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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.

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.

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.  

OPINION | It is time for men to learn the true meaning of consent

February 12

For far too long there has been a belief among some men that if a woman is drunk, then she may as well be giving him consent to have sex with her. This is not just a problem on Auburn’s campus, but throughout the country. 

OPINION | Dems shouldn’t support Northam after racist photo

By Michael Jones | Contributing Columnist | February 11

The irony of Northam calling out fellow candidate during the 2017 gubernatorial race as a racist should not be lost on the American public, and democrats should no longer give Northam their support. 

EDITORIAL | HBCUs deserve adequate funding

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | February 11

Black History Month is a time to recognize the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, their imperative role in the state of Alabama and the importance of ensuring they are well funded. 

EDITORIAL | Students deserve timely AU Alerts

By Spring 2019 Editorial Board | February 1

Auburn University’s Campus Safety and Security office did not send an AU Alert or a public safety notice after the police chased Mitchell Lee Stewart across campus, alarming students. This silence opened the door for rumors to swirl around campus and persist with fervor until the campus safety office finally made a statement, via an email hours later, insisting that there was no threat on campus. 

OPINION | The Oscars: a precarious celebration

By Camille Morgan | Contributing Columnist | January 31

With each year, at least each year since streaming platforms began to engulf television as we understand it, it seems there are less and less pop culture events that unite Americans. The winning films that are celebrated at the Oscars will say something about all of us.

The importance of a good hot tub when apartment shopping

By Jack West | Editor-in-Chief | January 29

Check all the characteristics of the hot tub on property before signing that lease.

OPINION | Gillette ad demotes traditional, not toxic, masculinity

By Michael Jones | Contributing Columnist | January 28

Gilette's most recent ad against toxic masculinity missed the mark. The issue is, in Gillette’s conquest against toxic masculinity, they didn’t just oppose toxic masculinity, but also traditional masculinity.

Auburn Family needs to take better care of those with autism

January 19

All families cannot afford to have an in-house parent or afford to pay the costs of hiring a nanny. But, that does not make them any less deserving of help and resources. We need to step up as a community and not just become aware, but be active in raising children of all backgrounds and abilities, including those who have autism and other special needs.