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Paper offers many opportunities

The first time I came up to the office of The Red & Black, I left. Not because I didn’t want to work there. Not because I didn’t like anyone working there. It was because the door was locked. I was too nervous to ring the doorbell, so I left. A week later, and a [...]

The man behind the mouth of the president

University President Michael Adams may get all the glory – or perhaps even the blame – for what he says when he speaks publicly, but there’s another man behind those words. Meet Chuck Toney, Adams’ speechwriter. Toney works with the president to craft speeches for all of his speaking engagements, whether they are two minutes [...]

Rally promotes Hispanic recruitment

A group of Latina women danced in the middle of the Tate Plaza Tuesday to the pulsating beat of Spanish music. Seemingly oblivious to the students walking to and from class, they were there not only enjoying their Hispanic heritage but also promoting it. The women were part of a rally titled “Oye mi canto” [...]

Wanna be a reporter? Here’s how.

As an aspiring journalist, I get to go places investment bankers can’t go, I get to talk to people biologists don’t ever talk to and I get to tell some officials’ worst secrets. That said, I don’t want to keep all the fun to myself. So just for you, I’ve devised a brief guide to [...]

Harassment a subjective call

Consider this scenario: Ellen’s favorite perfume pervaded the office every day. Just as often, one of her male colleagues would walk up close to her while she was at her desk, smell her neck and say, “Oh, your perfume smells so good!” On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the most offensive [...]

‘Elizabethtown’ entertaining but shallow

Drew Baylor is a failure at life. He is fired from his job after losing the company nearly $1 billion. His girlfriend is on the verge of breaking up with him. And right when he is in the middle of attempting suicide, his sister calls to tell him his father has died. So begins Drew’s [...]

Reasoning courses will help in life

Earlier this semester I was faced with this dilemma: whether to cheat on a take-home quiz. I had missed a week of class because my grandmother died, and during that time, missed a vocabulary quiz in Spanish class. My teacher gave me a take-home quiz, telling me not to use the book and warning me [...]

Adams addresses frats’ move

Academic buildings are likely to fill the lots on Lumpkin Street where five fraternities were asked to vacate, University President Michael Adams said Thursday. “That’s what’s on the master plan,” Adams said before a University Council meeting. “Those things evolve over time. I think it’s a pretty sure thing that in your lifetime you’ll see [...]

Don’t let yourself go unchallenged

I have never had a professor give me an A that I didn’t earn. That being said, I didn’t have to work very hard in many of my classes to get those A’s. Malcolm Adams, a professor in the mathematics department, wrote in Wednesday’s issue of The Red & Black that evidence of grade inflation [...]

Report: Parker did not violate policy

A University professor did not violate the school’s sexual harassment policy by sharing a hotel room with a graduate student, according to a report from the Office of Legal Affairs. The report, released Tuesday, stated Keith Parker, a professor in the sociology department and former associate provost for Institutional Diversity, engaged in inappropriate behavior but [...]

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