| Summary: | The Kaleidoscope is the official student newspaper of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Student Life Open House During Student Life Open House, visit all 5 locations listed below and get your card punched at each stop. Present your completed punch card at HUC 440 and you will receive a FREE STUDENT LIFE T-SHIRT. HUC ROOM 110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Life/Counseling & Wellness HUC ROOM 133. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Engagement HUC ROOM 135. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Media HUC ROOM 136. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Activities HUC ROOM 440. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student Involvement REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED! CALL 975-9509 FOR MORE INFORMATION BACK FRONT Wednesday 9/12, 2- 4 PM Troy spoils ‘McGee Mania’ Trojans down Blazers at home, 39-29 Garrick McGee leads his Blazers onto the eld on Sept. 1. McGee and his blazers fell to Troy, 39-29 on a soggy Saturday afternoon. Check out the complete game story and coverage on 4A. Eric Roberts News Editor news@insideuab.com Is there anything better than a preverbal cheap shot? e answer to the previous question is based on any given individual perception. But perception is a powerful thing. As Blazer fans made their way onto Legion Field on Saturday to watch the Blazers square o against Troy, they may have noticed the end-zone paint. Stretching the 50-plus yards across the end-zone was Birmingham with Blazers in script right under-neath. Not UAB blazers, but rather Birmingham Blazers. If turning a new page in UAB football was not enough on Saturday, the “shot” at the Alabama sys-tem Board of Trustees just made it that much sweeter. ough the blue and white painted end zones were not truly the outcome of intricate planning of the Blazers, they were merely an advertisement of the Magic City and Legion Field, which played host to three games over the weekend. As the crowd of over 20,000 watched the Blaz-ers fall to the men of Troy, my frustration along with many others lived through the paint that lled the end zones. e tabled football stadium, the constant refusals by UAT to challenge UAB in major sports, the methodical derailing of coaching searches, the unexplained recent departure of President Carol Garrison, the ght over the medical school (name, colors, and alumni situation). Must I go on? But on a day when Garrick Mc- Gee boldly stated that this was a new day for UAB and “moral vic-tories” would no longer cut it; I sat back and for once enjoyed my city and my team. No longer did “Clueless Cal-laway” stand 30 yards from the ac-tion looking dumbfounded at the outcome of the game. No longer did the Blazers look like a team without a direction. No longer did hope disappear with the opening kick of the season. I would apologize for my optimism but no rich “Bear” with his banking and law buddies will spoil my new found hope. e Blazers may have missed opportunities, but no one missed the “Birmingham Blazers.” Regardless if the statement was intentional or not, I choose in my recent optimism to believe that the football “gods” were smiling upon the Blazers faithfully on Saturday. On a day like Saturday, I hope the sight I saw was not mere coincidence. I pray that it was a quick gaze into the crystal ball of the breaking of the chains of the system. Russ Timothy Sta Writer RussT926@aol.com Suicide is one of those sub-jects that people don’t really like to talk about; it’s a touchy subject that needs to be ad-dressed in a composed man-ner. “Suicide is the result of a multiplicity of factors, includ-ing mental illness, physical illness, substance abuse, and situational factors that result in feelings of hopelessness, help-lessness, and lack of worth,” says Susan Hart, director of UAB’s counseling and wellness center. Unfortunately, the number of successful suicides in Amer-ica has grown within the past few years, becoming the third leading cause of death for peo-ple age 15 to 24, accounting for over 12% of annual deaths, ac-cording to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention. “People in this age group are generally guring out their identities and how they t into the world,” says Beth Stanley, L.G.S.W., and a 25-year-old international social worker at Lifeline Children Services. Of these deaths, nearly 80% were male. “Males are slower to mature than females in general, and o en they let their job or in the case of students, their “role” as a student dominate their per-sonal identity,” says Hart. “Females generally have wider social networks than males, because of the wider va-riety of roles: daughter, sister, friend, church member, possi-bly mother as well, in addition to their job or being a student. Females are generally more re-ligious than males and religios-ity is a strong protective factor.” e jump from high school to college can prove to be a tough transition for some stu-dents, leading to increased lev-els of confusion, stress, anxi-ety, and even loneliness, all of which can lead to depression. See Suicide Page 2A Student suicides rise Birmingham Blazers: For holiday ease or political qualm Daniel Twieg if you are experiencing any type of suicidal thought or ideation tell someone you trust right away It s okay to get help , , . . Are freshman more prone to suicide ? Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Vol. 45 No. 26 2 Sections •12 pages Lost American Hero Neil Armstrong remembered 1B,4B Photo Illustration /Daniel Twieg Student suicides continue to rise among college freshmen. Commentary Daniel Twieg The end zones had a Birmingham are Saturday at Legion Field. InsideUAB.com Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 2-A Authentic Thai Cuisine in Historic Five Points South 1918 Eleventh Avenue South Tel: 324-1928 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Lunch & Dinner Redeemable at Surin West Lunch or Dinner for all UAB Staff & Students with valid ID. Please limit one coupon per person per visit. Dine In Only. Expires: September 11, 2012 CHICKEN • WINGS • TENDERS • SALADS • AND MORE! Visit Our Convienent Location at 282 Palisades Blvd, Near Walmart in Homewood 205.423.0523 ALL THAT STUDYING GOT YOU HUNGRY? DURING OCTOBER FOR STUDENTS & FACULTY UAB WELCOME BACK for Students/Faculty/Staff With UAB ID in August & September 2011 Visit our Convenient Location at 282 Palisades Blvd., Near Walmart in Homewood • 205.423.0523 15% OFF! for Students/Faculty/Staf With UAB ID in September 2012 FREE WiFI Richie Parrish Sta Writer riparris@uab.edu Various energy conserva-tion projects are taking place here at UAB in places such as the Campus Recreation Center, the student dorms, classrooms and cafeterias. ese projects not only allow more nancial leeway for the university, but create a more nancially sound cam-pus as well. Matt Winslett, Engineering Manager of the Energy Man-agement Department at UAB believes that a lot of these proj-ects will lay the foundation for a “Green” campus. “Paying less for utilities a ords other opportunities. Departments can avoid layo s and maybe even hire extra sta or spend money ear-marked for utilities on other things,” said Winslett. “I think I have one of best jobs here. We strive to be leaders in sustainable en-ergy conservation, hopefully positively impacting our lo-cal environment, society, and economy.” e Campus Recreation Center has been reconstruct-ed from the inside and made more energy e cient from wall to wall. e reduction of tempera-ture and lighting setbacks was a large aspect of the process. During the building’s unoc-cupied hours, it “shuts down” in a sense, saving money and energy. e advancement of tech-nology implemented in en-ergy reduction has grown even more in years by its carbon dioxide sensors. ese serve as monitors of carbon dioxide present in speci c areas of the Recreation Center and adjust temperature