Public memorial planned for UA’s Moore
Tuscaloosa News – April 1
A public memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday in Coleman Coliseum to celebrate the life of former University of Alabama Director of Athletics Mal Moore. Moore, who stepped down as athletic director on March 20, was part of 10 football national championship teams as a player, coach or administrator at UA. He died Saturday at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. He had been in the hospital since March 13 with pulmonary problems. Moore is survived by a daughter, Heather Cook of Scottsdale, Ariz., her husband, Steve, a granddaughter, Anna Lee, and a grandson, Charles Cannon. A private church service will be held Thursday morning and burial will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Good Hope Cemetery in Dozier. Donations in Moore’s memory can be made to the Crimson Tide Foundation, c/o Telisa Blanton, P.O. Box 870343, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0343, or the Mal and Charlotte Moore Caring Days Center, P.O. Box 3049, Tuscaloosa, AL 35403.
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Remembering a Legend: Mal Moore 1939-2013
Crimson White – April 2
Jay Barker’s last conversation with Mal Moore went like many they had during Barker’s career as quarterback for The University of Alabama in the early 1990s while Moore was offensive coordinator for the Crimson Tide. Moore, as Barker recalls, spent much of the time asking how Barker was doing rather than discussing his own health issues. “He always worried about you; he always worried about the other person,” Barker said during a telephone interview late Monday. “He always wanted to know how people were doing. I just wanted to go in and thank him and tell him how much of a father figure he was for me and how much I loved him.” Barker and countless others will remember Moore as a selfless man who always went out of his way to help others. Moore died Saturday at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., after a career with Alabama that spanned six decades as a player, coach and administrator. He is survived by his daughter, Heather Cook, granddaughter, Anna Lee, and his grandson, Charles Cannon.
UA honors former news correspondent John Cochran
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 1
The University of Alabama honored former network news correspondent John Cochran today. Cochran is a graduate of the university and a former correspondent for ABC news. Today, he was awarded the dean’s medal … it’s an award presented to individuals who have served the college with distinction. Although Cochran says today is a happy day, he’s thinking about his longtime friend Mal Moore. This year marks 50 years since Cochran graduated from the University of Alabama.
Feature film seeks funding to shoot in Tuscaloosa area
Prattville Progress – March 31
Tuscaloosa’s feature filmmaking history isn’t rich, but it will grow one sizeable movie larger if an IndieGoGo campaign launched Thursday grows as expected. “Song of Kwagala,” based on a script by Chris Schroeder, could involve a month or more of shooting in Tuscaloosa, along with another 10 days to two weeks filming in Uganda…Yet another piece clicked into place with Michael Wilk, since 1982 the keyboardist for John Kay and Steppenwolf, who’s been living in Tuscaloosa since last July. His daughter Mandy is a flutist and musical therapy major in the University of Alabama’s School of Music, and since September, Wilk has been teaching studio recording techniques at UA, while still flying out to make Steppenwolf gigs. Murphy tracked him down through the Steppenwolf website, a process that routed through band founder and frontman Kay’s manager, to Kay, to Wilk’s manager and finally to Wilk…Not only could UA’s ensembles perform much of the soundtrack for the film, he said, but composing students might be involved in the writing of the incidental music. A team including Wilk, School of Music Chair Charles “Skip” Snead, guitarist and Arts and Sciences associate dean Tom Wolfe and others plan to meet next week to discuss possibilities.
Technically Liberal Arts
Inside Higher Ed – April 2
A group of 19 private colleges in Georgia have struck a deep transfer agreement with the state’s technical college system, guaranteeing admission to any student with a grade-point average of at least 2.5 and an associate of science or applied science from one of the state’s 25 technical colleges. Four of the private institutions went a step farther with the agreement, which was announced in February. Those colleges – LaGrange College, Reinhardt University, Shorter University and Thomas University — agreed to waive their general education requirements for students who transfer in from the technical college system with an associate degree in applied science … However, the Georgia Independent College Association’s new transfer agreement is particularly broad, experts said. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, called it a “significant step forward for students in the Peach State.” … Katsinas said the decision by LaGrange and other Georgia colleges can make sense. “Advances in technology require technical workers with higher order learning skills,” he said in an e-mail, “which in turn is breaking down former barriers between general education and technical education related to transfer.”
