Two UA anglers win Ranger Cup
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Oct. 12
University of Alabama anglers won the Ranger Cup university fish-off. John Davis and Peyton McGinnis won the fish-off with 12 keeper fish weighing more than 37 pounds in a winner-take-all challenge. Davis and McGinnis qualified for this competition by being the highest finishing Ranger Cup university qualified team in the Boat U.S. Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship.
Alabama sororities bring high energy, wacky costumes to homecoming parade after busy week
Al.com – Oct. 11
University of Alabama Panhellenic sororities had another busy week in Tuscaloosa, and what better way to blow off some steam than to get a little wacky during the annual homecoming parade? After the choreography contest, Paint the Town Red, lawn decorations and more, members of Alabama sororities dressed in wacky costumes or jerseys to walk and ride in Saturday afternoon’s homecoming parade down University Boulevard.
It’s a heart problem, not a gun problem
WND – Oct. 12
On Friday, within a week of Umpqua Community College mass murders, two more college shootings – one at Northern Arizona University and another at Texas Southern University,left two more dead and four more injured. And the nation cried again, “Why?” “Why so many mass shootings?” In my column last week, I citied the work and expertise of Dr. Dewey Cornell to show that mental illness is not the cause of increased mass shootings across the U.S., and more gun restrictions are not the answer for how to reduce them … Adam Lankford, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Alabama, said: “It’s harder to quantify it, but I’ve been struck by research that shows that being famous is one of this generation’s most important goals. It seems like Americans are growing in their desire for fame, and there is no doubt that that there is an association between media coverage that these offenders get and the likelihood that they will act.”
Alabamians must stand up for sensible gun reform
Al.com – Oct. 12
I am an instructor at the University of Alabama, and as such I have the great pleasure of working with, and living among, tens of thousands of the best and brightest young people from my home state, and thousands more who are entrusted to us by parents in other states and countries. It is with this responsibility in mind that I write today, deeply frightened by the increasingly familiar gun massacres in our schools around the country. It is out of love for these students that I urge my fellow Alabamans to call on our legislators to stand up for all of us and demand sensible gun reform. It’s long past time. Like most of my fellow Alabamans, I come from a family that loves their guns, going way back – most everyone I know and love owns at least one handgun for protection or rifles for hunting. (By Michael Seth Stewart, PhD., an Alabama native and English instructor at the University of Alabama)