Freshmen class build “Script A”
NBC 13 – Aug. 21
Check out this video of University of Alabama students celebrating the first day of class – by creating a human version of the Script “A” logo. The Million Dollar Band stood as the outline for the script “A” formation – and freshmen wearing white shirts filled it in during the class convocation at Bryant-Denny stadium last night.
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Classes start at UA
WVUA – Aug. 19
The beautiful University of Alabama campus was buzzing again with thousands of students from Tuscaloosa and all around the world. Students were meeting their professors and getting back into that school routine.
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Center for Advanced Public Safety receives grant for highway safety research
Fox 6 – Aug. 21
Governor Kay Ivey announced Tuesday the state is putting more than $3 million into a traffic safety study and campaign to make things safer on Alabama roadways. $1.9 million of that grant money willgo to the Center for Advanced Public Safety at The University of Alabama. A team of more than 20 people will look at crash and traffic crime information from around the state of Alabama. That information will come from state troopers, police and sheriff’s deputies.
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UA students offer LIFT classes (Live Interview)
WVUA – Aug. 21
Our special guest tonight is Lisa McKinney. You’re with a program called LIFT. What does LIFT stand for? It stands for Learning Initiative and Financial Training.
Consumer Confidential: CEOs say they care about customers and workers. Propaganda experts are unimpressed
NWCable.net – Aug. 21
The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executives, on Monday issued what it called a “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,” intended to serve as a “modern standard for corporate responsibility.” The statement was signed by 181 CEOs who professed to be committed to leading their companies “for the benefit of all stakeholders-customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders.” They emphasized that this is a big deal because past pledges placed shareholders first, with the general idea being that if shareholders are doing well, everyone is doing well. Margaret Peacock, a history professor at the University of Alabama who studies propaganda, said the Business Roundtable is indulging in “a clear and pretty heavy-handed attempt” to obscure reality.
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