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By Spencer WhiteAssistant Sports Editor

The Alabama defense needed a test to see exactly how it stacked up, and

Ryan Mallett and the Razorback offense came to Bryant-Denny to administer the exam. Consider the test aced. The No. 3 Crimson Tide held Arkansas

to 254 total yards Saturday in a 35-7 vic-tory, less than half of the Razorbacks average for the 2009 season. “I was really pleased with the defen-sive effort out there today,” said head

coach Nick Saban. “This is one of the most difficult offensive systems we’ve had to defend…so I felt really good

By Danielle DragoStaff Reporter

The live oak tree outside of the David Francko’s office window holds the secret to the research that Francko, dean of the UA graduate school, has been conducting. The tree is extremely resis-tant to cold temperatures, much like Francko’s creation — the horticultural product FreezePruf, a topical spray that helps a plant survive below freezing temperatures. FreezePruf will be on the shelves of retailers such as Lowe’s, Home Depot and other garden specialty stores in as soon as a few weeks, though Francko said some logistical issues in California were still being worked out. FreezePruf improves the cold tolerance of plants from

an average of 3 to 9.4 degrees. What makes it different from other spray products is that the chemicals work internally and externally, meaning that the formula is absorbed by the tissues of the plants, Francko said. “FreezePruf lowers the super cooling temperature and makes the cells and tissues stronger,”

he said. However, the product does not claim to make growing any-thing in any climate easy, he said. “It’s not magic. If you expect to grow a banana in Minneapolis, you are going to be disappointed,” he said. Upon spraying the formula, the effects last four to six weeks and starts working immediate-ly. On average, he said FreezePruf could extend the growing season for up to a month for many species of plants. “It allows you to prevent damage to valuable things in your landscape when you have unusually cold weather. It’s like moving your landscape 200 miles south,” Francko said. FreezePruf is also an eco-safe, eco-friendly formula that

is composed of ingredientsalready used in food manufac-turing and processing, he said. “Anything I used I wanted tomake sure it was 100 percenteco-safe, non-toxic and biode-gradable because that’s veryimportant to me as well as man-ufacturers right now. You can-not produce something that ishazardous to people,” he said. The formula is a result ofresearch that Francko start-ed when he was at MiamiUniversity in Ohio and laterfinished when he came toAlabama in 2006. In summer2007, the formula was patentedby the University, and was com-mercialized and eventually soldto the Liquid Fence Company inOctober 2008. FreezePruf was one of thefirst patents that the University

By Ashley AlexanderStaff Writer

Delta Sigma Pi met its $10,000 fundraising goal at the Miss Sorority Row competition Friday. All proceeds from the compe-tition will benefit various chari-ties. “[It was a] fun event all [sorority] sisters could share to help a cause,” said Mary-Katherine Cleveland, a fresh-man majoring in biology. “It’s a double win.” The philanthropic event, which was first proposed to

Delta Sigma Phi in the spring of 2008, has met tremendous goals ,and the pageant’s creator said he was surprised by the turnout for Miss Sorority Row 2009. “I had no idea what I was doing, but it came out really good,” said Drew Nicholas, a senior majoring in marketing and creator of Miss Sorority Row. Hillary Bradshaw, a fresh-man majoring in biology and a member of Delta Delta Delta, was crowned the 2009 Miss Sorority Row. “I didn’t think I would win,” Bradshaw said. “I would’ve been happy with first or second place.” The event started with an opening song from the band The Tip. Contestants then com-peted in the gameday wear and talent categories.

“I liked the talent because of the singing and dancing and shooting bow and arrows,” Cleveland said. Although the competition was lighthearted for the most part, many girls mentioned the personal effect their sorority’s charity has had on them and the many lives their sorority has touched through philanthropy events like Miss Sorority Row. “The main focuses are phi-lanthropy and community ser-vice,” said Ely Jones, a senior majoring in operations man-agement and vice president of Delta Sigma Phi. Half of the competition’s pro-ceeds will go to the American Red Cross, Delta Sigma Phi’s national philanthropy. A 25 percent contribution will go to Delta Delta Delta’s national phi-lanthropy, St. Jude’s Children

Hospital. Fifteen percent will goto Children’s Miracle Network,the national philanthropy offirst runnerup Amanda Burch’ssorority, Phi Mu. Ten percentwill go to Domestic Violence,the national philanthropyof second runnerup BrookeTotty’s sorority, Alpha ChiOmega. Delta Sigma Phi says the goalfor next year is to be even bet-ter. “We want to get all sororitiesparticipating and to raise pos-sibly $12,000 or so,” said sopho-more Sam DiRienzo, the DeltaSigma Phi philanthropic chair-man. Montgomery said eventhough Miss Sorority Row isonly in its second year, DeltaSigma Phi plans to make theMiss Sorority Row pageant atradition at the University.

