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in a bad light. BY KINSLEY CENTERS “It’s a complicated story to tell,” CONTRIBUTING WRITER Bagley said. “It’s a difficult story for UA to tell. UA doesn’t look very good ntegration on The University in this story, so I think it’s a space Iof Alabama’s campus began on where faculty and students can tell Feb. 3, 1956, when the first African- the story because we can explore it American student attended. That for learning goals and the academic student was Autherine Lucy Foster. kind of principles of it, so I’m very Foster was the first African- pleased to do it for those reasons.” American to be admitted into the Beginning the tour at Foster University, but she faced many Auditorium, Bagley shared the story difficulties during her journey after of how Gov. George Wallace blocked admittance. the doors from Vivian Malone and Foster began her registration James Hood to enforce his segregation process in 1952 with the goal of beliefs in 1963. Wallace was defeated, becoming a children’s librarian. She as the two students were able to was not admitted until four years attend. However, this took place seven later in 1956, and then she was able years after Foster had her experience to attend for only three days before at the University. being expelled because the University Bagley guided the tour over to the was unable to protect her from mobs Autherine Lucy Clock Tower that who disagreed with desegregation. was dedicated in 2010, focusing the tribute on Foster, Malone and Hood. As the tour made its way to Denny Chimes, Bagley illustrated a picture of Foster’s schedule for the attendees. After going through Each step Foster took on her first day was analyzed, and people on campus HONOR – Autherine Lucy Foster’s journey at the University was honored with a historical the tour, I am super, knew where she was and where marker in Septermber fo 2017. CW / Kallie Chabla super impressed and she was heading throughout the following days. about UA. Do you see why she’s one of first African-American to enroll in deﬁ nitely look up Various people on campus disagreed my heroes?” this university,” Lyall said. with Foster attending the University, “The tour concluded in front of Lyall said Foster opened the door to her courage and which then led to mobs forming Graves Hall, where a historical of courage for others to come, and boldness in what she and jeopardizing Foster’s safety. As marker was put up to honor Foster she set the example for everyone Foster finished one class, people were in September 2017, 61 years after to follow their passion. Lyall said stepped into. waiting for her at her next building. the events took place. This is the she was pleased with the way During the first three days Foster most recent telling of Foster’s story; Bagley portrayed the story of Foster attended, she was escorted by police however, Bagley did bring attention to and illustrated the exact steps KYLIE LYALL to her classes. She then had to be how historical markers usually have Foster took. driven from building to building due dates they were installed, but this one Her expulsion was eventually lifted to large crowds blocking the Quad. does not. in 1988, and this led Foster to then The tour then traveled to the Bagley said she believes this earn her master’s degree in education throughway at Graves Hall and the historical marker represents Foster’s in 1992. McLure Library, an area students walk experience strongly and accurately. I’ve read a lot about Meredith Bagley, associate by every day. Here, Bagley created Ashley Henson, a junior majoring professor for communication studies, a vision for the attendees about the in communication studies and her in my diff erent is the sponsor of Forgotten Hero: emotion and fright Foster must have marketing, looks up to Foster. The Autherine Lucy Foster Campus felt on her third day of school at “I’ve read a lot about her in my classes and done some Tour. The tour furthered participants’ the University. different classes and done some research online as well, knowledge of Foster’s trailblazing On Feb. 6, 1956, Foster became research online as well, and her quote efforts in the face of adversity. The trapped under the threat of the mob that’s on the clocktower I’ve always and her quote that’s tour took place on each Tuesday for four hours in Graves Hall and then thought is really like amazing and of February to celebrate Black was moved to the throughway toward inspiring,” Henson said. on the clocktower History Month. McLure. As she was entering the Henson said Foster is a driven and I’ve always thought is Bagley said she does the tour as building to seek safety, a brick was inspiring figure. She enjoyed the tour a part of her research, teaching and thrown at her head but missed her. and continues to look up to Foster. really like amazing and service. She strives for students to be The mob grew to thousands of people “She never really did anything that aware of the historical spaces they who were shouting disheartening was incendiary,” Henson said. “She inspiring walk past on campus every day and to chants about Foster and throwing just wanted to come to classes and know the overall significance of what things at the building. then all these things happened to her is surrounding them. Foster was able to escape later as and then she wasn’t able to. The fact ASHLEY HENSON “It’s one of the underappreciated the crowd turned its attention to a that she came back and finished her stories on campus,” Bagley said. “It’s small fender bender outside of Reese degree after all that time, I think, is Though Bagley wishes the tour more known and more appreciated Phifer Hall. This gave Foster the really amazing.” could be available each month of the today than it was when I first got opportunity to run out of the back of Kylie Lyall, a senior majoring in year, she said she cannot do it on here. I would hope that my tours have McLure, dive into the back of a car public relations and communication her own. She said this is a collective been part of that.” with her face down and evacuate from studies, attended the tour and said effort and encourages those interested Bagley said the goal of this tour is campus. She was suspended that day, she had personally never heard of to get involved to help others further for the participants to learn the facts and then expelled for her safety. Foster before. their knowledge of history on campus. of what happened during Foster’s “That’s how she leaves our campus “After going through the tour, I am “I think Dr. Bagley did an exceptional journey since people are often as a student in February 1956,” super, super impressed and definitely job in creating an environment that unaware. The tour teaches about a Bagley said. “This woman has never look up to her courage and boldness truly tells a story start to finish,” public memory that put the University said anything on the record negative in what she stepped into, being the Lyall said. opinions 4 February 28, 2019

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Divisible by Zero CW / A’Neshia Turner COLUMN | CAMPUS FOOD @kuhn13 Little Poblano because the Blenz Bowls is the best food truck meat is so fresshhhh Mexicana. If a bowl is not what students look for. The truck itself BY STEPHANIE OTALORA you’re craving, they also have is a nice shade of eggshell white leah m goggins STAFF COLUMNIST smoothies. Offering small, medium with pastel colors, allowing it to and large sizes, this truck has more stand out next to the other metal @ladygoggog selection than the Smoothie King at food trucks. Plus, the first thing hether it’s parked across the Student Rec Center. people do when they get their i can barely walk past La Wfrom Tutwiler Dorm or at Blenz bowl is take a picture for Mexicana without stopping the corner of Reese Phifer Hall, Snapchat – the bowls themselves the Blenz Bowls food truck always are aesthetically pleasing. for nachos or arroz con has a long line of people waiting Yet another draw of Blenz to place an order. Sure, there are Bowls is that you get your pollo! several other food trucks around Don’t worry about if money’s worth. For example, the campus, but this one is the best. La Mexicana food truck charges Since students are mainly on it’s raining, if the line you $10 for two small tacos and a Elizabeth Moseley campus for breakfast and lunch, is too long or if you’re drink. Within seconds, that small @EAMoseley Blenz is the perfect choice for meal is gone. Blenz, on the other an on-campus meal and is also already running late to hand, lasts long enough for you to Nothing warms my heart like acceptable as a wonderful snack class. Stop and get in cross the entire Quad on your way in between classes. Once you to class. a cold brew from Joyful Java have made it past the long line line for the best bowl Offering the perfect sized bowl and reach the window to order, of fruit in the world. to fit in your hands, Blenz is worth you can select from seven bases those extra dollars compared to kate to fill up the bowl and 15 toppings the other selections available to make it unique. For example, on campus. A bowl is $9, while a @kate_taylor3 a strawberry base bowl covered smoothie is $5. Don’t worry about la mexicana 100% in blueberries, bananas, grapes if it’s raining, if the line is too long and granola crumbs sounds like Not only does Blenz Bowls have or if you’re already running late a perfect treat to dine on while delicious selections to pick from, it to class. Stop and get in line for sitting on the Quad. No matter also has an inspiring Bible verse of the best bowl of fruit in the world. Marissa Maguire the ingredients, your bowl will fill the day written on the chalkboard Read the Bible verse of the day @marissa_maguire you up with all the nutrients and outside the truck. So whether and have your ACT card ready, protein it has. you’re walking past the truck on because Blenz is worth it. If you Easily joyful java. Always in Yet another reason that Blenz your way to class or getting a don’t believe me, just give it a try. the right place at the right Bowls is the best food truck on bowl, you’ll see the verse and feel campus is the nutritional value of instantly happy. time when I need a good a smoothie or a bowl. Personally, Another reason that Blenz is Stephanie Otalora is a sophomore I would rather eat a bowl of juicy the best food truck is because it majoring in public relations. Her cup of coffee fruit than a greasy taco from La gives off an aesthetic vibe that column runs biweekly.

