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The Crimson White

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Property rights should be respected

Joshua Shumate June 15, 2016

Helen Keller once wrote that the highest result of education is tolerance, and if you ask the average American if he or she believes in a tolerant society, the answer will likely be yes. However, many...

Raising Congress' pay gives more opportunities to future legislators

Mike Smith June 8, 2016

While browsing through Facebook, at least once a week I see a political cartoon on my newsfeed that goes like this: "Congress cut funding to (senior citizens/veterans/the poor/etc.), and they believe they...

Everyone should have right to use the restroom

Nakia Moore June 3, 2016

For over a century, Americans have involved themselves in many debates and have witnessed new legislation changing who has the right to use public restroom facilities. One hundred and twenty-six years...

Allowing personal gender identification in bathroom issue sets bad precedent

Jake Proctor June 3, 2016

I have heard the argument many times that people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they choose. This argument, advanced by the far left, is another way of saying that it is none of my business...

Obama's Black America

Kyle Campbell June 1, 2016

I was eight years old. I had just gotten home from a friend’s house on a hot July afternoon; he was a white friend, but I didn’t think of him that way – at least, I didn’t want to. My parents were...

Bending the arc

Bending the arc

Leigh Terry May 3, 2016

My first memory of senior columns is a feeling of anger at the dishonesty I saw in several of them. As a freshman, many of the seniors I admired wrote about how they wish they had partied more, spent less...

Ode to the Capstone

Mark Hammontree May 3, 2016

If you drive into Tuscaloosa and look,You’ll come across a house made of Windows.It’s quite a large house, and beautiful, look;Every last bit of it’s covered in Windows.There have to be thousands,...

More, but not enough

More, but not enough

Vel Lewis May 3, 2016

Whenever I see my grandma and we talk about school, she tries hard to hide the tears that stroll down her cheeks as she exclaims how proud she is of me. She is happy that the opportunity to attend college...

A choice for the future

Elliot Spillers May 3, 2016

I’d be lying if I said finding the words for this column was easy. Truly, who at the end of their journey can eloquently summarize multiple moments of pleasure, discomfort, achievement and disappointment...

Don’t call me an evangelical

Will Sorrell May 2, 2016

I’m an evangelical, but don’t call me that.I am by no stretch of the imagination a minority. As a white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied male, I’m the poster-child for the majority. Yet there’s...

I did it

Sehar Ezez May 2, 2016

I’ve really struggled to think of what I could write in my senior column. As I look to my peers taking gorgeous senior pictures by Denny Chimes and posting their post-grad plans, I’ve felt less than...

A frightening reflection I didn’t want to see

Matthew Gillham May 2, 2016

I used to cross the quad every morning, grotesquely navigating the sidewalks that seem to point in every direction except the one that I was going, and thank God for letting me attend this University....