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By Robert DeWitt Staff Writer

Every city’s downtown aspires to be a hot spot.

Now, research by a group of University of Alabama students indicates Tuscaloosa’s downtown could benefit from actually becoming one.

Students from UA business Professor Dung Chau’s management information systems class studied the availability of wireless Internet in Tuscaloosa and what it would take to set up a wi-fi pilot program downtown. Read More

TUSCALOOSA, Al. - More than 1700 articles of clothing have been collected over the past year for distribution to impoverished children in Third World countries, thanks to the combined efforts of The University of Alabama’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and Cintas Corp.

The collection of clothing, from students, faculty and staff, made the local Cintas Corp.’s “Clothe the Kids” program the most successful in the company’s South-Central Region history.

“Clothe the Kids” was started in 2003 by Cintas Corp. in conjunction with Matthew 25 Ministries to raise awareness of the need for children’s clothing in foreign countries. The program collects donations of slightly used clothing and/or money for new clothing to help impoverished children in Third-World countries.

Since the program began more than 500,000 items of clothing have been donated. This year with the help of the SIFE team, Cintas, Tuscaloosa expects to be in the top-10 collections in the nation. Stacey Bledsoe, human resource manager for Cintas, was instrumental in helping the SIFE team reach its goals. “With SIFE’s help we were able to exceed our goals for this year,” Bledsoe said. “I look forward to having SIFE and UA’s help again next year.”

The prestigious Austin Cup, awarded each year to the top graduating senior in The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, was awarded this year to W. Steven Spiehler, Jr., a major in health care management. Read More

Members of the global accounting firm Ernst &Young were recently on campus to speak to The University of Alabama chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants about the importance of diversity in the workplace and what to expect in the ‘real world.’ Read More

The students of Dr. Owen Sweatt’s management 420 classe at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce are taking the concepts they have learned in the classroom and are applying them in their final “leading change” project.
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