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Forty-five AU graduate students living in a Wesley Theological Seminary dormitory will not be able to return to their dorms this fall, as the University has plans to sign a master lease with Wesley to house 55 rising juniors and seniors there in the fall 2016 semester.
Update 10:40 p.m.: Metro rail tweeted that inspections of the track were underway to determine the cause of the smoke. In the meantime, they also tweeted that shuttle buses would replace service until the cause is determined.
AU has named Camille A. Nelson as the next dean of the Washington College of Law, the first ever woman of color to head the school.
World Wrestling Entertainment hall of famer Mick Foley will speak at AU next month, but he won’t be here to talk body slams. Instead, Foley will speak about sexual assault.
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For months, the AU club sailing team has boasted all the bells and whistles one would expect from a sports club: custom sweatshirts, stickers with their logo, and even a flag. Everything, that is, except for boats.
Christine Hamlett-Williams has been a subcontracted dining employee at AU for 34 years. Currently a cashier and a union shop steward, she sits most days behind the register at the mini P.O.D. Market in Mary Graydon Center. At 67, Hamlett-Williams wants to retire, but like other longtime dining employees, meager pension benefits over three decades have deprived her of this option.
The Berkshire Apartments building was evacuated around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, after a small oven fire on the first floor flooded the building with smoke.
On National Coffee Day, The Scene tested five different cups of coffee across campus. What follows is our thoughts on five black small cups of joe. Also, click here for The Eagle's coffee day gallery.
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Washington College of Law dean Claudio Grossman will step down at the end of the academic year, the University announced Monday night, ending a tenure in the position of 21 years that saw both growth and tumult at the school.
Weeks after a Student Government referendum passed overwhelmingly in favor of converting the third floor of Mary Graydon Center into student space, Vice President of Campus Life Gail Hanson says the University is in the pre-planning stages of creating the new space.
Washington College of Law professor and Maryland State Sen. Jamie B. Raskin entered the race to fill the seat for the state’s 8th congressional district on April 19.
A proposal to extend construction hours for the East Campus project won the support of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D on April 1, boosting the University’s hopes of finishing the site by fall 2016.
A delayed start and inclement weather has led the University to seek extended work hours at the East Campus construction project.
AU will be closed on Feb. 17 due to snow, according to an AU alert sent at 11:47 p.m. The Terrace Dining Room, Eagles Nest and campus gyms will remain open.
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AU alumna Muriel E. Bowser (D) became the first woman in 20 years to be sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C., on Jan. 2 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. She inherits a city whose economic boom has left some behind, leaving a dilemma for Bowser: balancing progress while dealing with an urgent homelessness and affordable housing crisis.
Under a new partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, two AU students will be awarded the opportunity to report on an underreported international issue of their choice.
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