While many UA students watch the Occupy Wall Street protests from afar, one has jumped onto its front lines and is receiving class credit for doing so. Henry Perkins, a junior in New College, has been...

Alabama vs. LSU has always been a rather heated rivalry. Both fan bases are ranked among the most passionate in the nation. In recent times, the game has been called the Saban Bowl, referring to Alabama...

At the University of Alabama, in any given class of 50-60 engineering students, as few as five female students will be present. The female demographic is hardly represented, but the gender imbalance is...

When Karen Waldrup, a country musician and contestant on Bravo’s first season of Platinum Hit, came to Tuscaloosa to play the Heroes in the Storm concert at Bryant-Denny Stadium last July, she said she...

In the recently released 2010 census, researchers revealed that young American men and women had fallen victim to the recession’s impact on the job market more so than older generations. Although the...

The execution of Georgia resident Troy Davis started much conversation in the South and throughout the nation about the death penalty. Davis spent more than 20 years on death row before his execution....

More than 50 years after its publication, Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is still held on a deservingly high pedestal by many writers, said best-selling author David Baldacci. “For...