CBS Sports Chairman: No regrets on Kevin Ware injury coverage
Huffington Post – April 1
The chairman of CBS Sports had no regrets about banning further replays of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware’s gruesome broken leg and says if anyone wants to watch it on the Internet, that’s fine with him…It’s considerably different from when Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann broke his leg during a Monday Night Football game in 1985. It was equally horrific, with bone jutting through skin. Back then, about the only way a viewer could see it again is if a television producer decided to show the replay, said Jeff Billings, a sports media professor at the University of Alabama. Aside from the availability of footage online now, many viewers have DVRs that enabled them to replay the incident as much as they wanted, Billings said. “Current technology makes it a whole lot easier for them to take the high road,” he said.
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Calhoun first quarter foreclosures, mortgages show slight housing market improvement
Anniston Star – April 1
Year-over-year foreclosures remained steady while mortgages increased during the first quarter of 2013 in Calhoun County, indicating slight improvement in the housing market…Leonard Zumpano, professor of finance at the University of Alabama and the chair of real estate economics for the Alabama Association of Realtors, said housing markets across much of the country have improved in recent months. “There is no question about it; sales are going up and foreclosures are going down,” Zumpano said. “Some banks have been willing to refinance again.”
GUEST COLUMNIST: How the popes saved the church
Tuscaloosa News – March 31
You have heard or read a lot about the new Pope Francis in the press recently. But did you know that he is heir to a tradition that goes back to the time of Jesus himself? When Jesus left the earth, his disciples spread through much of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean and eventually reached Rome, at the heart of the Empire. In 324 A.D., the Emperor Constantine, a Christian convert, stepped into his role as leader of the empire in all phases, including religion, and made Christianity the official religion of the Empire. It all came to a crashing end in 410 A.D., when barbarians from beyond the empire in the north of Europe came crashing through the Roman legions guarding the northern borders and reached Rome. They sacked the city, something difficult for us in the 21st century in this country to imagine. As Rome collapsed, the Church, led by some extraordinary popes, stepped into the vacuum of authority and order and preserved Western civilization and orthodox Christianity for posterity, of which we are the heirs. (Larry Clayton is a history professor at the University of Alabama).
UA Theatre to bring Irish romantic drama ‘The Clearing’ April 8-14
Al.com – April 1
The University of Alabama Theatre and Dance department will premiere Helen Edmundson’s “The Clearing” n the Allen Bales Theatre on campus April 8. The play was written while the Bosnian Genocide during the 1990s and it shows the “ethnic cleansing” that took place during the 17th Century in Ireland. During this time, in the play, English landowner Robert Preston who falls in love with Madeleine. After they get married, the Parliament decides to remove all of the native Irish people and the couple risks losing one another. Two actors from UATD’s comedy “Fools” from earlier this season, are returning to play enemies against one another. Tommy Butler and Loui Clagett were a comedic duo in “Fools.” ”
Kentuck Art Night to feature artist fundraiser, new exhibits and more
Al.com – April 1
This Thursday, the Kentuck Museum’s Art Night will have lots of art for you to browse, live music, free cob oven pizza and a way for you to help the Kentuck Building Fund. Two new exhibits will open this week from Chiharu Roach and the University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center, both in the Georgine Clarke Building…A special exhibit, “Wounded Heart Exhibit,” by the UA Women’s Resource Center will showcase art of survivors who want to express the impact of domestic violence. The survivors, artists and their loved ones used these hearts to cope with the situations.
Class to offer in-depth study of trials
Crimson White – April 2
When the state of Alabama executes someone, the cause of death is listed as homicide. “The perpetrator of that murder is us, the people,” Andrew Grace, a telecommunication and film professor, said. Several months ago, a federal defender for a capital murder case in which she believed her client was innocent approached Grace about making a documentary. After a meeting, he realized the case was too complex for the documentary film format. “There’s so many different elements to them that it really deserves a holistic treatment that maybe my film couldn’t provide,” he said. “I began to think about ways to tell that story in a different way, not as a documentary film but as something larger.” That “something larger” will be a new yearlong class produced from a partnership between the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility and several departments at The University of Alabama. The class, Anatomy of a Trial, will set out to create a web-based narrative telling the story of an inmate on the state of Alabama’s death row. “Anatomy of a Trial is a completely new thing,” Grace said. “It’s a hybrid kind of new thing. It takes a lot of the same principles and techniques of [CESR course] ‘Documenting Justice,’ but it’s a different class altogether.”
UA graduate to play role on Broadway
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 1
A UA graduate is becoming a rising star in the world of Broadway. Stephen Tyrone Williams was raised in Tuscaloosa and graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor of arts in theatre and communication studies. Tonight he will play a supporting role in the Broadway show “Lucky Guy,” which also stars Tom Hanks. Williams has also starred in films and cable TV shows.