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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

The Black and White Blues

CW Staff April 7, 2010

By Kenzi Green As a communications student and a wannabe journalist, I have witnessed firsthand the devastating effects the shift in media has had on the print journalism industry. While The Crimson White...

The Catholic Church is complicit in sex abuse

Josh Veazey April 6, 2010

Last week, The Crimson White editorial board printed an opinion that seemed so straightforward as to be impossible to argue against. The Catholic Church, they pointed out, seems to value affiliation over...

Taming the savageness

Ian Sams April 4, 2010

Forty-two years ago Saturday, Martin Luther King Jr. declared that he had been to the mountaintop, peered over, and seen the promised land. He eerily and almost prophetically said, “I may not get there...

What’s the need to see it if you believe it?

Jason Galloway April 4, 2010

How different would you live if Jesus was your roommate? If he was your best friend? If Jesus followed you everywhere you went? After coming across a passage I’ve heard 100 times the other day, I asked...

Start acting like a maverick

Jonathan Reed April 1, 2010

You may be suffering when you fill up your gas tank, but Sarah Palin evidently has it far worse. Even “drill, baby, drill” isn’t good enough for her now that Democrats are talking about it. President...

Three steps out of poverty

Will Tucker April 1, 2010

Basic logic, some people say, proves that a community cannot tax its way out of poverty. Taxing poor people does no good, they say, because in the end, the amount of money changing hands in the form of...

The Dairy Deception

CW Staff April 1, 2010

All right everyone, time for some common sense. All milk is produced in the mammary gland of a female mammal when she gives birth. Now, let’s continue this train of thought with the fact the human species...

The 9/11 sales event

Debra Flax March 31, 2010

The other day I was checking Facebook when I came across a group called "No school on September 11." Now, being the non-addicted Facebook person that I am, I normally don't pay attention to the groups,...

Nothing is Like ‘1984’

Josh Veazey March 30, 2010

The year America spent in health care fear and loathing proved once again that our country is perfectly capable of having a spirited, complex, even ostensibly polite debate about a controversial issue...

Sacrifice key to success

Will Thomas March 30, 2010

Throughout my soon-ending undergraduate career, there has been one theme that my professors, mentors, critics and the people I pay off to be my friends have reinforced time and time again, and it’s something...

A new plan for Honors College students

Jamie Lyons March 30, 2010

As graduation looms just around the corner, I find myself wondering if anything that I did during my four years at this University will be remembered in the years to come. What is my legacy? What impact...

Time for another reform

Ian Sams March 28, 2010

On March 21, the day of the House of Representatives’ historic vote on health care reform, around 200,000 people descended on Capitol Hill to make a point. They weren’t there to spit on congressmen...