Maybe I’ve been hoodwinked. Maybe I chose to attend The University of Alabama under the wrong impression. You see, out of my numerous acceptance letters to various universities around the country, I...

For years, I have mocked the idea of the hungry college student. Who is going to take on the expense of college and not have money for food? Conversely, if a student cannot afford food, why would he or...

On Monday, the CW ran a column written by Ms. Tori Lee demanding that bike riders abstain from using the sidewalks around campus. As a longtime bike rider myself, I’d like to point out that this isn’t...

If you are reading this article, congratulations. You are reading one of the few newspapers in Alabama that has not decreased its print publication. The City of Tuscaloosa has remained faithful in its...

Life without a cellphone seems stupid. As a young college girl with more anxiety than even a dinosaur could take on, I just see red flags and danger everywhere, and not having a way to speed dial Daddy,...

I don’t sleep at night. It’s a common annoyance – possibly chronic, sometimes tragic. I want to shut down but can’t. My thoughts will not be still. How do you stop thinking? It’s unclear what...

When I was in elementary school, each year we would put on a Veteran’s Day program, complete with red, white and blue outfits and patriotic songs we had spent months memorizing. But the purple mountain...

Sitting in the library café was Ray Mundo, a fellow international student from Bavaria, Germany. His large frame towered over my notebook. “Rowers do more before 8 a.m. than most people do all day,”...

Forget the man and examine the record – suddenly, President Obama is a left-leaning Republican, relative, of course, to his party’s panderers. Now, forget the record, and examine the man, for lo and...

I was born and raised in New England, and you can probably tell. But despite my admitted Yankee tendencies, I have loved my time here in Tuscaloosa. My college experience has confirmed most of the positive...

Last week, we learned bikers are unhappy about the new pedestrian priority zone now in place on the Quad. I have one thing to relay to all unhappy bikers: bike lanes are for bikes, and sidewalks are for...

Election Day is something that every American looks forward to. It’s a day set aside for us to exercise one of the many rights we have as Americans, and we get to show the politicians of today who we...