Tornado memorial service scheduled February 29
Enterprise Ledger – Feb. 1
…services will consist of comments by city and school leadership, highlighted by a concert performed by the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble during which they will play a song they had commissioned entitled “Enterprise,” as a tribute to Enterprise High School students who perished on March 1. The University of Alabama Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Kenneth Ozello and award-winning composer, Ira Hershner, composed the music in cooperation with EHS Band Director Charlie Ford…
Political aisle doesn’t keep student leaders apart
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 1
Mason Dyess, 20, and Mary Harmon Rountree, 20, know people whisper about them whether they are hanging out at the University of Alabama, where they both go to school, or off campus. They’re not dating. Their relationship is far more scandalous than that. He is the president of the College Republicans. She is the president of the College Democrats. And they are best friends…
College Students Meet to Protest Taxes on Textbooks
WBRC-Fox 6 (Birmingham) — Jan. 31
College students…call a sales tax on textbooks a tax on education. This afternoon, students from nearly a half dozen Alabama colleges met at The University of Alabama. They support a bill that would repeal municipal, county and state sales taxes on textbooks.
WAFF-NBC (Huntsville) — Jan. 31
3 Alabama cities’ economies hailed
Birmingham News – Feb. 1
…Carolyn Trent, an economic analyst for the University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said the Birmingham-Hoover metro area generated 32.6 percent of the gross state product in 2005, the last year for which data was available. Huntsville was second at 10.6 percent, followed by Mobile at 8.4 percent and Montgomery at 8.6 percent. “This will certainly have changed over the last two years, but the other metro areas are certainly not close to overtaking the Birmingham-Hoover area as the economic hub of the state,” Trent said…
Alabama catches attention of presidential hopefuls
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 1
…David Lanoue, chairman of the political science department at the University of Alabama, said it’s going to be hard to sit this primary out, even if one’s chosen candidate is no longer running. “I think [people will] vote because it’s a pretty exciting campaign,” Lanoue said. “If you were a strong supporter [of someone else], you still want to be part of the action.”…
This week in Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 1
The Ferguson Center Student Union will host the third annual Hip-Hop Summit at the University of Alabama with the theme ‘Changing Lives Through Hip-Hop,’ beginning at noon Monday and ending with a showcase at 7:30 p.m. Thursday…Roy F. Baumeister, Eppes eminent professor of psychology at Florida State University, will deliver the lecture ‘Free Will as the Expensive Control of Action’ at 6:30 p.m. today in Room 208 in the University of Alabama’s Gordon Palmer Hall…Ted Sider, professor of philosophy at New York University, will be the next speaker in the ‘Philosophy Today’ series of public lectures at the University of Alabama. Sider’s lecture, ‘The State of Metaphysics,’ will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 38 Lloyd Hall on the UA campus…
UA Poetry Slam draws a crowd
Crimson White – Feb. 1
…Jonathon Barclay, a junior majoring in journalism, was just one of the 11 competitors at the first Poetry Slam sponsored by University Programs and the Ferguson Center…