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The Crimson White

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The Crimson White

Overly casual attire sends wrong message to professors, classmates

Katherine McClellan September 15, 2011

In the not-so-distant past, students wore real clothes. Now, seafoam green, bright pink, neon orange and white are everywhere. I’m not talking about Nike Tempo shorts, but the atrocious tank tops that...

What is hazing, anyway?

Tray Smith September 15, 2011

A column in the Monday edition of The Crimson White entitled “Don’t haze me, bro” linked a lawsuit against the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity with other rumored acts of hazing on campus to paint a picture...

Fear, hope, and reunification after 9/11

Caitlyn Hearn September 14, 2011

Sept. 11, 2001 started off as a beautiful, crisp autumn day in New York City. It soon turned into one of the darkest days America has seen. I was in my fourth grade classroom with my best friend, Nicole,...

Walk-on deserves scholarship

Jake Gray September 13, 2011

Over the course of the past few football seasons, the Tide faithful have become familiar with an undersized safety known as Will Lowery. The junior from Hoover has flourished as the dime-back in one...

Leashing two dogs with the same chain

Greg Houser September 13, 2011

Having a bi-weekly column can truly be a burden in the whippet-quick news cycle of Tuscaloosa and UA. This realization came down on me this week as hard as an avalanche of dogs - dogs much larger than...

Come on … don’t haze me, bro

John Davis September 11, 2011

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...

My kingdom for a lefty desk

Theresa Mince September 11, 2011

The University of Alabama is playing an elaborate game of hide and seek on this campus. They have hidden a select number of left-handed desks in the corners, sides, and backs of only a few classrooms and...

Tragedy brings about changes

SoRelle Wyckoff September 11, 2011

Tragedies are given their name because of the intense impact they have on an individual. Large-scale tragedies are especially brutal due to the varying affects they have on different people. But uniformly,...

Governing bodies for higher education need reform

Tray Smith September 8, 2011

Auburn alumni erupted into an outcry over the summer when a committee Governor Bentley serves on recommended Bobby Lowder for another term on the school’s board of trustees. Lowder, the controversial...

Student seating must be fair

Ryan Flamerich September 8, 2011

Last spring, SGA president Grant Cochran and I discovered a problem with a major SGA project that affects a lot of students on this campus: student organization seating. As we moved closer to the start...

Welcome to the new normal in Tuscaloosa

Xavier Burgin September 8, 2011

I walked toward a man standing over a used Toyota wrenched in two. He kneeled over the car as the stench of something dead wafted from the confines of the backseat. Snap! Mike and Ed’s BBQ sign was...

Don’t let problems overshadow progress

Brad Tipper September 7, 2011

If we were to take a poll of our student population and ask each person if he feels like our “student leaders” are properly representing him here at the University, what would the result be? Would...