and humidity to its needs and shuts down dur-ing the o hours. Winslett claims there are many plans in the making for UAB’s Green division, some of which include programmed equipment setbacks during unoccupied times, installa-tion of building air handler control upgrades, installation of e cient lighting upgrades with occupancy sensed light-ing controls and installation of more e cient vacuum and compressed air pumping sys-tems that drastically reduce water usage. ese projects take time, however. “ e process includes eval-uating investment vs. payback,” said Winslett. “We look for a less than three-year payback on all of our projects from energy savings. We see many that pay-back in one to two years. We complete an installation and then evaluate the savings in the months a erwards based on actual metering.” According to Winslett, the Universities utility costs decreased by over $7 million from the previous year thanks to its green initiative. “My vision for UAB is for every building, new and old, to perform like the PC that’s on your desktop. When it’s not in use it simply goes to sleep,” said Winslett. “ e lights go o , the HVAC units setback, and everything ‘goes dormant’ until needed. When someone walks in all systems wake up to accommodate the user and energy is only used as needed.” Winslett believes that ener-gy conservation is not hard to accomplish, but it does require help from everyone. “Our slogan is ‘ ink Green – Save Gold’ and I be-lieve as we continue to do this, UAB will become a national leader in sustainability and en-ergy conservation.” BSAC hosts Back to School BBQ The Black Student Awareness Committee presented a Back to School BBQ, Field Day Edition in the Mini Park on Aug. 31. Barons o cially bid farewell to Hoover The Birmingham Barons opened their gates for the nal two games at Regions Park allowing fans to see the Barons take on the Chattanooga Lookouts free of charge. General admission seating for Sunday, Sept. 2nd and Monday, Sept. 3rd was free for all fans as the Barons say ‘Thank You’ to Hoover for 25 years of support. No ticket was required as fans can sit in any of the Regions Park general admission areas. Throughout the nal home stand, the Barons showed their appreciation and gratitude for Hoover by recognizing Hoover Parks and Recreation Board members as well as other Hoover o cials before and during each game. Current Barons players greeted fans entering the ballpark each game. A special tribute video will be shown during the games featuring current White Sox players, for-mer Barons legends and current players and coaches. There will also be post-game reworks following the games all weekend. “The City of Hoover has enjoyed the long-term relationship with the Barons organization,” said Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey. “We wish them the best in their future endeavor.” “On behalf of the Birmingham Barons, we would like to thank the people of Hoover for their long time support of the Barons,” said Barons owner Don Logan. “We also want to thank Mayor Ivey and his sta for their excellent leadership, vision and professional-ism. Our community will continue to thrive under their watch.” Regions Park has been the home of the Birmingham Barons since 1988, and during this time over 7 million fans have passed through the turnstiles. The Barons won Southern League Champi-onships in 1989, 1993 and 2002 while playing in Hoover. The Bar-ons provided fans with the opportunity to see future stars including Mike Cameron, Bo Jackson, Mark Buehrle, Ray Durham, Carlos Lee, Magglio Ordonez, Frank Thomas, Robin Ventura and Bobby Jenks. Most famously, NBA legend Michael Jordan played his lone season in baseball as part of the Barons in 1994 while on sabbatical from basketball. During the 1994 season, the Barons set numerous at-tendance records, drawing 467,867 fans to Hoover Metropolitan Stadium including a franchise-record 16,247 fans during Jordan’s nal Saturday home game. The Barons will return to Birmingham to the new Regions Park adjacent to Railroad Park and just blocks from UAB in April 2013. UAB launches rural healthcare initiative UAB is launching an initiative to expand access to primary care — especially for rural and other under-served populations — in Ala-bama, a state that ranks 49th nationally for access. The UAB School of Medicine will use a 5-year, $5.25-million grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration to create an Area Health Education Center program that will work to recruit, support and retain health-care professionals in all 67 Alabama counties. “The AHEC will help reduce health disparities by improving the quantity, diversity, distribution and quality of Alabama’s health-care workforce,” says Cynthia Selleck, DSN, associate dean in the School of Nursing. “AHECs connect students to careers, professionals to communities and communities to better health. We inspire, train, recruit and retain a diverse and broad range of health profession-als to practice in communities in which the need is greatest,” says Selleck, director of the Alabama AHEC and former president of the National AHEC Organization. One analogy for AHEC is the agriculture extension o ce, with its agents posted throughout the state: They don’t raise crops or till the soil, but they do provide expertise, advice and resources to farmers. AHECs work in a similar fashion, providing services and pro-grams for physicians and other health-care professionals working with rural or under-served populations. The Alabama AHEC will work with UAB’s health-profession schools and other schools and training programs to encourage graduates to consider careers in primary care in a rural or under-served area. “UAB is committed to encouraging resident physicians and nursing, medical and health professions students to consider ca-reers in rural or other under-served areas,” says William Curry, M.D., associate dean for Primary Care and Rural Health. “The AHEC will provide the rst statewide comprehensive e ort, incorporating stu-dents and graduates from educational institutions across Alabama.” Wednesday 8/22 A report of lost jewelry was claimed at 3:38 p.m. in the Ull-man Building e at Hungry Howie’s Pizza of a man’s wallet and keys. Valued at $125. A man was speeding and was pulled over for a simple tra cking ticket at 8 p.m. He used false ID to avoid penal-ization, but was arrested at the scene of UAB Highlands. Thursday 8/23 7 di erent criminal trespass warnings issued, mainly in the parking decks. Friday 8/24 An incident of Harassment was led in Blount Hall at 5:04 p.m. A parked car in Remote Lot two was hit with substantial damage. It was a bad hit-and-run that tore o the bumper and a quarter panel at 7:30 p.m. A laptop the was reported at 4 a.m. in University House Apartments valued at $500. A nearby ravager hijacked a bike from Denman Hall and a bike cable/lock from Rast Hall around midnight. e overall value was around $700. e bike itself was priced at $350. Update: the medicine from the Psych Center last week was recovered at a loss of $100. Saturday 8/25 Possession of Burglary Tools and a criminal trespass warning was issued to an indi-vidual at 7:10 p.m. He was car-rying a window screen, door lock, knife, and jeans. He was located at the UAB Highlands. Sunday 8/26 Windshield was broken at the 4th Ave. Parking Deck. Damage was estimated at $250. Monday 8/27 A vehicle ran through the gate arm of Lot 16A at 12:45 p.m. e cost of damage was $200. A glass door at Sterne Li-brary broke at 10:26 p.m. Dam-age was estimated at $250. Tuesday 8/28 Bicycle was stolen from the Recreational Center at 1:10 p.m. Unknown value. Someone issued a le of ha-rassment at 3pm in the North Pavilion. Reporting by Carlene Rob-inson UAB energy conservation underway Carlene Robinson Suicide numbers rise From Page 1A “Students living on campus may be at a higher risk, particularly during their freshman year, since this may be their