Sex offense in residence hall prompts release of another Crime Alert
(04/14/15 4:01pm)
A sexual assault was reported to have taken place in a undisclosed residence hall on March 17.
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A sexual assault was reported to have taken place in a undisclosed residence hall on March 17.
AU announced that it will host two female and four male commencement speakers at the 2014-2015 graduation ceremonies on the school’s website on March 24.
Update: 4:58 p.m. Feb. 21
The Kennedy Political Union will host Hawaii’s Democratic representative Tulsi Gabbard on March 2 at 8:15 p.m. in Mary Graydon Center.
The Wellness Center’s new coordinator for victim advocacy services, Sara Yzaguirre, will begin counseling students this semester after joining AU’s staff last November.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers resumed work on Dec. 1 to clean up and remove possible chemical munition on AU’s property, according to a memo released by President Kerwin’s Chief of Staff David Taylor.
AU terminated its contract with the apparel company JanSport in October, after the company failed to sign an agreement that would hold its factories in Bangladesh to certain fire and building safety standards.
Close to 100 students gathered for a “die-in” in front of the Mary Graydon Center to support the Black Lives Matter movement on Dec. 3, and the protest swelled to over 200 students and faculty members as the group then marched across campus.
Pairs of students huddle over pieces of paper and laptops in the basement of Ward. Their arms shield quickly scribbled down writing. Occasionally, a head lifts from the whispered conversation to look at another pair just out of hearing range.
Several former-federal work study employees at the Davenport Coffee Lounge were let go in September, after the School of International Service administration restricted the Dav staff to only federal work study students.
Members of the Student Worker Alliance hand-delivered a letter to the Aramark district manager on Oct. 20 that detailed students’ and dining facility employees’ discontent with the company’s “culture of disrespect” at AU.
A man thought to be in his mid-20s indecently exposed himself in front of the Washington College of Law and then fled towards main campus on Oct. 14, according to a Safety Advisory issued by Public Safety on Oct. 15.
The Office of University Architects will perform “emergency maintenance” on a water boiler in the Mary Graydon Center starting at 10 p.m. on Sept. 18, which will close Eagle’s Nest and Starbucks due to a lack of hot water.
The dorms are a tight squeeze for approximately 45 percent of first year students at AU this semester who are living in temporary triples as Housing and Dining tries to distribute rare vacated spots in Letts, Anderson, Hughes and Leonard Halls.
AU Public Safety released its first Crime Alert of the semester on Aug. 23 after a female AU student was sexually assaulted during Welcome Week.
EMTs attended to a male after a car rear-ended another car while traveling northeast on Nebraska Avenue between Ward Circle and the Nebraska Shuttle Stop on Sept. 4.
Correction appended.
Construction at Tenley Campus was delayed several times this summer, but most buildings and exterior spaces are still projected to be open by August 2015.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will extend cleanup efforts on World War I era chemical munitions buried on AU property at 4825 Glenbrook Road to the summer of 2017.
Stove-top burners were left on in two separate Anderson and Letts Hall lounges during the early hours of July 14, according to a Crime Alert released by AU Public Safety.