Students tidy D.C. park
About 35 AU students found everything from Cadillac tires to wheelchairs to mix tapes while cleaning up a creek in Marvin Gaye Park in Northeast D.C. Saturday morning.
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About 35 AU students found everything from Cadillac tires to wheelchairs to mix tapes while cleaning up a creek in Marvin Gaye Park in Northeast D.C. Saturday morning.
The recent screening of a pornographic film at the University of Maryland, College Park, has drawn controversy, but AU's Student Union Board said it has no plans to stir up similar controversy by showing an explicit film.
Universities across the country are moving away from traditional forms of discipline to systems based more on mediation and restorative justice.
The Undergraduate Senate voted Sunday against a resolution to nullify a previous resolution urging AU administration to recognize the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at AU.
Adjunct faculty members from universities across the United States and Canada have joined together to create an organization to address adjunct faculty issues.
Thousands of protesters, including some AU students, marched on the Pentagon and defense corporations in Arlington, Va., Saturday afternoon to protest U.S. aid to Israel the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The current recession has caused some AU students to reconsider their study abroad plans, but the AU Abroad office said it has not seen a significant decrease in study abroad applications.
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said immigrants need to assimilate and discussed why he thinks multiculturalism is divisive during a speech to an audience comprised mostly of protesters in Ward 1 Tuesday night.
Raphael Dunfey, a sophomore in the School of International Service, devoted an entire year of his life to service when he deferred his enrollment at AU to spend a year in D.C. as a City Year volunteer.
Shai Reshef is starting a new online university, complete with courses, students, professors and deans. What it will not have, however, is tuition.
Some AU students who had tickets to President Barack Obama's inauguration last week but were unable to view it said they do not plan to claim the free commemorative items offered by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inauguration Ceremonies.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has created headaches for AU students planning to study abroad in Israel.
High school students who apply to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., have the opportunity to sit down in their own homes and try out what could become the new trend in college admissions - webcam interviews.
Members of the AU community packed into Ward Circle Building Room 1 Tuesday evening to hear Bolivian President Evo Morales speak about the changes his government made in Bolivia and the need for better relations between Bolivia and the United States.
The Republican Party lost seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate because it had lost track of its fiscally conservative principles, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said Wednesday night during a speech in the Kay Spiritual Life Center.
Correction Appended
The Eagle surveyed 50 likely voters on the main quad and in Mary Graydon Center about whom they voted for or planned to vote for in the presidential election. The unscientific poll found 84 percent of these voters had voted or planned to vote for Obama, while 12 percent had voted or planned to vote for McCain. The remaining 4 percent of respondents were still undecided.
Correction Appended
School of Public Affairs professor Donald Fulsom said during a "Professors Are People, Too" event Thursday night that when he was a White House correspondent in the early 1970s, he was the first person to connect the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate complex to Richard Nixon's presidential re-election campaign.
Dr. Robert Hradsky will start as the new dean of students and assistant vice president of Campus Life Oct. 20.