rst time living away from home and they are scared and lonely,” says Hart. “ ey may have a hard time making friends and may be less trusting of the new friends that they have made.” However, the past few years don’t really indicate that freshmen are necessarily at a higher risk than their fellow students. In Alabama, there were a total of 70 successful suicides performed by a wide-range of college-aged men and women in 2009 (none of which took place on UAB’s campus), according to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s Center for Health. “In my experience, students who choose to reside on campus are seeking a connection with their community and friendships beyond those experienced in high school,” says Marc Booker, director of student housing and residential life. “As a result, I believe freshmen living on campus would be at a lower risk to feel or become isolated and detached from their community.” “While [students] are exposed to quite a few novel and stressful situations as a freshman, the stress from those situations can amplify for some as they get older,” says Kate Randall, a junior pre-nursing major here at the university. “While the pressure of adapting to a new workload and lifestyle can be immense for some, it grows even more as class levels increase and inevitable career decisions loom. at is without mention of the non-scholastic stressors that plague everyone daily.” “I believe it’s very important to make every e ort to nd one’s ‘place’ – in college, clubs, phil-anthropic groups, religious a liations, etc.,” says Booker. “A meaningful connection may take several attempts among the endless choices available to our society today. A great place for fresh-men to start is to experience new things, people, places, and opportunities – one class, person, meeting, or trip at a time.” Even though depression is a problem that can’t be summarized into a list of symptoms, some easily spotted signs include trouble sleeping, eating, working, and enjoying friends and activities. Others, however, may experience unnoticeable signs such as guilt, hopelessness, and recur-ring thoughts and dreams about suicide. “My biggest thing has to do with some people’s inability to pinpoint their feelings,” says Stan-ley. “ ey don’t realize they’re depressed. Sometimes it can even be due to a chemical imbalance.” ere are numerous resources available to students to help them battle any sort of internal con icts and struggles they may be facing, such as the counseling and wellness center, the psy-chiatry department, and even the Internet. UAB’s non-pro t counseling and wellness center, located on the 1st oor of Holly-Mears Building, is available to all enrolled students of UAB. “You have free counseling available on campus—take advantage of it,” says Hart. eir mission: “…to encourage students as they resolve problem areas and to help them cope with di culties they are presently experiencing…” “Talk about your feelings! Talking about your fears and thoughts can help more than anything else,” says Hart. “If you are not comfortable with seeing a counselor, talk to a responsible profes-sor, coach, minister, or anyone who helps you to get past these feelings. It may be a janitor, or a lunchroom lady, anyone who listens to you and o ers sensible advice may help you past these feelings, which generally will subside a er a relatively short time.” “And I would say to anyone reading this article,” says Stanley, “that if you are experiencing any type of suicidal thought or ideation, tell someone you trust right away. It’s ok to get help.” 3-A— Tuesday, September 4, 2012 UABkscope.com Maja Mzombwe | Science & Technology scienceguy@InsideUAB.com science GoANG.com/AL 1-800-TO-GO-ANG AND YOU THOUGHT HAVING A COMPANY CAR WAS COOL. Serving part-time in the Air National Guard, you’ll get behind the wheel of today’s most exciting technology. You’ll also develop the skills you need to succeed in your civilian career while receiving a steady paycheck and generous benefits, including affordable health insurance, college tuition assistance and a military retirement plan. Talk to a recruiter today to learn more. Eric LaFiore Sta Writer beemer26@uab.edu We’re all busy. If it’s not school, work, or trying to nd time for friends, it’s something else. It’s hard to stay engaged with what’s happening in the world. So, you may have missed the scarcely reported recent blockbuster that the Arctic sea ice has hit a record low level. And the melting season’s not even over yet. You might ask, “So, what?” Well, it means a great deal for that small group on Earth, a ectionately known as all living organisms. With more melting comes a higher coastal water rise, which was previously pre-dicted to reach record levels in the coming decades. e melt has also led to carbon that had previously been held in perma-frost, or frozen subsoil, being released in larger-than-expected amounts. ere also has been new research into the methane found under the Antarctic ice sheet. Similar to carbon diox-ide, whose e ect is generally known in anthropogenic climate change, methane interacts with molecules in our atmosphere and more e ciently traps solar heat. e real long-term damage of this release of methane might be the positive feedback loop it sets into motion. is loop oc-curs when there is increased ice melt, exposing once covered methane to the air, and causing the methane to react with the atmosphere and further heat up the planet. More warming leads to more melting, and the vicious cycle continues unabated for centuries – potentially longer. It’d be slightly heartening if in the face of this fairly sober-ing news, there not only was ad-equate attention given to the is-sue but also was concrete action taken to move towards more renewable sources of energy that don’t exacerbate the problem. But so far, the reaction has been less than stellar. see Climate change continued on page 6A Tianjo Zhang sta writer tzhang@uab.edu With two to three weeks le in the melting season, the Arctic ice cap has already hit a record low. Scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that on August 26, Arctic sea ice totaled a mere 4.10 million square kilometers (1.58 million square miles), less than 30 percent the area of the entire Arctic Ocean. is number has already surpassed the previous low of 4.17 million square kilometers set in 2007 at the end of the melt-ing season in mid-September. Precise measurement of the size of the Arctic ice cap began in 1979 with the advent of weather satellites. Since then, the size of the Arctic ice cap has steadily declined. In fact, the six lowest ice cap sizes were recorded in the past six years, including this year. Arctic temperatures have been about 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above average this year, which increases the rate of melting. As the ice melts, a feedback loop develops that increases the rate of melt-ing. As white, re ective ice disappears, darker and more absorbent sea water takes its place. e darker sea water absorbs the sunlight which would have been re ected away by the ice, heating up the Arctic sea even more. e current average melting rate is roughly 75,000 square ki-lometers a day, or about the size of South Carolina. ough it has slowed down since early August, the current rate of loss is still much higher than the normal rate of 40,000 square kilometer a day. At the current rate of decline, scientists say, the Arctic Ocean may become ice-free during the summer very soon. Predictions had rst put the rst ice-free summer at the end of the century, then at the middle of the century. However, even the most pes-simistic of these predictions appears too conservative, as none had predicted this alarming rate of ice loss. e rst ice-free summer now may come as early as the end of this decade. e only possible explanation, scientists conclude, is the sheer amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by hu-mans. e normal carbon cycle could not recycle this excess car-bon dioxide, which remains in the atmosphere, heating up the globe. With the loss of the Arctic ice cap, the emission of greenhouse gases will increase. In low-oxygen conditions beneath the ice cap, microorganisms metabolize organic matter into carbon dioxide and methane. Methane is about 20 times more potent as a green-house gas as carbon dioxide, and scientists estimate there to be about 4 billion tons of methane sealed under the ice cap. Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have already observed the emission of methane from areas in the ice cap with broken ice. Areas of solid ice showed no signi cant methane emis-sion. Other scientists observed plumes of methane rising from the Easter Siberian Arctic Shelf. e disappearing ice cap and increased Arctic temperatures will permanently alter weather and current patterns. In addition to meteorological and climate changes, the loss of the ice cap will also stir political instability. Countries will begin vying for control of previously unavailable shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean. e reservoirs of fossil fuels in the Arctic Ocean bed will also be-come hotly contested, fueling political turmoil and greenhouse gas emissions. Arctic ice shrinks at alarming rate Confronting Climate Change Melting polar ice cap will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions The rst ice-free summer now may come as early as the end of this decade. More warming leads to more melting, and the vicious cycle continues unabated for centuries – potentially longer. Ethan Gissendaner Contributor ethang@uab.edu “Venti iced skinny latte with an extra shot for Ethan!” echoes through the crowded hub that is Starbucks in Sterne library. I grab my twenty-four ounce cup of caf-feine and head for the library’s quiet zone, thinking my co ee has reached its pinnacle of useful-ness, its purpose ful lled. Little do I know that my co ee’s great-est potential now lies among the crumbs of stale pastry and other dried clumps of grounds in the garbage can. New technology pioneered by Starbucks Hong Kong has found food wastes in that same trash can to be a viable input for manufac-turing plastics and other items such as laundry detergent and spandex. Starbucks Hong Kong has funded this research technology project to upcycle the nearly 5000 tons of food waste its chains pro-duce every year. Driven by Carol S. K. Lin of City University Hong Kong and e Climate Group, the project has produced a tabletop biore nery that can transform spent co ee grounds and stale pastries into a compound used to make plastics. e process of biore ning mixes the food wastes with fungi that excrete enzymes to break down the carbohydrates into sim-ple sugars. e resulting mixture is then inoculated with bacteria and locked in a fermentation vat to decompose into a thick sugary substance called succinic acid. is acid can be used as a sweetener, but more importantly, it can be used as feedstock for biomaterials; this means it can be used in the production of bio-plastics. is process is typi-cally fueled by petroleum, made from fossil fuels, a nonrenewable source. More recently, corn and wheat have supplemented petro-leum in the making of plastics, but even those alternatives are not totally renewable or sustainable sources. e real breakthrough in this project is not the production of succinic acid, but the material from which it can be made. e world annually disposes of its 1.3 billion tons of food wastes by incineration, through composting, or simply in land lls. If this new biore nery technology pans out industrially, a large per-centage of the world’s food waste could be upcycled into plastics and other items. e added bene- t of sending less waste to land lls and reducing air pollutants makes the process wholly sustainable and environmentally friendly. see Have your co ee continued on 6A Have your co ee and recycle, too InsideUAB.com Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 4-A Tim Melton features@UABkscope.com Tripp Larsen | Sports Editor sports@insideUAB.com sports Like Us! We need you to Like us. We really do. We have an overwhelming need to be liked. You can feed our obsession and win some cool stuff. We’ll be drawing names from among the Likers (is that a word?) for giveaway T-shirts and other prizes. Plus, the Facebook feed keeps you up to date with the latest campus news, sports and events as reported by students. www.facebook.com/uabkscope Eric Roberts News Editor news@insdieuab.com UAB football is in a good place, regardless of what the “South’s leading opinion maker” may say. Even the “F-Baum” him-self checked into Legion Field before he traveled to Dallas or Atlanta to see the weekends “big” games. It is not excitement or fanfare that will put the Blaz-ers on the map, it is direc-tion. For the rst time there is a plan in place to lay a foundation for the future. On Saturday, UAB found themselves down ten heading into the break against cross state rival Troy but there was no panic Head Coach Gar-rick McGee said. “We had a plan to get back into the game,” said McGee. “It (the plan) gave us energy.” On the opening kick of the second half the Blaz-ers recovered an on-side kick and methodically took the ball down the eld and scored. e Blazers fought back into the game and at one point they were just two points behind Troy. But the Trojans proved to be too much for the Blazers. ere was no panic. ere were no pointed ngers. “I am proud of our foot-ball team, there was no sense of panic when we were down 17-0,” said Garrick McGee. “ e reality is we did not play well enough to win. I expect-ed us to play better and win.” “You do not play to play,” added McGee. “You play to win.” On the soggy Saturday a ernoon junior quarterback Jonathan Perry who threw for 317 yards and two touch-downs remained calm but con dent a er the loss. “We played with pride,” said Perry. “He (McGee) is proud to be our coach. ere is no magic in the new coaching sta we have to make plays.” “We will be better in two weeks,” said Perry. “We are a team. We sacri ce for each other.” It seems for the rst time in years UAB is ready for a miraculous season. at miracle may not come this season, but no one can know that for certain. Andrew Carnegie once said, “Teamwork is the abil-ity to work together toward a common vision. e ability to direct individual accom-plishments toward organiza-tional objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” So before anyone passes judgment on the Blazers or makes excuses for how UAB has been treated by the Sys-tem, fans must remember this was the rst game of a new era. Success takes time. A cynic would say that the road is just downhill from here, with games against South Carolina and Ohio State in the near future. But UAB is not going away 0-1 or 0-3, and who is to say they could not sneak up on Spurrier of Meyer. is is a new day in Blazer football and growing pains should be expected regard-less of outcome. Whether UAB wins or loses 10 games, no one--not even “radio network star” himself--can deny that UAB is in a better place in com-parison to the team’s past. It is time that the Blazer faithful stands with McGee and refuses to accept moral victories and excuses. is is UAB’s time. Troy is just 1 game Taylor Suttle Sta Writer tsuttle@uab.edu In 2002 Sam Hunt was named Co-O ensive player of the year, but little did he know what was in store for his future. He went on to play for Middle Tennessee, and he would later be quarterback for the Blazers. In 2003, he dressed for every game but saw no eld time. e next year he had limited action in six games, and took a red shirt the next year. In 2005, Hunt nally made his appearance with UAB by joining the Blazers and taking a red shirt for the second time. Hunt was only able to play in 7 games during the 2006 season because of several injuries. He nished the season with an excellent