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Thursday, March 27, 2008 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 114, Issue 104 Senate committee blocks gun bills BY AMANDA PETERSON Associated Press. Erwin started to work on universities ban guns on cam- Community News Editor The Senate Education the legislation in April 2007, pus like most colleges around Proposed gun bills ■ [email protected] Committee voted down the after a gunman at Virginia the country. bill to allow students to carry Polytechnic Institute killed UA President Robert Witt ■ The state Senate Education Committee voted The hopes of those want- guns on college campuses 32 people. He increased his said his position was some- 3-5 against a bill to allow professors to carry ing to carry guns on campus 2-6. The committee voted 3-5 push after a suicidal gunman where between “adamant- guns on college campuses. were shot down Wednesday to block the bill to allow pro- killed five people at Northern ly opposed and hell no” to as a state Senate committee fessors to carry guns. Illinois University and after the gun bills. If the bills had ■ The committee voted 2-6 against the bill that blocked bills by Sen. Hank With the exception of Trip the deaths of two students passed the committee and the would have allowed some students to carry Erwin, R-Montevallo, to allow Pittman, D-Daphne, who at Auburn University and the Legislature, he said he would guns. professors and some students voted for the bill to let profes- University of North Carolina. have asked the UA attorneys ■ Sen. Erwin proposed the bills as a reaction to to carry guns on college cam- sors carry guns, the bills were “If the state feels like you’re to explore every possible ave- puses. largely voted down along qualified to carry in your own nue to keep guns off campus. the recent shootings on college campuses. “I gave it my best shot, and party lines. Republicans hometown, why would you “If there was a legal way the committee, represent- mostly supported the bills not be able to carry on a col- to block it, we would,” Witt which lobbies on behalf of Stone said he thinks the cam- ing the people of Alabama, and Democrats opposed lege campus?” Erwin told The said. Alabama’s 13 public uni- puses already have great tools said no,” Erwin said after them. Four members of the Crimson White in February. The Alabama Higher versities, opposed the bills. the votes, according to The committee did not vote. Alabama’s public Education Partnership, Executive Director Gordon See BILL, Page 2 Engineering Spring rain alleviates drought State needs more rain, students rebuild students want more warmth Engineers Without Borders program looks to help BY STEVEN NALLEY communities locally and internationally Contributing Writer BY WAYNE GRAYSON Assistant Student Life Editor Rain is the bane of a college student’s spring ■ [email protected] break. While unloading lumber and roofing supplies onto what Brittany Young, a fresh- he originally thought to be a vacant lot, Josh Hamilton said he man majoring in com- noticed a lone garage sitting on the property. munications, and Jessica Later, he and the other students with him were told the garage Whitehead, a freshman sitting on that now vacant lot in Greensboro used to have a house majoring in telecommuni- attached to it. cation and film, both went “We were told there had once been a house there before the to Gulf Shores, where the tornado destroyed it just a few days earlier,” he said. “That was weather kept them inside hard for all of us to imagine, and it made us see how much our for a few days of their vaca- efforts were needed.” tion. Hamilton, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, and the “It rained two out of the other students with him that day are all part of the UA chapter of seven days,” Young said. “I Engineers Without Borders, a student organization that partners couldn’t go on the beach.” with disadvantaged communities around the world to design However, the state still and implement engineering projects that improve the quality of needs more rain to alle- life in those communities. viate a drought that has Along with the help they provided after the tornado hit in plagued Alabama, Georgia Greensboro late last year, the group has also had the opportunity and other Southeastern to help other communities in Hale County. states for nearly a year. In one project, the group helped improve residential plumb- Kevin Pence, sci- ing in the county. ence operations officer at the National Weather See ENGINEER, Page 3 Service forecast office in Birmingham, said in an e-mail that spring usually brings substantial rainfall, but the spring of 2007 was unusually dry. “Tuscaloosa only received 3.52 inches of precipitation for the three- CW/ April Williams month period of April UA students Trey Johnson, Jamie McAdams, and Leah Blake take advantage of the weather by relaxing through June 2007,” Pence said. “That really put us and studying on the Quad. The state of Alabama is still under its needed amount of rainfall. into a serious drought situ- ation.” Alabama were at D4 until Birmingham and due south, The drought was less State climatologist John about a week ago. that are below 75 percent of severe further east, falling Christy said recent rainfall “We are still under a severe normal, and that’s a big con- to D0 at the Mississippi line, did not end the drought. The drought, and that is main- cern for this time of year.” and Alabama’s drought was National Drought Mitigation ly because of the lingering Christy said Alabama’s worst in the basin between Submitted by Josh Hamilton Center measures droughts effects of the drought last current drought level was D3, Birmingham and the Members of the student organization Engineers Without Borders from D0, or abnormally dry, summer and fall,” Christy or extreme, and Tuscaloosa Georgia line. and residents gather for a group photo after helping with a tornado to D4, exceptional. said. “There are some plac- was at D2, or severe. He also cleanup in Hale County. Christy said parts of es right in the center, say said Georgia was at D3. See SPRING, Page 2 Graduate senator has been a student at UA for 23 years BY DAVE FOLK student majoring in instruc- Rebecca-Rose, as she is bachelor’s degree in English, a Staff Writer tional leadership, has been “I don’t intend to leave; I really don’t have leaving affectionately called by her master’s degree in special edu- ■ [email protected] a proud member of the in the plans.” friends, didn’t apprehend she cation and a master’s degree in Capstone community for 23 would be at the school this educational psychology. She is “National Lampoon’s” Van years and has no intention of — REBECCA-ROSE LUTONSKY long until she switched her also currently in the process of Wilder once accredited college rushing out. SGA senator and graduate student major to education in 1992. proposing her dissertation. as being the best seven years “I don’t intend to leave; I “No, not this long, never in During her time at the of his life. While his tenure at really don’t have leaving in the second term, and the Crimson another championship. a million years did I envision Capstone, much has changed school may be impressive for plans. I want to live here. If Tide was seven years out “I was an engineering major this,” she said. “I realized edu- and she said there has been some, SGA Senator Rebecca- I had to leave I would miss from hanging a 12th National at UAH and I could more eas- cators need a lot of education, especially more progress Rose Lutonsky can easily say everything,” Lutonsky said. Football Championship ily transfer to the University and that’s when I realized it’s recently. that her experience at the When she transferred to the banner. Twenty-three years than to Auburn, plus the foot- going to take a while.” “The vision of 28,000 stu- University has been the best University from the University later,there is a different ball,” she said. “It’s changed Thus far Lutonsky has four dents I really believe will 23 years of her life. of Alabama in Huntsville, Republican president and a lot. To me it seems we have degrees from the University: a Lutonsky, a graduate Reagan was beginning his Tide fans are hungry for more freedoms as students.” bachelor’s degree in French, a See LUTONSKY, Page 2

