With homecoming right around the corner, there will be a herd of alumni in Tuscaloosa this week. They come back every year to enjoy tailgating on the Quad and to relive their days as an undergraduate....

I’ve taken several hundred tests in my lifetime, as we all have. I’ve also seen people cheat on tests hundreds of times, as you have seen too. The immense pressure to excel academically in hopes of...

In our society, sports coaches and university administrators are in positions of incredible power. They are charged with the shaping of young minds and are called to mold impressionable students into men...

Mignon Comer Smith, an Alabama philanthropist and heiress who established a scholarship foundation for Alabama high school students, died Friday at the age of 81. Smith, born in Birmingham in 1931, was...

Student Government Association officers will soon face new penalties for failing to comply with the SGA Code of Laws or fulfill their job responsibilities under the guidelines of a new ethics code the...

The Student Government Association begins the spring semester with a flood of new ideas and plans for the future. In the coming weeks, several bills will be proposed, including one that would allow any...

Last summer, people around the country buried their heads between the pages of “The Help,” a heartwarming story of African-American maids in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. The book spent...

The Senate Ethics Committee met Wednesday night to discuss the creation of a code of ethics for the University ’s Student Government Administration. The group, which consisted of members of all three...

Some weeks I like to think these columns write themselves. What I mean is that occasionally an event occurs or a story is reported on and everyone more or less comes to the same conclusion. Case in point:...

This past Tuesday, we witnessed a pivotal election in American history. Call it a referendum on Obama, a Republican insurgency or a political realignment; one thing is clear: It was a call for a new type...

Ah, how refreshing it is to hear someone admit, even if only implicitly, that modern ethics came from religious morality. Of course, I am referring to Sam Arnold’s recent response to Michael Patrick’s...