Governor awards University of Alabama grants for traffic safety information and technology
Traffic Technology Today – Aug. 13
Governor Kay Ivey (below, right) has awarded three grants totaling more than US$1.8m to the University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) for collection of detailed traffic safety information and related technological upgrades and developments. CAPS will continue collecting statewide traffic data, assisting with a state highway safety plan, providing software for law enforcement personnel and first responders, and conducting surveys for seat belt, child restraint and impaired driving statistics.
Suspensions feed the achievement gap in Alabama schools
Al.com – Aug. 14
Though out of school suspension rates continue to creep downward, students in Alabama continue to be suspended at higher rates than the national average, according to federal data. And black students in Alabama are increasingly more likely to be suspended than their white classmates … Dr. Sara McDaniel heads the University of Alabama’s PBIS technical assistance center, and works in partnership with the state department and also with multiple school districts across Alabama, helping schools implement PBIS. She agrees with DeJarnett that the full benefit of PBIS implementation takes time, up to three to five years to see schoolwide effects, but believes it’s worth it. “Because it works,” she said.
‘Confederate’ danger: Americans don’t have the education to handle it
Arizona Central – Aug. 11
Backlash and a #NoConfederate hashtag have already greeted the provocative idea from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to create a fictional HBO series depicting America as if the Confederacy had won the Civil War. While artists should be allowed to tell any story as they please, the danger here stems from an uneducated public and a very real legacy of institutionalized racism. (Kelley Fanto Deetz, a scholar of American slavery, is a visiting assistant professor at Randolph College … Al Brophy holds the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama and is the author, most recently, of University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War.)
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Team from UA to release balloon during eclipse
WLTX-CBS (Columbia, South Carolina) – Aug. 12
The University of Alabama is bringing a balloon team. They’re going to launch a balloon that goes up 100,000 feet with an imaging camera that looks back down to the Earth.
Dangers of Not Wearing A Seat Belt
WAAY-ABC (Huntsville) – Aug. 13
According to a study done in 2015 by The University of Alabama, seat belt use in the state increased from 70% to 90% since 2000. The report says the Click It or Ticket Campaign is part of the reason for that increase.
Details of FBI raid on Manafort home raise new questions
MSNBC – National – The Rachel Maddow Show — Aug. 9
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney and current law professor at The University of Alabama, talks with Rachel Maddow about what can be inferred from the details and of the time of the FBI raid on the home of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
U.S. Far-Right Groups Growing Bolder, Says Rothman
Bloomberg – Aug. 14
University of Alabama Professor Joshua Rothman examines the response of U.S. President Donald Trump to the past weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia and looks at the rise of the Alt-Right in America. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
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UA Law Professor comments on riots in Charlottesville, Virginia (Live interview)
MSNBC (National) – Pulse of America – Aug. 13
Joining me now, Seema Iyer, former prosecutor and criminal defense and civil rights attorney, and Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney and University of Alabama Law Professor.
The ‘Alt-Right’ Aren’t On The Right, They’re Just Racists
The Federalist – Aug. 14
It goes without saying that what occurred in Charlottesville involved a literal and figurative “parade of horribles.” A collection of hate-filled morons turned a college town into their personal parade ground in a sickening display. Many were assaulted and killed as the marchers’ intentions shifted from assembly to riot. (Connor Mighell is a third-year law student at The University of Alabama School of Law with an undergraduate degree in political philosophy from Baylor University. He is a staff writer at SBNation, and his work has been featured at The New Americana, Merion West, and The Dallas Morning News. He may be found on Twitter at @cmigbear.)
Who are white nationalists and what do they want?
CNN – Aug. 13
A quaint Virginia college town still wrestling with the legacy of slavery became the scene of deadly protests this weekend as white nationalists and other right-wing groups clashed with counterprotesters over the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park. . . . George Hawley, a political scientist at the University of Alabama, said a sense of white victimhood is key to the movement. “There is a sense that whites are under siege and being deliberately dispossessed by hostile elites who wish to usher in a new multicultural order,” Hawley said.
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Can Dems return to prominence?
Florence Times Daily – Aug. 13
Alabama Democrats are gearing up for a special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat this summer that they hope will be a prelude to a return to relevance … “They will have to lay out a lot of money to give the nominee a fighting chance against the Republican nominee,” said Bill Stewart, the retired head of the political science department at the University of Alabama.
Camp 1831 participants help at Woodland Forest Elementary School
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Aug. 11
Some soon-to-be University of Alabama freshmen came to Tuscaloosa a few weeks early so they can help their community. The students are part of Camp 1831, which offers new students a chance to make a difference.
Brandt Ayers: All news local, not fake
Anniston Star – Aug. 13
Determined to avoid writing again about the latest vulgarity from our clueless, schoolyard bully of a president, I found a suitable topic for a column right under my nose. My newsroom was filled this summer, as it has been for the past 10 years, by college students working alongside professional reporters — a teaching newspaper, as in a teaching hospital — to earn master’s degrees in community journalism in a joint program with the University of Alabama.
Alabama’s six special Senate elections: Where political careers get made and wrecked
Al.com – Aug. 13
Alabama’s primary on Tuesday will be the state’s sixth stand-alone special election for a U.S. Senate seat. That ties Idaho for the most ever … William Stewart, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama, said that the 2017 contest is “nearly as exciting as some of the early 20th century contests.” But that could change, he suggested, if U.S. Sen. Luther Strange fails to survive to a runoff on Sept. 26.
Alabama GOP Senate Primary Tests Reach Of McConnell, Trump
WESM 913 (Maryland) – Aug. 14
In the Alabama Republican Senate race, every candidate wants to be just like Donald Trump.
But in Tuesday’s primary, the leading candidate sounds and acts more like the president, while it’s the incumbent, an appointed senator just fighting to make it into a likely runoff, who has Trump’s actual blessing — but also the curse of being Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s favorite candidate … If Strange does fall short of the runoff, University of Alabama political science professor emeritus William Stewart, a longtime political observer in the state, said that’s a big problem for McConnell. And, if Strange does make it to the likely September runoff, expect that to be a big point Moore can use against Strange, too. “The McConnell support for Strange will not be helpful because McConnell, as the president says, hasn’t been successful at pushing through the president’s agenda, ” Stewart said. “If Strange doesn’t make the runoff, that’s a definite blow to McConnell,” more so than Trump.
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COLLEGE NEWS: August 13, 2017
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 13
Congressional Internship Program: Senator Richard Shelby’s Congressional Internship Program is open to students who exhibit an interest in government and public service. Three area college students completed an internship this summer in this Washington office … Libby Hufham of Dothan, the daughter of Paul Hufham and Susannah Cripps Daughtry, is a senior at the University of Alabama majoring in history and political science.