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The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Tuscaloosa deserves more than a raise: it deserves a future

Ben Jackson January 21, 2016

When presidential-hopeful Bernie Sanders addressed a packed auditorium in Birmingham this week, many UA students listened intently from the crowd. Among them was Kyle Campbell, who wrote an op-ed in The...

Bar bathroom chat: a female-specific phenomena

Meghan Dorn January 21, 2016

I have an odd amount of party stories that take place in women’s bar bathrooms around midnight – like the time I opened a stall to find two girls braiding a third’s hair while she bawled her eyes...

Straight outta nominations

Sarah Howard January 21, 2016

On Jan. 14, movie buffs and casual watchers alike checked to see if this could be Leonardo DiCaprio’s year to finally win an Oscar. In the 88th year of the Academy Awards, Leo received his fifth nomination,...

The state of Alabama deserves a gubernatorial debate

Hunter Richey January 20, 2016

These past several months, we have witnessed the Republican and Democratic presidential primary debates, and general election debates are in the months to come. These debates are viewed as an indispensable...

School identity stretched by growth

Allison Mollenkamp January 20, 2016

In the fall of 2004, The University of Alabama reported “record highs” of enrollment. That year the campus sported just under 21,000 students. This fall, eleven years later, enrollment topped 37,000....

Tuscaloosa deserves a raise

Kyle Campbell January 15, 2016

Earlier this week, John Bel Edwards was sworn in as Governor of Louisiana. His first act as governor was to issue an executive order to expand Medicaid – and just like that, 300,000 Louisianans were...

Terrorists have guns. We have champagne.

John David Thompson January 15, 2016

The Tuesday after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, as I was exiting the Metro, I passed a magazine stand. One headline in particular caught my eye. It was the cover of the French satirical magazine, Charlie...

The benefits of college athletics

Kyle Simpson January 13, 2016

As the confetti fell Monday night in Arizona, Alabama’s passionate fan base relished the feeling of being back on top of the college sports world. As the most popular sport in America, football occupies...

Confronting past and present

Erin Mosley December 4, 2015

I have always been the only black kid, or at least one of a few. It wasn’t a situation of my own creation. The teams I swam on as a kid were predominately white; so was my church and my school. It was...

The hedgehog’s dilemma

Meghan Dorn December 4, 2015

On a brisk winter’s day, a group of hedgehogs try to huddle together to conserve body heat. But as they get closer to each other, their quills prick each other causing them to have to separate. Then...

A call for compassion

Warner Thompson December 3, 2015

I now have two issues of the New York Times sitting on my desk that read “Paris Attacked.” The first was from the Charlie Hebdo shooting that happened last spring, and the second was from last Friday,...

A Forward Reflection

Kyle Campbell December 2, 2015

By Kyle Campbell | Staff ColumnistBy Kyle Campbell | Staff ColumnistI still wear my shirt with the holes in it. It’s a bit small, as I’ve grown since I bought it, and I have to tuck it in so no one...