Year: 2015

By Tyreaze Foster Within the coming weeks, thousands of students will be graduating and taking part in the turning of the tassel ceremony, from left to right. For many this symbolizes one’s transition from student to graduate which means entrance into the stressful lifestyle of adulthood. Soon after this achievement, reality sets in, and the search for a job becomes a quest that many will consider to be the equivalent to Frodo’s journey in “Lord of the Rings.”  Also, for many Americans this means their first payment of their student loans are due--the average payment is close to $400, according to the Gallup-Purdue Index 2015 Report. This means there will be at least a decade of payments ahead for them. The years after college will be just as stressful as the four they spent working ...

By LaTara Holloway  I bought my first car my sophomore of college after being pushed into it by my family. I’d spent the last few months begging for rides and catching the bus to school and work, and they decided that all that had to stop. I didn’t want to end up with a lease I wasn’t sure I could pay, neither did I look especially hard for the car. What I got was a faded 1993 Maroon Honda Accord whose. I didn’t really care to drive in a car that was just one year younger than me, but it did get me where I needed to go before being laid to rest a few months ago. For the last few months I’ve had to figure out how to get around Oceanside without a car. (more…)

By Alexis Rabsatt Suicide is the second leading cause of death on U.S. college campuses. The first one? Accidents, most of which, however, are believed to be suicide-related. “One in every four college students dies by suicide,” said Jennifer Bradley, Director of the AUM Counseling Center and president of the Alabama Counseling Association. The AUM Counseling Center partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to provide the River Region’s Out of the Darkness community walk on Nov. 14. The goal of the event was to raise money and awareness to support the fight against suicide. “Fortunately, we have not had a completed suicide at AUM; however, it is a consistent issue in the Counseling Center due to depression” Bradley said. (more…)

    By LaTara Holloway LaTara Holloway is an AUM student and long-time contributor to the AUMnibus. She is completing her degree in Communication and Theatre from Oceanside, California, where she now lives with her husband and son. There were always a few events held throughout the year that brought people out for an enjoyable night in Montgomery, such as the Southern Makers Market, The Holiday Market and the Alabama National Fair among others. Although fun to attend, they were always spaced too far apart. Here in Oceanside there’s a weekly event that the locals love to go to called the Sunset Market. (more…)

  By LaTara Holloway Sunday afternoon my friends and I trudged through the crowd at the annual Dia de los Muertos event held at Old Mission San Luis Rey De Francia Church. The event has been going on since 10 a.m., but people are steadily filing into the area well into the afternoon when we arrive. I’ve always heard about Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, from TV shows and in cultural lessons in Spanish class, but this is my first time actually attending the celebration. (more…)

  By Jameice Turk October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a month dedicated to honor those who are fighting, have survived or have lost their lives to breast cancer. One of the main reasons National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated is to help raise money for research in finding a cure for this disease and encourage women to get regular checkups for early detection of breast cancer. October is the month where we all grab our pink garments from our closets and wear them to raise awareness about this disease. We wear the color pink because it is feminine, the universal color of love, and is associated with giving and receiving care. (more…)

By Tiffany Pattillo The five Democratic presidential candidates had considerably more elbow room than Republicans as they took the stage at the Wynn Resort hotel and casino in Las Vegas for their first primary debate Oct. 13. The debate was hosted by CNN and Facebook and moderated by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Cooper proved to be well-equipped to ask tough questions and demand direct answers when the first question of the night addressed accusations of political expediency to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Cooper asked her outright, “Will you say anything to get elected?” Clinton denied that she adjusts her views to suit her audience and said, “I'm a progressive. But I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.” (more…)

By Jameice Turk   As an undergraduate in my last semester at AUM, I have found my journey to be a bit challenging. Coming from a high school where there were few teachers and limited technology, it made it harder for me to grasp information. I grew up in a small town just outside of Montgomery called Wilcox County where the area was and still is a very rural one. In high school, I didn’t realize how much this could affect me until I got to college. Being in the classrooms with students who were raising their hands and answering questions, having group discussions and conversing with the teacher about things I knew very little about, made me realize just how limited my education had been. I noticed that the subjects we were discussing were things I should have learned abo...

By Courtney Singleton AUM is home to three Panhellenic sororities: Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Zeta and Zeta Tau Alpha. Every fall, AUM has its annual recruitment hoping to find girls interested in joining a sorority and learning more about each Greek organization.   On Sept. 11-13, AUM had its yearly Panhellenic recruitment. Seventy potential new members signed for recruitment, with 39 new girls accepting bids from their new Greek home on campus.   "Students who join Greek organizations to build a network, make friends and develop leadership and social skills will likely graduate with useful qualities that could take them far,” writes Nicole Glass in USA Today.   Each sisterhood has different philanthropies to which they donate a certain amount of mone...