More often than not, students at our university are disregarded. Not in the sense that our dollars – or parents’ dollars – do not have value, but it is increasingly obvious that our financial investment...

If you’ve lived in Tuscaloosa for more than 10 minutes, you’ve probably noticed how involved in theatre this city is. Weekly, there is no shortage of musicals performed by any number of local high...

Last Monday, The Crimson White ran a letter to the editor, “Stop stereotyping the greek system’s view of race,” that felt very familiar to me. This is my ninth semester on this campus, and I swear...

“They are the men who are not brought up but are obliged to come up.” These are the words Frederick Douglass used to describe the age-old archetype of America’s “self-made man.” The lone figure,...

It was a cold Saturday morning in Fayetteville, Ala., last January when SGA President Stephen Swinson, Treasurer Christian Smith, and I, serving as Speaker of the Senate, represented Alabama at the SEC...

In her article, “How far has the South really come? Too few here celebrate inauguration,” Lucy Cheseldine lamented the fact that The University of Alabama did not celebrate President Obama’s second...

As a country, we have an obsession with greatness. Our school has one too, but that’s to be expected considering our athletic department. Within this obsession of greatness is an obsession with the...

What really is “news?” That’s the question I’ve asked many times while watching the major news channels: FOX, MSNBC and CNN. In the past two years I’ve become a news junkie. I look over Google...

As I was sitting in a classroom in Edinburgh, Scotland, my class began to discuss the issue of race in literature. When asked whether racial issues are still relevant today, a Scottish classmate replied,...

I am a National Merit Finalist. The University of Alabama gave me the laptop I’m writing this article on, pays for my tuition, room and board, and will pay me $6,000 over four years in additional stipends....