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Francko creates ‘FreezePruf’ sprayBy Drew TaylorAdministrative Affairs Editor

From scribbling notes on the back of vinyl records to gracing the pages of notable music publications such as Spin Magazine and The Village Voice, Eric Weisbard made his name as a music critic with a strong passion for both history and music. “Ever since college, I’ve been trying to reconcile those two things. I love American history, and I love American culture,” Weisbard said. “It’s all about trying to find ways of accounting for this culture that I’m so passionate about.” Now, he is teaching as an assistant professor in the American studies department at the University. Weisbard has no regrets about his decision to come to Tuscaloosa. “It was a great opportunity to teach the stuff I’m most

interest in, in an environment that seemed really nurturing and friendly,” Weisbard said. Weisbard’s specialization is in popular music, the topic of the two courses he is teach-ing this year, “Rock, Soul and Country” and “Pop Music Survey Class.” This is his first semester at the University. Growing up in Queens, N.Y., Weisbard, who was a history major at Princeton University, started writing about music using notes he would stick on vinyl records from different bands, such as The Velvet Underground and Public Enemy, that the school radio station would receive when he worked there as a DJ. For Weisbard, the rest was history. “What it turned into was a place for people to write cre-atively about music with no

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Hightower out for remaining seasonFrom staff reports

Sophomore linebacker Dont’a Hightower tore liga-ments in his left knee in thefirst quarter of Saturday’s game against Arkansas, an injury that will require sur-gery and force him to miss the remainder of the season. Head coach Nick Saban said Sunday that an MRI confirmed the severity of the injury, but he also said Hightower was expected to make a full recovery. Hightower started 12 games for the Crimson Tide as a freshman last season and is one of the most important pieces of Alabama’s defense. “He doesn’t get talked about enough,” Saban said after Saturday’s game. “He’s a fine young man, great lead-er on our team — one of ourbest football players on our entire team.” With Hightower out, senior Cory Reamer will likely slide over to the “Will” linebacker position, with senior Eyrk Anders replacing Reamer at “Sam” and sophomore Courtney Upshaw coming in

CW | Drew TaylorErid Weisbard, a professor in the American Studies depart-ment, sits in his offi ce at ten Hoor Hall. Weisbardʼs specialty is popular music.

CW | Jerrod SeatonTerrence Cody pressures Arkansas QB Ryan Mallett in the 3rd quarter at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Mallett was sacked three times and threw one interception Satur-day as he was held to his lowest offensive output of the season, completing 12 of 35 passes for 160 yards, less than half of his average for the 2009 season.

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NEWS in briefCAMPUS | New student organization holds interest meeting DifferENT is holding an interesting meeting in Room 305 of the Ferguson Center Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Students may come to sign-up for a new student organization on cam-pus that strives to bring new but most of all creative events to the University.

CAMPUS | ʻThe Dhamma Brothersʼ screening to benefi t education project The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project at Auburn University and the UA Creative Writing Program will be screening “The Dhamma Brothers” Wednesday at the Bama Theatre. The evening will begin with a happy hour and meet and greet at 6 p.m., screening at 7 p.m. and panel discussion at 8:30 p.m. Funds raised will benefit the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. Suggested donations are $8 for students, $12 for all others. “The Dhamma Brothers” closely follows and documents the stories of 36 prison inmates who enter an arduous and intensive meditation program.

CAMPUS | Mallet program holds health care debate The Mallet Assembly Honors Residence Program is spon-soring a debate about health care reform today. The event will be at 7 p.m. in Room 125 of ten Hoor Hall.

CAMPUS | Stay Beautiful, Stay Informed: A Healthy Skin Care Seminar Join the Tau Gamma Chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma as they explore healthy skin care on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Tutwiler Hall in the “Tut Hut.” A certified medical estheti-cian is speaking, and participants will learn how to protect themselves from and correct sun damage, aging and acne. They will also offer free individual skin consultations and investigate common skin care myths. The event is open to the public.

LOCAL | Frog Level Festival planned for this weekend Join the Fayette Chamber of Commerce for the Annual Alabama Frog Level Festival and Cruise In Friday and Saturday in downtown Fayette. It begins Friday at 5 p.m., with music, a fish and shrimp fry and a carnival. The festi-val continues Saturday morning with the Frog Level 5K run, Tadpole area and many fun contests throughout the day. For more information and complete schedule of events, please visit fayetteareachamber.org and click on festival.

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By Lauran NeergaardThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — More than 3,000 people have a heart attack each day. If you’re one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries? The government is starting an unprecedented system to track possible side effects as mass flu vaccinations begin next month. The idea is to detect any rare but real problems quickly, and explain the inevitable coinci-

APHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, talks with Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group Director Dr. Gregory A. Poland , center, and American Academy of Pediat-rics President Dr. David T. Tayloe, at the National Press Club in Washington.

Flu shot’s side effects tracked dences that are sure to cause some false alarms. “Every day, bad things happen to people. When you vaccinate a lot of people in a short period of time, some of those things are going to happen to some people by chance alone,” said Dr. Daniel Salmon, a vaccine safety special-ist at the Department of Health and Human Services. How many will race for the vaccine depends partly on confi-dence in its safety. The last mass inoculations against a different swine flu, in 1976, were marred by reports of a rare paralyzing con-dition, Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Berkeley. However, he did not leave his love of writing at Princeton. After a couple of years writing for various alternative weekly publications, Weisbard left Berkeley to work as a writer for Spin Magazine in spring 1995. Feeling the need to finish what he had started, Weisbard com-pleted his dissertation, “Top 40 Democracy,” a decade later and received his doctorate. It seemed like destiny that Weisbard and Lynne Adrian, chairwoman of the UA American studies department, would both be at an annual American studies conference held in Albuquerque, N.M. last October. Adrian was looking for a profes-sor to take over for Jim Salem, a professor in the department who specialized in music, who had just retired. “We saw Dr. Salem’s specialty in the cultural meaning of pop music as something we had to continue to keep the department fully functioning and growing,” Adrian said. After posting flyers around the conference, Adrian met with

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had issued that could be sold in stores, said William Gathings, director of the Office for Technology Transfer. “Dr. Francko’s FreezePruf could be our first commercial success,” he said. The formula is expected to be used in commercial settings as well as in the agricultural indus-

