Initiative urges women to run for political office
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 10
The University of Alabama has joined an initiative sponsored by the American Association of University Women that seeks to encourage more women to run for political office. Jessi Hitchins, assistant director of the Women’s Resource Center at UA, said that the “Elect Her: Campus Women Win in 2011” initiative is designed to inspire college-age women to run for elective offices at their schools. UA is one of 20 universities and colleges in the U.S. and Jamaica that will host the “Elect Her” initiative this year…
Student tickets available for first amphitheatre concert
Crimson White – Feb. 10
Student tickets for the opening concert of the Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre, Friday, April 1, featuring the Avett Brothers and Band of Horses, will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Students can purchase up to four tickets for $10 each in Room 356 of the Ferguson Center. The student who buys the tickets must have a valid student ID, but the other three ticketholders can be non-students, said Heather Roberts, a programming intern at the Ferguson Center. Roberts said 3,000 of the 7,000 total tickets have been blocked off for students. 1,500 general admission tickets are available for the lower bowl, as well as 1,500 reserved seating tickets for the upper bowl…
Group hosts Jupiter viewing
Crimson White – Feb. 10
The astronomy group within the department of physics and astronomy will be hosting a viewing of Jupiter at 7 p.m. The viewing, which is open to the public, will take place on the dome of Gallalee Hall through a 16-inch reflector microscope. Astronomy and astrophysics professor Phil Hardee, who is hosting the event, said it is undetermined whether Jupiter, which sets around 7 or 8 p.m., will be viewable…This month’s viewing is the day before this year’s UA High School Physics Contest. “The scheduling of this [month’s viewing] ties in with the high school physics contest that we do every year,” Bill Keel, an astronomy professor, said. “Some of the teams who are coming in from places like Mobile and Huntsville may make it a road trip of coming the night before. To enrich what they can do, we moved it to have it the night before the physics contest.”…
Winter storm blankets the South
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 10
… The University of Alabama suspended classes at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Shelton State Community College closed at 4 p.m. UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen said in a news release that UA officials would notify students and staff by text message and e-mail if the university decided to delay start time today…