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Colorado and Washington legalize marijuanaBY ALYSE HARTDEGEN

Elections are over and the country is set-tling back into a calmer state but not for long.

One milestone that came out of this past elec-tion is the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana in two states: Washington and Colorado.

Both states were two of 18 states that had pre-viously legalized mari-juana for medicinal use only. However, the fed-eral law states that mari-juana for any use is ille-gal, thus subjecting each of the 18 states to the Drug Enforcement Ad-ministration, or DEA.

Their job is to fight the war on drugs, whether or not said drugs are legal in certain states. This has been a fighting point for each of these states since the 1990s, when states began to legalize me-dicinal use of the drug. Beginning in 1978, 34 states had enacted laws stating the medical val-ue of marijuana and be-gan small programs to provide small amounts of the drug to patients.

Due to compli-cated federal regula-tions, though, these laws and the resulting pro-grams were short-lived.

Alabama was previ-ously one of the states that had made steps to-wards legalizing medical marijuana, unsuccessfully.

Recently, two bills have been sent to leg-islature and declined.

Many students at the University of Monte-vallo feel that due to the common political lean-ings of Alabama, legal-ization of even medical marijuana is not realistic for some time to come.

In an interview, a sophomore at the Univer-sity who wished to remain anonymous said, “I don’t know where everyone else stands on it, but it could be a possibility. I’d say there would be a lot more people that wouldn’t want it to happen here.”

Another student said, “Alabama is too back-wards and stuck in the 20th century; it’s very hard for the state to change its ways because they stick to this cer-tain set of beliefs that tends to be outdated.”

When asked what sort of regulations should be put in place if marijuana was legalized, one stu-dent very passionately said, “Seriously? What’s the point of putting more rules on it? That’s some-

thing that our president shouldn’t be thinking about. He needs to be focused on bigger prob-lems. This shouldn’t be our top priority; smoking weed should be the least of our priorities. Amer-ica has always had bet-ter standards than that.”

Others who disagree have said, “It should be [ legal ized]… It would help out our economy, especial ly if it were to be regulated in a simi-lar manner to alcohol.”

Some of the states that have already legalized it have regulated it like al-cohol. To put it into the economy would be so ben-eficial. It would also hurt the drug cartel, especially coming from Mexico.”

She also had this to say on what sort of regu-lations should be pro-vided: “There should be an age limit (18), there should be some sort of regulation as far driving. I don’t know how they would regulate it, but I would appreciate if peo-ple did not drive high.”

She continued, “I definitely feel l ike there should be a tax on it. And some sort of l icens-ing; very carefully han-dled, very well l icensed, very well-labeled.”

Festivities erupt on Main StreetBY PERRIN WINDHAM

On November 15, the city of Mon-

tevallo had their annual holiday parade.This year it was held in con-

junction with the Art Walk.Along with the parade itself, those

attending could walk up and down Main Street and look at the various art booths and see what they had to offer.

There were many different floats representing different entities within the city of Montevallo and the sur-rounding areas. Several schools were represented. Starting off the parade was Montevallo High School Marching Band playing various Christmas tunes.

Following this was Staci Lawson, homecoming queen of Montevallo, University of Montevallo Cheerleaders, Montevallo High School Girls Athlet-ics riding in the bed of a truck, Future

Farmers of America from Montevallo High School on foot and T h o m p s o n High School baseball team.

There were also various i n d i v i d u a l s part icipat ing in the parade. There were people dressed as Native A m e r i c a n s going down the street to the beat of their drums.

Other floats in-cluded, Blain

Graham, Tiny Mister for Relay for Life; Lillian Kate Buse, Baby Miss for Relay for Life; Savanna Smith, Little Miss Montevallo; Charli-Ann Baugh, Little Miss Montevallo; April Weaver, State Representative; and Grand Marshal, Mike Dubberly.

Several churches took part in the parade, of different denominations and from different parts of the city.

Montevallo Methodist preschool was present with the children dressed like reindeer and wearing Santa hats. Dogwood Grove Baptist Church rode by chanting “We seek Jesus,” while Montevallo First Baptist Church had a float with children of the congregation and signs with lights that said Noel.

Other church groups included Awa-

na clubs from Grace Baptist Church, St. Thomas Catholic Church, Southside Baptist Church, Faith Missionary Bap-tist Church, and Awana Baptist Church, the only group with a float that cel-ebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas.

There were many local businesses and organizations that participated as well.

Country radio station 102.5 The Bull, Tractor Supply Company, people of all ages in their uniforms from the Karate studio on Main Street, six trucks from Montevallo Fire and Rescue, Troop 224 Girl Scouts of Alabama, Boys and Girls Club of Montevallo, Critters by the Creek--who had dogs riding on the back of the truck--Shelby Starlets Ba-ton Twirling, who twirled to songs like Mariah Carey’s “I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas,” workers from American Village dressed in colonial uniforms and a truck from JD’s Furniture Ware-house, a new business in town that was opening the weekend after the parade. Also in attendance were people from the Vallocycle program with students from UM, including Braxton Austin, Luna Shedrick and Allison Bartlett.

Also in the parade was a horse dressed as a reindeer, Montevallo Com-munity Band with various Christmas selections, many vintage cars, includ-ing one driven by Bank Trust, Child-care Network driving a school bus, Joe’s Italian Restaurant from Alabaster, Encouragement Learning Foundation, Baseline Softball team, Montevallo Building Supply and Parnell Memo-rial Library with children dressed as the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who.

Ending the parade was Santa and Mrs. Clause riding on a semitrailer, with members from UM’s fraternity Alpha Tau Omega walking behind.

UM presents “Rent,” page 7

Review of Joe Crow Ryan and the Memphibians, page 6

As it relates to High-er Education, Univer-sity of Montevallo has been called a “best kept secret” by newspa-pers, such as the Shelby County Reporter in a Sep. 22, 2011 article and books such as Peter L. Arango’s, America’s Best Kept College Secrets.

Though it is a flatter-ing title, “best kept se-cret” is not a title condu-cive to getting graduating seniors to UM’s campus.

UM administra-tors recognized this

problem, and in efforts to remedy this condition the university launched a branding campaign led by Senior Vice President for Administrative Af-fairs Michelle Johnston.

On September 21, 2011, UM students gath-ered on the quad to partake in the food and fun that was provided at an event to unveil the new school logo.

The event was an ef-fort to inform the stu-dent body, community and state at large of the

ensuing branding cam-paign. A falcon perched on a simple “M,” the glo-rious, unifying symbol of University of Montevallo. Initially the student ap-proval of the sign was low.

Former student, Jes-sica Carpenter even went so far as to post a video criticizing the logo. A year has passed, boister-ous criticisms of the logo have died down, and what does the univer-sity have to show for it?

An interview with Johnston shed light on some of the benefits of rallying behind a single logo and putting Univer-sity of Montevallo in the minds of more people.

In response to being asked about the need for the new logo and the branding campaign Johnston had this to

Secrets don’t make friendsBY KOREY WILSON

SEE SECRETS, PAGE 3

Montevallo High School Marching Band plays various Christmas tunes.

This year the parade co-incided with Beaujolais Nouveau at Eclipse and the Artwalk.

Announcers for the Christmas parade keep the onlookers entertained.

Jennifer Corona

Jennifer Corona

I do not consider myself a prophet; I do not consider myself a prognosticator. But every now and again I can see something I know will do well, call it, and usually be right.

Transversely, I can also point out a stink-er from a mile away.

In 2008, I predicted that the hiring of Gene Chizik for Auburn’s head coach wouldn’t end well, and, for most counts, I was right.

Aside from the as-terisk worthy Year of the Cam, Chizik’s tenure at Auburn has been a dud. Af-ter losing every SEC game on the schedule, he was tossed just last week.

This is good for Au-burn; they are a solid program that is one of the SEC’s most con-sistent, with a rabid fanbase and amaz-ing traditions –that is, before some idiot tried to kill one of

them off. They de-serve better than this, and I can’t wait to see them return to form.

Anyways, I feel the need to share with you my (unbiased) opinion on the hire.

I was so confident in my prediction that he was not the answer, and that so many great coaches should have been higher up on the list than he, that I posted the follow-ing on Facebook way back in 2008. Enjoy.

