UA in the News: December 18, 2009

UA student writes, directs Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre production
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 18
Jameson Sanford is 19, and he’s double majoring in math and theater at the University of Alabama, so he doesn’t have time to overcommit. So because he had spent almost two years writing an adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” for Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre, and was designing sets and lights for this week’s production at the Bama Theatre, he naturally accepted the job of director, guiding 76 actors, along with stage crew and volunteer…Theatre Tuscaloosa, through its Second Stage program, held a couple of readings of early drafts of the script in 2008, and UA assisted with technical details…

Heisman Trophy Arrives at UA
FOX 6 – Dec. 17

UA Students To Help Feed Homeless In California
WSFA (Montgomery) – Dec. 17
Students at the University of Alabama doing their part to help others while taking in the national championship game.

Results of 2010 census crucial for Alabama cities, towns
Montgomery Advertiser – Dec. 18
Those thousands of uncounted people represent millions of federal dollars that went to other states over the past 10 years because in census records those people didn’t exist, according to Annette Jones Watters, project manager for the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama. “The Brookings Institute estimated in 2008 that Alabama gets $1,269.33 of federal domestic assistance each year for each person counted in the census,” said Watters. “Appropriations for federal dollars are not made by the estimate of what probably was the correct population. Those dollars are allocated on the basis of the actual count.”…