UAB is offering free flu shots during the whole month of October for employees, faculty, students and patients at multiple UAB locations. “The flu shot annually is obviously very important for students, especially this year with more on- campus activities, more students on campus in general, things going back to normal. I think we’re probably going to see a worse flu season this year,” said Dr. Kathleen Pridgen, associate medical director of UAB Student Health Services. UAB experts have said this is the most important flu vaccine ever. It’s important to get the flu shot in case you might contract COVID-19 and the flu at the same time, which could be severe. The flu shot will help minimize chances of…
Author: Lucy Graves
We are officially three days away from kickoff at Protective Stadium. The Blazers are a 2-point favorite over the Liberty Flames. Here’s Kaleidoscope’s guide to gameday including game entry, ticket pickup and more. TICKETS All currently enrolled, full-time students get one free ticket to every home game. For pickup, head to Bartow Arena. The UAB athletics ticket office window will be open until Friday at 12 p.m. of this week. First come first serve tickets for students will also be available at the BJCC East Exhibition Hall beginning four hours before kickoff. For any other tickets for family or friends, go to blazergameday.com Students can enter through any gate of Protective Stadium, but the south entrances are most convenient. Re-entry is prohibited. If you need…
A small group of socially distanced and masked individuals met for a candlelight vigil for Medicaid expansion at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham on Monday night. The Alabama Poor People’s Campaign hosted the event, in conjunction with the Nonviolent Medicaid Army. Both groups said they want Alabama to fight for Medicaid, which is being expanded in several states nationwide. Similar vigils were held in Tuscaloosa, Gadsden, Mobile and Montgomery. This event was also in partnership with Shine a Light Alabama, a project from Alabama Forward, which urges people to remember and honor the lives lost during the pandemic with a candlelight ceremony. The attendees mourned the human right of healthcare being held from people that need it desperately. Rev. Dollie Howell Pankey and Rev. Carolyn Foster led the vigil. The people gathered to put pressure on government…
by Lucy Graves Taylor Swift’s widely loved “Fearless” album from 2008 was rerecorded and released on Apr. 9 as “Fearless (Taylor’s Version).” After Swift departed from her previous label, Big Machine Records, she decided to reclaim ownership of her most successful album. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) At first listen, you won’t hear much of a difference, but her vocal and musical talent have grown exponentially since 2008, when she was 18, and it shows. Beyond that, her reclaiming the extremely successful part of her life that was taken from her is inspiring. All of the original bangers start off the record. “Fearless,” the album title track, is…
by Lucy Graves Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is this month with on-campus events such as the clothesline project as well as virtual events to raise awareness and bring this issue to light not only this month, but every day. “Survivors so often feel so shamed by the issue, so often feel like it’s their fault. They blame themselves. Other people blame them mistakenly, and so to feel truly supported and know that there’s this community who believes them and does not blame them for what happened to them is powerful,” said Mica Hughes-Harrell, director of Wellness Promotion. SAAM is a national event, not just at UAB. Wellness Promotion and the UAB community show support to…
by Lucy Graves Good Games UAB held their first in-person event in over a year, Blazercon, a gaming convention at the Student Hill Center where students could win scholarships and prizes. Good Games UAB, according to their own definition “fosters a community of students with diverse backgrounds who actively engage in numerous esports and technological initiatives and activities,” from the organization’s Instagram @gg.uab. In previous years, they used to rent out the entirety of the Hill Center for Blazercon, hosting hundreds of people. This year they had to follow the new guidelines. “It’s very different. We’ve always been used to having 70, 80 person events in ballrooms with all of our PC…