If you can find me a normal person on a reality television show, I’ll find you some beachfront property in Kansas. Contestants or participants on these shows were selected because they fill their particular...
Ah, stereotypes. Everyone uses them; they shape our first impressions, social behavior research projects, marketing, movie genres, you name it. Stereotypes can be useful, since they exist because they...
James Hood, who became the first black man enrolled at The University of Alabama in 1963, wrote this guest editorial in the Crimson White on June 27, 1963, 16 days after George Wallace’s Stand in the...
The election is less than a week away, and it seems like everyone couldn’t care less about what is going to happen in the Alabama gubernatorial race. Both parties lost their reformation hopefuls—Bradley...
For an election year that has generated enormous excitement and energy nationwide, the state of our own gubernatorial race is disappointing. Neither Republican candidate Robert Bentley nor Democratic candidate...
On Tuesday, voters from every corner of Alabama will head to the polls to cast their ballots in a momentous election. In the next four years, the state will face deep budget deficits, including education...
The election is less than a week away and politicians are going all-out to win their respective campaigns. There have been some wild moments this campaign cycle and some that were just plain bland. The...
I have to admit, I really did love Michael Patrick’s latest column titled “Religious belief not obsolete,” but not for any reason Patrick would likely have intended. His column serves as a reminder...
In 2006, Jack Dorsey, along with Biz Stone and Evan Williams, founded the social media networking and microblogging website Twitter. Originally centered on the question of “what are you doing,” Twitter...
The University scheduled its fall break for Oct. 29-31, which happens to fall on Halloween weekend. Students will also receive a day off on Nov. 18 for the Alabama v. Georgia State football game. In years...
In a country that is becoming more secular, the thought of teaching Judeo-Christian creationism in public schools often seems ridiculous and outdated. As a former atheist, I once believed the assertion...
Last Monday evening, entrepreneur and alternative energy proponent T. Boone Pickens visited Tuscaloosa to promote his alternative energy movement. The “Pickens Plan” is a coordinated, comprehensive...
