Editorial

EDITORIAL: Lack of gun control may hurt our citizens

By Editorial Staff | Summer 2015 | July 26

An unfortunate fact is people commit heinous crimes. For those who are clearly guilty, is it not uncommon for one to claim their actions were because of mental health issues. James Holmes, who killed 12 people and injured 70 more in a Colorado movie theater in 2012, plead not guilty because of insanity, but was still found guilty last week.

EDITORIAL: Scalping the Auburn Family

By Editorial Staff | Summer 2015 | July 17

With the start of Auburn University’s 2015 football season less than two months away, the excitement of one of Auburn’s most beloved traditions is quickly escalating. To add to the usual buzz that seems to overwhelm the student body around this time, this year we have a new defensive coordinator as well as a new scoreboard coming up which is record breaking in size.

Editorial: Are states’ rights human rights?

By Editorial Staff | Summer 2015 | July 4

The LBGT community and supporters have been struggling with marriage equality for years.

Auburn Family slogan simply doesn’t hit home

By Kris Martins | Campus Reporter | March 17

We don’t define our realities from the beginning. Our families train the eyes that see right from wrong, they shape the mouth that learns what is appropriate and what is best left unsaid and they try their best to position the feet that eventually walk to what we would define as a successful life. Isn’t that what family means — shelter, support, belonging and love?

Editorial: The downside of upscale living

August 23

Finding a decent place to live shouldn't be part of what makes college difficult. Paying tuition, maintaining a good GPA, avoiding alcohol poisoning -- these should be high on your list of college-related concerns. Worrying whether or not you'll have to spend part of the semester in a hotel should be low on that list.

Editorial: Students vote apathy in SGA election

By Jordan Hays | Copy Editor | February 6

It's that wonderful time of year when students can be seen panhandling for their SGA candidate of choice. Forced away from their natural habitat, these groups must form homogenous blobs of baggy, pastel-colored shirts and block off sections of the Concourse in order to survive.

Editorial: Event attendance reaches all time high

By Jordan Hays | Copy Editor | January 31

We cover many, many University events. Speakers who spread messages of inequality and peace, stand-up comedy, celebrations, concerts, racial integration. But do you know what many of these events have in common? No one goes to them.

Editorial: Let's be blunt, decriminalize weed

By Jordan Hays | Copy Editor | January 23

This just in! College kids like marijuana! This shouldn't be news to anyone. Marijuana and substance abuse have become synonymous with the college experience.

Editorial: Bookstores now accepting limbs as payment

By Jordan Hays | Copy Editor | January 15

We value our limbs. But when we see the price of textbooks skyrocketing, we start to fill our bathtubs with ice.

Gay marriage not a threat

By Editorial Board | May 17

North Carolina's recent law banning gay marriage is a sign the fight for civil rights for the homosexual community is nowhere near over.

It's time to spread the power of pink

By Editorial Board | October 6

Cancer is a quiet, creeping threat from within.It's a thing this world could do without. It takes from us our friends, our neighbors and our families. If it's not breast cancer, it's cancer of the skin, lung, blood, pancreas, prostate, colon, throat or any other vital thing.

USA Patriot Act an unconstitutional bugbear

By Editorial Board | September 15

Privacy has begun to seem like an antiquated notion.