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Off-campus housing sees construction boom

Off-campus housing sees construction boom

Jared Downing September 26, 2012

When sophomore Robert Burrs moved into his new place at East Edge Apartments last month, he didn’t have a washer, dryer or a refrigerator. Most of the bathroom fixtures were also missing, and the untrimmed...

TOMS introduces One-for-One iPhone cases

Jared Downing March 30, 2012

Editor's Note: The following article is a satirical piece written for the April Fool's Day edition of The Crimson White.  Popular shoe and eyewear maker TOMS announced plans last week for a new line...

Students go to sleep for ... a cause?

Students go to sleep for … a cause?

Jared Downing March 30, 2012

The cause of Wednesday's Sleep Out on the Quad event is still unknown, which brought nearly 50 students to the space across the street from Nott Hall. Theories of the purpose of the gathering, which lasted...

Get organized about procrastinating

Jared Downing March 29, 2012

When I came to the University of Alabama, it was hard to adjust to college academic standards. I would find myself rushing to class, missing homework and cramming late into the night for exams. I found...

Suicide rumors prove untrue

Jared Downing December 8, 2011

Exams are coming up, and the Internet is down all over campus. You’re panicking. The sparkle has worn off of this semester, and you just can’t focus on school anymore. If you don’t pick up your grades,...

UA's historic mound steeped in symbolism

UA’s historic mound steeped in symbolism

Jared Downing December 7, 2011

Alabama loves mounds. While ours isn’t the most important mound in the state, it’s close. It’s protected by an iron fence thing, adorned with luxurious shrubbery and marked by not one, but two plaques...

Visiting philosopher talks metaphysics

Visiting philosopher talks metaphysics

Jared Downing December 5, 2011

There was a basketball game going on when visiting philosopher Hud Hudson spoke Thursday night, but no one in his audience cared that they got inductive arguments instead of jump shots and possible world...

Student loans reduction

Jared Downing December 1, 2011

College students’ mountain of student debt just got a little smaller. Last month, President Barack Obama announced a plan to make paying off federal student loans cheaper and easier, cutting monthly...

eTech Night shift keeps campus wired

Jared Downing November 21, 2011

When Professor Ed Stephenson gave his Friday lecture in the Biology Building auditorium, he didn’t have to worry about whether his cordless microphone would transmit or if the clickers wielded by his...

Why is no one laughing?

Jared Downing November 10, 2011

With UA’s new musical “City of Angels,” I had a mystery on my hands. Sure, its 1940s Noir parody had a convoluted detective story, but this mystery didn’t involve a millionaire’s missing daughter...

Bama Buddies builds bears for children

Bama Buddies builds bears for children

Jared Downing November 2, 2011

Looking for some Christmas karma? Try stuffing a bear. The third annual Bama Buddies campaign, a community service project hosted by the Source, lets students build stuffed animals for needy kids in Tuscaloosa....

Animal Crackers: Calm down, Dr. Roberts

Animal Crackers: Calm down, Dr. Roberts

Jared Downing October 13, 2011

The best thing about the Department of Theatre and Dance’s current production of “Animal Crackers” is that it never stops trying to be funny. I was worried they would treat the Vaudeville-era farce...

How to haggle like Clint Eastwood

How to haggle like Clint Eastwood

Jared Downing October 6, 2011

When most people think of haggling on the road, they see something out of “Casablanca:” dingy market stalls packed with hookahs and brass pocket watches and manned by toothless shysters. This is pretty...

A day in the life of the Crimson Ride

Jared Downing October 4, 2011

It’s the end of an afternoon class block, and when Terrel Johnson’s bus reaches the soccer fields, the stop is full. He opens the doors and a dozen or so students stumble aboard. Most pass by, some...

Miss Sorority Row comes to Bama Theatre

Jared Downing September 22, 2011

Who’s the prettiest gal on Sorority Row? Hard to tell, but we may find out at Friday’s Miss Sorority Row pageant, starting at 6 p.m. at the Bama Theatre. Sixteen damsels will compete with feats of...

Students learn about conflict in Uganda

Students learn about conflict in Uganda

Jared Downing September 20, 2011

Students learn more about ‘Invisible Children’ thanks to guest speaker In 1998, Agnes Aromorach and her parents left her village in Northern Uganda to escape a war that had raged for a decade. She...

Author inspired by the number '4'

Author inspired by the number ‘4’

Jared Downing September 13, 2011

Creative Writing director Michael Martone’s new book is brought to you by the number four. Martone began “Four for a Quarter” when he was 44 years old. It’s a collection of 44 short stores that...