“Cultural growth” is a new buzzword on campus. After the last decade’s enrollment explosion, many students are looking for ways we can engineer parallel growth as a unified community. Growth as...

This week, The University of Alabama at Birmingham released documents revealing that the alleged Dark Knight Rises shooter, James Holmes, had applied for a graduate program at UAB but had been rejected....

Do unborn children have rights? It depends on who you ask. According to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a zygote is endowed with some legal protections as a “child in utero” from conception –...

First, some background: my father and mother are greek alumni of Mississippi State University and The University of Alabama, respectively, so I know some things about Southern greek life and was strongly...

The newest Alabama law to consume our media is yet another that epitomizes legal impracticality. Alabama’s texting while driving law went into effect a few weeks ago. And, as all ideas originate, it...

Every student pays the same amount of money for football tickets, so it’s not unreasonable to expect every student to follow the same rules when it comes to football seating. Unfortunately, that is...

As I sat in the concrete theme park, staring into the disappointment of cheese sauce, I thought I had slipped from this reality into a television show. I found myself day-dreaming of the years I’d given...

My visits to doctors’ offices date back to childhood. Life and illness progressed parallel to one another. In my adolescent years, as the entrapped patient, I looked upon the world of medicine with cynicism,...

It’s not that I am against campus growth. With growth come better resources and opportunities. What I am against is how we have grown. The unnecessary growing pains and strains have associated the idea...

As I sit here looking out over the Quad, I am struck by the relative peace that hangs over the campus. Friends of all ages, backgrounds, faiths and political views walk side-by-side in harmony as they...

Depending on who you ask, being the President of the United States of America is either the most or least coveted job in the entire world. The responsibilities the job entails are innumerable and the pressures...