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SPORTS: A pro call to Alabama arms, Page 10 ENTERTAINMENT: New ‘Batman’ the ‘Citizen Kane’ of comic book movies, Page 6 Thursday, June 16, 2005 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Volume 112, Issue 2 Trustees to decide Councilman on tuition increase faces more Proposed tuition for Alabama residents and than the past two tuition explain how much money 6.73 percent for out-of-state increases at the University. An each institution needs to gen- allegations increase lower students. The total amount increase of about 12 percent erate from tuition. of tuition combined with was enacted for the 2004-05 “The tuition and fee presen- 2002 incident The report, made than previous ones required fees would increase academic year, and an tation is part of a larger discus- by two officers, says to $4,864 for in-state stu- increase of about 16 percent sion about budget assump- in Palmore Cunningham sat up By STEPHEN DAWKINS dents and $13,516 for out- for in-state students and 17 tions and priorities,” she said. in the truck when a Administrative Affairs Editor of-state students. percent for out-of-state stu- “Each campus will make a Park reported patrol car pulled up The proposed UA increases dents was approved for the summarized but thorough behind him. When The UA System Board of are higher than those at UAB 2003-04 academic year. report.” after sting Cunningham was Trustees will meet Friday to (under 3 percent), UAH UA System spokeswoman Tuition is only a part of an arrest asked to walk to the vote on tuition increases for (under 4 percent), and hikes Kellee Reinhart said the institution’s revenue, Reinhart rear of the car it all three institutions in the recently approved by the board does not consider said. State appropriations, By SAMANTHA HALL James Cunningham was obvious that his system. boards of the University of tuition increases at institu- research grant money and Senior Staff Reporter pants were undone According to information North Alabama (under 3 per- tions outside the system. auxiliary services, which incl- and that he was try- released by the UA System, cent) and the University of Instead, the board focuses on ude revenue from sources Tuscaloosa City Councilman ing to cover them up with UA officials have proposed West Alabama (3 percent). presentations made by UA, James Cunningham was arres- his shirt, according to the an increase of 5.05 percent They are, however, less UAB and UAH officials that See TUITION, Page 2 ted for soliciting an undercover report. police officer for sex last When asked why his pants month, but a three-year-old were undone, the report says police report has brought fur- Cunningham explained that ther allegations toward the he had just gone to the rest- first-term councilman. room. A 2002 Tuscaloosa police The report says one of the report says Cunningham was officers also spoke with the found with a woman in a parked truck in Palmore Park. See COUNCILMAN, Page 2 at Bonnaroo form of hallucinogen as she begins her Music festival packed mantra, “Bonnaroo is about the communi- with jam bands, ty, we all need to become friends… “will Midtown sold you take me to the musssic?” wet and wild After she says this about 15 times I get her point and offer to take her to the music, good times a long and arduous journey for someone in her fragile condition, about 2 a.m. on by developer By MATTHEW ABBEY Staff Reporter Saturday, the second day of music. We change our walk from a stagger to a the long-embattled Midtown swagger and make it through the security Pate sells off shopping center project. Saturated with festival funk, checkpoint to the music, only then does Pate, president of Pate mud, beer and God knows troubled shopping Roxanne become overwhelmed with her Flagship LLC and Sealy LLC, how many other impurities, current state of mind and pass out in the center project said he had been entertaining a young Bonnaroonian calcu- grass. I make sure she is OK and leave her to offers for the past few weeks latingly staggers up to my position as I contemplate the mysteries of LSD. By SAMANTHA HALL before deciding to sell. He watch her progress. Bonnaroo Music Festival is a diverse Senior Staff Reporter made his plans to sell the site “Hellooo, are you having a fun a fun time community of people, around 80,000 who public in May after months of at Bonnarooooo? I’m Roxanne,” she said. Tuscaloosa developer Stan hinting. She is obviously in the depths of some See BONNAROO, Page 7 Pate announced Wednesday “I went through a process afternoon that Cypress and selected Cypress Equities Equities and development as the team that I felt could partner Lee Roy