High school students invited to University of Alabama event
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 13
All high school students who are interested in attending the University of Alabama are invited to a Sunday presentation on campus. The free presentation will provide information about the admissions and scholarship applications process, along with details about financial aid services and residential housing. Representatives from the UA National Alumni Association, the Tuscaloosa County alumni chapter, UA Early College and the UA admissions office will be on hand to answer questions.
Producer will reveal secrets of Broadway
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 14
But truth roots deeper, so even when a writer sets out to intentionally break form, he or she still falls back on classic architecture. That’s the premise of “The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows are Built,” by Jack Viertel, who will lecture on it tonight. His demonstration of principles underpinning musical success will be married to performances by UA students. “I got involved in this almost by mistake,” Viertel said, laughing, in a phone interview. “I came down (to Tuscaloosa) to see a performance of ‘The Countess of Storyville,’ ” performed in February, for the first time in its entirety, on the same Marian Gallaway Theatre stage where he’ll be speaking. “Countess of Storyville” is being groomed for Broadway by producer Margot Astrachan, whose hits include the Tony-winning “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” . . . UA students will perform, among others, “Loverly” from “My Fair Lady,” and “Somewhere That’s Green,” from “Little Shop of Horrors,” as examples of the “I want” song; “If I Loved You” from “Carousel,” and “Come Out of the Dumpster” from “The Wedding Singer,” to illustrate the “conditional love song”; and a scene from “Gypsy,” to exemplify the penultimate moment in a musical. Performers include Sandra Gates, Haley Baker, Dylan Davis, Leah Nicoll, Craig First, Bailey Blaise Maria and Chelsea Reynolds Nicholson.
UA students collect items for hurricane victims in Haiti
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Oct. 13
Hurricane Matthew left an already struggling Haiti in even more distress, so students from the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce are collecting items to be flown into Haiti on a missionary flight on Friday. Bins have been placed all around The University of Alabama campus to collect first aid and hygiene items.
New ‘America the Beautiful’ exhibit recounts cross-country road trip
Crimson White – Oct. 14
Traveling through Joshua Tree National Park, Ines Schaefer wanted to take some pictures of the trees. Along with her husband and sons, Schaefer has traveled along the coasts and the Great Lakes stopping along the way to capture whatever catches her eye. But at this moment in the park, her husband was seeing something she wasn’t, a wolf he thought, and really wanted her to get back in the car. Instead, Ines stepped around the car to see the animal and found herself looking at not a wolf but a coyote.
Participants needed for student study
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 13
A University of Alabama student needs people to participate in a study that will measure overall life satisfaction and test the effectiveness of therapy services delivered through written materials. Lisa Mieskowski, a doctoral student in UA’s psychology department, is seeking adults who are 40 years old or older to participate in the project, which will require answering a series of phone calls during a two- to three-month period. No campus visits will be required. The project will be done over the phone and computer, so those who live in rural areas or who are home-bound can also participate.
BKON Connect helps Sixth-Graders Go High-Tech with University of Alabama Museums Project
WDRB (Louisville, Ken.) – Oct. 13
Middle school students visit the museums at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to learn culture, history, art appreciation and more. This year, more than 100 sixth-graders from nearby Brookwood Middle School turned the annual museum visit into a group technology project that dug deeper than any research paper could. BKON Connect’s PHY.net Platform made it easy for Brookwood’s 11- and 12-year-olds to transform static exhibits into dynamic digital experiences. Now visitors can walk up to an exhibit and watch a video, see pictures, read additional text information, access historical records, or just about anything the museum wants visitors to experience to tell a deeper, richer story. At the same time, museum curators can easily update that content as needed.
New York Times Responds To Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Threats: Bring It On
Patch.com – Oct. 13
The New York Times said Thursday it would “welcome” a lawsuit from Donald Trump should the Republican nominee for president decide to make good on his threats to sue the paper over its reporting about women who claim Trump touched and kissed them uninvited years ago.Matthew Bunker, a media law professor at the University of Alabama, agreed with the Times’ assessment of that third point … “They’re making the argument that Trump’s reputation in this area cannot be harmed,” Bunker told Patch. “You could make that argument to a jury. He’s more or less admitted something along these lines, and therefore it’s going to be very hard to demonstrate that this particular piece caused significant harm to his reputation.”
