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The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

OPINION

Empty (block) seating

Conner Norton September 21, 2011

Football Saturdays in Tuscaloosa are special. There is just something great about waking up early on a game day and getting in the mood for Alabama football. Hours before the game, students line up outside...

Clarification needed on veto

Lauren Hardison September 21, 2011

As the author of the vetoed bill referred to in Monday’s article regarding last week’s Senate session, I thought the UA student body deserved some clarification. The current SGA Code of Laws reads...

Why can’t every day be like game day?

Brad Tipper September 21, 2011

As another game day approaches this weekend, the campus will grow into a sea of crimson and white, with cries of “Roll Tide’” audible from Bryant-Denny to Innisfree. The Alabama faithful begin making...

22 Theses on UA administration

Wesley Vaughn September 21, 2011

Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, I intend to defend the following statements and to dispute them in this paper. In the name of our University, Roll Tide. 1. For students to understand...

Pulling the Race Card – Again

Sydney Cowley September 20, 2011

In response to the article about barriers in the rush process, you need to look at all the options before pulling the race card. It stated that there were 77 people who did not receive a bid. Were they...

Race remains a focal point in university culture

Jessica Bailey September 20, 2011

Born and raised in the sunny state of California, I grew up knowing nothing else, save the summer family visits to Chicago and Alabama. In grade school, my small class of 30 had every race from Caucasian,...

In defense of a good thing

Joe Pavlisko September 20, 2011

I’m writing in response to Wesley Vaughn’s article describing the Capstone as a “Twenty-Minute University.” Though I appreciate Wesley’s passion, I’m sad that his experience at the University...

The 9/11 Generation

Jake Gray September 20, 2011

A discussion was raised in one of my classes last week. My professor simply asked, “Are you the ‘9/11 Generation?’” Although the attacks did happen at the beginning of my adolescence, it was honestly...

Our View: Witt, UA cannot defend systemic segregation

Our View September 19, 2011

As students of The University of Alabama, we were both saddened and embarrassed last week when President Witt defended segregation in the greek community. “It is appropriate that all our sororities...

Lessons abroad for problems at home

John Davis September 19, 2011

This past summer I spent some time in Germany with a good friend. We had worked all summer, so we treated ourselves to a last hurrah of sorts before our senior year by staying in hostels in Munich and...

It’s not you, Block Seating. It’s me.

SoRelle Wyckoff September 19, 2011

Watching a relationship crumble into relationship rubble has few positives, but one of them is some form of entertainment. The level of entertainment depends on how dramatic the separate individuals are...

Taxpayer money shouldn’t be used against businesses

Austin Gaddis September 15, 2011

When President Obama introduced his economic stimulus, the main focus was to create jobs for our country as the economy cratered further into a recession. The Recovery Act pumped over $787 billion into...