By Sarah Turner, Sports editor The regular season is coming to a close in the world of college football, and teams with everything to play for laid their seasons on the line during the week…
The Alabamian’s top five summer news stories
1.) The ISIS threat in Iraq - U.S. involvement Just when troops began arriving home from the Iraq War that officially ended in 2011, insurgents struggling for national power against the local government made gains…
War Zone: Ferguson
On Saturday, Aug. 9, the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown ignited chaos, anger and protests that have since rocked the small town of Ferguson, Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. Read More
Bomb scare threatens Montevallo
CVS Pharmacy on Main Street received a call around 6 p.m. at on Thursday, April 16. An unidentified person called in a bomb threat. At 7:15 p.m., students, staff and faculty alike were alerted of…
College cuisine: Cherry chocolate oatmeal
Is there anything better than chocolate? Yes — having chocolate for breakfast! Of course it’s not healthy to grab a candy bar and call it breakfast, but chocolate in moderation is fine. It gives you…
Neil deGrasse Tyson makes science cool in “Cosmos”…
Thirty-four years ago, famed astronomer, astrophysicist and science evangelist Carl Sagan took viewers across the globe on a journey through space and time with the television series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.” The series educated a…
He, she, they: Spectrum’s preferred pronouns
A forum set up to educate university students and faculty on the proper usage of pronouns based on gender identity and expression was hosted by the university's gender/sexuality alliance, Spectrum, on March 12. Read More
Students meet with Alabama Rivers alliance to raise…
[caption id="attachment_1076" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Photo credit: Umar Nadir[/caption] A group of Environmental Club students from the University of Montevallo learned about water policy and other environmental issues at the 2014 Alabama Water Rally on March…