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Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) will speak about their chose new student leaders White, said he was happy to and with The Scene, and mak- Other students with new recent campaigns, their work in the legislature and the for the OSM after a strenuous find out he was chosen. ing it a lot more appealing to positions include: Drew Gunn status of legislation important to college students on interview process. “I was thrilled. I’m extremely those who may have been dis- as advertising manager for The Monday at 7 p.m. The talk will take place in 221 Bidgood “We have an open appli- honored and proud to say I’m satisfied with it.” Crimson White, Laura Pitts as Hall. UA College Democrats are sponsoring the event. cation process; we advertise going to lead this paper and WVUA 90.7 FM’s newly editor for the Corolla, Nicholas the positions campus wide serve the UA community. It’s chosen station manager, Joe Parker as editor for the Black through The Crimson White,” something I have a lot of pas- Pritchard, a junior majoring in Warrior Review, Katherine Goldwater, Minge to speak on Monday said Paul Wright, the director sion for and I am just really political science, also said he Lorenz as managing editor of Student Media. “The Media excited to take the job,” he was honored to find out he got for the Black Warrior Review, The Honors College, political science department and Planning Board, which is the said. his position. Charles Roberts as editor for Blackburn Institute will welcome former Congressmen governing board of student Craft, currently The CW’s “I was really excited. I have the Southern Historian, Charles Barry Goldwater, Jr. (R-Calif.) and Judge David Minge (D- media, holds the interviews. entertainment editor, also been in radio for five years and Swindle as assistant editor for Minn.,) to campus Monday. We divide it into three parts spoke about his plans for the this is truly my passion,” he the Southern Historian, and Students are invited to attend a discussion with the for- because there are so many upcoming school year. said. “We want to make it more Leah Blake as editor for the mer Congressmen on the role of Congress in policymak- [positions]. They make a “I look forward to taking professional, make it more Marr’s Field Journal. ing and public service at 5:30 p.m. in 310 Bidgood Hall. Seating will be limited to the first 100 attendees. For more information, please contact Gina Miller at gina.l.miller@ ua.edu or 348-5522. about when I was elected to LUTONSKY senate. It was someone I had Continued from Page 1 to meet. She is someone who is always positive and really GSS announces appreciation week become a reality and we will brightens any situation, just National Graduate and Professional Students be much more a global com- a joy to be around,” said SGA Appreciation Week is March 31 to April 4. The University’s munity,” she said. President-elect Cason Kirby. Graduate Student Services has been planning events and Another thing Lutonsky Carolyn Fulmer, the SGA activities for the week. Planned events focus on academic said has changed is the office manager, has known and professional development as well as leisure activities emphasis on academics. her since she began as a sen- for graduate and professional students to participate in for “The stress on academics ator and said it has always the week. with our academic scholars been a joy. One of the feature events will be a networking seminar [has changed]. The campaigns “It certainly has been titled “Get off the Bench: Learn the Art of Networking.” for academic excellence have a pleasure to get to know The presenter for this seminar will be Beverley Brooks improved,” Lutonsky said. Rebecca-Rose,” Fulmer said. Major, director of the Forever LSU campaign for LSU. Lutonsky decided to get “She certainly has been an The event will be held March 31 at 2 p.m. in the Riverside more involved helping out asset to the SGA she embel- Community Center. the University when she ran lishes and enhances the SGA On April 4, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Graduate Student for senate six years ago. because of her extensive Services will hold its annual Graduate and Professional “Actually, Melissa Medlin knowledge.” Student Appreciation Banquet at the Four Point Sheraton approached me and asked if Current SGA President R.B. Hotel. The cost is $12 for students and $17 for guests. I would run for SGA senator Walker said he thinks she is Tickets are available at www.crimsonartstickets.com. because there weren’t enough one of the hardest workers he If there are any questions about these events, contact grad students running to fill knows. Tiffany Muse by e-mail at [email protected] or call 348- the seats,” Lutonsky said. “She is one of the most 2836. Since then she has run, and compassionate people I won, an unprecedented six know and she is a selfless times for SGA Senate. Part of senator for the students in QUOTE OF THE DAY the reason she has been in the grad school and all stu- senate for six years is the typi- dents,” Walker said. “She is cally low interest in graduate always the first in line to offer “We appreciate the senator’s desire to make sure school senate seats. help and I don’t think she has that we have campus security as a high priority. “There have been other ever missed an office hour.” people but there have never Lutonsky said she has loved We just don’t think that’s the proper approach to been more candidates than her time in the SGA and sees seats,” she said. it only getting better. Those in the SGA who “I think it will continue to take.” CW/ Emily Rowe —Gordon Stone, executive director of the Alabama Higher know her have nothing but be a mechanism for student compliments for the long- expression of student needs UA graduate student and SGA senator Rebecca-Rose Lutonsky stands Education Partnership, on the defeat of Sen. Hank Erwin’s term senator. that I really believe will move beside the SGA emblem, an organization she has worked with for six bill that would allow concealed carry on college campuses. “Rebecca-Rose Lutonsky is this university forward,” she years. Lutonsky has been a student at the University for 23 years and See “Senate committee blocks gun bill,” one of the first people I heard said. has four degrees from the University. Page 1. being above average, at aver- affected areas, he said. to Gulf Shores for spring The Crimson White is ... SPRING age or below average. Some UA students said break, said winters were Continued from Page 1 ■ Mike Faulk - editor, ■ Will Nevin - opinions editor, “There is no signal leaning they welcomed the warmer shorter, and she remem- one way or the other,” Pence spring temperatures. bered snow in March when [email protected], 348-8049 [email protected] “The last couple of weeks said. “However, I believe it is Nikkalus Merritt, a fresh- she was younger. ■ Jessie Patterson - manag- ■ Matt Ferguson - chief copy have not been very wet in better than an outlook call- man, said that the weather She also said, however, she ing editor, [email protected]. editor, [email protected] that basin,” Christy said. “In ing strictly for a good chance was “way off.” welcomed warmer weather. edu ■ Corey Craft - entertain- both states, the southern of below normal rainfall.” “In January, it’ll be 70- “I get really excited when ■Megan Honeycutt - assis- ment editor, [email protected] parts of the states are in bet- Pence also said the out- something one day and 30- springtime comes, because ter shape.” look called for above average something the other day, I really hate cold weather,” tant managing editor, ■ Phil Owen - assistant Pence said the NWS 2008 temperatures, and global and it’ll be really crazy,” he Whitehead said. “I feel like megan. entertainment editor, Spring Outlook indicated warming creates more severe said. everyone’s in a better mood [email protected] [email protected] rainfall had equal chances of droughts and more drought Whitehead, who also went when it gets warmer.” ■ Matt McLeod - design edi- ■ Dan Sellers - sports tor, [email protected] editor, [email protected] proper approach to take.” any of our campuses,” Stone in Alabama. ■ Breckan Duckworth ■ Ryan Wright - assistant BILL Stone said Erwin’s inten- said. “Barring that, I think it - assistant design editor, sports editor, [email protected]. Continued from Page 1 tion was to do what he could David Lanoue, a UA politi- depends if Sen. Erwin wants [email protected] edu to protect UA students, but cal science professor, said to keep running with this or if ■ Amanda Peterson - ■ Charity Scott - student life and procedures for safety. there was not much indica- the bills started as a reaction someone else wants to pick it community news editor, editor, [email protected] “We appreciate the sena- tion of support because it did to violence on campuses, up,” Lanoue said. not even make it out of com- so the bill probably will not [email protected] ■ Wayne Grayson - assistant tor’s desire to make sure that we have campus security as mittee. come up again unless there Information from The ■ James Jaillet - assistant student life editor, wayne. a high priority,” Stone said. “We don’t have a crime or is another campus shoot- Associated Press was used in community news editor, [email protected] “We just don’t think that’s the safety issue that is extreme on ing or if something happens this report. 