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...

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,...

“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...

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...

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...

In less than a week, I’ll make my bi-yearly trek home to Michigan. While I’m elated to see and spend time with my family, I’m also preparing to field the typical judgements about the University....

Walking through the hallways of various buildings on campus, I always see them; they are stacked just as high as they were when they were dropped off. Why take something that is going to tell you what...

Today students are typecast as self-absorbed, apathetic and out of touch with problems plaguing society. Pundits and parents say we spend too much time on Snapchat and Twitter and not enough time studying...

Ah, LSU weekend. It is no doubt one of the biggest weekends in Tuscaloosa when it rolls around. The rivalry between Alabama and LSU are nothing short of intense. We as a student body relish such a rivalry,...

Long before daybreak on Sunday, Nov. 8, Tuscaloosa police officers knocked on the apartment door of a University of Alabama student, responding to a routine noise complaint. The man in question attempted...

Last year, students at one of the dorms on campus joked with me that they needed a dorm dog. Instead, they got a baby. And luckily that baby has two wonderful parents who are on the cusp of graduating...