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University of Alabama

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Student Services Center
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The fountain and walkway between the Student Services Center and the Ferguson Student Center.


President’s mansion
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Denny Chimes
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Denny Chimes cement slab
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Joe Namath’s name as captain of the 1965 football team is memorialized below Denny Chimes along with all of the other captains and co=captains before and since. The University of Alabama refused to allow Namath to use his middle name “Willie” on the cement slab because in 1965 they did not allow nicknames. Years later he got permission and added his middle name along with his cleat imprints – upper right corner.


Bryant-Denny Stadium
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Woods Quad
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Woods Quad is the site of several art exhibits. It is also the place where Alabama played its’ first football game against Birmingham High School in 1892 and won 56-0.


Alabama Museum of Natural History
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Hodges Meteorite
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Hodges Meteorite at the Alabama Museum of Natural History. It is the only known meteorite to hit a person – Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of Sylacauga, AL, on November 30, 1954.

The University of Alabama was founded in 1831 as the flagship of the Alabama University System and is the largest university in the state. The university has been referred to as The Capstone since a speech given by President George Denny in 1913 in which he noted that the university is the “capstone of the public school system in the state”.

The University of Alabama has attracted students from 77 countries and all 50 states in the US. It also has a School of Law, School of Medicine, Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Commerce and Business Administration, Communications and Information Sciences, Community of Health Science, Continuing Studies, Education, Engineering , Nursing, and Human and Environmental Sciences, as well as a School of Social Work, Honors College, and Graduate School. The enrollment has grown precipitously in the last decades topping 33,000 students as of 2012. The University of Alabama also has a diverse student population including a 12.4% Afro American, 2.4% Hispanic, and 1.4% Asian populations.


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The University of Alabama (UA) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1831, it is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System, as well the senior and the largest in terms of enrollment among all of the universities in Alabama. It is known as The Capstone, a nickname that stems from a 1913 speech by then-president George H. Denny, who extolled the university as the "capstone of the public school system in the state".

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