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BY VALERIE CASON through all the hype to know managing properties.” Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt “She’ll be out on Monday Contributing Writer if now is the time to buy a If you go... “Once a month, we have a Maddox spoke at a recent evening to speak about an home,” Hinton said. meeting or speaker about real meeting, and students had the hour,” Drummond said. The Rho Epsilon real estate Hinton has been in the real What: “In Pursuit estate,” Drummond said. opportunity to have talk with Hinton will present her fraternity will host Iris Hinton estate business for 12 years The Rho Epsilon meeting him during the reception fol- seminar for first time home- to present “In Pursuit of the and has been the broker of the American from 6:45 p.m. until 7 p.m. is lowing, she said. buyers from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. American Dream — First Time owner of Remax Partners for Dream — First open to all interested in learn- Drummond said the April She has previously spoken to Home Buyers Seminar.” 10 years. ing more about real estate. Rho Epsilon networking event classes and groups about the Hinton will speak to stu- “I enjoy sharing that knowl- Time Home Buyers Recent Rho Epsilon meetings will include a dinner in the real estate business to answer dents about the issues that edge with new buyers,” Hinton Seminar” have included learning activi- Alston Hall parlor. questions students have con- first time homebuyers some- said. “I think there is a great When: March 31 at ties and hosted speakers from “It will be an opportunity cerning real estate. times face, and give advice for need for that, especially with a variety of businesses. for students to meet people Drummond said there is a students or faculty members the new programs out there.” 6:30 p.m. At one meeting, a who are actually hiring in lot more to real estate than on March 31 at 6:30 p.m. in 13 The Rho Epsilon real Where: 13 Bidgood Birmingham-based publish- real estate,” Drummond said. just buying and selling homes, Bidgood Hall. estate fraternity is sponsored Hall ing and marketing company “We try to choose successful so the information should Hinton said her knowledge by the Alabama Center for president demonstrated cut- people who are not only well- help students. will help listeners determine Real Estate, led by Sandra ting-edge technical mar- known but respected.” “First time home buying is how much their mortgage Drummond. network with professionals in keting tools for attendees. Drummond said she asked very scary, and it’s good to may cost or whether they are Rho Epsilon is open to all the real estate business. Speakers from develop- Hinton to speak after she came have that information before ready to start paying a mort- undergraduate students, “It is a professional orga- ment, leasing, construction to the Rho Epsilon commercial you start out,” Drummond gage. graduate students and alumni nization for students and and marketing shared infor- conference in Birmingham. said. Her seminar will “give to provide assistance in transi- faculty who are interested mation with attendees at a [attendees] tools and knowl- tioning into real estate careers in real estate,” Drummond recently developed shop- edge to help them make and have the opportunity said. “It promotes education ping center during an on-site informed decisions and cut to participate in events and in terms of real estate and meeting, Drummond said. T-Town During the project, projects and are planning to encourages other students to Hamilton said some of the visit Vietnam for another next join the club, which is open ENGINEER children in the area came up summer. to all majors and not just Continued from Page 1 Tanning to him and other members Ynhi Thai, a junior major- those within the engineering and told them their parents ing in chemical engineering, department. Hamilton, who is also the wouldn’t allow them to play is the project leader for the “The reason we do this is president of the club, said he on the field or the play- Vietnam project. She said she simple,” Hamilton said. “We remembered fixing one fami- grounds and basketball court has been in charge of plan- see a need in the community ly’s plumbing in particular. nearby because they were too ning the trip and has set up that we can meet, so we do it. $24.99 The family’s water had dangerous. a prospectus outlining what Our goal as a group is to help been cut off due to a prob- The group cleaned up the group will do there. those who are unable to help lem in their plumbing and broken glass off of the bas- According to the prospec- themselves.” Unlimited tanning the city only fixes problems ketball court as well as fixed tus, the group plans to help Those interested in join- between the water meter and the dugouts on the baseball construct a bridge for a rural ing can contact Hamilton at the distribution, Hamilton on any bed for field, which were falling in, village in the Mekong Delta [email protected]. said. Problems like this, Hamilton said. Region of the country. which occur between the The group’s local projects “Currently, many bridges in one month water meter and the house, the Delta are simply long tree are the homeowners’ respon- manager and vice president, Good thru December 31st. branches thrown together,” sibility. James Elder, is in charge of Thai said in the prospectus. , “One of the families that these local projects. *Including 20 minute 10 minute “These are flimsy, unsafe and we helped fix their water, Elder, a junior majoring unstable, especially during stand-up and 12 minute bronzing beds. the husband had just gotten in mechanical engineering, out of the hospital,” he said. said the next large project he unfavorable weather condi- “They couldn’t get out there is currently planning for the tions. A properly engineered All lotions priced or and dig a hole and fix it and group is to build a baseball bridge will provide a sustain- 20% they certainly didn’t have the field in Sumter County. able solution to the villagers’ money to pay someone to fix He said his favorite project daily living challenges, allow- more off on retail it.” so far has been the tornado ing villagers easier access to Hamilton said the job cost cleanup. food and supplies.” approximately five or ten dol- “Seeing families and how Thai said she has recently lars to fix the family’s water. appreciative they were was applied for a $3,000 service 205.750.8818 For another project in very rewarding,” he said. grant that will go toward the Greensboro, the group However, the club doesn’t trip. She said building the 623 Hargrove Rd. restored a run-down baseball concentrate solely on local bridge alone will cost about Intersection of Hargrove and field to make it safe for chil- projects. 