UA students ring in Year of the Rabbit
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 3
…Li is a member of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars, an organization he said works to support Chinese students at UA while introducing Chinese culture to everyone else on campus. Each year, the association hosts a Chinese New Year festival on campus. This year, a celebration was held Wednesday night in the Ferguson Center ballroom. Everyone in the Tuscaloosa and UA communities was invited for free Chinese food, music and dancing. The event even featured a kung fu demonstration. “So even though Chinese students can’t go back home, they still have a home here at UA,” Li said…
SHC works to improve
Crimson White – Feb. 3
… “What I’m beginning to notice, and what a lot of students are telling us is that they’re coming here instead of where they used to go because out wait time’s better,” said John Maxwell, director of the SHC. “I speak with directors [from different institutions] day in and day out. Quite frankly, I think we’re the best student health center in country. We’ve got an ER physician, which is great because they work with speed. Speed is not as important as quality care, that’s number one. But, you can do quality care quickly sometimes too. “Over the past several years, we’ve worked to get our lab and our x-ray and our billing and our pharmacy all working together so that the right hand knows what the left hands doing and we’ve been able to speed things up.”…With the increased student enrollment, the SHC has made adjustments and improvements to stay efficient…The department of health promotion and wellness is one of the latest and greatest projects coming through the UA SHC, Maxwell said… “[Our health education and wellness] does alcohol.edu, mental health.edu; they have strategic teams for financial health,” Maxwell said. “You name it, they’re tops. They are really good.”…
Work study opportunities appear on and off campus
Crimson White – Feb. 3
Fifty-two profit and non-profit organizations are currently accepting applications from UA students for off-campus work study opportunities. Organizations like the Humane Society, The American Cancer Society, and The Red Cross are working with UA Student Employment Services to provide off-campus opportunities for students to gain work experience and build a resume for future jobs, said Eunice Taylor, assistant director of Student Employment Services…Although there are more than 30,000 students at the University, the school only offers around 800 on-campus work opportunities. This is because student employment is funded by the Federal Work-Study program and is allocated $1.5 million annually for student earnings, Taylor said…
UA graduate is in Egypt
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 2
…The protests in Egypt are also affecting some people here locally. University of Alabama journalism graduate Kristen Chick is right in the middle of the chaos in Cairo. She’s there, reporting for the Christian Science Monitor. Her mother-in-law Elizabeth Chick, who lives in Birmingham, tells us Kristen’s only method of communication recently has been through a telephone landline.