Our generation carries the responsibility of ending the War in Iraq, James Thurber, Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, told students at an Honors Tea Talk last night.

Thurber’s lecture on “Congress and the President: Cooperation and Conflict” transformed into a dialogue with the students gathered in the Honors Office over cake and tea.

The Kansas State Board of Education repealed a set of anti-evolution science curriculum guidelines Tuesday, which had earned the state worldwide notoriety, according to The Associated Press.

The old set of guidelines, passed in 2005 with the strong backing of supporters of intelligent design, included language that suggested evolutionary concepts like the common origin of all life on Earth were controversial and were being challenged by newer research.

Employers in the District will not be able to look at an applicant’s criminal history until after a job offer is made if a proposed bill is passed by the D.C. City Council, according to The Washington Post.

If enacted, the Human Rights for Ex-Offenders Act would also allow an employer to only look at the last 10 years of an applicant’s criminal record.

Senate Republican to keynote WCL Conference on International Migration Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C., will keynote a Washington College of Law conference focusing on the legal aspects of international migration, according to a WCL press release. The conference, titled “A World on the Move: Legal Perspectives on a New Era of International Migration,” will take place Feb.

Thursday, Feb. 15

“A World on the Move: Legal Perspectives on a New Era of International Migration”
11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Washington College of Law, room 603
The program will examine the multidimensional aspects of international migration, particularly the international protection of refugees and displaced persons, the economic implications of international migration and the linkage between state sovereignty, security and international migration.

A year has passed since the federal Office of Management and Budget deemed Gallaudet University as “ineffective” in retaining and graduating students. This year, according to a report by the Office of Management and Budget, Gallaudet has been promoted to “adequate” status, despite its still low retention rate of around 40 percent.

Several AU students and staff are helping develop the Brookings Institution’s Initiative on International Service, which aims to double the number of American citizens who volunteer overseas by 2010.

The Initiative plans to do so by pulling resources from a diverse group of organizations, such as corporations, NGOs and higher education institutions.

Five resident assistants from the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University were fired after portraying Muslim kidnappers in a homemade video. Some AU students said the video was indecent and insensitive to the Muslim community.

The university fired the Brookville Hall resident assistants because administrators said the video violated their RA employment contract and reflected insensitivity.

Non-violence is not just a technique or tactic, but a way of life, Rep. John Lewis told students, faculty and other members of the AU community Monday night.

“War is obsolete as a tool of our foreign policy,” Lewis, D-Ga., said in a speech at the Kay Spiritual Life Center.

AU students may soon be affected by the Bush administration’s proposal to increase the federal loan limits for undergraduates and graduates.

The proposed increases were first made public Feb. 5 with the release of President Bush’s Budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year 2008.

Local community Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D members voted at their monthly public meeting on Feb. 7 in favor of a proposed renovation and expansion of AU’s McKinley Building. The ANC’s favorable vote included a series of conditions, which were prompted by reports of disruptive behavior in off-campus houses.

The Health Center is expected to make available its first shipment of Gardasil, the Human Papillomavirus vaccine, by the end of this month, according to the Health Center’s Web site.

HPV, as the virus is more commonly referred to, is a sexually transmitted disease that will infect approximately 50 percent of sexually active people in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control Web site.