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SPORTS | No. 7 Alabama men’s basketball topped N

SPORTS | No. 7 Alabama men’s basketball topped No. 1 Auburn on the road in buzzer-beating fashion 93-91, ending the regular season with a win over its in-state rival.

“This is a big win for us. This is a big win for all Alabama fans,” forward Grant Nelson said.

The Crimson Tide took a 10-4 lead in the first four minutes, a quick start that the team did not get in its last meeting with the Tigers.

Then, after a few minutes of the teams trading buckets, Nelson took over.

With Alabama maintaining a 25-21 lead and 8:42 left in the half, Nelson threw down a dunk, drawing a foul. He then hit the “Crimson Crane” celebration, causing boos to rain down upon him and his teammates.

He scored 9 of his team’s following 12 points, giving the Crimson Tide a 37-29 lead with 5:36 remaining in the half.

“My teammates, they’ve been giving me confidence,” Nelson said.

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CULTURE | The Emerging Choreographers Showcase hel

CULTURE | The Emerging Choreographers Showcase held its final performance on Saturday in the English Building theater. Throughout the week, dances packed with powerful messages were delivered with grace, energy and technique.

The first dance — “The Chorus of Change,” choreographed by Avril Sharp — shared a journey from silence to strength as the dancers crafted formations of unity on stage.

“We Shall Have Spring Again,” choreographed by Cathryn Jacks, was a beautiful piece of transformation — from winter to spring and grief to renewal. This ballet contemporary dance exhibited elegance and poise as the dancers traveled through different emotions. McKenna Booker, who seemed to be the lead during parts of the dance, especially conveyed expressions of resilience and joy.

The energy picked up in the third dance of the night with Trinity Williams’ piece “Vanishing Act,” which was a duet between Alyssa Potter and Macy Wright. The dance was a story of two characters: the fantasy, who embodies perfection, and the real person, who is obsessed with the fantasy.

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MULTIMEDIA | Bama Dining announced on Instagram th

MULTIMEDIA | Bama Dining announced on Instagram that Sola, the taqueria upstairs in Lakeside Dining, will close at the end of the spring semester. Social Bites, a kiosk-based venue offering fast food staples, will take Sola’s place for the fall 2025 semester. Follow The Crimson White along as they interview students for their opinions on Sola closing.

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NEWS | The University provided the UA Young Americ

NEWS | The University provided the UA Young Americans for Freedom chapter an exception to a required non-discrimination clause for student organization constitutions that prohibits barring membership based on characteristics of personal identity.

The exception for the conservative political organization allows it to use a modified version of the required non-discrimination statement excluding wording prohibiting discrimination based on a student’s “gender identity, gender expression, [or] sexual identity.”

“We were not about to be bullied by this new gender ideology cult infecting the University of Alabama administration,” Trenton Buffenbarger, president of UA YAF, said in an article on the YAF website.

After UA YAF applied to renew its organization with The Source, an annual requirement for student organizations, the Source rejected the application. A University employee stated in an email reply to UA YAF that it was required to include a nondiscrimination clause in its constitution with the “EXACT” wording, noting that UA YAF would remain in “frozen status” until it complied.

The chapter pushed back against this required clause, as it included references to gender identity and sexual identity.

Buffenbarger said in an interview with The Crimson White that he saw this as an attack on “basic free-thinking students,” adding he believes that welcoming in someone who not only fundamentally disagrees with the organization on “ideology,” but encourages the opposing ideology, is wrong.

“UA tried to force us to not only comply, but to explicitly put something we disagree with in writing in our constitution,” Buffenbarger said. “It is a violation of the First Amendment.”

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NEWS | The Office of Student Life announced an ano

NEWS | The Office of Student Life announced an anonymous text-based reporting system for hazing and other misconduct Tuesday. Through the vendor, RealResponse, students can text UAct at 888-708-8433 to report acts of misconduct.

RealResponse was originally created for anonymous two-way communication for athletes and coaches, but it has slowly adapted to serve other purposes like anonymous reporting on college campuses.

The new service comes to the University after two different instances of hazing occurred that ended in the arrest of a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon last spring and four members of Pi Kappa Phi last fall. It also follows the University introducing a webpage that specifically documents hazing violations on campus.

On the Student Life website’s page for UAct, students can find a step-by-step guide on how to use the new service. After texting the number with a full report including any photos or videos, students will receive a text from a University staff member during regular business hours to ask any clarifying questions. The report will then be sent to an appropriate campus office to investigate.

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OPINION | For years, the Machine, a select group o

OPINION | For years, the Machine, a select group of historically white fraternities and sororities has controlled campus elections — particularly SGA and Homecoming.

In the not-so-distant past, the Machine’s methods of control have included cross-burning, physical assault on rival candidates, threats against opponents and a healthy mix of social ostracism. But old habits die hard.

