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The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

Community watch coming

Melissa Brown September 22, 2011

The SGA announced plans this week for Crimson Watch, an off-campus housing safety initiative coordinated with UAPD and Crimson Choice. “Crimson Watch is similar to the neighborhood watch programs used...

Animal shelters offer volunteer opportunities

Animal shelters offer volunteer opportunities

Melissa Brown September 22, 2011

A plump tabby cat named Nelson spends his days sprawled on Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter director Judy Hill’s desk, content with his rule of the roost. “Nelson was a storm kitty – we all fell...

Mallet Assembly: a family

Mallet Assembly: a family

Jasmine Cannon September 22, 2011

Fifty years after its inception as a project of Dean of Men John Blackburn, the Mallet Assembly remains one of UA’s most un-traditional organizations. From Palmer Hall—the Assembly’s dormitory—Malleteers...

Kirani James: a true champion

Kirani James: a true champion

Jasmine Cannon September 22, 2011

There is only one student on the Alabama campus who can also call himself a certified professional athlete. His name is Kirani James, and he is the reigning world champion for the 400m in track. James...

Bama cycling offers an escape

Bama cycling offers an escape

Ashanka Kumari September 22, 2011

The University of Alabama’s Cycling Club, Bama Cycling, offers members a chance to prepare for and participate in regional and national collegiate cycling competitions while supporting bicycling as a...

Library teaches students how to tweet

Caroline Murray September 21, 2011

University Libraries and Gorgas Information Services will teach students how to use Twitter as an information resource for their professional and academic lives today at Amelia Gayle Gorgas in room 205...

Diversity increasing in black greek organizations

Jonathan Reed September 21, 2011

Eve Dempsey doesn’t look like her sisters. When she joined the Zeta Phi Beta sorority in the spring of 2007, she joined because she believed it was an organization with the same values she had, the...

High Tide Club adds new incentives

William Evans September 21, 2011

Registration for the High Tide Club, which offers incentives to students who sit in the upper deck of the student section during football games, is currently open. Last football season, to compel students...

Industrial Assessment Centers energized by new grant

Matt Mecoli September 20, 2011

U.S. Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu announced that 24 universities will receive funding for their Industrial Assessment Centers on Sept. 13. The University of Alabama will receive about $1.5 million of...

National ranking confirms UA growth in prestige

Rich Robinson September 19, 2011

  U.S. News & World Report released its 2012 rankings of best colleges in the United States last Tuesday. Although its metrics and data are often disputed among many in academia, its influence is not....

Finding long-distance love

Caroline Murray September 19, 2011

By Caroline Murray and Corrin Mason The Crimson White   Romantic relationships in college can be tumultuous. Seeing that picture on Facebook of one’s boyfriend with a girl in a very short skirt holding...

Dean Garner to receive ADA's highest award

Dean Garner to receive ADA’s highest award

Jordan Cissell September 19, 2011

Margaret Garner, assistant dean of the College of Community Health Sciences and director of Health Promotion and Wellness, will be presented with the American Dietetic Association’s Marjorie Hulsizer...