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OPINION

Don't let technology control your life

Will Sorrell December 1, 2015

As you read this, you probably don't even consciously realize that you are looking at a screen. Chances are it's not your first time today, nor will it be your last. Smart phones, laptops and tablets are...

We stand with survivors

CW Guest Columnists November 30, 2015

Assume you are a survivor of sexual assault. You find your way to a counseling or judicial center on your college campus only to find your college can do little to help you before you file a police report...

A Southern Thanksgiving

Landon Nichols November 24, 2015

The events of late and the feelings of the season have culminated in my call for Thanksgiving. A plea, really. A plea that we all take a moment and remind ourselves of the privilege we are afforded to...

The need for decorum in meaningful discourse

Ruth Bishop November 24, 2015

“And that makes you despicable.”These five words at the end of a comment on one of my previous columns, “Feminism includes pro-life beliefs” struck a chord with me -- not really because I was...

The invisible speak

Almosa Pirela-Jones November 23, 2015

Clad in all black, I approached a similarly dressed assembly of students at Malone-Hood Plaza. There were plenty of familiar faces in the crowd – campus leaders that I had become acquainted with in...

Opposing Views: Journalism/Telecommunications and Film merger

Leigh Terry November 23, 2015

The College of Communications and Information Sciences has recently announced the merger of two of its majors: journalism and telecommunication and film. This announcement has evoked a strong reaction...

Journalism and TCF will mutually benefit from merger

Peyton Shepard November 23, 2015

Journalism is dead.As a newly indoctrinated journalism student, I can firmly say this statement is what pushed me away for five semesters from what I eventually (hesitantly) decided was my calling. And...

Hope for justice

Will Sorrell, Will Leathers November 23, 2015

In an atmosphere where we can scarcely breathe without seeing flashing headlines of atrocities, witnessing outcries of oppression and smelling rotting systems of discrimination, we find within ourselves...

Why merging telecommunications and journalism is a bad proposition

Chase Bodiford November 23, 2015

This is how most college students select their major: New students arrive at a university excited by the expanded roster of subjects, which had been inaccessible to them during high school. In many cases,...

Governor Bentley: Stop doing ISIS’s work for them

Kyle Simpson November 20, 2015

“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”Thus...

It’s sorority women who should be done

Meghan Dorn November 20, 2015

As I stood amongst the crowd on the steps of Gorgas, my black shirted back burning from the oncoming sun, gazing up at brave students sharing their stories and perspectives of oppression on this campus, I...

Respecting the dignity of all jobs

A.J. James November 19, 2015

The way in which we conceptualize labor through the lens of capitalism has supremely failed us. “Little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?” the teacher prods. “Well,” begins Little...