UA Graduate Killed in Iraq Got Faith? Former Student Security, a Private Contractor Used by the U.S
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ENTERTAINMENT: UA theatre students go coastal, Page 6 SPORTS: Green Wave washes over Alabama, Page 10 Thursday, June 9, 2005 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Volume 112, Issue 1 City mayoral race heats up Mark Booth, Walter Maddox The Corner Store on Paul “The University provides a Candidates want to and Sammy Watson are all Bryant Drive. lot of jobs and we will be in the develop better campaigning for the office of Booth made his first cam- midst of a unique situation mayor of Tuscaloosa, a posi- paign for the mayor’s office with [UA President Robert economy, keep UA tion that has been all but four years ago and forced Witt’s] drive for increased locked in place for more than DuPont into his only runoff. enrollment,” Booth said. “This grads in town two decades. He is continuing that effort plan will help us by creating Mayor Al DuPont annou- with a focus on bringing high more commerce because By SAMANTHA HALL nced earlier this year he paying jobs to Tuscaloosa. His more students will be looking Senior Staff Reporter would retire after 24 years as Mark Booth Walter Maddox Sammy Watson slogan, “A new direction for for a place to live, work and be the city’s top elected official, Tuscaloosa”, encompasses his entertained.” All three have lifelong ties and speculation began imme- belief that leadership in the Booth acknowledged that to the community, all three diately about who would run the open. and Business Administration. city must bring in better pay- more students could mean believe they can relate to the for the office. While anyone Mark Booth is a Tuscaloosa Booth has since worked in ing jobs – such as high-tech increased tensions with per- concerns of college students interested still has until July native who graduated from real estate; he has owned industries – to bring more res- manent Tuscaloosa residents. and all three want the votes 19 to qualify as a candidate for the Capstone with a bache- both commercial and resi- idents in. Booth said this effort Booth said he would work of students in the municipal office, these men are already lor’s degree from the Culver- dential properties in the area can also be built through the elections Aug. 30. putting their platforms out in house College of Commerce and is the former owner of University. See MAYOR, Page 5 UA graduate killed in Iraq Got faith? Former student Security, a private contractor used by the U.S. government Study shows however, finding the right reli- education do have other strong gunned down that focuses on physical and gious group and activities is connections to religion, the study personal security. high interest in key. shows. while working for Despite repeated efforts, More than 80 percent of incom- Bryant said 79 percent of those Blackwater spokesman Chris spirituality among ing or relatively new college surveyed said they believe in a security firm Bertelli could not be rea- students are interested in spiri- higher being and 81 percent had ched for comment. Patrick college students tuality, according to a UCLA attended worship services. By LORI CREEL Weaver, Jaichner’s friend and Higher Education Institute Additionally, 83 percent said Senior Staff Reporter By NICK BEADLE nationwide survey of 112,000 they believed life is sacred and 64 Sgt. Thomas W. Jaichner former business partner, said Jaichner was on the roof Summer Editor students at 236 colleges – public, percent said spirituality was a Friends and family are of a Ramadi building doing private and religious – taken late source of joy for them. mourning the death of a 33-year-old counter surveillance when he was Students come to college last summer and fall. Bryant said a future follow-up UA graduate who was killed in Iraq shot and killed by a sniper. looking for a lot of things: The Capstone did not partici- study will measure how those stu- last month. Jaichner began working for knowledge, love, a career, beer. pate in the study. dents’ religious values and belief Sgt. Thomas W. Jaichner – known to Blackwater about a year ago after But are they looking for God? That does not necessarily changed over time and try to friends as “Jake”, “Tommy” or “Bama” spending time in Afghanistan during According to a University of mean that the vast majority of determine what changed them. – was killed May 10 by sniper fire Operation Enduring Freedom as part California, Los Angeles, study college students are looking for Bryant said if that study’s while on a security mission protecting of the 20th Special Forces Group of released in late April, the religion when they enter col- results are anything like a pilot an American diplomat in Ramadi, the Alabama National Guard. answer is “Sort of.” lege, said Alyssa Bryant, a follow-up study conducted in Iraq. He was finishing his third At the Capstone, where the research analyst for the study. 2003, students religiousness will deployment working for Blackwater See JAICHNER, Page 3 campus and area is coated She said the survey defines drop but they will have integrated with mostly Christian church- “spirituality” as a student’s their spirituality more into their es, many students say religion interest in attaching meaning or daily lives. That study used 3,500 plays a peripheral role in their purpose to their life. students at 46 colleges originally lives. But students who have SGA could create For other UA students, recently ventured into higher See FAITH, Page 2 attorney general have SGA attorneys general. Carroll, other officials If necessary, Carroll said, the to discuss chief law Capstone’s SGA could take a spin on the job of attorney general at other enforcement position schools to make it work at UA by pro- viding “services to students that other- By LORI CREEL wise will not be there.” Senior Staff Reporter An attorney general’s job at each of those universities varies vastly from At an executive retreat this week- school to school, said R.B. Walker, an end, SGA President Mary Margaret SGA Executive Advisory Board mem- Carroll and other SGA officials plan to ber who is involved in researching the discuss the possibility of adding an position. Some attorneys general attorney general position to the stu- have mostly legislative responsibili- dent government as part of their ties, while others have duties in a stu- agenda for the next year. dent government’s judicial branch. Carroll said the idea is still in pre- “The one we are thinking about will mature planning stages. She said that have duties and responsibilities in all several other SEC schools, including branches,” Walker said. CW/ Charley Parden the University of Florida, University of The Capstone attorney general’s Heather Essig, a senior majoring in human development and family studies, and Beau Waldrep, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film, start the 7 p.m. Mississippi, University of South Wednesday service at Cavalry Baptist College Ministries with a few songs of praise. Many UA students attended the service, called “The Well.” Carolina and Vanderbilt University See SGA, Page 3 Mountain Brook teen admitted to UA still missing connection to her disappearance. John and Jones were security Holloway to a beach and drop- According to her family, Two suspects held in The two men, Nick John, 30, guards at a hotel two blocks from ped her off at her hotel the night Holloway was a straight-A stu- connection to case and Abraham Jones, 28, were the Holiday Inn where Holloway she disappeared. Authorities dent who had earned a full arrested on Sunday on suspi- was staying. now refer to the men as witness- scholarship to the University. FROM STAFF REPORTS cion of first- and second-degree Holloway was vacationing es in the case. UA Admissions and UA murder charges according with 124 of her classmates on The night she disappeared, Panhellenic Association officials With Mountain Brook teen to court-appointed defense a senior trip to the Dutch Holloway went to a concert and declined comment on Holl- and soon-to-be UA student attorneys. The Wednesday Caribbean island when she then ate at a local bar and oway’s UA status Wednesday due Natalee Holloway still missing, a ruling allows for officials to disappeared on May 30. Police restaurant. She then missed her to privacy concerns. judge ruled Wednesday in Aruba hold the two for nearly four last week questioned three men flight, and authorities discov- that there was sufficient evi- months while the charges are referred to as “persons of inter- ered her passport along with Information from The Associated Natalee Holloway dence to hold two men in investigated. est.” They claimed they took packed bags in her hotel room. Press was used in this report. 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