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EDITOR Marr’s Field Journal DEADLINE: March 1, 2019 @ 4 p.m. APPLICATION AVAILABLE ONLINE AT osm.ua.edu opinions 6 February 28, 2019 We do not need a white history month Even in English classes, the curriculum never at job and housing availability, beauty norms, BY ANNA BETH PETERS focused on African-American authors. Sure, governmental policies, the wealth gap and STAFF COLUMNIST you can take a specific class for it, but why is various other systems in our society. this segment of history left out of general White settlers came to the U.S., uprooted the e’re nearing the end of Black History education? This is an erasure of American Native Americans living here and proceeded to WMonth, so I’d like to discuss a question history. Our curriculums should not exclude exploit and abuse African people through chattel that I remember hearing in elementary school. the legacies of black Americans, even if the slavery. The U.S. became a land founded upon Every February, we learned about black narratives aren’t pretty. whiteness, and the country has made it evident inventors, speakers, activists and legends of all that it values this standard. types of occupations, and there was always one The erasure of African-American legacies from person who just had to ask the dreaded question, general history only enhances the standard of “Why is there no white history month?” whiteness in America. If white people are not When I was young, I didn’t realize the We live in a society that echoes familiar with the horrific history of the treatment problematic nature of this question. This of black people in the country, they cannot see stemmed from my experience as a white person. the standard of whiteness from the widespread effects of racism. As I’ve grown older and wiser, I have come to every angle. Black History Month serves a distinct and realize just how offensive and degrading this crucial purpose: to educate American people on question is. Due to my whiteness, I have never the commonly forgotten history it once enabled. felt the harsh and demanding effects of racism in We must recognize the past to understand the the United States. I do consider myself an ally to present, and no one can truly understand the the movement for racial justice, and that is why I racial turmoil of the U.S. without a foundation of am writing this column. The acknowledgement of certain histories over all of its history. There is a short and simple answer to why others is also prevalent in college curriculums. So why isn’t there a white history month? there is no white history month, and it’s that American Civilization and World History are Because there is absolutely no need for one. practically every month is white history month. classes required for general education history We live in a society that echoes the standard of A key way to address this issue is to look at requirements, while African-American history whiteness from every angle. The title of Black general education curriculums. Before I came classes are upper-level electives. History Month merely serves as a national to college, I was taught about the Civil War at We live in a country that makes whiteness the recognition of forgotten history that should at least six times. Yet each time, I learned that it standard. Being white is glorified from every the forefront of discussion year round. was not fought over slavery (spoiler alert: it was). angle, ranging from governmental policies and I never learned about the hardships that black institutions to history lessons in our grade Anna Beth Peters is a sophomore majoring in people faced immediately after emancipation, as school classes. political science and communications. Her our content seemed to skip directly to the civil The standard of whiteness delves deeper than column runs biweekly. rights era. general education. It can be seen when looking news 7 February 28, 2019 Alumnus’ family opens memorial scholarship After UA alumnus Joshua Cloud’s death in 2017, his family begin to create the Joshua Mark Cloud Scholarship, an endowment fund available by 2023 in his remembrance.

