There’s a poster in my room above my desk with a poem by Carl Sandburg written beneath an old army helmet. The helmet is partially buried in the ground, with a flower growing out of a rusted hole. The...

I went to a party Saturday night. The alcohol flowed, the dance floor was crowded, and all who attended had a good time. There was a contingency of European international students at the party, one of...

I went to a private Christian school from sixth to ninth grade. My parents had originally been looking at it for my brother, but when I got hold of the brochures, everything looked so fancy that I decided...

Do I want a drink because I’m looking for a job, or am I looking for a job because I want a drink? The school year is winding down. April presents itself with graduation, the last paper, the final column...

In response to apparent demand, Transportation Services will begin selling a new parking pass that allows drivers to double-park, or take up two parking spaces with one vehicle. The permit, which will...

I’ve always regarded baseball with a cautious eye. I played one season of tee ball in the wee years of my youth, and 18 wins and a missing thumbnail later I came away with the only athletic championship...

It often surprises people when I tell them I’m a Republican. Admittedly, this has at least a little to do with my upbringing, but I believe that a president genuinely committed to a smaller federal government...

Last week, The Crimson White ran an editorial piece that caught my eye. Titled “'Friends with benefits’ relationship possible,” it addressed the possibility – and benefits – of a platonic, physical...

Recall with me, if you will, a series of articles and editorials published last semester by The Crimson White regarding the perceived racial barrier of the University of Alabama’s greek system. Ultimately,...

The Crimson White is looking for a new copy editor. A paid position is available, but we also have several volunteers. If you are interested in working for us, and consider yourself a grammar nerd and...

Donald Trump is hosting a Republican debate in Iowa in late December. Let that sink in for a moment. In a primary process already resembling something no less absurd than a Lars von Trier film, candidates...

With one week to go in the college football regular season, LSU and Alabama sit atop the Bowl Championship Series. For all intents and purposes, there is a significant chance the two teams will play again...

Early Saturday morning, a fight broke out between three black students from Alabama A&M University and members of the Delta Chi fraternity. I, like most of the student body, learned of this incident through...

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." The above statement is the basis for all that follows, so if you only glanced at it, take a second...

The SGA Senate is made up of 50 senators from nine colleges (graduate and law school included). Unlike the U.S Senate, it is not two per college. Rather, the number of senators from each college is proportional...

Last week, a student was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street from Publix to the shopping center on the other side of the road. The specifics of this particular instance aside, it raises certain...

Some weeks I like to think these columns write themselves. What I mean is that occasionally an event occurs or a story is reported on and everyone more or less comes to the same conclusion. Case in point:...

“Who cares about the Student Government Association, anyway?” Two years ago I could have written that exact letter to the editor and believed every word of it. I could have sat in front of my computer...

It has come to my attention that I have inexplicably not been chosen for the 2011 homecoming court. Since conceding is for chumps, I am going to take the opportunity to abuse my position as senior staff...

Choosing a topic each week can become difficult after a month or so, especially when a public figure isn’t doing something profoundly stupid. New SGA President Stephen Swinson made a straightforward...

It’s been an interesting week for the Student Government Association. What started out as an innocuous story in The Crimson White has somehow managed to snowball into the resignation of SGA President...

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...

On Aug. 18, the University of South Carolina suspended fraternity rush following alcohol violations by six of 18 fraternities on campus. The idea of completely suspending fraternity rush at any southern...

On Tuesday, the student body – and one Crimson White columnist in particular – was addressed by Dr. Judy Bonner, the Executive Vice President and Provost for the University of Alabama. In her letter,...

When I sat down to write my first column of the year I found myself at an impasse. See, I never actually had a “final” column for this past school year due to the tornado. Chronologically, my last...

Facebook and I have fallen into a “married with children” type relationship. We’ve been at it for so long and invested so much time into one another that, despite any real flaws, we’re pretty much...