completion percent-age. Unfortunately for Hunt, he was not able to start in the season opening game against the nationally ranked Okla-homa Sooners, but he was able to come o the bench and rushed for 65 yards on 15 carries and hit nine out of 15 passes for 149 yards and a touchdown. A er graduating from UAB, Hunt worked as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs and tried to nd a spot in professional football. With little success in professional football Hunt moved to Nash-ville in search of a new career in music, and had no idea what was in store for him. e former Blazer quar-terback was in his kitchen the moment when his luck changed. He received a text message that Kenny Chesney’s new single, “Come Over”-- which was written by himself and two others--was playing on the radio. Hunt immedi-ately found the closest radio and listened to a song he had co-written. Most of us will never know what having your words played through the speakers of the radio feels like, but at least we have Hunt’s description to sympathize with. “Going through this whole process of moving up to Nashville, kind of dreaming it and not knowing much about how it worked,” Hunt explained. “To have something you could touch or hear coming through the speakers created a lot of emotions in that moment.” It’s now all such a blur to Hunt. He doesn’t even re-member how Chesney came to rst hear the song, but he was thrilled when it was cho-sen for the album. is was a huge step in Hunt’s musical career. It wasn’t his rst song to sell, but it was de nitely the most successful. So far he’s sold “Real Good, Feel Good” that was recorded on one of Neal McCoy’s al-bums. Hunt was shocked by it all, “I didn’t really know you could make a living in song-writing; I was just very fortu-nate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. rough that meeting, I met another couple guys and end-ed up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.” Right now he is focusing on writing new songs and tak-ing inventory of the ones he always has. Hunt’s goal is to create his own album next. Where are they Now? Former Blazer Sam Hunt from QB to song writer Daniel Twieg/Photography Editor The Blazers gave up over 262 yards on the ground to typically pass-heavy Troy, with RB Southward going for over 200 yards. Tripp Larsen Sports Editor sports@insideuab.com “Reality is we didn’t play well enough to win the game,” rst year head coach Garrick McGee said a er the game. While most game stats are even, UAB made more bad plays than their week one op-ponent. Both sides were sloppy and the Blazers had a dismal rst 27 minutes of the game featur-ing two turnovers before the defense forced a turnover in the red zone, which sparked a Blazer drive to nally get on the board going into hal ime trailing 17-7. Trailing at hal ime in a game where they had been outplayed, the Green and Gold showed resilience. “We believe in our team, nobody had their heads down,” defensive end Diaheem Watkins said about his teammates. Coach McGee added, “Showing them we had a plan and that we did believe in them gave them life.” Being in a similar situation just two years ago to the same team veterans reminded the younger players the game is not over. e second half was more action-packed than the pre-vious one. It started with an on-side kick recovered by the Green and Gold, and an ensu-ing touchdown that brought UAB within striking distance down just 17-14. A long snap that sailed out of the end zone and a Troy touchdown it looked like it was going to be a two score game before Connor Boyett blocked the PAT to keep it the de cit to just eight heading into the fourth quarter. UAB once again scored on their opening drive of the quarter. With the Trojans just two points away a er the TD o ensive coordinator Je Brohm called a quick pass play for the two point conversion. On a scramble out of the pock-et Jonathan Perry threw a pass that was just several feet short of the target. e Blazers would come no closer. A er a couple of Troy touchdowns, coupled with the inability of the Birmingham team to hold on to the football, the Trojans ended the game on a 14-6 run, bringing the nal score to 39-29. Jackie Williams had a standout game receiving for 157 yards on just six catches but will most likely be think-ing about the touchdown he didn’t make, fumbling the ball on the two yard line just before pay dirt. Jonathan Perry also had a great game accumulating 317 yards with his arm on 18-33 passing adding two TD’s, but oated one pass late in the game that resulted in a Troy interception. He also was the second leading rusher for his team adding 46 yards and a TD . A er the game, the junior quarterback from Baltimore, Md. said this about what he this game showed, “ ere no magic in what the coaching sta brings. We need to go out there and make the plays our-selves.” A er the game, McGee said, “I’m excited about our football team but I am not in-terested in any moral victory. We play to win the game. I am not interested in moral victo-ries so am not excited about a loss.” UAB is a team that has many moral victories but few that have translated into actual wins in the programs short his-tory. McGee and his squad may have lost the game but belief was a word that was uttered repetitively. McGee said that his team will be much better in two weeks when they travel to Colombia to take on South Carolina Gamecocks. Sopho-more Watkins added, “We are not that far from being a good team. We got good players. We want to show the city of Bir-mingham what we got.” e stats for the two teams were almost dead even, UAB had more total yards, more rst downs, and fewer penalties but could not overcome the four turnovers. UAB was just 4-5 plays from winning the season openers. Both teams came out slop-py, but that is to be expected during the rst game. e run game was a surprise; UAB had hoped to set up the o ense with an e ective run game. However, Troy’s 3-4 defense kept the Blazers rushing attack at bay. UAB will also need to nd ways to get a better pass rush to put pressure on opposing QB’s as they had no sacks. Co-rey Robison seemed to have an eternity at times in the pocket. Having an away game dur-ing week two can be a major positive for UAB. e Troy game gave them many things to work on, and will need to be xed before they travel to an SEC opponent in South Caro-lina on Sept. 15 and then Ohio State one week later. “We will be better in two weeks,” said Perry. “We are a team. We sacri ce for each other.” Clarence Barbour/Sta Photographer Sophomore RB Darrin Reeves averaged 4.4 yards a carry totaling 48 yards on the ground helping the Blazer rushing attack. ‘Reality is, we didn’t play.’ Sloppy rst impression with rst loss 5-A— Tuesday, September 4, 2012 UABkscope. com Chase Cole Staff Writer masadabbc@gmail.com The No. 16 UAB Men’s Soc-cer team traveled to play No. 3 Charlotte Friday night. UAB faced their former Conference USA rival in a game remi-niscent of last year’s second round NCAA Tournament match. Charlotte overcame UAB in that match-up 3-1, and advanced to the NCAA Col-lege Cup Tournament where they eventually lost to North Carolina. Friday night marks the 26th meeting for the two teams since Conference USA began in 1995 with Charlotte hold-ing a record of 14-9-2 over the Blazers. However, out of the last 11 meetings UAB has a re-cord of 7-2-2. This was the first time the Blazers have traveled to Char-lotte since 2008 when the 49ers overcame the Green and Gold 1-0 giving UAB a record of 3-6- 1 in games played at Transam-erica Field. UAB’s senior forward Kofi Gyawu shinned Friday night scoring the first goal 39 min-utes into the match on a coun-ter attack to give the Blazers a 1-0 lead. Gyawu not only leads his team in points, but he also has scored in each of UAB’s regular season games this year. Gyawu was recently cho-sen as the men’s soccer Confer-ence USA Offensive Player of the week. This is the second time