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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 Tristan Waldrop
Opinion | Condemning UA’s relationship to Aramark

Opinion | Condemning UA’s relationship to Aramark

Elle Standish and Tristan Waldrop • February 1, 2023

The latest string of prison strikes within the Alabama Department of Corrections, beginning in late September 2022 and subsiding in mid-October, has reanimated conversations regarding the treatment of...

Searching for truth in the age of misinformation

Searching for truth in the age of misinformation

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Writer • February 1, 2023

During the height of the pandemic, the American media landscape saw a flurry of conspiracy theories spring up, categorizing COVID-19 as either a hoax or a bioweapon that governments deliberately conspired...

Opinion | It takes a third place to make a campus

Opinion | It takes a third place to make a campus

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Writer • October 30, 2022

The theory of “third places” is a sociological concept that reframes the significance of the spaces where people spend time that are neither their places of work nor their homes. They take the form...

Gov’t Mule lets its soul shine on Druid City

Gov’t Mule lets its soul shine on Druid City

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Writer • September 28, 2022

Seasoned jam-band Gov’t Mule brought the house down at Druid City Music Hall on Thursday, Sept. 22. Tuscaloosa was the band’s fifth stop on its September tour as they warmed up to rock on across the...

It’s never too late to join a student organization

It’s never too late to join a student organization

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Columnist • September 21, 2022

Following this semester’s Get On Board Day on Aug. 30, it is important to remind students of the benefits associated with joining a student organization. Especially for first- and second-year students,...

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. By Ken Ludwig. Allen Bales Theatre March 28-April 2 at 7:30 PM. April 3 2:00 PM. For tickets call 205.348.3400 or visit theatre.ua.edu.

Review: A specter haunts Allen Bales Theatre in “Baskerville”

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Writer • April 10, 2022
The University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre and Dance hosted “Baskerville” from March 28 to April 3.
Cover of "A Deeper Sickness"

UA professors to historicize pandemic in “A Deeper Sickness”

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Writer • March 9, 2022
Two University of Alabama history professors, Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson, released their book “A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year,” an exposition into the underlying crises that came to define the pandemic. 
A flyer detailing the One Little Girl: Denise McNair and the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Exhibit.

Denise McNair exhibit comes to campus

Tristan Waldrop, Contributing Writer • February 20, 2022
The University of Alabama’s Intercultural Diversity Center has partnered with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to launch the “One Little Girl: Denise McNair and the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing” exhibit.