Notable qualified coaches that should have gotten Auburn Head Coaching posi-tion but were passed up:

1.) Turner Gill--Won at Buffalo. Need we say more?2.) Steve Spurrier--Won at Duke. Need we say more?3.) Jeff Bower--South-ern Miss without him is terrible.6.) Pat Dye8.) Tommy Tuberville-

-Well, he did have a pretty good interview.10.) Larry Blakeney12.) Lou Holtz--If only the spit guards were larger.14.) Charles Barkley--Suddenly he’s a foot-ball expert?17.) Phil Jackson--Surely greatness can rub off, right?19.) Lambeau Fields21.) Coach Carter24.) Herman Boone25.) Drew Granthum26.) Gene Hackman--To quote a wise man: “Come to think of it, I would have hired another Gene. I would hire Gene Hackman. He’s coached a high school basketball championship and led a bunch of replacement players to the playoffs in a fake league.”27.) Chuck Norris-

-Tim Tebow was in college still.34.) Smokey the Bear--Only he can stop forest fires. Which is more than AU’s defense stopped this year.36.) Jim Mora--Play-off? We just wanna win a freakin’ Bowl!57.) Billy Bob Thorn-ton76.) Jim Fassel84.) James Malone99.) Josh Ethridge259.) Gene. Stallings.435.) Aubie--He’s at least got a National Title of some sorts.546.) Gene Chizik

Of course this is “all in” good fun, folks. I hope this time Auburn gets someone who can turn them around and keep up their tradition.

Name, Major, Year1. Are you ready for exams?2. What do you do to relieve stress?3. What are you doing the weekend before finals?

4. How many hours a week do you study?5. Where is your favorite place to study?

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VIEWPOINTSDREW

GRANTHUMAlabamian Columnist

Editor-in-Chief Heather Buckner

Assistant EditorKyle Jones

Business Manager Daniel Farris

Copy Editor & Columnist Drew Granthum

Layout EditorHannah Stein

News Editor Andrew Mechum

Entertainment EditorSam Phillips

Campus Life EditorKorey Wilson

Sports Editor Jordon Semien

Contributing Writers:Jacob BobstConnor BucyKaitlee DawAlyse HartdegenSammy SchiffmanReed StrengthSydney StoverPerrin Windham

Photographer Jennifer Corona

Adviser:Tiffany Roskamp-Bunt

The Alabamian is published twice monthly. As the campus newspaper of the Univer-sity of Montevallo, this paper dedicates itself to the accurate presentation of the news of the University community, to reporting the news of all seg-ments of that community, stu-dents, faculty, administrators, the board of trustees, alumni, and friends of the University. Further, it serves as a forum of opinion for the exchange of ideas among all its constituent groups. To that end, it operates without undue influence or control by any one of those constituent groups.

The opinions expressed on this page are not necessarily those of the university, its of-ficials, its faculty, or the student body.

CONTACT INFORMATION:The AlabamianWill Lyman House Station 6222Montevallo, AL 35115alabamian@montevallo.edu205-665-6222

On the bricksWith Sammy Schiffman

Zac Gallman, Art, Senior1. Yes, strictly because I like to read.2. Stare at reddit all day3. Going out4. 10 hours5. Eclipse

Thomas Woods, Finance, Sophomore1. I will in a few days.2. I like to get a good night’s sleep and hangout with friends.3. Study Friday and Saturday and watch NFL on Sun-day and relax4. 14 hours5. The basement of the ATO house

Britney Miller, Elementary Education, Senior1. No2. Listen to music and work out3. Adding finishing touches to my study guides and sleeping4. At least an hour a day5. Malone Center

Steven Sortor, Chemistry, Sophomore1. Yeah, I guess2. Running and reading books3. Relaxing4. 4 or 5 hours5. Upstairs in the library

Adam Pettway, Undecided, Freshman1. Yes2. Hangout in Napier basement and watch a little T.V.3. A little studying and getting ready to go home4. 3 hours5. In my room

Margaret Cosby, Social Work, Freshman1. Yes2. Listen to music3. Look over my work and make sure I have every-thing down4. 48 hours5. In my room at my house

Katie Barrett, Art Education, Sophomore1. Yes2. Going shopping3. Studying4. 12 hours5. Library

Internships: gateway to the real world

Brick street way of life

Left, right. Left, right—step by step un-til it feels like a natural rhythm. All the while the mother holds her child’s hand until finally he can do it on his own.

This is the feeling that many people say they have when they first enter the workforce. Af-ter four years or more of sitting in a classroom going through “train-ing,” one finally has to prove themselves at a job. Although there is one thing that makes it easier—an internship.

Internships are like a bridge that connects college and the real world. College provides an individual with all the rules and the behind the scenes materials, but it is an internship that provides an oppor-tunity for an application of the learned skills.

It is a hands-on, “open-book” test—since you can ask quest ions. An intern-ship presents a visual of the possible future with the chosen major. It’s l ike a l itt le taste of a big buffet—the real world. An internship is l ike shopping for a brand new outf it. You should always try on things before you buy them. An internship is a free trial before the big purchase. Intern-ships are essential.

In the real world, most companies search for a prospective em-ployee with experience of some type relating to the field. Full re-sumes with extracur-

ricular and honors so-cieties and programs look good, but hands-on experience makes the prospect stand out.

Many people may ask, “How do I get an internship?” The first step to getting an in-ternship is to identify what type of internship would suit you best.

After that has been ident if ied, start re-searching companies. Also talk to profes-sors for more infor-mat ion and recom-mendat ions about certain companies.

Next target the pos-sible internship site by contacting an intern coordinator or a gen-eral manager. Send him or her a cover letter and a resume.

Follow up and con-tinue to stay in contact to receive an interview.

Once at the inter-view, be sure to show the manager how en-thusiast ic you are about receiving the placement at this par-t icular site. Let him or her know that you are wil l ing to take in everything that the company is wil l ing to teach you. This inter-view is your way of lett ing the manager know that you have been trained in the f ield and are prepared to apply the knowledge that you have gained.

Follow these steps and always know that it just takes one foot in the door to get start-ed on a great career.

BY SYDNEY STOVER

Growing mustaches raises awarenessBY KYLE JONES, ASSISTANT EDITOR

The first of Novem-ber marked the start of this year’s Movember, an international fundraising and awareness event for men’s cancer research.

Many people in ac-ademia are familiar with the “tradition” of No Shave Novem-ber but what separates that from this global initiative is that by growing facial hair, you are changing the face of men’s health.

Movember began in Australia in 2003 when 30 friends got togeth-er to grow mustaches for fun. The next year four of the original 30 members got together to continue their tradi-tion but this time they did it for a cause. That year, 450 participants raised $43,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foun-dation of Australia.

Movember came to the US in 2007, with 2,127 part icipants rais-ing over $740,000. This year, there wil l be of-f icial Movember cam-paigns in 21 countries. In 2011, the US cam-paign saw more than 145,000 Americans growing and support-ing the Mo, raising over $15 mil l ion for men’s health, specif ical ly prostate and test icu-lar cancer init iat ives.

All funds raised by

“MoBros” go to Movem-ber’s men’s health part-ners Prostate Cancer Foundat ion and the LIVESTRONG Foun-dat ion which works to ensure that Movem-ber funds are sup-port ing innovat ive, world-class programs in three areas: aware-ness/educat ion, survi-vorship and research.

The rules are sim-ple, men start clean shaven on November 1 and grow mustaches for 30 days in an ef-fort to become walk-ing, talk ing bil lboards for men’s health, al l while raising funds along the way. Mo-vember provides a fun and interest ing way to get men talk ing about their health, which can often be a diff i-cult obstacle for males.

To get involved, visit movember.com to register and to set up your own MoSpace. I myself have been participating and will be documenting my progress via facebook and in each week’s issue of the online newspaper The Falcon, through-out the month of “Movember.” Help us reach our goal of $200 by visiting our team page at us.movember.c o m / t e a m / 4 5 8 0 8 9 .

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Benghazi hearings look for answers

Closed hearings were held by both the Senate and House November 16 to get to the bot-tom of what happened leading up to and fol-lowing the attack on the American consul-ate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.

Former CIA Direc-tor David Petraeus was present to answer ques-tions from lawmakers on when and what the CIA knew and what they did with that information.

Petraeus stepped down as director of the CIA five days prior to his testimony after re-vealing he had an af-fair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. Ru-mors circulated that the FBI investigation that uncovered Pe-traeus’ affair and his subsequent resignation were somehow linked to the attack in Beng-hazi. However Petraeus

denied these claims to HLN’s Kyra Phillips.

