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Social Media week in review, Jan. 16 to Jan. 22

Every week, the Crimson White Community Engagement team pulls some of the top tweets from the popular campus hashtags #uachat and #uatweet to recap the past week on social media…

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La Niña cause of abnormal weather

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After the tornadoes ravaged Alabama and much of the Southeast early on Jan. 23, residents of the Tuscaloosa area should…

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Real books outpace eBooks

Price, distributors and efficiency are just three things students generally consider when purchasing their textbooks. Today, because of the rise…

Jan 26 2012, 12:02 AM / No Comment / Read More

UA hosts information session for undergraduate research

To increase undergraduate participation in research, the Honors College Assembly and the College of Arts and Sciences will host one…

Jan 26 2012, 12:01 AM / No Comment / Read More

Minimester to begin soon

The Student Government Association’s Spring 2 initiative gives students the opportunity to take specific courses during a 10-week period this…

Jan 26 2012, 12:00 AM / No Comment / Read More
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Mental conditioning coach teaches toughness to young team

Trevor Moawad thinks of himself as a piece to a puzzle. That puzzle, far from one-dimensional, has two crystal balls, one Heisman Trophy and 101,000 screaming fans on autumn Saturdays. In 2007, the University hired Nick Saban as head football coach of the Crimson Tide…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Despite loss, one for memory book

The 2011 football season came to a satisfying conclusion Saturday as the Alabama Crimson Tide and roughly 30,000 fans filed into Bryant-Denny Stadium to celebrate the Tide’s 14th national championship. I was at that celebration with a friend of mine, and we were caught up…

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Tide faces test in Tennessee

The Alabama women’s basketball team will take on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at home Thurs., Jan. 26. Alabama (10-10, 0-6) will be looking to earn its first SEC win against the Lady Vols (14-5, 5-1). Both teams will enter the game coming out of blowout…

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Seniors prepare for last home meet against UGA

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The Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving team will bid ten seniors adieu on Saturday in its last home meet against the University of Georgia Bulldogs. The Lady Bulldogs, ranked No. 1 in the country, just won their 77th consecutive home meet, and the men…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Iron Bowl rivalry takes to the mat

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Whether it’s football or hopscotch, when the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers square off, there is a level of animosity unmatched by any other rivalry in sports. Gymnastics is no exception. The Tide will travel to Auburn on Friday for its first meet…

Jan 26 2012, 12:05 AM / No Comment / Read More

South Carolina poses challenge for Bama

Freshman guard Levi Randolph shoots against three LSU defenders. / CW | Katie Bennet

Alabama head basketball coach Anthony Grant and his team have created a trend: they do their best work with their backs against the wall. Grant’s first season at Virginia Commonwealth was highlighted by a major upset in the first round of the NCAA tournament, a…

Jan 25 2012, 12:06 AM / No Comment / Read More
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Kagan, Thomas need to recuse themselves

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“Simply amazing.” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan penned those two words in an email to a former Harvard colleague on…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Ethics code will strengthen Student Government

The Student Government Association Senate will vote tonight on the most important legislation to come before it this year – a…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Don’t blame the SEC for the sixth straight

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Last football season was full of controversies, but of these controversies, one reigned supreme. Greater than the Penn State child…

Jan 25 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Health and wellness advice for a new year, new you

From Eta Sigma Gamma Have you ever realized that when you go to the gym in January, it’s packed? Yet,…

Jan 25 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Students should be less competitive

As an employee of a student leadership group at the University of Alabama, a group of which I am also…

Jan 25 2012, 12:10 AM / 2 Comments / Read More

I support gays, but I’m deathly afraid of them

Did my title grab your attention? Awesome. Now, let’s clear some misinformation up before we move further: I am comfortable…

Jan 24 2012, 12:10 AM / 3 Comments / Read More
Lifestyles

Worth searching for: Looking for an old friend

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Leave it to a woman to come between best friends. We’d been through some tough scrapes, my passport and I.…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Pink Box Burlesque opens season at Green Bar

The performers of Tuscaloosa’s Pink Box Burlesque are bringing their own brand of comedy and merriment to Green Bar Saturday…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

‘Sons of Anarchy’ has audiences hooked

Recently wrapping up its fourth season on FX, “Sons of Anarchy” follows an outlaw motorcycle club as they push guns…

Jan 26 2012, 12:10 AM / 5 Comments / Read More

Etta James was a soulful icon we should all remember

Etta James performs at the Orange County Blues Festival, Dana Point, September 26, 1993. James, the legendary rhythm and blues singer, has died, her son said Friday, January 20, 2012. She was 73 and had been in failing health for years. (Christine Cotter/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Etta James, famed American soul and R&B singer, passed away this past Friday, concluding a battle with leukemia that began…

Jan 25 2012, 12:10 AM / No Comment / Read More

Bryan Adams to play acoustic show tonight

Bryan Adams will play at the Bama Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. Submitted Photo

Although some college students may not know Bryan Adams by name, their faces usually light up with recognition when they…

Jan 25 2012, 12:09 AM / No Comment / Read More

Moon Taxi brings a new flavor to the Strip

Moon Taxi’s members pose for a group picture. Submitted

Self-defined as indie-jam-rock, the band Moon Taxi offers an eclectic sound tied together by throwbacks to the stylized wah-wah’s, fuzzy…

Jan 25 2012, 12:08 AM / No Comment / Read More

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