UA ROTC cadets win competition
Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 23
A team of Army reserve officer training cadets at the University of Alabama is headed to West Point in April for the national competition in the Ranger Challenge, a squad-based competition that combines a series of events that challenge competitors’ physical and mental endurance. This is the first trip for UA’s Ranger Challenge team to the Sandhurst Competition at the United States Military Academy in West Point, according to a release from UA. The team of nine cadets and two alternates will compete with the winners of eight other regional brigades, international teams and teams from West Point. The Sandhurst Competition will be April 7-8.
Alabama Public Radio – Jan. 23
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UA study: Fatal crashes increased in Alabama in 2016
Alabama News Center – Jan. 23
Deaths from the state’s traffic crashes in 2016 increased by nearly a quarter from 2015, according to a recent study of data by researchers at the University of Alabama. Critical causes of more traffic fatalities include increased speeds, lack of safety belts and more distracted drivers as well as pedestrians, according to the analysis of crash reports statewide. Although final numbers for 2016 are not yet official, the count to date is 1,058 traffic fatalities in Alabama through the end of 2016, which is 24.6 percent more than the 849 people who died in traffic crashes in 2015, according to state crash records.
All hits, no misses
Florence Times-Daily – Jan. 23
Community tutors: Thumbs up to the volunteers from area churches who have teamed with Sheffield students in a program called Students Tutored in Churches, or STIC … Bucking a terrible state trend: Thumbs up to the efforts of our local law enforcement that have helped the Shoals area buck a state trend that has seen an increase in traffic fatalities. Traffic fatalities in the state totaled 1,058 in 2016 compared to 849 in 2015, according to a study by the University of Alabama. That’s a 25 percent increase.
U.S. Air Force plane known as “Roll Tide” retired
KTVO-ABC (Ottumwa, Iowa) – Jan. 23
The U.S. Air Force plane known as “Roll Tide” has a new set of wings. A plane retirement ceremony was held Friday at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama for aircraft tail number 850042. The plane has long displayed nose art featuring The University of Alabama. It’s also carried University memorabilia while flying missions around the world.
WRBL-CBS (Columbus, Ga.) – Jan. 23
The Crunk Feminist Collection Atl Release Party
Timeout.com – Jan. 23
For the members of the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted to have: relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events … Robin M. Boylorn is associate professor of interpersonal and intercultural communication at the University of Alabama, where she teaches and writes about issues of social identity and diversity. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience and coeditor of Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. Her next book, Blackgirl Blue(s), is forthcoming from Routledge.
Mock Trial Association hosts first invitational
Crimson White – Jan. 23
While lightning crackled and winds howled across Tuscaloosa this past weekend, student voices boomed inside of a simulated courtroom setting in ten Hoor Hall. The UA Mock Trial Association invited teams from nine different schools across the region to showcase their deliberative skills this past Saturday and Sunday on campus. Teams from each school, as well as three teams from The University of Alabama, competed by presenting court cases as both plaintiff and defendant attorneys, learning to represent and argue for both sides in a simulated courtroom environment.
CHS offers journalism course as an elective
Daily Mountain Eagle – Jan. 23
When students are given the choice to take an elective class that encourages critical thinking and writing, those students thrive. Just ask the journalism students at Cordova High School (CHS). During the 2016-17 school year, CHS principal Kathy Vintson decided to offer her students the journalism course as an elective that, according to Vintson, has not been available for students since she has been principal … CHS journalism students toured The University of Alabama with a stop at the School of Communication where faculty and staff met with them for a small group presentation about the field of communication as well as a tour of the Digital Media Center at Bryant-Denny Stadium.