Several republicans including Sen. John McCain and Rep. Dan Rohrabacher have in-sisted that the admin-istration have mislead the American people with regards to what happened in Libya.

“What is clear is that this administration, in-cluding the president himself, has inten-tionally misinformed, read that “lied,” to the American people in the aftermath of this trag-edy,” said Rohrbacher.

The facts surround-ing Benghazi have been slow to come to the surface, in part due to the national security aspect of the whole af-fair. And we can’t ex-pect them to come any faster as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t scheduled to testify until early December.

BY ANDREW MECHUM

SECRETS:

Regardless of the out-come of the hearings, the Benghazi debacle has highlighted one of two possible issues facing the current administration:

Either our intel-ligence community is inept and incapable of performing it’s job, re-sulting in inaccurate in-formation being given to administration officials, or the administration sought to alter informa-tion given to the Ameri-can public to bolster its pre-election image.

Main Street boasts new businessBY HEATHER BUCKNER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Main Street now boasts one more small business—JD’s Furniture Warehouse, which opened Saturday November 17.

While furniture stores are gen-erally inconsequential to students, Manager Darlene Brasher was sure to note JD’s significance to people on and around campus.

“We do offer student pack-ages,” she began. “The costs vary, but packages can start as low as $500, depending on your indi-vidual needs. They could include bedding and dinettes—for ex-ample, maybe a twin-sized bed, some lamps or maybe a loveseat.”

JD’s grand opening will be Jan-uary 4 between 3 and 5 p.m. There will be several singing groups,

door prizes and other various drawings to entertain customers.

Prizes in the drawings could include anything from a Texas Roadhouse gift cer-tificate to a twin- or full-sized bed.

“We’ll also be having a drawing at the end of Janu-ary for a memory foam mattress—open to students only,” said Brasher.

Right now, stu-dents who present their ID receive 25 percent off their total purchase and free delivery.

JD’s is open Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., closing at 6 p.m. on Wednes-days and closed on Sundays.

JD’s Furniture Warehouse opened on Main Street November 17.

say, “People would hear things about Montevallo, but they wouldn’t know [the truth] about the uni-versity,” that many peo-ple’s knowledge of the University of Montevallo came from “anecdotal things,” and that “many people believe UM is a private institution.”

According to John-ston, in order to collect data about the strength of UM’s identity, the divi-sion of Academic Affairs surveyed prospective students, and the survey confirmed the suspicions of administrators. In re-sponse to the informa-tion, UM administrators “pieced together strate-gies based on the infor-

mation they gathered.”In order to achieve

the goal set by Theme 4, subsection c of the UM Strategic Plan of increas-ing enrollment to 3000 on-campus residents, Johnston stated that there is a need for “visual pre-sentation” and a “strong recruiting team,” go-ing on to say that UM recruiters often “start at square one” when it comes to convincing stu-dents to come to UM.

The main detriment of being invisible is that it is hard for an orga-nization to raise funds if people do not know who the organization is. Another way Johnston is promoting UM is by

placing ads on Pandora.Dr. Johnston said that

there has been “enor-mous traffic from the Pandora ads,” and as a result from the whole campaign—accord ing to numbers published by UM’s division of institu-tional research and plan-ning—UM freshman en-rollment for 2011 is 507 as opposed to 2010’s 432, a 17 percent increase.

A year has passed, re-sults have been achieved and boisterous criti-cism of the log has died down. Now all that’s left is to determine whether or not the results were worth the time and effort spent to achieve them.

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ON CAMPUSBricks: UM’s history laid out ON AIR WITH TYNE COWANSBY JACOB BOBST BY SYDNEY STOVER

The bricks of Montevallo are an icon of the university, a tradi-tion and a national historic land-mark. Many students and fac-ulty then feel that they give the campus an aesthetic unlike any other.

We see them every day--we love them, we trip over them. But do we know them?

According to school archivist Carey Heatherly, the fact that we have bricks at all is simply because they were avail-able when material was needed to build. Everything needed to mass produce bricks was already available because of the building efforts of Edmund King, the original owner of King House.

When the need for a building ma-terial arrived, King had his slaves make bricks in Shoal Creek. When it came time for Montevallo to be es-tablished as the Alabama Girls In-dustrial School, they already had enough bricks for “a brick-making empire” in the area, Heatherly said.

While some of the buildings, such as Reynolds Hall, were already here and made of brick, the new buildings--such as Main Hall--were built with brick not only because it was readily available but also because they matched the aes-thetic. The college has made an effort to continue that aesthetic ever since.

The buildings were erected in brick but not the original paths.

It wasn’t until the late 1920s that the effort to pave the school’s walkways be-gan. The paving started as a slow pro-cess and continued until around 1935, when the town of Montevallo, as well as the campus, were the beneficiaries of the New Deal and the workers from the Works Progress Administration came to town. They went to work im-mediately to build brick paths along-side other renovations to the campus.

Not only did the new brick streets take care of walkways that were like streams, but it also allowed the uni-versity to boast about having paved streets, which were a rarity at the time.

Of course, not all of campus is paved in brick. As you may have noticed, the part of campus around Farmer Hall and Comer Hall are paved in a more tradi-tional manner. According to Heatherly, the primary reason is that it’s easier. The Montevallo Brick and Tile Company

was originally responsible for supply-ing the campus its custom bricks, but they went out of business around the 1950s. So now, a firm in Pennsylva-nia provides the university its replace-ments, but it can be a difficult process.

“It’s not like going to Lowe’s or anything,” said Heatherly.

We can all agree that the bricks are beautiful, but are they safe?

The bricks cover most of the cam-pus, and many students and faculty have tripped over them at one point or another. They have also been known to frustrate the female portion of our campus who attempt to wear high heels.

“I mean, they definitely defer me from wearing heels,” said Sophomore and SGA member Tanya Hoang. “And it definitely defers me from getting a bicycle--the bricks aren’t made for people to bike on. That’s the reason that I don’t bike around the campus.”

However, Kat Spanier of Vallo-cycle claims that you can bike safely if proper attention and care is taken.

On one of their recent tours go-ing throughout campus and the town, only one of the 50 bikes fell, and it was due to a minor mainte-nance issue that was promptly fixed.

“I guess just living at Montevallo and starting this new organization, we just know the bricks are going to be there, and we know it’s a good or-ganization anyway. I urge anyone who worries about it to call me and I’ll take them on a personal tour anywhere they feel uncomfortable riding,” she said.

She continued, “a nice big brick out in the middle of the road is definitely a safety issue if you’re not looking. Having been at Montevallo for four years, I’m kind of trained to look at the ground. That’s just a habit here. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t fallen over at least once.”

It’s true. Many students have reported tr ipping on a brick. However, the only injuries ever reported in al l of Monteval-lo’s long history have been mi-nor, according to Director of Health Services Eleanor Davis.

Safe or not, Montevallo’s bricks are actually a National Historic Landmark, which means they’re likely here to stay.

Bubbly, bright and hope-ful are three words to de-scribe Mass Communica-tion alumna Tyne Cowans.

Cowans graduated on May 5, 2012 with a Bach-elor of Science in Mass Communication. Like many seniors, Cowans felt the pressure of grad-uating and not knowing exactly what she wanted to do after school. She would have a degree--but what about the job? What about doing what she loved and was pas-sionate about? These questions ran through-out Cowans’s mind.

In the beginning of her college career, Cowans had her mind made up to have a ca-reer in radio, but some-where along the way she lost this dream. She became so focused on passing the class-es that she lost sight of the bigger picture.

In February 2012, Cowans began an intern-ship with the radio station

95.7 Jamz. She worked from 5:30 to 9:30 a.m. on the morning show.

As an intern, Cow-ans had to stay up-to-date on current news articles and come up with a list of ideas for the on air personalities.

During the first few weeks, Cowans admits she was out of her element, so she just sat back and ob-served in the begin-ning. It was a different world for her- over-whelming but exciting.

“We’re like newborn ba-bies. We’ve been in college for four years,” Cowans said.

Soon, however, she gained the motiva-tion to ask questions.

“I wanted to absorb it all. I showed my face, asked questions and sat with different people,” Cowans said. “I was just interning and every-body knew my name.”