Gyawu has received the honor with the first being dur-ing his freshman season in 2009. “It feels so good to know I have been recognized by the conference office as the of-fensive player of the week,” Gywau said. “But without my teammates, I know it wouldn’t have been possible so I want to thank them as well. I think I played well and as a team we got two wins and that’s the most important thing.” Gyawu certainly wasn’t alone Friday night. Junior goalkeeper Raphael Ville seemed to be everywhere Charlotte was as he made 10 saves to keep the Blazers in the game. Ville has only appeared in 3 games at the collegiate lev-el, and already has 19 saves in the season. The 49ers came out strong to begin the second half of Friday night’s contest, scor-ing within 22 minutes with an electrifying goal. The goal was set up when Charlotte maneu-vered the ball in front of Don-nie Jones who launched the ball into the net to even the score. As the two teams entered overtime, UAB seemed to have a win in hand when Sopho-more Ian Michalak spotted a loose ball a few yards away from the net. Michalak took the shot, but unfortunately it was deflected at the last mo-ment by Charlotte. This ul-timately ended the game in a draw. UAB continues on the road this week traveling first to East Tennessee State on Sunday fol-lowed by trip to Albequerque, N.M. on Friday. Houston McDuffie/ Staff Writer The womens team scores first goal of the season and Paige Hanks scores first goal of her NCAA career in a losing effort to the third ranked team in the nation. #3 Oklahoma State proves too much for UAB Kofi Gyawu scores, Blazers tie in nationals rematch Kyle Thompson/ Contributor The tie with the number 3 team in the nation brings UAB’s record to 2-0-1. Chase Cole Staff Writer masadabbc@gmail.com The Lady Blazers scored their first goals of the season Friday night, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the Okla-homa State Cowgirls. Oklahoma State Defeated UAB 4-2 Friday night in a hard fought battle at West campus field. The Lady blaz-ers started strong against the third ranked team in the nation, moving the ball really well, and causing mass confusion amongst the cowgirls. Within the first 11 minutes of play, UAB stunned Oklahoma State when Junior Amy Harrison played a long ball down the sideline to Freshman Paige Hanks who took it in for the score. “It’s really exciting” said Paige Hanks who scored the first points of the season for the Lady Blazers during her first collegiate appearance, “I think we all played really hard, but unfortunately the score doesn’t reflect that” Hanks said. “We’ve got some things we need to work on, but we definitely showed up today.” UAB earned a second goal scored by Sophomore Johanna Liney with 7:53 left in the game. Coach Warren said “its all about effort”. “She (Johan-na Liney) fought through a lot of play-ers, and kept her composure which enabled her to score.” Oklahoma State made several goals that seemed as if they were scored more by chance than skill. Their first two goals came from UAB deflections; a third goal was scored off a corner kick that was headed out and back in again; and their final goal came from a penalty kick to the top right corner. The Lady Blazers certainly have room for improvements, but be-ing able to score against a nationally ranked team shows that they are head-ed in the right direction. “We showed we can play with the best of them tonight,” Amy Harrison said. We know that we can score now so we just need to come out next game just as hard, and capitalize on our op-portunities.” The Lady Blazers have played sev-eral of the country’s top teams, and while they are 0-4 to start, there are still many things that the soccer team have left to play for this season. Scor-ing two goals against a top five team is good reason not to give up. UAB is looking for their first win Sunday at 6pm when they visit Sam-ford University. InsideUAB. com Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 6-A Climate change from 3A In The Guardian, which is a UK based publication, one commentator stated that the coverage of new runways at Heathrow Airport received more attention than the re-cord ice melt. And back in the States, the focus was on the campaign and the Republican National Convention, where barely a mention of climate change was given. Maybe the candidates and delegates there were practicing the tech-nique of denying reality as obstinately as possible, in the hope that it would convince others that the issue doesn’t ex-ist. Their farming constituents in the Great Plains and Mid-west, whose crops have been decimated by recent drought conditions, might be happy to oblige in jump-starting their memory, though. Moreover, those in the Gulf region, who sustained record levels of rain when Hurricane Isaac came ashore concurrent to the convention party, might also have a say. Even President Obama is indecisive on the issue, saying climate change is a reality that must be tackled while allow-ing Royal Dutch Shell to start exploratory drilling in the Arctic. He has even been pushing for an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, in which he continues to stress the impor-tance of fossil fuels and natural gas, along with renewables, in any future program. Similarly, by giving the go ahead for the construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport over one million barrels of dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. every day, Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to be acting with the sense of urgency that is needed. So, what can we do? Instead of feeling apathetic and get-ting understandably overwhelmed with these truly global issues, we need to stay engaged. By keeping up with the lat-est science and remaining informed, those who may try to diminish or silence proven facts will have a more difficult time of spreading the propaganda. The problems affecting our planet supersede all other and need to be treated as such. Have your coffee from 3A Starbucks globally accounts for 4 million cups of coffee a day—a day! That’s roughly 61, 729 pounds of ground coffee thrown away daily. That number does not reflect the numerous pastries, stale and uneaten, thrown away each day as well. If Star-bucks alone embraced this biorefinery technology, the impact of wastes being incinerated and dumped in landfills would be enor-mous. Starbucks Hong Kong’s research findings on the subject were presented last week at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia. The study is launching a pilot plant in Germany later this year but will need further funding for full expansion. Starbucks has not declared this to be a universal practice, at least not yet. The project is in its early stages but it seems like the solution Starbucks has been seeking to address its growing amounts of waste. It is basically natural law that where there is a Starbucks, there will be a mass of caffeine craving consumers waiting in those no-torious lines for their coffee. That same notorious line is full of consumers who want to have their coffee and drink it sustainably too. I would sip my java much happier knowing I was helping to turn trash into necessities like laundry detergent or spandex ex-ercise clothes. So maybe next time I crave a venti iced skinny latte with an extra shot, I’ll order two. Kasopefoluwa Oguntuyo Contributor kogun93@uab.edu Scientific advancements and innovations are all about us: from the recent NASA Mars Rover landing to the vast amount of technology incorporated into your smart phone to the constantly emerging diag-nostic and treatment techniques used in medicine. Yet, in a high school math and science proficiency study directed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the USA trails behind many nations. Out of 65 nations in the 2009 study, the USA ranked 23rd in science and 31st in math. These poor rankings directly correlate to the high unemployment rate