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Victor Luckerson, pictured at center, led the paper through covering the 2011 super outbreak. CW file

How students broke the news of 2011’s tornado super outbreak

Zach Johnson | @ZachJohnsonCW and Keely Brewer | @keelykbrewer • April 14, 2021
When the tornado struck Tuscaloosa on that fateful April 27, students were in class, in their cars, at work. Some of those working students, on duty for The Crimson White, became breaking crisis news reporters in the span of an hour.
How COVID-19 has kept some med students from getting the experience they need

How COVID-19 has kept some med students from getting the experience they need

Mariah Kravitz, Contributing Writer • April 14, 2021
You do your school work. You get the grades. And finally its time for some on-the-job experience. For some medical students, that experience has been more elusive than ever as hospitals and clinics adhere to COVID-19 regulations.
COVID-19 restrictions left Bryant-Denny Stadium 80% emptier in the fall.

After a sparse season, Bryant-Denny adapts to changing restrictions

April 14, 2021
This weekend, Bryant-Denny should be twice as crowded as it was last semester.
Sala Bandele-Jackson, a senior majoring in English, said the pandemic’s toll has started to affect multiple aspects of her day-to-day life.

The Toll it Took: How students have managed a year of grief, trauma and loss

Jeffrey Kelly | @jeffkellyjr and Tara Davenport | @tara_davenport • April 14, 2021
You’ve heard complaints about quarantining and masking up. Maybe you brushed them off; maybe you made them yourself. But the family members of some who died from COVID-19 say those complaints aren’t funny—they’re hurtful.
Students prepare to move out of Burke West after learning that the dorm would be used for COVID-19 isolation space in August 2020.

The First-Year Experience: How students navigated a drastically different campus welcome

Jack Maurer, Data Journalist • April 14, 2021
Sit in your dorm. Get your food to go. Stay six feet away from your classmates. Many freshmen, new to campus and living on their own for the first time, were held at arm's length this semester. They all navigated the experience differently.
Alberta City, captured above by a drone, now features empty lots where homes and businesses once thrived. Photo courtesy of Alexander Mobley

‘Empty fields and parking lots’: Alberta still bears scars from 2011 tornado

Connor Todd, Contributing Writer • April 14, 2021
April 27 left Tuscaloosa a wreck. Though the city has rebuilt, Alberta City residents feel they were left out—and the empty lots around their neighborhoods are keeping them from catching up with the city-dwellers next door.
How COVID-19 will leave a lingering impact on UA

How COVID-19 will leave a lingering impact on UA

Javon Williams | @JavonCW, Contributing Writer • April 14, 2021
Some things will change; others may not. As the University approaches a fourth COVID-19-affected semester, this is what we know about rules and regulations moving forward.
Photo courtesy of Kayla Earnest

‘Positively optimistic’: People reflect and look ahead after a year with COVID-19

Annabelle Blomeley | @annabelleblom, Staff Reporter • April 14, 2021

After being thrown into quarantine to stop the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, the unemployment rate soared to 14.7%, a rate that hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression. Students fell behind in...

A deadly tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, in a day of destruction that killed 53 people in the county. CW File

Opinion | ‘Look it up’: Why students should remember April 2011

Abby McCreary, Contributing Writer • April 14, 2021
The University had two nearly back-to-back tornado scares this semester. Part of a population that turns over every four years, one columnist worries that UA students no longer have a healthy fear of the destruction a tornado can cause.
In Ashley’s Memory: Former long snapper reflected on a loss that changed his life

In Ashley’s Memory: Former long snapper reflected on a loss that changed his life

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor • April 14, 2021

Sixty-two tornadoes ripped through the southeast on April 27, 2011. More than 300 people were killed, including former Alabama long snapper Carson Tinker’s girlfriend, Ashley Harrison.  Tinker and...

Alabama students took cover in campus shelters as severe weather moved across Alabama in early April of 2021.

‘Like the hand of God’: What 2011 has meant for disaster safety in Tuscaloosa

Isabel Hope, Contributing Writer • April 14, 2021
It's been 10 years since the April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak. In the aftermath, rebuilding and reflecting were quick to follow, and the changes made to safety policies on campus and around Tuscaloosa seem here to stay.
Our View | We're back

Our View | We’re back

The Crimson White Editorial Board • April 14, 2021

Well, we’re back. Yes, we look a little different now, but after a year cloistered indoors without a printing press in sight, what did you expect? Even The Crimson White, your devoted student newspaper...