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Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White
Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Students have a duty to engage in healthy debate, not police speech

Leigh Terry • April 6, 2015

Colleges are the intellectual hubs of America. College students have elected presidents, trained for the Civil Rights Movement and spawned the anti-Vietnam War movement, while their professors pushed at...

Does safer campus equal better campus?

Mark Hammontree • March 24, 2015

A couple weeks ago, I heard someone describe a class she had just come from as “retarded.” I cringed a little, and there was an uncomfortable silence in the room as everyone tried to ignore the comment.I...

Lane says administration has no current plans to alter GUP

Lane says administration has no current plans to alter GUP

Collin Burwinkel, Ben Jackson • March 9, 2015

Two weeks ago, The Crimson White Editorial Board published a special First Amendment edition that focused on free speech at The University of Alabama, indicting specifically the University’s Grounds...

Rights in retrograde on US campuses

Frank D. LoMonte • February 25, 2015

All around us, the world is experiencing a renaissance of rights. Less than 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court said it was constitutional for the police to arrest a gay couple for having sex in their...

Continue to talk about free speech

Patrick Crowley • February 25, 2015

On Monday, The Crimson White ran a special edition about free speech on campus, or the lack thereof. Through restrictive “speech code” policies and Grounds Use Permits, the University is dampening...

It's time to restore the First Amendment to UA

Catherine Sevcenko • February 23, 2015

As The Crimson White’s reporting chronicled yesterday, the impulse to stifle controversy and dissent is alive and well at The University of Alabama. One student described being forced to take a post...

Students sound off on free speech

Patrick Maddox • February 23, 2015

With recent campus events like The University of Alabama student body's failed attempt to film a "Harlem Shake" video on The Quad and Mallet Assembly's unofficial Final Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,...

FIRE gives UA 'red light'

February 22, 2015

The University of Alabama was given a “Red Light” rating by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for its speech codes, meaning the University has at least one policy that “clearly...

UA must edit policies to protect free speech

Editorial Board • February 22, 2015

A university should be a place for a community of scholars to exchange knowledge and engage in meaningful discourse – a marketplace of ideas where truth prevails. Such a vision of higher education necessitates...

The University should make it easier for student voices to be heard

Mark Hammontree • February 22, 2015

Since this is a special issue of the paper, this column is supposed to be about the status of students’ freedom of speech here on The University of Alabama’s campus. Well, I guess it’s supposed to...

Groups alter strategy after speech conflict

Groups alter strategy after speech conflict

Cokie Thompson • February 22, 2015

College campuses across the country often make national news for conflicts between their student groups and administrations, and The University of Alabama is no exception. In the last few years, anti-abortion...

Grounds use systems have improved, but lack of trust still pervades

Leigh Terry • February 22, 2015

During my time here, I have seen The University of Alabama’s free speech policies from every angle: as a marcher in the unapproved “Final Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,” as an officer in Students...

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