University and inspired him to go. BY SHAHRIYAR EMAMI “Pawpaw had just shared the stories STAFF REPORTER with him,” Patti Cloud said. “Since he was about 8 years old, that’s where he wanted to go.” oshua Cloud was known as a Jpeople person. Cloud and Daniel MAKING IT HAPPEN Seehase, a senior majoring in math and finance in the accelerated master’s Kevin Nunnally is the associate program, met after signing up for the vice president for Advancement Alabama Kayak Club. The two became Services, and his office works to set close friends. up UA scholarships. One of Nunnally’s “He was one of those guys that responsibilities is handling the gifts was just a magnet to everyone in the and records management area. community,” Seehase said. “He was All gifts that come to the University REMEMBRANCE – Joshua Cloud’s family wanted to create something positive from his easygoing, easy to talk to, always go through Nunnally’s office. In simple death, pushing them to create the Joshua Mark Cloud Scholarship. Photo courtesy of lending a helping hand, going out of terms, the office’s gift accounting Patti Cloud his way to meet people and have a group records donations and provides good time.” a receipt to the donor. difference between the endowment REMEMBERING JOSHUA During the spring before his “In the case of people setting up fund and the current use fund. graduation in 2017, Cloud made a call new funds at the University, they’re “The one main difference is that the A reception for friends was to his family. creating the actual accounts where corpus, or the principal, of that fund held in Knoxville before Joshua “He called us one day in the spring those monies are deposited into,” is not extended,” Nunnally said. “That Cloud’s funeral. and said, ‘I think I’m going to go up to Nunnally said. $25,000 is invested in the University’s Born in Chattanooga, Joshua Cloud Colorado and be a whitewater rafting Nunnally said there are two types of endowment pool.” and his family moved to Knoxville guide when I graduate,’” his mother scholarship funds that can be opened: Every year, that $25,000 will be when he was in the eighth grade. Patti Cloud said. “He researched it, he a current use fund and an endowment available in the form of a scholarship. Joshua Cloud is buried in Chattanooga. interviewed with several companies, fund, the most common fund. A current Nunnally said donors usually satisfy Members of the club came together he chose a company and spent the use fund requires a minimum of the commitments to an endowment to pay their respects at the funeral. summer in Colorado.” $1,000 to start. fund pledge over five years. Seehase said there were about 15 Joshua Cloud attended the University Patti Cloud said her goal is to have club members in Chattanooga for from 2013-2017 on the Presidential the first scholarship ready by 2023. the occasion. It served as a way for Scholarship. He graduated in 2017 with the club to come together and share a degree in electrical engineering and UNBREAKABLE BONDS stories about their friend. a minor in math. Joshua Cloud had previously worked Before his death in Colorado in He was always Though Seehase is now the vice as a raft guide on the Ocoee River 2017, Joshua Cloud began work as a president of the Alabama Kayak Club, near Chattanooga. rafting guide, as whitewater rafting encouraging he wasn’t as experienced when he When word got out about the funeral, was one of his many passions. Due to and helpful and joined the club as a freshman. raft guides Joshua Cloud worked with legal circumstances, the Cloud family It was during his freshman year that came to join the club members and cannot discuss details surrounding supportive. Those Seehase met Joshua Cloud, who was in Cloud family. his death. are the qualities that his sophomore year. “It was not energetic at his funeral, Patti Cloud said her son would The club recruits students during but it was kind of as vibrant as a funeral accomplish anything he put his people gave him. Get On Board Day, and to make sure could be, just with all the personalities mind to. When other people that people are ready for kayaking, the coming in,” Seehase said. club holds open practices. To Seehase, Joshua Cloud was IN LOVING MEMORY recognize those During the minimum five weeks of someone who never deviated from who qualities, then you open practices in the 2015 fall semester, he was. The Cloud family wanted to create Seehase and Joshua Cloud got to know “Whether you knew him as a something positive from the tragedy know they’re true. each other. student, as a drinking buddy, as a that pierced their family. Patti Cloud “For the first five weeks of open paddler, as a raft guide, whether it was said this is what pushed the family practices, he was just learning right his cousins or people who knew him, to open the Joshua Mark Cloud PATTI CLOUD alongside me,” Seehase said. “We just everybody knew the exact same Josh,” Scholarship in her son’s name. connected through that and then three Seehase said. “We came up with the idea to open years of being in the club together, we The Cloud family still struggles with a scholarship in his name,” Patti “The balance of that can be got to know each other very well.” their loss, but keeps Joshua Cloud’s Cloud said. “I’m sure there are other expended down to zero,” Nunnally Seehase said members of the memory alive by talking about him, people out there who maybe want to said. “So if someone sets up a current club referred to Joshua Cloud as sharing stories and celebrating his go to Alabama, want to be an electrical use scholarship for say, $2,500, just “Cloud.” birthday – and now his memory will engineer, but their families just once they award all the scholarships Seehase reached out on behalf of live on in the scholarship set up in don’t have that kind of money for out of that fund and it goes to zero, the club to Patti Cloud’s family after his name. out-of-state [tuition]. So we want to that kind of fund gets expended at Joshua Cloud’s death. “There’s not a day that goes by that help create that dream for them.” that point.” “People just always commented we don’t think about him,” Patti Cloud As a Tennessee native, Joshua At the University, the minimum to on how willing he was to help you said. “We still struggle.” Cloud was adamant about leaving start an endowment fund is $25,000, learn what you needed to learn,” Patti Cloud said she, her husband and his home in Knoxville and attending Nunnally said. Patti Cloud said. “He was always two daughters are coping differently. the University. Even though his family Someone from Nunnally’s office is encouraging and helpful and “We’re a close family, so we talk didn’t know why, they supported currently helping the Cloud family supportive. Those are the qualities about it,” Patti Cloud said. “We his decision. develop the scholarship, which will be that people gave him. When other talk about him, we celebrate his Joshua Cloud’s grandfather, or set up as an endowment fund. people recognize those qualities, then birthday still but we’re making it. “Pawpaw” as he was called, loved the Nunnally said there is one big you know they’re true.” We’re surviving.”` news 8 February 28, 2019 Millennial Move Makers creates connections Betty Jean Bowles, a junior majoring in political science, came up with the idea to host Millennial Move Makers, a conference on March 3 that creates a place to build connections among UA entrepreneurs, inﬂ uencers and content creators – the ﬁ rst of its kind at the University.

Summer Bell, Lillian Roth, Mack BY JEFFREY KELLY McCullum and Walt McDole – from the CONTRIBUTING WRITER University who are content creators, entrepreneurs or influencers. atrina Waelchli, a senior studying “I believe that we will be discussing Ksports and entertainment how we’ve utilized our passion and public relations, is looking forward to our skill set in the creative industry seeing the response the audience and and where we will be going next,” the campus has to a new conference, Waelchli said. Millennial Move Makers, focusing Waelchli said the panel has a variety on creating connections among of creators who specialize in different entrepreneurs, influencers and content things and that for her, she feels a creators at The University of Alabama. stronger connection to fashion. “I have never attended a conference “I think that’s where my uniqueness that was so specific to what I’m will come up in the panel,” Waelchli interested in,” Waelchli said. “I said. “Just my love for how fashion think to be surrounded by like- influencers are on social media, plus minded individuals that have a love that understanding and that desire to and understanding for the creative be within the fashion industry.” industry would be a really good The Millennial Move Makers opportunity to find motivation and conference will be the first of its kind inspiration, because it’s a hard thing at the University and was brought into to love because you can’t just wake up fruition by Bowles and