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The Crimson White

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SGA announces application deadlines

Jordan LaPorta August 18, 2016

The Student Government Association announced the deadlines for some of its fall openings, including some aimed at freshman students. The freshman-only First Year Council will take applications until 11:59...

SGA amendments pass in election

Caroline Vincent March 1, 2016

Both SGA Constitutional Amendments passed on Tuesday. The first was in regard to expanding the amount of members of First Year Council from 50 members to 65. It passed with 88 percent of the votes. The...

First Year Council now accepting applications

First Year Council now accepting applications

Patrick Smith August 26, 2015

First Year Council applications for the Student Government Association are due on August 30th. FYC is a way for freshmen who are interested in student government to enter into the SGA for the first...

Changing Perspectives

John Pounders April 21, 2015

By the close of your senior year, you take a moment to do a life check. All of those goals you entertained through childhood and adolescence are approaching their deadlines, and it’s time to do some...

Campus change demands some students' input

Matthew Bailey August 25, 2014

This is my seventh year at the Capstone, and it’s probably the year that the University has been most open to change. In response to last year’s criticism, the sorority rush program has taken quite...

UA must develop ethical leaders

Ryan Flamerich November 10, 2011

Last summer, people around the country buried their heads between the pages of “The Help,” a heartwarming story of African-American maids in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. The book spent...

SGA Executive Secretary resigns

Victor Luckerson November 7, 2011

Student Government Association Executive Secretary Kelsey Kurth resigned Friday in relation to the altering of First Year Council applications in September, said SGA Attorney General David Simpson. As...

A letter to The University of Alabama student body and SGA

Letter to the Editor November 2, 2011

Quite frankly, I am disappointed in the actions of many of my fellow colleagues, peers and, most importantly, friends. The tampering of First Year Council applications represents a display of great individualism...

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...

New director named for First Year Council

Katherine Martin September 26, 2011

Kelly Watson, former deputy communications director of First Year Council, was confirmed as the organization’s director last Thursday night at the Student Government Association Senate meeting, SGA Communications...

SGA President Grant Cochran resigns

Tray Smith September 26, 2011

Student Government Association President Grant Cochran has resigned in the midst of an investigation into irregularities that occurred in the selections process for the SGA’s First Year Council, a freshman...

SGA lacks leadership, transparency

John Davis September 26, 2011

It’s been an interesting week for the Student Government Association. What started out as an innocuous story in The Crimson White has somehow managed to snowball into the resignation of SGA President...