Ask Auburn
anything you want!

In Auburn, Alabama at the James E. Foy Student Union, facing the front doors on the second floor sits one of the more unique places in the country. This long table hosts the Brain Center for what was known as the Student Help Line, now more commonly referred to as the Ask Auburn Line. Since the 1950’s Auburn University has been providing information by telephone to its students, teachers, and locals, but with the advent of the internet, Ask Auburn has become a national phenomenon! ASK AUBURN 1-334-844-4244

Concierge Magazine’s staff regularly uses Ask Auburn as a fact checker (if we are too lazy to look things up) or to solve even the most inane and trivial arguments where facts are in dispute. Jason Lampton is a bartender in Houston who first gave us this telephone number. “We use it at the bar to award winning bets where facts are not necessarily agreed upon,” Jason told us.

So, one day we TRIED the Ask Auburn line, and a very helpful young man greeted us, and found the answer to our initial question in less than 30 seconds. We tried again over the following weeks, ALWAYS receiving the same courteous and quick responses.

Justina White, a senior English major from Decatur, Alabama answered our most recent call asking about the history of the Help Line. “Usually we have 3-4 students working at one time, and at least one supervisor,” she told us recently. “The shifts are 2-3 hours, but most people work two shifts to make it worth their time. We get asked LOTS of strange questions, and sometimes people get irritated if the answers are not what they wanted.”

The Ask Auburn line is answered 24 hours per day during the fall and spring semesters, shorter hours during the summer and breaks between semesters. So, no matter whether you want to know who the wealthiest man in the history of the world was, or what size was the largest tumor ever removed from a human, Ask Auburn has the answers!

..Alex Trebek and Jeopardy
..have NOTHING on Ask Auburn!