found nationwide as the job growth rate for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related fields is projected to be nearly twice as much as non-STEM related fields. Furthermore, STEM-related jobs also enjoy wages that are, on average, 26% higher than their non-STEM counterparts. However, STEM-related occupations require educated and skilled person-nel. Occupations in these fields vary from computer scientists to wildlife conservationists to engineers. To strengthen this workforce, we must aim to improve education levels and increase interest in math and science at the K-12 level. In Massachusetts and Minnesota, eighth graders performed exceptionally well on math and science proficiency exams and only ranked below Singapore and Taiwan. Both of these states have policies that set a framework for high science education standards. These policies provide for a structure of expected standards, yet allocate some degree freedom that allows teachers to flesh-out curricular details. These excellent education policies established in Massachusetts and Minnesota are reflected in their sub-national average unemployment rates: on av-erage, the two states have an unemployment rate that is about 2.5% lower than the national unemployment rate. In order to emulate and improve the results seen in Massachu-setts and Minnesota, a team of 26 states and other organizations have banded together to create a solution to our math and educa-tion dilemma. With the slogan “For States, By States,” the first draft of K-12 Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) was released in May to the public for review and feedback. The American stake-holders and sponsors of the NGSS are the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Noyce Foundation, Cisco and DuPont. The NGSS established standards based on suggestions from the National Re-search Council and has the goal of improving math and science proficiency levels. According to the National Academies Press, the NGSS aims to accomplish this by “actively… [engaging students] in scientific and engineering practices and apply crosscutting con-cepts to deepen their understanding of the core ideas in these fields.” Furthermore, the team formulating the NGSS aims to make these standards accessible to groups predominantly underrepresented in STEM-fields. A second draft of the NGSS will be open for feedback in the fall. The nationwide adoption and efficient implementation of this policy will not only improve our global competitiveness in regards to math and science proficiency, but also swell our STEM-work force thereby strengthening our competitiveness in the global mar-ket. fotopedia A scientist examines a cell slide underneath a black light. STEM fields fall short Math and science see lower employment fotopedia.com Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. 1-B— Tuesday, September 4, 2012 UABkscope.com Mondays 6:30-8:30 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. 620 11th Street South (Between Birmingham Fire Station #2 and WBHM) OPEN FOR DROP-OFFS • Glass bottles • COOKING oil/grease • #1 & #2 plastic bottles • Steel food cans • Aluminum cans • Paper/cardboard We Can! Be the Greenest University UAB Recycling Center | Keep UAB Clean and Green. Use Our Recycling Bins | Call 205-996-9043 or e-mail recycle@uab.edu No motor oil/hazardous waste Tim Melton features@UABkscope.com Mariah Gibson | Features Editor features@insideUAB.com spectrum Britty Reese Senior Sta Writer brittyr@uab.edu e Front is a 12 to 14 per-son artist run collective based in New Orleans. e Front also runs a non pro t gallery that has exhibits, performances, and other art related programming that is free and open to the pub-lic. Right now until Sept. 21, art works of various medias from all 14 current members of e Front are being displayed in UAB’s Visual Arts Gallery. e exhibit opened on Aug. 24. When one rst walks into the art gallery, the rst thought one might have is “Live action bunnymen!” While not actually live action, the sculpture is pretty realistic. Two identical bearded men in head to toe white bunny suits are reclined on the oor of the gallery. One is lying on his belly, reading a book on snakes. His twin is in a crawling posi-tion, poking an Eastern Coral snake with a long, skinny stick. e piece, by Alex Podesta, is called “Self Portrait as Bunnies” and is on sale for $10,000. About half of the pieces displayed are for sale and at pretty lo y prices. Also very strangely for sale is some video art titled “ e Front: On Display” which is composed of three TV sets with built in DVD players stacked on top of one another. e top and bottom TV’s are playing loops of some of the art pieces being created (with some pretty disturbing sound ef-fects in the background) while the middle set plays interviews with the artists. is piece by Dave Greber is on sale also for $10,000 and is also part of an addition, meaning this is not the only one. ere were some other video loops in this exhibit. “Di use” by Stephanie Patton is a 17 min-ute and 30 second long video of a woman’s white low-heel clad feet walking over a patch of eggs until they are nothing but dust. And the selling price? Once more, a conversation start-ing $10,000. In the corner of the back room of the gallery is a very impressive installation: a gor-geous garter stitch knitted cre-ation depicting a sun lit sky be-hind a mountain. Super knitter Rachel Avena Brown created the aptly titled “Sunrise and Moun-tain,” but sadly has no plans of selling what would perhaps be the best artwork that someone could hang in their home. ere seemed to be a na-ture/ deer theme in a lot of these pieces. Lee Deigaard’s blown Britty Reese Alex Podesta’s ‘Self Portrait as Bunnies’ is part of the new exhibit at the UAB Visual Art Gallery. Post-Hurricane home for NOLA artists Mark Trammel Sta Writer ripmrgordo@hotmail.com “Lawless” got a bit of an unexpected break when the similarly-themed “Gangster Squad” was postponed due to reshoots necessary because of a shoot-out scene set in a movie theater at the lm’s climax. Can you say awkward? What with the likes of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone starring, the lm clearly had a bit of the upper hand. e more low-key lm “Law-less” makes up what it lacks in star power with some pretty solid character actors, such as Tom Hardy (“Bane” in “ e Dark Knight Rises”), Jes-sica Chastain (“ e Help”), Guy Pearce (“Me-mento”), and living legend Gary Oldman. And okay, Shia LaBeouf’s in it, too. Nobody’s perfect. Still, one could do for a worse night at the movies with this lm, which splits the di erence between the classic “Bonnie & Clyde” and the more recent TV show “Boardwalk Empire.” Basically, it’s a ramped-up moonshiner’s tale, more in line with exploitation lms like “Moon-shine County Express,” only played relatively straight. (Oddly, the recent “Hit & Miss” aimed for a similar feel just last week, only by way of Hal Needham’s oeuvre.) e lm retains the gra-tuitous sex and violence of B movies, it just pairs them with more solid acting. No doubt about it, Tom Hardy is one of the more entertaining character actors out there right now, with each subsequent performance standing out from the preceding one in remarkably diverse ways. Here, he plays a drawling Southerner, growling his lines with a hoarse menace as di erent from Bane as one can get. Wait till you see him survive all manners of onslaught, without losing any of his lassiez-faire attitude. It’s a subtle wonder to behold, and makes the lm worth a look all by its own bad self. Also clocking in with a ne, quietly brooding performance is Jessica Chastain, who seems to be in a new movie every month for the last few years running. She was quite exceptional in “Jolene” and pretty solid in “Tree of Life,” among others, and her roll continues here. Pretty easy on the eyes, too. See Lawless movie continued on 2B MCT Campus Shia Lebouf and Tom Hardy star