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about that.” The Alabama pass rush was particularly effective, tallying three sacks and eight quar-terback hurries in the game. Mallett, constantly harassed and chased all game, never appeared comfortable and man-aged to complete only 12 passes on 35 attempts for 160 yards. A fourth quarter interception by Justin Woodall was the first Mallett has thrown all year. “We knew if we gave him time, he’s got a rifle for an arm…we just kept pressuring him and blitzing and blitzing,” said senior linebacker Eryk Anders. “Coaches told us at practice

try, for which concentrated ver-sions that cover multiple acres are being sold. Extending the growing season by a month in agriculture could greatly impact the challenges that growers face, Francko said. Peach blossoms freeze eas-ily, and therefore an early frost can damage or kill the blossoms, resulting in more than $10 mil-lion in losses for the state of Alabama. By using FreezePruf, Francko said this number could be significantly lower. “This product has the poten-tial to help the agriculture indus-try economically. We hope it will be wildly adopted,” he said. FreezePruf was awarded the “Best in Show” award at the 2009 Independent Garden Show, the biggest garden show for inde-pendent garden centers. “We’re thrilled that our revo-lutionary product, FreezePruf, has won this prestigious award,” said Eddie Abraham, president of the Liquid Fence Company, in a news release. The commercial success of the product is something that Francko doesn’t want to pre-dict. “It could be very big, and it could not be,” he said. From toiling on his home landscape to preparing a prod-uct to sell on commercial retail-er’s shelves, it’s been a journey for Francko. Regardless of the success of FreezePruf, he said he learned a lot regarding pat-enting and commercializing products. “It’s definitely been a learn-ing experience. It takes on aver-age about three to four years. It’s more of a marathon than a sprint,” he said.

a host of applicants, including Weisbard, who hoped to fill the position. Adrian said Weisbard had made a strong impression on her early on. “I was very impressed with his credentials,” Adrian said. “He made it clear in the inter-view that he was interested.” It wasn’t until later in March that Weisbard came to the University for two days to teach a class and give a presentation on his research. Adrian said she was sold on him after those two days. “Not only did we find that Weisbard have a long list of edit-ed volumes, which is unusual, but his research presentation was very impressive and his connection with the students was visible,” Adrian said. “It was the combination of those three things that we decided on.” Weisbard is teaching two classes this year: “Rock, Soul and Country,” which delves into these genres and how they were politicized by the events of the 1960s, and “Pop Music Survey Class,” which analyzes differ-ent eras “from Stephen Foster to American Idol,” in addition to examining different writers writing about music. Weisbard is married to Ann Powers, who is also a music critic. Powers works as the pop

music critic for The Los Angeles Times, where she commutes to periodically. She has also worked for the The New York Times, Blender Magazine and co-wrote the book, “Piece by Piece,” with singer-songwriter Tori Amos. Weisbard and Powers have one daughter, Rebecca Brooklyn. Coming all the way from Los Angeles with his family, Weisbard said he has enjoyed his time in Alabama. “This is such a welcoming community of people,” Weisbard said. “It’s almost like getting to know people is the main from of recreation here.” Weisbard also said living in Tuscaloosa hasn’t been much different from the handful of places he has lived in the past. “There’s no question that Alabama has a totally different feel than being in LA,” Weisbard said. “The funny thing is that there’s as much freshness in this experience as the other cities we have been living in.” Weisbard said all of his ener-gies have been going into fully developing his classes and research, but he would like to bring various speakers to Tuscaloosa in the future and to get further involved with the Tuscaloosa community. “There’s no end to the possi-bilities,” Weisbard said.

pressure,” Weisbard said. Soon after graduating, Weisbard relocated to California to “get as far from the east coast as possible,” enrolling in the graduate program in history at the University of California-

it was very, very crucial we get to the quarterback,” said soph-omore defensive end Marcell Dareus. “That’s all we worked on a lot of this week.” Perhaps more impressive is that the Tide played the major-ity of the game without one of its young stars, sophomore linebacker Dont’a Hightower. Hightower went down in the first quarter of action and didn’t return to the game, suffering a knee injury that ended his sea-son. “The initial prognosis is not good,” Saban said. “He’s a fine young man, great leader on our team. One of our best football players on our entire team.” After Hightower went down, Alabama was forced to make some personnel changes,

moving Cory Reamer to the inside linebacker spot, placing Courtney Upshaw at Jack line-backer, and putting Anders at Reamer’s Sam linebacker posi-tion. “Everybody’s got to be able to step up into a new role,” Upshaw said. “I think I did okay, but I could do a whole lot bet-ter.” The Tide was aided by fan-tastic fan support, as early rain and soggy weather did not deter the Alabama faithful from making Bryant-Denny into the inside of a raging drum. The Razorbacks committed three offensive dead ball penalties, two false starts and a delay of game, and Mallett had visible difficulty communicating audi-bles to the offense, especially

in third down situations, where Arkansas converted a paltry two of 14 attempts. Saban made special mention of the fan support in his post-game press conference. “I think all that contributes to the defensive team get-ting excited about playing and doing a good job,” Saban said. “I always say the fans are a part of the team, and the fans did their job well today.” “When it’s so loud [Mallett] can’t make his checks, then everybody is confused on offense,” Anders said. “The louder they are, the harder it is on offense.” With or without fan support, it seems obvious that with this defense on the field, SEC offens-es will have plenty of trouble.