Villarreal with and be an influencer.” the help of their team Lindsay Martin, NETWORKING – Millennial Move Makers provides opportunities for inﬂ uencers, Kayla Riggs, Ariyana Dyer, Sydnei entrepreneurs and content creators to connect with one another. Photos courtesy of Lilly, Jordan Watkins, Sydney Broady Betty Jean Bowles and Kyah Harris. “I feel that [Millennial Move getting involved, they should contact Millennial Move Makers website, and Makers] is going to be different than Millennial Move Makers through its at the conference, Bowles said there My main goal of this if the business school did it,” said Ruth Instagram @millennialmovemakers or would be a surprise announcement that conference is just to Tolen, a freshman majoring in business by email at [email protected]. attendees will have to be there to see. management and a content creator “Hopefully, in maybe three or four “I think it is very important that we kind of create a place and influencer. “It feels more friendly years, I’m able to come back and be get [the conference] out there because because it’s for students by students.” like, ‘Wow, I founded this, and it’s still upon getting everything ready for the for creatives here at Bowles said she had the idea for this going,’” she said. conference, I realized there are quite the University. conference after interning at a public The attire for the event is trendy a few creatives on campus,” Bowles relations firm where she got to work business casual. The conference said. “It’s just, you never know because alongside peopleople who were invested in requires that students RSVP online, we are all spread across the BETTY JEAN the creative realmrealm and enjoyed building which can be done through the population of UA, so BOWLES their brand. it’s great to have one “Interning alongsidealongside them,them, I got thethe central place where Millennial Move Makers will take chance to seeee that part of the world,” we can all come place on March 3 from noon-4 p.m. Bowles said.d. ““It’sIt’s sometsomethinghing tthathat together.” in the Ferguson Student Center’s has always interesteinterestedd me, creative Great Hall. The conference will start content, but I never saw it laid out in [Left] Carina with check-in from noon-12:30 p.m. front of me.” Villarreal [Right] During this time, students will be After comingming up with the idea Betty Jean Bowles able to socialize and take advantage of the conference,ference, Bowles then of the photo stations that will be set refined it andd createdcreated a pitchpitch sheshe up. Then there will be a welcome from presented too thethe Women 12:30-1 p.m. of Excellence,e, a student “My main goal of this conference organization on campus is just to kind of create a place for that encouragescourages creatives here at the University,” said leadership, equality Betty Jean Bowles, a junior majoring and womanhood.manhood. in political science and co-founder From there, sheshe took and head of operations for Millennial applications for her Move Makers. core team ofof seven,seven, Following the welcome, a keynote and they began titled “She’s got the Keys” will be given putting it together.gether. by Alicia Gettys, a UA alumna and Bowles saidaid afteafterr established social media influencer this conference,ence, tthehe who has worked with over 25 brands a Millennial Move year. Shortly after, Bowles and Carina Makers plan to do it Villarreal, the co-founders, will give a again next year.ear. presentation. After that, there will be a She saidd ifif panel composed of five undergraduate anyone iiss and graduate students – Waelchli, interested iinn news February 28, 2019 9 Bullard named next editor-in-chief of The CW Crimson White, said he’s thrilled that BY CAMILLE STUDEBAKER Bullard is the new editor-in-chief and NEWS EDITOR that she’s earned the position. “I think she’s very well prepared he Media Planning Board to take the reigns of the CW over, I Tnamed Savannah Bullard as really do,” Mayfield said. “She’s been The Crimson White editor-in-chief doing the work. She’s also a really for the 2019-2020 academic year on good person and works well with Feb. 27. people out there in the newsroom, “Getting this position means and that’s important for the everything to me,” said Bullard, a CW editor.” junior majoring in journalism from Going forward, Bullard said she’s Huntsville, Alabama. “I have been looking forward to kicking off a great able to watch this paper grow and reboot of the CW website, bolstering evolve and I’ve gotten to grow and the social media to be a robust, evolve with it. And to be a part of the interactive and informative means leadership of this paper this semester of communication for students and has been amazing in and of itself.” accomplishing a great re-design of In her past at The Crimson White, the print edition. She also wants to Bullard began as a page designer her focus on stories that affect students Savannah Bullard. sophomore year and then became lead and “make a paper that’s worthy of CW / Hannah Saad page designer the fall of her junior its acclaim.” year. Now in the spring semester of Jake Stevens, a graduate student her junior year, she currently serves studying public relations and current do well in the position and will propel “It’s a very big responsibility,” as the production editor. editor-in-chief, said he’s excited for the newspaper to a really good place. Mayfield said. “She’s been in that “And now to be the leader of the Bullard to step into the position. As The Crimson White moves newsroom on Sunday nights and paper, and just to take everything “Having worked with Savannah forward, Stevens said he wants to Wednesday nights for a long time. I’ve learned and call the shots and for more than a year, I can attest to see a continuance of the work the She’s a real leader and a wonderful continue to just pour my love into her abilities as a journalist and as newspaper produces, and he looks person and a really good journalist. this paper, it’s genuinely just really a writer,” Stevens said. “I think she forward to what Bullard can do. … It’s been great to see her here awesome,” Bullard said. has strong leadership qualities and I Specifically, he wants to see more in the last couple of years and how Mark Mayfield, associate director can’t wait to see what she does with hard news stories published, a confident she’s really become in this and editorial advisor of the Office of the newspaper.” continued growth on social media work. I think she’s excellent, and it Student Media and advisor to The Stevens said he thinks Bullard will and more journalistic awards won. was a great choice.” Rozanc-Petski named editor-in-chief of Alice

BY JESSA REID BOLLING ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

he Media Planning Board has Tnamed Saige Rozanc-Petski as editor-in-chief of Alice Magazine for the 2019-2020 school year. Rozanc-Petski, a sophomore journalism major, has served as a Communications & Information Sciences College ambassador and as an online content creator Photo courtesy of Saige Rozanc-Petski for Odyssey. “I’m really excited to be the new Alice Looking ahead, Rozanc-Petski is editor just because I think it’s such a eager to get started with the Alice team. wonderful publication that we’ve put out,” “I think they’ve already built a really Rozanc-Petski said. “It’s unlike anything strong publication and a really strong I’ve seen anywhere else, so I’m really team, so I’m not looking to completely excited to be a part of something like that.” reinvent the wheel but I’m excited to Mark Mayfi eld, associate director and put my own twist to things that have editorial advisor of the Offi ce of Student already been extremely successful for Media and advisor to The Crimson White, Alice,” she said. said that it takes extraordinary talent Rebecca Rakowitz, current editor- to produce a quality magazine and he in-chief of Alice, said she is honored to believes Rozanc-Petski has that talent. pass the position on to Rozanc-Petski. “I’m really proud of Saige [Rozanc- Rakowitz also said she is eager to see Petski] and I think she’ll do a good job,” what the Alice staff can achieve under Mayfi eld said. “I think her journalism Rozanc-Petski’s leadership. background will serve her well in this “I think the magazine is in a really job. I also think she’s organized enough to exciting place right now,” Rakowitz said. work with all aspects of Alice and she also “We’ve pushed a lot of boundaries, and has some plans for the website which is Saige has a really talented staff, so I think important for Alice, so I think she’ll do an things are going to keep moving forward, excellent job.” and she’ll do some great work.” Editor | Irene Richardson 10 [email protected] February 28, 2019 culture Encore helps aspiring producers gain experience y Magnolia Bayou traveled from Mississippi to perform at the Encore event hosted by UA students. Encore gives production students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by producing live shows.

