Column: CEOs say they care about customers and workers. Propaganda experts are unimpressed
Los Angeles Times – Aug. 21
…stakeholders.” Margaret Peacock, a history professor at The University of Alabama who studies propaganda, said the Business Roundtable is…
PHOTOS: UA Freshmen Build The Script A
The Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 20
Incoming freshmen at the University of Alabama form the traditional Script “A” on the turf in Bryant-Denny Stadium with help from members of the Million Dollar Band who form the crimson outline Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. A convocation was held at Bryant-Denny Stadium as part of the “Yea, Alabama! Weeks of Welcome,” designed to welcome freshmen and transfer students to the Capstone. Classes for the fall semester begin Wednesday.
UA and Auburn receive grant to help with safety on Alabama roads
NBC 13 – Aug. 20
New tonight, safety on Alabama’s highways at the center of a more than $3 million grant. Governor Ivey awarded the funding today to Auburn university, The University of Alabama and the state’s department of public health. We are told the money will be used by the schools to create media campaigns aimed at drivers. The department of health will use its money to keep a database of injuries suffered during wrecks, which is federally required.
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NBC (Birmingham) – Aug. 20
Phenix City Mayor gives money for college scholarships
ABC (Columbus, Ga.) – Aug. 20
The Phenix City Mayor and the Phenix City Mayor’s Ball Committee also donated funds to The University of Alabama, Troy University and Tuskegee University.
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SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCED AFTER JOURNALIST’S PASSING
WVUA – Aug. 20
An award-winning journalist’s legacy is living on through students with the help of an educational scholarship formed in her name. Nancy Parker, a University of Alabama graduate and reporter for Fox 8 WVUE-TV in New Orleans, lost her life Friday after a plane crash while flying with a stunt pilot. In the few days since Parker’s death, her family is already looking at ways to honor her life. They wasted no time in establishing the Nancy Parker Memorial Scholarship through the Community Foundation of East Alabama.
Fall semester to begin at UA
CBS 42 – Aug. 20
Right now you are looking live at The University of Alabama. Things are quiet tonight but tomorrow morning the campus will be packed with students for the first day of the fall semester. More than 3,000 new freshman students are on campus this semester.
Million Dollar Band prepares for football season
CBS (Mobile) – Aug. 20
The University of Alabama Million Dollar Band is preparing for football season. And like the football team, they’re practicing in the heat. The band is practicing more at night to avoid the hottest time of the day. Sarah Nelson, a trombone player, explains what practice is usually like.
UA students take part in Ripple Effect
WERC-FM (Birmingham) – Aug. 20
Some University of Alabama students helping kids in Tuscaloosa. The students volunteering as reading buddies at Central Elementary School. Deandre Falls grew up in Tuscaloosa and now attends the University.
Student roundup
Albany Times-Union (New York) – Aug. 20
From the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AlabamaJacob James Collett, Stillwater; Lynelle Almira Freeman, Clifton Park; Samantha Kincaid, Saratoga Springs; Brandon Gregory Peda and Mckenzie Anne Smith, Schenectady; Samantha Eve Shephard, Latham; and Joshua Alec Thompson, Slingerlands.