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DEADLINES TO REMEMBER
Intent to Compete applications for Culverhouse College Business Plan Competition, extended to Nov. 9, 11:59 p.m.
Applications for Health Hut interns, Nov. 12, 5 p.m.
Applications for Project Health ambassadors and GAMMA delegates, Nov. 12, 5 p.m.
THIS WEEK’S DATES TO REMEMBER
Beat Auburn Beat Hunger, daily through Nov. 16
Great American Smokeout, Nov. 5-15
Tidal Flow, Nov. 7, Presidential Park, 1-4:30 p.m.; Allen Bales Theatre, 6-9:30 p.m.
Veterans Week, Nov. 7-16
RAGE Concert, Nov. 8, 8 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Homegrown Alabama Farmers Market next-to-last appearance for 2012, Nov. 8, 3-5 p.m., lawn of Canterbury Episcopal Chapel
Ole Smokey Sausage Festival, Nov. 9, 4-6:30 p.m., Delta Kappa Epsilon house
Commencement of Battle of the Branches competition, Nov. 12
Lecture by the Hon. U.W. Clemon on the U.S. Constitution’s effect on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Nov. 12, noon, A-112 Law Center
Relay for Life kickoff rally, Nov. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 204-B Ferguson Center
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The deadline to submit an Intent to Compete for the Culverhouse College Business Plan Competition has been extended to Friday, Nov. 9, at 11:59 p.m. The deadline to submit a completed plan is Nov. 26 at 11:59 p.m. All UA students are invited to participate in the competition. Click here for times and locations of workshops. The competition will be held Dec. 7 and involves prizes totaling more than $50,000. More information: http://uabplan.com/wordpress and http://uabplan.com/wordpress/?page_id=11. For questions: Dr. Lou Marino at 348-8946 or lmarino@cba.ua.edu.
Blackboard Learn will replace the current e-Learning system on Dec. 31 and will be the only learning-management system used. Students should save any needed materials out of e-Learning by following the guide found here. To learn more about how to use Blackboard Learn, visit http://ondemand.blackboard.com. For more information about UA’s transition to Blackboard Learn, contact blackboard.learn@ua.edu.
Also, Blackboard Learn is now available in UA’s suite of mobile applications.
SAS Education Analytic Suite is now available to academic departments, faculty, staff and students on personal and University-owned machines for teaching and research purposes at no charge to the end user, according to the Office of Information Technology. Users can log in to the download site, accept the terms and conditions, and download the software to their machines. Click here for more information, including a link to the download site.
DewPoint, Sigma Tau Delta‘s literary magazine, is accepting creative and critical submissions for the 2013 edition. DewPoint accepts original prose, poetry and critical papers from UA undergraduates of any major. Submissions will be accepted until Jan. 1, 2013, at uadewpoint@gmail.com. More information: Shea Stripling at sheas1010@gmail.com.
EVENTS
The Student Government Association has announced a decrease in ticket prices for the Thursday, Nov. 8, RAGE concert featuring B.o.B. at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Student and guest tickets for the concert are now on sale for $10. Students can now purchase tickets with cash, credit card or Bama Cash through myBama (click on Campus Life tab) or in 356 Ferguson Center. The show is being held to raise money for student scholarships.
On Wednesday, Nov. 7, Creative Campus will host Tidal Flow, a free event created to seek out new, unseen and unheard talent in UA’s hip-hop world. The event’s locations and times are as follows:
- Presidential Park (between Campus Drive West and Stadium Drive), 1-4:30 p.m. — The interactive visual art will be facilitated by aerosol artist Mitchell Griest, who will have participants fill in a mural that will be placed in Allen Bales Theatre as the backdrop for the event.
- Allen Bales Theatre, 6-7:30 p.m. — The hip-hop panel discussion of personal experience will take place. The panel will consist of Dr. Rachel Raimist, assistant professor in telecommunication and film; LaToya Scott, coordinator for special events and student development at UA; and Carey Fountain, UA sophomore who has started his own record label.
- Allen Bales Theatre, 7:30-9:30 p.m. — Performers with talents in rap, spoken word, dance, and more will debut their art to an audience of 150 people. DJ Slugga will provide music for the performers and the crowd.