When preparing for a performance, BY KINSLEY CENTERS Palmiero said it was important for CONTRIBUTING WRITER them to get in the right headspace and maintain a healthy lifestyle. nterning with Encore is less According to Palmiero, it’s crucial Iabout making coffee and for them to practice. The band filing paperwork, and more about practices five to six times a week. listening to great music and getting “Know what your strong sets are real experience working with and your weaknesses and hone in on talented musicians. what you need to do,” Palmiero said. Encore was created by Journalism Highlights in Magnolia Bayou’s and Creative Media students, JCM career include sharing the stage with Instructor Teresa Gawrych and Bishop Gunn and opening up for the members of the Center for Public Grammy-nominated Eli Young Band Television. It gives students hands- at Hwy 30 Music Fest in Filer, Idaho. on experience in producing film while Aside from a few lineup changes with giving other students the opportunity drummers, Palmiero said they are to hear bands live from Alabama, in a good place now with the band. Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The core three – Palmiero, Estes and Fulton – have been together since the beginning. “Keeping your head up and looking for the next big thing and keeping your eyes peeled on what's Keeping your head important, which is the music, and we never really lost sight of that,” up and looking for Palmiero said. the next big thing and In the end, Magnolia Bayou continues to play music they love keeping your eyes while traveling around the country. peeled on what's “We’re rolling a lot better than ever these days, and I can say that things went well, and we’re all happy right ROCK STAR– Magnolia Bayou is the most recent band to be featured at one of Encore's important, which is the performances, hosted by students in Creative Media and Journalism. CW / Keely Brewer. now,” Palmiero said. music, and we never The band released its self-titled an amazing band, so that was wild Magnolia Bayou encourages its really lost sight of that. debut album “Magnolia Bayou to do.” audience to be engaged as any other by Magnolia Bayou” in May 2018, Colbert has hopes that the Encore band would while performing. The and it is available on all music team will grow because they are in members said they are looking platforms. The album was recorded their first season. As times can be forward to their upcoming tour across DYLAN PALMIERO in 2017 at Music Shed Studios in New stressful, she is overall appreciative the Southeast and Midwest March 1 Orleans, Louisiana. of the program. through April 20. Savannah Colbert, a senior Encore produces a show at the end “I would definitely say time can majoring in telecommunication and of each month that showcases bands, be our enemy sometimes,” Colbert film, said she is thankful that the such as Magnolia Bayou, that play said. “If the band is running late University offers a program like various types of genres to appeal to and we are on a tight schedule, Encore so students who are interested all students. Gawrych is one of the that’s one of the main things we’ve I have never been in a in production can get involved and executive producers of Encore, and struggled with.” gain experience. she assembles a group of students Chloe Gump, a senior majoring studio setting like that “It’s really rare that like we as to produce a multi-camera live in marketing, attended the Encore interns get to do this kind of stuff production show. This allows them to event. She heard of Magnolia Bayou but I really enjoyed it because normally in like our field of gain experience and work together as from a friend a couple of weeks before and it really took you like production or whatever, we’re a team to create a product they are the event. like usually getting coffee and stuff,” proud of. “I thought they were a very great behind the scenes and Colbert said. “But we’re actually Students recruit bands by doing group, and I enjoyed their show a lot,” got you close to the hands on doing all of the positions, research and submitting reports with Gump said. directing, camera, everything.” background information to nominate She said she likes how they are band and whoever Recently Encore hosted Magnolia them to perform at Encore. This lets all close friends. Her favorite part Bayou, a band from Gulfport, students get an understanding of each was the actual Encore event because is playing. Mississippi. Magnolia Bayou’s lead process it takes to produce a show. she knew more about them from the guitarist, Dylan Palmiero, founded Emily Kaplan, a junior majoring in interview segment. The band began the band four years ago with his telecommunication and film, was the to make their song more meaningful CHLOE GUMP friend Josh Estes, who is now the associate producer of this show. to the audience. band’s bass player. The two were in “Being a part of Encore is “I have never been in a studio “Don’t give up, you know, keep jazz band together in high school and awesome because it’s helped me gain setting like that, but I really enjoyed your head up if you ever get to a often found themselves having jam experience in not only producing but it, and it really took you behind the stump part in your career, just keep sessions after class. cameras, research aspects, hopefully scenes and got you close to the band working at it and practice every They grew the idea to form a band directing too,” Kaplan said. “It’s and whoever is playing,” Gump said. day,” Palmiero said. “Don’t lose and were then joined by Andrew all students, so we’re all learning “I think Alabama does an incredible sight of what's important. Don't let Fulton, the vocalist and guitarist, and together and we’re all in the same job with bringing students in and the outside influences ruin what you later Cedric Feazell, the drummer. boat. I mean, Magnolia Bayou is whole experience.” already established.” culture February 28, 2019 11 'Love Romances' reveals a gendered history Marvel Comics’ “Love Romances” exposes a long history of gendered comics – one that is undergoing a seismic shift. The change could mean more female representation in mainstream media.

After World War II, as comic BY SAMUEL G. REECE books became distinctly marketed CONTRIBUTING WRITER for young people, they also became gender specific. Romance books like “Love Romances,” “My Love Story” or Emma Burford, a lack of and “Patsy Walker” were marketed to Fsuperhero memorabilia didn’t young girls well into the 1970s. discourage her from a devotion to Superhero comics disappeared and comic books, despite whom they were were replaced with horror books. traditionally marketed toward. Even “Captain America Comics” “When I was growing up, they gave became “Captain America’s Weird boys Spider-Man stuff,” said Burford, Tales.” Crime stories and eventually a junior majoring in mechanical monster stories were mainly engineering. “They didn’t think to sold to boys. give girls superhero stuff, naturally. This was a distinctly American I would, a lot of times, take my tradition, said Michael Picone, a brother’s toys because he didn’t care professor of French and Linguistics for superheroes.” who studies the linguistics of European comic books and teaches a class that analyzes the linguistics of French comics. He said France is the “center of gravity for comics in Europe,” They didn’t think to and that comic books, or “bandes give girls superhero dessinées” don’t have the same gendered expectation of stuff, naturally. I would, American comics. a lot of times, take my “[Romance comics are] not really a well-developed genre in France,” brother’s toys, because Picone said. “All French-speaking SPLASH PAGE– Women are becoming more represented in modern comic books with he didn’t care for people have a familiarity with characters such as Ms. Marvel, Ironheart and Squirrel Girl. CW / Keely Brewer. characters like Tintin and Asterix. superheroes. Those iconic characters are male said. “There’s always the fear of the of big box stores, aiming to bring in a dominated, and that’s a sexist ‘comics litmus test,’ in which men new audience. undercurrent people have accepted.” will ask you a series of questions Animated series and comic books EMMA BURFORD Comic books, no matter the to test your knowledge of comics. adapt these characters into stories genre, had a limited talent pool to But it wasn’t just any interest. It’s for all ages. Unlike romance comics draw from. A companion