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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. 

COLUMN | Making the most of "The First 56"

By Sami Grace Donnelly | Columnist | September 2

The buzz of move-in and syllabus week has come and gone, but Auburn University is still welcoming its first year students.

COLUMN | How Harsin can right the ship for Auburn this season

By Noah Griffith | Assistant Sports Editor | August 29

Head coach Bryan Harsin needs to take risks in 2022 if he wants to right the ship at Auburn.

COLUMN | A slippery slope, and what comes next?

By Daniel Schmidt | Assistant News Editor | June 29

Journalism student Daniel Schmidt reflects on where he thinks Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health will lead the United States. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Alabama student activists to hold rally against new prisons

By Taylor Gusler | Auburn student | June 26

Taylor Gusler, a graduate student pursuing a master's in social work, expresses their frustration over the new Alabama prison's being built and encourages people to protest with ASAP in Birmingham. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Period poverty demographics and accessibility

By Maris Laney, Landry Tharp and Maddie Gutkowski | Auburn Students | June 25

Former Auburn students Maris Laney, Landry Tharp and Maddie Gutkowski present statistics on period poverty and demonstrate the importance of menstrual equity for all people.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Bring menstrual equity to Alabama

By Reagan Moss | Auburn Student and Landry Tharp | June 25

Former Auburn students Landry Tharp and Reagan Moss express the importance of menstrual equity in Alabama.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | People use guns to kill people

By Garrett Martinez | Auburn Student | May 29

Auburn senior Garrett Martinez calls Alabama to action and expresses the importance of reforming the state's gun laws and the power of individual action. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | It’s time to expand medicaid for rural Alabama

By Robert Bentley | Former Alabama Governor | May 23

Former Alabama governor and physician Robert Bentley says it's time to expand medicaid for rural Alabama. 

COLUMN | Dear Plainsman, farewell

By Abigail Murphy | Operations Editor , Evan Mealins | Editor-in-chief and Trice Brown | Multimedia Editor | May 12

After spending nearly four years of their college experience with The Plainsman, this past year’s management staff of graduating seniors have written their goodbyes. 

OPINION | What's your Auburn coffee shop aura?

By Destini Ambus | Editor-in-Chief , Sami Grace Donnelly | Columnist and Mallorie McCoy | Columnist | May 4

The Loveliest Village on The Plains has the loveliest coffee shops. Take our quiz below to see which coffee shop best suits your vibe. 

COLUMN | Our childhood films prepared us for fighting climate change

By Abigail Murphy | Operations Editor | April 29

While we have a long way to go with environmentalism, we are heading in the right direction. We just need to approach this with a little bit of hope and through our inner child’s eyes.

COLUMN | Your stress is valid

By Sami Grace Donnelly | Columnist | April 25

Perhaps stress shouldn’t automatically be cast off as “bad.” Instead of immediately trying to eliminate the stress in our lives, we could analyze it and extract good things from it. 

COLUMN | The importance of escapist entertainment

By Sami Grace Donnelly | Columnist | April 23

Living a life with a steady and balanced flow of pouring out and back in makes our human experience the most fulfilling, enjoyable and meaningful that it can be. 

EDITORIAL | Alabama, leave transgender youth alone. Again.

By Editorial Board | Spring 2022 | April 13

On Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey signed SB 184, which would imprison doctors for up to 10 years for providing puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth, and HB 322, which forces transgender children to use the bathroom of their sex assigned at birth. The latter bill also bans discussion of “sexual orientation or gender identity” in kindergarten through fifth grade. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | We hear you

By Jordan Harshman, Karen McNeal, Eric Burkholder, Melinda Lanius and Cissy Ballen | Auburn Faculty and Lindsay Doukopoulos | Associate Director for Educational Development | April 7

This letter is submitted by five professors representing all of the STEM disciplines in COSAM and the educational development director from the Biggio Center, in response to recent columns and letters about "weed-out" classes. 

COLUMN | How to read the news

By Sami Grace Donnelly | Columnist | April 7

The problem we face today is that the sieve is in the hands of more people than ever before. With the turn of the century, the media experienced a gradual change in domain. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Of us and speech

By Garrett Martinez | Auburn Student | April 1

Free speech. It’s a mixed bag sometimes, giving people the right to say whatever they want. But it’s also one of the most powerful tools the people in a democracy have to protect themselves and ensure that a democracy remains a democracy.