THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 126 | ISSUE 16 OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894 LOW DOWN 11 DIRTY 12 SNITCHES 13 A CW sports writer gives The sports editor of We’re no snitch: it’s been the lowdown on which of Tennessee’s student 12 years since Tennessee Alabama’s players fans should newspaper tells the dirty beat the Tide. See what’s watch closely on the third truth on the Vols’ season and happened in the world Saturday in October. matchup against Alabama. since the year 2006. ‘MAN, I HATE TENNESSEE’ CW / Joe Will Field SPORTS | SOFTBALL McCleney gets her chance on the international stage and triples (16). She is a three-time City, an improbable dream was great. It was something I would BY JAMES BENEDETTO First-Team All-American and is the realized: McCleney was selected never forget.” ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR second player in program history to to the USA Olympic roster. With Through the fi ve-minute @JAMES_BENEDETTO receive First-Team honors as both one email, she became the fi rst whirlwind of excitement, one of an All-American and an Academic Alabama softball alum in 10 years McCleney’s fi rst Facetime calls was ew names are etched into All-American. to be selected to the Olympic team to her parents. But there was an FAlabama sporting lore as With the long list of records and – the fi rst since Kelly Kretschman issue. It was 8:35 a.m., her parents deeply as Haylie McCleney’s. honors, there is one aspect of her donned the USA jersey for the were both at church, and it was That lore is part of the reason that career that has been missing: a Beijing games in 2008. prime Sunday school hour. her picture presides over Rhoads chance to be an Olympian. “I made sure I was by myself. I “I texted my mom, and I was like, Stadium from the centerfi eld wall: “I didn’t think [being an Olympian] was down at the hotel breakfast, ‘Hey, I’m trying to Facetime you. She was just that good. was a possibility until after I found a quiet space, Facetimed my You probably need to answer.’ She McCleney’s career speaks for graduated college,” McCleney said. fi ance, opened the email at 8:30, saw said OK, and she stepped out of itself. She is the all-time program “... I never even dreamed it because my name at 8:31 and went to a team Sunday school, and I said, ‘Mom, ... leader in batting average (.447), on- I didn’t even think it was possible.” meeting at 8:35,” McCleney said. “It base percentage (.569), walks (199) On Oct. 6 at 8:30 a.m. in Oklahoma happened pretty quick, but it was SEE PAGE 8 THURSDAY 2 October 17, 2019 SCENE ON INSTA @samschilling29: @lakynxsailer “There’s never a bad time for low fi ves #forthekids” cw.ua.edu P.O. 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EDITOR Rebecca Griesbach [email protected] NEWS October 17, 2019 3 ‘History of Us’ course transforms local classroom It’s not every day that high school students can learn about the hidden history within their state, or even in their city. But a new class at Central High School is working to change that. JAVON WILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER @JAVON_CW frican American history Ain high schools across the nation is often reduced to Black History Month. Every February, students learn about infl uential fi gures like Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but most students are taught little about the history in their own communities. This year, Central High School teamed up with over a dozen community partners, including UA associate professor of history and African American studies, John Giggie, to answer this question. “History of Us” is a yearlong course created in hopes of getting students engaged in learning about African American history and UA professor John Giggie instructs Central High School students in a year-long course on African American history. CW / Joe Will Field understanding civic engagement. “I want [the students] to become characterized as hangings; they can the Klu Klux Klan. Some students, Hines said. historians in their own right,” also be shootings or other lethal like Devin, a junior at Central High, Chadwick and Hines said they Giggie said, noting that his goal was hate crimes motivated by broken noticed that while the Tuscaloosa are glad to see their students are to see them “asking questions and racial codes. community has progressed from its gaining the ambition to grow and imagining solutions to problems The course opens up local violent past, the information learned learn more about their hidden that are often not discussed” and historical documents for the in class still holds relevance. history. They hope to see students investing in “recovering lives that students to interpret. In a lesson “I feel like it’s something that grow to be leaders in their schools have been lost.” last week, Giggie showed students really should be pushed towards and communities. Not only is this course the only a rare fi nd: a death certifi cate other students everywhere,” “We want to have a tsunami yearlong African American history that showed a truth behind most he said. effect, not just a ripple effect, course in Alabama public schools, lynching cases, in which the names “History of Us” covers slavery, the but one shake in [Central High] but it’s also the only course in the of the deceased and the causes of Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and it spreads everywhere,” country that centers the curriculum death were not easy to interpret. and the Civil Rights Movement Chadwick said. on experiences of racial violence. Giggie said documents like these within the Tuscaloosa area.