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The real I like beer. Actually, I love Hughes; you know I was In an ironic twist, I see beer. I love its flavor, its color, really worried about that Hughes as the one who its bite and even its history. Budweiser I had last night needs repairing. This poor Wars have been fought over THE sending me spiraling over man has never experienced the stuff. The Puritans even SEMICOLON the edge into eternal damna- the joy at winning the final China brewed it when they landed BANDIT tion, because surely the fact round of a beer pong tour- This summer, Beijing, China will sparkle and at Plymouth Rock, because that I drink is the sole thing nament, or hearing that they distrusted the water. So that is going to send me to song you sing with your gleam as the eyes of the world will be watching the understandably I get a little hell. 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The streets will be JON PAYNE friends when you are tipsy bent out of shape when peo- My issue with Hughes’s but never listen to when you clean, and only the nation’s best will be on display. ple discredit it as a disease statement is that while he are sober. For that, I feel bad Chinese leaders want to use the event to showcase plaguing our society, or as a reasons such as addiction, says he is not condemn- self medication and finding for him. the country as a modern and major player on the form of dependency to help ing anyone, he is perfectly me cope with every single an outlet to deal with stress happy to label drinkers as Drinking is not a sin, peo- global stage. as reasons for drinking. ple—not remembering what But for the past week or so, a very different China emotional problem thrown social degenerates. No, he at me in my daily life. Everything that came out of never said it directly, but you did, where you are, how has come under scrutiny after the country’s vio- I drink because I like to this man’s mouth was nega- again, according to him, the you got there and who you lent response to riots in Tibet, a region that China drink. I drink to celebrate tive about drinking (I guess I only reasons people drink are sleeping next to is the has always viewed as its own. While reports differ, life with good friends. I don’t shouldn’t be so shocked). are to cope with a problem sin. And lest I be judged as a somewhere between 80 and 140 people have died in drink because I am a self- I must admit that I was a or because they are addicted. hypocrite, in this particular the crackdown against the opposition to the ruling deprecating beer addict in little chagrined upon hear- It sounds like he is speak- case I have sinned an egre- need of a nightly fix. This, ing this, but I chalked it up ing about meth abusers here, gious amount. regime. to another uppity Southern This should come as no surprise. China has always however, is what the tee- and we all know how they are I drink, and I am confi- totaler that came to cam- Baptist speaking of things he looked down upon. dent in my drinking ratio- had a poor record when it comes to human rights pus thinks. As many of you has no desire or patience to There is no denying that nale. People that think and civil liberties. Its state-run media acts as a probably know, Bill Hughes comprehend. However, I was Hughes was a good speaker, that drinking is somehow mouthpiece for the Communist Party, and we all came to campus preach- quite shocked to read the but as I listened to him, I had going to affect their spiri- remember the tragic images from the Tiananmen ing the word from the Good quote in Wednesday’s The the dawning realization that tual standing with a higher Square protests of 1989. Those protests, squashed Book about the dangers of Crimson White. Hughes was this man looks down his nose power just need to chill out like those of today, left hundreds dead. drinking. In his eyes, I drink cited as saying, “Although he at me. Hughes thinks that and, well … have a beer. Options to curb China’s actions are limited. Military because I have a problem. As does not drink himself, he I have a problem because to what this mysterious and does not intend to condemn I drink. He sees me as a Jon Payne is an anthropology action is out of the question unless China turns its enigmatic problem might be, drinkers to hell or label human in need of repairing, graduate student. His column attention to Taiwan, an ally the United States has he explained all during his them sinners.” and once I am repaired I can always said it will protect in the event of a main- pseudo-“sermon.” He gave Well, thank you very much rejoin normal society. runs biweekly on Thursdays. land attack. We cannot sanction China economically because they are too important of a player in the world’s marketplace. Any attempt to do so would harm an already fragile U.S. economy. The one weapon the world has against China at this point is a threat to boycott the Olympics. Chinese leaders have idolized the Olympics as a way to show off their country as a new superpower. If a boycott gained enough strength, it could damage the legitimacy of the Games, and it would certainly leave Chinese leaders fuming. That anger, however, could be redirected at dissidents, so a boycott would most likely be counterproductive. China should have never been given the Olympics in the first place. A country so afraid of democ- racy and the free rights of its citizenry should not be allowed to trumpet itself before the world as a pristine beacon. It was a mistake to give the Chinese government this opportunity to showcase itself, but it is now a mistake we cannot correct. The Olympics will go on as planned in China. But we must remember just underneath all the glamour and splendor lurks the same repressive, totalitarian government that has always been there.

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York Sun recently wrote, he UWire Letters to the Editor has a voting record that is consistently more liberal Student’s family offers than even Sens. Ted Kennedy thanks and Bernie Sanders. He wants to be presi- The family of Stephen dent of the United States, N. Catanzaro would like to Looking back at the war in Iraq the same country that his thank Stephen’s Southern spiritual mentor and book family at the University of inspiration Jeremiah Wright BY CHARLES LONG whom I believed would hold as they murdered their own Many around the world Alabama, Bessemer Police curses, and the same nation their government account- citizens and shaken our head would say we have gotten Department officer Richard that his wife Michelle said I must confess that in the able for the incredible cost in dismay at the ineptitude what we deserve. But we can Jaynes, Greenwich Police recently that she was proud beginning I supported the our country has incurred after of the fledgling Iraqi govern- hardly look into the faces of Department Sgt. Louis of for the first time in her war. I didn’t care about weap- five years of war: nearly 4,000 ment as they consistently fail our wounded veterans and Pannone and all of their fel- adult life. ons of mass destruction. I dead Americans; tens of thou- to do anything to make their their families and the fami- low officers who helped us at He gives an impassioned didn’t care about Al-Qaeda sands wounded; many, many new country work. But how lies of those whose loved ones our time of need. plea to end racial divides connections. I didn’t care more Iraqi civilians killed; many of us have looked into will never come home and Thank you to the thou- yet attends a church that about international law or trillions of taxpayers’ dollars the mirror and asked our- tell them they got what they sands of people who pro- says it is “Afrocentric” and even about “truth, justice and wasted and America’s reputa- selves, “did we really confront deserved. vided us with the warmest “unapologetically black.” the American way.” I wanted tion in the eyes of the world the serious consequences of We’ve asked so much and strongest of hugs, and Add in the fact that the same Saddam Hussein gone. I hated tarnished. going to war and causing all more of them than we will to those who called, cooked, church bestowed honor on him and how he had humili- I can see clearly how this suffering”? ever expect of ourselves. We sent gifts and carried us Louis Farrakhan and seri- ated our country ever since Congress and the military So here we are five years must pay our debt to them through the most difficult of ous questions