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25Sep

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President Donald Trump?

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...

24Sep

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Theatre AUM 40th Anniversary Gala

Theatre AUM is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a production that include scenes, songs and monologues from shows that have been performed at Theatre AUM over the last 40 years. With a production like this underway, a moment of reflection is inevitable. “We are trying to incorporate as many shows as we can,” said Val Winkleman, who is Interim Head of the Department of Communication and Theatre. “Some will be omitted but we are paying homage – a kind of quilt – to the 196 shows that have been performed.” This 40th Anniversary show will be performed by a total of 32 actors and technicians who are alumni, faculty or current students. “I am excited about alumni coming back and working with current students,” Winkleman said. Winkleman feels that the greatest challenge is recruiting a...

18Sep

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The Other Side’s Perspective

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...

15Sep

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New Parking Permits Required for AUM Students

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...

31Aug

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New Student Convocation

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...

4Aug

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Jess Meuse Coming to AUM

American Idol Season 13 finalist and AUM alumna Jess Meuse will help kick off the 2015-2016 school year with a free concert and meet-and-greet. The concert will be held Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. in the AUM Athletics Complex. Afterward, students can meet Meuse for pictures and autographs from 8:10-8:45 p.m. in the Taylor Center room 230. Registration for the concert is required. Tickets can be acquired at https://aumstudentlife.wufoo.com/forms/jess-meuse-concert-at-aum. The concert is free, but donations such as cash, checks, pet food and other items will be accepted at the door for the Montgomery Humane Society. In addition, free t-shirts will be given away by the AUM softball and tennis players (while supplies last). Meuse auditioned for American Idol Season 13 while she was a st...

AUM Baseball and Softball Make Huge Splashes Under First-year Head Coaches

11Jun

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AUM Baseball and Softball Make Huge Splashes Under First-year Head Coaches

Two teams, two ideally similar situations and two fantastic seasons under their belt. For the AUM baseball and softball teams, 2015 marked the beginning of a new era. For the first time in either program’s history, they began their 2015 campaign without the head coaches that helped start up their respected sport. The softball team parted ways with head coach Chris Steiner-Wilcoxson in the fall of 2014, after six successful seasons. Steiner-Wilcoxson got the program off of the ground and running during her short tenure at AUM, posting a record of 189-85-2 in the team’s first six years of existence. Her biggest accomplishment undoubtedly was leading the team to its first ever NAIA National Championship in 2014. That team boasted a record of 44-7, while going a perfect 16-0 at home a...

15May

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Club Spotlight: Study Abroad

Traveling to another county is usually one of the top goals on many people’s bucket lists. However, the high cost of airfare is a major obstacle, especially for college students who still struggle to balance classes and jobs while aiming towards a degree. Now there is a new student organization on campus that aims to help cut down the costs for student explorers. It is called the Study Abroad Club. The club was started in fall of 2014 after a student’s suggestion to make a club to help raise funds towards study abroad trips. Since then, the group has been working to raise awareness about the study abroad programs offered at AUM as well as hosting events to help make trips more affordable for students. Current president Hannah Merren was able to answer a few questions about the cl...

12May

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Golden Kiwi Finds Alabama Home

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 ...

11May

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A Battle Against the Brain

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...