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Although it costs Anisa Ismail $1,000 and takes her 36 hours to get from Washington, D.C., to her hometown of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she said the destination is worth the trip.
Election officials in the D.C. area have restricted non-U.S. citizens who want to observe the election from visiting certain polling sites, according to Vassia Gueorguieva, a coordinator of an AU-based team of election observers.
Increasing corporate control over the media has reduced the diversity of opinions in the media and caused a decline in the quality of journalism, broadcast journalist and AU alumnus Bob Edwards said Friday night in Bender Arena.
Many of the militants in Iraq are local fighters whose sole aim is to get the American military out of Iraq, photojournalists Molly Bingham and Steve Connors said Friday.
The United States must work multilaterally if it wants to win the war on terror, former Canadian Prime Minister Joseph Clark said Thursday in his keynote address at the Six Universities Conference at AU.
"If this movie was made in color, all of you would want to vomit," said Nicaraguan film director Pierre Pierson, referring to the miserable conditions the characters in his short film, "Metal and Glass," live in. The film was shown at the Weschler Theatre in the Mary Graydon Center on Friday night.
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For Vsevolod Horodyskyj, an AU senior majoring in film, and his friend, a graduate student in the School of Communication, meeting new people was difficult. School and work left little time to socialize. Horodyskyj feared that he was missing out on someone special, without even knowing it.
Living off campus with relatives saves me a packet, but it doesn't help as far as making friends goes.
When I applied for AU's Orientation Leader (OL) job a couple of months ago (a job I did not get, by the way), I was fascinated by two sections it had on the cover page. Section I said, "You give:" and Section II said, "You get:". Essentially it listed the duties and perks of being an OL.
Voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds has fallen by 18 percent between 1975 and 2000, according to the Pew Research Center. Other studies show a marked decline in newspaper readership among this same age group. The studies indicate that the image of apathetic youth towards politics is a correct one.
Journalists David Furst and Stephanie Kaye from WAMU's "Metro Connection" discussed the maddening deadlines, poor pay and rewarding work that are all part of being journalists at Monday's Society of Professional Journalists' (SPJ) coffee talk.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was given a standing ovation by the 1,500 students who attended his lecture on Thursday at Bender Arena. The event was part of the Kennedy Political Union's 35th anniversary celebrations.
While some work-study students just bustle around offices, filing away papers or making appointments, considering their work-study jobs as just jobs, others have gained valuable experience useful in their professional and personal lives while coping with the pressures of working and classes.