Deaf is the sound: UA Deaf community strives for accessibility, education
Crimson White – Oct. 14
Voices swirl around him, impossible to identify. Though Kent Schafer sees lips moving and the commonplace
gestures, they mean nothing to him. He reaches up to cover their mouths and get them to understand when speaking can’t do the trick. Schafer is profoundly deaf, incapable of identifying speech and only able to hear loud noises in a specific decibel range. “When there’s the challenge of me being uncomfortable or them being uncomfortable, often I will take the role of being uncomfortable because I’m the minority, and I will try to say, ‘Hold on one second’ or write or gesture, and they’ll see my body language change and see that I’m working overtime trying to figure out what’s happening,” Schafer said.
Congressman says Trump denunciation came amid ‘prayer and reflection,’ not GOP pressures
Al.com – Oct. 14
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne this week continues to attempt to clarify his support for a presidential candidate he has suggested should step aside, a seemingly conflicted position that landed him in the national media … William Stewart, a professor emeritus of political sciences at the University of Alabama, said it is unlikely Young would be Byrne if the two were currently competing against one another. “By 2018, when Byrne is next on the ballot, other issues on which Byrne is perceived as ‘right’ will have to come to the forefront and I believe he will continue to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,” Stewart said.
Alabama leads the nation in home mitigation from storms
Al.com – Oct. 13
Hurricane Matthew turned east just as the Category 4 Hurricane was about to wreck havoc along the Eastern Florida shoreline and bring about vast damage to homes and municipalities alike. The damage was avoided this time due to the grace of Mother Nature, but as a population we can not always depend on being saved by a low pressure system … Recently, the University of Alabama conducted an economic study of the monetary benefits of retrofitting homes to Bronze or Silver levels, and found that those homes had a resale value of more than 7% their counterparts, so the initial costs of retrofitting were more than offset with resale value and insurance savings.
Perspective: Millennials, the newest pro-lifers
Tampa Bay Times – Oct. 13
On issues from race to sexuality to drug law, Americans are used to seeing each new generation become more progressive than their parents; with abortion, it’s not happening … Maria Oswalt, a 22-year-old senior at the University of Alabama who leads the campus’ Students for Life chapter, gets frustrated when pro-life advocates vocally oppose, say, transgender bathroom bills — the kind of issue that she sees as having no inherent connection to abortion and that serves only to make the movement look intolerant.
How Bob Dylan Won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature
WIBC (Indianapolis, Ind.) – Oct. 13
When Bruce Springsteen inducted Bob Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he said: “Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body. He showed us that just because music was innately physical did not mean that it was anti-intellectual.”(WIBC News Director Chris Davis interviewed his brother, Bryan Davis, a journalist with the University of Alabama’s Alabama Center for Real Estate.)
UA students work to help other students register to vote
WVUA 23 (Tuscaloosa) – Oct. 13
Millennial could play a huge role in 2016, but will they? A non-partisan campus organization is making it easier for students to participate in the general election. It’s one of the most controversial elections in our country’s history. But studies show that millennials don’t make it out to the polls. Dr. Jennifer Hoewe says young people don’t get enough credit and they just need motivation. “Millennials, young people, generally need inspiration to go to the polls, and that had that with Barack Obama.
‘The Bankheads’ Alabama Public Television documentary premieres tonight; watch the trailer
AL.com – Oct. 13
One family from north Alabama’s improbable run to national prominence will be traced in the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television’s documentary“The Bankheads,” which airs tonight. The Bankheads” was produced by Robert Briscoe and Adam Morrow of the Center for Public Television and Radio. Along with associate producers Mary Dixon Recio and Catherine May, the small team took the project from research through finished film with the help of the Bankhead House and Heritage Center in Jasper, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, along with countless others.
The Weather Man: The career of James Spann
Crimson White – Oct. 13
When the weather goes bad, the jacket comes off. Whether he is covering deadly tornadoes or unanticipated snow storms, James Spann is at his best when Alabama weather conditions are at their worst. Always in his trademark suspenders, the most famous weatherman in the state has become an ubiquitous icon for both those who have lived their whole lives in the state and those who make it their home during their time at The University of Alabama. For his many accomplishments, Spann was inducted into The University of Alabama’s College of Communications and Information Science Hall of Fame on Thursday Oct. 6. His career has lasted almost 40 years, and his familiarity with Alabamians has made him the go-to guy when the skies turn gray.
Why Alabama is the only state driving unauthorized Mexican immigrants away as other arrivals surge
AL.com – Oct. 13
Within a year of Gov. Robert Bentley signing H.B. 56 into law, between 40,000 and 80,000 Latinos moved away from Alabama,according to a University of Alabama Center for Business and Economic Research study. The exodus resulted in a state GDP loss of between $2.3billion and $10.8 billion, and $56.7 million to $264.5 million is missed state taxes.