to “Love something I had spent so much of of the 1950s, however, these stories Now with more mainstream female Romances” called “Young Romance” my youth deeply ingrained into that include action, adventure and girls superheros, the market is beginning was primarily written and drawn by I was never discouraged.” whose lives are not defined by to change. However, it’s not the Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, creators However, times are beginning to the men they moon over. Burford first time Marvel has marketed of Captain America. It was in this change. The increasing exposure of says if these new stories had been toward girls; it was just under a period that Kirby grew accustomed superhero comics in movies and TV as available as they are today at different name. to writing characters with dreams, has created marketable franchises book fairs and toy stores when she The first issue of “Love Romances,” motivations and inner struggles. available to many, including young was growing up, she would have a comic series featuring various love Stan Lee, too, wrote romance girls. DC and Marvel have begun to “definitely been interested.” stories, was published in 1949. The stories of his own. By the early change their ways, creating series cover labels it a “Marvel Comic,” 1960s, Kirby and Lee had teamed up and stories that appeal to people of despite being technically published at Marvel comics, sparking a new all ages and genders. by Timely Comics, the same publisher generation of superhero comics with Marvel publishes several series that was then winding up the first “Fantastic Four” and “The Amazing that capitalize on the teenage-girl There’s always the fear runs of its popular World War II Spider-Man” and introducing the demographic, like “The Unbeatable heroes, Captain America and Human world to superheroes with flaws, Squirrel Girl,” “Ms. Marvel,” “The of the ‘comics litmus Torch. The company would eventually dreams and hopes of their own. It was Unstoppable Wasp” and “Ironheart.” test,’ in which men become Marvel Comics, but not for this set of dynamics that set Marvel Burford said it was these almost 15 years, when it returned to apart from the DC Comics that were characters, along with the advent will ask you a series of publishing superhero comics. directed toward young children. of digital comics, that drew her into questions to test your This year, in celebration of its In the decades since, superhero reading comics in high school. 80th anniversary, Marvel Comics comics became “boy stuff,” marketed “I could start trying to read knowledge of comics. is releasing single-issue returns almost exclusively toward teenage and the Ironheart comics [and] start to classic series, including a new pre-teen boys. Few female characters looking for more women in comics,” issue of “Love Romances,” now had strong representation in comics Burford said. clearly marked as belonging to the and almost no representation in toys, Buford said she prefers the ASHIA LEWIS Marvel line. animation or movies. characters who aren’t “female Like the original series, its logo Ashia Lewis, a sophomore majoring versions of male heroes,” but have Seventy years after publishing is in a scripted font and its stories in physics and microbiology, said it their own identities, like Squirrel “Love Romances,” comics are back feature campy, over-the-top romance. was sometimes hard growing up in Girl and Ms. Marvel. Animation, in the game of appealing to a wide In positioning itself as a 1950s-era the world of comic books. toys and merchandise lines like range of readers and fans, once romance comic, this new issue targets “It wasn’t really an option for me “DC Superhero Girls” or “Marvel again merging the worlds of stories a classic audience: teenage girls, a as to whether it was something I Rising” market Barbie-style marketed for girls and stories demographic the publisher has only would become interested in because superhero toys – usually focusing on marketed for boys, while finding a recently sought to reclaim. of my dad’s draw to comics,” Lewis these characters – in the toy sections middle ground that can appeal to all. culture 12 February 28, 2019

LISTEN UP – Jonathan Holle uses high-tech equipment to create and edits his podcasts. His next big project includes partnering with Alabama Public Radio. CW/ Keely Brewer Student expression blossoms in podcasts If the Alabama Student Ticket Exchange Facebook page figure out how to pull all of their “It’s been my favorite experience work together. Even with the Sanford as a student, so it’s absolutely is any indication, UA students have plenty of opinions team coaching him through it, editing mandatory for me that I continue to on plenty of things: So why not start a podcast about it? the first podcasts took Robertson make the time each week to do what several hours, often spread over two makes me happy,” Turner said. days. Now that his learning curve is “The GradLings Podcast” has also “We had these conversations in plateauing, Robertson said the work allowed Robertson to talk with people BY LEAH GOGGINS class, but there’s really no space, whom he otherwise might not have STAFF REPORTER comes much more easily. outside of talking to your advisor or “For the last episode that we did, we met. In an upcoming episode, the talking to your professor and taking went from the start of the recording “GradLings” team plans to interview or an amateur podcaster, up office hours, to really nerd out and to the end of the editing process in a student in Germany, while other FJonathan Holle has a pretty explore these things,” Robertson said. four hours,” Robertson said. episodes have put them in contact professional setup. The senior For both Robertson and Holle, the Holle, too, knows that editing a with students in California, Ohio and studying telecommunication and film recording process is the fun part. podcast means learning as you go. Illinois, where host Robbie Turner is works at Alabama Public Radio, where It’s the post-production editing that In recording the first two episodes of completing her Ph.D. program. With he has access to sound-dampening makes podcasting tough. his advertising podcast, Holle set up so many people, Robertson said, recording studios stocked with two microphones to record together, comes so many opportunities to talk microphones, monitors, speakers and into the same waveform, meaning that about the positives and negatives of mixing equipment. cutting one person’s laugh could result graduate student life. Luckily, Holle said, a fully functional in cutting a whole sentence from the “There’s a lot of things that go recording studio isn’t a requirement We’re hearing more other person. It’s a mistake Holle said into graduate study, and a lot of to start your own podcast. In fact, he doesn’t plan on making again. things that aren’t talked about,” there are basically no requirements. and more about Between preparing, recording and Robertson said. “Recently, issues of “[Podcasting] is extremely people who are editing, podcasting can take up a maintenance of mental health have accessible to do,” Holle said. “A large amount of a college student’s been coming up … and we’re hearing lot of podcasting is just having talking about their time. That’s exactly why Darcy Mack, more and more about people who conversation, and people are always a sophomore majoring in creative are talking about their experience having conversations. We do that experience of going media, is taking a break from their of going through depression, anyway, right?” through depression, podcast. Mack, who co-hosts a podcast relationships with faculty and work- Holle is currently editing two that focuses on personal issues, life balance.” episodes of a podcast on advertising, relationships with needed a little recovery time after Those conversations have molded which he recorded with a fellow juggling podcast responsibilities and and expanded “The GradLings student. In the future, he looks forward faculty and coursework every other week. Podcast” into a more well-rounded to hosting a podcast with Alabama “We're actually taking a break for discussion of both linguistics and Public Radio that would examine work-life balance. a month or two on my show because I graduate student life, Robertson said. hot-button news stories through a didn't have the energy to work on it after While podcasts have the potential to Shakespearean lens. The two topics BODEN I was done with class and work,” Mack