Cowans made her-self known; she had found her passion again.

“I had a newfound love for radio,” Cowans said.

After graduation, Cow-ans remained an intern un-til August when she hired on as a staff member. At that moment, Cowans knew that her hard work and faith had paid off. Cowans believes that be-ing an intern helped her to get her foot in the door.

“In the real world, you have to step up,” Cowans said, as a les-son from her internship.

Although Cowans is happy to be part of the staff at 97.5 Jamz, her ultimate goal is to be a radio personality.

“I feel like I’m a mini Oprah,” Cowans said. “My friends always tell me, ‘Tyne, you’re so funny.’”

She said even her profes-sors could tell that she was destined to be in the media.

“Tyne was an ex-cellent student and a very personable young woman,” Dr. Susan Thompson said of her.

Chi Omega held a new kind of philanthropy event on Nov 1. affectionately titled Tacky Prom.

The event was open to all Montevallo students. All proceeds went to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

The night consisted of a prize raffle, a compe-tition for tacky prom king and queen and danc-ing the night away in the tackiest of formal wear.

Tacky Prom king and queen were decid-ed based on the tackiest dressed candidates.

The Tacky Prom king winner was Zack Hill and queen was Kate Leventry.

Overall Chi Omega was reward-ed for their efforts--the sisters managed to raise over $600 for their philanthropy.

Make a wish and dance the night awayBY ALYSE HARTDEGEN

Kid’z Klub gives backSunday afternoon on

campus is normally a time for relaxing--used for nap-ping, writing papers or just hanging out on the quad. But a group of students at the University of Monte-vallo decided they wanted to do more with their free time; they wanted to give back to their community.

While the univer-sity is constantly em-phasizing the impor-tance of connections between the school and the town, such as the campus’ recent move to Main Street, it is rare that Montevallo students actually leave campus and get involved in the community.

However, a group of students involved in Ecclesia Campus Minis-tries want to change that.

Since October 13, students involved with the Missions Team in Ecclesia have been host-ing a “Kid’z Klub” on Sunday afternoons, in which they spend time with children living in Monteva l lo--color ing, snacking and playing.

The point is to build connections between the students and the town and to “give back,” accord-ing to Audrey Barron, a member of Ecclesia and leader of the missions team. “We hope to form relationships with the people of Montevallo and bless them in any way we are able to,” said Barron.

Free time for college students is usually pretty limited, but those who choose to participate sac-rifice their Sunday after-noons to get involved. Every other Sunday af-

ternoon, students donate time from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to teach the kids Bible sto-ries, make crafts and play.

Kid’s Klub is about more than just volunteer hours for the students participating, however.

“We believe it has the power to change lives,” said Ashley Gray, a soph-omore and Kid’z Klub worker. “Love goes so far in a child’s life.”

Kelly Redding, a ju-nior, is also involved with Kid’z Klub.

“Our goal is to reach kids with the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ and see their lives transformed with this hope,” Redding said.

“The missions team in Ecclesia wanted to do something to bless the Montevallo commu-nity that would give us an avenue to share the Gospel with as many people as would lis-ten,” Barron explained.

The students respon-sible for planning the event have received sup-port and interest from other students, as well.

“When we presented the idea, many people showed interest and helped tremendously with getting the word out to the community,” Barron said.

Not only are the students giving their t ime and resources, but they said they’re gaining a lot, as wel l.

“I have gained a lot of happiness from seeing the joy on kids’ faces when the ‘big kids’ come out to play with them. It is price-less!,” Gray said. “Also, I have learned a lot about how to actually plan and

organize an event this big. I expect it to be a blast for the kids and the volun-teers. Maybe even more fun for the volunteers!”

While many students choose to go into Bir-mingham to volunteer, the students organiz-ing Kid’z Klub specifi-cally wanted to it to take place in Montevallo.

“Our team chose Mon-tevallo because we wanted to give back to the commu-nity that we take so much from,” Barron explained.

“We chose Monte-vallo because we want-ed the community to see their college stu-dents getting connect-ed,” Redding explains.

University involvement with the community has definitely expanded in the past few years through events such as the Art-walk, the community garden and the recent ad-dition of Montevallo on Main. Community in-volvement is something that has clearly become important to the univer-sity, and Kid’z Klub is just another way for students to bring the University and the city of Monte-vallo closer together.

Students who want to participate can come to Ecclesia Campus Min-istry, which meets ev-ery Thursday night in Comer Auditorium at 8 p.m. No background or special skills are needed.

“The goal of Kid’z Klub is to spread the Gospel to the Monte-vallo community,” said Barron. “We just hope to form relationships with the participants and be involved in their lives.”

BY KAITLEE DAW

A word from SGAThe Student Government Association exists to serve the students on

campus. The senators represent different groups of students on campus. The SGA meets two Wednesdays every month at 4:30 p.m. Students are encouraged to attend; exact dates have been recorded in every copy of the fledgling.

In the November 7 meeting of the Senate, SGA President Ashley Lowe discussed the renovations to the local lake. She said soon the lake will offer a variety of rentable water sport equipment such as kayaks.

She also reviewed the plan for the movement of the bookstore to the Alabama Power Building this coming February.

Tanya Hoang, the UPC coordinator, briefly discussed the recent events that the UPC put on and urged the congress and the students to continue coming to the UPC sponsored programs on campus.

No new legislation was presented to the senate on November 7.

The senators are always looking to hear feedback from the students and would greatly appreciate ideas for future legislation to help improve the campus experience.

Kathleen Kryger discussed the upcoming televised basketball game event. February 16 the Montevallo basketball team will be filmed and broadcast on a local network; more information will come as the date draws closer.

The senate was proud to induct Emmit Astrige as the new housing senator. This is the first time a housing senator has served on the senate; the SGA has high hopes for this new position.

The next senate sessions were scheduled for November 28 and De-cember 5. Students are always encouraged to come watch the senate as it deliberates. The sessions are open to all students.

In addition, the senators are actively seeking student feedback in the form of constituent reports. Please help the SGA by contacting your representatives and participating in a constituent meeting or filling out a constituent report.

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A healthy “¡Dos!” of Green Day

In defense of the desktop

September’s “¡Uno!,” the first of-fering of Green Day’s new trilogy of albums, came out on a sour note.

Lead singer-songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong had been admitted to rehab days before the album’s release after a drunken rant at the iHeart Radio Festival.

The album failed to relieve the harsh news of the singer’s issues, instead showing a band strain-ing for the simplistic teenage aban-don found on their past successes.

In 2008, the Foxboro Hot Tubs, a Green Day side project, released an alcohol fueled batch of garage tunes called “Stop, Drop, and Roll!!!!” The al-bum was a thirty minute slice of riffed out garage rock, a pleasant respite from the rock operas “American Idiot” and the awful “21st Century Breakdown.”

While the side project has yet to re-lease a new album, they debuted a new song in 2010 entitled “F--- Time” at their live shows. The band reportedly liked the song so much that they played it over ten times at a very drunken club show.

That song is found on “¡Dos!”- the second album of Green Day’s trilo-gy- and it sets the “wild party mood” that Armstrong hinted at in inter-views about the album. Beefy drums and an old school riff announce that the band is barely on its feet but are having a great time in the process.

The slightly psych rocked “Wow! That’s Loud” starts with a bright gui-tar lead of Jason White’s that lat-er serves as a melody sung bridge. “Lady Cobra” is a thundering quick jam announcing a she-devil’s arrival.

Unfortunately, the welcome is un-wanted. Where their strangest blunder was the disco f lecked “Kill the DJ,” “¡Dos!” takes the Ke$ha sounding for-mula even further with a rap song en-titled “Nightlife.” Where Armstrong was energetic on “Lady Cobra,” he turns sluggish on his vocal parts as if sucked dry by the rapping temptress.

With a trilogy, there’s room to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. However, “Nightlife” would be

better served as a laughable B-side than a proper album cut. Lines like “hope there’s more in your pants than a bus route” and “gonna make a move be-fore I get bored/if you wanna explore my vocal chord” are just plain gross.

While Green Day will never act their age, a big problem on “¡Uno!” was the aging rock star-isms of the music vid-eos and lyrics. The forced sexiness of “Make Out Party” and “Nightlife” constantly remind that these dudes started in “nineteen eighty f---ing eight” and refuse to let go of how young, wild and free they once were.

