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The Sustainability Office is encouraging students to use the correct trash cans with Recyclemania, a national competition challenging universities to minimize waste sent to the landfill.
AU has entered the national contest, “Recyclemania” for the third time, signaling its commitment to securing carbon neutral status by 2020, said Hannah Debelius, AU’s sustainability manager in the Office of Sustainability. The eight week contest began on Feb. 4. The university with the highest “diversion” rate —the percentage of trash that is recycled—wins.
Over the past few weeks under President Donald Trump’s administration, Congress has introduced several bills to scale back efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency, and The White House has restricted communications between scientists and the media. And before the presidential election, academics said that government scientists believed that their work might get erased if Trump became president because of his decisive opinions about climate change.
I wasn’t quite sure if it was a universal maxim, but I had heard friends of mine recite the humourous adage, “he’s just saying what we’re all thinking,” fictitiously assuming the role of the cucked Trump supporter proclaiming their admiration for our new Commander-in-Chief and his knack for stating the obscene, perverse and politically incorrect.
University President Neil Kerwin laid out the objectives for years nine and 10 of the University’s strategic plan in a memorandum on Wednesday.
Kogod’s staff is pushing for students to join external case competitions while they wait for the revamped version of the Kogod Case Competition to return in 2018.
Founder’s Week is here once again at AU. The annual events celebrate the University’s founding, which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on Feb. 24, 1893. Check out these upcoming events as you make your way through the week, headed by the Director of Founder’s Day Martin Valderruten.
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With time running down and the score tied the AU field hockey team was caught on the counterattack by the Boston University Terriers, falling 2-1 on Saturday afternoon at Jacobs Field.
“No contract, no peace!”
The 9:30 Club was full of all ages on Sept. 25 as concertgoers waited for the Prince tribute band Princess to arrive. Princess, featuring Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum, dominated the stage all night, embracing silences and encouraging the crowd to chant with them.
In honor of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace, AU alumni Amanda Brenner and Amanda Molina will host a 24 hour nonviolence kickoff event on campus to benefit D.C. middle and high school students on Sept. 21.
University officials announced today that the Airlie Board of Directors has gifted the school its historic Airlie Center, located in Warrenton, Virginia.
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion is preparing for this fall’s Intergroup Dialogue, a seven week program aiming to bring identity issues on campus to the forefront through group discussions led by student, staff and alumni facilitators.
AU’s newest wonks will get their social justice work started early with an entirely new set of Welcome Week programs centered on activism and volunteerism in the city.
After senior Brendan Johnson captured gold in the men’s 10,000m (6.2 mi) race at the Patriot League Conference Championships and competed in the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds on May 26, he said he took five days off to rest and recover.
A 4-3 loss in overtime to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Tuesday night marked the end of the Washington Capitals’ landmark season. After leading the rest of the National Hockey League for most of the year, a team that showed so much promise suffered a second-round exit in the playoffs.
The University hosted the 4th annual presentation of the William K. Reilly Awards for Environmental Leadership on March 31.
Catherine “Cathy” Schaeff, an associate professor in the Department of Biology at AU, spoke of the importance of revamping campus mental health services at her VPUG town hall Feb. 2.
From Feb. 2 to Feb. 22, the University held a series of town hall meetings to allow students, faculty and staff to vet three candidates interested in the position of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies.
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