Follow your heart, and you will not get lost. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Leap, and the net will appear. Find your passion, and run with it. Lies. All lies, I say. Well-meant but stupid...

In today’s music world, an artist with a message containing much depth is hard to come by, it seems. Look at the top artists in any given genre right now and you can sum up a majority of their songs...

For Alabama fans in Bryant-Denny Stadium, the worst moment during last Saturday’s Iron Bowl may have been when “Gangnam Style” played over the sound system. The same day, the song’s music video...

“Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness,” said Malcom Gladwell in his 2008 book “Outliers.” I read the book sometime in high school, when my interests varied and my passions had not...

It seems like every year, the parking debate begins. Students and The Crimson White complain about the lack of parking while Parking Services rebuts that parking is plentiful. In reality, the University...

Upon returning to campus just in time for the Iron Bowl after a short but much needed Thanksgiving break, characterized by turkey-induced comas followed by hours of frenzied Black Friday shopping, I was...

In a manner that has become emblematic of U.S. politics in recent years, it has taken only slightly more than a month for our country’s politicians and media to attempt to stir the American people into...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately on the topic of rape. Daniel Tosh and his joke to the woman at a comedy club, Rep. Todd Akin with his “legitimate rape” comment – it’s definitely a hot-button...

Thanksgiving came and campus became an eerie, empty shell. There was no line for coffee, the Quad looked more like a private lawn hostile to trespassers, and I could actually cross the street without being...

How much is your college degree worth? By extrapolating the “cost of attending” figures from The University of Alabama’s website and assuming the trend of rising education costs will continue, in-state...

Just when we thought there was at least one holiday that was not commercial, Black Friday sales sneak in and take over Thanksgiving Day, … Or should we call it Gray Thursday? Thanksgiving is a holiday...

When I decided to attend The University of Alabama as an out-of-state student, I knew each semester’s tuition would be well-planned by my parents. My job was to apply for scholarships through both the...