No word on how big ‘bigger’ will be for Bryant-Denny Stadium
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 12
While University of Alabama President Robert Witt said the university’s growth may make another Bryant-Denny Stadium expansion necessary, UA officials aren’t saying much about what shape that expansion would take…“We’re looking at ideas to recommend to the board [of trustees],” Athletic Director Mal Moore said in a prepared statement. “But any plans for expansion of Bryant-Denny Stadium remain in an exploratory phase. I understand and fully appreciate the interest our fans have in a potential stadium expansion. But nothing concrete has occurred regarding this issue.”…
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UA students to eat with Warren Buffett
Birmingham News – Oct. 12
Some University of Alabama students will have lunch and a two-hour question-and-answer session with billionaire investor Warren Buffett today. Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, invited a group of students from UA and another from Texas Christian University for the informal meeting. “To give our students this kind of real life exposure is invaluable and a tremendous opportunity that very few people are able to experience," said UA business dean J. Barry Mason…

Dylan's Back Pages as Curriculum
Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription required) –Oct. 12
…We decided to use Chronicles as a text in our freshman humanities seminars when we were teaching at Villanova University, partly to illustrate to increasingly career-oriented students — prospective engineers, business majors, and the like — how a liberal education and exposure to classic literature are relevant to everyone…Emily Ondine Wittman is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. .

Be responsible and fair, Franklin tells journalists
Birmingham News – Oct. 12
Birmingham Association of Black Journalists…Newsmaker Scholarship Dinner Thursday night at the Harbert Center…The BABJ awarded $1,000 scholarships in honor of former Birmingham News reporters Geraldine Moore and Ingrid Kindred and radio personalities Oliver T. Brewer and Roy Wood Sr. Among the scholarship recipients were Jessica Alexander, a print journalism student at the University of Alabama; Tiffany Blevins, a broadcast student at UA; Bethany Powe, a broadcast news student at UA…

Rockers to film first live concert DVD at the Bama
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 12
Detroit-based roots-rockers The Deadstring Brothers will be shooting their first live concert DVD in a performance at Tuscaloosa’s Bama Theatre…Set for release in 2008, the project will be produced by Joey Goodsell, a professor in the Department of Telecommunication and Film at the University of Alabama, and David Allgood, manager of the Bama…

UA News
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 12
UA women’s resource center to hold vigil – Benefit concert set for UA student with cancer -- Physicist Rajan Gupta to deliver lecture at UA…