Opinion

EDITORIAL | Board of Distrustees: Auburn governed in the dark

By Fall 2019 Editorial Board | September 12

Even if Leath had gone on to have a lengthy and stable tenure at Auburn, the opaqueness surrounding his hiring would be disgraceful. However, given his hasty resignation and $4.5 million farewell gift, that opaqueness is untenable.

EDITORIAL | Auburn goes from play calls to curtain calls

By Fall 2019 Editorial Board | August 30

For a school in Alabama that has often been labeled as a cow college or a sports school, this is a large step in a different direction for Auburn.

COLUMN: The importance of Pride Month

By Tyler Ward | Staff Writer | June 30

COLUMN: As Pride Month comes to a close, it's important to remember why the month matters nationally, in Alabama and even in a small college town like Auburn, Alabama.

OPINION | While safer than smoking cigarettes, vaping still isn’t safe

By Letter to the Editor | April 27

So is it actually cool to Juul in Auburn? Or is it indicative of bigger problems worth discussing.

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.

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EDITORIAL | ‘I ask’: April brings awareness to sexual assault

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | April 23

There is a nationwide problem with survivors not feeling comfortable enough to report.

EDITORIAL | Ordinance fails citizens of Northwest Auburn

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | April 19

City Council’s inaction and undue amendments trample on the last hope to protect what little remaining community Northwest Auburn’s residents have.

Column: We can all learn a thing or two from Samir Doughty

By Ben Key | Sports Writer | April 10

Doughty took the most difficult situation and made something positive out of it. He represented the Auburn Family with pride and showed what it truly means to be an Auburn man.

OPINION | The Tigers can win well, and they can lose well. We all should be proud

By Lee Auman | Guest Columnist | April 9

The fact that our players controlled their unimaginable and justified frustration speaks volumes about their character. It also means that if they aren't angry with the refs, we can't be either.

OPINION | Political parties are more polarized than ever before

By Maggie Smith | Contributing Columnist | April 3

The idea of a “moderate” Democrat or Republican has been on the decline for several years now and is only getting worse.

EDITORIAL | State lottery could greatly benefit Alabama

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | April 2

Alabama’s budget is sorely needing sources of funding. No longer can the state face more budget cuts, and Alabama’s politicians are unwilling to increase the state’s main tax sources.

OPINION | Alabama's time for Medicaid expansion has come

By Brytni Emison | Opinion Editor | April 2

Alabama’s healthcare system is floundering. In eight years, 13 of Alabama’s hospitals have closed. Seven of them were in rural areas. These hospitals were serving Alabama’s poorest — meaning they count on state or federal dollars, through Medicaid, to compensate for the lack of funding from their patients.

EDITORIAL | Pearl turned Auburn into a basketball school

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | March 26

Auburn’s basketball program is now one of the best basketball programs in the SEC, and five years ago, nobody would have guessed that would be the case. Auburn's a basketball school now.

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OPINION | Female characters: What’s likability got to do with It?

By Camille Morgan | Contributing Columnist | March 18

It goes without saying that a moderator has never asked a male actor how he’s coping with playing unlikable men. The burden of monitoring one’s likability is decidedly a female one.

OPINION | Catastrophic tornadoes give community opportunity to rise

By Tyler Ward | Community Writer | March 6

Two things can happen when tragedies like this occur. A community can separate and fail or come together and rise. Lee County has chosen the latter.

EDITORIAL | Act now to prevent further gentrification

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | March 4

The Auburn City Council was given an opportunity to prevent this encroachment of student houses into historically single-family neighborhoods but instead chose to table a vote on an ordinance pertaining to ADDUs, thereby prolonging gentrification.

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.

The Gnus Room was an independent bookstore in Auburn. It has since closed.

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.

EDITORIAL | Blackface: It was racist then, and it’s racist now

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | February 13

Remnants of our violent, racist past linger with us today. They are not gone. The racism of today is generally more subtle. It is words spoken behind closed doors, sentences prefaced with, “I have a black friend” or “I am not racist, but,” and through empty apologies and denial.