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UA in the News: March 24-26, 2007

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UA License Plates Are Big Sellers
WBRC/Fox 6 – March 23

The UA Alumni Association raised more than $2.4 million in scholarship money from the sale of UA license plates in 2006.

Chamber wants to tap area’s cultural capital
Tuscaloosa News – March 24

Aycock said the chamber has asked for similar assistance from Northport, the Tuscaloosa County Commission and the University of Alabama. ...

We don't trust quite as much, poll finds
Birmingham News (also Associated Press) – March 24

William Stewart, a professor emeritus and political scientist at the University of Alabama, said he wasn't surprised that 91 percent of Alabama voters ...
Associated Press – March 24

Experts say Ala. voters may forget pay raise for legislators
Associated Press – March 24

Voters have relatively short memories," said David Lanoue, chairman of the political science department at the University of Alabama. ...

Editorial: Higher-paid lawmakers doing business as usual
The Decatur Daily – March 26

“The rule of thumb in politics is that two years are forever,” said University of Alabama political scientist David Lanoue. ...

County has small growth spurt
Tuscaloosa News – March 25

Growth at the University of Alabama is likely the lead cause, but not the only reason, said Johnnie Aycock, president of the Chamber of Commerce of West ...

Safe house
Tuscaloosa News – March 25

... said Leonard Zumpano, professor of finance at the University of Alabama. . .

Senate leaders: Raise lessens personal 'sacrifice'
Montgomery Advertiser – March 25

... same types of people in the future (in the Legislature)," said William Stewart, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama

Former U.S. attorneys weigh in on firing scandal
Tuscaloosa News – March 24

Pam Bucy, a professor in the University of Alabama School of Law and a former assistant US attorney in St. Louis, Mo., said it is “absolutely appropriate ...

UA Law Prof Receives Honor
Birmingham News – March 25

William Andreen, Edgar L. Clarkson Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, received the 2007 River Hero Award from the Alabama Rivers ...

UA Student Represents Alabama at Miss USA Competition
WVTM/NBC13 – March 23

UA Student Rebecca Moore represented Alabama at the 56th Annual Miss USA Competition.

Volunteer vacation
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald – March 26

... University of Mississippi, Mississippi College, Rutgers, North Carolina, University of Alabama, Kalamazoo University. . .

Pastor offers hope to local prisoners
Stockton (Calif.) Record – March 24

Research about the long-term results of such programs is inconclusive, but a 2005 University of Alabama study found that religious inmates. . .

Hard-core Bama fans name sons `Tyde' and `Saban'
Associated Press National Wire – March 24

That's right, Saban Hardin Witt, who was born Tuesday at about 5 p.m. in Decatur General Hospital, is named after Alabama head football coach Nick Saban. He was two weeks early and weighed 7 pounds and 10 ounces.
Story also appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New Orleans Times-Picayune and numerous newspapers and television stations across the country.