Nowadays, the intimidation tactics are alive and well, albeit in a new form: tacitly requiring Greek organization members to vote for the Machine-endorsed candidates by incessantly encouraging or mandating that those members cast their ballot at all. At least one organization’s member bylaws establish voting requirements in elections, including campus elections.

This year, The Crimson White counted at least five instances of Machine sororities pressuring their members to vote during Tuesday’s elections. These methods included harassing members who had yet to present proof of voting to their executive members, sending text messages and making numerous phone calls to those sorority members, and, in some cases, publicly calling out those who hadn’t voted.

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MULTIMEDIA | Alabama baseball had a strong showing

MULTIMEDIA | Alabama baseball had a strong showing in its first midweek games of the season, defeating Middle Tennessee State and Alabama State.

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SPORTS | Senior swimmers Charlie Hawke and graduat

SPORTS | Senior swimmers Charlie Hawke and graduate student Diana Petkova have not just stood out in 2025, but have had stellar performances throughout their careers.

Both swimmers are international athletes, with Petkova from Bulgaria and Hawke from Australia. Traveling worldwide for school can be extremely tough; however, both said the experience will stay with them forever.

“I’m definitely really close with the other international students, because we understand what its like to come from a different country,” Hawke said. “From the minute I stepped on campus … everyone on the team became a family, like instantly accepting.”

Although the transition from one country to the other may not be the same for everyone, Hawke said that he was fortunate to come from an English-speaking country, so he did not experience a language barrier like many other athletes, including Petkova.

“I guess for me, it was really hard because of the language barrier,” Petkova said. “When I came here, there were other international girls, and I had a lot of support, and at the same time, our team is very supportive to us."

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MULTIMEDIA | Alabama women’s tennis started SEC

MULTIMEDIA | Alabama women’s tennis started SEC play on the right foot, beating Mississippi State 4-0 on Sunday to move to 6-2 on the season and 1-0 in conference play.

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NEWS | Bama Dining announced on Instagram last Fri

NEWS | Bama Dining announced on Instagram last Friday that Sola, the taqueria upstairs in Lakeside Dining, will close at the end of the spring semester. Social Bites, a kiosk-based venue offering fast food staples, will take Sola’s place for the fall 2025 semester.

Sola has been in Lakeside Dining since February 2018, serving a variety of Mexican foods — from grilled chicken bowls to vegan meat tacos and salsa verde — that have been available through any Bama Dining meal plan with regular meal swipes.

The post announcing Sola’s closure also hinted that Social Bites “reimagines the food hall experience,” with a wide variety of options available from a kiosk. The new restaurant boasts a new set of original food brands including “The Original Hot Chicken, INKED tacos, Flametown Burgers, and Pinsa Roman Pizza.” These options would also be available through meal plan swipes.

“This concept aims to create a vibrant, social atmosphere while providing elevated yet affordable meals,” Bama Dining said on Instagram.

Grayton Coale, a sophomore majoring in public relations, said she was excited about the new options, especially the Roman-style pizza.

“I feel that we really need an upgrade for our dining halls,” she said, adding that students she knows have said they’re unhappy with the current menu. “Our students deserve the best food.”

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CULTURE | Fifty-six historical markers are placed

CULTURE | Fifty-six historical markers are placed around campus. These plaques — black signs with gold or bronze text — are dedicated to significant places and people who have shaped the history of the University. Out of those 56, only five Black figures important to the University’s history are recognized; they are honored across only four plaques, a clock tower and a dedicated plaza. Three buildings on campus are also named after Black figures important to Alabama’s history.

Vivian Malone, James Hood and Autherine Lucy are the only Black former students honored in these plaques. Their plaques briefly detail the harassment they endured as the first Black students to be admitted onto campus after Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.

Malone and Hood’s plaques are affixed to the Autherine Lucy Clock Tower located on the Malone-Hood Plaza outside of Foster Auditorium and Lucy’s plaque is outside of Autherine Lucy Hall. A fourth plaque, nearest to the Math and Science Building, is dedicated to slaves Jack Rudolph and William “Boysey” Brown, marking where the two were buried after death. Two other buildings named after black figures are Wade Hall, named after Archie Wade, the University’s first black faculty member, and John England Hall, the dorm named after Alabama’s third black Supreme Court justice.

Kelsey France, a senior majoring in psychology, said that the plaques dedicated to these historical Black figures are a powerful reminder of success for her.

“If we work hard enough, we can get recognized, hopefully, in the future,” she said, adding that she was happy that buildings named after some of the University’s more controversial figures were replaced by the names of “people that deserve their name up there.”

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MULTIMEDIA | Even though Alabama gymnastics narrow

MULTIMEDIA | Even though Alabama gymnastics narrowly lost at home to the reigning national champion, LSU, on Friday, Feb. 7, the energy in Coleman Coliseum was infectious. Follow along to see what makes an Alabama gymnastics home meet so special.

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