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By Christi CowanStaff Writer

UA apparel and merchan-dise are prominently avail-able almost everywhere in Tuscaloosa. From large chain stores like Wal-Mart and CVS to bookstores like The College Store and the SUPe Store, crimson gear can be found around nearly every corner. Now another store can be added to that list of locations. Bama Fever, an Alabama-based company that sells University of Alabama appar-el and merchandise, opened a new location in the Midtown Village shopping center on Aug. 1. There was previously a store on University Boulevard, but it was closed in preparation for the Midtown store. Plans to open the new store had been in the works for about a year, said Todd Whinery, general manager. “That location didn’t have as much traffic as this one,” Whinery said. Whinery said this store has easier access than other plac-es and that the visible loca-tion is great. He said the store also benefits from being in the same strip mall as Starbucks

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Coffee Co., Chipotle Mexican Grill and Five Guys Burgers and Fries. “We get a lot of foot traf-fic from the neighbors at Starbucks and Five Guys. People get through eating and they’ll come over here and shop,” Whinery said. For the grand opening cel-ebration on Aug. 15, Tyler Watts, former UA quarter-back, and Chris Stewart from the Crimson Tide Sports Network came to the store to sign autographs. Watts signed merchandise for the custom-ers, and Stewart signed media guides. Whinery said during the week, most of the store’s busi-ness comes from students, and on Fridays and Saturdays, the customers are mostly fans vis-iting for a game. He said the store competes with many dif-ferent types of stores that sell Alabama gear. “Our competition is every-where in this town because there are so many places you can buy an Alabama hat or an Alabama t-shirt,” he said. University of Alabama students have plenty of stores to choose from when buying Alabama merchan-dise. John Mason, a senior

majoring in geography, said he the new Bama Fever store will get more business than other places because it is on the street front. He said he will definitely shop at the new store, but he also shops around at different stores for some of his favorite items. “It depends on what I’m buying. I get my hats from Hibbett’s because they sell the franchise fit,” Mason said. For some students, shop-ping is all about convenience. Morgan Davis, a junior major-ing in communicative disor-ders, said she would be more likely to shop at the SUPe Store. “I go to the SUPe Store because it’s on campus and it’s convenient and they offer cou-pons,” she said. Davis said she thinks the new Midtown store will get more business than the one in the mall. “I think a lot of people will go to Midtown because it’s the newest mall. It’s easier to get to than going in the mall if that’s the only store you’re going to,” she said. The owners of the new store also own six other Bama Fever locations across Alabama, only one of which — the Riverchase Galleria location — strictly sells Alabama merchandise like the Midtown store. The other five also sell merchan-dise from other Southeastern Conference schools. All of the Bama Fever stores sell the same items, and there is an online store at bamafe-ver.com that also has the same inventory. Whinery said the Bama Fever store in the University Mall is not affiliated with the Midtown location, and the two stores are part of different corporations. Representatives from the University Mall location declined to comment on the new store.

By Mead GruverThe Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — After working out at a gym, Amy Mahaffy dropped off a half-dozen glass jars in a city recy-cling container before heading home. The containers however won’t end up being recycled any time soon. Their destina-tion: A mound of glass at the city landfill, an ever-growing monument to the difficulty many communities across the country face in finding a mar-ket for a commodity that’s too cheap for its own good. “We are stockpiling it in a desperate search for a mar-ket,” landfill foreman Monty Landers said. Cheyenne hasn’t recycled the glass it collects — 9 tons a week — for years. Instead, the city has been putting it in the landfill, using it to surround the concrete-walled wells that pump toxic fluids out of the dump. Told where the glass bottles and jars that she diligently rinses out end up, Mahaffy seemed dismayed. “I don’t think that’s what they should be doing with it,” she said. “I think they should be recycling it.” The economics of glass recy-cling have been marginal for some time. Nationwide, only about 25 percent of glass containers are recycled. That’s compared to 31 percent of plastic con-tainers, 45 percent of alumi-num cans and 63 percent of steel cans, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In northern Idaho, Kootenai County gave up collecting glass last year. In Oregon, which was the first of 11 states to adopt a bottle deposit law in 1971, Deschutes County stock-piled 1,000 tons of glass at its landfill before finally finding a use for it a couple years ago — as fill beneath an area for col-

lecting compost. Glass also has piled up at the landfill serving Albuquerque, N.M., where officials this year announced that a manufactur-er of water-absorbing horticul-tural stones would eventually use up their stockpiles. New York City gave up glass recy-cling from 2002 to 2004 because officials decided it was too costly. In a sense, glass ought to be the perfect commodity to recy-cle. It can be recycled an infi-nite number of times. Melting down one glass bottle and making another isn’t particu-larly complicated or especially costly. The challenge is that the main ingredient in glass, sand, is plentiful and cheap — often cheaper than cullet, which is glass that has been prepared for recycling. Used glass must be sorted by color and cleaned before it can be crushed into cullet that is suitable for recycling into new containers. That contributes to much of the cost of recycling glass, said Joe Cattaneo, presi-dent of the Glass Packaging Institute in Alexandria, Va. “It’s not just a glass compa-

ny buying it from your munici-pal waste company, or recy-cling company,” Cattaneo said. “Some entity has to clean it so it meets the specifications of mixing it with sand, soda ash and limestone.” Another cost is transpor-tation. The farther away a community is from glass pro-cessors and container manu-facturers, he said, the more expensive it is to recycle it. Cheyenne has been in touch with glass recyclers in Colorado but has yet to find a feasible arrangement for glass recycling, said Dennis Pino, director of the city sanitation department. “If we’re going to try and do something that’s going to put us in the hole, it’s not a good idea, especially with the econ-omy,” Pino said. One of the region’s largest glass recyclers, an O-I Inc. bot-tling manufacturing plant, is only 50 miles south of Cheyenne in Windsor, Colo. That plant gets the vast majority of its cullet not from Wyoming or even Colorado, but from the 11 states with bottle deposit laws, company spokeswoman Stephanie Johnston said.