in the new Bonnie and Clyde-esque lm “Lawless.” Tom Hardy more entertaining than the leads in ‘Lawless’ up black and white photos of glowing white eyed deer called “Nothing Twice,” and Alex Po-desta’s “I vs I,” a fur covered double tricycle with antlers for handles (buy it for $3,500 for the art loving tike in your life) both follow the theme. Claire Rau’s gi-ant plank of wood printed with bow ties is perhaps as close back to nature as you will get in the exhibit. Or maybe Andrea Fer-guson’s slivers of wood as well. ese were particularly interest-ing because these wood slivers were covered with acrylic trans-fers of images of human bodies with animal heads. But of course, not everything of e Front’s is an installation, video loop, wood, or sculpture. ere are also two dimensional pieces, such as “Drawing” by Morgana King, a mixed media childlike construction, which isn’t for sale. See The Front continued on 2B Cody Owens Sta writer cjowens@uab.edu e world’s hero, Neil Armstrong died last week from complications stem-ming from a recent heart surgery. He was 82. He le behind his two sons, Rick and Mark and his second wife Carol, all of whom claim the man hung the moon himself. It is not very o en, once in a blue moon perhaps, when someone you always hoped to meet dies before you get the chance to do so. e passing of one of America’s heroes on August 25 was one of those days for a lot of us I am sure. Even now as I am writing this the moon is hanging low and blue, saddened by the loss of someone who dared to touch it rst. Neil was a man who knew no boundaries and cer-tainly didn’t waste a single heartbeat of his time here on Earth—or the moon for that matter. It’s not very o en, once every other generation may-be, that a person has the abil-ity to leave the world in awe, seven billion jaws dropping in unison. Neil Armstrong was a man who every boy hoped to be one day. Card-board box Apollo rockets, starry nights, the man on the moon, all remind us of what exactly Neil Armstrong did. And the greatest and most heroic thing about him is that to his dying day, he claimed MCT Campus Neil Armstrong, an American hero, will be missed by many. Neil Armstrong No boundaries no ownership for his ac-complishment. But rather, he said he did it for all of us. He placed the bar on the moon for all men and women a er him to try and reach. And for that we should all be grateful. Neil Armstrong was not like many other people who become shackled with world-wide fame and recognition. No, Neil was di erent. He never gloated, rarely spoke about his achievements, and played the whole “Oh Yeah? I walked on the Moon,” card very close to the chest. 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One a ordable option for the art collector on a budget (and that’s to imply you still have a bit of money, it is art a er all) is Kyle Bravo’s “Certain ings.” ese are little water color images photo printed onto small Stonehenge paper square. e images are random objects or portraits, captioned with funny, if not sometimes irrelevant things. Such as an egg being dubbed as “ e First Egg” or an uncapped-pen labeled “Failure is not Success.” Each “Certain ings” image is being sold for $50 a piece. is is de nitely an interesting multimedia art exhibit worth checking out. UAB’s Visual Arts Gal-lery is located at 900 13th St. S. Check out the website for biographies of each artist and photos of their art works. from 1B ough her role is crimi-nally under-written, she nds a way to make it work, as does co-star Mia Wasikowska (Al-ice in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”), as a preacher’s daughter smitten with LaBeouf. As for Shia, he su ers a bit from boy-trying-to-be-a-man woes, a la Leonardo DiCaprio not too long ago, but at the same time, he doesn’t embar-rass himself, either. I tend to shut o a bit when it comes to narration, but his here isn’t bad, and it draws you into the story pretty well. Besides, the cast’s the thing here. ough Oldman in particu-lar is a bit underused overall, Pearce gives a wonderfully slick and slimy performance as a cop that’s more of a gangster than the gangsters are supposed to be. His performance is just as carefully nuanced as Hardy’s and makes an additional case for seeing the lm. e lm is directed by John Hillcoat, best known for the post-apocalyptic thriller “ e Road.” ough “Lawless” can be a bit humorless and grim at times- though, to be fair, so was the source material-it’s never as dreary as that lm, and marks a bit of a step up for the direc-tor overall. While it drags a bit here and there, “Lawless” never quite overstays its welcome, and when the inevitable show-down between the bootleggers and the cops comes, it’s pretty rewarding on the whole. Interestingly, the script is by rocker Nick Cave, of “Red Right Hand” fame, from the “Scream” movies. While a bit undercooked, Cave does get o some good writing now and again, and it’s quite lyrical, appropriately enough. I loved the bit resolving the so-called “legend” of Hardy’s character: “I thought I walked,” indeed. Cave should totally do a spaghetti western. Paging Tarantino! “Lawless” isn’t perfect, and it may have dodged a bullet getting out there before “Gangster Squad,” but it’s worth a look if you like period-gangster tales, in the old Scorsese ultra-violence mode. At the very least, it serves as a nice placeholder before “Boardwalk Empire” returns, so there’s that. Grade: B Laurie Christolear Contributor christolear@uab.edu Getting ready for school is hectic, you have to move, buy books, supplies, groceries, clothes, and numerous other things. For materials, shopping is simple; once you have everything you need, you’re done. However, more time is required to get your brain back into gear. Unless a student takes sum-mer classes, writing skills can get rusty. ere are a few things that students can do in order to get their writing skills back up to par. Everyone has had teachers say, “the more you read, the better you write.” And, however much I hate to admit it, they are all kind of right. While it can be hard to nd time to read, there are quick things to listen to that will help students pick up on vocabulary, tone and writing style. Audio books are a great thing to listen to be-tween classes, in the car or at the dinner table. Plus, it’s a great way to get reading done for any kind of class. Many audio books can be found online, at the library, or through Apple’s iTunes. Another great way to pick up on some writing style is listening to the radio. Not talk radio, where the hosts only talk about Alabama football and politics, but radio programs like Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. Well, anything that is funded by the National Public Radio. My parents had me listen to NPR programs when I was little, so now, I tell stories like NPR re-porters, and coincidentally, I write essays like NPR reporters. I use similar sentence structure, vocabu-lary and tropes. Another great way to get out of the summer slump is to stop using “text-talk.” e way people type online and via text message a ects how a stu-dent will write on paper. Text-talk can carry an informal tone into an es-say that is expected to be formal. A great way to practice a formal tone is by using full words, rather than contractions. By cutting contractions out of texts and posts, students are forced into the habit; therefore, when it gets time to write an essay, a slip up is less likely. Lastly, students can go to his or her professor for suggestions and tips. Because each teacher expects something di erent out of students, they are help-ful tools. Of course, some teachers will help stu-dents revise essays before they are due. De nitely get to know your professors. Britty Reese Some of the works at ‘The Front’ are on sale from as cheap as $50. Get your A ‘once in a blue moon’ guy brain ‘into gear’ from 1B To his grave, he took w
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