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Dashboard Update: Cases decline, but sentinel testing remains low

Dashboard Update: Cases decline, but sentinel testing remains low

Kelby Hutchison | @thetallcwrepor1, Contributing Writer September 18, 2020

More than a week after Labor Day weekend, the UA System COVID-19 Dashboard reported a steep decline in cases. But while officials boast low numbers, sentinel testing is slow-going. In a Sept. 16 press...

Women’s soccer to kick off its season, return of UA athletics

Women’s soccer to kick off its season, return of UA athletics

Robert Cortez, Staff Reporter September 18, 2020

Alabama women’s soccer and cross country teams will end the 191-day drought without UA athletics on Saturday as soccer kicks off its season at home against the Tennessee Volunteers. The season opener...

Anything but Amateur: Pay our Athletes

Anything but Amateur: Pay our Athletes

Emma Butler, Staff Columnist September 16, 2020

College athletics has its ups and downs, its highs and lows. It has the nail-biters and the blowouts. It has the mighty elephant of The University of Alabama and bizarre banana slugs of the University...

Dancing on their own: How arts students are reinventing hybrid learning

Dancing on their own: How arts students are reinventing hybrid learning

Mariah Kravitz, Contributing Writer September 16, 2020

As students begin to settle into a routine of attending classes both virtually and in-person, some courses pose more of a challenge with COVID-19 restrictions than others. While all students are facing...

In the upper left, Chadwick Boseman performs opposite Dianne Kirksey-Floyd in a 2002 production of "Urban Transition: Loose Blossoms." In the upper right, Kirksey-Floyd is pictured with her son, Malcolm-Wiley Floyd.
In the bottom left, Dianne poses with her son and her mother, Gladys Moore Kirksey. Photos courtesy of the Kirksey family.

First Black Bama Belle leaves behind an impactful legacy

Kaddyja Jallow, Contributing Writer September 13, 2020

Born in Eutaw, Alabama, in 1950, Dianne Kirksey-Floyd grew up in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement – a time plagued by discrimination and segregation against Black people. Cognizant of and undeterred...

Local legend ‘Mr. Tee’ reminisces on his journey back to the restaurant business

Local legend ‘Mr. Tee’ reminisces on his journey back to the restaurant business

Heather Gann, Contributing Writer September 10, 2020
Mr. Tee’s restaurant is set to open within the next two weeks, and if locals are not going for the famous barbecue, it is worth stopping by to meet the man himself.
Opinion: Say it with me, President Bell: I am responsible

Opinion: Say it with me, President Bell: I am responsible

Saul Alpert-Abrams, Guest Columnist September 2, 2020

There is a lot of victim blaming going on in America right now. While President Trump campaigns on the worn out race-baiting promise of law and order (read: harass, prosecute and murder victims of racial...

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‘This has to be an ongoing movement’: Student-athletes protest systemic racism

Alexander Plant, Ashlee Woods, and Robert Cortez August 31, 2020
Monday afternoon, student-athletes organized a march against social injustice and police brutality. The march started at Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility and concluded with a program outside of Foster Auditorium, the site of former governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.”
Students prepare to move out of Burke.

‘This has been an absolute disaster’: Students forced to leave dorm to make room for COVID-19 isolation facilities

Jessa Reid Bolling | @jr_bolling, News Editor August 25, 2020

Just six days into the fall semester, Amalia Halpin, a freshman who was majoring in public health, has decided to drop out from the University. Her decision came after being told she had two days to move...

UA positive cases surpass 500 in five days

UA positive cases surpass 500 in five days

The University of Alabama System released results of COVID-19 testing on Monday, showing The University of Alabama has had 531 cumulative cases among students, faculty and staff since August 19.  The...

Face masks and football: What to expect on game days this fall

Face masks and football: What to expect on game days this fall

Game days in Bryant-Denny Stadium will look different for UA students this fall. Tailgating is off limits, face masks are required and the stadium will maintain 20% seating capacity.   Given the possibility...

Opinion: Take Morgan off the English building

Opinion: Take Morgan off the English building

Tucker Legerski | @TuckerLegerski, Guest Columnist August 21, 2020

George Floyd's killing and the wave of national reflection – along with the years-long work from UA student activists and faculty– has brought changes to campus. Those changes have included the removal...