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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

All content by Dawson Wilcox
Opinion | Underclassmen, don’t lose hope

Opinion | Underclassmen, don’t lose hope

Dawson Wilcox, Contributing Columnist April 7, 2024

I am a senior at The University of Alabama; my time here is quickly running out. As I prepare to leave this campus, I cannot help but feel disheartened at the direction our university and this state have...

A spectator wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt at the DEI protest on campus.

Opinion | An army of fools is ruining political discourse on campus

Dawson Wilcox, Contributing Columnist March 6, 2024

In Frantz Fanon’s 1952 book “Black Skin, White Masks,” he writes that universities offer a safe haven to marginalized groups, “but outside university circles there is an army of fools.” At The...

Opinion | How the board of trustees turned the Capstone into a business

Opinion | How the board of trustees turned the Capstone into a business

Dawson Wilcox, Contributing Columnist March 3, 2024

Editor's note: This article was updated to clarify that Barbara Humphrey was the coach of an Olympic gold medalist track star, not a gold medalist herself.  What do the CEO of a rice company, the head...

Hewson Hall houses the Culverhouse College of Business.

Opinion | How the Capstone sold its soul to Marillyn Hewson

Dawson Wilcox, Contributing Columnist January 24, 2024

Whom a society chooses to honor is very important. It shows not only what the values of the society are, but also the values it intends to teach and pass on to following generations.  Honoring is done...

Opinion | It is time to rename B.B. Comer Hall

Opinion | It is time to rename B.B. Comer Hall

Dawson Wilcox, Contributing Columnist October 26, 2022

If you stand on the front colonnade of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, you stand in the same place Jefferson Davis stood as he took his Oath of Office to become the President of the Confederate...