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UA in the News: August 14, 2007

UA students create iPod campus tour - UA wheelchair basketball player does well in international games - MSNBC's Joe Scarborough's son to attend UA - Constitutional reform awards named for former UA professor

UA Students Create New Virtual Tour of Campus
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – Aug. 14
UA students Grant Premo and Matt Williams have created the new iTour. Grant and Matt are appearing on Good Day Alabama this morning.

U.S., Parapan wheelchair team wins opener
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 14
…Leading the way with 13 points was rookie Desiree Miller (University of Alabama) who is making her international debut at the Parapan Ams…

Joe Scarborough’s son to attend UA
MSNBC – Aug. 13
“… my oldest son made a very, very wise decision. He decided to go to the University of Alabama which makes us very excited…”

Reforming state constitution key to solving problems, says campaigner
Mobile Register – Aug. 14
On Aug. 30, Greater Birmingham Ministries will be honored for its campaign at the first-ever Bailey Thomson Awards Luncheon in Birmingham, sponsored by the Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform Foundation…Thomson, a University of Alabama journalism professor and former Press-Register editor, was a longtime constitutional reform advocate who established the ACCR Foundation. The Alabama native, who died in 2003, was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for a series of Press-Register editorials about Alabama's constitutional problems…