The retro rocking “Stray Heart” is a great example of this, with Arm-strong ensuring an ex that he’s as heartbroken as she is. The songs that break from the constant im-ages of wild parties are better for it.

The sobered “Lazy Bones” starts with a Strokes-like riff that skyrockets into a thundering warning about depres-sion and apathy. “Stop When the Red Lights Flash” repeats a gnashing guitar riff as Armstrong promises to “make you surrender.” On the opposite end of the spectrum is the tender “Amy,” a tribute to the late Amy Winehouse.

“Now you’re too young for the golden age/’cause the record bins been replaced/twenty-seven gone without a trace/and you walked away from your drink” croons Armstrong over a plucked guitar line. The al-bum begins and ends with Armstrong by himself. While longtime producer Rob Cavallo mostly keeps things mas-sive and rocket fueled, “See You To-night” and “Amy” are scaled back in sound to an almost demo-like quality.

While this year saw a better and sexier rock n’ roll record with Divine Fits’ debut album, Green Day fi-nally succeed on reducing their once world-sized problems to short jams about the excesses of the good life. With Billie Joe sitting out the next few months in rehab, this maybe the wild-est we hear the band in a long time.

BY REED STRENGTH

Back in 2010, search engine gi-ant Google made the prediction that, given three years time, the desk-top computer would be “irrelevant.”

Now, two years later, it seems as though Google’s prediction is coming true, at least partially.

Desktop sales among consumers are declining as more people are choos-ing laptops as their workhorse devices. Tech blogs and news magazines are all abuzz with the “post-PC era,” a term coined by Apple, Inc. to describe the movement to mobile devices in lieu of the personal computers of yesteryear.

However, as an avid desktop user, the idea that the desktop, and indeed the PC as a platform, is dying is strange to me. My faithful desktop computer, a Fran-kenstein of various parts from various brands joined together into a high per-forming machine, is a constant in my day-to-day life, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon- for a variety of reasons.

First off, desktop computers simply offer greater potential for power than laptops do, provided one knows how to build one. I know, I know- laptops are getting more powerful, ARM processors are getting better, etc, but hear me out.

The sheer volume of a desktop makes it the more suitable device for processor-intensive tasks such as de-sign, digital art and gaming. While one certainly can run Photoshop on a lap-top, I can’t recommend it, as I’ve never seen it done without some degree of lag.

In addition, such tasks often cause laptops to heat up due to their small-er size and lack of an extensive cool-ing system. You don’t see anyone trying to squeeze a liquid-cooled heat-pipe into a laptop and for good reason. It isn’t going to happen.

I also find myself rarely even play-ing gaming consoles, even though I own an Xbox 360, as my com-puter generally has the same games available and can run them on higher graphical settings, along with offering download-able user-created modi-fications and content.

This makes the desk-

top computer an excellent work and play center, combining media, gam-ing and computing into one space.

While making the most out of the desktop requires perhaps more than a basic understanding of hard-ware, the reward far exceeds the cost.

This brings me to my next point: The cost in dollars.

I’ve known people who have gone through multiple laptops in the approxi-mate five year span that I’ve owned my desktop (which also speaks volumes on the desktop’s reliability, given proper care). This isn’t to say that they were careless users, laptops are simply more expendable than desktops. Notebooks are much more likely to require re-pairs or, more frequently, replacements.

A desktop, given that the user builds it him/herself, can be purchased for around $600, if one knows how to shop. A decent laptop, however, generally runs around $800 to $1,000+, depend-ing on the brand name on the device.

In addition, when a user finds his/herself in need of a faster, stronger ma-chine, a desktop is simple and fairly cheap to upgrade. Other devices are nearly im-possible to alter and are usually built to be obsolete when a new model is out.

Simply put, I am a desktop user be-cause I value modularity and the best possible performance for my money.

While laptops are definitely the go-to device for a user who needs portability, I prefer to have a strong home base for all of my real work and gaming. Even though I take my tablet everywhere and even use it for lecture notes here and there, at the end of the day, I still find myself at my desktop for anything else.

Whether I’m gaming, working or just watching television shows, my desktop delivers the best experience for all three.

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Computing on a budget: a look at Google’s new Chromebook

Those who feel “Loveless” may feel love again

If you’re looking to purchase a new laptop on a college student bud-get, Google and Samsung may have just the device.

The two companies have teamed up to build the new ARM-based Chrome-book, an ultrabook start-ing at the seemingly crazy low price of $249. This low price, at first, might sound suspicious. Such a cheap price for a laptop brings to mind the hor-rors of poor quality con-trol, malfunctioning hard-ware and disappointment.

However, the new Se-ries 3 Chromebook doesn’t suffer from the usual symptoms that sometimes come with affordability.

For starters, some may wonder what ex-actly a “Chromebook” is.

Simply put, it’s a lap-top running Google’s own Linux-based operating sys-tem, ChromeOS. Chrome-OS is an open-source proj-ect designed to work mainly with web applications. Es-sentially, the applications of the operating system are in-tegrated into the web brows-er, Google Chrome. This means the Chromebook is very web-centric, depend-ing on a working internet connection for many tasks.

While earlier models suffered from a lack of

offline usability, the Se-ries 3 attempts to remedy this by allowing users to work with many applica-tions in an offline mode.

ChromeOS’s appeal is in its simplicity and its integration with the Google ecosystem, allow-ing seamless connection with Google’s cloud ser-vices such as Google Drive. Purchasing a Chromebook will get you a free 100 gi-gabytes on Google Drive, an incentive to jump into Google’s cloud and a major perk to buying the device.

Physically, the Chome-book certainly doesn’t feel like a $249 piece of hardware.

It’s an incredibly com-pact device, weighing in at 2.5 pounds with a thickness of less than 18 millimeters. It’s also quite stylish, almost resembling a Macbook Air or an HP ultrabook with its silver casing.

Internally, the Series 3 sports an Exynos 5 ARM processor, 2 gigabytes of DDR3L memory and 16 gigabytes of solid state drive space. While the SSD might seem small, the 100 gigabytes of space on the Google Drive seem to be given as a trade-off.

The Series 3 also gets approximately six hours of battery life, keeping the user mobile and cord-free.

The display isn’t a mas-sive innovation, featuring an 11.6” matte surface at a resolution of 1366 x 768, but it is fairly nice--albeit a little on the dim side.

For developers and modders, the Series 3 Chromebook offers a cheap experiment-friendly device. Although not wide-ly advertised, ChomeOS is Linux-based, meaning that installing various dis-tributions of Linux soft-ware is entirely possible. Already, developers are finding ways to port over fully-functional operating systems such as Ubun-tu, Debian and Fedora.

These options make the Series 3 a much more at-tractive option for a more experienced user or a pro-grammer looking to get more use out of the device, both online and offline.

What makes the Chromebook such an at-tractive modding platform is that regardless of what might go wrong, all of the user’s data is still stored on the Cloud and the de-vice is easily restorable.

At $249, the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook is a tough deal to beat. Out of the box, the device has its limitations. Users ac-customed to Windows or Mac OS X will find that their usual programs aren’t compatible with the Chromebook, and many applications will require a working internet connec-tion in order to see full use.

However, for the average user looking to find a cheap alternative to throwing down $800 plus on an ul-trabook, the Chromebook presents a viable option.

Music Review: Lana del Rey’s “Paradise”Pop songstress Lana del Rey seems to

follow a recent trend in pop music towards glamorous, old-school style female croon-ers and balladeers like Adele and Flor-ence Welch, but with the interesting twist that just about everyone seems to hate her.

The backlash against del Rey’s sultry torch songs and smoky ballads is surprising consid-ering this shift in the pop listening public, with electronic, performative divas giving way to cabaret throwbacks. Yet del Rey seems to provoke a visceral resistance in people. They see her as phony and insincere, a corpo-rate product dressed up as a self-made success.

To be sure, everything about del Rey, from her stage name to her do-it-your-self aesthetic, is totally manufactured.

The persona that finally brought her fame is only the latest in a string of at-tempts to break into the business. Still, to criticize a pop star for having a con-structed image should be a fruit too low-hanging for even the most jaded hipster.

Del Rey’s musical output is an odd amal-gam of self-consciously retro arrangements against lyrics that are distinctly 2012. Para-dise, an EP coinciding with the re-release of the singer’s breakthrough album Born to Die, centers sonically on a cover of 1950 popular standard “Blue Velvet,” a single pro-moted by an ad for H&M designed to mir-ror David Lynch’s film of the same name.

