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Alternative spring break provides unique student service experience

By Sarah Hansen / WRITER | November 4

Instead of going to the Florida Panhandle or on a cruise to Cancun for spring break 2011, students are choosing less exotic locales.

Awareness served with chocolate on top

By Libby So / WRITER | November 4

The Women's Resource Center presents the Chocolate Festival, an effortto raise awareness about women's issues with some sweets on the side

The Hill (Christen Harned / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR)

Dorm Sociology

By Eric Austin / CAMPUS EDITOR | October 28

Auburn's living communities display three distinct cultures of campus living

Gary and Marty Underwood's RV, with its tiger-eyes windshield, sits at their usual tailgating spot in the fields off Donahue Drive, near the AU Solar House. (Derek Lacey / Associate Campus Editor)

Living the RV life

By Derek Lacey / ASSOCIATE CAMPUS EDITOR | October 28

Veteran Auburn fans give a lesson on how professionaltailgaters spend a long game day weekend on The Plains

Psychology class provides personal new perspectives

By Darcie Dyer / WRITER | October 28

Psychology and nonpsychology majors alike can gain a better understanding of personality through the three-hour psychology elective Theories of Personality.

New waiting lists ease registration

By Brent Godwin / ASSISTANT CAMPUS EDITOR | October 28

A new University initiative has changed the way students all over campus get on waiting lists for classes.When registering for classes, if a course is closed, students are instructed to try to register for that course anyway.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month cut-outs stand proud in the Student Center. (Katie Wittnebel / PHOTO STAFF)

Zero tolerance for domestic violence

By Colton Campbell / WRITER | October 28

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and several departments on and off campus have teamed up to raise awareness that Auburn is not immune to domestic violence issues.

Maria Iampietro / Assistant Photo Editor

ROTC honors prisoners of war, missing soldiers

By Eric Austin / CAMPUS EDITOR | October 28

Auburn ROTC gives demonstration in remembrance

Jonathan Howard, senior in electrical engineering, drops a can into the Beat Bama bin in the fight against local hunger. (Elaine Busby / Assistant Photo Editor)

Auburn looks to end losing streak

By Maddy Hall / WRITER | October 28

For 16 years, Auburn has competed against the University of Alabama in a six-week event to raise food for local food banks. This year's drive is in full swing.The drive encourages students, alumni and local residents to donate nonperishable food items and money to the East Alabama Food Bank in Auburn.

Fair-pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter lectures students and faculty on pay equality. (Christen Harned / Assistant Photo Editor)

Ledbetter inspires women

By Liz Conn / ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR | October 28

Women gained the right to vote in 1920. The Equal Pay Act came in 1963. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited gender discrimination in the workplace.However, in 2010, women still have a long way to go.

Website offers free coupons

By Jeremy Gerard / WRITER | October 28

As the economy continues to struggle, AroundCampus.com is helping students put the word "budget" back into their vocabulary.The new website is making saving money easier by providing free coupons online at more than 200 colleges across the country.

Architects reach prestigious status

By J.P. Kelsey / WRITER | October 28

Two Auburn alumni have recently hit milestones in their architectural careers and joined the elite class of professional architects.Jelani Ingram and Juan Pace, both 1999 graduates with degrees in architecture, passed the Architect Registration Examination this summer.

Trojan releases sex health report

By Derek Lacey / ASSOCIATE CAMPUS EDITOR | October 21

Numerous factors regarding availability of sexual health information on campusland the University on the low end of leading condom brand's annual sex report

Class of the Week: Child Welfare

By Rachel Shirey / WRITER | October 21

Social work majors are not the only ones who can learn how to prevent child abuse and its effects on families.Child Welfare is offered as an elective in social work, but it is available to all majors.

Greek organization members sign in on the concourse, wearing their letters for spirit points. Different events throughout the week gave Greeks the chance for a little friendly competition. (Maria Iampietro / Associate Photo Editor)

Greek Week 2010 creates friendly competition among Panhellenics

By Katie Brown / WRITER | October 21

It has been a busy week for Greeks on campus.Greek Week, a weeklong competition that began Sunday, is an annual tradition where sorority and fraternity members, with aid from other campus organizations, engage in friendly competition to raise money for charity.