A taste of school spirit
AU students consistently have the “Should AU have a football team” debate. Whenever the debate arose in the last three years I was oddly quiet, mostly due to my indifference toward the topic.
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AU students consistently have the “Should AU have a football team” debate. Whenever the debate arose in the last three years I was oddly quiet, mostly due to my indifference toward the topic.
It was 9:30 a.m. on Saturday when I checked the news headlines as I waited for the Metro. My eyes skimmed over political news until I saw three words that made my heart stop: “Nairobi mall attack.”
I was ecstatic when I found out I had received an unpaid internship position at Time Warner Cable for the fall semester. When I got my acceptance email the fact that I would not be paid didn’t faze me and I jumped up and down in joy. Why was I so excited to work for free?
While I remember watching footage of the World Trade Center going down on Sept. 11, 2001, I don’t remember how I felt.
My father and I are both avid online New York Times readers and constantly send each other interesting articles throughout the week.
March 3 marked an important day for Kenyans. It was the day of the anxiously anticipated and crucial presidential election. This was Kenya’s first presidential vote since 2007, when evidence of vote rigging set off ethnic clashes and violence that killed over 1,000 people across the country.
Kendra Lee’s recently published op-ed, “Mind what you’re wearing, not what they’re eating,” has generated a lot of debate among the AU community about freedom of speech, feminism and appropriate gym apparel.
“What’s it like being from a Third World country?”
As excited as I was for the inauguration on Jan. 21, I was certain there was no way I could get myself out of bed as my alarm blared at 6 a.m. I knew others had woken up earlier then I had as I dragged myself out of bed and somehow got dressed.
Election night has come and gone. President Barack Obama was re-elected. Many are still enjoying the after-glow of victory, while many are still tasting the bitter tinge of defeat.
Rape has always been a controversial and sensitive topic, but lately rape has been in the public eye for both the right and wrong reasons.
Hugo Chávez was re-elected president of Venezuela, a position he has held for 13 years, on Oct. 7. His re-election not only has grand implications on Venezuela and South America but also on the United States. Nevertheless, this significant event has seen little attention by both the U.S. media and its citizens.
When a friend of mine came to visit me on campus not too long ago, he asked a standard question: “Can I smoke here or should I go to a smoking area somewhere?” While his question was common, my answer was not: “No, you can smoke pretty much anywhere on campus.”
Nicholas Kristof said many great things when he spoke at the University Club on Sept. 10, but one statement hit me hardest.
The Pennsylvania voter I.D. law has not only spurred a national debate among Republicans and Democrats, but also a personal epiphany: if I were a citizen of Pennsylvania, I would not be allowed to vote.
I would be lying if I said I didn’t believe in Invisible Children and its cause.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t paranoid about getting my laptop stolen. Although it is password protected and I back it up daily, I cannot function without a laptop, and the cost of replacing it would decimate my bank account for months.
”You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”
The majority of AU students are used to a blistering cold December and a white Christmas, with chestnuts roasting in an open fire.
No matter how much Beyonce insists, girls don’t truly run the world.