This contrast illustrates del Rey well. She performs at a crossroads between commer-cialism and pop culture, repurposing the ar-

tifacts of post-modern art in order to sell a product. The actual singing is incidental to the whole affair, and it shows on the recording.

Mimicking Isabella Rossellini’s iconic performance, del Rey trudges through the number sounding like a soulless lounge sing-er. This is the kind of performance you might hear live in a smoky bar and think, “Oh, she sounds alot like the original.” Del Rey of-fers nothing by way of interpretation, but perhaps the audience is not asking for it.

The other seven tracks follow musically in this mold but depart lyrically. Del Rey’s lyrics tend to clash strangely against her sound. They are peppered with banal obser-vations and casual profanity. They seem to suggest a woman totally subjugated to male attention and willing to do anything to get it.

Listen too close and you start to feel that del Rey is trying to exorcise her Elec-tra complex on the record, yet her voice never betrays a hint of emotion. This is the conflict at the heart of her image--she projects frailty and classic beauty, but the product never lives up to the hype.

Listeners leave Paradise with no new insight into music, del Rey or themselves.

Nothing of substance is to be gained from this record. It is the most perfect ex-ample of meaningless pop music I have ever heard. Still, there will be an audience for it. Those who enjoy the music heard over the idle chatter in a bar that may only exist in the movies may find something to enjoy here, but it surely will not be much.

BY REED STRENGTH

Kevin Shields, the guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of 90’s shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine, announced via an NME interview that his band would release new material this year.

My Bloody Valentine was formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1983. The band’s first album, “Isn’t Anything?” was released in 1988. The band released their last and most popular album “Loveless” in 1991. The band went through several years of inactiv-ity after the release of “Loveless,” the mem-bers splitting to contribute to other projects.

The group reunited in 2007, playing various festivals. The band performed at and curated the 2008 All Tomorrow’s Par-ties festival in New York. Rumors of the band releasing a new album surfaced in 2007 but were never met with material.

In the NME interview, Shields an-nounced that the album would be available by December. The singer plans to release it via his website. A

new EP is also to be released in 2013.MBV’s catalogue was reissued this year

in the UK. In addition to remastered ver-sions of the band’s two proper albums, a two disc collection of EP’s entitled “EPs 1988-1991” was also released on Sony records.

As far as the sound of the new album, Shields says “Based on the very, very few people who’ve heard stuff--some engineers, the band, and that’s about it--some people think it’s stranger than ‘Loveless.’ I don’t. I feel like it really frees us up, and in the bigger picture it’s 100 percent necessary.”

Shields commented on the pressure of following up the twenty one-year-old “Loveless,” stating that he doesn’t “care about all of that.” “It’s a record that’s going to mean something to a significant amount of people who really liked us. The rest, I don’t really care about.” Shields stated.

The band will play the new mate-rial during their headlining set at the Tokyo Rocks Festival in May 2013.

BY SAMUEL PHILLIPS, ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

A Crow is not a MemphibianBY REED STRENGTH

On the night of Nov. 1, I was waiting for the first set of the night at Eclipse with patron saint, Willy the cat, who had chosen my lap to procure warmth in a rare sign of affection.

Joe Crow Ryan was scheduled to play at 8 p.m.

Eight o’clock passed, and I continued to contem-plate the cold night air with Willy. Eventually, he had enough of my presence and lightly jumped off my lap to saunter into the bushes. It was fifteen minutes after the show was scheduled to start, and still I heard noth-ing. With Willy’s warmth gone, and my cup of cof-fee thoroughly dimin-ished, I decided to head inside to get a fresh cup.

Turns out I was late.Ryan was seated and in

mid-song; the crowd was seated, with a few sitting on the floor close to Ryan.

He was a scrappy old fellow, his hair and beard long and gray. He wore a white coat with a patterned shirt underneath. A gold chain hung from his neck.

Settled, I focused on Ryan. Instead of plucking his banjo, he strummed it like a ukulele. He whistled a small melody into a mi-crophone. Eventually the whistle grew into a rough yowl. The four people sitting in front of him lapped up his strange tune.

Between songs, Ryan told the crowd stories about himself. He explained that he was a New York subway musician and at one time had been homeless. He was very warm and friendly,

more a performer and ra-conteur than musician.

Ryan played a med-ley of covers and original songs. What he lacked in voice and ability, he made up for in charm and character. He sang an ode to “man boobs,” la-menting the troubles the unfortunate flabs bring.

His best moment was the serious tune, “My Arrest.”

Crow gave the back-ground to the song be-fore beginning. He ex-plained that he had been arrested by NYPD war-rant agents after they’d busted into his apartment, suspecting his roommate of being an Occupier.

The audience looked on with rapt attention. Something about the song was anthemic, like the old protest songs of the sixties. While Crow may never find mainstream success, his quirky and heartfelt set won me, and the rest of the audience, over.

The Memphibians were up next and took the stage quietly. A Floridian folk band, their set was divid-ed between light stoned folk songs and more in-tense, angsty numbers. The distinctions in tune types came from the two singers, Andrew Felts and James Arthur Baylee III.

Baylee’s numbers be-gan the set. His voice was a tough sell, shaky with an unapologetic southern twang. Earlier in the night, the band’s snare drum stand broke, so drum-mer Kevin Lee Newbury had a make-shift snare

made out of towels and a plastic box. One of the band’s secret weapons and saving graces was Ka-tie D’elia, a keyboardist and French horn player.

D’elia’s horn added a pleasant layer that helped smooth over Baylee’s rougher moments. Lines like “ain’t nothin’ lonely about bein’ alone” were accentuated by the op-posing sounds, the horn adding a sort of trium-phant element to Bay-lee’s rough declarations.

Felts’ subtle elec-tric guitar playing add-ed another, edgier layer to the band’s sound.

Felts looked a cross between Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Jason Segall. As he sang and played, his voice would rise from gruff growls to scream-ing. His lyrics contained the blue collar philosophi-cal musing of Isaac Brock, but his delivery was evoca-tive of Conor Oberst.

The audience was so warm that the band played several extended encores. What at first seemed like obliged surprise began to wane into excessive show-boating. The show should’ve ended on drummer/gui-tarist Kevin Lee New-bury’s harrowing acoustic number about the grips of a syringe-induced drug.

Instead, Baylee squeezed out a solo number for the thinned audience. Playing alone removed the layers that softened his untuneful voice, and the song put an unfortunate damper on an otherwise victorious show.

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UM theatre presents “Rent”BY JENNIFER CORONA

The University of Mon-tevallo’s production of Rent--originally produced by Billy Aronson and written by Jonathan Larson- grabbed at the hearts of audience members and showed the true talent of Monte-vallo’s theater company.

The show ran No-vember 15 through 18 and sold out every night.

The show was held in Reynolds Theater, offer-ing a small, personal at-mosphere, which gave it a more intimate tone. The matinee show on Sun-day had more parents and grandparents in the audi-ence than students. Since Rent has what could be considered a scandalous plot, I was excited to see the reaction this crowd had.

After a 20 minute delay, the music started, and I was lost in Alphabet City. The reactions of the elderly men sitting in front of me were no longer my concern.

Rent is the story of a group of artists, musicians and assorted bohemians and their battles with pov-

erty, drug addiction and AIDS. Each member of the cast brought the emo-tion, the voice and the sass of the characters of Rent.

As the plot unfolds, so do a series of love stories between the characters, with varying results. As gut-wrenching as the trials of the outside world are for each of them, these relationships are just as heartbreaking.

Of course, the plot would be nothing without the songs, and those songs would be nothing with-out the voices of the cast.

Caylan Sallas and Me-lissa Lawler were amaz-ing performing “Without You,” as were Korey Wil-son and Barrington Mc-Queen on “I’ll Cover You.”

Unfortunately, Lawler’s solo, “Out Tonight,” was not as smooth, with Lawler struggling to hit the high notes and giving a gener-ally rocky performance.

The highlight of the show came with the ensemble number “La Vie Boheme,” blending casually humorous choreography, risqué lyrics

and cheeky touches from the actors almost flawlessly. The choreography was al-ways en pointe, with the cast never missing a beat.