Recently, a friend and I were driving when a song by Katy Perry came on the radio. Or Ke$ha. Or Rihanna. One of those. Anyway, he made the comment that this music is our generation’s disco. It made...

Doctoral students within the College of Education are collecting books for residents affected by last week’s tornado. Dr. Lisa Scherff, associate professors of English education as well as the director...

As relief efforts continue throughout Tuscaloosa, alumni and alumni groups from every corner of the country are helping out in any way they can. Mark Roberts, the Manager of Chapter Development and Special...

This past weekend, I found myself in the low country – Savannah, Georgia, to be specific. My brother and I were driving into town, and we stopped at a gas station halfway between Dublin and Savannah...

It’s April, and with the fourth month of the year comes warmer temperatures, the end of school and the glowing optimism of a summer full of adventure. Another noticeable trend brought on by the warmer...

Awareness is pointless without some sort of action. Really, it is. Like most of my peers on Tuesday, I saw many (well, several) people walking around campus without shoes on. Ignoring the obvious hygienic...

The headline on March 9 informed us that Lai Lai – the Chinese hole-in-the-wall restaurant that has called The Strip home since 1998 – would be closing, though it might as well have read “University...

Self-loathing is a fickle mistress. On the one hand, the perpetrator can seem acutely aware of faults. On the other, it’s an excellent method of aligning oneself with the problems and not any foreseeable...

Barack Obama called it our “Sputnik Moment” – the point in American history in which education takes center stage in domestic concerns. Yet for all the grand verbiage and detailed outlines, each...

TUSCALOOSA | Aug. 22, 2011 – The fabric of society has been torn. Just six months following the ratification of Sunday alcohol sales in Tuscaloosa, Ala., society as we know it has collapsed around us....

Earlier this month the federal government found that in the majority of cases involving unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles, driver error was the root cause. The drivers were literally hitting the...

Hi Alabama, it’s me, John. We’ve had a few classes together over the years, I’m not sure if you remem- oh, you do? Ah, yes, that was me. No, it was embarrassing, but I still think it needed to be...

The time for spring intramural sports is upon us, and while a few sports have already gotten underway, the wide variety of sports offered in the spring can feel a bit overwhelming. I’ve compiled this...

Last week two students presented well thought out and well-intended articles regarding mandatory freshmen housing and mandatory freshmen meal plans. Gregory Poole pointed out that the inflation rate of...

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...

Recently, a friend and I were driving when a song came on the radio by Katy Perry. Or Ke$ha. Or Rihanna. One of those. Anyway, he made the comment that this music was our generations disco. It made sense,...

Do you have a 4.0 grade point average? Have you received A’s on every assignment since high school? Are you the president or a member of numerous prestigious clubs and organizations on campus? Do you...

This past Thursday the FIFA selection committee announced that the small Middle Eastern country of Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, beating out the likes of Japan, South Korea, Australia and the...

What's he that wishes so, that we had a Cam Newton? No, my fair classmate; If we are marked to lose, we are enough To do our school loss; and if to live, The fewer great men, the greater share of honor....

Gravity. How does it work? Every massive particle in the universe attracts every other massive particle with a force, which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional...

Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to wake you. Where am I going? Class. I’ve got to go to class. It’s Sun- right, it’s Sunday. Um, church? Yes, church – I’ve got to go to church. No, really, I can’t...

It was unavoidable. You’ve been at the University of Alabama for almost three months now and it’s clear that not only is the student newspaper totally inept, but for some reason everyone around you...

This past Tuesday, I witnessed something extraordinary. No, not the Rangers clinch against the Rays or a dormitory hallway covered in fire extinguisher chemicals (though both certainly happened), but rather...

The column in Wednesday’s edition of The Crimson White entitled “Where is the love Capstone?” is not only an exercise in utopian idealism but a fundamental example of why our generation is so often...

Note: Thoughts expressed in the columns and letters of the opinions section are solely those of the author and do not reflect the opinion of the CW editorial staff. In case it wasn’t obvious after the...