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Wright
CW Staff
Though it has been nearly a
month since the sudden resig-
nation of former University of
Alabama President Guy Bailey,
his position at the University
still hangs in limbo. A letter
of understanding signed by
Chancellor Robert Witt des-
ignates Bailey as a tenured
University employee, and no
severance documents have
been drawn up since his depar-
ture as president, Witt said
in a Nov. 16 meeting with The
Crimson White.
The appointment of Judy
Bonner to fill the vacancy less
than 24 hours after Baileys res-
ignation resulted in questions
from some faculty and staff on
campus. No faculty, staff or stu-
dents were formally consulted
in the process to select Bonner
after Baileys resignation.
Witt addressed the concerns
of the truncated search pro-
cess on Nov. 16 and laid out
the timeline of events leading
to the unexpected transition of
the University administration.
The Timeline
Witt said Bailey approached
him on Friday, Oct. 26, to dis-
cuss his ability to perform the
duties of president due to con-
cerns about his wifes health.
During that conversation,
he had indicated to me that as
early as the end of September,
he and Jan, his wife, had talked
about the fact that her physical
condition was making it very
difficult for him to do every-
thing he wanted to do as presi-
dent, Witt said. So as much
as a month before the transi-
tion, he had begun to think
about the fact that this might
not work.
Witt said Board of Trustees
President pro tempore Paul
W. Bryant Jr. joined him and
Bailey in the Oct. 26 meeting,
along with former president
pro tempores Joseph C. Espy
III and Finis E. St. John IV.
We talked with Guy about
how he felt and how he felt
about his ability to go forward,
Witt said. No decisions were
made at that meeting regard-
ing his stepping down.
When The Crimson White
asked St. John about that meet-
ing, he said he didnt recall any
such conference.
I dont remember any meet-
ings, he said. I know we all
talked on the telephone, but I
didnt have any meetings with
him about the selection of
Bonner that I recall.
St. John declined to answer
any further questions regard-
ing Baileys resignation.
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A
storied rivalry quickly
turned into a blood
bath in Bryant-Denny
Stadium on Saturday.
With two teams heading in
completely different direc-
tions, Alabama used the
moment to make a statement,
while Auburn looked for the
nearest exit.
The most lopsided Iron Bowl
in 60 years resulted in a head
coaching vacancy at Auburn
University for the second time
in Nick Sabans tenure.
No. 2 Alabamas (11-1, 7-1
SEC) 49-0 shellacking of
Auburn (3-9, 0-8 SEC) was
the nail in the coffin for Gene
Chizik and his staff. Chizik,
just two years removed
from winning a national
championship, was shown the
door by Auburn administra-
tors after the Tigers lost their
final three league games by a
combined 150-21. He was 33-19
in four seasons and 15-17 in
SEC games.
Waiting for Alabama after
its Iron Bowl drubbing of the
Tigers is No. 3 Georgia. The
Bulldogs (11-1, 7-1 SEC) made
light work of Georgia Tech
on Saturday, 42-10, raising the
stakes for its pending battle
with the Tide.
Now the stage is set for a
showdown in the SEC cham-
pionship when Alabama and
Georgia face off in what has
become the semifinal for the
national championship.
These teams have never met
in the SEC championship, and
this will be the first meeting
between the two since 2008 - the
infamous Black Out game.
The similarities between
these teams are what make
this an intriguing matchup.
Both teams run pro-style
offenses and feature a 3-4
defensive scheme.
Both have efficient quarter-
backs who rarely make mis-
takes. Georgias Aaron Murray
and Alabamas AJ McCarron
are No. 1 and 2 in the nation in
passing efficiency, respective-
ly. If the game comes down to
quarterback play, Murray and
McCarron have played in their
fair share of big games.
By Jordan Cissell and Sarah
Elizabeth Tooker
CW Staff
Former topless car wash
owner Derrick Belcher
petitioned for the state of
Alabama to secede from the
United States of America
two weeks ago, but several
Uniersity of Alabama history
and political science profes-
sors say the strains that com-
plete budgetary independence
from the federal government
could pull the bottom out from
under his plan.
On Nov. 9, Belcher, a resi-
dent of Chunchula, Ala., filed
a petition on whitehouse.gov,
requesting the Obama admin-
istration peacefully grant
the state of Alabama to with-
draw from the United States
of America and create its own
new government. According
to whitehouse.gov, petitions
posted on the website must
reach 25,000 virtual signa-
tures within 30 days to elicit a
response from the administra-
tion. As of Saturday, Belchers
petition had acquired 30,192
signatures.
