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Veterans' Park Being Erected in Front of Student Center The flagpole area on the south side of the Student Center is being changed to a Veterans' Memorial Park, according to Chris Willis, director of Facilities Management. Generally th...

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Q & A with USA Chief of Police Normand Gamache 　 Q: How can we keep our vehicles safe from theft and vandalism on campus? A: Thieves are opportunists. Reduce your chances by making your vehicle less attractive. If you leave valuab...

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6-14-09 Criminal Mischief Student reported damage to his car at the Kappa Alpha parking lot. The incident occurred between 4:30 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. There were three witnesses. The suspect is a 22-year-old white female, 5'1, 100 pounds, ...

By: Brendan Davis / Senior Reporter

Stimulus Next year the Alabama Legislature will appropriate USA the last of its stimulus money. This will be $10.9 million - the same amount provided this year. This money is meant to offset the loss of tax revenues during the economic...

By: Alex Whalen / Senior Reporter

  The SGA Senate has approved the summer 2009 budget. With $13,219.01 approved for summer appropriations, this summer's budget is about $1,700 higher than the average amount appropriated for 2007 and 2008. This increase in spending is in respon...

By: Prianka Mansur / Associate Editor

      Students may have a new option when it comes to living near campus. Davis Group Properties is building a new apartment complex across Old Shell Road and Stadium Boulevard. The new apartments will tentatively go by the name Univers...

By: Alex Whalen / Senior Reporter

    The SGA Senate unanimously approved $30,400 for athletics-related expenses during its summer appropriations meeting June 15. There were two requests for funding: $15,000 designated as football promotional and $15,400 for three new USA...

By: Matthew Peterson / Editor-In-Chief

      USA Professor Barry Simpson has been terminated after pleading guilty on June 18 to one count of sending obscene material to a minor, according to Keith Ayers, director of USA Public Relations. Simpson was suspended with pay after...

By: Ashley McGee / Staff Writer

      USA administrators anticipate enrollment increasing by about 300 students this fall. Associate Vice President of Enrollment Services Dr. David J. Stearns expects to have at least as many students as last year, if not a few hundred...

By: Prianka Mansur / Associate Editor

      In the South, and at South, people prefer Coke. I like Coke. I'm a Southern girl. I've grown up with Coke, Nancy Heath, senior of Biological Sciences at USA, said. People seemed unhappy in April when USA changed its vending machi...

By: Peter Favreau / Staff Reporter

      Supplemental Instruction (SI) will be coming back to USA in a limited form. Student instructors will offer help in a variety of subjects, including Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Meteorology, Engineering, History and Soci...

By: Matthew Peterson / Editor-In-Chief

      Paul Bryan Young Jr., a USA graduate student in the College of Education, is being charged with killing his ex-wife and attempting to kill three others. Young, 40, was booked in Metro Jail June 11 on three charges of attempted mur...

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It is troubling that our media, and now our school media, is distracted from relevant and important issues such as, the nuclear problem in Korea, the assault of a peaceful dissent in Iran, the new Supreme Court Justice nominee that just ...

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    I am writing regarding the Ask Norm section that was included in the last edition of the Vanguard, printed June 8, 2009. After reading the piece I was left scratching my head. I wondered how the student paper could publish something th...