For information on Tidal Flow, contact Philine Gromotka at pagromotka@crimson.ua.edu or Kat DeLay at kdelay5291@gmail.com.
The Homegrown Alabama Farmers Market has added two additional markets this season: Nov. 8 and 15. The market will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the lawn at Canterbury Episcopal Chapel. The market will be small and intimate, but seasonal produce, local meat, goat cheese and soap will be available. The Nov. 15 market, the last of the 2012 season, will host craft vendors in addition to the regular vendors. Available produce will include a variety of cooking greens, root vegetables, lettuces, peanuts, broccoli, hot peppers, persimmons, passion fruit, pears and a few tomatoes. More information: Mo Fiorella at Homegrownalabama@gmail.com or 205-210-9621
The Student Health Center Department of Health Promotion and Wellness, in collaboration with Project Health and the Student Government Association, will host the Great American Smokeout, an anti-smoking campaign targeting UA smokers and non-smokers, Nov. 5-15. To showcase the environmental and health dangers of smoking, the Health Hut will provide supplies for a cigarette cleanup. Students can stop by the Health Hut Nov. 8-14 and pick up gloves and plastic bags to collect cigarette butts littering campus. Full bags can be returned to the Health Hut. The accumulated litter will be on display in the Ferguson Center on Nov. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. More information: Delynne Wilcox at dwilcox@cchs.ua.edu or 348-3878.
Delta Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Beta Tau, Alpha Gamma Delta, and Phi Mu invite students to the Ole Smokey Sausage Festival Friday, Nov. 9, from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on the front lawn of the DKE house. The event is a combination cookout and hot-dog-eating contest to raise money for Beat Auburn Beat Hunger. Admission is $5 or students can present five canned upon entrance. Students can purchase tickets at the door or from any member of the host fraternities or sororities. More information: Jordan Ross at jeross1@crimson.ua.edu.
All students are invited to support a branch of the military in the first annual Battle of the Branches. Participation in trivia, Halo 4, community service with the Veterans Affairs, Tug of War and much more can all earn points for each participant’s chosen branch. Join the weeklong competition that begins Nov. 12 by signing up online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CQX7WW. More information: Alex Karagas at vma@bama.ua.edu or karag001@sa.ua.edu For more information about campus events during Veterans Week, click here.
UA’s Relay for Life officially gets underway Nov. 12 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. as event volunteers and participants gather in 204-B Ferguson Center for a kickoff rally to launch this year’s fundraising for cancer awareness. Nov. 12 will also be the first opportunity for people to register a relay team and select a campsite for the relay that will be held April 12-13, 2013, on the UA campus. Students can participate in the UA Relay for Life by calling 800-227-2345 or 205-342-2009 or by clicking here. More information: Anna Lisa Sexton at 205-342-2009 or annalisa.sexton@cancer.org
The Labor and Employment Law Society and the American Constitution Society invite all students to hear the Hon. U.W. Clemon on Monday, Nov. 12, at noon in A-112 Law Center. Clemon served for almost 30 years on the federal bench. His lecture will focus on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his thoughts on the state of labor and employment law today. A question and answer session will follow the lecture. More information: Catessa Malone at catessa.malone@law.ua.edu or Mariam Gillis at mariam.gillis@law.ua.edu.
The Community Service Center will host the Hunger Banquet Nov. 14 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Ferguson Center ballroom. Participants in this interactive event sit and eat a meal determined by the luck of the draw, just as in real life some are born into relative prosperity and others into poverty. The banquet will allow many to gain a new perspective on the root causes of hunger and poverty in the world. Dress for the banquet is casual, and one Panhellenic point will be awarded for sorority members who attend. Visit http://volunteer.ua.edu/hungerb.cfm to register for the banquet. More information: Lisa Bochey at uahungerandhomelessness@gmail.com.
The UA student chapter of Alabama Arise and the School of Social Work invite all students to a discussion about the death penalty and social justice on Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. in 111 ten Hoor Hall. The effects of capital punishment on society will be explored through the words of Gary Drinkard, an exonerated death-row inmate, and Joanne Terrell, death-penalty mitigator and instructor for the School of Social Work. Free barbecue while it lasts. More information: Keith Saint at krsaint@ua.edu or 256-577-5015.
