Editorial

EDITORIAL | The role of your student-run newspaper

By Editorial Board | Fall 2022 | September 5

The Plainsman aims to serve as a source of objective, factual—and sometimes entertaining—media for students. It acts independently and objectively in order to produce unbiased work.

EDITORIAL | Why an environmental tab?

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | March 23

The world seemed to stop when the coronavirus began to spread across the globe. Now that this crisis seems to be slipping away, another global crisis that seems to have slipped the minds of many has arisen anew with a vengeance — climate change.

EDITORIAL | Who are you protecting, Auburn?

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | March 6

Auburn's policies against sexual misconduct are designed to keep students, faculty and staff safe and punish those who violate that safety. In the case of Richard Hansen, Auburn seems to have forgotten that they would make student safety its “number one priority.”

EDITORIAL | Cultivate sympathy for your fellow man

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | February 2

The Auburn Family can be a family when it wants to be, and it can be a family that is inclusive of everyone.

EDITORIAL | Join the Plainsman

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | November 28

Joining The Plainsman will provide students with more than just clips to put on an application — but if that’s what you need, you’ll get an abundance of it — it will also give you relationships that will last.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and practice gratitude.

EDITORIAL | Take the break to reflect

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | November 25

This isn't the time to wallow in regret about what could have been different, but the time to appreciate what happened.

EDITORIAL | University's new minimum hiring rate is a step in the right direction

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | October 31

For some, the University seems to hit the mark rarely. This decision, though, will undoubtedly benefit many of the families working for Auburn by improving their standard of living.

EDITORIAL | It’s time to do better, Auburn

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | October 17

Auburn is performative in every sense of the word — they act only to elicit a response or reaction.That is the problem. We want to see active steps for tangible change. If not by our graduation date at least by someone's.

EDITORIAL | Body camera footage belongs to the public

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | October 10

Recently, in an 8-1 decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that videos, recordings of 911 calls, photos, autopsy records, emails and texts are related to investigative materials and don’t have to be released to the public. This ruling infringes on the legal rights of Alabamians.

EDITORIAL | Why students should attend the listening sessions for the next president

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | September 21

Thursday, Sept. 23 the Auburn University Board of Trustees is hosting a listening session for students to express what they want in the next president. The editorial board encourages students to attend to ensure the next president represents our long-term interests.

EDITORIAL | What to know before the sexual assault town hall

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | September 19

Student Affairs is hosting a town hall to discuss preventing and reporting sexual assault on Sept. 22. The editorial board encourages all those who feel strongly to attend, but make sure you know the basics of reporting sexual assault first.

EDITORIAL | Texas abortion ban sets dangerous precedent

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | September 12

On Sept. 1, Texas enacted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, and all around the country women are asking the same question: What does the Texas abortion ban mean for me? This editorial is meant not only to serve as an explanation of the Texas and Alabama abortion bans, but also as a plea — Alabama, do not follow in Texas’ footsteps.

EDITORIAL | We're in a ditch. We can get out.

By Editorial Board | Fall 2021 | August 17

Welcome back to the Loveliest Village on the Plains. To the freshmen, welcome to your new home and — perhaps to some of the sophomores as well — welcome, for the first time, to a normal college experience. Or, as close to normal as we can get at the moment.

EDITORIAL | Go easy on yourself

By Editorial Board | Spring 2021 | April 25

After a year of working through a pandemic, go easy on yourself if everything didn't go as planned.

EDITORIAL | Auburn, you have to choose.

By Editorial Board | Spring 2021 | April 15

Auburn is dedicating two halls in The Village to Black trailblazers, Josetta Matthews and Bessie Mae Holloway, which will exist closely to Wallace Hall. The contributions of these people to the University are vastly different, and its time for Auburn to choose what kind of person they wanted represented on the buildings on campus.

EDITORIAL | Continue to wear your mask after the mandate ends

By Editorial Board | Spring 2021 | April 8

The mask mandate is set to end April 9, but there should be just as many masks worn in the days after as there were in the days before.

EDITORIAL | Alabama, leave transgender youth alone

By Editorial Board | Spring 2021 | March 28

In early March, the Alabama State Senate passed a bill that would ban gender-affirming surgeries and treatments for transgender minors, making it a felony for medical professionals to provide them care. The bill comes at a time when there are other things Alabamians need instead of destroying children.