UA experts sound off on secession petitions
Alabama
Nick Saban
Leaving the Union
not feasible for state
NEWS | SECESSION PETITION
By Marc Torrence
Assistant Sports Editor
The pressure to win in the
SEC has never been greater.
Case in point: Six SEC
teams won 10 games during
the regular season and are
ranked in the top-10 of the lat-
est BCS standings. However,
four coaches have already
been fired.
Of the five coaches that
didnt qualify for a bowl
game, only Missouris Gary
Pinkel made it past Sunday,
but there are still rum-
blings in Columbia, Mo., that
Pinkels job security could be
in jeopardy.
Feel great about our pro-
gram, but this isnt the time
to talk about the whole season
and feelings and not going to
a bowl game and everything,
Pinkel said after the Tigers
59-29 loss to Texas A&M
Saturday. I just dont feel
comfortable talking about it
right now.
But the other four werent
so lucky.
Tennessees Derek Dooley
and Kentuckys Joker Phillips
were fired before the season
was even over, Auburns Gene
Chizik was let go Sunday
and Arkansas John L. Smith
was relieved of his coaching
duties meaning he is still
on the staff but no longer in a
coaching role.
I think it is what it is,
Alabama head coach Nick
Saban said. There is a lot
of attention to what we do. I
think there is a high expecta-
tion of what we do.
Four SEC coaches
without jobs as
2012 season ends
Pressure too great
for Chizik, others
SEE SEC PAGE 11
LSU
Les Miles
Texas A&M
Kevin Sumlin
Mississippi
State
Dan Mullen
Ole Miss
Hugh Freeze
Arkansas
John L. Smith
Auburn
Gene Chizik
Georgia
Mark Richt
Florida
Will
Muschamp
South Carolina
Steve Spurrier
Vanderbilt
James Franklin
Missouri
Gary Pinkle
Tennessee
Derek Dooley
Kentucky
Joker Phillips
SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11
SEE SECESSION PAGE 5
CW File
SPORTS | FOOTBALL NEWS | GUY BAILEY
Witt: Bailey on
developmental
leave until Aug.
SEE PRESIDENT PAGE 3
Bailey designated a
tenured employee
?
CW | Caitlin Trotter, Photo Illustration by Mackenzie Brown
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SGA senator calls open ballot bill into question
By Nichole Corbett
Contributing Writer
Ryan Flamerich, Student
Government Association
College of Engineering sena-
tor, filed the first judicial
complaint in SGA history
against a piece of legisla-
tion that would allow public
voting in the Speaker of the
Senate election.
Senate Bill 19-12 calls for an
open ballot, which Flamerich
said he views to be unconsti-
tutional. Flamerich said an
open ballot is more likely to
foster intimidation and uneth-
ical policies because everyone
would know how each SGA
member voted.
This piece of legisla-
tion violates the ideas and
values of fair elections. It
would allow for the ballot for
the speaker election to be
open, allowing for the coercion
of senators by the Machine.
The policy that currently is
in place was put in there for
a reason. There is prece-
dence, Flamerich said. The
University of Arkansas and
Louisiana State University
operate under the system
that is currently codified.
The respective positions in
both their student govern-
ments are elected through a
secret ballot.
The ability for SGA leg-
islature to be questioned
on its constitutionality is a
new concept. The senato-
rial power of judicial review
was written into the inherent
powers of the constitution in
February 2011.
Any senator can file a com-
plaint against a bill. How the
process works is that a senator
creates a petition for judicial
review of a bill, then a hearing
is scheduled for both parties
to argue their points. The judi-
cial board then makes a deci-
sion, said Meagan Bryant, the
executive press secretary for
SGA. In this case, Senator
Flamerich is questioning the
constitutionality of Senate
Bill 19-12. Currently the judi-
cial board is in the progress of
scheduling the hearing.
By filing a judicial complaint
against the bill, Flamerich is
also putting members of SGA
under scrutiny.
The case is an appeal to
overturn a bill that was passed
through Senate. I was a spon-
sor for this bill. The case has
been filed against the author
of the bill, the sponsors and
SGA, said SGA President
Matt Caldrone.
According to Flamerich,
his use of judicial review did
not come as a surprise to the
members of SGA who dealt
with passing Bill 19-12.
It was expected, said
Flamerich. I made it very
clear to all parties involved
during the legislative process
of Bill 19-12s approval that I
would challenge its legality
if passed.
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From MCT Campus
U.S. abortions fell 5 percent
during the recession and its
aftermath in the biggest
one-year decrease in at least
a decade, perhaps because
women are more careful to
use birth control when times
are tough, researchers say.
The decline, detailed on
Wednesday by the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention, came in 2009, the
most recent year for which
statistics are available. Both
the number of abortions and
the abortion rate dropped by
the same percentage.
