CAMP WAR EAGLE ISSUE| Letter to the editor from the SGA president
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War Eagle!
I still can’t believe that my four years at Auburn are coming to an end.
Reverse racism is a term that I have been seeing a lot lately. In the midst of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, many white people have been defending the fact that they want the movement to just go away by saying (or tweeting) things like, “A black kid from my high school got a scholarship and I didn’t ... racism, man.”
Dear Auburn Family,
Read Auburn needs more mental health counselors here
Auburn University suicide rates are triple what they are expected to be with a student population of approximately 25,000. Many students are not receiving the help they deserve, and this is for a couple reasons.
Based on the advertisements my friends and I were inundated with, our new scoreboard was financed by Regions, and Built Ford Tough out of Yellawood with some steel from Hyundai.
Kenneth Noe and Jay Hinton are both people who have background knowledge and opinions on the Confederate battle flag that I am interested to hear.
In January, U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade invalidated Alabama’s bans on same-sex marriage, holding that they violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Firstly, I’d like to commend the city on a job well done in the planning of and for this summer’s downtown construction.
It is not surprising that someone in the Auburn area was making and distributing
On behalf of my students, the Glomerata staff, I would like to clarify many points made in your editorial “We Should Get What We Pay For.” I write for my students because you brazenly mischaracterized their work without understanding the issue you raise, at all.For one, you list the wrong distribution dates; but that’s inconsequential. In the future, though, listing correct dates and times is suggested.More egregious is your cavalier narration of scanning Tiger Cards. We deliberately scanned Tiger Cards to ensure only students received copies. What you failed to discover (because you did not ask) was that many of the scanners malfunctioned. If you had performed thorough research, you would have learned that, post-malfunction, we still asked students to show us their Tiger Card. Indeed, we wrote down numbers on legal pads.In short, we made every effort to ensure that the 7,500 copies ended up in correct hands. To insinuate otherwise is careless. To boot, The Plainsman does not have to stand in the sun for 7 hours passing out heavy books to students, so you should be less incendiary in your complaint since you have not lived the process.Last, you imply that the Glomerata staff intentionally jilted seniors by running out early. We ran out early because we only had 7,500 copies. We do not arbitrarily select the number of copies. We order what we can based on the budget provided by the SGA Senate. If your concern was altruistic, then your target should be SGA.
We call it the Auburn Family. Do we realize that our family is suffering? Do we realize we are allowing our family to go hungry?
The treatment of the article you wrote about Ms. Wright’s sexual harassment case was completely inappropriate. It is evident that you have not had any training or education in the correct way to discuss and approach the extremely sensitive subject of sexual harassment, assault or misconduct. First of all, you featured a nearly half-page photograph depicting an uncomfortable scene of unbalanced power between a man and woman ON THE FRONT PAGE of the paper. Not only did you have no regard for how this may affect or trigger survivors of any type of sexual misconduct, but within your title or the article itself you listed no trigger warning for the topics you discussed. Additionally, the language you chose to use in your article was condescending and nearly accusatory where it needed to be supportive and accepting. The correct term to use is not victim, but survivor, as it is our jobs as humans and advocates for the respectful treatment of other humans to empower those who have survived such intense mistreatment. Additionally, you referred to the perpetrator of sexual misconduct crimes as simply the student. I cannot wholly blame you for your ignorance on the subject, as Auburn University and the community of Auburn is on the whole extremely uneducated and misinformed about many of the issues, misnomers and stigmas concerning sexual assault. I do blame you for not doing proper research before publishing this article. You may have unknowingly caused survivors to be triggered back to their experiences. I strongly encourage you, your staff and the rest of the Auburn community to GET INFORMED about being a more survivor-supportive campus and community. I also urge the students at Auburn to reject rape culture and the stigmas and stereotypes that surround it.
I was disappointed in Saturday's concert, not because of the music, but how it was organized. UPC took the money it has budgeted, money that is supposed to be for Auburn students, and put on a concert that was open to the public.
The date was June 20, 2001. Andrea Pia Kennedy-Yates, in the span of an (unsupervised) hour, drowned all five of her children in the family bathtub in Houston. Her motivation? She claimed that she had failed as a mother and that the only way to save her children from the Devil was through the ultimate sacrifice —giving up (murdering) her innocent children, saving them, but accepting her eternal damnation. (Keep in mind, the eldest child was 7 years old.) The court proceedings lasted for 5 years and garnered national attention. Growing up in Houston, I personally remember this case more than any from watching the news throughout those years. The defense in the trial fought for — and won — the trial on the basis that Yates was clinically insane. There is no doubt about this, as countless medical evaluations proved it over and over again. Throughout the course of the defense’s argument, it came to light that the Yates family were religious students of a man named Michael Peter Woroniecki. Woroniecki teaches an interpretation of Christianity than can easily be compared to that of the Westboro Baptist Church — full of vitriol and ridiculous twisting of the Bible. Now, where did the Yates family become familiar with this man’s teachings? Auburn University, where Russell “Rusty” Yates, a student at the time, and later husband of Andrea, met Woroniecki as he traveled around the country as an evangelist. The defense in the trial focused heavily on this connection, as after Rusty left Auburn, he became even more engrossed with Woroniecki’s teachings and, upon meeting his wife some years later, brought her into the fold. Woroniecki’s teachings, combined with Andrea’s mental illness, served as the perfect combination to lead to the tragic events on that summer day in 2001. Fast forward to this past November. On Nov. 3, two earnest-looking street preachers occupied the concourse in between the Student Center and Parker, preaching their interpretation of the Bible to anyone who passed by, often to disgust and anger by students and faculty alike. The Auburn community is familiar with these kinds of demonstrations, but this was a unique one — these street preachers were Mr. Woroniecki’s son and daughter. Dangerous teachings such as the Woronieckis’ — which have proven to end in terrible disaster — have no place on our campus. Unfortunately, as a public institution, we have certain requirements to allow public forum, and as outlined in the University’s policies, this area is only confined to the steps of the RBD Library. (i.e. the aforementioned demonstration between the Student Center and Parker should have been shut down immediately) While we can’t ban groups such as the Woroniecki’s outright, we can sustain dialogue with our fellow colleagues when such incidents do arise. Had someone challenged Mr. Woroniecki’s beliefs when he was at Auburn, or Rusty’s once he started falling into the fold, those 5 children could very well still be alive. We as an Auburn Family need to protect each other. We have to. Drake Pooley Harbert College of Business Senator
When discussing the need for greater funding for higher education, it is important not to simply say that we need more money. It is important not to complain amongst ourselves about how expensive tuition is. It is important not to simply blame Auburn administration, the Board of Trustees or even the state legislature for the current financial situation that the University finds itself in. It is important to hold them accountable, though, and to ask questions.
This February, students across the country celebrated Black History Month. They read books by black authors, wrote research papers on civil rights activists, memorized Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and watched videos about the Underground Railroad. And as they learned about the struggle of the past, many began to recognize it in their own present – when a cashier squints suspiciously when they walk into a store, when they turn on the news and see another person who looks like them lose his life to senseless violence. These lessons are anything but history.
In response to “Without Warning: Student media restructuring” on April 1, 2015
College Democrats and College Republicans: Entitled, Indifferent or Downright Disrespectful?