President Barack Obama must accept foreign responsibilities. For the past year, a wave of reform and revival has energized the oppressed civilians of some of the world’s most ironfisted nations. This...

New Year’s Eve is my favorite holiday for a few reasons. Everyone recognizes the importance of New Year’s Eve. It is the end of the accepted calendar year, a fact that no one can disagree with. It...

To current students at the Capstone, the description of Alabama football dominance is epitomized through the Alabama Traditions video. As the video flashes clips of college football greatness paired with...

After what seemed to be an entire 24 hours of chaotic shuffling, for the first time since the storm had begun, I found myself unable to move in a foreign field. I had never been there prior to that night....

Upon joining Teach For America in 2003, I was the 12th University of Alabama grad to pursue that route into the teaching profession, one I had never considered prior to learning about TFA. The experience...

Walking across campus yesterday, I hardly recognized the landscape from the one I stepped foot on just over three years ago. I was a freshman then, filled to the brim with ambition: ambition that has carried...

I was recently asked what I would change about campus. My two choices both relate to creating a better sense of a UA community from the beginning of a student’s life at this university. 1. The design...

An alarming crisis exists in public education today. American students fall short on testing in comparison to their international counterparts. Great disparity plagues school systems across the United...

Last week, First Year Councilor Robert Pendley proposed a bill to the University of Alabama’s student senate that would change their enumerated titles from “councilor” to “councilman” or “councilwoman.”...

Maybe I’m the only one, but these past few weeks, I’ve noticed that a lot of people are a little tense. Maybe we’ve been a little out of sync since that whack LSU game. Maybe it’s because the weather...

Donald Trump is hosting a Republican debate in Iowa in late December. Let that sink in for a moment. In a primary process already resembling something no less absurd than a Lars von Trier film, candidates...

In recent months, Americans have seen numerous Republican presidential candidates rise in the polls, be lauded by pundits as “the one that will challenge Mitt Romney,” and then falter amid a bored...