arise. Yes, the the first George Bush had let were cowed into complacency later asking ourselves, “How and we have to start by look- times. same man who said Adolf him stay in power after the by the anger of the American does this end?” “How do ing into that mirror and ask- Thanks to our family and Hitler was a great man and Gulf War. He was evil, and he people after the horror of we get ourselves out of this ing the one looking back at extended family that came to Judaism is a gutter religion. had to go. September 11, 2001. We were mess?” “What will be the ulti- us, “Have I demanded from us from all over the country, He rants and raves about I did not put my trust in all angry and scared after 9/11 mate cost of this terrible war?” my leaders that they make the solidifying a family bond and “change,” yet nothing in his the Bush administration but and wanted someone to pay. I wish I had the answers. But hard choices I elected them to giving us strength, hope and, policy sounds remotely new. in the Congress whose over- In the face of this mass hyste- more importantly, I wish I had make? Have I obliged them to above all, love. He would not hesitate to sight responsibility should ria for revenge, too few of our asked these questions and answer the questions I have carry out unilateral strikes in have ensured that the war political and military leaders demanded the answers from the right to expect before I Harry, Patty, Beth and Paul Pakistan. Apparently change was conducted in accordance had the courage to oppose the our national leaders, before I give them my vote? Or will I Bryant in Obama’s case is different with American and interna- popular will and many who joined the tide of sentiment just listen to their speeches Greenwich, Conn. leader, different country, but tional law, and a little com- did paid with their careers. that carried us all into this and cheer as they tell me what same results. mon sense. We all acted with outrage morass. I want to hear? Obama nothing more than Obama is a well educated I also put my trust in the when we saw those pictures War is a terrible thing. Will I be happy in the years a contradiction man and is one of the most professional military officers from Abu Ghraib prison and Throughout our nation’s his- to come with the choice I’ve eloquent political speakers with whom I had served to not have recoiled in horror as tory we have found ourselves made or I will once again find As I hear the praise roll in recent memory. However, allow their political masters we’ve watched the bloody compelled to fight to protect myself standing here, starring in from all corners towards his words, while eloquent, once again to take our coun- scenes of bombings on the that which is most dear to us, into the mirror and know- Barack Obama, it makes me are empty and riddled with try down the path into a war nightly news from Iraq. We’ve our families and our freedom. ing I let those brave men and pause when I see the man of contradictions. they were ill prepared to fight all felt our anger rise as we But this war we chose to fight women down once again?” contradictions he truly is. or win, as they had done just a learned how our wounded vet- and we did it for the most Obama tries to paint him- Zane Willingham generation before in Vietnam. erans have been neglected by base of reasons, to prove to Charles Long is a gradu- self as a moderate. Actually, Sophomore, political But worst of all, I put my the military they served. We’ve ourselves we were still the ate teaching assistant in the as Ken Blackwell of the New science, history trust in the American people, all cursed the Iraqi insurgents “baddest dog on the block.” department of geography.

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Students interested in a U.S. State Department career are invited to hear Foreign Service Officer Greg Morrison today at 4 p.m. in 360 Ferguson Center. Morrison has recently served in Armenia and Syria, and his next appoint- ment will be in Central America. After his presenta- tion, students will have the opportunity to ask ques- tions about preparing for and successfully winning a State Department position. CW/ Alex Gilbert This program is sponsored Charlotte Morgan eyes a pitch during the Crimson Tide’s game against the UAB Blazers Tuesday night. by the International Honors Program and Capstone Brittany Rogers. from the clean-up hitter to The pleasant surprise for Junior Allison Moore and International. BY WILL BARRY Senior Sports Reporter Rogers is batting a remark- the bottom continues a mix- the Tide this year has been Sophomore Alex Blewitt

■ [email protected] able .505 for the season with ture of speed and power. the power and play of the have come in multiple times Week to culminate 49 hits, 10 RBIs, 42 runs In the middle of the lineup freshmen. throughout the season to The No. 2 Alabama scored and is 35 for 38 in for Alabama is sophomore Whitney Larsen had a lot help the Tide with any gaps with ceremony Crimson Tide softball team stolen bases. Charlotte Morgan, whose of experience in high school in the lineup. is one of the best teams in Rogers is the jump-start- power at the plate was on as a lead-off hitter, but has “Probably in January, The 2008 Capstone the nation this year and only er for the Tide’s offense by display last weekend against transitioned in college to be when we have a rainy day or Creed Week Culminating looks to get better in hopes leading the team in on-base Kentucky, getting her the a great boost near the end of a cold day and we practice, Ceremony will be April 4 of making another run at a percentage, getting on base SEC Player of the Week. the lineup for Alabama. I have a sheet that explains at 3:30 p.m. in the Shelby World Series ring. .564 percent of the time. Morgan is hitting .398 on She is hitting .264 for the what every spot in the line- Hall courtyard. Winners of Alabama has swung its Junior Kelley Montalvo is the season and is tied for season with 19 hits, 20 RBIs up, what their role is, what the Capstone Creed Week way to a 28-3 overall record next up for the Tide, batting second on the team in hits and six homeruns. their duty is and what their art and essay contests will and has a 9-2 mark in the .417 on the season with 35 with 35. Her freshman teammate goal is,” Murphy said. be announced. The 2008 SEC. hits, 28 RBIs, four homeruns She leads the team in RBIs Cat Dozier has also shown “And we go through one Capstone Heroes will be The Tide’s success can be and a .541 on-base percent- with 38 and in homeruns a lot of promise this season, through nine and we talk recognized, as well. A recep- attributed to its lineup that age. with seven, while also post- hitting .241 with 7 hits and 3 about being a pinch hitter, tion will be held at the con- is bringing in more than 7.4 The 5-foot monster is ing a perfect 6-0 record from RBIs in limited plate appear- we talk about being a pinch clusion of the ceremony. runs per game. starting to be considered the mound. ances. runner and what we want among the best third base- Senior Dani Woods is in Head coach Patrick In most programs, players out of everybody that gets men in the country with her the middle of the lineup, Contra dancers to host Murphy said the key to hav- are given wiggle room for into the game and prob- ing a lineup that makes stellar play this season. bringing with her a .358 mistakes as freshmen, but ably ... maybe one time all opposing team’s pitchers She was named the batting average along with swing dance for a team that is trying to year I’ll talk about it again, cringe is having a mixture of Louisville Slugger/NFCA 24 hits, 22 RBIs and four be the first SEC team ever to but after that it’s not talked all the right elements. and USA Collegiate Softball homeruns. The Tuscaloosa Contra win a college softball World about.” Dancers are sponsoring a “I’d say we’re a third speed, National Player of the Week Woods, who usually bats Series, the time for freshman The Tide lineup flexed swing dance April 5 at Forest a third power and a third for the week ending on near Parker and Morgan, mistakes is over. their muscles last weekend Lake United Methodist average hitter and that’s the March 9, for the dominance makes opposing team’s “It takes a little bit [of time] in