Concert split is not a Students make plans for Gottfried keeps space issue Homecoming on winning OPINIONS, Page 4 THE SCENE, Page 14 SPORTS, Page 7 Thursday, October 26, 2006 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 113, Issue 45 ■ CAMPUS CRIME Dorm crimes decrease in past three years halls that had a steady decrease Breaking into cars and steal- Crimes reported to UAPD — 2004-06 Three years of crime Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total in incident rates. ing property have been some Residence crime alcohol- drug-related breaking criminal harassment theft of assault reports related reports and entering mischief reports property reports reports show decrease in Next year marks the second of the most popular crimes in halls reports reports reports year of mandatory on-campus and around residence halls on Blount 11 0 0 2 2 0 7 0 11 residence halls Bryant 5 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 housing for the incoming fresh- campus in the last three years, Bryce Lawn 33 2 2 14 3 2 4 0 man class at the university. according to police reports. Mary Burke 67 3 3 1 15 3 26 3 BY CHRISTY CONNER Along with the large increase Drug arrests and harassment Byrd 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Assistant Campus Affairs Editor Friedman 14 0 2 1 5 1 4 0 of students living on campus, were also on the list. ■ [email protected] Harris 6 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 some worry that the decrease Some reports showed Highlands 22 0 2 1 2 2 7 0 The UA Police Department in crime on campus will soon instances of the sale and use of Lakeside 6 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 New 5 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 crime reports show that over rise again. marijuana, car theft, arson and Palmer 8 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 the past three years, Blount Hall “Crime in and around resi- numerous harassment charg- Martha Parham 11 1 0 0 1 4 5 0 was the only residence hall to dence halls varies from time to es. Parker-Adams 8 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 Paty 72 5 11 5 7 6 22 3 have an increase in incidents, time, but they couldn’t say that Paty Hall had the most Riverside 34 0 4 6 3 4 13 1 while the Highlands apart- there is a pattern,” UA spokes- marijuana charges, totaling 11 Rose Towers 52 1 3 9 5 4 20 3 ments, Julia Tutwiler and Harris woman Cathy Andreen said, Somerville 10 0 0 2 1 0 6 1 Julia Tutwiler 80 8 1 13 6 5 31 2 halls were some of the residence speaking for UAPD. See CRIME, Page 2 Source: UAPD Crime reports for the past 3 years. CW graphic/ Zach Summers Program cut even with recent national award program in April. Witt said the UA students still upset program was being eliminated over axed IE major because its enrollment was low and its resources could be redi- BY JACOB SUMMERS rected to other departments. Staff Reporter The program will be phased out over the next five years. Imagine your major has just “A lot of people were kept in been shut down. In five years, the dark, and the staff weren’t no traces will remain, and you let known,” Williamson said. are among the last to graduate in “We fought this, and got a lot your given field. Nothing can be of people to sign a petition, but done about it, even though your it meant nothing. Most alum- major just received a national ni were never told it was shut award. down, we were the first to tell CW/ Reed Armstrong That’s the case for the UA them. Students from Tuscaloosa County High School pose at their set at The Fright Factory haunted house Wednesday night. The haunted house, located industrial engineering program. “It’s a disgrace to alumni — on the corner of Greensboro Ave. and Jack Warner, is open Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to midnight. “With engineers, every- some won’t give money to the thing has to be backed up by program now, and give it to the facts,” said Chad Williamson, a business school instead.” senior in industrial engineering. Williamson said according “That’s what got me upset — he to a recent engineering college didn’t prove anything.” alumni newsletter, the engi- Williamson, vice president of neering department intends the UA chapter of the Institute to expand the college, both in Nights of Industrial Engineers, is refer- majors and in facilities. Part ring to College of Engineering of this plan is shutting down Dean Charles Karr’s decision to smaller programs that have shut down the IE Department fewer students, or that aren’t of last semester. Williamson said productive. Karr presented all his reasons as “I was told that enrollment opinions but gave no concrete is not where it should be,” he fundraiser for United Cerebral “Scream Acres.” “Scream Acres” takes on reason for shutting down the said. “As of last spring, we had Local haunted house Palsy of West Alabama, Upon entering the Institute the personality of a farm department. 70 to 75 people. A few years raises money for United opened Oct. 12. Cody Minor, of Education, haunted house marked with the undead and The UA IIE chapter recently ago, we only had 50 … metal- the director of Fright Factory, patrons are greeted by the monstrous beings like a pig- won a national gold award, its lurgical engineering only has 30 Cerebral Palsy Fright fourth in six years. The award people.” said this has been a good year school’s principal who headed butcher. after their change of loca- describes how the institution A wily old man named was only given to nine of the Pat Brunese, a graduate stu- BY AMANDA PETERSON AND KATIE tion. went downhill and her stu- Bubba Earl greets the visi- 115 universities offering an dent in industrial engineering, BARZLER “We used to be at the old dents fell into dementia. tors with a crooked smile industrial engineering degree has a different idea about why The Crimson White cotton gin in Northport, but Deranged students reside in as he leads the way into his nationwide and 14 out of 170 the program is being cut. this is just a better location,” this part of the Fright Factory, “Quick-Stop Hair Salon and worldwide. The UA chapter “Our school is working on Sharp, crackling electri- Minor said. “The floor isn’t which takes on the feel of Chainsaw Repair.” Characters was the only one to receive it in restructuring the program,” cal sounds followed by high dirt, and there’s a lot more a psychotic high school. A carrying heavy auto parts and the state. Despite the program’s Brunese said. “With the engi- shrieks echoed from inside room so now we can have two little girl with long dark hair sharp axes run throughout success, however, the College of neering school, it’s usually the the old Tuscaloosa Motor houses.” writhes on a table top sur- the farm, and the buzz of the Engineering is shutting it down. research income. It’s really all Company building in down- This year, the Fright Factory rounded by torn teddy bears, chainsaw chases the visitors UA Provost and Executive Vice about dollars and cents.” town Tuscaloosa. has split up their scare tac- and the school janitor mops President Judy Bonner and UA Brunese graduated from The 10th annual Fright tics between the “Druid City up a dismembered body in a President Robert Witt approved Factory haunted house, a Institute of Education” and pool of blood. See FRIGHT, Page 6 Karr’s request to eliminate the See ENGINEERING, Page 2 Some students bombarded by junk in their e-mail boxes e-mails went. how they got my address or e-mails can have a machine Junk mail litters students’ The e-mails, many of which anything.” that goes through our faculty BamaMail accounts advertise job opportunities or Shane Merritt, director of or student directory trying financial aid prospects, not network and computing sup- to harvest e-mail addresses, only waste precious inbox port, said the University does and they just go through col- BY JAMES JAILLET space, but are unsolicited and not give out e-mail address- lecting them,” Merritt said. Staff Reporter pose possible security risks. es to any individuals or any “Another thing that can hap- “I get stuff from places I’ve companies. He did say, how- pen is the spammers just put The recent onslaught of never heard of,” said Melissa ever, that there are numer- in random letters and num- junk e-mails making their Martin, a sophomore major- ous ways that the companies bers in an attempt to guess way into students’ inboxes ing in nursing. “I never open or organizations sending the account names and send e- has some student wonder- them. I just delete them, but mail can stumble upon the mails to them. Most of them CW/ File ing where the confidentiality they get in the way a lot of students’ e-mail addresses. Several students have noticed their e-mail inboxes have more spam that they used to have in their the time. I don’t even know “The groups who send these See E-MAIL, Page 6 messages from financial offers to job opportunities.