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Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

OPINION

SGA resolution is pitiful PR move

Nathan James April 10, 2014

Our SGA Senate just made a symbolic concession to the goal of Greek integration. Tuesday night, SGA President Hamilton Bloom introduced a resolution almost identical to the one that the Senate allowed...

Think before you post to the Internet

John Speer April 9, 2014

As a columnist, I must be a glutton for punishment; otherwise, I would have learned long ago to stop reading the comments posted online in response to columns. More often than not, these comments are uninformed,...

New housing trend should help students

Leigh Terry April 9, 2014

The new motto of Tuscaloosa seems to be “bigger is better.” This translates to bigger dorms, bigger houses, bigger apartment complexes,and bigger rents. Much bigger rents. For your 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom...

Animal abandonment a problem in college

Letter to the Editor April 9, 2014

Every August when we come back to Tuscaloosa from our summer breaks, we are excited to see our friends that we have missed dearly, and we are excited to begin a new semester. As each academic year begins,...

Even if Machine still won’t learn, student body can

Patrick Crowley April 7, 2014

Prof. Horwitz’s opinion column last week in The Crimson White tactfully delineated the problems that have affected the University over the past year (school board elections, sorority integration and...

It’s time we rethink environmentalism, recycling

Cruise Hall April 7, 2014

Paper comes from trees, trees come from forests and forests eat carbon dioxide. It is with this logic that environmental crusaders wage war on the pulpwood industry and recycling evangelists preach the...

Do election rules even matter anymore?

Andrew Parks April 7, 2014

On March 21, the Student Government Association Elections Board released a decision on the penalty for election violations committed by newly elected SGA Vice President for Student Affairs Stephen Keller....

Our View: Silence not an option

Our View April 3, 2014

It is no secret that the University of Alabama Student Goverment Association is an organization largely limited to completing projects. It has shied away from truly taking a stand on any remotely controversial...

SGA Senate made wrong call on recent vote

SGA Senate made wrong call on recent vote

Letter to the Editor April 3, 2014

It was just last September when President Judy Bonner said, regarding Greek system integration at The University of Alabama, “I am empowering our students to do the same thing that our students did 50...

The U.S. should go back to postal banking

Matthew Bailey April 3, 2014

In the state of Alabama, many individuals resort to payday and title loan dealers to pay off regular expenses. Sixty-nine percent of first-time borrowers are taking out a payday loan for regular expenses...

Growing comfortable with not being perfect

Maxton Thoman April 3, 2014

Perfection is impossible. That idea is something that, as a self-diagnosed perfectionist, I have had to come to terms with through the last few years. Then again, it’s something I still don’t have...