UA Honors students spend week helping area elementary school
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 15
…a group of University of Alabama Honors students spent this week giving Maxwell Elementary School a facelift and its fifth-grade students role models. “These kids pretty much worship you as a college student,” said 20-year-old Matt Miller, a junior at UA and co-director of Alabama Action, a group of freshmen honors students who perform community service…Alabama Action had 140 incoming freshmen volunteer for the program this year, the largest in its eight-year history. Aside from the 90 UA students who spent the week at Maxwell Elementary, another 50 spent the week at Flatwoods Elementary completing a similar project…“The obvious things that we do are to come into the schools and make beautiful things happen,” said Star Bloom, the faculty coordinator for the UA Honors College. “But there are more subtle things that we do that are even more important.”…
Tommy Stevenson: Going negative during the Olympics?
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 15
…The dirty little not-so-secret of political campaigns is that negative advertising does work. Dr. Karen Cartee, a University of Alabama professor of advertising and public relations, had done many a study proving just that and I notice it has become received wisdom among the television pundits that “going negative” is a good tactic, at least in the short term…