UA faces Colorado in Independence Bowl Dec. 30
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 3
The rumors are true that University of Alabama coach Nick Saban is, in fact, going back to Louisiana, just not in the way some people had been wildly speculating of late or to recruit. Sunday afternoon, Alabama officials accepted an invitation for the Crimson Tide to return to the Independence Bowl, to face Colorado at 7 p.m. Dec. 30…
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Retirees go back to school
Birmingham News – Dec. 2
Capstone Village, a retirement community at the University of Alabama that offers independent living and continuing care…The Cowarts, who moved from Maryville, Tenn., to Tuscaloosa a couple of years ago, spend much of their time on campus, where they volunteer with the alumni association and help with academic recruiting. Jennie Cowart is a member of the university's library board and volunteers with a group that creates flower arrangements at the President's Mansion on football game weekends…
"I see them all over the place," says Pat Whetstone, executive director of the University of Alabama Alumni Association

Charities seek Christmas Cheer
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 2
"We're starting to see some state legislation imposing similar rules on nonprofits and to see nonprofits voluntarily adopt those kinds of rules that apply to the corporate sector," said Walter Robbins, a business professor at the University of Alabama who specializes in nonprofit accounting practices. "I think currently the nonprofit sector is weak. It doesn't mean they are all cheating, it just means there is room for improvement."…

BamaBike to offer students bikes for rent
Crimson White – Dec. 3
In addition to the CrimsonRide and Tide Taxi, students will soon have a new mode of transportation around campus, when the BamaBike program begins as a pilot program in the spring semester…

Group hands out whistles
Crimson White – Dec. 3
Some students leaving Saturday's basketball game were handed something extra - safety whistles, designed by Crimson Karma, a student-led initiative began by Terry Saban designed to create campus unity…Crimson Karma worked with the SGA, the Women's Resource Center and UA administration to make the whistles available to students…

Hilaritas spreads Christmas cheer
Crimson White – Dec. 3
In its 39th year, Hilaritas, the School of Music's annual Christmas concert, can still pack the Moody Concert Hall like no other event of the year…

Circle K lights up Quad for the holiday
Crimson White – Dec. 3
With luminaries lining the Quad and Christmas music billowing from Denny Chimes, Circle K began the holiday season for the 31st consecutive year…

Home for the holidays
Crimson White – Dec. 3
Sandee Kirby fully expected UA President Robert Witt to give her another project when he started asking her the question…"Then he said, 'I think we need to see each other socially,' and I just said, 'Sir? Oh, no sir,'" Kirby Witt said. Things turned out a little different, though. After dating for many months, Witt and Kirby Witt were married on Sept. 14 in a private ceremony in the chapel at Christ Episcopal Church…

College News
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 3
Ty Warren, a University of Alabama graduate from Enterprise who runs a consulting and training firm, has been named National Speaker of the Year by Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha National Forensics (debate) Honor Society, its highest award… -- Students with a passion for books recently were named winners of The University of Alabama Libraries’ second annual Book Collecting Contest…

Controversial book still in circulation
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 1
…During a board meeting Monday, Joyce Stallworth, professor of English education at the University of Alabama, said the book's overall theme is an important one, and gave the board a 2005 youth risk behavior study by the national Centers for Disease Control…