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OPINION

Bentley starts on wrong foot

CW Staff January 21, 2011

After being inaugurated Monday afternoon, newly sworn-in Gov. Robert Bentley told a congregation at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church that, “If you have been adopted in God's family like I have, and...

Davis, Vaughn misunderstand

Greg Houser January 21, 2011

There has been much talk of late about the ills of inflammatory rhetoric, so my next sentence gives me some pause. But, there is really no other way to express my sentiments. In the words of the immortal...

A tale of two winning streaks

Tyler Rigdon January 20, 2011

When I sat down to begin this article, I had a clear vision of the argument I wanted to support. The Connecticut women’s basketball team has had a streak of 90 consecutive wins. The team has surpassed...

Rand fights for our fiscal future

John Anselmo January 20, 2011

The 112th Congress has pulled out the toolbox, looking to fix the broken machinery of government that was left by their predecessors. The 2010 campaign season was chocked full of these tales of reform...

Vaughn, Houser: missing the elephants (in the room)

John Davis January 20, 2011

Last week Wesley Vaughn wrote about establishing a unified campus identity – a stance that prompted criticism from graduate student Greg Houser about the concept of discussing a problem without offering...

SGA Constitution step in the right direction

Wesley Vaughn January 19, 2011

Soon, our Student Government Association will release its rewritten constitution for students to vote on. Maybe 20 students will read it—the 20 who convince themselves that the SGA matters and who dream...

Mandatory on-campus freshmen housing a mistake

Gregory Poole January 19, 2011

The resumption of classes this week marks not only the beginning of the last semester before many graduate, but also the beginning of apartment searches as more than 25,000 students make deals with others...

Reed’s view on autotuning old-fashioned

Letter to the Editor January 19, 2011

Mr. Jon Reed, your recent article on the use of autotuning in pop music made you sort of sound like a cranky old fogey (which I am fairly positive you are not), like one of those guys who was probably...

Resolutions for the opinions page

Tray Smith January 14, 2011

I knew I had been away from the CW for too long when, on New Year’s Eve, Microsoft Word had disappeared from the “Recent Items” scroll on my Mac. The next day was especially long, as I resorted to...

Chinese aircraft threaten U.S.

Ryan Flamerich January 14, 2011

This past Monday, intelligence officials from the United States received word from sources within China that the J-20 stealth fighter took its first test flight. From grainy cell phone pictures, analysts...

Tragedy should be catalyst for more political discourse

Austin Gaddis January 14, 2011

The mass shooting in Arizona last weekend has left many of us stunned and concerned about the degree of political rhetoric with today’s up-to-the-minute news cycle and the prevailing unrest with the...

Vaughn ignores “Elephants in the room”

Letter to the Editor January 14, 2011

Oh Crimson White, I go away for a month and absolutely nothing changes. There still seems to be a noticeable dearth of actual opinion on the opinions page. I’m referring, of course, to Wesley Vaughn’s...