The Ninth Annual CityFest committee is pleased to announce that it has almost doubled the number of vendors and artists from previous years. This has lead CityFest Co-Coordinator to believe that this year's festival will have the largest attendance record to date.



The numbers of attendees and vendors from around the Southeast have continued to double and even triple this past year. More than 40,000 festival-goers and 110 vendors attended last year’s festival.



Bands, swing… Continue

Auburn University public relations students are required to take Public Relations Campaigns as one of their final classes before graduating. The class is designed to allow groups of students the chance to practice the PR skills they have acquired through previous classes to real-life clients in the community of Auburn. Throughout the duration of the semester the groups create a public relations campaign that the client can utilize.



Elizabeth Traylor is a senior student currently… Continue

Julie Bunkley is a young entrepreneur who has chosen to start her business in her college hometown of Auburn. Bunkley received a public relations degree from Auburn University in 2003. After graduating she spent some time working in her hometown of Mobile, Ala. However, it wasn’t long before Bunkley returned to Auburn to start her very own event planning business, Invision.



Julie Bunkley made the decision to create Invision after spending a considerable amount of time planning events… Continue

Ric Smith is an Auburn University professor and the Director of Experiential Learning for the Auburn Department of Communication and Journalism. In addition to teaching classes, he coordinates and supervises undergraduate internships. He is also the faculty advisor for WEGL radio and Eagle Eye television. When he’s not busy with all of that, he’s the voice you hear at every home Auburn football game. He is Jordan-Hare’s official announcer.



Ric Smith is no newcomer to standing behind… Continue

Self-defense has always been an important issue for women of all ages. However, in the aftermath of the Lauren Burk tragedy in Auburn last semester, it has become a very conscious issue in the minds of college women everywhere. Most girls came to the realization that a tragedy like that could happen to anyone and most of us wouldn’t know what to do if it happened to us.



Luckily, Auburn University has a class designed to teach Auburn’s female students how to defend and protect… Continue