of his life before childhood on the coast laden party set to a show put on by Then the storm hit, and sion. Hurricane Katrina rolled into with storms that were more God himself. Giardino remem- there was nothing from his Meghan the bay and washed every- bark than bite. Each storm bers running through the father. Not for two weeks. Holmes, thing away behind his back. conjured memories of days breezeways of the University Giardino was not a regular a junior CW/ File “It’s the only place on that off from school and playing Commons apartments with at class, at lunch or anywhere majoring in Several cars along sorority row receive tickets for property where I can be in the Monopoly by candlelight. The his friends, taking on the wind else. His cell phone, which accounting, same place I was before the worst he had ever seen was and the mist, not seeing the connects to towers in south said because parking illegally. Many students have been forced storm,” said Giardino, a UA when a storm surge pushed sharp turn ahead. commut- to park out of their zone and in makeshift parking junior majoring in marketing. the ocean across a road near He talked to his father, who See KATRINA, Page 2 ers are now spaces since the start of classes. CCSO encourages students to get involved and ‘Get on Board’ Students GOBD hosts new vendors, organizations like SGA to some at Get on Board Day and are peruse the of the smaller ones like the offering different promotions Elvis impersonator karate clubs,” Buchanan said. for students. organization “All it takes is just 30 minutes “This year we have Cingular booths at Get BY CHANDLER MYERS just to walk up and down the wireless, Sprint and Movie on Board Day Staff Reporter tables, so my suggestion is to get Gallery,” Karagas said. “We also last fall. Get information about everything have an Elvis impersonator on Board Day Want to see Elvis, eat frozen you can and make informed who will perform, Nancy Taylor starts today yogurt from TCBY or get a free decisions about what you want skin therapy, New Creations to join,” she said. and Sam’s Club is going to give at 10 a.m. eyebrow wax? You can do all that on the Quad today from Get on Board Day takes place out free cookies as well.” and runs until early in the fall and spring In the past, Get on Board Day 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Get on 4 p.m. semesters every year. While has been known to be a success Board Day while you connect the main focus is on the stu- when it comes to signing up with one of the many student CW/ File dent organizations, the ven- students for organizations or organizations on campus, said dors have proved popular in just drawing a crowd in general, Rebecca Buchanan, president the past. They provide refresh- they said. of the Coordinating Council for ments, discounts to stores and Buchanan said last year’s Student Organizations. restaurants and other promo- event was extremely successful “Come and see everything tions. and drew in several thousand — there are going to be over 200 Alex Karagas, vice president students who came to see what student organizations there, of CCSO, said many of the ven- possibilities are out there for and they range from the big dor’s booths are new this year them to get involved. ■ ■ ■ The Crimson White Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom — 348-6144 Fax — 348-4116 Advertising — 348-7845 www.cw.ua.edu ■ Classifieds — 348-7355 ■ Letters, op-eds — [email protected] ■ Press releases, announcements — [email protected] online 2 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 ■ NEWS CAMPUS Alcohol program mandatory Freshmen required to have been in school for a few INTobrief submit a brief, e-mail [email protected] Other colleges that use AlcoholEdu weeks. Even students who complete AlcoholEdu don’t drink can benefit from Harvard Johns Hopkins Auburn the program, Garner said, ANNOUNCEMENTS BY ELLEN BURKE because the program is cus- Assistant Student Life Editor Princeton Vanderbilt tomized depending on what ■ [email protected] answers and information the students provide about them- Get on Board today After graduating from high this program.” director of health promotion selves.

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