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SPORTS: Tide barbecues Razorbacks, 81-65, Page 3 OPINIONS: UA dining’s Fresh Food Company is all grown up, Page 4 Thursday, January 15, 2004 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Volume 110, Issue 75 The FCC giveth and the FCC taketh away College of C&IS gets share Right to say F-word on network TV might of Montgomery TV station be taken back By CHRIS BUNN such as how the college plans the college’s development. By HEATHER HENDERSON Staff Reporter to use the shares in the sta- Cox Radio has also pledged Metro/State Editor tion. to donate $15,000 per year for The College of Bonnie LaBresh, director of four years to the journalism Cox Radio has They let the bomb slip, and Communication and development for C&IS, repre- department’s multicultural now it may be blowing up in pledged to donate CW Photo Illustration/ Tom Neil Information Sciences has sented the college in the deal summer workshop. their faces. The Federal Communications Commission acquired 18 percent owner- but did not discuss details. It is unclear whether $15,000 for four The F-bomb, that is. The could soon reconsider its October decision to ship of WNCF, Montgomery’s In his e-mail to the faculty, DuBose is one of the WNCF Federal Communications permit the F-word on network televison in ABC affiliate TV station. Clark thanked David DuBose, donors or if there is any con- years to the Commission may soon some contexts. Culpepper Clark, dean of the vice president and market nection between Cox Radio’s reverse an October decision Awards by U2’s lead singer, college, disclosed the news in manager for the Birmingham funding of the journalism journalism not to fine network television Bono, that contained the F- a recent faculty e-mail. market of Cox Radio for par- department project and the stations if the F-word is used word. The bureau contended Clark said the gift, which ticipating in and facilitating WNCF gift. department’s on one of their shows. that the word was not used in came from a group of as-yet- the deal. DuBose did not return The FCC enforcement multicultural a sexual context when he unidentified investors, is Dubose is a member of the telephone calls this week. bureau failed to fine NBC said, “This is really, really, f— worth “several million dol- college’s Board of Visitors, The college also owns and after the station did not edit summer workshop. —— brilliant.” lars.” which is a group of 65 media operates WVUA Channel 7, out a statement made in He declined this week to executives and professionals Tuscaloosa’s only local news January at the Golden Globe See F#&% !, Page 2 disclose further information responsible for influencing station. Small-Town Alabama: Oneonta NAACP office door racially vandalized By NICK BEADLE The timing was something of Student Life Editor which George, a junior major- ing in finance investment man- When UA NAACP member agement and public relations Dorothy George looked at the coordinator for the Renewed door of her organization’s Alliance for Cultural Education Ferguson Center office campus initiative, was very Wednesday morning, she found much aware. something other than days and “What I feel like [spurred the times on the office hours list: incident] was we had all this the message “I hate niggers.” progress on campus,” she said. The defacing occurred days Despite receiving some before Martin Luther King Jr. antagonism this year, Anisa Day and one day after a Jones, president of the campus Southern Poverty Law Center chapter of the National collegiate anti-hate training Association for the session and a videoconference Advancement of Colored commemorating the desegre- People, said she was unsure gations of the Capstone and the why anyone would target her universities of Georgia and organization. Mississippi. “We don’t know why anybody wouldn’t want us here or any- thing,” she said. “We’ve never hurt anybody.” Dean of Students Tom Strong CW/ Tom Neil said UA officials had several The Horton Mill covered bridge in Oneonta is the highest bridge of its kind in the United States and one of three found in Blount County. The county has a booming HIspanic population. meetings Wednesday about how to respond to the defacing, though he said they had not set- tled on anything concrete. “What we’re wanting to do is take this terrible, despicable Residents bridge the cultural gap incident and make some good By TIFFANY SUMMERVILLE were once the center of last block and a half you’ll town about eight miles out of it,” he said. The SGA and NAACP quickly Assistant Entertainment Editor Oneonta’s life when it was find “Tienda la favorita.” northwest of Oneonta. CW/ Nick Beadle incorporated in 1891, you’ll This is indeed the “favorite The Duarte family has NAACP members found the door of their UA responded with a campaign to ONEONTA — As you drive begin to understand why the shop” of Maricela Duarte, a called Oneonta home for two office vandalized Wednesday morning. The distribute stickers with anti- down Old Main Street, you town is a popular stop for wife and mother of five who years, living in Texas and racially charged message appeared one day can see all the aspects of a tourists. moved with her family to the Oklahoma City before then. after an anti-hate seminar. See NAACP, Page 2 historic county seat nestled So far, you think you’re in United States from Mexico Duarte also has extended in a valley in the eastern part just another typical country 10 years ago. Duarte runs her family living in town, includ- of Blount County about town in Alabama. Then your Mexican grocery store as a ing a sister who commutes to 30 miles northeast of eye catches sight of a store family business with the help her job at the Meadowcraft Birmingham. that stands out from the rest. of her five children, who factory in Tarrant, just north Passing the antique shops Sandwiched between small attend Oneonta city schools. of Birmingham. Duarte said and specialty stores occupy- shops that look a lot like the Her husband works for a ing the same buildings that ones you’ve passed for the newspaper in Cleveland, a See ONEONTA, Page 2 Kucinich struggles to gain name recognition for election By KRISTEN TROTTER Democratic presi- running for the “Reagan Democrats” and Staff Reporter dential primary. nomination, as he is swing voters. UA political sci- One of the nine languishing at the ence professor Donald Snow This story is the fifth in a candidates running low end of public disagrees, however. series focusing on 2004 for the Democratic opinion polls. “Kucinich would under any presidential candidates. nomination in the Kucinich, howev- circumstances be a fringe 2004 presidential er, insists that not candidate,” he said. “He’s too Do you support the election, Kucinich, a only can he win the far from the mainstream — legalization of marijuana, congressman from Democratic pri- too far to the left and on abolishing NAFTA and the Ohio, is widely mary, but he is also some issues, too far to the World Trade Organization or viewed as the far- Dennis Kucinich perfectly capable of right.” CW/ Elliot Knight creating a Department of thest left, or most beating President Kucinich, who has received Grand-opening —Executive chef John Patterson, Aramark district managers Tim VanderMeersch and Peace? extreme, of the candidates. Bush. On his campaign Web the Gandhi Peace Award, is Doug Hildreth, and Fresh Food Company national brand manager Sue Small were part of the festivities Then you may want to vote Many observers also believe site, Kucinich claims to have that included a live jazz band for the ribbon-cutting Wednesday at the Fresh Food Company in the for Dennis Kucinich in the he is essentially out of the a history of attracting See KUCINICH, Page 2 Ferguson Center. 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Efforts to reach UAPD ized when he left. around campus, it will help unify people officials for comment about the case were George discovered the note between and alienate the people who participate unsuccessful Wednesday. 8:30 and 8:40 a.m. the following morning, in such an act; make them feel like they’re Though Strong said his office had not she said. the outsiders,” said Laura Neergaard, SGA established a timeframe for the vandal- Tim Hebson, associate dean of stu- Brief press secretary. ization, the time during which the defac- dents and director of the Office of Student Neergaard said the SGA would pay for ing could have occurred was limited.