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OPINION

Call your representatives. Protect your vote.

Call your representatives. Protect your vote.

Christion Finch, Contributing Columnist July 2, 2021

In the wake of the 2020 United States presidential election, Americans have witnessed the continued growth of an ever-deepening divide in our political system as fundamental institutions like elections...

'A Campus Crisis: The Epidemic of Sexual Violence.' Installment Two.

Opinion | ‘A Campus Crisis’ Installment Two

Rachel Jakovac, Guest Columnist June 30, 2021
As college students, it is difficult to understand what options and resources are available. In the face of complex emotional experiences, students need a safe space to turn. As the WGRC conducts presentations, events and awareness programming, they are actively changing the world. Survivors become secure in the knowledge that they are not alone.
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Opinion | UA should embrace critical race theory

Alex Jobin, Contributing Columnist June 23, 2021
Contrary to the talking points and fearmongering of some conservative lawmakers, critical race theory is not focused on attacking white people for their whiteness. Instead, it exposes the disenfranchisement and oppression of people of color by American systems that are based in the nation’s indubitably racist past.
Opinion | ‘A Campus Crisis’ Installment One

Opinion | ‘A Campus Crisis’ Installment One

Ava Fisher, Opinions Editor June 23, 2021
As cultures around the world reckon with their own patterns of oppression, we, as a global society, are constantly creating a new and evolving story. What might a new story even look like?
A Campus Crisis: The Epidemic of Sexual Violence

Opinion | Introducing ‘A Campus Crisis: The Epidemic of Sexual Violence’

Ava Fisher, Opinions Editor June 16, 2021

Are emails enough to combat rape culture, on and off campus?  Last week, UA President Stuart Bell sent out an email outlining the resources available to UA students that have experienced sexual assault....

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Opinion | Appropriating diversity is disingenuous 

Simone Shadd, Contributing Columnist June 9, 2021

Much as white audiences adopt and appropriate slang from Black culture until it loses its original meaning, we are in the midst of another type of erasure, one that preaches progress but practices regression.  While...

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Opinion | We should all be more like Gumps

Simone Shadd, Contributing Columnist June 8, 2021

Gumps — the most dedicated of Alabama fans — are committed to UA Athletics the way one might be dedicated to God. If Nate Oats is their lord and savior, then Coleman Coliseum is their house of worship.  While...

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Opinion | Summer internships shouldn’t be the norm

Ava Fisher, Opinions Editor June 2, 2021

With the spring semester behind college students and the promise of the remaining summer ahead, many are elated. As they begin summer internships that they have long aspired to, these students view the...

Open Letter | UA workers demand equity and transparency in vaccine distribution

Open Letter | UA workers demand equity and transparency in vaccine distribution

To the University of Alabama Community: The United Campus Workers of Alabama wish to address the inequities in the University of Alabama’s vaccine rollout process. While the University offered early...

A deadly tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, in a day of destruction that killed 53 people in the county. CW File

Opinion | ‘Look it up’: Why students should remember April 2011

Abby McCreary, Contributing Writer April 14, 2021
The University had two nearly back-to-back tornado scares this semester. Part of a population that turns over every four years, one columnist worries that UA students no longer have a healthy fear of the destruction a tornado can cause.
Opinion | Healthcare should be for all

Opinion | Healthcare should be for all

Tucker Legerski | @TuckerLegerski, Contributing Columnist April 11, 2021
Evidence, studies, individual testimony, projections, the embarrassing healthcare situation in America, charts, rhetorical hijinx—maybe nothing will convince you that everyone deserves healthcare.
Opinion | Lil Nas X (and everyone else) should create whatever the hell they want

Opinion | Lil Nas X (and everyone else) should create whatever the hell they want

Tucker Legerski | @TuckerLegerski, Contributing Columnist April 7, 2021
Music and art should be allowed to be dangerous.