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The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

OPINION

How the University arbitrarily silenced free speech for students

Claire Chretien February 17, 2014

Last week, The University of Alabama recently displayed a chilling willingness to completely disregard students’ rights to free speech just because some UA students found Bama Students for Life’s display...

Drawing a line in the sand for offensive and grotesque speech

Nathan James February 17, 2014

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of not walking past aborted fetuses on my way to lunch. For some time, a yellow tri-fold display, covered with vague moral assertions and images of underdeveloped, disembodied...

Binge drinking is no laughing matter

Mary Sellers Shaw February 13, 2014

Editor's Note: The parody Twitter account mentioned in this letter has since been edited and no longer includes the description quoted by the letter's author. It seems that Tuscaloosa restaurant T Burger...

The South’s problem with political correctness

Regan Williams February 13, 2014

We have a political correctness problem here in the South. We suffer from a negative connotation of what political correctness is and how it operates. Our understanding of what it means to be politically...

Love, lust and the continuing human narrative

Michelle Fuentes February 13, 2014

The late-night clientele of Galettes and everyone’s favorite comic from ancient Greece, Aristophanes, have been searching for answers to the same questions: What is love, how do we find it, and how does...

SGA must save itself from irrelevance

Patrick Crowley February 12, 2014

The complete irrelevance of the current SGA administration compels me to believe that Jimmy Taylor is The University of Alabama’s version of Carmen Sandiego. Sandiego, however, has a purpose to be hidden,...

Real suffering is not something Americans should support

Letter to the Editor February 12, 2014

While there is very rarely any occasion to get riled up over a sports page in a student newspaper, the recent Crimson White article by Caroline Gazzara on the Sochi Winter Olympics is notable in its lack...

Today’s discourse needs more civility, respect, less vitriol

Samaria Johnson February 12, 2014

There’s been a fair amount of talk lately about the need for more civility in discourse. Last week, for instance, Janet Mock joined Piers Morgan to talk about her experiences as a trans woman. The two-day...

OUR VIEW: University’s responses inconsistent

Our View February 10, 2014

Over the past two weeks, students have seen two extremes of The University of Alabama’s weather preparedness. When a snowstorm hit Alabama Jan. 28, the Capstone, as well the majority of the state, was...

Our campus needs La Lola Loca Bama back

Claire Chretien February 10, 2014

I miss Lola. Lola, formally known as La Lola Loca Bama, was the colorful food truck who graced campus with mobile Latin cuisine last year. Lola sold tasty food for reasonable prices. She provided students...

America’s pseudo-science problem

Matthew Bailey February 10, 2014

I chose to sit at home last week and watch the “debate” over evolution between scientist Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham. It was particularly illuminating the way that Ham, by the end of the debate,...