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(03/31/05 5:00am)
Even before American University received its charter from Congress in 1893, The American University Courier, the predecessor to today's student newspaper, The Eagle, debuted in 1892, chronicling the lives of the school's first students.
(03/21/05 5:00am)
A holiday unknown to most AU students will make its debut on campus Monday. Nowruz, Persian for New Years, will be celebrated on the Quad by the Persian Club, which brings Iranian cultural events to AU.
(03/17/05 5:00am)
The Eagle, AU's student-run newspaper, celebrates its 80th year today as the sole student-life journal at the University. The paper has chronicled students, faculties, the district and the world since its debut in 1925.
(03/03/05 5:00am)
As Middle Easterners watch protests in Lebanon and elections in Iraq, AU professor Abdul Aziz Said is optimistic that people from the region may embrace more liberal and less repressive systems of government.
(02/28/05 5:00am)
Originally posted Feb. 24.
(02/17/05 5:00am)
The history of AU, and the honors program's place in it, was celebrated on Wednesday at a tea talk in Hurst Hall. Professor Abdul Aziz Said, a veteran of the school for half a century, explained to the audience what it means to be from AU and how its alumni have "a lineage to be proud of."
(02/14/05 5:00am)
Monday, Feb. 14
(02/10/05 5:00am)
An event celebrating the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Bethesda was cancelled after the owners hosting the event were informed that it is illegal to do business with Iran, The Washington Post reported.
(02/03/05 5:00am)
Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg spoke to the AU College Republicans last night about foreign and domestic policy, as well as the future of the Republican Party.
(01/31/05 5:00am)
As Iraqis around the world participated in their first elections in half a century, one Iraqi Kurd studying at AU summed up what the first elections since Saddam Hussein's overthrow means to him.
(01/24/05 5:00am)
Originally posted at www.TheEagleOnline.com Jan. 19
(01/13/05 5:00am)
There have been no reports of injury or death among AU students, alumni, faculty or staff due to the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia, though some were in the region at the time of the disaster. To help the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their homes and possessions, some AU students and faculty have combined resources to contribute to relief efforts for those in India, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, where the tsunami took more than 150,000 lives.
(01/13/05 5:00am)
Prolonged cell phone use can damage DNA beyond repair and males who rest laptops on their laps can reduce chances of reproduction by damaging the environment needed to create sperm, according to several new studies.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
A man set himself on fire outside the White House Monday, in the first of two incidents outside the president's residence.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
President Benjamin Ladner's total compensation from 2002 to 2003 makes him the second highest paid private university president in the D.C. area, following Stephen J. Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week.
(11/08/04 5:00am)
Students, faculty and other guests viewed large digital photographs at The Digital Image Gallery at the Red Brook Gallery in downtown Washington on Thursday. Artists featured in the exhibit included DIG founders, local artists and School of Communication faculty members, including Bill Gentile and Ann Zelle. The collection of photographs included "large digital photographs, including landscape, cityscape and architectural images," according to a press release.
(10/28/04 4:00am)
Seconds after the Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year-old curse, an excited fan pulled the fire alarm in the Letts-Anderson complex and spilled nearly a thousand students onto the Letts-Anderson Quad and the SIS Annex. The victory marked the end of decades of tears, anguish and heartache over "The Curse of the Bambino" - the Sox's failure to win a World Series since trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920.
(09/30/04 4:00am)
If there is one word that can be used to describe the new American Indian Museum it is incomplete. While excited crowds and a nearby festival mark the exterior of the building, the interior of the building does not live up to expectations.
(09/27/04 4:00am)
School of International Service professor John Richardson, who lives in Anderson Hall, prepared dinner for students on Sunday. Richardson, who has lived in the dorm for two years, often prepares dinner for students who can sign up on his door on the first floor.
(09/16/04 4:00am)
On Wednesday, Dr. Elaheh Koolaee, a professor at Tehran University in Iran, spoke to students, academics and Iranian-Americans about women reformers and democracy in Iran. Koolaee, a former member of the Sixth Islamic Parliament from 2000 to 2004, talked in favor of women's rights and democratization in Iran.