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All content by Eric Yaron

Out-of-state students find home in new clue The ’49’

Eric Yaron October 29, 2012

With out-of-state student enrollment on the rise, a new student organization was recently formed with the goal of helping new out-of-state students to acclimate themselves to life here at The University...

New SGA program offers student organization representation opportunity

Eric Yaron October 16, 2012

Student organizations will have direct access to the Student Government Association through a new program offering monthly meetings between organization representatives and SGA members. The SGA Delegates...

Students establish tutoring business

Eric Yaron October 14, 2012

A new tutoring company in Tuscaloosa is offering classroom-style review sessions for University of Alabama students. Tutor Me Now, a program founded by UA students Carson Tinker and Michael Aronowitz,...

SGA appoints 50 freshmen to be on First Year Council

Eric Yaron September 30, 2012

The Student Government Association recently selected 50 student representatives for this year’s First Year Council. Selected students will be working alongside elected SGA representatives through the...

Chapter houses upgraded

Chapter houses upgraded

Eric Yaron September 17, 2012

Two new fraternity chapter houses were completed on University Boulevard shortly before the beginning of the fall semester. The new Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Theta fraternity houses were built through alumni...

Constitution Day debate focuses on immigration

Eric Yaron September 17, 2012

In celebration and observance of Constitution day, two teams of University of Alabama students met Monday in the Ferguson Center Theatre to debate the constitutionality of certain sections of HB 56. Students...

New fraternity plans entrance to campus

Eric Yaron September 17, 2012

A national fraternity new to the state of Alabama has recently decided to colonize their latest chapter on the campus of The University of Alabama. Leaders of Sigma Tau Gamma said they hope to become...

New SGA initiative rewards students

Eric Yaron September 12, 2012

The Student Government Association is instituting a new reward system designed to increase student attendance at educational lectures, athletic games and other community events held on campus. Dubbed...

Alabama holds third-lowest credit card debt in nation, students frugal as well

Alabama holds third-lowest credit card debt in nation, students frugal as well

Eric Yaron August 26, 2012

The state of Alabama holds the third lowest average credit card debt for cardholders in the nation, with only Louisiana and Mississippi retaining lower balances. The average Alabamian debtor owes only...

Delta Gamma moves into new three-story chapter house

Delta Gamma moves into new three-story chapter house

Eric Yaron August 22, 2012

The newly colonized Delta Gamma sorority is officially on campus after moving into their new three-story, 61-member chapter house shortly before formal sorority recruitment. “We could not be more excited...

Daniel Moore wins lawsuit over trademark

Daniel Moore wins lawsuit over trademark

Eric Yaron June 20, 2012

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Daniel Moore on June 11 in the latest lawsuit filed against him by the University of Alabama for breach of contract and trademark infringement. Deborah...

Website finds city to be car-dependent

Eric Yaron June 13, 2012

Walkscore.com, an online database that ranks cities and neighborhoods based on their ease of travel by foot, recently gave Tuscaloosa a score of 37 out of 100 on walkability. Front Seat, a Seattle-based...

Students face choice between on-campus and off-campus housing

Eric Yaron June 6, 2012

It’s no secret that a lot of money can be saved by students and parents by choosing to move off campus when the time is right. Over the next year, though, upperclassmen moving off-campus may save slightly...

Alabama robotics team takes home first prize

Alabama robotics team takes home first prize

Eric Yaron May 29, 2012

The University of Alabama made huge waves in space science recently as a team of students from the University of Alabama and Shelton State Community College took home first prize in the NASA Lunabotics...

Arboretum hosts 30th annual plant sale

Eric Yaron April 11, 2012

The Friends of the University of Alabama Arboretum will host their 30th Annual Spring Plant Sale this Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The sale will take place in the parking lot of the former University of Alabama...

Concert to raise money for hockey memorial fund

Eric Yaron April 8, 2012

The Alabama Frozen Tide will host a fundraising event at The Jupiter on Tuesday to benefit the Alabama Hockey Fallen Tide Fund. The event will feature NOTAR, a New York-based rock and rap group, who will...

Crawfish boil held to fund medical research

Crawfish boil held to fund medical research

Eric Yaron April 3, 2012

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority hosted a charity crawfish boil at the fraternity house Saturday to benefit muscular dystrophy research. The event, which ran from 1 to 3 p.m., raised...

UA Relay for Life raises $32,000

Eric Yaron April 1, 2012

The American Cancer Society and the University of Alabama hosted Relay for Life on Saturday at the University soccer fields. The organizers and participants succeeded in raising more than $32,000 out of...

Joblessness down with shrinking workforce

Eric Yaron March 21, 2012

The unemployment rate for the state of Alabama has dropped to 7.8 percent, the lowest unemployment level in the state since 2008. With the national average for unemployment sitting at 8.3 percent, Alabama...

Greek organization to host blood drive Friday

Eric Yaron March 20, 2012

Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and Sigma Pi fraternity will host a blood drive at the Sigma Pi fraternity house Friday. The blood drive is hosted in cooperation with LifeSouth Community Blood Services and will...

Author speaks on Titanic

Author speaks on Titanic

Eric Yaron March 8, 2012

April 14 marks the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic sinking, an anniversary University of Alabama graduate Julie Williams has an intimate family knowledge of. Williams spoke to an assembly of more...

Students lobby for education funding

Students lobby for education funding

Eric Yaron March 5, 2012

bama universities came together in Montgomery on Thursday, March 1, for the Higher Education Day. A day devoted to advocating greater funding for Alabama public and private institutions of higher learning,...

Sen. Shelby helps break ground on NOAA project

Sen. Shelby helps break ground on NOAA project

Eric Yaron February 22, 2012

Government officials, academic leaders and even the first American woman to walk in space all met Tuesday morning for the groundbreaking ceremony of the new National Water Center on the campus of The University...

New Honors course partners students, city in reconstruction

Eric Yaron February 20, 2012

PlanFirst, a new Honors College service-learning course being launched this fall, is currently recruiting students interested in applying their academic disciplines to the reconstruction of Tuscaloosa...