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APDiscarded glass piling up at the Cheyenne, Wyo., landfi ll is shown Sept. 15. The city continues to struggle to fi nd a market for the jars and bottles it collects for recycling.

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On Thursday, the University, the Chamber of Commerce, the city of Tuscaloosa and AT&T announced a joint initiative that will blanket the Strip in free wireless internet access. Through a series of 12 access points, all visitors to one of the city’s key eco-nomic areas will be able to access the Internet at any time for no charge. The system’s designers mapped out the system to include over-lapping coverage, so no matter where a user is, he or she can enjoy continued access. The introduction of the “Tide-Fi” system has potential to bring further business to the Strip. Students and citizens of Tuscaloosa alike now have the opportunity to work and play while remaining connected. Perhaps the increased connectivity will bring increased foot traffic to the area, resulting insmall-scale–but important–economic growth. We commend the University for working with local partners to bring such a service to an areanear campus. We hope that Alabama will continue its work with potential collaborators in the future,as such cooperation will only better our surround-ing area.

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WE WELCOME YOUR OPINIONSLetters to the editor must be less than 300 words and guest columns less than 800. Send submissions to letters@cw.ua.edu. Submissions must include the author’s name, year, major and day-time phone number. Phone numbers are for verification and will not be published. Students should also include their year in school and major. For more information, call 348-6144. The CW reserves the right to edit all submissions.

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Amanda Peterson EditorWill Nevin Managing EditorAlan Blinder Opinions Editor

“I think we did pretty well. We had some strong play

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and third.”

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There was some flawed logic in Avery Adcock’s column Wednesday. Not all “fat” people are as unhealthy as Adcock suggested. For instance, I have a hypothyroidism that leads to a constant battle with unexplained weight gain and loss, as well as hereditary high cholesterol. I have normal/low blood pressure, eata flexatarian diet, have wheat allergies, iron and pernicious anemias, migraines, asthma and aller-gies dating back to my childhood, but these have nothing to do with my average, normal waistline. I am healthier and happier than most of the skin-nier people I know. A lot of “fat” people are.

Susan Elizabeth Spann is a graduate student in journalism.

By Wesley Vaughn

Capstonians, America faces a grave threat. As you may have heard from analysts who exaggerate to attract viewers or that crazy (but loving) aunt of yours, China is taking over. They might not know how China will make the United States its pet country, but I do. Since it increases the chance of someone reading it, I’ll list the top 10 ways they can conquer us and, coincidentally, the reasons you should pick up Mandarin. 1. Obama is actually Chinese. Everyone knows he is half white, half black, and half socialist, but few know he actually hails from Nanjing, China. So let me set the record on his childhood straight. He was born in China and Indonesia, lived in Hawaii, and was also Kenyan the whole time. A president sharing a homeland with our rival country opens the United States up for favorable relations that the citizens do not support. Already, President Obama has allowed China to escape ridicule dealing with their insane amount of pollution, something the United States does not have a problem with domestically. 2. China’s one-child policy is a sham. Yes, each household is restricted to supporting only one child, but that doesn’t address the excess children. They are actually sent to the government for use in China’s massive clone army, as seen in the Olympic opening cer-emonies. 3. They have taken control of our economy. Sadly, this one is true, and Americans should legit-imately be fearful. Our govern-ment’s share in General Motors looks like a joke compared to

China’s stake in our financially strapped economy. I’m sorry, but it looks like Chinese RMB on this front. 4. China is genetically engineer-ing athletes. Thankfully, their first attempt resulted in mul-tiple ankle surgeries. Yao Ming at 7 feet 6 inches tall should have dominated the sport of basketball with his ridiculous height. His creation likens to a created play-er in an EA sports game where the creator edits all the stats and physical attributes for complete supremacy, but forgets to edit the all-important injury frequency stat. China has already dominated ping pong, a sport so pointless it is named after the sound of the game, with their ability to create perfect players. Also, a Chinese investment group has taken a stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers to obviously study LeBron James and attempt to recreate his super-human physical characteristics. 5. Our Secretary of Energy is Chinese. Steven Chu controls our entire power system and can thus take a bite out of our country’s strength. 6. Social media is all a Chinese trap. Yes, all the “creators” of Facebook and Twitter seem legit, but I’m sorry to say that they are simply puppets of China. These individuals have the power to manage the time spent by a large portion of America, and China having this unbridled command is disturbing. I should probably go update my Facebook status

accordingly and let my Twitter followers know what’s up. 7. China can just invade. It’s much easier than it sounds. Just ask the millions of illegal immi-grants and Canadian geese. If they do invade with their clone army, we can forget about the geographi-cal strongholds of Guam, Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands. Fortunately, the sectarian fight-ing between the Democrats and Republicans would slow down the Chinese movement east. Trust me, America learned about this amazing defense strategy and now applies it at home. Why do you think we have drawn out this health care debate so long? 8. China makes non-GM trans-formers. I don’t think I need to explain this one. 9. China mass-produces our patriotism. America doesn’t even make its own mini-flags any more. If China controls our symbol of freedom, that means they can con-trol our freedom. America needs to launch effec-tive counter-attacks to disrupt China’s government and society. I propose air-dropping Kanye West into Beijing. West can com-plete this mission harder, better, faster and stronger than anyone else. If a problem does arise, he can effectively auto-tune it to his will.

