Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Campus Publications

Campus Publications

The Stallion is the premier student newspaper in both the state and the southeast region. It wins annual awards for excellence in all categories, such as editorials, feature writing, photography, layout and design, given by the Georgia Press Association. Staff of the literary magazine, Pegasus, and creative writing faculty sponsor numerous poetry readings each year. Other events include a Writer’s Harvest and contributions to the George Scott Day festival.

Intercollegiate sports teams include baseball, golf, and tennis for men, and softball, tennis, and soccer for women. ABAC has five national championships, three in softball and two in men’s tennis.

ABAC has achieved international attention through its music program. The music program at ABAC includes a jazz band, jazz choir, concert band, concert choir, bluegrass band, and pep band. The ABAC jazz band has been on three tours of Europe. ABAC vocalists performed in 2011 at the Lincoln Center.

The ABAC journalism program produces two award-winning publications - the student newspaper, “The Stallion,” and the student literary magazine, “Pegasus.” ABAC also has its own radio station, WPLH 103.1.

The ABAC Arts Connection brings art and cultural events to Tifton and surrounding counties. The Baldwin Players theatre troupe stage performances during the fall and the spring semesters.

ABAC now has a Greek system on campus with the Alpha Gamma Rho and Kappa Sigma fraternities.

One of the more active clubs on campus is the Agricultural Engineering Technology Club. The club is known for holding truck and tractor pulls on campus each fall and spring. The club also maintains the ABAC Crackerjack pulling tractor, an Allis Chalmers 190XT, built in the 1970s by former staff member Jimmy Grubbs. The AET club has also recently completed work on a brand new pulling tractor, an AGCO Allis 9650, making the ABAC AET club the only college organization in the U.S. that currently has two running and competitive Super Farm Pulling Tractors. Almost all of the work building the new tractor and the work needed to maintain Crackerjack is performed by the students in the club. The club uses both tractors as recruiting tools not only for the organization, but for the school as well.