By: Marissa Mason | Managing Editor The University of South Alabama will be celebrating 50 years of engineering at Shelby Hall on April 13, 2019. “This signature event will honor the engineering profession, the College, and the world of difference engineers make in Mobile and beyond,” southalabama.edu states. USA College of Engineering will be honoring esteemed guests and encourages nominations for anyone who has had … Continue reading 50 Year Celebration at Shelby
By: Kenyan Carter | Web Editor Opinion Former Hoover High School and University of Alabama in Birmingham student Hoda Muthana has sparked a national conversation on citizenship and the limits of repatriation. In 2014, Muthana withdrew from her UAB courses and flew to Syria to join the ISIS terrorist organization after being radicalized through the internet. Now, Muthana is pleading to come back home. In … Continue reading Coming Home to Justice
By: Charles Harrison | Sports Editor The South Alabama baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Tennessee Tech on Sunday, Feb. 24. After having two consecutive games canceled due to weather, the Jaguars were finally able to rebound from their 2-1 series loss to Clemson. The Jaguars’ game against the Alabama State Hornets was canceled due to fog and the game against New Orleans was … Continue reading South Sweeps TTU
By: Ebonee Burell | Reporter After losing her cousin to cancer, Anushka Sikdar created Light the Way, a non-profit organization that provides homemade pillows for children suffering from cancer in Mobile, Alabama. “I was inspired to do something in my community,” Sikdar, a sophomore at Alabama School of Math and Science, said. Once a month, Light the Way delivers decorative pillows to local … Continue reading Young Mobile student helps cancer patients
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By: Marissa Mason | Managing Editor New vending machines are coming South’s campus and not only will they be filled with Coke products, but students can also use their Jag Cards to purchase them. The vending machines are a part of USA’s plan to become a Coca-Cola campus and will also accept cash and non-cash payments such as debit, credit, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. … Continue reading USA to add Coca-Cola vending machines that accept Jag Cards
By: William Tyler Marchman | contributing writer In Pittsburgh last October, a gunman motivated by anti-Semitism opened fire in a synagogue and killed 11 members. The attack at place of worship struck at the heart of Jewish communities across the nation, including here in Mobile, home to Alabama’s oldest Jewish community. For Rabbi Steven Silberman of Ahavas Chesed Synagogue in Mobile, the attack 1,000 … Continue reading Attacks hit close to home for local Jewish community
By: Sara Boone Opinion Being pro-choice means exactly that – I want women to have the choice. I don’t hope that every pregnant woman I see gets an abortion just for the heck of it. However, I believe there are some circumstances that warrant an abortion. The first is in the case of rape. I have never experienced sexual abuse myself, so I cannot even … Continue reading A choice should be given
By: Marisa Palpallatoc Opinion One of the biggest controversies flooding the media today is the divisive debate over New York’s recent legalization of late-term abortions. The law authorizes the termination of a pregnancy, the purposeful ending of a fetus’s life in the womb, after the 24-week gestation cutoff that Roe v. Wade set for the country in 1973. While many pro-choice advocates celebrated this as … Continue reading A baby’s pain
By: Kenyan Carter | Web Editor A new wave of states has considered adding Bible literacy classes into their public schools. The classes under discussion would be elective courses that teach the books of the Bible from the perspective of history and literature. This year, Bible literacy bills have been introduced in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia, according to the … Continue reading Bible literacy bills introduced across the states
By: Charles Harrison | Sports Editor The South Alabama women’s basketball team’s hot streak continued with an 80-77 win over their in-state rival, Troy. This game was the first time the Jags had faced the Trojans, since Troy knocked the Jags out of last years Sun Belt Conference Tournament where, a fourth-quarter rally by the Jags fell short as they missed three consecutive three-point shots … Continue reading Women’s Basketball scores win over Trojans
By: Marissa Mason | Managing Editor V-Day returns to The University of South Alabama with two events: “We Need to Talk!” and “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer.” “V-Day is a global movement that exists to help end violence against women and girls through creative programming and events,” Addison Grissett, this year’s coordinator for V-Day at USA, said in an email.. “We … Continue reading V-Day returns this week
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