At the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, controversy about the political group GOProud broke out during one of the conference panels, according to several AU students who attended.

The latest from Charlie Szold.

Public Safety actions reported to The Eagle.

Vice President of Student Government Alex Prescott and Founders’ Week Director Jacque Martin defended their actions in regards to the protocol preceding the postponement of the Founders’ Day Dance at a meeting Sunday. Prescott also announced that the SG might take legal action against the venue where the dance would have occurred.

AU fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa owned up to charges from the Inter-Fraternity Council Sunday and faces punishment. PSK may still take a pledge class next fall.

Spring Valley residents questioned the Army Corps’ recently announced findings regarding anion levels in local drinking water sources.

Many more students chose to study abroad in the spring than in the fall this academic year according to Senior Study Abroad Adviser Ethan Merritt.

The former Student Government bill to reduce fraudulent EagleBucks activity was “dramatically changed” and adopted as a resolution Sunday, according to Class of 2012 Senator Seth Rosenstein.

As the historic snowstorms of February 2010 blanketed D.C. with over 30 inches of snow, canceling classes for nearly a week, some professors turned to the Internet to continue classes.

Wimba, a new video chat feature available to AU professors, elicited mixed feelings from students and teachers.

News on campus from the Board of Trustees, greek councils and Student Government.

The American Wind Energy Association and the Department of Energy called a report written in the School of Communication’s Investigative Reporting Workshop false.

The Feb. 8 report was part of the “Blown Away: America’s billions for clean-energy jobs are flying overseas” series by the Workshop, that said that President Barack Obama’s stimulus package did not generate green jobs in the United States and instead sent money overseas.

After the series of historic snowstorms earlier this month, AU students who live off campus struggled to commute to campus in a timely fashion for the startup of classes when snow and slush still filled the streets of D.C.

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty lifted the District’s Snow Emergency status on the morning of Feb. 8, but last week Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., requested federal emergency funds for the city for its expenditures on snow removal.

The gender ratio at colleges and universities appears to be stabilizing after a decade of expansion in the gender gap with more women attending college than men, according to a Jan. 26 report from the American Council on Education.

However, the implications of lasting gender imbalances on America’s college campuses are still having an effect on where men and women choose to apply to school, according to USA Today.

DPS actions reported to The Eagle.

The contract for the Founders’ Day Ball was submitted later than recommended by the Post Office Pavilion, according to a member of the pavilion’s staff.