Jordan have agreed to acquire the site of See MIDTOWN, Page 5 CW/ Charley Parden CW/ Elliot Knight Tuscaloosa developer Stan Pate planned to build Midtown, a shopping center modeled after The LEFT: Fans pack in under "bobbleheads", which were just one of the many installations around Centeroo. ABOVE: Fans dance and cheer as The Summit in Birmingham, on a large lot across from McFarland Mall at the intersection of Benevento/Russo Duo and Mike Gordon play a rendition of "Foam" by Phish, Gordon's former band. McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street. He announced the sale of the site Wednesday afternoon. A gravel trail built in an SGA renovation of New Marr’s Pond trail washing away Marr’s Pond appears to be eroding. The Trail built by SGA, to restore the pond appears to the way to class, Smyth said. three-stage project to restore it. pond is located have been damaged by rainfall. The plants are also necessary Smyth said he had not been out on Capstone students appears In two places, the gravel from to stabilize the slope of the hill to the trail to see the damage. Drive across the the trail appears to have washed and prevent severe erosion, Efforts to reach facilities offi- street from the damaged by rain down the hill into the pond, which contributes to the pond’s cials about the maintenance of Ferguson Center leaving behind deep trenches in pollution. the trail were unsuccessful this parking deck. By LORI CREEL the trail and gravel in the water. Smyth said the gravel trail week. Senior Staff Reporter Stage one of the Marr’s Pond was created along a path that SGA officials consulted a CW/ Kristen restoration project was finished had already been worn down by Birmingham architectural firm Mance After weeks of heavy rain in in early April, said SGA Vice pedestrians. The project includ- and an environmentalist to help Tuscaloosa, some of the newly President of Student Affairs ed cutting more into the hill so with the project. restored areas around Marr’s Justice Smyth. SGA members that the trail could be larger and Marr’s Pond was a popular Pond built by the SGA and stu- and other student volunteers adding gravel to improve its place for students to swim or dent volunteers at the end of planted almost 5,000 plants and appearance. lounge between classes until spring look less than perfect. trees around the pond as part of Smyth said UA grounds crews 1978, when its waters were A new gravel trail that cuts their effort to restore the area to are supposed to maintain the deemed unsafe for swimming into the hill east of the pond a place for students to spend area for one year and SGA because of heavy bank erosion that was built as part of an effort time or at least walk through on would continue working on the and pollution. The Crimson White | Box 870170 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 | Newsroom — 348-6144 Fax — 348-4116 Advertising — 348-7845 Classifieds — 348-7355 | Editorial content — [email protected] | News content — [email protected] Page 2 • The Crimson White NEWS Thursday, June 16, 2005 the UA students criticize media, World others in missing teen case nightclub, Carlos n’ could not be placed majoring in chemical engineer- Brief Students say media Charlie’s. on any one person. ing, also said that the coverage IN coverage overblown Abraham Jones, 28, Cooley said Holl- was overblown. “The media and Nick John, 30, oway’s decision to just happens to love certain CAMPUS By NICOLE WAITES were security guards get into the car with people,” he said. Staff Reporter at a hotel near the the three men was Although students were con- UA museum’s TV series picks up Emmy nod Holiday Inn where poor judgment and a cerned, some said Holloway’s The disappearance of Nat- Holloway was staying. major factor in her disappearance would not have “Discovering Alabama,” an award-winning nature televi- alee Holloway in Aruba has They were arrested on disappearance. any influence on their plans to sion series produced by the UA Museum of Natural History, captured the attention of some suspicions in connec- Natalee Holloway “She is somewhat travel abroad. is one of three finalists for an Emmy Award presented by the students at the Capstone tion with her disap- to blame, but the Brandon Stevens, a sopho- southeastern chapter of the National Association of because the Mountain Brook pearance but were chaperones should more majoring in chemical Television Arts and Sciences. teen had planned to attend the released earlier this week. have been watching [the stu- engineering, said one event The winners will be announced Saturday at the Grand Capstone starting this week in The other three suspects in dents],” Cooley said.