Op-Ed — Alabamians Professing Faith in God Have a Moral Duty to Support Tax Reform

Alabamians are, or at least claim to be, a Christian people. Today over 90% of our population practices Christianity in some form. This means that the vast majority of Alabamians believe that Judeo-Christian values found in the Bible should be a moral compass to guide their lives. However, in one glaring case Alabamians have strayed far from the direction that God’s moral compass provides. When one examines the suffering and hardship Alabama’s tax structure inflicts on the poorest and neediest among us, one cannot fail to see the enormous gap that exists between what God’s moral values demand and what we have allowed our state to become. The time has come for those of us who have allowed this to happen to acknowledge it (painful as that will be), and then use the gifts, powers and opportunities that God has blessed us with to set things right.

UA Business School Plans to Create Endowment to Establish Insurance Chair Honoring John Bickley

Representatives of the insurance industry from around the globe will gather at NorthRiver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa on Thursday, Sept. 5, to participate in a black-tie dinner and other activities announcing the establishment of the John S. and Mary Louise Loftis Bickley Endowed Teaching Chair in Insurance and Financial Services at The University of Alabama.

Alumni Serving in Afghanistan Send Flag to UA Campus

University of Alabama graduate and 2nd Lt. Christopher Chaney, a platoon leader with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment serving in Afghanistan, recently presented an American Flag flown over the Regimental Headquarters in Afghanistan to Lt. Col. Neil C. Reinwald Jr., UA professor of military science and commander of UA Army Battalion ROTC.

UA Law Graduate Appointed Chair of American Bar Association House of Delegates

H. Thomas Wells Jr., partner and a founding member of the Birmingham law firm Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., became chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates on Aug. 13 at the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

UA Student-Run Television Show Prepares for Fall Line-up

In October 2001, a group of University of Alabama students came together to produce an independent and volunteer-based talk/variety show called “SpeakEasy.”

UA College of Engineering to Host Open House

The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host Engineering Day (E-Day), an open house for junior high, high school and community college students and their families, on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.

UA Receives $1.9 Million Bequest from Former Tuscaloosa Civic Leader

The University of Alabama has received a bequest of $1.9 million from the estate of long-time Tuscaloosa civic leader James Maxwell Brown, UA Interim President Barry Mason announced today.

Medical Ethics Expert to Address Cloning During UA Talk

A medical ethics expert who has written a best-selling book on cloning and who has testified before the U.S. Congress on the issue will present a talk to students in The University of Alabama’s Blount Undergraduate Initiative at 4 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 26 in ten Hoor Hall, room 30.

UA Historian Wins Truman Book Award

Dr. Kari Frederickson, assistant professor of history at The University of Alabama, was named the 2002 Harry S. Truman Book Award winner for her work, “The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968” (The University of North Carolina Press, 2001).

UA Invites Public to View Venus and Comet at Observatory

Lift your heads and crane your necks to see if you can see Venus and Comet Hoenig at Gallalee Hall on Aug. 30 at 8 p.m. through a refractory telescope. The viewing on The University of Alabama campus is free and open to the public. Gallalee Hall is located at the corner of Hackberry Lane and University Boulevard.