AU will have 'full in-person, on-campus' fall semester
ByAuburn University is planning what will largely be a return to normal operations for the fall 2021 semester, according to a campus-wide email sent on Wednesday morning.
Auburn University is planning what will largely be a return to normal operations for the fall 2021 semester, according to a campus-wide email sent on Wednesday morning.
Students gathered in support of survivors of sexual assault on Thursday at ‘Take Back the Night,’ an awareness event put on by the Office of Inclusion and Diversity and Rape Counselors of East Alabama.
Auburn University's Tiger Transit system is set to receive a facelift in the form of an entirely new fleet of buses slated to arrive on The Plains beginning at the end of May.
Auburn University is dedicating a Village residence hall to Bessie Mae Holloway. Holloway is a Black trailblazer as the first African-American to serve on the Board of Trustees and the second woman to serve on the board. Formerly Tiger Residence Hall will be renamed as Holloway Residence Hall in her honor.
The increase in the student services fee will fund two new mental health staff members and help fund the new fleet of transit buses.
Hillel and the University Program Council celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut, a day of commemoration for the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, on Thursday.
The Alabama Senate confirmed Tim Vines to the Auburn University Board of Trustees on Thursday to complete Lloyd Austin's seven-year term after a unanimous vote.
Mary Alex Frishman, junior in communication, and her team had the strange and elusive job of trying to somehow capture and preserve the Auburn experience of 2020 — a year that was defined by its despair, passion and uncertainty — into the books packed along the wall behind her. In her role as the editor-in-chief of The Glomerata, Frishman had several months to design and then delegate this past year’s edition. She and her managing editor, Meaghan Davis, senior in exercise science, took over in March of 2020 and had to figure out how to describe a campus without any students on it.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property — a group opposed to same-sex marriage — held a rally at Toomer's Corner on Tuesday. The group's protest was met with approving honks from drivers and a group of LGBTQ-supporting counter protestors.
Many students at Auburn engage in activities like hiking at Chewacla or bowling, but Ashley George, junior in rehabilitation and disability studies who has completed over 100 skydives, these were not enough.
The Gogue Performing Arts Center is returning to an in-person format for concerts beginning April 18 after a suspension in March 2020 because of the pandemic.
Sam Armas became the first player in Auburn wheelchair basketball history to score 1,000 career points last season, but he said the team is still fighting for respect and exposure on campus.
Auburn students can visit food trucks from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. for a late-night meal for the next three weekends.
Auburn University will encourage but not require masks outdoors beginning Friday, April 9.
ISO combined its annual International Peace Dinner and the World’s Fair for one event from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. outside the Melton Student Center.
Joe Durham, a Georgia lawyer and avid fisherman, advocated on behalf of Auburn's bass fishing team following the announcement of their year-long suspension.
Representatives from Auburn University's Department of Campus Safety and Security spoke with The Plainsman on how the department issues notifications after recent student concerns on its timeliness and priority.
Auburn University substituted the typical spring break this year with three "wellness days" to reduce COVID transmission. Students are spending theirs mostly completing classwork or at their jobs.
Auburn University reported 24 new self-reported COVID-19 cases, the greatest increase on campus since the week of Feb. 8-14.