Wesley Vaughn is a sophomore majoring in Public Relations and Political Science. His column runs weekly on Monday.

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The SGA Senate devoted a significant amount of time during its meeting last Thursday to discuss-ing the health of UA students. The SGA approveda resolution endorsing the Student Health Center’s new policy requiring all students to submit a medi-cal history to the SHC. The SGA resolution brings new attention to the policy, which is prudent. University officials say that the new requirement will decrease wait times and improve the deliveryof health care. The SGA was right to back University’s new mandate, which places new emphasis on maxi-mizing the time of the students the health centerseeks to serve. For far too long, the health center has been plagued by long wait times and dramaticexamples of inefficiency. In turn, too few students use the services of the center, choosing to go else-where for care or, worse, choosing not to seek care at all. We believe the new policy is a step in the right direction, and we hope that it will serve as a cata-lyst for future initiatives to improve the quality of the Student Health Center. The center should not be a laughingstock of campus. Rather, it should be a place where students know that they can receive the highest quality care at a place and time that is convenient. The Student Health Center has potential. UA should not allow it to go to waste.

Our View is the consensus of the CW editorial board.

Changes to SHC help

LETTER TO THE EDITORAdcock assumes too much

America, Imma let you fi nish

By Alan Blinder

Darrell and Peggy McGinnis live in a hotel. But it hasn’t always been that way. On Sept. 20, when they went to bed in their Atlanta home, which they moved into just a few months ago, they were content. They were preparing to celebrate the 21st birthday of their son, Alex. They will soon move into a house owned by a member of their church. During a telephone inter-view on Sunday, Alex McGinnis told me that, optimistically, they will be in their temporary dwell-ing until December. But, for now, their home is uninhabitable. A perfect storm dumped more than a foot of rain on the Atlanta area last week. One weather expert at the United States Geological Survey called the downpour, “a 500-year flood.” With the rain came heartbreak. The McGinnis’ live in Austell, a suburb northwest of Atlanta. Their city felt the brunt of the storm like few other places. Inside the McGinnis home, the contaminated flood waters rose to the mantel. The first floor was destroyed. During our discussion on Sunday afternoon, I asked Alex about the damage. He thought the appraisable damage would be upwards of $50,000. That does not include the lost memories. President Obama declared the McGinnis’ home county to be eli-gible for federal assistance, citing “a major disaster.” Yet the federal government will not help the McGinnis fam-ily to rebuild their home. Darrell McGinnis is a Methodist pastor,

and the home is the church par-sonage. His congregation and the United Methodist Disaster Relief group have been working with the family to try to salvage any-thing: clothing, priceless family photos and furniture, to name but a few items. But that is the extent of the help they’ll get as they seek to rebuild their lives. Because a non-profit organization — the church — owns the McGinnis family home, the federal government will not provide aid to reconstruct the home. The rationale is this: Churches are tax-exempt organizations, and since they do not pay taxes, they should not receive aid from Washington. That seems straightforward and rational. But it isn’t. It fails to take into account what non-prof-its do without making out checks to the Internal Revenue Service. Churches and other similarly tax-exempt organizations don’t pay taxes, but they do pay it for-ward. They use the money they save to better the communities around them. In an interview with an Atlanta television station on Saturday, the pastor was already talking about reaching out to others. He talked about a forthcoming reviv-al service and the plan to pray to be “strengthened to be better pre-pared to help those in need.” He said those words — he focused on helping others — as he stood in front of his toxic home. It seems paradoxical that a church — an entity that devotes its existence to serving others, often without regard to religion — cannot receive support from

the society it serves. If we can provide disaster relief funding, as we so often do, to families who do not pay federal income tax, one would think we could dig just a little deeper to help out the non-profit organiza-tions that make us, one day and one person at a time, just a little bit better. There are debates to be had, as there were after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, about whether or not it is appropriate for the fed-eral government to be in the busi-ness of helping people re-build their lives. But this isn’t about that. It is, since we are in the business of helping people, about not leav-ing people and organizations like Clarkdale United Methodist Church, the McGinnis family, and the people who make up hundreds of other like stories, out. It is about the fundamental issue of how we treat people. We can — and we should — treat non-profits better. They rarely, if ever, ask for anything. But we owe it to them.

Alan Blinder is the opinions edi-tor of The Crimson White.

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By Lindsay EanetUWIRE

Tucker Max has a new movie that came out Friday based on his best-selling book, “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.” And judging by the bits of the initial script, the guy’s no Scorsese. Nevertheless, I think it’s fair to say a sizable chunk of the people reading this already have tickets. The people who have tickets probably find the marketing for the film, featuring signs with slo-gans like “Blind Girls Will Never See You Coming” and “Strippers Will Not Tolerate Disrespect (Just Kidding),” hi-larious. What’s disturbing, even dangerous, about Max is not his own writing, but the people he’s managed to surround himself with to create and reinforce his persona and lifestyle. It’s the voracious readers who worship his every move, who shot him to the top of The New York Times bestseller list three years in a row, and to make matters worse, the few who take his writing seriously, who make him into a problem. The trouble is the readers who have elevated Max to demigod status and take the gospel of the “What Would Tucker Do?” T-shirt as a literal guide for how to live their lives.

