Archive for: October, 2010

Tide looks for third straight SEC championship victory

Legendary Green Packers head coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” For the Alabama men’s cross country team, this statement couldn’t be more true. “Coming off of two SEC Championships, we’re going in there like this is ours to los,” junior Nathan Corder said. The Tide is aiming to [...]

Improvement is the goal heading into SEC Championship

The very first game of the 2010 college football season was South Carolina versus Furman on Thursday night. As I watched that game, I realized just how formidable the Gamecocks would be as an opponent. Looking through our schedule, it was the only game I was worried about. Why? There were a few reasons. The [...]

A case for Sparks

The election is less than a week away, and it seems like everyone couldn’t care less about what is going to happen in the Alabama gubernatorial race. Both parties lost their reformation hopefuls—Bradley Byrne and Artur Davis. That leaves Alabama with Democrat Ron Sparks and Republican Robert Bentley as the front-runners in the race for [...]

Student voter interest lower than 2008

‘To vote, not to vote?’ or ‘Can I even make it to the polls?’ are questions on many students’ minds as the Nov. 2 elections approach. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign for president heavily targeted young voters. Record numbers of voters, both young and old, showed up at the polls that November to cast [...]

Pioneers of integration to speak at Ferg

Autherine Lucy Foster, James Hood and Vivian Malone Jones took steps toward desegregation in 1956 and 1963 by being the first black students to enroll at the University. Foster, Hood and a family member of the late Jones will participate in a panel discussion as a part of the dedication of the Foster Auditorium Clock [...]

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