Altered iPhones Freeze Up
New York Times – Sept. 29
…J. Noah Funderburg, an assistant dean at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and a longtime Mac user, had little sympathy for iPhone hot-rodders. “Anyone who hacks must know that they are taking certain risks,” Mr. Funderburg said. ”If they aren’t willing to assume the risks upfront — like a brick iPhone — then maybe they should not hack the device. “We have a free marketplace,” he said. “Buy a product, including using it on the terms accompanying the purchase, or don’t buy it…

Hotline may be lifeline for parents
Montgomery Advertiser – Sept. 30
…The trust fund, discount giant Wal-Mart and the state are funding PAL, which is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays. The phone center is housed at the University of Alabama Child Development Resources, which developed the service…Parents shouldn't be embarrassed to seek help, advises Sally Edwards of Child Development Resources, a program PAL falls under. "Everybody goes through that," Edwards said of parents who find themselves frustrated or angry. "If there is a specific question, like 'I can't get my baby to stop crying' -- that's when you tend to see things like a child being struck…Every year, the total cost of child abuse and neglect to Alabama taxpayers is about $521 million, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama…

TOMMY STEVENSON: Moundville marks history as ancient
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 30
…This week’s festival, which begins Wednesday and ends Saturday, is meant to celebrate the heritage and culture of those original Native Americans in what was to become Alabama. And while there will obviously not be any “old grads" of the original Moundville returning, there will be representatives from five Southeastern Indian tribes once indigenous to this area -- the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek and Chickasaw -- as well as members of many other smaller tribes from around the Southeast…

Moundville festival to begin Wednesday
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 1
…The festival is held at the University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park, a 320-acre site on the banks of the Black Warrior that preserves about two dozen earthen mounds built about 1,000 years ago…This year’s headliner is Martha Redbone, a young, New York-based blues singer who combines elements of her own Choctaw, Shawnee and Cherokee heritage on her mother’s side with the African American influences from her father’s side of the family...

UA astronomers open the heavens for youngsters
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 1
…On Friday -- one day after the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik -- Byrd will lead an 8:30 p.m. sky-viewing session with the 16-inch telescope mounted on the roof of Gallalee Hall at UA. He will demonstrate star maps, binoculars and telescopes for novices following the homecoming pep rally and bonfire…

Bridge project spans engineering disciplines
The Associated Press – Sept. 29
A section of a 600-foot-long historic iron bridge will be restored and returned to its 1882 river crossing on the Black Warrior River now that funding has been secured, a project spokesman says…The project also will serve as a hands-on classroom for University of Alabama engineering students, who have been working with the Friends of Historic Northport on the details of relocating the bridge.
Montgomery Advertiser – Oct. 1

Opinion: Hard work makes bridge dream reality
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 1
…Meanwhile, University of Alabama engineering students are working with the Friends on the nuts and bolts of relocating the bridge, getting valuable hands-on experience…

SUSAN PACE HAMILL: Tax reform needed to ease school inequity
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 30
…until we stop focusing exclusively on race and accept that tax reform is necessary for all children to have a chance to get an adequate education, we will never move beyond “the issues we dealt with in the ’60s." Despite spending $7,225 per student, which is above Alabama’s average of $6,973, the Tuscaloosa City Schools are inadequately funded…Susan Pace Hamill is a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law…

Social justice emphasized at three-day event
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N.Y.) – Oct. 1
…Steven Hobbs, a professor of law at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, attended all three days of the conference. "I like the emphasis on the fact that this is not just an academic exercise," he said. "It's about promoting social activism."…

First dean imbued UA library school with love of books
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 29
Dr. James D. Ramer, the first dean of University of Alabama’s library science school, died this week. “Dean Ramer laid the groundwork for a school that has been successful and continuously accredited since 1972 that is increasing in size and scope but still keeping to the ideals that he set forth when he founded it,” said Elizabeth Aversa, the director of the UA School of Library and information Studies…
Crimson White – Oct. 1

Homecoming Week offers something for everyone
Crimson White – Oct. 1
…As illustrated in the theme, Homecoming festivities will include all of the old favorites from years past but will also feature a new pie and chicken wing-eating contest, an improved Battle of the Bands concert and the first paid-admission Homecoming concert since Alan Jackson played in 1998…

College News
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 1
Three professors in the University of Alabama’s College of Engineering have been named subcommittee members of the Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Energy, a group with the goal to help Alabama utilize its conventional and renewable resources by implementing responsible energy policies…Marilyn V. Whitman has been named coordinator of the Health Care Management Program at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce…

LEND A HAND: Golf outing helps agency guide young adults with disabilities
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 30
…The tournament, presented by the University of Alabama’s College of Education, Tuscaloosa City Schools and the Tuscaloosa County School System, will benefit CrossingPoints, a program that provides transition services for 18- to 21-year-olds with disabilities…