Fans of Tucker Maxʼs movie pose more threat than Max himself

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Alabama vs Arkansas — 35-7FOOTBALL | GAME RECAP

By Jason GallowaySports Editor

Like the rain that drenched Bryant-Denny Stadium minutes before kickoff, the Razorbacks’ offense came to a sudden stop. A week after transform-ing Arkansas into one of the most dangerous offensive teams in the Southeastern Conference with a 408-yard, five-touchdown performance against Georgia, quarterback Ryan Mallett hit a wall against a relentless Crimson Tide defense in Alabama’s 35-7 win Saturday. “To hold those guys to seven points is really good,” said head coach Nick Saban. “It was a team effort – the pressures, the sacks, making the quar-terback move in the pocket probably as much as anything. Making him feel uncomfort-able was probably a key to it.” Mallett finished the game 12-of-35 (34 percent) for just 160 yards with one touchdown and one interception. He also got sacked three times. The 6-foot-7 signal caller rarely had time to throw, as Alabama kept consistent pressure on him

Tide smothers Mallett, Arkansas

throughout the game. “We knew if we gave him time, he’s got a rifle for an arm, he’ll put the ball on the money,” said senior linebacker Eyrk Anders. “We just kept pressur-ing and blitzing, trying to hide

where we were coming from, keep him confused, keep him on his toes.” In the first quarter, however, Arkansas’s defense looked even more impressive than the Tide’s. Alabama mustered just 31 yards on 14 plays in the first frame, but it didn’t take too much longer for the Tide offense to finally explode. With 9:30 left in the second quarter, running back Trent Richardson looked trapped

along the right sideline, but broke through four tackles on his way to a 52-yard touchdown run. It was the true freshman’s fourth touchdown in the last three games. “He’s the running back version of Julio [Jones],” said defensive end Lorenzo Washington. “There ain’t one DB that’s going to bring Julio down. There ain’t one person that’s going to bring Trent down. He’s a little bowling ball.” The Tide’s next two touch-downs were also plays of 50 or more yards. On the drive after the Richardson touchdown, quarterback Greg McElroy found Jones on a trick play out of the Wild Tide formation for a 50-yard touchdown pass. After Mallett and Arkansas finally found the endzone on their first drive of the second half, Alabama answered with an 80-yard touchdown pass from McElroy to sophomore Marquis Maze on the next play from scrimmage to take a 21-7 lead. “One thing we’ve done this year, a lot more than last year, is that we’ve had a lot more explosive plays,” Saban said. “I think it’s because we’re doing more things, there’s more peo-ple involved.” Running back Mark Ingram added two touchdowns – a 14-yard reception from McElroy after a blocked punt in the third quarter and a 2-yard run

early in the fourth – to extend the Tide’s lead to the 35-7 final score. Sophomore linebacker Dont’a Hightower went down with what appeared to be a serious knee injury late in the first quarter. Hightower was taken to the locker room and emerged later on crutches to rejoin the team on the side-lines. “There’s a guy that doesn’t get talked about enough,” Saban said of Hightower. “One of our best football players on our entire team. Our best pass rusher we have.” For the remainder of the game, the Tide shifted among many looks at the linebacker position, with sophomore Courtney Upshaw being the man in the game alongside the regular starters. “It’s really hard to replace him because of all the differ-ent things that he does, but the depth that we have now makes it a little bit easier to adjust to something like that,” said senior linebacker Cory Reamer. “Different days [dur-ing fall camp], we’d have prac-tices where we’d all have to play different positions [to pre-pare for a situation like this].” No. 3 Alabama (4-0, 1-0) will try to remain undefeated next week at Kentucky. The game will kickoff at 11:20 a.m., and it will be televised regionally by the SEC Network.

CW | Jerrod SeatonQuarterback Ryan Mallett steps up to avoid the pressure of Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus. Dareus had three quarterback hurries Saturday.

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POSITION grades

Quarterbacks – 4.0 Cumulative: 3.83Greg McElroy just seems to get better and better with each passing week. His latest triumph was against the hapless Arkansas secondary, a group McElroy torched for 291 yards and three touchdowns while completing 17 of 24 passes. Keep in mind that there were three dropped passes early in the game.

Running backs – 3.7 Cumulative: 3.88With Arkansas stacking the box and the offensive line having difficulty creating effective running lanes, the Tide was limited to half of their season average on the ground. Despite the obstacles, Trent Richardson and Mark Ingram each produced rushing touchdowns. Richardson’s 55-yard race down the sideline after breaking four tackles showed the nearly limitless promise of the true freshman.

Wide receivers/tight ends – 3.8 Cumulative: 3.75Julio Jones had a memorable return to action, pulling in the Tide’s most exciting touchdown of the game, a 50-yard reception on a Wild Tide reverse pitch. The Tide produced three pass plays of over 30 yards, with two going for TDs. Three early drops, two by Colin Peek and one by Marquis Maze, who hauled in an 80-yard TD catch to atone for it, keep the unit from a perfect score.

Offensive line – 3.3 Cumulative: 3.4Despite magnificent pass blocking for most of the game, the inability of the Tide offensive line to punch holes for running room is slightly unsettling against a poor defense like the Razorbacks. To their credit, however, it was obvious that Arkansas’ main defensive priority was stopping the run and stacking the box.

Defensive line – 4.0 Cumulative: 4.0Another week, another suffocating performance from the Tide defensive line. For the fourth consecutive week, Alabama held an opponent to less than 65 yards rushing for the entire game. The outstanding perfor-mance goes beyond the rushing numbers, however, and includes the constant pressure the line placed on Hog quarterback Ryan Mallett.

