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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

Lifestyles Section seeks your input, suggestions

Ashley Chaffin February 1, 2012

We call this section the Lifestyles Section because it is supposed to cover topics relevant to the student lifestyle at The University of Alabama. That reaches from food to fashion and everything in-between....

Obsessions of college students vastly overrated

Michael Patrick January 31, 2012

The very nature of college seems to encourage students to find something to obsess over. We are constantly encouraged to find our passion, be it in flag football, working in a biology lab with renowned...

Help create a nest for T-town

Letter to the Editor January 31, 2012

Since the tornado, Tuscaloosa has been scattered, literally split and dispersed across many towns. We have become accustomed to driving around with heaps of rubble piled along our city’s streets, nagging...

If you build it, they will come

If you build it, they will come

Jake Gray January 31, 2012

The University of Alabama has never been afraid to allocate resources towards athletics. Head football coach Nick Saban has made headlines numerous times for his lucrative contract offers and extensions....

Program Profile: Peer Leaders

Letter to the Editor January 31, 2012

A common challenge for first-year students is adjusting socially and academically to collegiate life. First Year Experience launched in August 2011 with the purpose of supporting freshmen and transfer...

Theory: Lana Del Ray . . . Is a robot?

Theory: Lana Del Ray . . . Is a robot?

SoRelle Wyckoff January 30, 2012

Elizabeth Grant was a conflicted youth. She was shipped away to boarding school for flirting with drugs and alcohol. She was a struggling artist. She was also the perfect variable to complete the entertainment...

Addericts: Adderall addicts

Letter to the Editor January 30, 2012

All I hear about lately from my Adderall-addicted friends, whom I secretly refer to as “Addericts,” is the Adderall shortage. A huge percentage of my peers take Adderall, and few of them have been...

'The Artist' and the evolution of human expression

‘The Artist’ and the evolution of human expression

John Davis January 30, 2012

Watching a silent movie in 2012 is an odd experience. Watching a silent movie made in 2011 in a movie theater is even odder. But that’s what I found myself doing last Friday, when “The Artist” finally...

Ethics code will strengthen Student Government

Ryan Flamerich January 26, 2012

The Student Government Association Senate will vote tonight on the most important legislation to come before it this year – a bill establishing an ethics code for the entire SGA. This bill was crafted...

Kagan, Thomas need to recuse themselves

Kagan, Thomas need to recuse themselves

Austin Gaddis January 26, 2012

“Simply amazing.” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan penned those two words in an email to a former Harvard colleague on the day the House of Representatives passed Obamacare in March 2010. The email’s...

Students should be less competitive

Evan Ward January 25, 2012

As an employee of a student leadership group at the University of Alabama, a group of which I am also an inducted member, I was recently charged with completing a task that bothered me greatly. You may...

Health and wellness advice for a new year, new you

Letter to the Editor January 25, 2012

From Eta Sigma Gamma Have you ever realized that when you go to the gym in January, it's packed? Yet, by February, the availability of empty machines increases? Perhaps that is a result of the American...