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Vol. CXXVII, Issue XXXXIV

Monday, March 8, 2021

Hi. Here's the news.
Food is at the top of the docket this week: Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile just left town. Some students are asking for a little more variety in dining halls. And a spot on The Strip is now accepting Dining Dollars.

Beep beep! Make way for the unrealistically large hot dog. CW / Lexi Hall

Dining Dollars alert! Twelve25, which opened on The Strip just a year ago, will now accept Dining Dollars for food purchases. Dining Dollars isn’t valid payment for alcohol, though Bama Cash is.

What is an SGA election without write-ins? This year, the public election results were censored, blacking out any entries that were not student names. But a quick edit in Adobe Acrobat revealed the full list.

College students aren't known for keeping the most stringent or healthiest diets. But some are trying—and others have dietary restrictions that limit their dining choices. So what does that mean for students looking for food on campus?

Oscar Mayer stans, assemble. If you've ever wanted to be an Oscar Mayer wiener, now's your chance. One Wienermobile driver and UA alum has the scoop on America's most bun-derful internship.

Softball managed a mostly successful Easton T-Town Showdown. The team faced Kent State, Northern Iowa and South Alabama in Rhoads Stadium over the weekend.

Star pitcher Montana Fouts led the charge against Mississippi State on Wednesday.
Against Kent State, Alabama managed two run-rule wins to open the showdown.
Northern Iowa had two shots to take on the Tide Saturday—Alabama won both games, including one five-inning shutout.
A late afternoon game against South Alabama gave the Alabama team its first loss of the season, 0–1. “You have to score to win,” coach Patrick Murphy said. “A 1–0 game should not be insurmountable for us."

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week just passed. Working through an eating disorder is familiar to many UA students. Most eating disorders develop when someone is around the traditional college age.

Happy Monday, "Cultured" listeners. This week, Jeffrey and Leah tackle tough topics, such as: What is time? Can Leah do a Cher impression? And who among us can get as much done as Beyoncé?

Gov. Kay Ivey extended Alabama’s mask mandate on Thursday. The mandate will end on April 9. “While I’m convinced that a mask mandate has been the right thing to do, I also respect those who object and believe that this was a step too far in government overreach,” Ivey said.

You may have noticed Lola Bunny trending on Twitter this week. As one culture writer recaps, “Space Jam” fans aren’t thrilled with Lola’s new character design. But they seem to be forgetting one critical thing about her character.

Is there a championship Alabama can't win? Maybe not. A parking deck on campus is now the latest UA institution to take home a top prize: Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Design Award for Façade Only Parking Structure.

Good news: we figured out how to make you famous. Okay, maybe not quite. But one columnist did chat with experts to find out the secret behind making a viral TikTok—which could very well be your first step to influencer stardom. Don't forget the little people.

Alabama gymnastics had its last meet in Coleman Coliseum on Friday night. The team fell to No. 1 Florida by two tenths of a point, with some Alabama gymnasts walking away with season-high performances. The team will head to the SEC Championship on March 20.

Want to feel seen? A new short film, written and directed by a recent UA grad, reinterprets the story of Rapunzel as the story of a young girl named Rose. And the isolation she goes through has one columnist in her quarantine feels.

Here are the off-campus goings-on:

Three University of South Alabama professors are now on leave after pictures of the trio at a Halloween party surfaced. In the photos, one professor wears a Confederate soldier’s uniform and two others hold nooses.
The United States has lost 500,000 lives to COVID-19. If, as research indicates, nine family members are affected by each death, that makes 4.5 million mourners. One Yale Daily News reporter found a few of those millions on their own campus.
The latest COVID-19 stimulus bill finally made it out of the Senate. It’s yet another complicated piece of legislation—here are the key takeaways.

From the Newsroom
notes from inside the video calls and group chats of The Crimson White

Congratulations, C&IS ambassadors.

The College of Communication & Information Sciences announced its list of ambassadors for the 2021-22 school year. The list includes Crimson White contributors Jennafer Bowman, Heather Gann and Austin Hannon. We are… very proud of them.

Hot Takes
A quick bite from the culture desk.

After a German radio host made those racist, anti-Asian remarks on the air, the station released a formal recognition of the incident, though it was nothing more than a half-hearted blog post. It misses the point of every fan’s criticisms of the station. But the amount of fans who were taken aback by Matuschik’s statements is not the most relevant variable in this equation. What’s important is the fact that he said what he said knowing the current political climate and how racism against Asian people has been exacerbated during the pandemic.

Hot Dates

Today, the Women & Gender Resource Center will host a virtual screening of “Rafiki” at 5 p.m. Register for the event here.

There are back-to-back battles ahead for Alabama baseball. The team will face the University of South Alabama on Tuesday in Sewell-Thomas, then host Jacksonville State on Wednesday. Tuesday's game will be available on SEC Network; Wednesday's game will air on SEC Network+. No. 23 Alabama is coming off an enormous 21–3 win over the College of Charleston on Sunday.