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First Year Council director resigns after irregularities in applications

Katherine Martin September 22, 2011

Sara Lavender, director of the Student Government Association First Year Council (FYC), resigned last night as a result of irregularities in the application scoring process, SGA communications director...

Crimson Tide turning to Smelley in senior season

Brett Hudson September 22, 2011

The tight end is arguably the position that has seen the most change in the past 40 years of college football. In the era of the wishbone offense, the tight end was basically an additional offensive lineman...

Miss Sorority Row pageant comes to Bama Theatre

Jared Downing September 22, 2011

Who’s the prettiest gal on Sorority Row? Hard to tell, but we may find out at Friday’s Miss Sorority Row pageant, starting at 6 p.m. at the Bama Theatre. Sixteen damsels will compete with feats of...

Animal shelters offer volunteer opportunities

Animal shelters offer volunteer opportunities

Melissa Brown September 22, 2011

A plump tabby cat named Nelson spends his days sprawled on Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter director Judy Hill’s desk, content with his rule of the roost. “Nelson was a storm kitty – we all fell...

Mallet Assembly: a family

Mallet Assembly: a family

Jasmine Cannon September 22, 2011

Fifty years after its inception as a project of Dean of Men John Blackburn, the Mallet Assembly remains one of UA’s most un-traditional organizations. From Palmer Hall—the Assembly’s dormitory—Malleteers...

Purgatorio at Allen Bales next week

Purgatorio at Allen Bales next week

Julie Fry September 22, 2011

The director jogs around the stairs in the Allen Bales Theater, watching the actors embrace for what might be the hundredth time, making sure it looks perfect from every angle.  He seems to have an “ah-ha”...

Kirani James: a true champion

Kirani James: a true champion

Jasmine Cannon September 22, 2011

There is only one student on the Alabama campus who can also call himself a certified professional athlete. His name is Kirani James, and he is the reigning world champion for the 400m in track. James...

Bama cycling offers an escape

Bama cycling offers an escape

Ashanka Kumari September 22, 2011

The University of Alabama’s Cycling Club, Bama Cycling, offers members a chance to prepare for and participate in regional and national collegiate cycling competitions while supporting bicycling as a...

Diversity increasing in black greek organizations

Jonathan Reed September 21, 2011

Eve Dempsey doesn’t look like her sisters. When she joined the Zeta Phi Beta sorority in the spring of 2007, she joined because she believed it was an organization with the same values she had, the...

High Tide Club adds new incentives

William Evans September 21, 2011

Registration for the High Tide Club, which offers incentives to students who sit in the upper deck of the student section during football games, is currently open. Last football season, to compel students...

Bama fashion is in right now

Alyssa Locklar September 21, 2011

From Project Runway to Say Yes to the Dress, the University of Alabama fashion program is headed toward stardom one student at a time. This October, Rachel Wilkins, a senior majoring in fashion retail,...

Ancient Greek play ‘Hecuba’ comes to the Bama Theatre

Gabriel Dickson September 21, 2011

Euripides’ “Hecuba” is coming to Tuscaloosa for one night only on Thursday, Sept. 22 in the Greensboro Room at the Bama Theatre. The play deals with Queen Hecuba of Troy as a captive of the Greeks...