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Different people learn in different ways

Tarif Haque July 18, 2012

Take a peek at the girl sitting next to you in class. Is she taking comprehensive notes with purpose? Does she set her pencil down every few minutes and watch the professor work a problem, or does she...

How cars drove the American dream to Nowhere, U.S.A.

Henry Downes July 18, 2012

Americans love their cars. I’m not entirely sure whether this bond was forged out of some vague sense of American individualism or perhaps was simply the offspring of our nation’s industrial genius,...

Image of women in the workforce reflective in “Newsroom”

SoRelle Wyckoff July 18, 2012

Part of my summer assignments to myself involved catching up on various television shows, made possible by actual free time and my parent’s premium channel subscription. I just finished catching up...

Frequent crime outburst a cause for concern around Tuscaloosa

Tray Smith July 18, 2012

A fight on the Strip left two men hospitalized and resulted in two others being apprehended by University police. The apprehended suspects were not involved in the fight, but had fired handguns in the...

Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation shouldn’t cause national media frenzy

Nathan James July 11, 2012

Americans like drama. We vicariously enjoy gossip, tension and conflict, and we’re prepared to pay for the access to these things. Look on the shelves of any convenience store, and you’ll see entire...

Romney’s problem with the radical right

Austin Gaddis July 11, 2012

Since joining Congress in 2011, Florida Rep. Allen West has been a relentless, outspoken, notoriously loud – often-lauded – mouthpiece for the radical base of today’s Republican Party. West regularly...

Computer scientists do more than just build computers

Tarif Haque July 11, 2012

At 17, I stood at a crossroads. After years of being “well-rounded,” the idea of majoring in one subject was new to me. I chose my major practically, settling on computer science, perhaps one of the...

Supreme Court is not immune to Washington partisan politics faced by U.S. Senate, House

Henry Downes July 11, 2012

As the nation watched and waited, years of research, debate and speculation came to a head last month when the Supreme Court finally issued a ruling on National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB)...

We should question Obama’s motive

Nathan James July 2, 2012

Two weeks ago Obama used his power of executive mandate to pass into law a series of reforms covering the subject of immigration. These reforms grant de facto amnesty to immigrants who meet a number of...

The summer dream and actuality of boredom

Tarif Haque July 2, 2012

We all know the story. Yes, the one that has been happening since grade school, when school lets out, and suddenly, we turn into animals set free for summer vacation. Released from captivity, we survey...

OPINION: Learning from UVA in our presidential selection

OPINION: Learning from UVA in our presidential selection

SoRelle Wyckoff July 2, 2012

My junior and senior years of high school I spent more time flipping through the pages of my “Princeton Review Best 376 Colleges” book than I did flipping through my textbooks. My fingers traced down...

U.S. soccer long way from world’s elite

Marc Torrence July 2, 2012

As I sat in a booth at Buffalo Wild Wings, watching Spain lift the 2012 European Championship trophy, an all-too-familiar feeling washed over me. No matter how excited I or other U.S. soccer fans get about...