Correction: The runoff between RItika Samant & Hannah Syed will end at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The USGA elections commission released the results of the USGA Spring 2021 election to the Kaleidoscope. Angela Lee leads the initial results of the election for the USGA president with 836 votes out of 1,574 cast, good for 53.11% of the vote. A runoff between Hannah Syed and Ritika Samant for vice president of student services is set for Monday, March 22. The polls will open at 8 a.m. Monday and close at 8 a.m. Tuesday. These results are the initial first round results.…
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I'm Caleb Wood, managing editor for the Kaleidoscope. I'm a senior studying English and film. If I'm not writing, you can find me stress eating and sitting too close to the TV.
UAB Blazer Media Podcasts · Kaleidoscope Sports Report Ep. 6 – The Week of March 15, 2021
https://soundcloud.com/uabstudentmedia/kaleidoscope-sports-report-ep-5-the-week-of-march-8-2021 On the fifth episode of the Kaleidoscope Sports Report, we’re talking about the Conference USA basketball tournament and UAB basketball’s end of season honors. The Kaleidoscope Sports Report is a weekly podcast where Kaleidoscope sports writers Tyler Szczudlak and Caleb Wood talk everything UAB sports.
Marvel’s “WandaVision” has become something of a rarity in today’s streaming landscape: weekly must-watch TV, and with good reason. “WandaVision” puts forth a level of emotion and respect for its medium that has rarely been seen from the multi-billion-dollar franchise it hails from. The show, if somehow you have not yet seen it, follows the magical Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and her robotic husband Vision (Bettany) as they navigate life away from the Avengers in an idyllic sitcom world even as darker forces lurk unseen. The false ideal of suburbia has long been a lens to examine human issues. Think…
UAB Blazer Media Podcasts · Kaleidoscope Sports Report Ep. 4 – The Week of March 1, 2021 Correction: This podcast incorrectly describes the method for seeding in Conference USA. The tournament will actually feature cross-division games. It will not separate East from West. Later in the podcast, a reference to UAB baseball “losing a benchmark” versus Alabama is made. That refers to the postponement of the UAB-Alabama baseball game, not a loss. Welcome to the fourth episode of The Kaleidoscope Sports Report, a weekly podcast where Kaleidoscope sports writers Tyler Szczudlak and Caleb Wood talk everything UAB sports.This week on…
In a virtual meeting on Tuesday morning, the Birmingham City Council extended funding to nine nonprofit organizations through it’s Building Opportunities for Lasting Development (BOLD) program. The recipient organizations are: • Birmingham Business Alliance• Birmingham Business Resource Center• Bronze Valley Corp.• Bush Hills Connections, Inc.• Community Care Development Network• Create Birmingham• TruFund Financial Services, Inc.• Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham• The Workshop & Rehabilitation Facilities for the Blind and Disabled, Inc The BOLD program seeks develop community partners for the city to work with. It is administered by the Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO). The recipients were selected…
https://soundcloud.com/uabstudentmedia/kaleidoscope-sports-report-3 Welcome to the third episode of The Kaleidoscope Sports Report, a weekly podcast where Kaleidoscope sports writers Tyler Szczudlak and Caleb Wood talk everything UAB sports. This week, we’re discussing UAB men’s basketball’s big games against ODU and UTSA, UAB softball’s Green & Gold Classic and UAB baseball’s opening weekend series against Valparaiso.
This piece first appeared in our February 2021 Magazine. The increased national conversation surrounding race that occurred in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor saw with it a demand for works by Black creators. This demand led to what became a ubiquitous sight: the anti-racism reading and watch lists. Across the internet, in cozy Instagram graphics and in national publications, the lists poured in. They are typically filled with nonfiction books “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” or “Between the World and Me” or “Beloved” or “Their Eyes Were Watching God” to cover the fiction bases. You…
It was an ugly senior day for the UAB men’s basketball team as they fell to Old Dominion 65-58 in their final Conference USA home game. It was a tight game to start with the Old Dominion first on the board. There were six ties and eight lead changes in the first half alone. The Monarchs began to pull away, though, and led by as much as nine late in the half. The Blazers scored five points to make the halftime margin a four-point game. The second half was all Quan Jackson as he scored 23 of the Blazers 36…
Feb. 23, 2021 Update: This article has been updated to include new statements from University officials. The UAB campus is still engulfed in controversy over President Ray Watts’s statement condemning tweets by Dr. Sarah Parcak, the university’s famed archaeology professor. Now, student groups are weighing in the matter with their voices. In a statement released Thursday evening, the Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) called for more transparency into the matter. “We are disappointed by the administration’s actions regarding this situation, especially considering UAB’s precedent of limited university action regarding white supremacy on campus in the name of protecting free speech,” the statement reads. The USGA statement listed the following…