ESPN anchor and UA alum, Rece Davis, speaks to students
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Jan. 31
ESPN anchor and University of Alabama alum Rece Davis returned to Tuscaloosa today. He’s in town to call the Alabama-Arkansas basketball game tonight. Davis took some time this morning to talk to students about his career and the Alabama football program. He says fans should be proud of the type of football program Nick Saban is running. “I’d probably get in trouble, I’m surprised they let me on campus because I wrote an essay after the championship game that said this is the greatest era of Alabama football and I believe that.”
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 31
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Ferg Fest to help local schools
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Jan. 31
Cupid is getting a little help from students at the University of Alabama this year. The ad team made personalized valentines for students in the Tuscaloosa City Schools … it’s all a part of Ferg Fest … Items to be delivered to schools affected by the April 2011 tornado. They will add a little color by painting the classrooms, too. The ad team is getting ready to head back to the national competition again this year. Last year they placed second.
Project brings together University of Alabama students, veterans
American Homecomings (Denver Post) – Feb. 1
A group of interior design students from the University of Alabama sat around a table Thursday playing games with veterans who live at the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s new skilled nursing care cottage. But for the students, playing games with the veterans, handing out popcorn and singing carols to them during the holidays is just a small part of the group’s partnership with the Tuscaloosa VA. The students are using the experience to learn about the veterans’ special needs and what they may require in the interior design of senior centers, nursing homes and hospital environments.
CNN anchor Don Lemon to speak at UA on Feb. 21
Al.com – Feb. 1
CNN anchor Don Lemon will speak at the University of Alabama on Feb. 21 as part of the university’s Capstone Conversations series. He will appear at the Ferguson Center theater at 6 p.m. The event is part of the university’s commemoration of its 50th anniversary of integration. Lemon, a CNN Newsroom weekend anchor, previously worked for NBC stations in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, and worked as a correspondent for NBC News, The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. In 1996 and 1997, he served as a reporter at WBRC-TV in Birmingham…He has won several awards including the Edward R. Murrow Award and an Emmy for his work.
UA art display celebrates Black History
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Jan. 31
The University of Alabama is starting off Black History Month a little early. The exhibit blood lines will be on display until February…at the Paul R. Jones gallery in downtown Tuscaloosa. It’s a collection of African-American family art that includes many different pieces of family sculpture and painting form.
Raudelunas exhibit closes Saturday
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 1
A creative cacophony that began 40 years ago resounds again this weekend as the Raudelunas ‘Pataphysical Redux concert closes out an exposition on the art collective that coalesced around University of Alabama students, many of whom will return for the weekend. The “Raudelunas Exposition 2013: Zurich 1916 or Tuscaloosa 1975?” closes Saturday after a monthlong run in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery, and after a 5-7 p.m. closing reception, the concert will follow that night in the Ferguson Theatre, with experimentalists LaDonna Smith, Anne LeBaron, Craig Nutt, Davey Williams and other guests starting the musical ball rolling at 7:30. Composer and harpist LeBaron will travel from California to re-spark her Fulbright-scholarship-winning “Concerto for Active Frogs,” first performed when she was part of Raudelunas. Traveling a shorter distance, in miles anyway, will be Birmingham-based avant-garde guitarist Williams and violinist and violist Smith. Nutt, a longtime Kentuck artist who makes fine woodworks carved with vegetable themes, on display from the Smithsonian to Atlanta’s international airport to private collections, will return in the guise of big-band leader Ron ‘Pate.
Relive ‘Groundhog Day’ at the Bama Theatre
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 1
How many times have you wanted a chance to redo a day, to have a second chance at a situation or maybe even become immortal? In 1993, Bill Murray had that chance. In the film “Groundhog Day,” director Harold Ramis fated Murray’s character, Phil, to relive the holiday over and over again. And Saturday, fans in Tuscaloosa can relive the excitement of the movie during a special showing at the Bama Theatre. The screening, which falls on this year’s actual Groundhog Day, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the movie’s release. One of WellThatsCool.com’s founders, Bo Hicks, said he is excited to co-sponsor the event with Sigma Tau Delta, the English honors society at the University of Alabama, and The Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa. Hicks said he realized its potential after Shea Stripling, president of Sigma Tau Delta approached him about co-sponsoring. “It’s an exciting event,” Hicks said. “The fact that it’s the 20th anniversary and it’s on Groundhog Day is just an opportunity we couldn’t pass up.”