Op/Ed: D.C. should spend surplus to help the homeless
With a $400 million surplus in the D.C. budget, a Kogod sophomore argues that money should go to alleviate poverty in the District and improve the economy.
Staff Editorial: TKE’s alleged hazing tarnishes University Greek life’s reputation
Fraternity hazing escalates despite University efforts to control it.
Looking forward, a new era for The Eagle
Goodbye to the last print edition of The Eagle.
Ethics With a Side of Toast
Safe sex means do more than ‘wrap it up’
We often engage in “wrap it up” discourse when discussing safe sex.
We promote condom use to the point where condoms become the primary way in which we measure the health of our sexual encounters.
Truthfully, safe sex…
Quick Take
Op/Ed: An open letter to Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya
A response to Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya.
Eagle Rants
Eagle Rants: May 13, 2013
Eagle Rants: May 9, 2013
Eagle Rants: May 8, 2013
Op/Eds
Op/Ed: Election recount is the first step toward democracy for Venezuela
Staff Editorial: Changes to dining plan promises improvements
Amidst Boston tragedy, focus on the helpers
Letters to the Editor
Fifty years later, Kennedy’s speech stays relevant
Immigration, LGBT rights are not mutually exclusive
Op/Ed: Student-drafted report pushes for reorganized student activity fee
Recent Opinion
National trend leans towards more adjuncts, less reliable student-professor relationships
April 17, 2013
After being at AU for four semesters, I have finally been able to establish meaningful relationships with many of my professors.
This student-teacher relationship has not only been stressed by family, advisors and peers, but it has also been promised by AU in their boasting of the professor’s “open doors” and low faculty-to-student ratios.
Yet last week, I was talking to my most influential professor, and she told me that AU was not going to renew her employment contract for next semester.
I was in shock.
The University claims the reason were purely financial. In financially tight times for everyone, this might make sense, but when I stepped back and connected all the dots, the results…
Letter to the Editor: S&M 101 promoted healthy sex, cannot be compared to smoking ban
April 17, 2013
In the April 11 issue of The Eagle, an op-ed entitled “Tobacco-Free policy isn’t a solution, just pushes problem off AU’s campus,” was published, which I nearly agreed with.
At one point the author cited the University’s S&M seminar as evidence. He claimed that a cigarette ban is hypocritical, because at the same time, “The University promotes high-risk sex, for example, by allowing a S&M seminar this past month.”
He went on to say that banning smoking is therefore comparable to “banning all sex on campus, the only way to ensure students don’t contract potentially deadly sexually transmitted diseases.”
He finally says that a sex ban would “infringe on the rights of students in the same way…
Op/Ed: An open letter to Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya
April 17, 2013
A response to Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya.
Quick Take: How can AU best address the spike in vandalism on campus?
April 14, 2013
The AU campus is experiencing a problem with vandalism. What steps can the AU administration take to both punish offenders and prevent additional incidents from happening in the future?
Op/Ed: Looking back on my time at AU
April 14, 2013
With only a few weeks left in the semester, and therefore only a few weeks left of my undergraduate career, I begin to reflect back at my time here at AU.
Immigration, LGBT rights are not mutually exclusive
Derek Siegel
April 10, 2013
“Immigration reform isn’t separate from LGBT equality. Rather, it changes the way LGBT persons understand our identities and how we advocate for our communities.”
Food innovations worsen America’s obesity problem
Sam Mendelson
April 10, 2013
Fast food innovations are part of an organized marketing tool aimed at attracting and engaging young customers.
Op/Ed: Tobacco-Free policy isn’t a solution, just pushes problem off AU’s campus
April 10, 2013
AU’s new smoking ban seems to stray away from nonsmokers’ rights and interfere with smokers’ decisions to do what they wish with their bodies.