Terry Saban to help collect donations for UA Libraries at A-Day
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
Terry Saban, wife of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban, will help take donations for the University Libraries at the A-Day Game on April 12, according to a press release. Terry Saban, UA students, faculty, staff, and student-athletes, including members of the UA men’s basketball team, will be collecting at each gate at Bryant-Denny Stadium and in the Walk of Champions area prior to the A-Day Game…“Our Libraries must remain in the forefront with new resources and services and 21st-century technology,” Terry Saban said in a statement. “The University’s libraries provide critical services and resources that our students need to excel academically. We want our libraries to be just as good and nationally recognized as our athletic programs.”…
Montgomery Advertiser – April 4
Retired fashion professor was respected in her field
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
Wilma Greene, 70, a longtime University of Alabama professor who was highly regarded in the fashion industry, died Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Greene was the coordinator of UA’s fashion retailing program for 32 years….Milla Boschung, dean of the College of Human Environmental Services, said that Greene was a mentor to many students and stayed in touch with them long after they had graduated. “What a marvelous role model she’s been for not only students, but for colleagues,” said Boschung, who was herself one of Greene’s students. Greene established the interim New York Study Tour that allows fashion students to travel to New York to visit fashion houses and hear presentations from leaders in the New York fashion industry…
Crimson White – April 4
Alabama sturgeon on last chance
Birmingham News – April 4
…The best we can tell, these fish have been declining the last 40 or 50 years,” said Bernie Kuhajda, a research biologist at the University of Alabama. “But their real decline started when those last two dams went in – Millers Ferry and Claiborne Lock and Dam.”…
Area leaders say King’s voice would be heard
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
Rev. Dorsey Odell Blake, minister of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco and first head of the African American studies program at University of Alabama from 1972 to 1977: “He had to die because he had challenged the very foundation of society so profoundly that he had to be killed. If he didn’t die here he would have died somewhere else. …
UA Starts Tobacco Free Challenge
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – April 3
The University of Alabama has launched a month-long campaign to get employees and students to kick the habit. The Capstone has challenged 30 of its faculty and staff to quit smoking for 30 days. It’s estimated that one-fifth of University employees smoke, so organizers want to inspire them to stop lighting up.
UA students will compete for $500 prize
Tuscaloosa News – April 4
…So maybe it makes some symbolic sense that one of the pick hits of Saturday’s APO Talent Show, on the University of Alabama campus, is another ’50s throwback….He’s referring to Paige Renka, a UA student from Fairhope, who’ll be spinning hula hoops…
Auburn fundraising draws to a close
Mobile Register – April 1
…USA, Auburn, the University of Alabama and the University of Mobile are all undertaking or completing major fundraising efforts…Pamela Parker, vice president for advancement at the Tuscaloosa university, said her school’s fundraising success owed much to good economic conditions throughout most of the campaign and some “friendly competition” with Auburn…State schools fundraising progress listed:
Auburn University: $504 million raised toward $500 million goal (as of July), campaign ended in March.
University of Alabama: $480 million raised toward $500 million goal (as of March), campaign ends in June 2009.
University of Mobile: $2.5 million raised toward $14.7 million goal (as of July), no campaign end scheduled.
University of South Alabama: $64.7 million raised toward $75 million goal (as of March), campaign ends in March 2009.