Some experts theorize
some women believed
they couldnt afford to
get pregnant.
They stick to the straight
and narrow ... and they are
more careful about birth con-
trol, said Elizabeth Ananat,
a Duke University assistant
professor of public policy
and economics who has
researched abortions.
While many states have
aggressively restri cted
access to abortion, most of
those laws were adopted in
the past two years and are
not believed to have played a
role in the decline.
Abortions have been drop-
ping slightly over much of the
past decade. But before this
latest report, they seemed to
have pretty much leveled off.
Nearly all states report
abortion numbers to the
federal government, but its
voluntary. A few states
including California, which
has the largest population
and largest number of abor-
tion providers dont send
in data. While experts esti-
mate there are more than 1
million abortions nationwide
each year, the CDC counted
about 785,000 in 2009 because
of incomplete reporting.
To come up with reliable
year-to-year comparisons,
the CDC used the numbers
from 43 states and two cities
those that have been send-
ing in data consistently for at
least 10 years. The research-
ers found that abortions per
1,000 women of child-bearing
age fell from about 16 in 2008
to roughly 15 in 2009. That
translates to nearly 38,000
fewer abortions in one year.
Mississippi had the lowest
abortion rate, at 4 per 1,000
women of child-bearing age.
The state also had only a cou-
ple of abortion providers and
has the nations highest teen
birth rate. New York, second
to California in number of
abortion providers, had the
highest abortion rate, rough-
ly eight times Mississippis.
Nationally since 2000, the
number of reported abortions
has dropped overall by about
6 percent, and the abortion
rate has fallen 7 percent.
By all accounts, contracep-
tion is playing a role in lower-
ing the numbers.
Some experts cite a govern-
ment study released earlier
this year suggesting about 60
percent of teenage girls who
have sex use the most effec-
tive kinds of contraception,
including the pill and patch.
Thats up from the mid-1990s,
when fewer than half were
using the best kinds.
Experts also pointed to
the growing use of IUDs, or
i nt raut eri ne devi ces,
T-shaped plastic sperm-
killers that a doctor inserts
into the uterus. A study
released earlier this year by
the Guttmacher Institute, a
nonprofit organization that
does research on reproduc-
tive health, showed that IUD
use among sexually active
women on birth control rose
from less than 3 percent in
2002 to more than 8 percent
in 2009.
IUDs essentially pre-
vent user error,
said Rachel Jones, a
Guttmacher researcher.
Ananat said another factor
may be the growing use of
the morning-after pill, a form
of emergency contraception
that has been increasingly
easier to get. It came onto
the market in 1999 and in
2006 was approved for non-
prescription sale to women
18 and older. In 2009 that was
lowered to 17.
Underlying all this may
be the economy, which was
in recession from December
2007 until June 2009. Even
well afterward, polls showed
most Americans remained
worried about anemic hiring,
a depressed housing market
and other problems.
You might think a bad
economy would lead to more
abortions by women who
are struggling. However,
John Santelli, a Columbia
University professor of pop-
ulation and family health,
said: The economy seems
to be having a fundamen-
tal effect on pregnancies,
not abortions.
More findings from the
CDC:
The majority of abortions
are performed by the eighth
week of pregnancy, when the
fetus is about the size of a
lima bean.
White women had the low-
est abortion rate, at about
8.5 per 1,000 women of child-
bearing age; the rate for
black women was about
four times that. The rate for
Hispanic women was about 19
per 1,000.
About 85 percent of those
who got abortions were
unmarried.
The CDC identified 12 abor-
tion-related deaths in 2009.
US abortions fall 5 percent, biggest drop in decade
I really dont want to talk
about Dr. Baileys resigna-
tion, he said. I dont want
to get into all that. I very
much respect what he did. I
think it was a difficult situ-
ation for him and his family,
but other than that, I really
just dont want to comment
on it because of the personal
nature of his situation.
Witt said Bailey took the
weekend to think things
over, and they met again on
Sunday, Oct. 28, where he
decided he wanted to step
down.
He took a couple of days
to think about how he would
formally announce it, Witt
said. He decided he wanted
to make the announcement
on a Wednesday afternoon.
I informed the pro temp
(Bryant) that thats when
the announcement would be
made.
Witt said he communicat-
ed to Bonner the afternoon
or evening of Oct. 28 that he
wanted to recommend her to
the board.
On Nov. 1, following a
closed-door executive ses-
sion, the Board voted unani-
mously in favor of Witts rec-
ommendation and installed
Bonner as the first perma-
nent female president of The
University of Alabama.
Campus Conversation
Despite Bonners publicly
smooth transition into the
position during the Board
of Trustees meeting, some
faculty members expressed
concern with the quick
appointment.
