The Wyvern Witches of UAB is a student organization that was established in the fall of 2021 by its current president, Savannah Williams. I sat down with Williams, who is also a member of UAB’s Student Media, to ask her what Wyvern Witches is all about. Q: In your words, what would say is the purpose of The Wyvern Witches of UAB? A: Wyvern Witches is a club dedicated to providing a space for those who practice witchcraft with the hope of learning from one another and having a sense of community. We also work to educate the student body…
Author: Madison Prim
John Ellis Kuykendall has decided to step down from his role as the elected vice president of finance for the Undergraduate Student Government Association. He attributed the reason for his decision to an error made on his behalf, which broke one of the USGA’s Code of Laws. “At the request of a non-USGA administrator, I changed dates for finance and budget request-related events, inadvertently and accidentally breaking the code of laws and constitution that governs my office and the entire USGA,” said Kuykendall in a letter he posted to his Instagram, which is now private, on Sept. 5. When asked…
Hosting The World Games 2022 is one of the biggest events in Birmingham’s history, but that doesn’t mean that everyone wants to attend. If navigating large crowds and heavy traffic or watching sports like sumo wrestling just isn’t for you, then here are seven things to do instead: Go to the Movies There are several movies coming to the big screen this July. Whether it be blockbuster films, such as “Thor: Love and Thunder” or “Where the Crawdads Sing,” or family movies, like “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” or “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” immersing yourself in the…
UAB Campus Dining is not immune to the labor shortages plaguing the economy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With their biggest issues being a lack of applicants and staff retention, the dining team is employing tactics such as offering incentives and increasing wages to expand their number of applicants. One of the main reasons for the staffing issues is that several people are hesitant to reenter the workforce after the global pandemic. There is also the issue of former dining employees finding other avenues of income during quarantine and deciding not to return to their original place of work. “If you look at the pandemic and how it has affected certain business segments,…
not be required to attend UAB, but the university is still offering several incentives to encourage more students to get vaccinated.
By Madison Prim Juneteenth is the anniversary of the day General Gordon Granger and Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that all 250,000 slaves in the state were free. After over 400 years of being in bondage, the day of liberation had finally come. “We have to celebrate the resilience of slaves who endured horrific, unimaginable conditions,” said Dr. Kathryn Morgan, Ph.D., director of the African American Studies program at UAB as well as a native Texan. Texas didn’t make Juneteenth an official state holiday until 1980, though Black Americans saw it as their true Independence Day long before then. Juneteenth…