Opinion

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.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Cost-Cutting Measures are the Reality for STEM Majors at Auburn

By Mick Persyn | Auburn Student | March 18

Auburn employs researchers as STEM professors to reduce staffing costs, without considering the idea that researchers are not teachers and without offering the proper training for them to give students the education we came here for.

COLUMN | Auburn's STEM classes want you to fail

By Payton Davis | Photographer | March 7

The students failing these classes are most often underrepresented minorities. According to an article from The New York Times, women, people of color and those from a lower socioeconomic background are the most likely to be weeded out of their classes.

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.”

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COLUMN | Dressing up for games is the southern way

By Mallorie McCoy | Columnist | March 5

Not only is getting primped for a college football game “tradition”, it is us as students and fans representing our school and team with pride. Wearing the beautiful colors of burnt orange and navy blue to a game, I believe, enhances our school spirit.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Period poverty is a huge issue in Alabama

By Maris Laney, Landry Tharp and Maddie Gutkowski | Auburn Students | March 2

Poverty is a well-known state of deprivation with sufficient political, social, and media attention seen on an international level. “Period poverty”, however, does not foster nearly as much attention.

EDITORIAL | Give yourself a break

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | February 27

If you’re used to spending most of your time “always on”, then a week of doing nothing may seem daunting, especially with how much college students are expected to do on a daily basis. So even before spring break starts, give yourself a break.

Looking back: One year as an online publication

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | February 25

On Feb. 25, 2021, The Auburn Plainsman released its last weekly print publication with a front story titled: "A spirit that is not afraid of change." The editorial staff of 2022 gathered some of the top stories over the last year. These stories were selected based on views, quality and diversity of news coverage.

COLUMN | The true meaning of Valentine's Day

By Sami Grace Donnelly | Editor-in-Chief | February 14

As someone who has been single for about two decades of Valentines Days, the holiday can feel extremely performative and humdrum.

EDITORIAL | The difference between a letter to the editor, a column and an editorial

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | February 13

As we near milestones on some of our social media, we recognize some new readers may be unfamiliar with the terminology used for our opinion section content.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | It's time to move past The Auburn Creed

By John Varner | Auburn Library Specialist | February 7

Time has come to move on to the next generation of fund-raising campaigns, and there is no shortage of other images that can capture and inspire the Auburn Spirit on walls.

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.

COLUMN | Auburn listened: New seating policy in The Jungle for students with disabilities

By Noah Griffith | Sports Reporter | January 28

On Friday morning, Athletics announced several changes to The Jungle benefitting students with mobility-impairments attending basketball games in Auburn Arena.

COLUMN | Auburn Arena built for able-bodied students

By Noah Griffith | Sports Reporter | January 25

The success of Auburn basketball is the talk around campus this year, and it is arguably the most exciting thing going on in Auburn. In the poll on Monday morning, Auburn claimed its first No. 1 ranking in school history. This is historic, and disabled students are not able to be there to witness it.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Please get vaccinated

By Chris Edwards | Chief Medical Officer, Piedmont Columbus Regional | January 19

The chief medical officer at Piedmont Columbus Regional urges people to get vaccinated during the fifth surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COLUMN | Being an Auburn fan is about more than football

By Sami Grace Donnelly | Editor-in-Chief | January 18

Even though watching, traveling for and cheering on the football team is a major focus of Auburn students, being an Auburn fan is more than the highs and lows of this sentimental experience.

COLUMN | Letter to the freshmen

By Dioselin Cruz | Columnist | January 10

As a first-year student, I often find myself searching for the old within the new. I will catch a glimpse of someone walking on campus, and for a second, they look like the class clown from fourth period history freshman year of high school. For first years, realizing our childhood is now in the past is a new, bittersweet development.