EDITORIAL | Go easy on yourself
It has been a long semester, and an even longer year.
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It has been a long semester, and an even longer year.
In February, the Auburn Board of Trustees announced that two residence halls in The Village would be renamed. Eagle Hall will be renamed in honor of Josetta Matthews, the first Black student to graduate from Auburn — earning a master’s degree in 1966, and a doctorate in 1975, both in education — and the first Black faculty member.
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this editorial stated that there were currently over 500,000 cases and almost 50,000 hospitalizations in Alabama. This number reflects total cases and hospitalizations in the state since the pandemic began, and the statistic has since been updated. We apologize to our readers for this inaccuracy.
Alabama, please leave transgender kids alone.
Girls get it done.
To preface this, obviously, we all want the pandemic to be over.
On Monday, March 1, The Auburn Plainsman will be reentering the world of college journalism as an online publication after 127 years of print. The only thing changing is the mode in which we expend most of our energy. For years, we’ve given our all into having the print product you know and love, but now we’re shifting. We’re still The Plainsman, and like always, we care what our readers think.
On Nov. 7, 1894, Alabama Polytechnic Institute’s two literary societies, the Websterians and the Wirts, joined together to publish the first edition of The Orange and Blue.
Recently, Gov. Kay Ivey signed lease agreements with CoreCivic to build more privately-owned prisons.
At the beginning of 2020, Ada Ruth Huntley made history by becoming the first Black woman to be elected Auburn's SGA president. This was certainly a surprise considering what we all know about Auburn, but the surprises didn’t stop there. About a month after transitioning to take on her role, the University was forced to shut down because of the looming threat of COVID-19.
Last semester was rough.
For financial reasons related to the ongoing pandemic, The Plainsman staff has chosen to not publish a printed edition this week. With the University's decision to allow remote learning during the first few weeks of the semester, we thought it best to conserve our resources until a larger percentage of the student population is on campus later in the semester.
Auburn University had low COVID cases at the end of the fall semester, an impressive feat considering the population of the University and the open bars every weekend. Sadly, it seems that the University is using these low numbers to justify not having reentry testing for the spring semester, despite peer schools like the University of Alabama and the University of Florida requiring reentry testing for at least those who live on campus.