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Study shows football success can lead to lower GPAs

Study shows football success can lead to lower GPAs

Alyssa Locklar January 18, 2012

As the excitement of another national championship infiltrates campus, it is impossible to overlook the influence football has on college campuses. Indeed, one recent study shows there is a strong correlation...

Superdome standing strong six years after Katrina

Superdome standing strong six years after Katrina

Taylor Holland December 9, 2011

The Superdome will play host to its third ever BCS National Championship Game, and first since 2008, when the Alabama Crimson Tide face off against the LSU Tigers on Jan. 9. Completed in 1975, the Superdome...

Prices high for Bama-LSU game

Prices high for Bama-LSU game

Taylor Holland December 8, 2011

Tickets to January’s national championship game are going for more than triple the price they did for the Nov. 5 showdown between LSU and Alabama, according to information compiled on SeatGeek.com. ...

Gold: 'They're the best two teams'

Gold: ‘They’re the best two teams’

Taylor Holland December 6, 2011

The Alabama-LSU rematch in the national championship may not be popular around the nation, but Eli Gold, the Crimson Tide’s play-by-play announcer, said not only is the match-up necessary, it’s mandatory....

Student forms group to help soldiers

Melissa Brown December 1, 2011

When University of Alabama junior Chelsea Pickett watched her younger brother graduate from boot camp at Parris Island earlier this fall, she was moved as she reflected on the generations of military service...

Student loans reduction

Jared Downing December 1, 2011

College students’ mountain of student debt just got a little smaller. Last month, President Barack Obama announced a plan to make paying off federal student loans cheaper and easier, cutting monthly...

App highlights drink specials

App highlights drink specials

Elizabeth Manning November 29, 2011

Students at the University can now review the best alcohol prices, updated every hour, before or during their weekend bar-hopping.  The free smartphone application, Red Cup, shows the drink specials for...

Students prepare for Black Friday shopping frenzy

Students prepare for Black Friday shopping frenzy

Elizabeth Manning November 22, 2011

The coming Thanksgiving break also brings another holiday – one for shoppers.  Stores in Tuscaloosa, as well as stores across the United States, will open their doors at a new time this year in honor...

Student wins HALO award for tornado relief project, meets Taylor Swift

Student wins HALO award for tornado relief project, meets Taylor Swift

Melissa Brown November 22, 2011

When University of Alabama sophomore James O’Dwyer first saw the devastation in Tuscaloosa following the April 27 tornado, he knew he had to do something to help. He decided to organize a donation drive...

Fans keep Tide pride alive overseas

Adrienne Burch November 22, 2011

An 11-hour time difference and 5,224 miles has not stopped Marcel Gromotka from being a die-hard University of Alabama football fan. Gromotka grew up in Munich, Germany and moved to the United States...

UA boasts two Rhodes finalists

Kyle Kozak November 15, 2011

Two University of Alabama students have been named finalists for the Rhodes scholarship, an international award for study at the University of Oxford. Senior Nathan Corder and spring 2011 graduate Parker...

Occupy Wall Street founder hopes to form new political party

Rich Robinson November 14, 2011

From his Vancouver office, Kalle Lasn, who many consider to be the de-facto founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement, recounted the true origin of the group and what he believes it should and will become....