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(04/24/08 4:00am)
This is my final column for The Eagle, and as such, it's a little bittersweet and surreal to be writing. I'd first like to say thank you to everyone who has been reading the paper and writing letters, making comments online or simply saying, "Hey, I read your column. You are not as dumb as you sound in person."
(04/10/08 4:00am)
College wouldn't be college without long distance relationships - LDRs, if you will. You meet, you spend all of your time together and you fall head over heels. Then one of you graduates, moves away for the summer or goes to Peru to find themselves. But it's OK! We can make it work! It's only on a different continent after all. A few tearful goodbyes and oaths of loyalty later and you find yourself in an LDR. It's a sticky situation, driven entirely by a promise of some future potential so great that you're willing to spend months on end waiting, hoping and finding new ways to say "I love you" through emoticons.
(03/20/08 4:00am)
This is an ugly month for college students. Late March marks roughly six months since we've seen a full sunny week. It's been roughly half a year since we haven't had to intern all day, go to class all night and then write papers to the pale flicker of late-night infomercials. We can't remember our last square meal, let alone the last time we've had a chance to cook something nutritious.
(02/28/08 5:00am)
Ah, senior year. A time to take classes you enjoy, make your younger friends swipe you into TDR for old times' sake and generally get your fix of college before they kick you out (you graduate).
(02/18/08 5:00am)
Remember that episode of "Doug" where his grandma makes him try sushi? For those of you who weren't glued to Nickelodeon 24/7 as a child like I was, here's the jist: Doug, at first repulsed at the thought of sushi, tries it at Grandma Funny's urging and finds it to be delicious. Of course, at the time, this was regarded by our 8-year-old minds as pure lies contrived by the liberal media to try to get us to branch out to new adult foods.
(02/14/08 5:00am)
At times, it seems there are only drawbacks to living in the dorms. You have to pee with other people on either side of you, coordinate your sexual activities with your roommate's class schedule and look out for puddles of vomit on your way to the bathroom on Saturday mornings. Depending on where you live (read: South side), you also might have neighbors who play death metal at 3 a.m. the night before your midterm and a frat-boy shaped hole in your ceiling tiles that you have to help pay to replace.
(01/31/08 5:00am)
I realize that this probably makes me a freakish mutant unworthy of writing a column, but until very recently, I had never been to a gay bar or club. Actually, that's still true, but last week, I did experience the next best thing: a gay night at a regular club, complete with rapping drag queens and about 400 guys with great hair. Although, I did wonder whether the rightful attendees felt I was taking up precious space with my boobs, heels and two X chromosomes, I found it to be the holy grail of straight-girl dance outings.
(01/17/08 5:00am)
With this year's spring break likely to be spent frantically searching for jobs or an excuse to stay in school for another few years, this winter break marked the final time many AU seniors visited home before plunging into the "real world." However, ever since the first Thanksgiving break freshman year, when we raved about how fantastic our new college lives were, it seems like each subsequent visit home has been progressively more bittersweet.
(11/29/07 5:00am)
It's Friday afternoon and I hear a familiar beep in my purse. I open my phone to a glowing message.
(11/08/07 5:00am)
The Metro is a nice perk of this city. It does get one from point A to B most of the time. It allows us to drink as much as we want sans drunken driving, and it allows us to be pretentiously environmentalist with that cute hemp-clothing guy when we talk about how we never drive, ever.
(11/05/07 5:00am)
Albert Einstein described compound interest as the eighth wonder of the world. This year, Women's Initiative has invited AU students to learn what he meant while exploring the basics of personal finance through a series of monthly lectures.
(10/25/07 4:00am)
Perhaps the single most unifying goal among college students, aside from having health insurance after graduating, is turning 21. After you turn 17 and are able to get into R-rated movies, fantasizing about 21 is all that gets you through those negligible intermediary years.
(10/22/07 4:00am)
Texas is a heinous place. Its family values obsessed, abysmally closed-minded culture made for a rather painful childhood for me. Our yearly school field trip was to the Petroleum Museum, and in high school, one of my teachers told us that China wasn't allowed in the United Nations because it is communist. Indeed, the average IQ of Texas is that of the average D.C. resident's big toe, as evidenced by the fact that we produced the likes of George W. Bush and Anna Nicole Smith. (Britney Spears is, thankfully, from Louisiana.)
(10/11/07 4:00am)
Democracy has rules. Democracy only works if people follow rules. It does not work if people cheat - if there are ballot stuffers, chronic disenfranchisement of minorities or an electoral college, for example.
(09/27/07 4:00am)
I can't believe I don't remember what happens when you divide one by a fraction.
(09/13/07 4:00am)
Within weeks of settling into the college environment, several myths are shattered and the reality of AU life comes to light. Much like the idea that your university will have some school spirit or the notion that you will get a boyfriend (unless you're a guy), the illusion that in college, you get to pick "whichever classes interest you the most" will soon be exposed as not unlikely to damn near impossible.
(04/13/06 4:00am)
A recent study showed that conservative students perform equally well as liberals in courses involving political or social issues, which could be due to the open and accepting nature of the college environment, said Susan McDonic, assistant professor of anthropology at AU.
(03/02/06 5:00am)
Many American University students said they feel the federal government should support abstinence sex education programs provided those programs include information about contraceptives as an alternative to abstinence.
(02/09/06 5:00am)
The spring semester is in its fourth week, but some students may still be waiting for their textbooks to come from amazon.com. Rising textbook prices have increasingly pushed students toward the library and online used-book sources, away from the campus bookstore.
(02/02/06 5:00am)
The American Civil Liberties Union filed three lawsuits against the District on Jan. 19 after allegations of false arrests and excessive use of pepper spray towards protesters during last year's inaugural parade.