Paul Horwitz, the Gordon
Rosen Professor of Law,
wrote an email to the Faculty
Senate and President Steven
Miller on Nov. 2, raising
questions about the lack of
campus involvement in the
process.
I am simply surprised by
the swift choice and would
like to know why she was
deemed the best candidate
for the job and, indeed,
whether there were any
other candidates, Horwitz
said in the email.
His letter prompted a
response from Miller in the
form of an open letter to the
Faculty Senate.
That evening I became
aware of rumors and ugly
innuendo about the succes-
sion process and its out-
come passing around the
University faculty and staff.
Some of the stories made me
ill, Miller said. Some were
downright alarming.
Miller wrote that he called
President Bonner Saturday,
Nov. 3 after the board meet-
ing to straighten out the
rumors he was hearing.
When I put the Senate on
the line supporting her presi-
dency, I wanted to make sure
I was on solid ground with
what had transpired, Miller
said. We had a direct and
good conversation that put
to rest my concerns about
the rumors and innuendos.
Although no search com-
mittee convened or was
consulted in the process
of Bonners appointment
to university president,
as opposed to the original
search process earlier in the
year, Witt said he looks at
the two appointments as one
search, instead of two.
I can see how looking
at the search process for
President Bonner would
appear to be different from
the search process for
President Bailey, but Id
like to suggest an alterna-
tive perspective, Witt said.
Four months earlier, we
had completed an exhaustive
national search. It involved a
search committee of 25 plus
people with significant fac-
ulty, staff and student repre-
sentation.
Witt said he did not con-
sult campus members
regarding Bonners appoint-
ment because he felt the
attributes they were look-
ing for hadnt changed in
the four months since Bailey
was hired.
It was my belief that the
likelihood, that what the
faculty, staff and students
were looking for, had materi-
ally changed in four months
approached zero, Witt said.
With that extensive input
being only four months old,
I did not see the need to put
the campus through another
extensive search.
Miller served on the presi-
dential search committee
that recommended Bailey
to serve as university presi-
dent in July and said he felt
the faculty was given signifi-
cant opportunities for input
throughout the presidential
search committee that rec-
ommended Bailey.
I completely support
what the chancellor says
about faculty input. At our
senate meeting this last
Tuesday, it was pointed out
that this was the most exten-
sively sought-out faculty
opinion of a presidential
search ever, Miller said.
Dr. Witt knows that I will
say anything that is on my
mind to him. All I can say is
the truths from my perspec-
tive: we had our way totally
with the search.
Moving On
Despite Baileys resigna-
tion, he remains an employ-
ee of the University until
August 2013, when he can
choose return to the class-
room as a professor in the
English department.
That will provide him a
period of time, if he elects
to return to the classroom,
Witt said. I felt that the
honorable thing for the
University to do was to give
him the same type of devel-
opmental leave appointment
as if he had served here for
years.
Baileys status as a ten-
ured professor was outlined
in a letter of understand-
ing or appointment that
he signed on July 23, 2012.
Though the University pres-
ident never operates under
an employment contract,
this letter stated the condi-
tions of Baileys employment
and salary.
In addition to setting his
salary at $535,000 per year,
the letter required that
Bailey live in the Presidents
Mansion on campus while he
was president.
Bailey will remain a
tenured employee of the
University until he chooses
otherwise. Two staff mem-
bers who moved from Texas
Tech with him will be mov-
ing on.
Witt said it was his under-
standing that Mary Diaz, for-
mer special assistant to the
president, and Justin Clark,
former chief of staff, would
be leaving the University.
Though Bailey officially
resigned nearly a month
ago, Witt said no sever-
ance package or new letter
of understanding has been
negotiated, but that the
Baileys would be moving
out of the mansion the week
after Thanksgiving.
We have not drawn up a
letter regarding his sever-
ance, Witt said, stating the
University wanted to treat
Bailey fairly. It says some-
thing about The University
of Alabama in how it is
treating Dr. Bailey. But Dr.
Baileys confidence in the
University - he didnt need
a letter. He knows how it
treats its people.
Witt could not comment
on when a letter regarding
Baileys severance will be
drawn up.
Assistant News Editor Rich
Robinson contributed to this
report.
Editor | Melissa Brown
newsdesk@cw.ua.edu
Monday, November 26, 2012
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PRESIDENT FROM PAGE 1
Witt explains timeline
of Bonner selection
FAST FACTS
Baileys letter of understanding provided the following
per his employment:
Tenured professorship in the English department
Annual salary of $535,000
Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
along with a generous vacation and sick leave
program
Required to reside in Presidents Mansion
An automobile or a $12,000 per year automobile
allowance