“The Tango Maureen,” an awkwardly comic duet between Taylor Lamm and Bailey Gaskin, paired skillful vocals with a flawless tango.

Hannah Mansfield kept the audience engaged in her over-the-top “Over the Moon,” exhorting the crowd to join her in cries of “Moo!”

Rent has always been one of my favorite mu-sicals. Although I have never seen it performed professionally, I feel like the UM cast gave me the same chills I would get seeing it on Broadway.

As for the older crowd at the matinee show, no one walked out and they all seemed to have noth-ing but good things to say when the show was over.

Rent is the kind of show that can transcend bound-aries, and UM’s cast brought it to life in a way that spoke to everyone- from freshmen to grandparents.

“The Seventh Seal”CRITERION AT CARMICHAEL

SAMUELPHILLIPSEntertainmentEditor

Criterion at Carmichael is a column devoted to exploring Carmichael Library’s collection of DVDs from the Criterion Collection, “a continuing series of important classic and con-temporary films.” “The Seventh Seal” is Criterion spine #11.

Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish master known to cinephiles as one of the true masters of film and to everyone else as that guy Woody Allen really likes, considered “The Seventh Seal” to be a flawed prod-uct, expecting more experi-mental fare like Persona to be his legacy as a filmmaker.

Having never particu-larly liked Persona, I find “The Seventh Seal” one of the most lovely, rhapsod-ic works in world cinema, possessing unparalleled atmosphere and pacing.

The key to the film’s success is its visual motif. The image of the hooded Death playing chess against Max von Sydow has become iconic, one of those im-ages so often parodied that most people would know it without recognizing “The Seventh Seal” at all.

The black and white aes-

thetics extend from the chessboard to the film’s composition in general, up to and including the near-final shot of the dance of death, with the frame bi-sected by the horizon as a line of indistinguishable figures edges along the line, light and dark play-ing against one another.

Bergman is uncon-cerned with accurately rec-reating the Middle Ages in any meaningful way, instead blending hundreds of years of imagery into a pre-Disney mélange of ideas that, for the audience, simply evokes “medieval.” The peasants are grimy, the knights are haggard and distant and the priests are corrupt. These ideas come across clearly through a simple, gorgeous produc-tion designed to get at the core of human experience through the lens of history.

The film is ostensibly about the black plague, but when Death finally comes to claim the cast of characters, the audi-ence understands that this disease is simply a place-holder for some larger idea, and when a young couple is given the chance to es-cape, they represent not just escape from disease, but the renewal of life and the importance of youth.

These themes are the business of “The Seventh Seal,” and if Bergman ex-presses them, he need not be bothered with histori-cal accuracy. He evokes the atmosphere of Chaucer flawlessly, and the specifics fade into the background.

There are few better ex-amples of film as art rather than documentary. When, for instance, Mel Gibson claims his latest film is rooted in historic fact, the film’s merits become root-ed in its accuracy, push-ing aesthetic and thematic quality to the back. Berg-man, on the other hand, makes no pretensions to recreating the Middle Ages in fact, and so succeeds recreating them in spirit.

“The Seventh Seal” es-tablished Bergman’s repu-tation and cemented his place as a filmmaking leg-end. The image of Death as a pale, robe-clad, chess-playing demon alone has been parodied in every medium imaginable. Berg-man’s original, though, retains a certain distinc-tion and charm even in the face of familiarity through trope mutation.

Bergman’s strength as a director lay in his ability to construct an environment, visually and thematically, that absorbed his audience entirely, and no film does it better than the darkly opti-mistic “The Seventh Seal.”

The cast of “Rent” performs the musical’s final piece, “Finale B.”

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SPORTSBY JORDON SEMIEN

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Women’s basketball prepares for seasonIt’s showtime once again

as the women’s Basket-ball team readies for what should be an exciting year.

The Falcon’s are com-ing off an 11-16 season and a fifth place finish in the Peach Belt Western Division. In Coach Hil-brich’s first season at the helm, the Falcons made the cut for their sec-ond straight PBC tour-nament, raising many eyebrows and letting the competition know that they’re here to stay.

This year, they look to expand on that success and try for the program’s first trip to the NCAA Division II tournament. It’ll be rough sailing for the team early on, as they try to navigate a vaunted Peach Belt schedule while trying to replace the likes of Tiffany McClure, Da-via Harris and Shavonne Seymore among others.

Coach Hilbrich will rely heavily on returning players sophomore Tay-lor Beverly, Senior Trena Moore-Smith, Senior forward Alex Strickland and Senior Zena Nasilos-

ki to embrace their new leadership roles both on and off the court, and be the example of what trusting her coaching strategies can bring you.

Trena Moore-Smith is the true f loor gen-eral for this team, com-ing off a season with 74 total assists and 4.8 points a game. She’s matched by returning guard Zena Nasiloski and her 6.8 rebounds a game average, and Tay-lor Beverly’s team lead-ing 10.6 points a game.

One can look for-ward to seeing the new recruiting class Coach Hilbrich has put to-gether in action, head-lined by senior transfer Carolyn Tate, Junior transfer Shay Bonner and Freshman Jarrisa Green, among others. Their time with Coach Hilbrich may be limited, but it’s guaranteed that by the end of the sea-son, they’ll reach their potential and then some.

The start of the sea-son also marks the start of Coach Hilbrich’s sec-

ond year as head of the program, and one can bet she looks to improve leaps and bounds over last year’s successful campaign. Her tough-est challenges will be against conference foes Armstrong Atlantic, Clayton State and de-fending PBC tournament champs USC-Aiken, a game she said she per-sonally looks forward to.

USC-Aiken was Coach Hilbrich’s first “real” head coaching job be-fore Montevallo, and to go back there with a real chance to not only shake up the PBC landscape but also show how far she’s come since then is an opportunity she, and the team, will surely take.

The Falcons have started the season 0 for their first 3, but, as we all know too well, it’s a long season and anything can happen.

Be sure to stop by monteval lofalcons.com for all the in-game stats and keep up with The Alabamian for all your UM Falcons news.

NCAA changes to make college playoffs fairBY JORDON SEMIEN

In two years time, NCAA Football as we know it will change for-ever (or at least the next 12 years) when the much anticipated BCS Play-off system takes effect.

At this point, this system is set to take the top four conference champions, as selected by a committee of “ex-perts,” led by former editor, NCAA Final Four director and Big East Conference board member, Bill Hancock.

Those four teams then play in two “semi-final” matches on neutral fields, with the winners playing each other for the right to be crowned the national champion.

And that readers, is as far as we’ve gotten. Those details are the only ones to be settled in this BCS mess so far.

Yes, there have been broadcasting deals made and bowl game bargains struck, but, with less than two years and counting until D-Day, we’re no closer to finalizing the sys-tem than when we started.

Questions still remain as to A) how the selec-tion committee will de-cide who had the more accomplished season to qualify for the postsea-son, B) what’s to become of the BCS bowl games we’ve come to know and love (or tolerate, depend-ing on your viewpoint), and C) what are we going to do about Notre Dame?!

In all honesty, the only question to truly be an-swered is the most impor-tant one to the bureau-

crats of College Football: Where’s the money?

The committee ap-proved a new “Revenue Sharing” plan, designed to reward the conferences and schools who excel in the classroom--not just on the field. This means schools that put a higher standard on education (i.e. Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke) will receive more confer-ence and NCAA funding than those whose motto is “Football First” (i.e. Ala-bama, USC, Ohio State).

But again, fans are still calling for answers to com-mittee statements about the impending changes.

“We’ll have four teams picked by a committee.” Alright, who’s on the com-mittee and by what criteria will they judge the teams?

“We’ll create three ‘contract bowls’ and three ‘host bowls’ and the highest-ranked champion from the five conferences that are not in contract bowls will be guaranteed a spot in a host bowl.”

Now, there’s no sure fire way to try to clarify this one, but let’s try this: the three contract bowls are for the big conferences (SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12), and the three host bowls are for the little guys (Con-ference USA, Sun Belt, MWC). The highest ranked champion out of the little guys gets an invite to be fodder for the big dogs. The question here: why are a total of six “extra” bowl games necessary for a four school playoff system?

It may be hard to wrap your head around it…but these are some of the

easier answered questions.There are still the

issues regarding how further conference re-alignment will affect the system, along with the possible addition of “at least” two more playoff seeds, creat-ing a full six team play-off for the BCS title.

