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By Tiffany Pattillo CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper moderated the second GOP debate Sept. 16 as the top eleven Republican contenders took the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Election Day isn’t until November 2016, but candidates are already on the campaign trail. The Republican ballot boasts a hefty 15 competitors, each looking to make an impression on voters to rise in the polls. Businessman Donald Trump is leading polls at this point, a fact he belabors given the opportunity. Trump champions himself as a candidate with no interest in political correctness, painting a portrait that is both refreshing and desirable to voters. He also has no interest in pandering to the public for campaign donations, clarifying he’s spending his own mo...

  Pakistani Journalist Rahat Hussain recently visited AUM while working on a project with The Montgomery Advertiser. He spoke to a group of roughly 30 faculty and staff about different aspects of Pakistan including its culture. Hussain is employed with MAG:The Weekly, a fashion magazine based out of Pakistan. He got his start writing after graduating from pharmacy school and realizing that journalists are more highly paid than pharmacists in Pakistan. This is due to the country lacking medical industry. It was interesting to hear how someone from that side of the world feels about all of the turmoil in the Middle East. This was his first time in the United States, and it was as if Hussain felt obligated to clear the air with those in attendance that Pakistan is not the e...

By Courtney Singleton  In nearly 50 years of AUM’s existence, commuter students have had free on-campus parking. That has recently changed. Starting this fall, students are paying $30 annually for a parking permit that allows them access to park on campus anytime. While faculty and staff have always paid for parking, their rates went up drastically from only $25 to $75 a year. There has been talk of paying for parking at AUM for the last few years, but students did not find out about the fee until closer to the beginning of the semester. Starting Sept. 28, all cars not registered with the new parking decal will receive a ticket. Paid parking permits were brought up to the SGA last fall in hopes of adding more security on campus and helping AUM police identify cars that do not bel...

  By Alexis Rabsatt What better way to bring the first week of Fall 2015 to a close than with the inaugural New Student Convocation? On Aug. 21, 2015, over 300 freshmen were welcomed into the Warhawk family by AUM’s faculty, staff, students and Curtiss the Warhawk. The New Student Convocation began with a meet-up in the lobby of Goodwyn Hall. This gave the new students a chance to prepare for the procession to the AUM Athletics Complex where the official ceremony took place. Upon exiting Goodwyn Hall and entering the AUM Athletics Complex, freshmen were cheered on by members of the Warhawk W.O.W. crew, professors and AUM Alumni. The Chancellor, professors and students let freshman know how important it is to make a real effort in getting involved on campus through diff...

By Tiffany Pattillo Alabama recently became home to a new variety of yellow flesh kiwi fruit known as golden sunshine kiwi. A plant variety right is designated to the golden sunshine cultivar kiwi fruit developed by researchers at Auburn University, said Clint Wall, Vice President of Southeast Kiwi Farming Cooperative. An exclusive sale of that right to Gold Kiwi Group, LLC., makes the Tuskegee nursery the sole propagator of that licensed cultivar plant material, Wall said. Auburn will receive small royalty payments for the sale of the fruit because of the investment of their time, and could potentially generate a profit. “The first gold kiwi I had, as soon as I tasted it, I knew it was something that would be a hit,” Wayne Bassett, owner of Beck’s Turf and The Wildlife Group ...

By Nicky Disbrow How many calories have you eaten today? Have you exercised yet? Did you burn enough calories? Have you gone over your net calories for the day?   Imagine all of these questions, and many more, continuously crossing your mind and controlling your every thought on a daily basis. This is what it is like to have an eating disorder. Only in reality it is much worse.   Eating disorders are “serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions and your ability to function in important areas of life,” according to the Mayo Clinic. Although this appears to be a thorough definition, there is far more to these disorders that cause them to be potentially life threatening and extremely dangerous. &nb...

  By Erin Mills The arrival of spring brings a burst of green, when flowers bloom and the earth teems with new life. Along with the warm weather comes a time that is perfect for cultivating a garden. Small scale gardens with fresh fruits and vegetables provide health benefits that far outweigh those offered elsewhere in the food industry. With the Montgomery Area Food Bank's Plant an Extra Row program, farmers and home gardeners have the opportunity to provide fresh, healthy home-grown food for those in need. Fresh fruits and vegetables are unbeatable when it comes to healthy food, and they can be tastier than your conventional store-bought produce, too. Food that is grown in a real garden, as compared to factory farming, is treated with care from seed to harvest. Careful a...

By Timothy Lawless We’ve all seen those big Greek letters on AUM’s quad. Being in a fraternity or a sorority is a part of college life that many participate in, but what happens to the members after graduation? Two alumni members of the Phi Kappa Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha, Danny Lawless and William Robbins, discuss life after college. Lawless graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in communication. He is currently the program director at YMCA Camp Chandler. He has fond memories with Lambda Chi Alpha and tries to help the fraternity any chance he can get. “The best reason to join a fraternity is to surround yourself with like-minded people from different backgrounds that share the same moral compass,” Lawless said. “Doing so creates a culture of bonding between ordin...

By Latara Holloway Students and staff gathered for a night of fun, food and music at the International Festival on April 23. International Student Association, International Student Involvement and Housing and Residence Life hosted the event  meant to inform the AUM community to learn about the different cultures represented here at the university. Students were given a passport at the door and were encouraged to stop by each individual country table.  Kuwait, Sudan, Mexico, Brazil and Haiti were just a few of the countries represented at the event. Most tables shared food, drinks and more information about their countries to share with guests. This was freshman Omar Brito Estrado’s first time at International Fest.  “I see a lot of excitement and a lot of people helping out,” Es...

By Holly Watford “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” – Plato. April 25 is National Astronomy Day and the W.A. Gayle Planetarium has big plans for the occasion. The Planetarium has partnered with the Auburn Astronomical Society; the event will take place between 5 and 10 p.m. and is free to the public. I spoke with Rick Evans, Director of the W.A. Gayle Planetarium, about the event and what this year’s agenda will be. First, guests are welcomed to bring their personal telescopes that may be in need of repair so they can be fixed in time for the event. People who visit the Planetarium early “will be able to view the Moon and the Sun in the light of hydrogen-alpha with PST Solar Scopes and members’ scopes filtered white-light images,” ...