Linebackers – 4.0 Cumulative: 3.95It would have been easy for the linebackers’ perfor-mance to suffer after the loss of star sophomore Dont’a Hightower in the first quarter, but after some shuffling by defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, the unit didn’t seem to lose a step. Eryk Anders was particularly active both at the “Jack” and “Sam” positions, tallying a sack and two tackles-for-loss.

Defensive backs – 4.0 Cumulative: 3.58The unit with the most to prove on Saturday arguably had the biggest day. The Alabama secondary stuck to receivers like Velcro for most of the game, holding Mallett to a paltry 160 yards, less than half of his season average. Justin Woodall’s fourth-quarter interception was the Arkansas quarterback’s first pick of the year.

Special teams – 3.5 Cumulative: 3.0An unimpressive unit for the Tide so far in the sea-son took several steps toward improvement against the Hogs. The kickoff coverage team gave up one big return but held the rest in check. Senior defensive end Lorenzo Washington blocked a punt, and Javier Arenas got some good yardage on punt returns. Another fan-tastic return was wiped out by an unfortunate block in the back by Cory Reamer.

Coaching – 4.0 Cumulative: 3.93Nick Saban and the defensive staff held a potent Arkansas offense to a measly seven points, and Jim McElwain and the Tide offense took good advantage of the weak Arkansas secondary when the Hog defense stacked the box against the run.

The number of punts by the Razorbacks against Alabama. Arkansas only punted eight times in its previous two games com-bined.

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THE CRIMSON TIDE by the numbers

The most catches by an Alabama wide receiver Saturday. Greg McElroy spread his 17 completions to nine different targets.

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Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett’s completion percentage in Saturday’s game (12-of-35). Mallett entered the game as the nation’s most efficient passer.

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Rushing yards for Alabama against Arkansas, roughly half of the Tide’s season average of 267.67 yards per game on the ground entering Saturday’s con-test.

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Greg McElroy’s touch-down-to- interception ratio this season. The first-year starter had career highs in yards (291) and touchdowns (3)against Arkansas.

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PLAYER of the gameJavier Arenas• 15 tackles ( 3 TFL), 2 sacks

• Arenas helped stop the potent Arkansas pass-ing game in multiple ways Saturday, sticking tight to Razorback receivers while also playing a big role in the Tide’s pass rush.

QUOTE of the game

“He’s the running back version of Julio [Jones]. There ain’t one DB that’s going to bring Julio down. There ain’t one person that’s going to bring Trent

down. He’s a little bowling ball.”

—Defensive end Lorenzo Washington{ }

CW | Jerrod SeatonFreshman running back Trent Richardson breaks down the sideline for a 52-yard touchdown run in the second quarter of Alabamaʼs 35-7 victory, one of several big plays for the Tide.

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By Bryan Bofill

People just can’t seem to get enough of vampires these days. Perhaps the most recog-nized vampires in pop culture today are those of the heav-ily followed “Twilight” books and movies and HBO’s hit TV series “True Blood,” but those only scratch the surface of the vampire world. What is it about vampires that make them so appealing? Sarah Houston, a senior majoring in biology and histo-ry, said vampires had a unique appeal for the opposite sex. As a result, she said, many students would see new and upcoming vampire flicks like “Twilight: New Moon” and “Daybreakers.” “Women find vampires appealing because they are the bad boy,” Houston said. “I’ll definitely be going to the ‘New Moon’ midnight show-ing.” Chris Irving, a junior major-ing in chemical engineering, said it is a combination of mythical and inherent power that make vampires so attrac-

tive to audiences. He said vam-pires have also changed over the years, shifting their char-acter from a grotesque figure of wickedness to slightly emo, debonair characters. “They want to be edgy, they want to be different,” Irving says. “They [vampires] went from being bad to being date-able.” Morgan Stacy, a UA profes-sor in the American studies department, sees the spirit of the vampire spreading out of the horror genre. “The vampire has branched out beyond horror films, something like ‘True Blood’ especially,” Morgan said. But vampires weren’t always as glamorous as they are today. Early films such as “Nosferatu” (1922) depict the vampire as a soulless, horrify-ing creature, but now charac-ters like Edward Cullen from the Twilight series and Queen Akasha from “Queen of the Damned” (2003) depict vam-pires as sexy and provocative. This is just one example of the many image changes vampires have taken over the years. Even the most famous

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vampire of all time, Count Dracula, has undergone a drastic image change. Not all students like these changes. Caitlin Kirby, a junior majoring in chemical engi-neering, said vampires’ attrac-tion comes from otherworldly elements such as sucking the blood of the living, getting to live forever, and commanding black magic. Kirby said that’s the way it ought to stay. “It’s all fantasy, it’s not real,” she said. “I think they need to stay as mythical,

scary creatures.” But the vampire has remained a prominent figure of the horror genre despite its shift in look and personality. Certainly the “Blade” trilogy and the massive TV hit “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” have built a large fan base for people who dislike how current media production houses have taken the image of the vampire and turned it against its original core meaning. Turning the vampire into a figure of tortured romance

hasn’t seemed to slow down the making of new and upcom-ing vampire flicks. The release of “New Moon” will mark the sixth feature-length vampire movie in 2009 alone. Kelly Muenstermen, a senior biology major, said the wave of vampire movies is just film companies profiting off of the current trend. “It is a point of market satu-ration,” Muenstermen said. “Vampires are decidedly a rally cry, and companies are cashing in on the dollar.”

rottentomatoes.comVampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) romances Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in “Twilight.” The book and movie series are part of a sweeping change in the cultural image of vampires.

“Vampires are decidedly a rally cry, and companies are cashing in on the dollar.”

— Kelly Muenstermen, a senior majoring in biology{ }

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