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Beards & Men’s basketball holds on 10 personal ad and see them banter preferred. in overtime against Vols printed in the CW *Personals should be no more than 140 characters and are subject to editing Monday, February 7, 2011 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 117, Issue 80 Details about Witt’s race e-mail emerge By Jonathan Reed Tau Delta a second-year graduate stu- ‘Come here, boy.’” the slur was not the only per- around 2 p.m. on Saturday, Managing Editor fraternity dent in public administration, Zimmerman said he son who witnessed the inci- informing students that these [email protected] house verbal- was walking home from work walked away and called Brice dent, he said. incidents will not be tolerated, ly harassed at the Crossroads Community Miller, assistant director of “Only one person said any- University spokesman Bill An e-mail sent by UA a student, Center around 4:25 p.m. Friday the Crossroads Community thing, but there were other McDaniel said. President Robert Witt to stu- according to when someone shouted at him Center, and then called the people in the building who “Witt just wanted to address dents Saturday addressing con- UA adminis- from inside the house, he said. University of Alabama Police didn’t respond, who I assume the incident that happened, cerns about a racial slur was trators. “I heard ‘nigger,’ so natu- Department and filed a police to be just as guilty as he was,” so he said what he felt like he prompted by a Friday incident in Justin rally I turned around,” he said. report. he said. which someone inside the Delta Zimmerman, Justin Zimmerman “After he said ‘nigger’ he said The individual who shouted Witt e-mailed students See INCIDENT, page 6 President’s Campus fi lm fest in full swing remarks get By Ashley Chaffin [email protected] Staff Reporter Campus MovieFest mixed views returned to campus for the fourth time on Feb. 1 and By Will Tucker saw the biggest turnout ever News Editor from Alabama students. [email protected] More than one hundred teams picked up all the nec- In the wake of the campus-wide e-mail direct- essary equipment from the ly from University President Robert Witt, stu- Ferguson Center to make a dents turned to social media sites like Twitter five-minute film last week. and Facebook as rumors spread Saturday about Lindsay Malone, the the events surrounding an incident Friday night graduate assistant for stu- involving a racial slur. With very few details dent affairs at the Ferguson given by Witt in the e-mail, students had to Center, said she believes this arrive at their own conclusions about what hap- year’s promotions campaign pened. headed by the Ferguson Justin Zimmerman, a second-year graduate Center contributed to the student in public administration, said he thought large turnout. the e-mail didn’t do enough to fully address the “We were working really issue. University administrators confirmed on hard on promoting it and Sunday that Zimmerman was the victim of the getting it out to most of the racial slur that prompted the e-mail. campus,” she said. “Students “I am very grateful for the helpfulness and are also starting to realize the apologies I’ve gotten from Dr. Nelson, Dr. that it’s a really fun event Hudson and Dr. Pruitt, but the e-mail that Dr. and something for them to Witt sent was disappointing,” Zimmerman said. take pride in.” “It didn’t really get the whole situation, and it Since Campus MovieFest didn’t explain what happened and the perpetra- started on Feb. 1, it has been tors.” a busy week for everyone SGA President James Fowler said he agrees involved. Henry Busby, a with the statement President Witt sent out at 2 junior majoring in telecom- p.m. Saturday. munication and film, partici- “I join Dr. Witt in reinforcing our commu- pated in Campus MovieFest nity values and emphasizing that this kind of both this year and last year, behavior is totally unacceptable,” he said in an when his team’s film was e-mailed statement. “Our goal as an SGA this nominated for best comedy. Busby said the most dif- See WITT, page 2 ficult part of the week is scheduling times when the members of the cast and crew can all meet to work SPORTS in brief on the film. The time com- mitment mostly depends on the participants, ranging Kouandjio signs with Alabama from an afternoon to weeks or even months of planning By Jason Galloway before MovieFest begins. Sports Editor “As film students, we like [email protected] to use it as a way to chal- lenge ourselves within the Cyrus Kouandjio, time constraints,” he said. rated the No. 1 offen- “With only a week, there’s sive tackle in the coun- CW | Drew Hoover not room for anything to go try, said in a Facebook Producer Josh Sahib of Group Purple Rain directs actors David Smith and Elizabeth Walston as actor Bill Friedman and wrong.” status that he will keep cinematographer Wayne Rau look on in the basement of Gorgas Library on Wednesday Feb. 2. Group Purple Rain is the family together and creating a movie called 28 Pages Later for Campus Movie Festival. See FEST, page 3 attend the University of Alabama next season. Kouandjio has sent his letter of intent to Alabama. State funding cuts loom for UA system “Thanks for all the love and support from Cyrus Kouandjio the state of Alabama,” By William Evans and with growing enrollment and ris- Kouandjio said in his Anna Kate Delavan ing tuition. He added that admin- Facebook status. “I love all the new relationships The Crimson White istrators have not yet discussed I have made throughout this process.. but at the if a tuition increase would be the end of the day.. ima keep the fam together and I BIRMINGHAM — The University proper solution. must say…. ROLLLLL TTIIIDDDEEE!!!” of Alabama System expects a 10 Hayes displayed an interactive This decision comes after Kouandjio said percent cut in state funding for graphic from the Chronicle of he would sign with Auburn live on ESPNU on the upcoming year as a result of Higher Education demonstrating National Signing Day. He did not sign his let- federal stimulus money running the change in higher education ter of intent, however, and reconsidered after out. funding between 2008 and 2010. announcing his decision. “It’s a pretty significant loss,” The graphic showed the state of Kouandjio’s brother, Arie, is a freshman at Ray Hayes, UA System vice chan- Alabama has cut 26.1 percent Alabama this year and redshirted his initial cellor for financial affairs, said in of its higher education funding; season for the Crimson Tide. Kouandjio’s father the Board of Trustees meeting Massachusetts is the only state told ESPN on signing day that the decision could Friday. that has slashed funding by a come down to a family vote, but results of such a University of Alabama System larger percentage. North Dakota vote were never revealed. Chancellor Malcom Portera said increased funding for higher Submitted Photo Alabama has the No. 1 recruiting class on the system has been able to make The proposed Alpha Gamma Delta house would rival the President’s Man- Rivals.com and is No. 2 according to ESPN. up for the loss in state revenue See BOARD, page 7 sion in size. cle th ecy is r pa se p a e r today’s paper e today l INSIDE • WEATHER P P l e a Briefs ........................2 Sports ..................... 10 s P.O. 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