A metro brief on a PCP raid in the District of Columbia.

News briefs from around campus: University tap water and AU Professor Alan Kraut

Safety and security events from around campus since the Thursday issue

Many students think that finding a job after graduation can be frustrating. According to AU’s Office of Institutional Research, that notion may be correct as only 35 percent of last year’s graduates went straight into the work force.

Despite this statistic, there are a number of resources on campus and on the Web to help graduating seniors land that first job.

The engine company that responds to fires at AU moved from its temporary location on Nebraska Avenue to Connecticut Avenue.
Engine Company 20 is now at 4930 Connecticut Ave. NW, sharing space with Engine Company 31.
The location on Nebraska, which it previously shared with the Department of Homeland Security was “never intended to be permanent quarters,” said Kathryn Friedman, D.

American women are stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with the government, according to actress Janeane Garofolo.
Garofolo, a longtime reproductive rights activist, spoke on a conference call with writers from several college newspapers to garner interest for the upcoming March for Women’s Lives.

For AU students looking for places to live and people to live with during the summer, the key is to plan ahead and talk to people you know.
“You basically find out which of your friends are staying and which of your friends you can tolerate for three months,” junior Rachel Treffeissen said.

The battle against spam is heating up as Internet service providers take legal action against companies that send unwanted e-mails in bulk.

Microsoft, Yahoo and the Internet service providers Earthlink and America Online are teaming up to file lawsuits against spammers, which is possible under a new law called the Controlling The Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, also known as the CAN SPAM Act.

Several female students, most from AU’s Washington College of Law, regrouped last semester to form AU’s Contraceptive Coverage Campaign in an effort to tell University administrators that students on campus want oral contraceptives to be covered on their student health plan.

“Violence is identified always as evil - never as good,” said the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman of Israeli treatment of the Palestinian community in the Middle East on Monday’s Interfaith Symposium.

Wogaman, along with several other Jewish, Muslim and Christian panelists met in Kay Spiritual Life Center to discuss human rights and religious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Sunday.

According to a Public Safety crime alert, on Saturday at around midnight, an AU student was robbed at gunpoint near the trees of the Rockwood Building on the south side of campus.

After the student parked his vehicle, he walked to campus and was approached by two white men in their early to mid 20s.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was given a standing ovation by the 1,500 students who attended his lecture on Thursday at Bender Arena. The event was part of the Kennedy Political Union’s 35th anniversary celebrations.

The South African Nobel Laureate spoke about the need for hope despite the turmoil in current times.