re: Auburn has record enrollment for 2022.

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Spot on. The GROUNDSKEEPING is great. The buildings themselves, not so much. As is typical with many land grant institutions that have strings attached to the money, a lot of buildings look like they were stamped out by the green desk architects in the FSGLB (Federal Department of Government Looking Buildings) circa 1968.

This isn't a knock on Auburn per se. There are a LOT of schools that have this same blocky brick building design motif.

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That is bullshite. It has nothing to do with being a land grant university. AUs master plan only allows building with red brick and grey mortar. This plan was enacted from the start. Only recently has that changed with the Lowder building and some of the new construction. AU doesn't want to look like a patchwork quilt like some Universities.