A coalition of sororities and fraternities joined students in The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce Business Honors Program to raise money to help the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of West Tuscaloosa meet its increasing need for volunteers. Read More
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Four awards were presented to faculty, doctoral students and staff at
the student American Marketing Association’s Annual Honors Week
Reception. The awards and their winners are listed below.
Congratulations AMA for a great year and to the winners for all your
efforts and achievements. Thanks also to Dr. Glenn Richey, AMA
faculty advisor, for his unending dedication and commitment to the
organization.
Dr. Bill Motes - The University of Alabama-American Marketing Association
Outstanding Marketing Educator Award - “The AMA Outstanding Marketing
Educator Award recognizes the recipient’s considerable professional
contributions to The University of Alabama’s Marketing Area of the
Management and Marketing Department in the Culverhouse College of Business
Administration.. This award is based on the recipient’s overall achievement
in direct and interactive marketing education.”
Dr. Lenita Davis - The University of Alabama-American Marketing Association
Morris Mayer Merit Award The AMA Morris Mayer Merit Award is named in honor
of Morris Lehman Mayer, business professor emeritus. For three decades,
Mayer was a beloved UA teacher and a guiding force in student life and
especially the Alabama AMA chapter. This award recognizes the recipient’s
consistent participation and commitment to the American Marketing
Association along with ongoing commitment to research and teaching.”
Ms. Melissa Markley - The University of Alabama-American Marketing
Association Outstanding Graduate Student Educator Award “The AMA Outstanding
Graduate Student Educator Award is given to a graduate student teacher or
assistant who has demonstrated the ability to serve as an outstanding
teacher, mentor, and advisor to students, colleagues, and others in need of
support. This award also recognizes the recipient’s considerable
professional contributions to The University of Alabama’s Marketing Area of
the Management and Marketing Department in the Culverhouse College of
Business Administration.” (her second win in 3 years!!!)
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University of Alabama golfer Michael Thompson didn’t make the cut, but he walked away from Augusta National with the respect of the golf world.
Thompson, the U.S. Amateur runner-up and an accounting major in the Culverhouse School of Accountancy, stood at 4-over on the 15th hole in Friday’s second round, battling for a chance to make the cut.
As he placed his putter on the ground for the birdie try, Thompson noticed the ball moved slightly, probably because of a slight puff of wind.
Thompson promptly called a penalty stroke on himself. Under the rules, if a player grounds his club and the ball moves, he is assessed a one-stroke penalty.
Rattled, Thompson went on to bogey three straight holes and wound up shooting 78, missing the cut by four strokes.
Because only Thompson saw the ball move, he could have ignored it and hit the putt. But the integrity of the game meant more to him.
“I don’t want to create a bad image about myself, and that’s something you just have to do,” Thompson said. “You have to follow the rules. It doesn’t matter how you’re playing or what’s going on. It just happens.”
“It’s just something unfortunate that happened. But it’s something that you’ve got to deal with. I had put my club down. I had completely addressed the ball and as soon as I put my putter down, the ball moved. And according to the rules, that’s a one-stroke penalty and you try to replace the ball and you replay the shot. So that’s what I did and I didn’t make the putt. I was looking at about eight feet for birdie and ended up having eight feet for par. And I missed it and made bogey.”
Even though TV announcers said no one may have ever even noticed the ball move, Thompson said if he had it to do all over again, he would still have taken the penalty.
“Oh absolutely. Every time. There’s no doubt. No question. It’s the rules of golf. You don’t break the rules of golf. Especially in a setting like this it can always comes back to haunt you and, if not from someone else, it will always haunt you personally and I would rather live with me giving myself a penalty than I would with me cheating.”
Thompson started the day at 1-over and got off to a hot start with birdies on the first two holes.
However, he bogeyed five of the next seven holes and coupled with his penalty on No. 15, finished with a 7-over.
“It’s the nature of the game. I didn’t play my best, I can tell you that. But I learned a lot from these last two days that will help me get better in the future.”
Published in The Tuscaloosa News from combined reports
While Michael Thompson was preparing for the Masters last week, his teammate on the golf team, Crimson Tide golfer Joseph Sykora, was named the male H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award winner for Southeastern Conference. That’s two in a row for Alabama, which saw baseball player Emeel Salem win the same thing last year.
And all three are former or current students at the Culverhouse College of Commerce. Thompson is majoring in fiance and Sykora is a graduate student in the Culverhouse School of Accountancy. Salem, a sixth-round draft pick by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, graduated last December with degrees in marketing and Spanish. He is currently playing centerfield for Columbus, the Class A Tampa Bay affiliate.
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive announced Sykora’s award Sunday. The award will be formally presented during the annual awards banquet at the league’s spring meetings in Destin, Fla. on May 29.
Sykora will receive a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship, provided by AT&T.
“The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award is the highest honor a student-athlete can receive in the Southeastern Conference,” said Slive.
Sykora, a senior from Daphne, Ala., earned his undergraduate degree in accounting in 2007 with a perfect 4.00 grade point average and is enrolled in the master’s program at UA in accounting, where he has earned a 4.00 GPA.
He is a two-time member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America At-Large first-team and was voted the SEC Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2006 and 2007. Sykora was also a finalist for the Paul W. Bryant Student-Athlete Award during the last two years. He is also a member of the Cleveland Golf All-America Scholars Team.
Sykora is a four-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and has been a member of the UA President’s List and Dean’s List since fall 2003. In 2007, Sykora was named the Austin Scholar for Outstanding Senior in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, the Outstanding Graduate Student by Beta Gamma Sigma, the Alumni Outstanding Senior Award and was named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
As a member of the Tide golf team, he was the individual medalist at the Topy Cup US-Japan Intercollegiate and the Jerry Pate Intercollegiate. He was also the Alabama State Match Play Champion and participated in the U.S. Amateur Match Play Championship.
The Crimson Tide are currently the nation’s top-ranked golf team by Golfweek.
Sykora has also been active in the community, volunteering in local children’s programs as part of the UA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, teaching golf to children at the Alabama Golf Camp and being a student leader in Campus Crusade for Christ.