Hamlin had been held in D.C. since Oct. 25.

An extradition hearing is set for Nov. 24.

When it comes to housing costs, AU ranks among the top 20 most expensive schools in the U.S.

Winners cannot be determined officially until 10 days after the election, however.

A memorial service for Professor Sue Marcum will be held next Tuesday in Bender Arena at 8 p.m.

The cause of Sue Marcum’s death was asphyxia and blunt force trauma, according to a preliminary report from the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office.

An arrest has been made in connection with the death of AU Professor Sue Marcum. Deandrew Hamlin, 18, was arrested Monday night in the District and charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and felony fleeing. Hamlin has not yet been in connection with Marcum’s death, and police are continuing their investigation Tuesday.

Sue Marcum, an executive in residence and an accounting and taxation professor in the Kogod School of Business, was found dead in her home Monday morning by Montgomery County Police. Police said there were signs of forced entry at her home, and are treating her death as a homicide. Students said Marcum was a beloved professor, and left the 2:10 p.m. class she was to teach in tears.

Dean of the School of International Service Louis Goodman will leave his position in the summer of 2011.

Neighbors and local commissioners told AU administrators they were not satisfied with changes being made to the Campus Plan at an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting Thursday night.

The latest installment of the wonk campaign was a food vendor truck that showed up on the main quad this afternoon to sell Wonky Dogs, Wonky Fries and grilled cheese, among other fast food options.

Faulty online Student Government ballots are causing a delay in the announcement of which write-in candidates earned Senate seats in the fall election.

The A Voice 4 U campaign selected Deon Jones on Thursday to run for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission district encompassing AU’s South side of campus, ANC 3D07.

KPU Director Josh Levitt hopes to reschedule the event for later this semester.

“Vote bots” overtaking campus, Greek life and Student Government officials working together, students switching their registration from their home residence to D.C. —  it’s all part of the A Voice 4 U campaign to bring student representation to the ANCs that cover our campus.
• Watch the video of the “vote bots” here!

Students and staff of AU filled about half of the 100 chairs set up in Mary Graydon Center rooms 4 and 5 for the town hall meeting Thursday night to express complaints, concerns, comments and questions regarding “wonk.”

Many students said they thought there was a lack of input from undergraduates in the creative process of the campaign, and others said the university chose to allocate funds inappropriately when endorsing this initiative.

As part of a Student Government bill passed Sunday, the SG and University Communications and Marketing will host a town hall meeting to discuss the ‘wonk’ campaign Thursday afternoon.

No AU students were affected by the situation Wednesday afternoon.

The university spent two years of research and hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign to rebrand the university. The results? One word: wonk.
• See the breakdown of how much becoming a “wonk” actually costs.
• What do current students think of being “wonkified?”

From dirty jokes to Willy Wonka references, AU student reactions to the “wonk” campaign have varied.

Cost breakdowns of the wonk campaign.

After somehow footing the bill for $36,180 of tuition, $8,630 for average room and $4,800 for average board this year, most AU students could stand to save a buck here or there.

After glitches that prevented an earlier launch, the Student Government will debut its new website this evening.

A team of AU faculty, staff and students launched a rebranding effort Monday for the University, telling community members to “get to know wonk.”

More than the Tavern can hold are expected, SUB said.

Tennis champions Andre Agassi, Anna Kournikova, Stefanie Graf and others will play in AU’s very own Bender Arena Nov. 15, according to the World TeamTennis website.

AU senior Brandon Krapf was featured Friday in a video on the USA Today website that is part of the week-long series “Degrees of Difficulty.”

A Q&A with former SG President Andy MacCracken.

An online editorial for a site representing several Pittsburgh publications called comments made by a professor Emeritus for AU treasonous.

A D.C. think tank released a study Friday that questions the legality of some unpaid internships. At AU, 81 percent of students interned without pay this year.

Last Thursday, AU students walked barefoot from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial and back in order to participate in “One Day Without Shoes,” a global event sponsored by TOMS Shoes.

AU’s Vice President of Campus Life Gail Short Hanson proposed adaptations to the Student Conduct Code that would include such terms as “stalking” and “consent” last week. A group dedicated to improving the university’s approach to sexual assault stood behind this proposal.

• One student shares her story as a rape survivor

Thursday is Census Day, the official day on which Americans filling out their 2010 census forms should base their residential and familial information, according to Ben Marcus, Chairman of the D.C. Metro University Student Alliance.

An AU student who did not wish to be named is the survivor of two sexual assaults allegedly perpetrated by fellow AU students. She agreed to share her stories with The Eagle, because she wants people to understand that rape is more common than many believe.

Six leaders from the Gathering returned March 20 from a trip to Haiti, where they worked to address needs resulting from the Jan. 12 earthquake and to maintain their relationships with the Haitian community.

This weekend, the high was 73 degrees Fahrenheit, the sun was shining and thousands of people, including many AU students, turned out for at least four rallies that occurred across D.C. in what sophomore in the School of International Service Melissa Mahfouz called “the weekend of activism.”

D.C. police arrested two AU students at the Funk the War protest Friday. An unknown person or group vandalized the Armed Forces Recruiting Center during the protest, according to AU graduate student Geoff Ramsey.
• AU students participated in two other protests Saturday at the Capitol and the mall, respectively.

