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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to UPC concert

By Preston Pound | April 21

I was disappointed in Saturday's concert, not because of the music, but how it was organized. UPC took the money it has budgeted, money that is supposed to be for Auburn students, and put on a concert that was open to the public. Did UPC charge admission for non-students?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We as an Auburn Family need to protect each other

By Drake Pooley | April 20

The date was June 20, 2001.

Pressures of tradition in the Bible Belt

By Emily Enfinger | Photo Editor | April 20

Over the past few years, my Facebook newsfeed has evolved rapidly into a catchall of my peers’ engagements, wedding announcements, babies, “My boyfriend will be the best husband,” anniversaries and kitschy seasonal couple photos.

Editorial: Room for improvement

By Editorial Staff | Spring 2015 | April 16

With the recent announcements of The Vault and The Supper Club closing in the summer, Auburn seems to have become a bar graveyard. Auburn doesn’t have the largest night scene, with arguably only three relevant bars that serve much of the downtown crowd.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bobby Woodard responds to student media restructuring

By Bobby Woodard | Senior Vice President of Student Affairs | April 15

In response to “Without Warning: Student media restructuring” on April 1, 2015 Within Student Affairs, students are our first and only priority.

OPINION: Rank didn’t influence my school choice

By Tracy Awino | Campus Reporter | April 15

I would say most people who were looking to attend college looked at a website’s ranking of the universities at least once.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Students cannot afford to ignore state funding for higher education

By Michael Bullington | April 13

When discussing the need for greater funding for higher education, it is important not to simply say that we need more money.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Understand the past, empower the future

By Vincent Harris | April 9

This February, students across the country celebrated Black History Month. They read books by black authors, wrote research papers on civil rights activists, memorized Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and watched videos about the Underground Railroad. And as they learned about the struggle of the past, many began to recognize it in their own present – when a cashier squints suspiciously when they walk into a store, when they turn on the news and see another person who looks like them lose his life to senseless violence. These lessons are anything but history.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Racism - a festering disease

By Mark Howser | April 9

Racism plays an unfortunate role in our culture today. Just in the past year, America has seen events such as the Ferguson riots, controversy over the Washington Redskins franchise name, drunken fraternity brothers singing obscenities on a bus and many more incidents. It’s time we put an end to an era of racial tension so the nation can move into a new era of cultural prosperity.

Editorial: Please, Alabama, We want more

By Editorial Staff | Spring 2015 | April 9

Alabama University students will visit the Statehouse in Montgomery on Thursday, April 9, to lobby lawmakers for more higher-education funding and fewer cutbacks. Students from nearly every public university in Alabama will attend, including Auburn students.

OPINION: Who’s the fairest of them all?

By Emily Enfinger | Photo Editor | April 7

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Delta Sigma Theta Political Forum

By Lydia White | April 7

On Tuesday, March 17, the Kappa Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, a historically black public service organization, held a Political Awareness Forum, to which they invited College Democrats, College Republicans and Young Americans for Liberty.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to April 2 issue

By Danielle Guy | April 3

To whom it may concern, Today while on campus, I saw a high school student touring campus with his parents.

Editorial: Left out of the loop

By Editorial Staff | Spring 2015 | April 3

Student Affairs has recently revealed plans to combine all student media, The Plainsman, WEGL, “The Glomerata,” “The Circle” and Eagle Eye TV under one umbrella.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to student media restructuring

By Ashley Miller | April 2

Letter to the Editor, On Thursday, April 2, The Plainsman announced the new plan to transfer Student Media from the Office of Student Affairs to the Office of Communication and Marketing.

Editorial: A Pearl of a postseason

By Editorial Staff | Spring 2015 | March 18

The Auburn men’s basketball team surprised us at the SEC tournament when they beat Mississippi State after struggling into the tournament with a six-game losing streak.

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: We need to talk: it’s not us, it’s you

By Editorial Staff | Spring 2015 | March 17

The Auburn Board of Trustees has approved plans to demolish Parker Hall and Allison Laboratory as well as the construction of a new lab complex and classroom hall, which will be called academic classroom and laboratory complex.