About $10,000 was awarded to clubs this semester after the General Assembly, AU’s undergraduate student legislature, allotted $20,000 to the AU Club Council to distribute since it felt club programming at AU was most important, according to council chair Evan Wagner.  Article includes all club allocations

School of Communication professor Rodger Streitmatter is worried about the recent ruling by Massachusetts’ highest court granting marriage rights to same-sex couples.

“I’m a little bit concerned that it will change from being a human rights issue into a political football,” he said.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will speak in Bender Arena on March 18 as part of the 35th anniversary of the Kennedy Political Union, AU’s student-run speaker series, said Eric Morley, KPU director.

“I am excited we have another international figure, another world leader coming to speak,” Morley said.

A longtime District resident put forth a petition at a Thursday night neighborhood advisory commission meeting to alter the signs outside the Greenberg Theatre.

Richard Randall, who lives on Quebec Street, said the signs concerned ANC 3E - the neighborhood governmental unit that oversees Tenleytown, AU Park and Friendship Heights - and its citizens.

The elections for the Student Confederation, AU’s student government, took a negative turn early Thursday morning when a campaign poster hanging on the Quad was set on fire. The 6-foot-by-6-foot poster had a large hole burned into the center and several other burn marks, Public Safety reported.

AU is buzzing with the excitement of what Student Union Board Assistant Director Jason Geisinger is calling the “biggest show we’ve had in at least 15 years.”

Folk legend Bob Dylan will perform his Grammy-winning music in Bender Arena on Saturday, April 3.

While some work-study students just bustle around offices, filing away papers or making appointments, considering their work-study jobs as just jobs, others have gained valuable experience useful in their professional and personal lives while coping with the pressures of working and classes.

Safety and security occurrences around campus reported since last issue

Brief news from around campus: MTV stopping by the Quad, and a communications professor presenting on power relations in Central America