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Vol. CXXVII, Issue XXXXVI
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Hi. Here's the news.
The University shut down operations at 11 a.m. yesterday. The men’s and women’s basketball programs secured spots in the NCAA Tournament. And some students are mobilizing in service of environmental activism.
Students piled into Magnolia Parking Deck in an effort to seek shelter from severe storms on Wednesday. See more photos from around Tuscaloosa. CW / Lexi Hall 
Alabama men’s basketball is going into March Madness on a wave. The team won the SEC Tournament for the first time in 30 years. Now the team is preparing for an NCAA Tournament run in Indianapolis. Tornado warnings were in full effect across Alabama on Wednesday. In Tuscaloosa, students sheltered on campus in parking decks, academic buildings and residence halls. Other special guests included a goldfish, a few pounds of air mattresses and blankets and, yes, a bunny rabbit.

Vaccines are about to get more accessible for UA students. The University will begin vaccinating students workers with significant face-to-face interaction in their job description, and UA officials are working to offer vaccines to students with underlying, high-risk medical conditions.

New column alert! Culture writer Joshua LeBerte is a legend among The CW editorial staff for his attention to national culture stories captivating the internet's attention. Today he launches his column, "Josh's View," with insights on Elliot Page's Time magazine cover story and more. Alabama softball opened SEC play with a series against Auburn, sweeping the team with gusto in Auburn. The team will host its first SEC series Friday, when Alabama plays the Tennessee Volunteers. The Department of Theatre and Dance has a new show for virtual viewing. "Shooting Star," written by a UA professor, follows the career of a Motown singer and explores the complexities of fame. Students can view the musical for free.

Alabamians are known for their love of football. Now they can get it all year round. Alabama Steel, a semi-pro team that plays at Central High School, is making spring the new football season.

Students are getting out and going green. The last week of March is Green Week, a joint venture from the Student Government Association and UA Environmental Council. Council members have kept up their programming and volunteering, though some also express disappointment at the University’s lack of involvement with green initiatives.
  • A group of students with the Blackburn Institute have also taken up a critical environmental cause: helping out a community dealing with the effects of coal ash pollution.
Alabama is getting three new mega prisons. But those prisons will cost $3 billion over 30 years, and their construction comes in the face of federal guidance against new prisons in the state. One columnist is wondering what benefit these prisons have for Alabamians, or if there's one at all.

SEC gymnasts will converge on Huntsville, Alabama, this weekend. Alabama is the No. 3 seed in the SEC Championship meet. The team will face Florida, LSU and Arkansas.

Disney stars tend grow up and admit that child stardom wasn't the greatest experience in the world. One of the few exceptions to this rule? Bridgit Mendler, the actress who took the Miley Cyrus-Demi Lovato route of Disney show, Disney movie, Disney album, and came out alright on the other side.
Here are the off-campus goings-on:
  • Alabama men’s basketball faces Iona in Hinkle Fieldhouse on Saturday. Here’s how Iona coach Rick Pitino is preparing to face Nate Oats and the Tide.
  • LSU and Alabama men’s basketball were placed in the East region of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. LSU will have to face St. Bonaventure and, in all likelihood, No. 1 seed Michigan before seeing Alabama again. But the Tigers are confident they can make a good showing.
  • A gunman killed eight people in Atlanta on Tuesday night. The murders of mostly Asian American women come after an increase in hate crimes against people of Asian descent across the country.
From the Newsroom
notes from inside the video calls and group chats of The Crimson White

The Crimson White is getting competitive this month. We're joining other college newspapers in a fundraising effort-slash-competition running on the same timeline as the men's NCAA Tournament. Help us rise through the ranks by donating here.

 
Hot Takes
 
We're talking about a potato. A potato. A vegetable which already has no apparent primary or secondary sex characteristics. I don’t see why Hasbro needed to gender the potato toy anyways. As I said, it’s a potato. Wouldn’t it be more accurate for the potato to be gender neutral to begin with? How are so many people upset with a toy conglomerate for removing a label that never made sense in the first place? While I hate to politicize or appear to politicize deaths plaguing the nation, there are bigger fish to fry.

Read more from Josh LeBerte here.
Hot Dates
It’s Tidecation season, folks.

University Programs will finish out its slate of pseudo-spring break programming with a drive-in movie tonight at 7:30 p.m. Catch “Bad Boys For Life” in the parking lot behind the Capstone College of Nursing. Find tickets here.

On Friday, catch live music, food trucks and games at 6 p.m. on the Ferg lawn. Masks and social distancing will be enforced.

On Saturday, celebrate the Tide’s March Madness appearance at a watch party on the Ferg lawn. Tip-off is at 3 p.m.
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