On Monday, May 6th, UNA will break ground on a new Science and Technology building. The construction site will be located between Kilby Laboratory School and Flowers Hall.

The groundbreaking is scheduled to start at 11 a.m.

UNA President William G. Cale and other UNA officials will be there to break ground at the campus.

Source: UNA

In light of the recent Boston Marathon bombings, university students are speculative of the news coverage.

Two bombs exploded at the end of the Boston Marathon April 15. The bombs set off by brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev killed three people and injured 183.

As the events unfolded, broadcast networks attempted to relay live updates to viewers. As the events unfolded, people like Heather Rhodes of the University of North Alabama remained glued to the television screens.

“I was addicted to it,” Rhodes said. “I couldn’t stop watching all day even though there were little updates.”

 Monday and Tuesday’s initial reports were skewed by facts and fiction. Reports surfaced that additional bombs were in the area with explanations of a dozen people killed and announcements of arrests being made by the end of the day Monday evening. News stations quickly backtracked and corrected their errors by April 16.