a double-header against Church, located at 1171 way you want it to look,” she showed in the UAB game pitchers sometimes have to but we’ve told Whitney and the Kentucky Wildcats, tying Fourth Ave. A group lesson Murphy said. and the Tennessee series. face three of the most pow- Cat and Kelsi [Dunne] we’ve the school record for home for beginners will be held “You don’t want to be one- Batting in the three-hole erful hitters in the SEC all in played what? — 31 games from 7:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. sided. You don’t want to be all is another All-American, one inning. now and we don’t consider runs in a game with five in The dance will follow from speed and slap because then junior Lauren Parker, who Junior catcher Ashley them freshmen anymore,” the first game and then hit 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. The sug- you run into a good pitcher. brings power to the lineup Holcombe has been a star Murphy said. six in the second game to gested donations are $5 for And you don’t want to be all after two of the fastest play- on the rise this season, hit- The most versatile batter break the school record. students, $7 general admis- power — same thing. I think ers on the team. ting .319 with 23 hits, 16 in the line up who can be “Whoever’s up to bat has sion and $12 per couple. No we’ve got a good balance of Parker is hitting .410 on RBIs and four homeruns. seen anywhere from batting got to have a better mental experience is necessary and all three.” the season with 25 hits, 27 Junior Kellie Eubanks is second to ninth is junior state and it’s not pressure dancers can come with or The lineup starts with one RBIs and six homeruns in hitting .276 on the season Jordan Praytor. it’s just you want to do it,” without partners. of the fastest, most athletic only 25 games played. with 21 hits, 21 RBIs and four Praytor is hitting .286 for Murphy said. “There’s no For more information, and consistent players in the The Alabama lineup var- homeruns making her a key to the season with 20 hits, 15 pressure on the hitter; it’s visit www.contradancers. nation, junior All-American ies from game-to-game but the end of the batting lineup. RBIs and one home run. more desire than pressure.” org. IN the community Today sFriday dSaturday fSunday gMonday hTuesday 1Wednesday 2 5:30 p.m. — Student 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Ring 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 6 p.m. — Student Recital: 11 a.m. — Masterclass 5:30 p.m. — Student 7:30 p.m. — “40 Years Recital: Colin Choat, Day, Ferguson Student — Art Night at Yoga Bliss, Ariana Arcu, violoncello, Guest Clinic with Recital: Michael Clark, after King: Wilderness percussion, Moody Center Admission is free Moody Recital Hall Rudder, 201 Moody Alto Sax, Moody Recital or Promised Land,” 2nd Concert Hall Music Building Hall Floor Mary Harmon 4:30 p.m. — Prose writer 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. 8 p.m. — Student Recital: Bryant Hall 7:30 p.m. — Concert: The Wendy Rawlings and — Stand Up for Autism, Holly Powe, choral 4 p.m. — Lyric & Spirit SteelDrivers, Tickets: $16, poet Theodore Worozbyt, Bama Theatre Cost: $30 conducting, Moody with Hank Lazer, 205 Bama Theatre 301 Morgan Hall singles/$50 couple Concert Hall Gorgas Library Corey Craft ■ Editor [email protected] Thursday,Entertainment March 27, 2008 6 Visit us online at SteelDrivers come to the Bama www.cw.ua.edu. BY CJ MCCORMICK “A lot of the festival audi- Senior Entertainment Reporter ences really range in age ■ [email protected] from little kids all the way up to grandparents,” Henderson Tonight, Nashville blue- said. “It’s a very diverse audi- FRESHMEN grass up-and-comers The ence, and I think bluegrass SteelDrivers will take the in general has a very broad »Check your bama account stage, marking their first appeal. You know there are performance in the state of the old-timers that like it, and »Open email from [email protected] Alabama. then a lot of younger people The show will begin at 7:30 really seem to be gravitating »Complete survey p.m. and tickets are $16, and toward it. I think that’s largely can be purchased online at because they are looking for »It matters…UA will adjust and improve www.ticketleap.com, at the something that is real, that’s Arts Council office located in not just a concoction that the PARA Building or at the people put together in a stu- box office tonight. dio and then go out on the The band is composed of Submitted by the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County road and try to duplicate. You a group of accomplished ses- The SteelDrivers will be playing at The Bama Theatre tonight at 7:30. know our music is what we sion players who decided to play; our record was record- Help Moe’s form the group for fun. would be someone else going, “Everyone has other things ed live, and I think people “Actually, I put the group ‘You know, I just got a chance that they do, but we are all try- appreciate that.” together, and it was kind to sit down and listen to what ing to make time for this and Henderson said students of a happy accident, I sup- we did last night, and it really to give it the kind of atten- should attend if they are fight inflation! pose,” said Mike Henderson, sounds good.’” tion that it deserves,” he said. interested in having a good a veteran songwriter and After the success of their “Anytime you get five peo- night. the group’s mandolin player. first rehearsal, the group con- ple trying to do something “Just come if you like good “Chris Stapleton, the lead tinued practicing and play- together, there is bound to music and want to have a singer and I, had been writ- ing, which lead to a record be every now and then some good time, because we have ing songs for several years, deal with Rounder Records. little things will come up or a wonderful time on stage, and a lot of them seemed like Since then, the group conflicts where someone’s and it seems to rub off on the they would be well suited for released their self-titled like, ‘Well I really got to do audience,” he said. “We try to a bluegrass treatment. debut album in January; the this other thing,’ but we are keep the ball rolling as much 10% discount to all “So Chris and I talked it album has reached No. 57 on doing our best to try to put as we can.” over and thought it might be the Billboard Country Album this on the front burner.” Bama Theatre Manager fun and a good thing to do, chart. In addition to Thursday’s David Allgood encourages UA students with I.D. and I called the other folks, Henderson said the band concert, the group has many students to come out for the and we got together.” has surpassed his expecta- weekend concert dates set opportunity to listen to some Even after their first prac- tions. up this summer for various seasoned session players. tice together, Henderson said “Everything has really gone outdoor festivals taking place “I think it would be a the band could tell they were much better than we ever across the U.S. on to something good. thought it would,” he said. “The bulk of what we have See BAND, Page 7 “Right from the begin- “We have a great time on ahead of us this summer are ning, it really clicked, and we stage, and we all enjoy play- festivals,” he said. “It will be realized we had something,” ing together. A lot of times two or three days long, and If you go he said. “We recorded the you get in a band, and you they will have lots of bands. rehearsals so we would have like some of the stuff, and the Sometimes you only play Who: The SteelDriv- something to take home and rest of it you just play because once, but usually you play at work on, listen to and prac- you have to, but I like every least twice at different times; ers tice with, and after the first song we play, and I enjoy I think they try to stagger the Where: The Bama rehearsal, the calls started playing them all, and I think lineup, so people get a chance coming in one by one, [say- everyone feels that way.” to see everybody.” Theatre ing,] ‘You know what? This While all the members still Due to the nature of blue- When: Tonight at really sounds good,’ and continue to do other studio grass and outdoor festivals, 7:30 about an hour later I’d get work, they are still able to fully Henderson said his group has ...at the Meadowbrook Shopping Center on McFarland Blvd. another phone call, and it commit to The SteelDrivers. a varied audience. Cost: $16

