There was a time where I was proud of the fact that I hated The University of Alabama. I thought it made me special and different because I actively talked about my disdain for the University. I knew college...

Voting is one of the most essential part of our democratic process. By casting your vote in an election you get to lend your voice and show people what you want the outcome to be. Your voice, and your...

Two primaries into the presidential race we are finally seeing candidates release policy plans and initiatives they promise to implement if they get elected in 2016. From ending the school-to-prison pipeline,...

With ten days until the Iowa caucus, presidential candidates on both sides are getting down to business and releasing policy plans to help gain the support of voters. On last Sunday night's democratic...

Empathy is the most important emotion we have. Although it didn't get a character in Pixar's Inside Out, empathy is a worthy emotion that we should express more. Over the past few weeks I've seen people...

Today students are typecast as self-absorbed, apathetic and out of touch with problems plaguing society. Pundits and parents say we spend too much time on Snapchat and Twitter and not enough time studying...

We live in a world shaped by systems. The systems are made up of rules that tell us everything from what side of the road we drive on and when to pay our taxes to even something as trivial as when Starbucks...

I feel like I can’t escape the 2016 election. Every time I log on Facebook, read the news or even turn on the radio, I see and hear friends, pundits and analysts weighing in on how much longer Donald...

A few weeks ago, YouTube personality, Nicole Arbour, made a video titled ‘Dear Fat People.’ In the video Nicole made some low blows at people who she deemed to be fat. She said she wasn’t talking...

Warning: You are in the Red Zone. The Red Zone covers the time from when you walk on campus in August to when you leave campus for Thanksgiving break. It is called the Red Zone because this is when the...

Three weeks ago, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a D.C.-based think tank, released a report entitled “The Health of State Democracies.” The report took a look at various factors that...

On Friday, June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. I stood outside the courthouse and listened to the crowd erupt with a celebrating...

On Monday, Jeb Bush announced he would seek the Grand Old Party nomination for the 2016 election. His announcement brings the list of candidates vying for the GOP nomination to almost a dozen. With Clinton,...

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with summer. I love that for three months of the year my life doesn’t revolve around school, but I hate not seeing my friends every day. I love watching endless...

SGA should do more to combat sexual assault on campus. On college campuses, one in five women is sexually assaulted and SGA should make combating this epidemic a priority to ensure that all students are...

Two weeks ago Jon Stewart announced he would be leaving “The Daily Show” later this year. At first, I was hoping it was part of an elaborate plot to ensure some sort of Stewart/Colbert 2016 presidential...

A few days before the 1936 election, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to a crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In his speech, he pledged his commitment to the New Deal and its programs...