On April 9, the United Campus Workers of Alabama at Auburn University held a rally and petition signing at Toomer’s Corner.

"We've got to take it down to the structure, because we have envelope issues at the walls and the roof," Simon Yendle said.

Auburn University notes that its teams have been known as the Tigers since it fielded its first football team in 1892. The school says its motto, War Eagle, "has become a way for the Auburn Family ...