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OPINION

Internet service providers should be prevented from selling browsing history

Internet service providers should be prevented from selling browsing history

Danny Pelavin March 29, 2017

Currently, a rule set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) protects our digital privacy by banning Internet service providers (ISPs) from selling our browsing data. But that could change very...

Congress should work for us

Congress should work for us

Chandler Gory March 28, 2017

Republicans have been frantically trying to whip votes over the past couple of weeks. In their mad dash to smite the Democrats and throw out Obamacare, they constructed an abomination of a healthcare bill...

Volunteerism is more than just a resume builder

Volunteerism is more than just a resume builder

Lauren Deutsch March 28, 2017

As someone who met basically all of her friends via extracurricular activities, I am always going to be the one to encourage students to “get involved.” In terms of volunteerism specifically, the number...

Jared Hunter should be disqualified

Jared Hunter should be disqualified

Mike Smith March 27, 2017

This Thursday, the Elections Board released one of the last, if not its final, SGA election violations report. In it, most alleged violations turned out to be nothing, even as two sorority houses were...

Tomi Lahren's firing sets a dangerous precedent

Tomi Lahren's firing sets a dangerous precedent

Cassie Kuhn March 27, 2017

In today’s political climate, we love to put labels on people and policies rather than taking the time to understand them in their totality. All too often, we’ve made up our minds about someone immediately...

The pressure to be sexually active must end

The pressure to be sexually active must end

Zach Boros March 27, 2017

It doesn’t take being at The University of Alabama, or any school for that matter, to know that several staples of being a student includes trying drugs, drinking and experimenting sexually, among many...

Women play hockey too

Women play hockey too

Isabelle Beauregard March 24, 2017

Earlier this season, after the Edmonton Oilers’ star player Connor McDavid was taken off the ice because of a hit that initiated the NHL’s concussion protocol, his teammate Pat Maroon complained about...

A response to Nathan Campbell: Regulation is a bad narrative

A response to Nathan Campbell: Regulation is a bad narrative

Carter Yancey March 24, 2017

Recently, an article was published titled “Anti-regulation is just a narrative” wherein the thesis was essentially: “while regulations can harm certain industries” they are still necessary because...

Adapted Athletics center is a great step forward

Adapted Athletics center is a great step forward

Morgan Nicodemus March 23, 2017

By Morgan Nicodemus | Staff ColumnistAs a supervisor for University Recreation and an employee for three years, I have seen on a close and personal basis the tenacity, dedication and eager spirit of The...

OUR VIEW: Diversity is essential

OUR VIEW: Diversity is essential

CW Editorial Board March 23, 2017

As the SGA nears the end of its “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Week,” the University is in its final stages of hiring a Chief Diversity Officer, a long overdue step that brings our University in line...

UA Does not adequately support students with mental illnesses

UA Does not adequately support students with mental illnesses

Cassie Kuhn March 22, 2017

Midterms are barely behind us, and many of the University’s students are under unbelievably high stress levels trying to maintain or raise their grades. With the consequences for a failed class as serious...

Anti-regulation is just a narrative

Anti-regulation is just a narrative

Nathan Campbell March 22, 2017

Decrying regulations has become commonplace in American politics, ever since Reagan emphatically declared in his first inaugural address that “government is not the solution to our problem, government...