During the summer of 2025, 6,100 Auburn freshmen jostled for class positions. In their preparation, many turned to an overrated website to ensure they enrolled under a decent professor: ratemyprofessors.com.
"The Drama" begins as any rom-com would, amidst the jitters of wedding planning and the recounting of adorable first impressions and embarrassing dates, but director Kristoffer Borgli’s 2026 film, starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, is anything but an ordinary rom-com.
Former Auburn football head coach and Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) introduced a bill on March 24 that addresses issues “plaguing college sports today,” specifically the transfer portal. Subsequently, on April 3, President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting players to one transfer and five years of eligibility. The question, then, is how much should the good of the sport be valued in these discussions. While we as fans may be nostalgic for the college sports of old, there’s a strong possibility that it won’t come back. Is it selfish to wish for old college sports to return if it may come at the detriment of the athletes who are playing the game?
Last year, Alabama passed the Alabama Act 2024-34 (SB 129), which bans not only DEI initiatives, but also "divisive concepts." The majority of these concepts concern race and sexuality in public education, including universities. Will universities continue to push for diversity of thought and method, or will education become an extension of the political climate of our country?
In 170 years, Auburn University's only remaining English professor will retire.
To the Auburn STEM students, 8,132 of which make up the undergraduate Colleges of Engineering and Science and Mathematics alone, artificial intelligence is a terrifying prospect. As AI continues to develop, it will take a new generation of thinkers and scientists to adequately take advantage of these new mechanisms. It is not the end of employment and purpose but a new opportunity to understand the world more deeply.
While Auburn sets the standard for engineering education, engineers themselves are at the forefront of human innovation. To be at the forefront asks not just “How do we?” but “Should we?” Every question of ethics is an important one, so why then does Auburn University not require aerospace engineers to take an ethics class?
While college students like us cannot completely upend the system of international agricultural trade (yet), we can all play a part in supporting fair trade and caring for the people who grow the products we enjoy daily. So how do students in Auburn, Alabama, participate in supporting “chains of care” in the coffee industry? The answer is simple: buy from the people who care.