The fourth annual Bama Buddies service project has begun. Bama Buddies allows student organizations to buy, build and customize stuffed animals for donation to children during the holiday. In addition, students can attend Build-A-Buddy Bonanzas to receive discounted buddy prices, free food, live music and a unique chance to build bears with groups from across campus. Visit http://thesource.ua.edu/bama-buddies for details and registration. More information: David Phelps at dlphelps1@crimson.ua.edu.
ATHLETICS
Know how to get in the game. The Saturday, Nov. 10, football game against Texas A&M kicks off at 2:30 p.m. at Bryant-Denny Stadium and will be televised on CBS. Students who currently have tickets or need tickets to the game will want to know how to “Get in the Game,” how the changes to the way student tickets are handled, how to enter the stadium (Gate 31 only) and how parking near the stadium affects them. For more information on the changes, visit the following sites: Action Card Office (click on My Tickets UA) or http://uagameday.com.
Game-day parking reminder. On game-day weekends during football season, many parking lots are used for Tide Pride and game-day parking. The following lots and areas must be vacated by 5 p.m. on Fridays of all home games: Colonial Drive south of Eighth Street, the south one-third section of the Coleman Coliseum lot, the Tutwiler main lot and “triangle” lot, the lower Student Recreation Center lot, the Northeast Campus Drive lot and the large lot east of the Moody Music Building. Re-entry to all faculty and staff lots, with the exception of the Ferguson deck and the North Ferguson-MIB lot, will be restricted after 5 p.m. on game-day Fridays. Click here for a map that shows the parking-lot closures.
Game-day parking for orange residential permits. Students with orange residential parking permits who normally park in the Tutwiler, Northeast Stadium or Colonial Drive lots will be able to gain temporary access to the Ferguson or Campus Drive parking decks from noon until midnight on the Fridays before a home football game. To gain free access, students can swipe their Action Cards in the A-slot in one of the two decks. Students should not use the B-slot or $5 will be deducted from their Bama Cash accounts. Action Cards will be activated each Friday before a home game. Students must return their vehicles to an orange residential zone by 7 a.m. on the Monday following the game.
Men’s basketball vs. Stillman, Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m., Coleman Coliseum
Women’s volleyball vs. Kentucky, Nov. 9, 7 p.m., Foster Auditorium; free student admission
Men’s basketball vs. South Dakota State, Nov. 9, 8 p.m., Coleman Coliseum; free student admission
Women’s basketball vs. Jacksonville State, Nov. 11, 2 p.m., Foster Auditorium; free student admission
Men’s basketball vs. West Alabama, Nov. 11, 4 p.m., Coleman Coliseum; free student admission
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
The Office for Academic Affairs encourages students to familiarize themselves with the benefits of DegreeWorks, the University’s software program that provides Web-based academic advising and degree audit tools. Administered by the Office of the University Registrar, DegreeWorks helps students finish in eight semesters by enhancing their ability to plan schedules, track progress in degree completion and calculate GPA. For more information on DegreeWorks, visit http://finishinfour.ua.edu, the landing page for the program.
The department of communication studies has opened the Speaking Center on the second floor of Reese Phifer Hall on a trial run. The Speaking Center is a resource center for all faculty, staff and students to receive feedback on their presentations and help in facilitating group projects. Available dates are Nov. 12-16. More information and to schedule an appointment: uaspeakingcenter@gmail.com.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Students seeking part-time work as babysitters or tutors can apply to be a part of the new Babysitting Network and Tutoring Network. More information: Victoria Corley at vcorley@fa.ua.edu or 348-6045.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Project Health is seeking students for positions as health ambassadors, Health Hut interns and GAMMA delegates. For more information about each position and to obtain an application, visit http://healthhut.ua.edu (interns) and http://projecthealth.ua.edu (ambassadors and delegates). Applications are due Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. More information: projecthealth@ua.edu.
World Diabetes Day will be celebrated on the Quad Nov. 14. Festivities will include health screenings, diabetes education and several other health-related activities and entertainment. Students who are interested in volunteering for the event should contact Koushik Kasanagottu at kpkasanagottu@crimson.ua.edu or Mary Elizabeth Halliday at mehalliday@crimson.ua.edu.
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