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The Crimson White

OPINION

Changing Perspectives

John Pounders April 20, 2015

By the close of your senior year, you take a moment to do a life check. All of those goals you entertained through childhood and adolescence are approaching their deadlines, and it’s time to do some...

Memories of an old building on University

Mackenzie Brown April 20, 2015

By Mackenzie Brown | Guest ColumnistI’ve always feared writing 
this column.I knew it was coming from the moment I accepted my first position at The Crimson White. The CW was different back then. A...

A lesson from Authur Pendragon

Mary Wills April 19, 2015

On September 21, 2014, mass panic, confusion and fear consumed our student body. The initial threat made to The University of Alabama from Authur Pendragon sparked a wave of unrelenting rumors spread by...

Integration Now, Integration Tomorrow, Integration Forever

Kevyn Armstrong-Wright April 19, 2015

College is a time to push ourselves outside of our comfort zones and meet those who are “different.” It is a time to engage new people who will expose us to thoughts and ideas we have never encountered...

The Most Important Lessons Aren't in Your Textbooks

Andrew Parks April 19, 2015

When I first came to The University of Alabama, I had no idea what I was getting into. I had little understanding of how things work on this campus as a freshman. The idea that everyone could only have...

Being honest with yourself will spark progress and reform

Caroline Bechtel April 15, 2015

Perhaps you lied to your professor for why you skipped class, or your friend for which side of a political issue you support, or yourself when you said you wanted to have sex 
with him.Maybe you told...

Push Against the Status Quo

Matthew Bailey April 15, 2015

I’ve been at The University of Alabama since August 2008, and the amount of changes that the University and city have undergone is staggering to consider.The University has gone from having a Machine...

Never stop learning

Chris Willis April 15, 2015

At the beginning of this academic year, Mackenzie Brown, the SGA’s former Director of Media Relations, asked the SGA executive members for a piece of advice that each of us would give to the incoming...

Embrace your choices

Rachel Brown April 14, 2015

I’ve always loved the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, and I’m sure you are familiar with the over-quoted ending, “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled...

Here and Now

Allison Montgomery April 14, 2015

In a Haitian village called Los Cacos I found my passion: a yearning to make those around me feel better. This passion would years later translate into involvement in the Rural Medical Scholars Program...

Get angry while at UA

Get angry while at UA

Beth Lindly April 13, 2015

Truthfully, I have been thinking on and off about what to write for this column for two years – ever since I first came to work at The Crimson White – and I had no idea what to write for much of that...

Meaningful Volunteer Experience

Alex Morris April 12, 2015

As a lifelong resident of Tuscaloosa, my UA experience has been a little different. I have never lived more than 20 miles away from Druid City Hospital, where I was born. I have baby pictures at Alabama...