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While Tuesday's presidential primaries produced a clear front-runner for the Republican Party, they left the choice in the Democratic race more muddled, said Dotty Lynch, executive-in-residence in the School of Communication and political consultant for CBS News, during a panel discussion Wednesday.
It's a sad truth most students don't realize until graduation: College is debt. Rising tuition costs, inflated housing and meal plans, the biannual agony of textbooks and transportation fees and, of course, the costs of living culminate into a seemingly insurmountable, stress-inducing catastrophe that most students remedy with private loans, which add interest to an already devastating sum.
Most of the media chatter about the Washington Capitals' chances in the 2007-2008 season was relatively positive. For the first time since the fire sale of 2004, when the club shed expensive and under performing talents like Jaromir Jagr, Robert Lang and franchise mainstay Peter Bondra, optimism was present for at least a playoff berth.
fight injustices in the world than they may think, Mike Haack, a graduate student in the School of International Service, said at an activism workshop Saturday.
Thursday, Jan. 24
The idea that normal people can't make a difference to an epidemic as massive as AIDS in Africa couldn't be further from the truth.
We've witnessed quite a deal this fall semester. Merely a few months after AU students harassed a White House chief of staff, the Princeton Review stripped us of our "most politically active" status. After months of complaining about D.C. cab rates, the mayor heeded our suggestions and cab drivers went on strike. From misleading surveys to protests, a cappella performance space squabbles to AUCC funding crises, this page has editorialized on a great deal of controversy this semester. The spring is sure to be just as eventful.
AU may purchase hybrid shuttle buses in future years as part of its regular shuttle replacement plan, according to Mark Feist, assistant director of Facilities Management.
The Undergraduate Senate passed a bill encouraging President Neil Kerwin to sign a national commitment to environmental sustainability at their meeting Sunday.
All signs point toward some economic problems in the near future. Oil will soon race past $100 a barrel, interest rates are bottomed out, the dollar is heading toward lows that may no longer be healthy and, since the subprime mortgage crisis of this summer, lending practices have yet to recover. Even Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says growth will slow. Unfortunately, economic recession is part of life. Since World War II, we have had 10 of them, usually lasting an average of eight to 12 months.
Students affected by the flooding on the north side of Letts Terrace should be able to move back into their rooms by Friday, according to Housing and Dining Executive Director Chris Moody.
Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., introduced last Thursday new legislation that aims to significantly lower the cost of birth control on college campuses nationwide, including at AU.
The D.C. area, including AU, has been under a drought watch since early October. While AU has not instituted any additional water restrictions as a result of the drought watch, it recently began implementing new programs to start conserving water, according to Willy Suter, director of Facilities Management.
AU received a D+ for environmental sustainability on a Sustainable Endowments Institute report card, which ranks U.S. and Canadian colleges.
A scorecard released this week by the Sustainable Endowments Institute gave AU a D+ for environmental sustainability.
For too long I have stood idly by while Eagle columnist Dorian Key has waged a reactionary holy war on our "latte-liberal university campus," while hiding behind some skewed semblance of "economics." What he espouses in his Oct. 23 editorial amounts to greenwashing. Greenwashing means that a company, realizing that green is profitable, tries to change its image to seem more sustainable while doing nothing to change their ways.
Thursday, Oct. 25
Wednesday, Oct. 3
It is vital for U.S. media to maintain a presence overseas, Jonathan Landay, chief Pentagon correspondent for the McClatchy Company, said during a speech Monday in Mary Graydon Center.
A manic-depressive is on the loose, spilling valuable and job-threatening information about one of the country's largest firms.
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