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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.
Opinion | ‘Manifesting love’: Why Christians need to be quicker to forgive

Opinion | ‘Manifesting love’: Why Christians need to be quicker to forgive

Maria Grenyo, Contributing Columnist April 7, 2021
Cancel culture is real. Or at least one opinions columnist thinks so. As this columnist argues, there are certain people who want to excommunicate those with whom they disagree. And if any of those people are Christians, they need rethink their mindset.
Open Letter | Can DCH reconnect with local talent?

Open Letter | Can DCH reconnect with local talent?

State Senator Bobby Singleton April 7, 2021

The Druid City Hospital (DCH) Health System plays a vital role in the Tuscaloosa County and West Alabama economies. However, decisions by DCH in the last decade possibly reduce the overall positive impact...

Opinion | How TikTok is influencing the music industry

Opinion | How TikTok is influencing the music industry

Austin Hannon, Contributing Writer April 4, 2021

Even people who don’t have TikTok on their home screen must find it hard to avoid the app’s influence.  Dances, challenges and comedy bits from the social media giant, which only allows video posts...