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The real victim is campus

Almosa Pirela-Jones October 13, 2015

For the past few years, allegations and videotaped instances of racism have surfaced at colleges across the country. However, The University of Alabama has maintained a solid position as the frontrunner...

Voter suppression begins at home

Kyle Campbell October 7, 2015

Last week, Governor Bentley announced the closure of 31 drivers license offices in many of the poorest – and blackest – counties in Alabama. Due to Alabama’s new voter ID laws, however, these closures...

Letter from the Editor: Introducing The Crimson White Media Group

Letter from the Editor: Introducing The Crimson White Media Group

Sean Landry August 24, 2015

For over 120 years, The Crimson White has been the student newspaper of The University of Alabama. Over the years, thanks to hundreds of talented editors and staffers before me, we’ve brought you, the...

Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Hamilton Bloom April 21, 2015

College is supposed to be the time in our lives where we seek to challenge the status quo. We, as college students, are given the responsibility to find issues that we are passionate about and look to...

Push Against the Status Quo

Matthew Bailey April 15, 2015

I’ve been at The University of Alabama since August 2008, and the amount of changes that the University and city have undergone is staggering to consider.The University has gone from having a Machine...

Chief of staff nomination voted down for second time

Sean Landry April 14, 2015

For the second time, the SGA Senate voted to reject SGA president Elliot Spillers's nomination for chief of staff on Tuesday night. Spillers nominated Douglas Logan, a junior majoring in education, for...

Spillers win 1st step toward UA solution

Andrew Parks March 25, 2015

When visiting with students from Auburn, OU, George Washington, SMU, Texas A&M, Texas and several other nationally prominent universities at an event in Dallas last week, I was pelted with questions about...

Students must care to defeat Machine

Nathan James March 25, 2015

One of the most pleasant surprises of this school year was Elliot Spillers’ election as SGA President, marking the first time in almost 40 years that an African American student has filled that role....

SGA elections offer glimpse into changing climate of campus politics

Patrick Crowley March 25, 2015

Last spring, during the yearly SGA fervor, I wrote two columns that deserve to be rehashed. The first addressed how the SGA must save itself from irrelevance. The second, more importantly, addressed that...

Student leaders need concrete plans, not vague ideas

Editorial Board March 9, 2015

In previous years, The Crimson White’s Editorial Board has endorsed candidates for SGA elections. This year will be no different. As a source for news, opinions and information about The University of...

A question for the sororities: Why do you vote for the Machine?

Caroline Bechtel, Andrew Parks March 8, 2015

SGA elections are a pivotal time for our campus each year. They determine which students among us will serve as the collective face of our student body for the 
ensuing term.It goes without saying that...

Students must vote in elections to break the SGA's cycle of mediocrity

Matthew Bailey March 2, 2015

I’m in my seventh year here and am currently an SGA senator for the law school, so I’ve seen the work and sometimes disgusting actions that have happened inside and outside the SGA and SGA elections....