In today’s music world, an artist with a message containing much depth is hard to come by, it seems. Look at the top artists in any given genre right now and you can sum up a majority of their songs...
For the second year in a row, the stars have aligned for our Alabama Crimson Tide football team. After a tough loss at home last weekend, the football gods looked favorably upon our storied program with...
The wait is finally over. After a long, strenuous campaign season and a tightly contested election, we now know that President Barack Obama will continue his presidency for a second term. Though you may...
Before this week, I was fairly unfamiliar to the popular website Reddit and its intricacies, having only visited the site a handful of times and never creating my own account. My prior knowledge of the...
As our high school careers were coming to a close, all of us shared a somewhat similar experience of selecting what school would become our new home a few short months after our impending graduation. There...
With a new school year comes many new exciting events. The startling reminder that the beginning of classes means a new mountain of schoolwork to climb is attached to the weekly anticipation of another...
By Brad Tipper Staff Columnist With Mitt Romney’s recent selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate, the former governor has given himself a boost in the eyes of conservatives across the nation and...
The stage is set for November’s presidential election. With Rick Santorum pulling himself out of competition for a presidential nomination last week, Mitt Romney has firmly grabbed hold of the reigns...
I still can vividly remember watching the Iron Bowl on television three seasons ago, when a breaking news story cut short one of the commercial breaks. A CBS broadcaster came unto the screen, reporting...
In 2003, former University president Dr. Robert E. Witt set a series of goals he desired to see the University of Alabama accomplish by 2013. Under his leadership, Witt set plans for the Capstone to “become...
It’s that time of the year again, boys and girls. The semester is halfway done, and summer will be here before we know it. If the seasonably warm weather this winter hasn’t gotten you excited for summer...
In the past year, our global population has witnessed, through TV screens or firsthand, political revolutions that have completely changed the face of nations around the world. There was the Arab Spring,...
Checking my calendar, I noticed that it has now been over three weeks since our football team’s flawless BCS National Championship Game victory in the Super Dome. During this time span, players have...
By Brad Tipper @bradtipper Yesterday, an estimated 7,000 web sites instituted blackouts to protest provisions within two anti-piracy bills in Congress: the Senate’s Protect IP Act and the House’s...
Take your pick of any of the number of issues the U.S. is currently facing. The economy has been in a downturn for what seems like forever now, and the so-called “super committee” that was charged...
Let me describe a hypothetical situation. A family has two children. The older child is the superstar of the family – a gifted athlete, the most popular in school, and always on the front page of the...
The college football season as we know it has essentially been boiled down to this weekend: Alabama vs. LSU. “The Super Bowl of College Football” is what’s being thrown around as the unofficial,...
A week ago, the Tuscaloosa News printed an article titled, “Immigrants fearing deportation make plans for kids.” My first thought was that the title was merely stating the obvious. Wasn’t this...
What do a fast food restaurant CEO, a flip-flopping Mormon, an unrealistic libertarian (but I guess that’s an oxymoron, right?), and a carbon copy of Sarah Palin, save the ridiculous accent, have in...
As another game day approaches this weekend, the campus will grow into a sea of crimson and white, with cries of “Roll Tide’” audible from Bryant-Denny to Innisfree. The Alabama faithful begin making...
If we were to take a poll of our student population and ask each person if he feels like our “student leaders” are properly representing him here at the University, what would the result be? Would...
