UA freshmen move into the dorms
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Aug. 13
WSFA (Montgomery) – Aug. 13
Summer vacation is over for thousands of University of Alabama students… It’s move in day at the University of Alabama. Classes don’t actually begin until next week. But already thousands of current and future University of Alabama students are on the move. “Everything seems bigger going from high school to college. That’s why sisters Adella and Amber Smith packed plenty of stuff for their dorm room…
First day with a new family
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 16
New members of Zeta Tau Alpha walk down Colonial Drive towards their house during Bid Day Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Bid Day is the last day of Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment week where the girls find out which sorority they can join.
Reform advocates will be honored
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 15
… The formation of the nonprofit Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform coincided with that April 2000 rally, which was spearheaded by Bailey Thomson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for editorials written at the Mobile Register and at the time a professor at the University of Alabama…Thomson died in 2003, but the Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform and its foundation lives on. The group on Thursday will hold its fourth annual Bailey Thomson Awards luncheon…
Birmingham News – Aug. 16
Montgomery Zoo shows off birds of prey
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 16
A crowd of more than 100 people gasped and awed as a golden eagle was released from its cage and spread its 7-foot wide wings at the University of Alabama arboretum Sunday afternoon. The 16-year-old eagle was one of several birds of prey on display as part of an education program from the Montgomery Zoo…The birds of prey show was part of a special event sponsored by the University of Alabama Arboretum, which hosts several events throughout the year, said Evan Salter, environmental educator at the arboretum. He said he was really pleased with the standing room-only turnout Sunday. “We are very pleased, because we are trying to get the word out that we are here,” Salter said.
Area wages 2nd lowest in state
Florence Times-Daily – Aug. 15
… One reason for (the second lowest wages in the state) is that you have lost manufacturing jobs,” said Ahmad Ijazz, economist at the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama. Most of the jobs added in recent years were in retail or service sectors, he said. “All those sectors pay relatively lower wages,” he said. “Any time you see an area that loses manufacturing jobs, you see an income decline.” In the early 1980s, Ford and other companies left, leaving unemployment at more than 20 percent. In the early 1990s, the textile industry left. Now, with the recession in its third year, unemployment in the region remains in double digits. “With an excess supply of labor, you don’t have to increase wages,” Ijazz said…
Sculpting History
Birmingham News – Aug. 16
…Sloss Furnaces resident artist and metal arts education coordinator Joe McCreary…has worked at Sloss Furnaces for 10 years and considers the site itself a major inspiration for his work…”In the beginning, there was the seduction of this fiery process,” he says, “and that transformed into a responsibility to preserve a method that is becoming obsolete.” McCreary says that’s best exemplified by his piece” Goldie 1971.” A robot made from cast iron and steel measuring 25feet long, 4 feet wide and 6 feet high, the sculpture rests on the Woods Quad at the University of Alabama as a reminder of the decline of industrialization in Birmingham. The robot lies on its side as if it has just been turned off, representing not only the loss of its necessity as a machine, but also as a worker of the cast iron industry…
Movie about Coach Nick Saban to open soon
WAKA (Montgomery) – Aug. 13
The man who led the Crimson Tide to the 2009 BCS National Championship is now starring in his very own movie, but what are Alabama and Auburn fans saying about all the hype and how it could affect the team’s performance?…The movie, hitting theaters in late August, is a biography that goes inside the life of the Alabama head coach as well as behind the scenes as the University of Alabama prepared for the 2009 BCS National Championship game.