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For the there, the two begin warring hands-on.” majoring in students of Tom Cherones’s with each other, bringing up Kimmick said taking telecommuni- telecommunication and film some of the old conflicts from Cherones’s class has given her cation and film, class, firsthand experience is childhood. ample opportunites to receive for a part in a Mitchell said he is excited an accurate feel for what becoming a lifestyle for the short film titled next month. about working with other TCF shooting short film is like. The students of Cherones’s majors on this project. “The class has shown me “Ego Break.” class will hold the reins as “Most of us have had class- what to expect once I get producers, editors, directors es together, and we’ve seen into the real working world,” of photography and all other what each other can do on Kimmick said. “I didn’t want roles in the making of a short an individual level,” Mitchell to pass up an opportunity film, and will experience all said. “Now we get to see what to be able to work with Tom three stages of cinematic pro- a collaborative effort will look Cherones, either.” duction: pre-production, pro- like.” duction and post production. Mitchell said working This group is not exclusive, together as a group will be a If you go however. They will be holding positive challenge for the pro- auditions for roles in the film. duction team. What: Auditions for The auditions are open to all “Some projects in other TCF “Ego Break” UA students. classes may have had two or Kristen Kimmick, a senior three people working togeth- Where: 180 Reese majoring in TCF, serves as the er,” Mitchell said. “We’ve never Phifer Hall casting director for the film had to coordinate with a group and is in charge of holding of people this size and work to When: 5 p.m. auditions for the film. accommodate for schedules Thursday and CW/ Alex Gilbert Auditions began Wednesday and personalities.” Friday and will continue today and Kimmick said she loves Friday at 5 p.m. in 180 Reese Phifer Hall. “Someone with a great per- sonality who is open to sugges- tions, but also willing to add to WINNER announced at their own suggestions, should audition,” she said. “Also, peo- UA LIBRARIES the ple auditioning should come ready and relaxed.” 2008 A-DAY GAME! 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Cherones, who has direct- ed episodes of the television shows “Seinfeld,” “NewsRadio” and “Desperate Housewives,” among others, said the pur- pose of the class is to show students that they can succeed in the field of film making. “Confidence is the one thing I stress most to the students in the class,” Cherones said. “I want them to have the confi- dence in themselves that they can be just as successful at filmmaking as anyone.” Cherones earned his mas- ter’s degree in the Capstone’s film program. He said he wants students here in Tuscaloosa to know that they too can become prominent film direc- tors one day. “You don’t have to be from Hollywood or New York to direct,” Cherones said. “You can be from Tuscaloosa, Ala., and succeed just as well.” The short-film is titled “Ego Break,” and some students in the class compared it to the movie “Office Space.” “Ego Break” was written by UA stu- dent Spence Dodson. The film tells the story of BAND Continued from Page 6

chance for them to hear some really great musi- cians,” Allgood said. “They are beyond the usual bluegrass realm, these guys are really good session players and they’ve played on other things besides bluegrass music. They’ve done a lot of country and alt-country, so it would be a chance to hear some really great players. Plus, coming to the Bama is a great expe- rience. It’s the best place in town to hear music.” The show is part of the Bluegrass, Big Bands and More series at the Bama Theatre and is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County and Alabama Public Radio. The SteelDrivers con- sist of Richard Bailey, banjo; Mike Fleming, bass/vocals; Henderson, mandolin/vocals; Tammy Rogers, fiddle/vocals and Chris Stapleton, guitar/ vocals. 8 Thursday, March 27, 2008 ■ SPORTS THE CRIMSON WHITE ■ SPRING FOOTBALL PRACTICE

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■ [email protected] first of three, it will be held at shed what amounts to two- problem that has recurred Arenas hopes to fill the vacan- Run, Fat Boy, Run Bryant-Denny Stadium at 1:30 hand touch mode. since freshman year. All but cy left by Simeon Castille. 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 p.m. and will be closed to the No player is more excited holding his diploma, his light, “The year that [Arenas] got Stop-Loss Practice — as a senior, 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Antoine Caldwell has had public. for unrestrained hitting than one-class spring semester to play behind Simeon and Superhero Movie a lot of it. Which is why his First-year offensive coordi- Jimmy Johns, who made the allows him to spend plenty of learn more, that’s really help- 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 comment about Wednesday’s nator Jim McElwain boosted swap from offense to defense time with the trainers. ing him out,” Rashad Johnson Drillbit Taylor spring practice carries a lot of the offense Wednesday with in the bowl season. The new “There’s always something said. “You can tell that he 1;35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 weight. a pre-practice pep talk about Will linebacker has been nagging, but I haven’t been knows a lot more of what’s Shutter “I felt like today, personally, playing with enthusiasm and an understudy to Rolando held out that much,” Oakley going on than he did in the 1:35, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns was one of the best practices intensity, Caldwell said. McClain, and he’s ready to test said. “I got one more year left fall … He’s really becoming a 1:20, 1:55, 2:30, 4:00, 4:35, 5:10 we’ve had in two or three years “Everybody is taking respon- his new chops, full speed. to try to make the best of it and leader on defense.” 6:50, 7:25, 8:00, 9:30, 10:05, 10:40 since I’ve been here,” Caldwell sibility,” he said. “Everybody “I’m looking forward to it,” stay healthy.” Caldwell said that Charles Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! said. “I think everything is came out excited. Nobody was Johns said. “We’ll see what it’s Oakley said he has been Hoke is settling in at tight 1:25, 2:25, 4:10, 5:15, 6:45, 7;55, 9:35, 10:20 Never Back Down going so much smoother. moping around coming out.” really about Saturday. Right impressed with freshman end. 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:35 Caldwell said he hopes the now it’s just thud, wrap up and wideouts Darius Hanks and “I’ve never seen a guy that’s Last year it was kind of deer 10,000 B.C. in headlights. Everybody was mentality will translate into a let the guy go, but Saturday walk-on Sam Snider. A slot been moved from tight end to 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 scrambling around trying to solid showing for the offense we’re looking to have some receiver, Snider’s consistency offensive line that has taken it College Road Trip figure things out.” Saturday. He said that in his fun.” in practice reminds Oakley of as well as he has,” he said. “He 2:05, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 experience, the first scrim- The senior is competing Wes Welker. hasn’t really complained.” Fool’s Gold Wednesday’s practice 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 marked the fourth in the 15- mage usually belongs to the with Cory Reemer and Charlie Most recognizable for his Taylor Pharr and Drew Davis day spring slate. The team will defense. Higgenbotham for the weak- special teams play, Javier continue to battle for the right practice again Friday before The scrimmage will be full side spot. Arenas is playing opposite tackle position, Caldwell said. Advanced tickets available at www.cobbtheatres.com New inside linebacker Jimmy Johns and Rolando McClain go through drills at a recent prac- tice.