dig deep into their subject matter, have conversation in common. said. “It's definitely a commitment.” some say it’s the dynamic between So podcasting just has two ROBERTSON WVUA radio personality Tina Turner hosts that keep podcasters and ingredients: a discussion and a also recognizes that running a show listeners coming back for more. recording device. But that doesn’t “When we first started, [editing] every week is a hefty commitment, but “Podcasting is special in that it feels mean the process is easy. was grueling,” Robertson said. “I had she also says it’s a personal necessity. more genuine or familiar than other Boden Robertson, a doctoral never done any kind of audio editing When she isn’t going to class and media,” Mack said. “When you're student studying second language before and I had no training.” working 30 hours per week, Turner listening to a podcast, it can feel like acquisition, started “The GradLings Robertson, who was already taking hosts “The College Struggle” on WVUA you're just listening to your friends Podcast” with two friends in 2017 advantage of the recording equipment FM, which she said allows her to meet talk. If you make a podcast, you get to after realizing they needed an outlet at the Sanford Media Center in Gorgas new people and discuss interesting explore something you're interested for their shared passion, linguistics. Library, headed back to Sanford to topics for an hour every week. in with people you care about.” Editor | Cody Estremera [email protected] sports February 28, 2019 13 Battle-tested men’s tennis prepares for SEC play

Unlike past years, the non-conference Miss, Alabama won the doubles point BY JACK KENNEDY schedule tested Alabama from the on Friday night, but when the match STAFF REPORTER moment the season started. The fi rst continued on Saturday morning, Ole match of the season against No. 14 Miss took control and won 4-2. aving already faced four top-50 Michigan, Alabama had to battle until “Ole Miss surprised us in how well Hteams, Alabama men’s tennis the fi nal singles match to secure the they did in singles,” Kaukovalta said. returns home on Friday to begin the victory. Just two weeks later, it faced No. “Overall, it was pretty close against nearly two month-long gauntlet of SEC 17 Minnesota and dropped the doubles them. We wanted to bounce back and opponents starting with No. 18 LSU. point, which led to a narrow 4-3 loss. were very excited heading into the Texas “The SEC is relentless in that it Tech match.” provides a lot of opportunities, but those Alabama did not get off to the start opportunities can also bring challenges,” they wanted against Texas Tech by losing the doubles point but bounced coach George Husack said. “We cannot TEAMWORK - Alabama will need to set the back in singles play to win 4-1. get wrapped out in how we started last We are looking forward tone against tough SEC opponents by “The team learned that teams can year or how we need to start this year.” winning its doubles matches. Photo Last season, Alabama started off slow to it and we feel we respond well and that we can also courtesy of UA Athletics in SEC play losing seven out its fi rst are going to do way respond well after losing the doubles eight, but it peaked at the right time by point,” Husack said. “It’s been like the season and 4-0 in matches away from advancing to the quarterfi nals of the SEC better than last year Curse of the Bambino in our locker Baton Rouge. tournament to secure a spot in the NCAA because we are more room, where if we don’t win the doubles The Crimson Tide will return to action Championships, fi nishing in the Round point, we won’t win the match, and on Sunday against Texas A&M, who of 16 in the NCAA Championships. experienced. it was the fi rst time in three years advanced to the semifi nals in the NCAA As for this year, the Crimson Tide we have done it, so it was great for Championships last year. comes into its SEC schedule with these guys.” “The losses from this past weekend more match-situation experience and PATRICK Despite a successful outing at the taught us where we need to improve a tougher non-conference schedule to KAUKOVALTA Blue Gray Classic, the Crimson Tide has and that’s the idea in what we are doing emulate the quality of SEC opponents. work to do to prepare for the diffi cult to prepare for LSU and Texas A&M,” “We are looking forward to it and Last weekend, Alabama traveled to schedule ahead with eight of the fi nal 13 junior Zhe Zhou said. “We have a few we feel we are going to do way better the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic opponents being ranked in the top 50. On days off of practice, so we can focus on than last year because we are more in Montgomery, Alabama, where it Friday, Alabama is slated to face one of individual things that we did not do well experienced,” sophomore Patrick faced top-50 teams Ole Miss and Texas those eight in LSU. The Tigers come to in during the Blue Gray and being better Kaukovalta said. Tech. In the fi rst match against Ole Tuscaloosa with an 11-1 record for the than before.”

Women’s tennis uses diversity to their advantage

Despite their cultural differences, the in the recruiting process.ss. BY COLE ARCHER team’s chemistry operates as well as “This is a school withh a great athletic CONTRIBUTING WRITER any athletic program on campus. program and good academics,academics, but I “We are all together as a team both really liked coach Mainz,”inz,” saisaidd SeSelim.lim. f there were to be anyone on the on and off the court,” junior Kimberley “Even with all the greatgreat things the IAlabama women’s tennis team Gintrand, who is from Angers, France, University offers, the ccoachesoaches were tthehe who experienced a culture shock on a said. “There are no real differences that biggest reason I came.”” primarily international team, it may actually matter, and everyone is cool Mainz has enjoyed thethe challenges come from the players right here in the with everybody” of recruiting as well asas thethe benefi ts United States. The cultural differences and back- that come with coachingg internationalinternational Home to six different countries on grounds, strangely enough, have been players in her 22 years at the an eight-women roster, the Alabama able to bring a completely out-of-state Capstone, where she cites tthathat hherer women’s tennis team is turning into team together during a time in life teams “generally carryy a few interna-interna- a hotspot for overseas recruiting, that requires the ability to acclimate tional players.” strangely enough, as coach Jenny effi ciently away from home. “I think my recruitingg hashas changed,changed, Mainz and collegiate tennis coaches “Our differences were never an issue,” and you have to adjustst ddependingepending alike seem to have different intents with said sophomore Ann Selim, who is from on the circumstance,” MainzMainz said. their initial strategy. Cairo, Egypt. “If anything, it makes us “The talent varies yearar to year. “We try to recruit in the Southeast feel closer to each other because we are Some years we havee more fi rst and look at Birmingham, Huntsville, all from different countries and have scholarships, and [becauseecause and Dothan,” said Mainz. “We see what come together far away from home to of] circumstance we neeneedd kind of talent can come to the state of play with each other.” to go out of the U.S.” Alabama. We focus on Alabama, the Whether it is the little things like One of the biggestt Southeast, the U.S. and go from there.” eating lunch together or the more conveniences for Mainzz This season, it appears that the “going serious team activities such as lifting, as a coach has been herer ability to learn the emphasis on unity reigns supreme and grow from the player’s diversifi ed from there” has worked out well for INTERNATIONAL - Selim is one of several above all. backgrounds in tennis. From Spain’s the Crimson Tide’s 2019 campaign, as foreign-born players making an impact for “I will say that playing with a team is slow-tempo pace played on red clay to the team currently holds a 10-3 record Alabama this season. CW / Carter Eike without a single in-state player. helping me a lot,” Gintrand said. “It is England’s faster paced game played Junior Jacqueline Pelletier, great because we can struggle together. on real grass, Mainz sited that from “They come from very good coaches sophomore Kylie Moulin and senior Some of the things we do in workouts, country to country, she is often