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COLUMN | Auburn University has a sexual assault problem

By Dioselin Cruz | Columnist | September 14

"Auburn University has a sexual assault and rape problem. And as of now, the Auburn administration is actively contributing to rape culture."  A columnist urges the university to take more action in educating the male population on campus about sexual assault.

COLUMN: Students can get past 'pandemic fatigue'.

By Jonathan Stuckey | Columnist | January 29

Students experiencing 'pandemic fatigue' - frustration from spending a year online learning - can get through the next semester through just communicating with their professors.  

EDITORIAL | 2020 is the year of all years to vote

November 3

EDITORIAL | The civic duty for each of us to show up to the polls is important in every election cycle, but with everything circulating in this disorienting time we find ourselves in, we must prioritize showing up to the voting site today — or voting in whatever form 2020 calls for.

EDITORIAL | The City has a lead right now; don't blow it

By Editorial Board | Fall 2020 | October 11

Unfortunately, it looks like the City hasn’t learned from the Tigers’ woeful lessons on how to close out a lead when it comes to the pandemic. 

COLUMN: Hosting College Gameday is just another great moment in Auburn basketball history

By Jake Weese | Sports Reporter | February 7

Gameday’s arrival last weekend was something that fans should recognize its impact for Auburn, just like how they should not take the rise of Auburn basketball for granted. It was just a few short years ago when Auburn could only dream about having a nationally televised game or making the NCAA tournament.

OPINION | Please, no homophobes at my birthday party

By Tyler Ward | Staff Writer | January 18

Homophobia is not a difference of belief. Homophobia is being opposed to someone’s freedom, simply because it does not align with yours.

OPINION | Let's discuss climate change

By David Newton | Retired AU Faculty | October 28

Instead of fossil fuels, we should switch to clean, renewable energy, such as solar and wind power — with storage. Other states in the southeast are taking positive steps. I am unaware of similar actions in Alabama. We need discussion, planning and action without delay.  

OPINION | Doug Jones fights for Alabama

By Jaysal Shah | Graduate Student | October 28

I’m proud that we have Jones in office, because he is using his platform to stand up for Alabamians and fight for our best interests.

OPINION | It's time to let college athletes own themselves

By Harrison Tarr | Sports Writer | October 3

Universities should not place their student athletes on payroll; however, the fact that the NCAA forbids players from receiving endorsements and profiting off their own names and likenesses is not only unfair — it’s offensive. 

OPINION | Thank you, Mr. President, now how about those guns?

By Jack West | Editor-in-Chief | September 23

Republicans have a pretty good playbook for dealing with dead children, but they haven’t used any of their trademark excuses this time. 

OPINION | Lack of handrails at Jordan-Hare leaves some students at risk

By Mary Elizabeth Lane | Photographer | September 16

Watching football should be a part of that experience that every Auburn student can enjoy. Right now, without adequate handrails in Jordan-Hare stadium, I am having to focus on an anxiety that I shouldn’t have to. 

Farewell, Auburn: A letter from the editor-in-chief

By Chip Brownlee | Editor-in-chief | April 25

While everything else can look bleak, the goodness of people is what you see the most. That’s what I will remember about Auburn — a community made up of good people, people with flaws, but good people nonetheless.

Guest Column | Evangelical Christianity is losing most of the war, even as it believes it is prevailing

By John Carvalho | March 1

Evangelical Christianity is losing the battle and most of the war, even as it believes it is prevailing. The short-term effects of its obsession with political power are obvious. This distraction brings disastrous long-term effects as well. We see them now, and they’re not pretty.

OPINION | Where did all of Auburn's bookstores go?

By Camille Morgan | Contributing Columnist | February 22

The rabbit hole that led me to Tatum arrived not by way of a desire to explore the forces that are pushing out local independent businesses — although that came later — but out of pure personal frustration. 

OPINION | Mr. Sutton, I'll pay for your ticket

By Jack West | Editor-in-Chief | February 21

Last Thursday, 115 years after Lesseur's murder and 11 miles from Thomaston in the town of Linden, Alabama, a man wrote and published an editorial piece that called for the Ku Klux Klan to lynch public officials in Washington D.C.

OPINION | Dems shouldn’t support Northam after racist photo

By Michael Jones | Contributing Columnist | February 11

The irony of Northam calling out fellow candidate during the 2017 gubernatorial race as a racist should not be lost on the American public, and democrats should no longer give Northam their support. 

OPINION | The Oscars: a precarious celebration

By Camille Morgan | Contributing Columnist | January 31

With each year, at least each year since streaming platforms began to engulf television as we understand it, it seems there are less and less pop culture events that unite Americans. The winning films that are celebrated at the Oscars will say something about all of us.

OPINION | Gillette ad demotes traditional, not toxic, masculinity

By Michael Jones | Contributing Columnist | January 28

Gilette's most recent ad against toxic masculinity missed the mark. The issue is, in Gillette’s conquest against toxic masculinity, they didn’t just oppose toxic masculinity, but also traditional masculinity.