UA starts new marketing campaign
WBRC-Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Sept. 6
The University of Alabama releasing a new marketing campaign during the football season, played first in that Southern Cal game. The “We Are Legends” video, about 30 seconds long, and in between shots of campus, Bryant-Denny stadium, and the football team, images of students exceeding in class and graduating. Besides the ads, the school also creating a website to profile the school’s most notable graduates.
Alabama’s New Clear Bag Policy: What fans need to know about bringing bags into Bryant-Denny
Al.com – Sept. 8
The University of Alabama will implement and enforce a new clear bag policy for home football games this year in the interest of public safety and to significantly expedite entry into Bryant-Denny Stadium. The policy that will limit the size and types of bags that may be brought in by fans. “The University regularly reviews policies and strategies for fan safety,” UA’s press release states. “The implementation of this measure is intended to enhance public safety while minimizing time spent searching bags at gate security checkpoints, thus easing access into the stadium.”
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 7
UA students take part in Paralympic Games
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 7
This is the first Paralympics for The University of Alabama’s senior Shelby Baron. She is representing Team USA in wheelchair tennis. Baron got the call to be on the team while she was working freshmen move-in day on August 12. It was also her birthday, and certainly one that she will never forget. Besides Shelby Baron, Bama has several ties to the Paralympics. Students Arinn Young, Darda Sales, Jamey Jewells and Rosalie Lalonde will represent Canada, along with Adam Lancia, the head coach for Bama’s women’s wheelchair team. In all, Alabama is sending 23 current and former athletes and coaches to Rio.
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – Sept. 7
Baron represents UA at Rio Paralympics
Crimson White – Sept. 8
Two years ago Shelby Baron became the first full-time tennis
player for The University of Alabama’s wheelchair tennis team after picking up the sport at 10 years old. Now at age 22, Baron is competing with Team USA in the Paralympics in Rio. But Rio was not always in her plans. She had accepted that 2016 was not going to be the year she became a Paralympian and set her sights on Tokyo in 2020. Then on her 22
birthday, Aug. 12, the senior received a call from her nationals coach, Dan James, while helping freshmen move into dorms and everything changed.
Three brothers are part of University of Alabama cheer squad
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 7
Saturday’s home football opener at Bryant-Denny Stadium will mark a first for three brothers from Orlando, Florida. Jed, Zachary and Elijah Vaughn will be part of the University of Alabama’s cheerleading squad and this will be the first season all three Vaughn brothers have been cheering for the same team. Each brother started out cheering collegiately at Shelton State Community College before enrolling at UA. But because of a four-year age difference between the oldest and youngest brother, this season is the first time all three Vaughns have been on the same squad.
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Night Sky Viewing At UA (gallery)
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 7
Members of the public enjoy a free view of the Moon and Saturn through the telescope in Gallalee Hall on the campus of the University of Alabama Wednesday, September 7, 2016.
WBRC-Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Sept. 7
‘They can’t come in here and do that to my country’: Meet the kids most affected by 9/11
Penn Live – Sept. 7
Katelyn Morris was in a Camp Hill preschool when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. As steel melted and Lower Manhattan was covered in ash, her mother left their East Pennsboro home and drove through quiet Cumberland County suburbs, wondering how she would explain such terror to a child. “My mom and dad told me that it’s not every plane, and it really only happened once,” Morris said. “But it really scared me, and I still get anxiety anytime I’m on a plane.” Morris is now an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Alabama, majoring in Spanish and biology on the pre-med track.
The Kennedys of Alabama
Montgomery Advertiser – Sept. 7
A new film, “The Bankheads,” explores the lives of three generations of an Alabama family whose dynasty made contributions that placed a large footnote on the state’s history, and shined a glowing spotlight from national and international stages. Planned to premiere on Alabama Public Television at 8 p.m. on Oct. 13, visitors to the Alabama Department of Archives and History were treated to a special, early Montgomery screening of the saga-styled documentary on Sept. 1. Produced by Robert Briscoe and Adam Morrow for the University of Alabama Center for Public Television & Radio, a large audience previewed the picture-infused narrative that features the appearance of historians and authors, as well as the voice of an early 20th-century actress as they recount the story of a family with a “once-famous last name that has been obscured by time.”
Career, academic counselor for student veterans joins campus
The GW Hatchet (Washington, DC) – Sept. 7
A new counselor on campus will help student veterans as they navigate their ways through college. Laura Ferraro, the new VetSuccess on Campus counselor, joined the Office of Military and Veteran Student Services over the summer. As a representative for a Department of Veterans Affairs program, she will help student veterans and qualified dependents reach their academic goals and counsel them throughout their time at GW … Lisa Fells, a VetSuccess counselor at the University of Alabama, said having a vocational and career outreach counselor is an “awesome experience” for student veterans. Fells said that students under financial and academic strains can benefit from having a counselor on their campuses.
Chamber announces Junior Executive Scholarship recipients
Gulf Coast News Today – Sept. 7
Three students from Robertsdale High School were recently presented with scholarships as part of the Central Baldwin Chamber’s Junior Executive program. Andrew Williams was awarded the “Huey Mack Sr. Scholarship” of $1,000 which is donated to the Chamber by the Mack family each year in honor of Huey Mack Sr., one of the founding fathers of the Central Baldwin Chamber. Traci Arnould and Emily Pierce were each awarded $1,000 scholarships from the Chamber. Williams, the son of Sherri-Killam Albee and Skip Albee of Robertsdale, and Thomas P. Williams of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is attending the University of Alabama and majoring in telecommunications/film.
Alabama Clay Shooting Team shoots for bucks to fund team
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – Sept. 7
Fall in Alabama is filled with the sounds of crunching leaves, crackling fire pits, and cheers at various football stadiums across the state. A group of students from the University of Alabama prefer a different medley: shotgun bursts and shattered clay targets. “[People] tend to forget sometimes that the university does other things than football,” said Venny Cable, one of the volunteer coaches for the Alabama Clay Shooting Team.
Former UA wheelchair basketball player now works for Birmingham’s Lakeshore Foundation
NBC 13 (Birmingham) – Sept. 7
A major boost in Allison-Cook’s development came in 2004. That’s when she earned a scholarship to play wheelchair basketball for The University of Alabama. After initial struggles, Bama developed into a powerhouse program, and Allison-Cook captained the Crimson Tide to their first national championship in 2009, one year after winning the Paralympic gold in Beijing. She says there’s no question. Playing at Alabama helped turn her Paralympic goals from dream to reality.