Farewell to those who are getting jobs, graduating, or just tired of us

Good luck seniors.

This California transplant will be missing the Plains

Farewell column

Classes are great, but the first-hand experience can't be matched

Farewell column

Graduating is bittersweet, with a bit more emphasis on the bitter

Farewell column

Get ready - it's the first of a page full of columns

Farewell column

Farewell columns are full of tired cliches, and mine is no exception

Farewell column

Letters to the Editor

Some support for Councilman Dowdell

Letters to the Editor

Bring back program to help campus kitties

This week's cartoon

Here's an early welcome to our new Vice President of Student Affairs

Editorial Board

Ron Howard is evil ... or maybe just a bad director

Staff Column

Just like Joaquin Phoenix in 'Signs,' I will swing away

Staff Column

Paying more for a cheap, natural resource is the best

Staff column

Like it or not, Twitter saved my friend's afternoon over Spring Break

Staff Column

This week's cartoon

If strangers were harassing students in classes, would you want to know?

The situation that occurred March 9, involving the three non-students on campus harassing students in a classroom, is no doubt troubling.Matt Pettit has done a great job of alerting his fellow students to what happened in his letter to the editor at right, and we thank him for it.We wanted to ask you what you thought of the situation, and whether you think an AU Alert would have been an appropriate step.Our attitude here is that we would have appreciated an e-mail from the school with the amount of detail Pettit provided in his account.It is a shame we had to hear of this situation from a fellow student before it was addressed by the University.A heads-up via AU Alert and an order to leave campus would have been ideal, but an e-mail to students acknowledging the situation even happened at all would have been sufficient.It would have looked better to admit something happened than to shrug it off as no big deal, because to the students in that classroom, it was a big deal.Students, do you think this was handled well?If not, what would you have liked to have seen from the University?And if we are blowing this out of proportion, just let us know.

Food Waste Audit will show what many know: we should compost

Auburn University is having a Food Waste Audit April 22 to determine how much compostable food waste and noncompostable food waste students and restaurants on campus throw out each day.This data will help Recycling and Solid Waste Coordinator Donny Addison convince the University it would be in its best interest to start a composting program on campus.We remember being in elementary school and having a compost pile out behind the cafeteria.It was every little third-grader's duty to go out back and dump their food scraps on the pile, which would then be composted and used in flowerbeds around campus.With us being an agricultural school, surely a use could be found for such material.

Letters to the Editor

Student asks what is an 'imminent threat of violence?'Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:After giving Auburn University administrators ample time to inform you of a potentially dangerous situation on campus Monday, March 9, 2009, I have decided to tell you myself.This letter is intended to:-- Inform the Auburn Family of events that happened on our campus.-- Inform you of the official Auburn University response and their current position on the situation.At 4 p.m., three young men not registered for the course entered a political science classroom.They sat at the back of the room and began asking questions and making comments about guns, the war in Iraq, and similar topics.They were not sitting together but were sitting strategically around the back of the room.The students were very uncomfortable and afraid.