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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF VOLUME 124 | ISSUE 6 ALABAMA SINCE 1894 HEALTH 4 MOVIES 7 FOOTBALL 10 A CW opinions columnist A Tuscaloosa local catches CW sports grades the players on argues that men should roles in Hollywood's biggest their performance this weekend get tested for STIs fi lms and shows against CSU HONORING A LEGEND Autherine Lucy Foster returns to be remembered by the school that once expelled her SEE PAGE 3 Photo CW / Caroline Japal Photo illustration CW / MK Holladay JOIN US FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL WED, SEPT 20 NOON-2PM LIBRARY EXPO FERG CENTER COMMONS Featuring product demos by database vendors, library representatives, snacks, giveaways, and more! CW / Emma Junck MONDAY 2 September 18, 2017 FIND US online cw.ua.edu facebook The Crimson White instagram thecrimsonwhite twitter @TheCrimsonWhite SCENE ON INSTA @damilahhhh@a_gorbs @savannahkt_ @teryn-denae @rashmeesharif cw.ua.edu WHAT’S INSIDE P.O. 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All photos CW / Jake Stevens Jessa Reid Bolling and Rebecca Griesbach | CW Staff students and faculty in attendance, though, Attorneys Arthur Shores and Thurgood Malone and James Hood walked past news of the unveiling spread through word Marshall petitioned for the women to be Governor Wallace at the schoolhouse door Autherine Lucy Foster ended her third of mouth — most of which did not reach admitted, and in the summer of 1955, a year and effectively enrolled,” Hlebowitsh said. day of school in the annex of Graves Hall, social media until the day of the ceremony. after the Brown v. Board decision, a federal Foster’s expulsion was later annulled in where she was holed up for two hours “If there had been as much [publicity] judge ordered the University to grant the 1988. Foster returned to the University in before being escorted, face-down in a patrol as there needed to be, people would have women acceptance. 1989 and earned her master’s in education car, to the safety of a nearby barbershop. demanded [the ceremony] to be in Foster in 1992. Outside, a mob of 3000 Klansmen, White auditorium,” said Kalyn Lee, a former “I felt so great going down the aisle to get Citizens Councilors and students waited for student who helped spearhead the event. my [bachelors] degree,” Foster told the CW her, chanting, “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho! Autherine “This is huge.” in 1992. “I want to wear my master’s robe. Lucy’s got to go!” according to the account Lee, along with former students Khortlan It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.” of E. Culpepper “Cully” Clark, a former Becton, Steven Becton, Amanda Bennett President Stuart Bell called Foster’s UA dean. and Elliot Spillers, had been working with actions a legacy for the University that Meredith Bagley, the associate professor of continues today. communication studies, since 2015 to bring “Quite frankly without your courage If you don’t know your Foster back to campus. and without your bravery, we would not In its 2015 list of demands, the enjoy the great university as we have it history, you will forget organization “We Are Done” requested the today,” Bell said. “We stand in awe at your creation of historical markers to “glorify remarkable courage that you showed at your past. So even the accomplishments of African-Americans that time and also through the years and when it hurts a little on campus.” today it is that courage that we recognize We Are Done, Lee said, started through this historical marker that we bit, we have to talk conversations across campus about how it celebrate today.” feels to not be recognized in a place where Foster spoke to students during her about it. your body has historically not been wanted. The University later denied Myers speech and said that she loved and “[Foster] started off at UA with mobs acceptance due to a pregnancy that she had respected them and encouraged them to and individuals rejecting her presence,” outside of marriage. perform well in their college careers. After - Autherine Lucy Foster Lee said. “…We wanted to give reverence In Feb. 1956, Foster became the first her speech, she stayed to take pictures and to her.” African-American student to be admitted talk with students who wanted to meet her. Members of the group met with Vice and enroll at an all-white public school or “I want you to do well at this college President of Student Life David Grady university in Alabama. because I believe that it is one of the But Foster heard something different. biweekly at 8 a.m. for a semester to discuss Her attendance was cut short less than best colleges in the world, don’t you?” “…These were the words that I heard the logistics of erecting a marker in Foster’s a week after being admitted, following Foster said. they were saying,” she said. “‘Hey, Hey, Ho! name. Eventually, the group began to meet just three days of classes, when she was In 1992 Foster told the CW that she Where the Hell did that n***** go?’” with President Stuart Bell to put their plans met with anti-integration protests and loves Alabama and the University, and Sixty-one years later, Foster stood into action. bombarded with rotten eggs and produce that she doesn’t blame the institution for where that mob stood, this time behind “If you don’t know your history, you will as she was escorted from campus. what happened. a podium and toward faces that weren’t forget your past,” Foster said. “So even The University then suspended Foster, “Racism still exists on Alabama’s angry, but eager. Behind her, red velvet when it hurts a little bit, we have to talk supposedly for her safety and the safety of campus,” Foster said. “I cannot blame that veiled the newest addition to Graves’ lawn: about it.” other students.