And then there’s the continuing battle between SEC commissioner Mike Slive and Big Ten commis-sioner Jim Delany, who, still to this day, cannot see eye to eye on almost any issue on the docket. Both are interested in keeping the integrity of their con-ferences intact, yet they could not care less what happens to the other.

The conflict has gone on to the point that oth-er conference commis-sioners have begun tak-ing sides in the battle; a practice that could break down the playoff system before it even begins.

However, the main truth to remember is this: it worked. They might be completely inept at mo-ments, but the NCAA and the BCS have heard our cries and have started on the road to giving us a playoff. It might not be ex-actly what everyone wants, but, then again, that’s just good business. In almost any business venture, not everyone is going to be happy, not everyone will come along quietly.

So circle your calendars, make two, three or even eighteen memos and start the countdown to the first Saturday of August 2014: the day change comes to stay.

Name: Manyi AtiSport: VolleyballMajor: Psychology/Social WorkYear: Junior

Alabamian MVP of the weekBY JORDON SEMIEN

Accomplishments:This week’s MVP

award goes to Manyi Ati, a Junior middle hitter for the univer-sity’s Volleyball team.

Ati went on a dominat-ing run over the last week of the season, netting three straight matches with dou-ble digit kills and finishing last week with a .432 hitting percentage and 37 kills.

Ati registered her 1,000th career kill in a 3-0 win over UNC-Pem-broke, part of a season-ending doubleheader; the second match against West Florida will count as a loss, but Ati fin-ished with 12 more kills and 16 total attacks. Her week started with 15 kills against Francis Marion.

Ati was a driving

force this season, help-ing to carry the team to Peach Belt tournament. A first round exit ended the team’s season, but next year’s campaign looks very promising.

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s again to Manyi Ati, our MVP of the Week.

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SPORTSBY JORDON SEMIENMen’s basketball tips-off

It’s that time of year again here on the campus of Montevallo. The leaves change, weather gets colder, and students, faculty and fans alike ready for the start of what should be another great season of Falcon Bas-ketball. The Men’s Basket-ball team is coming off a stunning season, averaging seventy-eight points per game last season, on their way to a record of 29 wins, 8 losses, and winning the NCAA Division II south re-gion and a NCAA Division II title game appearance.

Before the season even began, the team received ma-jor awards, including Drico Hightower being named to the Peach Belt Conference’s preseason All-Conference team on Oct.10. To add to the accolades, at the start of the season, the Falcons were ranked No. 11 in the nation by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and No. 4 in the Regional poles.

The powers that be in the PBC’s front office chose Montevallo by two votes over Augusta State as the favorites to defend their Peach Belt crown; the two vote margin is the closest vote in fifteen years. This is the first time in the school’s first four years in the Peach Belt being named the pre-season favorite, and with this year’s squad, it’s easy to see why voters say the Fal-con’s are the team to fear.

One of the main focuses of the season will be how to replace the talent and lead-ership that graduated in the spring. The Falcons lose the likes of DeMarcus Catch-

ings, Antoine Davis, Jervon Jackson, and “Mr. Every-thing” D.J. Rivera, years of experience and leadership that fueled last year’s run. However, Coach Young has seven outstanding players re-turning to this year’s squad: names like Jeff Hefner, Drico Hightower, Marvin Fitzgerald, Ryan May, Dan-ny Cummins, Jonas Brown, and Travis DeShazior.

Coach will count on his returning seniors to mentor the new recruits to the team, headlined by junior college transfer Troran Brown, out of Phoenix, Arizona. The six-foot-two guard is a pure scorer; he averaged 20.4 points a game while shoot-ing 52% from the floor and dished out 4.1 assists a game as a freshman. Need-less to say, it should be a joy to watch him grow under Coach Young’s guidance.

Though the graduated students will be missed on campus, the returning se-niors along with the new recruits are ready to lead the charge as the team looks to fight a vaunted PBC sched-ule. The Falcons finished the preseason 1-2, but that re-cord doesn’t show the sheer guts and determination dis-played playing D-I oppo-nents Ole’ Miss and Purdue.

It’s a long road back to the NCAA tourney, but with Coach Danny Young in his tenth season with the school, it’s a road that looks easier by the mile. Keep up with the Falcons by checking montevallofal-cons.com regularly, along with The Alabamian for future articles and insights.

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Love thy neighbor until game dayBY JORDON SEMIEN

It’s that time of year again, readers: a time where we settle in with friends and family, re-count both old times and new and look back on the year so far and find all that we are thankful for.

As sports fans, there’s one thing in particular that we should all be thank-ful for at this time of year. No, it’s not champion-ships, nor is it winning re-cords, star players, Hall of Fame coaches or the like.

The one thing ev-ery sports fan should be thankful for is…their rival.

The best thing to ever happen to fans, and fran-chises for that matter, is the advent of rivalry games. Be they Alabama/Auburn, Army/Navy, Yankees/Red Sox or even Cowboys/Giants, without a healthy rival, sports can be excruciatingly painful.

Who else do we com-pare ourselves to? Who else is there that knows just the right way to get under your skin and virtually destroy you from the inside out? But what most people don’t know is that rivalries come in different categories.

First is the Rivalry of History. This occurs when two teams share a common history, where they have met and battled against each oth-er since, in the minds of their fans, “the dawn of time.”

One of the most revered rivalries of all time is the annual meetings between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The

rivalry had always been there, Boston the hard luck, lovable loser bucking up to the “Evil Empire” New York, but one instance changed their fates forever.

Imagine a time when the Yankees were the basement dwellers and the Red Sox were the “Evil Empire,” all thanks to one man: George Herman Ruth, a.k.a “The Great Bambino.” The year was 1918; Babe Ruth was a struggling pitcher for the Sox, and they looked to cut ties with him. Along came the unassuming Yankees, not looking to make any waves, just im-prove their team; Sox owner Harry Frazee then sold Ruth to the Yan-kees for enough cash to fund a Broadway musical.

Fast forward a century or two, the Yankees are one of the most revered franchises in sports, the Red Sox finally “reversed the curse” in 2004 and Frazee’s musical nev-er got off the ground.

The moral here, you ask? When sel l ing a fu-ture hal l of famer to your mortal r ival… don’t.

Next there’s the Rivalry of Proximity. As the name suggests, this rivalry is sparked by the old western saying, “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

The best example of this type of bad blood is NCAA Basketball’s North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Dev-ils. Sure, they share the

same area and sometimes the same fans, but that’s where the comparisons end; these two hate each other more than Repub-licans and Democrats during an election year.

Often called the “Bat-tle for Tobacco Road,” just eight miles apart, more than ninety years of bad blood unites the two schools two times a year.

And lastly, there is the Rivalry of Imitation. In this rivalry, the old saying “Imitation is the sincer-est form of flattery,” goes out the window faster than the opening whistle.

Possibly the most well known rivalry of imita-tion is the New England Patriots and the New York Jets. The Patriots have in the last decade been known as the NFL’s up-per crust, the closest thing to American royalty--other than the Kennedy family.

Contrastingly, since the hiring of head coach Rex Ryan four years ago, the Jets haven’t just settled into a self-destructive nose dive, but they have slowly become the back end of almost every NFL joke.

Why you ask? Because they tried to be something they aren’t. They tried to change their team his-tory and model a franchise more like New England. From restructuring the offense to even the way they conduct business, the Jets have tried to imitate the Patriots at every turn.

The best way to run a

team is to know what you are and what you are not. The Jets were always known as the “dirty work” team, ready to put their noses to the grind; now they’ve ded-icated themselves to being the next big headline…be it good news or bad.

So now, readers, as has become customary with our little excursions, let’s assign some homework.

Here at our happy little university in Montevallo, in the direct middle of the state of Alabama (a state that knows a thing or two about rivalries) just whom may we consider a true, natural, “We just don’t like each other” rival?

The most popular answer is the Univer-sity of Alabama-Hunts-ville--for good reason.

Of the three types of rivalries, they match up to the big two: Prox-imity and History.

The History aspect comes from our shared time in the Gulf South Conference; Proxim-ity is solved by simply being in the same state.

It may not be as angry as the University of Geor-gia and Georgia Tech’s “clean, old fashioned hate” or as paramount as the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, but one can’t deny that it’s always a good time when our schools lock horns for another duel.

So let’s all raise a glass and toast our rival…before or after you win by twenty.

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