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Case Counts: Here's how the city, state and University responded to COVID-19

Case Counts: Here’s how the city, state and University responded to COVID-19

Jessa Reid Bolling | @jr_bolling, News Editor August 20, 2020

The abrupt end of the 2020 spring semester left the future of on-campus studies in question.  Now, the number of COVID-19 cases in Tuscaloosa County has reached over 4,500, and students are returning...

How COVID-19 will change the classroom

How COVID-19 will change the classroom

Grace Schepis | @GraceSchepisCW, Staff Reporter August 13, 2020

As the fall semester approaches, the University has consistently updated students about its return plan. Though class schedules and instructional methods have yet to be solidified, here’s how administrators...

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UA to distribute 60,000 free masks to students

Jessa Reid Bolling | @jr_bolling, News Editor August 10, 2020

Updated 8/10 at 6 p.m. The University of Alabama plans to distribute approximately 60,000 masks to students across campus at the start of the fall semester, UA officials told The Crimson White on Saturday. Each...

Tracking the Machine: A timeline of UA's 'underground' greek organization

Tracking the Machine: A timeline of UA’s ‘underground’ greek organization

Jessa Reid Bolling | @jr_bolling, News Editor August 6, 2020

College campus tours serve as a useful way for prospective students to learn about higher education institutions and make informed decisions on where they will pursue their college education. Tours usually...

Nott Hall renamed, but committee’s work is ‘far from finished’

Nott Hall renamed, but committee’s work is ‘far from finished’

Keely Brewer | @keelykbrewer, Assistant News Editor August 5, 2020

The UA System Board of Trustees unanimously voted to rename Nott Hall to Honors Hall during a special meeting on August 5.  This decision follows the recommendation of a select group of trustees who...

Comparing notes: Here’s how UA stacks up to other campus return plans

Comparing notes: Here’s how UA stacks up to other campus return plans

Kelby Hutchison, Contributing Writer August 5, 2020
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, University of Alabama officials have been developing a return plan for the fall semester. But the ambiguity of certain aspects of the plan has left some students and faculty worried that the University is not fully prepared for a possible resurgence of cases. 
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Maddox declares second state of emergency due to COVID-19

Jessa Reid Bolling | @jr_bolling, News Editor August 4, 2020

The Tuscaloosa City Council voted in favor of a State of Emergency on Tuesday to allow Mayor Walt Maddox to issue executive orders to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus.  The order will go into...

‘It’s really getting old’: The ongoing reckoning of UA building namesakes

‘It’s really getting old’: The ongoing reckoning of UA building namesakes

As the Black Lives Matter movement surged across the country, a call for change emanated from UA students. Along with protests came an onslaught of petitions that urged for a change to academic buildings’...

A month before the first day of classes, four instructors in the English Language Institute did not receive contract renewals for the upcoming year.

Eclipsed by enrollment: How declining numbers cost four instructors their jobs

Keely Brewer | @keelykbrewer, Assistant News Editor July 30, 2020

A month before the first day of classes, four instructors at the University’s English Language Institute received notice that their contracts would not be renewed for the upcoming academic year.  Although...

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Students must test for virus within two weeks before returning to campus

Jessa Reid Bolling | @jr_bolling, News Editor July 17, 2020

The University of Alabama announced that students must be tested for COVID-19 within two weeks before returning to campus and must receive negative results before arriving.  The University previously...

Maddox at a March 12, 2020 presser, where he discussed the city's response to COVID-19

‘We’re preparing for the worst as a city’: A Q&A with Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox

Alexander Plant | @aplant6, Sports Editor July 14, 2020

As of July 14, there are 2743 COVID positive cases in Tuscaloosa County. The county has paralleled both the state and country over the past month with large upticks in positive cases among the ages of...

Students from 79 countries are enrolled in courses and live near campus at the University of Alabama. A new federal policy could change that.

‘We’ve built a life here’: As international students grapple with uncertainty, UA remains silent

During a period of uncertainty, international students at UA navigate new policies that require them to return home if classes are moved online. Wamia Samad, a graduate student from Bangladesh and president...