That $11 million Auburn band facility soon to be the envy of Bama fans everywhere? Thank Meredith Birchfield. The 1969 Auburn graduate is so passionate about Auburn’s band she donated $1 million to the project. “It’s a way of giving back for all the joy they’ve given me,’ Birchfield said in the January issue of [...]
Giving new spider species crazy new names and winning beauty pageants: THAT’S WHAT AUBURN DOES — most recently by Auburn senior Lauren Terry, who Sunday night in Oklahoma City beat out 11 other contestants (none of whom go to Auburn) for the title of Miss Rodeo USA. Miss Alabama U.S.A. turned ‘Net Goddess Katherine Webb, [...]
What with Mallory Hagan, an Auburn hat-wearing former Auburn student, actually winning the crown, Auburn fans could understandably view the World Wide Webb’s latest pop culture milestone as downright surreal, almost meta even. Al.com notes that the question posed to first runner up Miss South Carolina Ali Rogers was actually about whether Brent Musburger’s comments [...]
Katherine Webb is so last week. (Even though she was actually a topic in the Q&A portion.) Yes, unbelievably (but not really), Auburn has a new beAUty queen to buff our nails with — but not just any beauty queen: THE beauty queen. 23-year-old Opelika native turned Miss New York Mallory Hagan was crowned Miss [...]
According to Marian Royston, the George J. Mitchell Scholarship honors former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell and recognizes “achievement, leadership and a commitment to community and public service.” And she should know. Royston is the first Auburn student to receive the highly-selected scholarship, which awards one year of graduate study in Ireland; Royston will study Leadership [...]
Our old friend Warren Tidwell, the original brains and brawn behind Toomer’s For Tuscaloosa, is at it again — in a big, big way. That #26Acts of Kindness thing? Tidwell, an Auburn resident and an Auburn fan, started it. Not that you’d know that. NBC’s Ann Curry has been widely credited with starting the movement [...]
You’ll never guess which Auburn man was almost TIME magazine’s person of the year. Nope, not Pat Dye — Tim Cook. Apple’s CEO was one of four runners-up for the annual distinction, losing out to some dude named Barack Obama. But Cook’s cultural influence was still celebrated with a 2,500-word essay by author and senior [...]
Acclaimed poet Jake Adam York, a 1994 Auburn graduate and former literary editor of The Auburn Circle, died Sunday. He was 40. The cause of his death has not been reported. York was an associate professor at the University of Colorado and a member of the Rocky Mountain Auburn Club. His collection “A Murmuration of [...]
It started as just a chance to beat some MIT students through a competition based off the lightcycle game in Tronand ended in clasping hands and singing Auburn’s alma mater. Kevin Davis, a junior at Auburn in computer science, and David Shuckerow, a sophomore at Auburn in computer science, placed first and fourth in a [...]
Bo Bo Bo. You’ve let Julia Roberts play alongside you in a movie because you’re the greatest multisport hero ever. Documentarians study you. You’ve saved us from tornados. Because being Superman is no longer a challenge—seriously, you school Superman and reduce Dean Cain to hoping for a rebound. (And OBVIOUS goaltending, which is why he only appears in Lifetime movies to [...]
