In this week’s edition of Campus Newton — a new-ish column about life and times on the Plains from two current Auburn students — Alex Miller and Justin Lee vent about one of Auburn’s greatest modern-day misconceptions. Read last week’s column about their undercover adventure through the Auburn airwaves here. Keeping with our mission to [...]

Campus Newton—a new column about life and times on the Plains in 2012 written by two current Auburn students. Alex Miller is a sophomore business major making his TWER debut, tag-teaming with TWER vet Justin Lee, a junior majoring in journalism. Read at your own risk. With our new collaborative column for TWER, we knew [...]

Gary Keever had to keep going back for more sugar. “We started off by mixing up 40 liters, 20 liters in each of the two containers, and thought we’d be lucky to get the trees to take up that volume,” Keever, an endowed professor in Auburn’s Department of Horticulture, said of the carbohydrate cocktail brewed for [...]

You like my shirt? Thanks, Pat Dye helped me make it. Talk about a line you don’t hear everyday. Actually, on Wednesday it might be a line you hear often. Coach Dye and Kendall Simmons, a former Auburn player and two-time Super Bowl champion, will be outside the student center helping tie-dye T-shirts orange and [...]

As if the Gap, the froyo, and our famous Chick-fil-A’s didn’t have you feeling like you were in a mall enough, a map of the Auburn University campus recently went up in Ross Square between Samford Hall and the old Foy. Speaking of Foy, they’re not sure how many of the maps have been or [...]

The Three Heismen won’t be the only former Auburn football greats honored A-Day weekend. Former All-American defensive back Carlos Rogers and Bill Cody, a star linebacker for Auburn in the 1960s, will be inducted into the Tiger Trail during a ceremony at Auburn Arena on Friday, April 13… you know, the Tiger Trail, the granite [...]

You know that scene in “National Treasure” (of course you do) where Cage and Co. finally find the Templar treasure and it’s not just a storage unit-sized cave or anything, but an undiscovered country of ancient booty that literally stretches to the subterranean horizon with forgotten gold and grails unknown? We kind of stumbled on [...]

Toomer’s Task Force head honcho Dr. Gary Keever and other experts in Auburn’s departments of horticulture and agronomy (including our old friend the Emotional Agronomist) took a trip up to the canopy of the Toomer’s Oaks early Wednesday morning. What did they find? Sizable, dead branches—so sizable and so dead they’ll have to be removed [...]

Last night’s episode of Tosh. 0 closed with a promise to pick on parkour, “the internet sensation of 2004,” next week. And of course the teaser was footage of a five-stitch face-plant on a short brick wall between Tichenor Hall and Thach Hall shot during an Auburn Parkour and Columbus Parkour get-together late last year. [...]

Volunteers with Best Buddies, a non-profit organization that aims to empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, were on the Haley Center concourse today passing out wristbands and candy to raise awareness of language’s effect on society’s attitudes toward the mentally handicapped. Auburn students were encouraged to sign a large poster pledging to refrain from [...]