Jay Reeves, Associated PressFaculty & StaffEx-prof Gets Life in Prison for Meeting RampageA Harvard-educated biologist was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday after being convicted of going on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university, killing three colleagues and wounding three others in 2010.September 24, 2012Faculty & StaffFormer Professor Pleads Not Guilty in Alabama ShootingA biology professor pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder charges Thursday in the slayings of three colleagues killed during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.September 22, 2011StudentsFBI Tracked Desegregation Suit Against Alabama’s Bear BryantFans weren’t the only ones watching Alabama football between 1969 and 1971. The FBI, apparently with the approval of director J. Edgar Hoover, was secretly keeping an eye on a civil rights lawsuit filed by Blacks against legendary coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant during the same period.August 23, 2010StudentsFraternity Inspired by Robert E. Lee Bans Rebel UniformsA college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to “Old South” parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition was racially insensitive.April 22, 2010Previous PagePage 2 of 2