Dunya Mikhail, a recipient of the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, spoke at an event at AU Wednesday. In an exclusive interview, she spoke with Eagle Staff Writer Meg Fowler about her writing and experiences.

Andrew Gall is tired of repetitive talking points, tired of unequal justice for special interest groups and tired of status quo politics.

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.

In the fifth annual “Shootout: Battle of the Presidents,” Student Government President Andy MacCracken became the first SG President to beat AU President Cornelius Kerwin.

AU came out just behind George Washington University for the most graduates going to the Peace Corps from all mid-sized universities last year.

During a week of canoeing in an area between Minnesota and Canada known as the Northern Tier High Adventure location, a senior in the School of Public Affairs Ryan Korn barely slept. He woke in the middle of the night to the sound of howling wolves; he only had purified lake water to drink and ate moldy spaghetti accidentally dowsed in a stream. He was eaten through his multiple sweaters by mosquitoes in 80 degree weather, came down with a fever on the third day and “definitely almost got struck by lightning. Twice.”

AU hosted the nation-wide launch of the first system specifically made to evaluate the sustainability of colleges and universities this semester.

During the weeks following winter break when the AUTO program was shut down, Community Service Center operations were forced to adjust to accommodate for their loss of the usual mode of transportation.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board of directors approved a decision Thursday to add 10 cents to current Metrobus, Metrorail and MetroAccess fares in order to generate $9.6 million to help close its $40 million budget gap.

The board made the decision to increase fares instead of cutting back on services because it received written feedback from 596 D.C. residents who said they mostly preferred the fare increase, according to a statement from WMATA.

President Barack Obama did not address District voting rights in his State of the Union address Wednesday night, despite petitions to address this issue from residents of D.C., including AU students and faculty and members of the organization DC Vote.

Basketball fans will be able to receive swine flu immunizations while watching the Washington Wizards game Tuesday.

What you missed during the holidays…

To ease the strain on budgets across the nation, some cities are considering a tax on universities’ tuitions. At AU, that could mean a $344.56 tax for each student.

Vaccines for H1N1 will be available Friday, Nov. 20 in the Mary Graydon Center, the Student Health Center announced.

The Board of Regents at the University of Maryland voted last week to defy a legislative order from the state of Maryland by refusing to adopt a new university policy regarding the screening of pornographic films on campus.

Schools across the country are seeing increases in both student enrollment in university-provided health insurance plans and student use of university health centers.

India’s education system is at a crossroads, India’s Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shri Kapil Sibal said during an Oct. 30 speech at Georgetown University.

The D.C. Council will consider approving same-sex marriages made within the city, after approving legislation to recognize same-sex marriages made outside the District earlier this year.

The Catholic University of America will install the largest solar-energy system in the D.C. metropolitan area, with over 1,000 solar panels on four campus buildings in November.

Like universities across the country, AU’s total tuition amount increased this year — and even more than the national average.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit is expanding this November, when 20 new officers from Patrol Districts will be trained to respond to calls from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community while on patrol.

D.C.’s unemployment rate this August increased to 11.2 percent, a level not reached since June of 1983, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A larger number of students are coming to the Student Health Center this year than in the past due to fears about the swine flu.

AU’s OneVoice club, a group seeking to promote a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, launched their affiliation with J Street U by meeting to discuss future plans with the nationwide group’s director, Tammy Shapiro, Monday, Sept. 21.

The SG Senate passed a bill Sunday encouraging Housing and Dining to create unofficial package hours from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Anderson and Centennial Hall dorms.

Howard University and Virginia Tech University are now expanding their intelligence curricula as part of a five-year, $2.5 million academic program funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

“I don’t think anyone at AU is qualified enough to make that big of a decision. I know that AU is a very politically active school, but I don’t think appointed positions would go over very well with the students.”
Chelsea Spichs, CAS/ SIS junior

“I mean, yeah, it could be beneficial because not many people vote either way, probably because it’s an SG thing, but I feel like it should still be put up to a vote.”
Joey Catania, SPA sophomore

“I think it might [prevent problems in the future]…

Two AU psychology professors earned a five-year grant of $300,000 per year from the National Institutes of Health to continue work on reducing drug addiction.

We asked AU students what they thought about the charges against SG Comptroller Matt Handverger.

The AU Department of Public Safety is promoting its free techniques of updating students about safety concerns on and around campus, according to DPS Chief Michael McNair.

The EcoSense community garden has flourished since its ground-breaking on Campus Beautification Day last May, according to EcoSense President Drew Veysey.

The garden was created last May and has been cared for by members of the entire AU community. Tomatoes, eggplants, basil, parsley, carrots, banana peppers, pumpkins and sunflowers are all growing in the plot behind Nebraska Hall, according to Kate Pinkerton, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and the EcoSense garden representative.

U.S. News and World Report ranked AU 84th in its annual National Universities Rankings released Aug. 20th. 

AU’s standing on the U.S. News list puts it above Catholic University at 121st and Howard University at 96th. The George Washington University and the University of Maryland-College Park ranked above AU, both with a ranking of 53rd. Georgetown University ranked 24th.

Effective Friday, AU Facilities Management will implement three new shuttle routes—the red, white and blue routes—that aim to create greater efficiency for students.

There’s lots more to explore in D.C. than just Tenleytown!