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 THE CRIMSON WHITE CLASSIFIEDS ■ Thursday, March 27, 2008 9 Dan Sellers ■ Editor Sports [email protected] Thursday, March 27, 2008 10 INbrief ■ MEN’S BASKETBALL from wire reports ... Former Alabama line- backer Victor Ellis dies Hendrix will enter NBA Draft at 28 Hendrix not hiring an anyone would like to be, but as much information as he Victor Ellis, a 28-year- it’s all on me. From here on can from different NBA teams old former Alabama line- agent to allow for pos- out, I have to make good before making his decision backer, has died after a sible return to UA choices, and I have 100 per- on whether to remain eligible battle with cancer. cent confidence that I will do for the draft or to return for Ellis died Tuesday night that.” his senior season. Not only may Hendrix’s Alabama head coach Mark at Memorial Hospital in his BY DAN SELLERS athletic career at Alabama be Gottfried said he supports hometown of Chattanooga, Sports Editor coming to an end, his aca- Hendrix’s decision to test Tenn., while surrounded ■ [email protected] demic career is wrapping up the waters. Gottfried said his by family and friends, as well. experience with players who ex-Crimson Tide tailback Alabama’s junior basket- In May, he will become have bolted for the NBA early Ahmaad Galloway told the ball star Richard Hendrix the first basketball player at has shown him exactly who Mobile Press-Register. announced Wednesday that Alabama to graduate within he needs to talk to for the “On behalf of the he will enter his name into three years. He will do so with most accurate projection of University of Alabama the 2008 NBA Draft but will a degree in communications. draft standing. Athletics Department I not hire an agent, which gives On the court, Hendrix was “The [NBA presidents and want to express my deep- him the option to return for his senior season. impressive. He was a con- general managers] making est sympathy and condo- sensus first-team All-SEC the decisions on the draft lences to Victor’s family “As of right now, I do not plan to sign with an agent,” player, averaging 17.8 points don’t want to see a good col- and loved ones,” said Mal and 10.1 rebounds per game. lege player make a bad deci- Moore, Alabama’s director Hendrix said. “I’m going into this procedure with the He was the only player in sion,” Gottfried said. “If they of athletics. “Our thoughts the conference to average a think a guy is a legitimate and prayers are with them greatest hopes and the high- est expectations.” double-double, recording 17 lottery or first-round pick, at this time.” on the season. they’ll tell me that. If they feel Ellis was diagnosed with He said he would like to be projected in the first round “Personally, I’m capable of that it’s in their best interest cancer after developing a playing at a high level and to come back, they’ll tell me persistent cough last sum- before making the decision to stay in the draft, but he can hold my own against that, too. mer. Tumors were found did not say that he would anyone,” he said. “In this “There are people that in his lung and kidney and return to Alabama if he is decision, it’s not always my sometimes get involved with cancerous cells in his chest projected to fall lower in the CW/ Alex Gilbert personal choice. I’m not the opinions that don’t really cavity, pelvis and spine. draft. Richard Hendrix finishes a slam dunk this season. Hendrix declared his one making the picks.” know what a team is think- Galloway started a “That’s a decision I’ll have intentions to enter the NBA Draft Wednesday He cannot participate in ing, but key people within the fundraising drive last fall to make as I’m given more any pre-draft camps until NBA franchises will be very to help Ellis, who served feedback,” he said. “I’m just I have a good opportunity to pick. after he has graduated in May. frank and honest at the right as Alabama’s honorary hoping for the best. I think become a pretty good draft “[The first round] is where After that, he plans to gather time.” captain before last sea- son’s home finale against Louisiana-Monroe. Ellis had been undergo- ■ MEN’S GOLF ing extensive chemothera- py treatments. He played in 40 games for the Tide during 1998- Tide unable to win fourth straight tournament 2001, recording 145 tackles and being named perma- nent team captain. Ellis FROM STAFF REPORTS 10, finishing at 1-over to place among the top 10 individuals 13th at 3-over par, including tied for 28th at 6-over, 77-74- tied for eighth with his scores in all seven tournaments he’s Matthew Swan (74-71-74/219) 71/222, and Joseph Sykora worked in Charlotte, N.C., of 71-73-73/217. played this season. Two of his and Gator Todd (72-71- shot 81-74-71/226 to finish as a regional recruiter for ALPHARETTA, GA. — As all Thompson has finished teammates finished tied for 76/219). Mark Harrell finished tied for 40th at 10-over par. the University’s admis- good things eventually do, sions office. the win streak came to an end Wednesday for the No. 1 ranked Alabama golf team. Country music singer After winning all three of its spring tournaments, the Sara Evans and Jay fourth one was no charm as Barker to wed three of Alabama’s five golfers bogeyed their last holes and Alabama finished third at 8- Country music singer over par at the United States Sara Evans and former Collegiate Championship. University of Alabama The Tide opened the tour- quarterback Jay Barker nament on Monday among announced their engage- a three-way tie for fourth ment on his sports talk at 6-over par on the par 72 show Tuesday, saying they Lakeside Course at the Golf plan to wed this summer. Club of Georgia in Alpharetta, The two, both divorced Ga. with seven children Alabama came back out between them, have been on Tuesday and shot 1-over dating since last year. par to slide into second place “You’re the best I’ve ever and just two shots back of met,” Barker told Evans, Southern California’s lead. speaking by telephone on Alabama led the tournament the morning show Barker briefly on Wednesday after- co-hosts on WJOX-FM. noon after a front nine where “You’re so sweet. I feel it made the turn at 1-over but the same way about you. in the end, despite finishing the round at 1-over, couldn’t Let’s get married,” Evans catch Southern California or said. Oklahoma State who shot 5- The wedding is planned under and 7-under in the final for this summer, they said, round. but neither revealed the Fifth-ranked Southern date. California emerged as the Evans now lives in tournament champions, fin- Nashville, Tenn., but said ishing at even par, 294-387- she wants to move to 283/864 to win among a field Birmingham, where Barker of 15 that included all eight of lives. She has made several the nation’s top eight ranked appearances on the radio teams. It was its second team show in recent months. title this season. The 37-year-old sing- Oklahoma State finished er filed for divorce from second at 3-over, 867. Alabama husband Craig Schelske was third at 8-over, producing in October 2006 after 13 rounds of 294-289-289/872. years of marriage. The At fourth was host Georgia divorce was completed Tech, 875, followed by Florida last September. State, 977, Texas A&M, 881, Barker, 35, led Alabama UCLA, 882, Georgia State, 883, to its last national cham- Georgia, 886, Charlotte, 889, pionship in 1992 and hosts Stanford, 897, East Tennessee a morning radio show in 899, Coastal Carolina, 902, Birmingham. Texas, 916, and Brigham Barker, who also is Young, 920. divorced, has four children Oklahoma State’s Trent Leon held on the lead from round while Evans has three. two to win in the end, shoot- Evans made her record- ing 69-69-70/208 to finish at ing debut in 1997 and her 8-under par, a shot ahead of 2000 album “Born to Fly” his teammate, Rickie Fowler, went double-platinum. and Southern California’s Her hits include “Perfect,” Jamie Lovemark. Lovemark “Suds in the Bucket” and won the 2007 NCAA champi- “Real Fine Place to Start.” onship. She was a contestant on Alabama’s Michael ABC’s “Dancing With the Thompson, the nation’s top- Stars” but pulled out when ranked collegiate golfer, con- she filed for divorce. tinued his stand in the top