the one that are very reputable and very Andie Daniell are in the minority of in- If I were to do it alone, I just mentally learning from the players. experienced,” Mainz said. “Many of country students from South Carolina, couldn’t do it.” Even with all the technical lessons them come from coaches [who] are Florida and Georgia, respectively. The sense of camaraderie stems from picked up from player to coach, very hard on them. It’s very regimented Players from Spain, Hungary, France, the leadership up top – something that the biggest advantage in coaching and structured, and my players Japan and Egypt round out the rest of Selim gives a lot of credit to Mainz for international players, Mainz said, is show that.” the roster. establishing and using to her advantage their discipline. sports 14 February 28, 2019 Rowing team eager for strong start to season Before his hire on June 15, Putyrae BY MCKENNA MORRIS coached at Gonzaga University and CONTRIBUTING WRITER dominated in the seven years he sent there, earning five conference bout a week after the end of championships. Athe 2018 Big 12 Championships, “I am thrilled to announce that we Alabama rowing coach Larry Davis have reached an agreement with announced he would step down Glenn Putyrae to be the next head as head coach. He had been the rowing coach at The University of only coach in program history and Alabama,” Byrne said in the press moved the team from a club to a release announcing the hire. “Four Division I team. areas really stood out for us as we progressed through the interview process with Glenn, and those were his passion, his work ethic and his vision and belief for the future of I am thrilled to this program. He’s had great success announce that we have leading both Gonzaga and Georgetown, and we are confident he will do the reached an agreement same for the Crimson Tide.” In his first fall season, Putyrae’s with Glenn Putyrae to team successfully competed in be the next head rowing a couple different meets, which included winning a gold medal at the coach at The University Head of the Hooch race to end the fall semester. of Alabama. The staff Putyrae put together has experience from all over North America. Grace Barbara rowed at Indiana and NEW BEGINNINGS – Alabama’s rowing team is days away from starting its fi rst season GREG BYRNE helped the Hoosiers to an 11th place under new head coach Glenn Putyrae, who was previosuly a successful coach at Gonzaga. finish at the NCAA Championships. The search to find Davis’ She spent the last two seasons at assistant for the Bulldogs, she rowed season. replacement took about a month, Louisville as a graduate assistant. at Gonzaga and was the team captain One rower who should play a big role but UA Athletic Director Greg Byrne Madison Keaty followed Putyrae her senior year. for the Crimson Tide is sophomore Cori decided on Glenn Putyrae. from Gonzaga. Before being an James Mulcahy was the only coach Guay. She raced in the First Varsity 8+ to stay on from Davis’ tenure. He last spring as a freshman. rowed at Columbia University and was “Everything builds up,” Guay said. the captain for three years. He was the “We are excited to see all the work 2015 and 2016 coach for Team Canada we’ve put in.” at the CanAmMex Regatta. “A lot of learning from last year,” “They bring experience and said DeGroot, co-captain of the team. passion,” junior Olivia DeGroot said. Now the team looks ahead to Saturday, where the Crimson Tide will face Eastern Michigan. Alabama PLAN TO GO swept all 16 races last year against the Eagles. “We are most interested in who WHAT: Alabama vs. crosses the finish line first,” Putyrae said. “The result is more Eastern Michigan important than the time.” The goal for the WHERE: APARTMENTS STILL AVAILABLE FOR 2019 season is to finish top three in Manderson Landing conference. The WHEN: Saturday, highest the team has 2019- 2020 finished was fourth, March 2 at 9 a.m. which occurred in the 2016-2017

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Am I going to be the reporters, Duckworth sat down gymnastics in early 2016, the team’s will always be her favorite from her loudest person out there? Am I going beside Armbrecht while the senior three seniors will compete in Coleman time at Alabama. to show people that when you’re down was answering questions. When Coliseum for the final time on Friday Two years later, she became the and out, you’re not always out?” Armbrecht finished, the coach jumped night against Auburn. SEC floor exercise champion and is in to describe one of her favorite Abby Armbrecht, Ariana Guerra now one of the Crimson Tide’s most things about her. and Angelina Giancroce – with just indispensable gymnasts, prompting “Abby will come up to me like, ‘I nine weeks or fewer remaining in their Duckworth to call her “a little bit of have an idea. Can we change this little collegiate gymnastics careers – are still a miracle.” The amount of joy you part?’” Duckworth said. “The next going strong. Despite the excruciating “I always have an ache and pain,” week, ‘I have an idea.’ Always, and I toll that years of gymnastics have Guerra said. “It’s knowing the get watching somebody will miss that because it just shows taken on their bodies, they’re still difference between whether it’s that she wants it more.” working as hard as they ever have. muscle or if it’s just flared up or if else succeed, I’m going The coach still holds onto the memories from meeting the gymnasts I can’t move this day. It’s worth the to miss that the most. push. I only have a few more meets for the first time, visiting their homes and I’ve got to give it all I have for and meeting their families. But the these last few weeks.” ones she’ll really cherish involve the mundane conversations about life and You’re 22 years old She said many practices ended ANGELINA in tears even after she was able to GIANCROCE the seemingly trivial things that forge doing this sport. It’s not compete again, but the strength and lasting bonds. faith she developed are the reasons “It’s really difficult for 15 girls to get easy, but they are trying she’s still doing gymnastics. Duckworth acknowledged that along, let’s be honest,” Giancroce said. Guerra tried to be strong when Giancroce could’ve easily decided “But this team, particularly, I feel like to squeeze every bit of Giancroce ruptured her Achilles to quit gymnastics and focus solely the chemistry is just unbelievable. gymnastics out of the tendon before their sophomore on her career in creative media, but “It’s just the little moments that season, but the tears flowed then too. the senior said that never crossed we spend together, whether that’s next [nine] weeks... and Giancroce knew the time, the her mind. just people hanging out at your house date – even what leotard the team was “I’m just kind of in awe that my watching movies, or it is at the hotel, or that is so inspiring. wearing that day. She was primed for body’s still working,” Giancroce it is on the bus, or even in the gym and a breakout season before it was taken said. “I wasn’t sure what it was the locker room … the amount of joy you from her in an instant. going to look like, but I don’t think I get watching somebody DANA Duckworth left her visit to the ever had any doubt that I was going else succeed, I’m going Giancroce household impressed by to come back.” to miss that the most.” DDUCKWORTHUCKWORTH the toughness that Robert, Angelina’s Now Duckworth said Giancroce is father and the patriarch of what she doing the best gymnastics of her life. “They don’t want it to end,” called a “fiery Italian family,” instilled She said the same about Armbrecht, RESILIENCY – Both Guerra and Giancroce coach Dana Duckworth said. “Now in his three daughters. who became the first gymnast in have recovered physically, their bodies hurt. Your It paid off during Giancroce’s program history to receive from severe injuries in senior year, you’re 22 years old recovery, as she learned more about their careers to be key doing this sport. It’s not easy, but who she was, how to gain more members of this year’s they are trying to squeeze every bit confidence in herself and how team. CW/ Hannah Saad of gymnastics out of the next [nine] weeks... and that is so inspiring.” Before Guerra enrolled at Alabama, there was doubt about whether she would ever compete at the collegiate level due to four back fractures she sustained during high school. Duckworth, upon seeing

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