Columnists
By Traveler on February 22, 2012 at 9:25 am • 0 Comments •
By Juan Holmes
It’s Black history month, but what does that mean for college students here at the UA? I’m going to take a shot in the dark and say that we’re are all in college to get good jobs, to ...
By Will Simpson on February 22, 2012 at 9:24 am • 52 Comments •
Unintended pregnancy happens. If it happens to you and you show up at the Pat Walker Health Center, they give you a packet of information and flyers. It has colorful pages about emergency contraception, an adoption agency list, free prenatal ...
By Chris Sonntag on February 21, 2012 at 10:11 am • 3 Comments •
In 1972, the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, created by President Nixon, released a report claiming “neither the marijuana user nor the drug itself can be said to constitute a danger to public safety.” Nixon refused to read ...
By Emily Potts on February 20, 2012 at 9:14 am • 2 Comments •
In my four years at the UA, I’ve taken almost every route imaginable to get to classes in and around the Kimpel wing of campus. Whether it’s a history in J.B. Hunt, world literature in Kimpel or foreign language in ...
By Joe Kieklak on February 16, 2012 at 9:51 am • 3 Comments •
Just months ago, it seemed as though we may have an incumbent president lose in November. Obama had been vehemently indicted for failing to produce a budget, blamed for poor congressional leadership, a faltering economy and most recently lashed for ...
By Traveler on February 15, 2012 at 9:55 am • 0 Comments •
By Mike Norton
I have done just about every form of transportation possible to get to class on this campus. I’ve walked. I’ve longboarded. I’ve biked. And that one time I woke up five minutes before my Chemistry I final freshman ...
By Mattie Quinn on February 15, 2012 at 9:53 am • 1 Comment •
In the days, weeks and months after Obama was elected president, countless articles were written from publications around the world about his ability to harness the most elusive voter demographic of all—the youth vote.
But how could he have not? With ...
By DeShaun Artis on February 14, 2012 at 10:14 am • 0 Comments •
“Less about modeling clothes and more about modeling people.” This is the feature that set the Black Student Association’s Essence of History Fashion Show apart from any other fashion show that is strictly about fashion. As a participant in this ...
By Joe Kieklak on February 13, 2012 at 10:06 am • 0 Comments •
With the general election full speed ahead, and a long break before the GOP “Super Tuesday,” all eyes have turned to Obama.
An economic report card that has seemingly taken a turn for the better, along with a flourishing grassroots movement, ...
By Saba Naseem on February 13, 2012 at 10:05 am • 4 Comments •
Only 51 percent of Muslim youth from the ages of 18 to 29 were registered to vote in the 2008 presidential elections, according to the 2009 Gallup Poll “Muslim Americans: A National Portrait.” This is the lowest percentage recorded among ...
By Jordain Carney on February 9, 2012 at 10:06 am • 2 Comments •
WASHINGTON – It’s cold and Republicans are slinging verbal mud at each other as we slide into a month with no primary debates. The few weeks of the spring semester – though it hardly feels like spring now- seem to ...