Ive seen a couple of commercials. One of a young man , Undergraduate I think, who hopes to become a Doctor. Another features a young women, appears to be Indian perhaps, who is a student and who works with International students. Thats alll that Ive seen over the past month or so.
It's really not a reach. 4 of the 5 TV spots show the student in medical fields: Biomedical, Biomedical, Neuroscience, guy wants to be a doctor so I'm assuming medical, and then unlisted.
Biology and health professions make up a combined 28% of UAB undergrads. The other 72% of business, marketing, journalism, communications, education, arts, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc aren't represented at all in the commercials.
edit: and don't get me wrong, I think we should obviously be medically focused, but there are other awesome things happening on UAB's campus outside of the medical fields.
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2015 10:53 PM by Shrack.)
Saw 4 different ones today on different channels, 2 during the abc3340 news tonight - one being Indian talks medical & research, another looked to be Hispanic type by accent but could be Indian (I think this one is what BD saw). All have that medical lean to them even though it mentions undergraduate. I've not seen any UAB commercials in some time so to me this looks like a big pr push showing diversity etc but all w/ medical leanings
The commercial I saw around CUSA tourney/ncaa tourney time was very medical/research oriented. You'd think Uab was was giant lab after watching that commercial. It's not a conspiracy theory or far fetched idea. It's reality at this point.
They are also fully loaded on YouTube and emphasize (the few I've seen) that the individuals were supported in their educational efforts by the Clinton Global Initiative in conjunction with UAB.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT COMMENTS WERE NOT ALLOWED ON THOSE VIDEOS....HA,HA WHAT A JOKE.
UAB.....MOVING FORWARD.....OVER A CLIFF INTO THE PITS OF.....PSALM 109.....PRAYING DAILY FOR YOU B.O.T. INVOKING EVERY WORD OF IT......JOIN THE BLAZER PRAYERFORCE!
Getting there. But to be fair, those commercials weren't all that bad. Why we couldn't get even ONE from a guy who plays basketball for UAB is beyond me though...
Oddly enough, UAB'S 2014 Football Highlights (specifically the Mean Green Homecoming game) have gotten more airtime on local news channels in 2015 as backdrops of key news updates than any of Bama's Football Highlights from last year.
Could a new round of "#FreeUAB" commercials not also air that footage, or maybe some different footage??
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2015 11:16 PM by EnviroBlazerD.)
I found the drummer the most intriguing. Even though he came to UAB on a music scholarship (and academic scholarship...most do), they play really heavy into him wanting to be a doctor or that he is going to be one "soon". But he's a Biology undergrad and has a very long way to go to make that happen.
Wish him the best, but no doubt they focused on that part for a specific reason...even though it isn't even his academic focus at the current time.
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2015 11:13 PM by demiveeman.)
You do realize that UAB plan for growing the undergraduate side student numbers and to help UAB financially is to attract high caliber students to the research side (particularly out of state/foreign).
Further almost all donations to the campaign for UAB have come from medical research side and related business interests.
(05-25-2015 09:14 PM)blazerwkr Wrote: Noticed that UAB commercials playing lately emphasize UAB medical & medical undergraduate side nothing else. I guess we now know what we don't know
(05-25-2015 10:46 PM)Shrack Wrote: It's really not a reach. 4 of the 5 TV spots show the student in medical fields: Biomedical, Biomedical, Neuroscience, guy wants to be a doctor so I'm assuming medical, and then unlisted.
Biology and health professions make up a combined 28% of UAB undergrads. The other 72% of business, marketing, journalism, communications, education, arts, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc aren't represented at all in the commercials.
edit: and don't get me wrong, I think we should obviously be medically focused, but there are other awesome things happening on UAB's campus outside of the medical fields.
These commercials are almost certainly made by those who support the Ray Watts' / BOT proposition that everything at UAB that does not serve its medical mission must and will be sacrificed - and football was just the first victim. [The characters portrayed in those commercials are actors playing students just like the red-head girl from BSC was hired to do Wendy's.] Those various (unrepresented) schools won't be closed, but I would bet their budgets for growth and expanded offerings will suffer in the future with students told more and more often "If you want that, you must go to the Tuscaloosa campus".
(This post was last modified: 05-26-2015 08:51 PM by BAMANBLAZERFAN.)
Always ignore trolls. Period. Giving them an audience or material for debate is what fuels them. Plus it takes away focus on the real issues. Place your energy where it needs to be.
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2015 12:18 PM by BlazerHam.)
(05-27-2015 12:17 PM)BlazerHam Wrote: Always ignore trolls. Period. Giving them an audience or material for debate is what fuels them. Plus it takes away focus on the real issues. Place your energy where it needs to be.
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