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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

Book focuses on civil rights heroes

Will Edwards October 3, 2011

The history of Alabama is riddled with stains of social injustice that serve today as an embarrassment. We look back and wonder what seemingly reasonable people were thinking when they made the decisions...

Music professor longest serving person on campus

Music professor longest serving person on campus

Stephen Walker October 3, 2011

In 1953, the first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the production line in Flint, Mich. Earlier that year, country music singer Hank Williams tragically passed away. In December of that same year, color television...

Bama currency controversy

Bama currency controversy

Alyssa Locklar October 3, 2011

As locations accepting Dining Dollars dwindle, many locations are continuing to accept Bama Cash. Both are University-created currencies. Dining Dollars serves as a type of gift card to in-house cafes...

A day in the life of the Crimson Ride

Jared Downing October 3, 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...

UA offers program to help students quit smoking

Nick Jamroz October 3, 2011

Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 443,000 deaths each year in the United States, including approximately 49,400 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the National Cancer Institute....

University shields SGA records

Tray Smith October 3, 2011

The UA administration is refusing to release evidence related to the resignation of Student Government Association President Grant Cochran, claiming it is protected by the federal Family Educational Rights...

Groups prep their pomps for Homecoming week

Jessica Ruffin October 3, 2011

Large wooden structures stand outside various buildings covered in blue tarps. Feet can be seen scurrying under these covered structures at all hours of the day and night. Inside the buildings, balls of...

Bottles and books: students balance parenthood, school

Bottles and books: students balance parenthood, school

Caroline Murray October 2, 2011

In the second semester of her freshman year, Ashley Watts found out she was pregnant. She had never wanted or planned to be a mother that early in life. She wasn’t ready for a child. However, she refused...

Visiting author discusses greek segregation at UA

Visiting author discusses greek segregation at UA

Amanda Sams October 2, 2011

Watch a video interview with Paul Rogat Loeb here. Paul Loeb, a California native and noted national author of “Soul of a Citizen” and other books, applied former South African President Nelson Mandela’s...

Swinson outlines agenda in State of the University address

Swinson outlines agenda in State of the University address

William Evans October 2, 2011

Stephen Swinson has confidence, a sensation he said has become lost among the student body when in relation to its Student Government Association. Sworn into the position of SGA President just one week...

Resignation of Cochran recalls past controversies

Taylor Holland September 29, 2011

Grant Cochran is not the first official of the Student Government Association to find himself surrounded by controversy while in office. In January 2010, The Crimson White reported that four SGA officials,...

UA’s Caldwell Lab makes new advances in CF research

UA’s Caldwell Lab makes new advances in CF research

Olivia Hodge September 29, 2011

University of Alabama scientists, in collaboration with Harvard University, recently published research in “Nature Communications” defining a protein’s role in the neurological disease dystonia....