THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2019 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 126 | ISSUE 26 OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894 TITLE IX 6 CONCERTS 7 TIMELINE 8-9 A writer argues that the CW’s In the past, UA was a Take a trip down memory coverage of The Jasons destination for the most lane as The Crimson Honorary Society had a popular musical acts in the White’s news staff recounts lasting impact on the way world. What would it look some of the newspaper’s gender roles are discussed like if those same artists most notable headlines on campus. played here today? from history. CULTURE | HISTORY Campus monuments, memorials tell a one-sided story The University of Alabama landscape is dotted with monuments to the Confederacy and important sites of the Civil Rights Movement. These are rarely discussed on campus tours or at other events. Some faculty and students believe that the University should be more open and honest in telling its Graphic CW / Carly Farmer own history. BY DESI GILLESPIE CONTRIBUTING WRITER @DESIGILLESPIE1 125 YEARS OF THE et on a squat brick path, a short Sbranch off the sidewalk to the Bus Hub, four grave markers sit nestled against the back of the Biology Building. In front of the fenced-off markers, a plaque with only seven CRIMSON WHITE sentences is on display. But few students ever see the words on it, primarily due to its location. It is the University of Alabama Faculty Senate’s apology for slavery, honoring those “whose labor and legacy of perseverance helped to build The University of Alabama community since its founding.” The plaque is the only such marker on campus. “You have to go fi nd the ways the University has tried to physically reconcile with race,” said Cierra Roberson, a graduate student in gender and race studies. “But you blatantly see Confederate monuments like the boulder in front of Gorgas … It informs how I think the University administration feels about my being a black woman on campus.” SEE PAGE 10-11 THURSDAY 2 December 5, 2019 Sara Norton is a sophomore majoring in aerospace engineering CAPTURING from Crofton, Maryland. WHY: I chose the University of Alabama after meeting my roommate, Keely, through a Facebook group. I couldn’t bear the thought of going to a school CAMPUS without her, so I made the decision to pack my bags and head to Tuscaloosa. To be featured in Capturing MEMORY: My favorite memory at Campus, send an email to Bama so far is the [email protected] time I tried to clean my shoes using dish cw.ua.edu soap. A few weeks later I was walking P.O. Box 870170 414 Campus Drive East to class when it Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom: (205) 348-6144 started raining, and Fax: (205) 348-8036 my shoes started Advertising: (205) 348-7845 foaming. I had to EDITORIAL STAFF go to the rest of editor-in-chief Savannah Bullard my classes that day [email protected] managing editor Ben Stansell with bubbles on my digital editor Ryan Riha shoes. FUTURE: My visuals editor Carly Farmer goal for the future chief copy editor David Palmer is to land a job at opinions editor Brett Hodges [email protected] NASA. 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Material herein may not be reprinted without the Orchestra. expressed, written permission of The Crimson White. 125 YEARS December 5, 2019 3 Women’s coverage saw a slow evolution at CW The Crimson White’s coverage of women has taken many shapes through the years – from showcasing photos of “beautiful” women students on the front page to hiring a women’s editor and reaching representational equality in the newsroom. schools in the state of Alabama, but BY MEGHAN MITCHELL then she would also write these CULTURE EDITOR cool fashion columns every week,” @POMEGRANATE_27 Testino said. “So I think I looked to that to kind of see what all you could do as a female journalist.” hen Abbey Crain trekked The way Crain wrote about Wacross campus six years fashion in 2013, though, varies ago in her tutu and ultra-short hair, greatly from how it was written it was with the knowledge that she about historically in the CW. was setting herself apart from the “Miniskirts at UA can be used the rest of the student body. wrong way,” a front-page article in “I wanted to differentiate myself a 1969 edition of the CW, is a prime from the male gaze,” Crain said. example of then-student Bill Newby “I wanted to not look like that. At policing women’s fashion. The University of Alabama, there “The selection of girls who weren’t many dudes, men, I had should wear a miniskirt is more encountered that were fans of easily effected from the negative dressing outside the box.” side: which ones should not wear Crain has a legacy in Tuscaloosa miniskirts. Above and beyond all as co-author of the award-winning others on this list are corpulent, The “Bama Belles” feature was often front-page fodder for The Crimson White of Crimson White article, “The Final obese or fat women,” Newby wrote. the 1960s. CW File Barrier,” which concerned sorority integration. But during her time at student studying history with a these standards still persist today. the CW, the former culture editor focus on queer women, said that “I think women are still expected and multifaceted reporter shared lesbians in media were historically to look pretty, like take that call to an eclectic range of writing. Her If y’all not ready for portrayed to appeal to the look pretty or act like a ‘woman,’” regular fashion column combined the real me, I just can’t heterosexual man of the time. Tina Turner, a senior majoring in with hard-hitting journalism “There was what was called news media, said. changed the way then-CW help it. ‘lipstick lesbians,’” Boyle said. Turner said her family had hoped coworker Laura Testino thought “They were ones that were she would maintain a certain level about journalism. TINA TURNER sexual appealing to heterosexual of beauty in order to continue “I think I started [working at the audiences, normally heterosexual a legacy. CW] right as [Crain] published ‘The men, as opposed to actual “My Aunt Joan, in the 70s, Final Barrier,’” Testino said.