AU may broaden insurance
Next academic year could mark the first time AU students participating in the university's health insurance program will have access to human papillomavirus (HPV) and transgender health benefits.
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Next academic year could mark the first time AU students participating in the university's health insurance program will have access to human papillomavirus (HPV) and transgender health benefits.
Despite an impressive showing in the first half of the game, AU's Eagles fell to the No. 3 seeded Villanova University Wildcats, 80-67, in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament.
An AU student hospitalized last week for pulmonary tuberculosis is recovering quickly, and no such similar cases on campus have been reported, according to Student Health Center Director Dan Bruey.
It is post-Baby Boomer, post-partisan, post-racial, and most importantly, post-Bush. And add to that list of unfounded hyperboles one new construction: "post-media."
Reporters at politics@theEAGLE, the newspaper's politics blog, chronicled all of Election Day, from the polling anomalies early Tuesday morning to Barack Obama's acceptance speech later that night. Click to read the full day's coverage.
Economic trepidation has forced a generation of young voters to scrutinize the economy - and the candidates who discuss it. Click here to see the undecided voter's guide to the economy.
The Metropolitan Police Department's bomb squad safely disposed of a suspicious briefcase found in Bender Arena's parking garage on Saturday.
In part two of this series, The Eagle examines transgender exclusion in AU's student health care plan, and the ways students are fighting to get those benefits covered.
In this two part series, The Eagle examines two exclusions in student health care - the HPV vaccine and transgender health treatments - and the many ways students are fighting to get those benefits covered.
The decision to transfer to AU is always a great idea ... until you actually do it. Although the university offers its disgruntled newcomers a plethora of advising resources, no amount of informative prose or lengthy lectures can address the more unspoken difficulties of changing colleges. The task of finding a new niche, making up for lost credit hours, addressing spotty financial aid qualms and - most laboriously - surviving yet another new student orientation can prove incredibly difficult, so here are a few tips to get you by.1. Fight "the man." The sad but unavoidable problem with transfer admissions is that some of your previous course work won't count. Worse, you might even have to repeat a class you took at your first college simply because it did not meet AU's strict curriculum requirements. In most cases, some pleading with your adviser can remedy errors in the credit articulation process. Bring a copy of your transcript and as many syllabi you can find - sometimes the course name does not do its curriculum any justice - and offer to put your adviser(s) in touch with your previous professors if necessary. Lapses in communication are often the primary causes of course conundrums, so be explicit.On a related note, don't leave academics to chance. College administrators are busy, and sometimes forms sadly don't reach their desired destinations. That includes your transcript from your first school, which you must send a second time at the semester's end so that AU can officially determine which requirements you've satisfied with passable grades. Unfortunately, late transcripts can result in an inadvertent academic penalty; even if you can recite every major international relations theory and its originator, you'll have to take the intro classes again without the proper documentation. So, check with your adviser(s) and the admissions office often to make sure every form is at its rightful home.2. No one but you knows you're disease free. It sounds completely facetious, but it's true. AU cannot tell whether you've been immunized unless you submit the requisite forms, which most transfer students forget to do because it's not a condition of admission. Remember, students who fail to submit these documents receive "stops" on their accounts and cannot register for courses, among other things, until the problem is solved.3. AU is expensive, so don't make yourself poorer. There is no national database for college records, so lapses in communication can happen. This is especially true in situations that involve financial aid records. Although it's rare, sometimes old colleges mistakenly report transfer students as withdrawals, and since you must be enrolled full-time to defer your student loans, this could mean trouble. If you're feeling proactive, call each of your lenders to make sure they know your current status. Double-check with your old school's financial aid office to make sure everything processed correctly. Never disregard a suspicious letter: If a lender sends you something that even slightly resembles a bill, act immediately. If you ignore it in the misguided hope it will work itself out, you're begging for a messy situation - not to mention a sour mark on your credit report.4. Remember that everyone is just as unhappy and nervous as you are. AU is a great school and it offers its students unparalleled opportunities, but a little bit of post-transfer nostalgia can make anyone's first few days (or months) in D.C. infinitely more dreary. Lucky for you, you're probably not the only one struggling to feign interest in making new friends or carving yourself a new social circle. Every semi-pouting face at orientation is another opportunity for friendship - even if your initial reason for conversation is mutual disinterest during orientation - so you'd be remiss to avoid talking to these new transfers. At the very least, this half-hearted socializing can hold you over until you find real friends.
With the help of students past and present across AU's academic disciplines, The Eagle is launching politics@theEAGLE, the newspaper's premier election blog, this fall semester. Its first feature is ConventionWatch, a series of dispatches AU students will write while they attend and closely watch both the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. Check back at the end of August for additional details.However, we can't cover this historic election without your help. The Eagle needs convention bloggers, specifically students attending the RNC, who wish to share their experiences with the campus community. If you're interested, contact Tony Romm, The Eagle's Special Projects Editor, at specialprojects@theeagleonline.com for more information. Space is limited, so apply soon!
How tempting it is, this general election season, to succumb to the simplicity of elegant political prose. The never-ending jet stream of faux-"comeback" narratives and paltry predictions is enough to send shivers down the spines of even the most cynical of pundits, perhaps myself included. We've gasped at vociferous former pastors, gnawed our nails at romanticized Bosnian war stories, fallen for rhetorical self-platitudes about change and experience and cringed at every instance of the word "bitter" - all while deeming ourselves experts in identity and gender politics, despite never having used either term correctly in a sentence.
At least once a month, every month, after Ken B. and his fiancée's grace period ends, the couple will write regular checks to loan collection agencies for $3,500.
Combating clichés and restoring respect should be the United States' priorities if it wishes to revitalize its relationship with France, Fran?ois Rivasseau, deputy chief of mission at the French Embassy, told AU students on Friday.
"Obama bolts ahead of Clinton in new poll," read a New York Times headline two days before the seminal New Hampshire primary that "reaffirmed" the New York senator's status as front-runner.
Although rebel militants have killed nearly 200,000 black Darfurians, the conflict in Sudan is by no means genocide, former President Jimmy Carter told the AU community Wednesday.
A newly proposed D.C. City Council policy would place greater restrictions on alcohol-serving nightclubs by requiring an adult to accompany all patrons under 18 years old after 11 p.m. on weeknights and midnight on weekends, The Washington Post reported last week. The plan affects those AU students who are under the age of 18.
Davidson College announced last Monday it plans to eliminate loans from its financial aid packages next August in favor of more grant and federal work-study money, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. AU interim Provost Ivy E. Broder said AU was not considering a similar move at this time.
Lawyers and college administrators debated whether Facebook should be used as a law enforcement tool at a conference on student policing and privacy hosted by Stetson University Monday, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. AU does not use Facebook as evidence against students, according to Gail Hanson, vice president for Campus Life.
One of the largest contributors to students' financial stresses comes right from the schools' financial aid offices, Vice President of Media Relations at My Rich Uncle, a student loan company, Karin Pellmann said.