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Physician assisted suicide preys upon the weak and vulnerable

Will Leathers October 14, 2015

Last Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the End of Life Option Act, which allows physicians to prescribe lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients, to be taken at a time and...

Bring back Uber for student safety

Sarah Howard October 13, 2015

With midterms only just behind us, there have been almost as many UAPD Advisories this fall as there were during the entirety of last year. Most of these incidents occur when students are walking home...

Medicine requires a generation of creativity

Eric Roddy October 13, 2015

Two weeks ago I caught some heat for a column I wrote about vaccines. It’s an article that I’m proud of and an article that I stand by. Dissatisfaction seemed to come from those who thought that my...

The real victim is campus

Almosa Pirela-Jones October 13, 2015

For the past few years, allegations and videotaped instances of racism have surfaced at colleges across the country. However, The University of Alabama has maintained a solid position as the frontrunner...

There's more to queens than their beauty

Lindsay Macher October 13, 2015

In the last week, the University has participated in homecoming festivities and traditions. Along with these celebrations has come controversy and media attention for the well-known GroupMe messages from...

Taking the next step: countering segregation in church

Ruth Bishop October 12, 2015

Sunday morning has remained one of the most segregated times of the week. Dr. Martin Luther King remarked during a 1963 lecture that, “We must face the fact that in America the church is still the most...

It has everything to do with race

Mark Hammontree October 12, 2015

If you’ve spent enough time on Facebook or have ever read comments on any news article or opinion piece about poverty, education, police violence, food insecurity or political corruption, you’re probably...

Hazing sets a bad example of brotherhood

Danielle Waddell October 12, 2015

In the past years, it seems our greek community has fallen under fire in nearly every way imaginable. Alabama sororities have been connected with racism, feminism and other equality issues while our fraternities...

Go on an adventure

Benjamin Burkeen October 9, 2015

Are you to that point in the semester where you feel like you have gotten into a rhythm or a routine? Do you feel like a zombie that’s just going through the motions? Stop it. Rhythms and routines are...

It has to be a home for it to be a homecoming

Meghan Dorn October 9, 2015

When I think of going back to my home in Charlotte, North Carolina, I have flashbacks of the long exhausting drive through four states, and I get tense as I think of the thirty-minute period dodging cars...

You are not just your resume

Will Sorrell October 8, 2015

People often say, “Your life is the sum of all of your experiences.” This is a lie.As the autumnal breeze swept the pillared clouds across the Tuscaloosa sky Thursday afternoon, I found myself hunkered...

Keep Alabama environmentally beautiful

Kyle Simpson October 8, 2015

When people think of hubs of environmental diversity, they likely think of places like the Amazon rainforest, tropical islands or other distant, faraway places. However, many do not realize the state of...