Former V.P. candidate speaks about tackling U.S. poverty
Former Sen. John Edwards spoke of the dire state of America's poverty crisis to a full audience of AU students in Bender Arena yesterday.
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Former Sen. John Edwards spoke of the dire state of America's poverty crisis to a full audience of AU students in Bender Arena yesterday.
The past winter has brought uncharacteristic weather to many regions of the United States. While most AU students spent the season living on campus, friends and family coped with unusual conditions.
In response to death row inmate Vernon Lee Evans' planned execution, and in an effort to raise general awareness about the issue, the chapter of the AU Campaign to End the Death Penalty has organized Death Penalty Awareness Week for March 21-25.
Mitsubishi Motors released a commercial in 2000 for its Eclipse that asked viewers: "Have you ever looked at someone and said, 'Check her out, she looks loyal?' Or, 'Whoa, look at the morals on that guy?'" After a pause, the commercial provided the answer most audience members were thinking: "No. Love at first sight is based on something else - sight!"
The escalators on the east entrance of the Tenleytown Metro Station reopened Wednesday after being closed for repairs for six months.
The Examiner, a free daily tabloid-sized newspaper, debuted in the D.C. metro area at the beginning of February and looks to provide a local-leaning alternative to established D.C. newspapers.
The escalators on the east entrance of the Tenleytown station have reopened after being out of service for 6 months. The escalators were scheduled to re-open on January 10, 2005 after an estimated five months of repairs, but were not open until last week. District and state mandated inspections often cause the opening delays, said Metro spokesperson Steve Taubenkibel. "A complete overhaul of the system usually takes 4-5 months," said Taubenkibel, "This was the case with Cleveland Park and Tenleytown, which are currently under rehabilitation programs." To many AU students, the re-opening of the Tenleytown escalators was welcome news. "It's definitely an inconvenience-especially when there are a series of escalators in a row," said SOC freshman Paula Chrin. She travels by Metro an average of six times a week. "It slows down travel time a lot, even just walking down the stairs...sometimes I use the elevators because it's faster," she said. Broken escalators have become more common in the Metro system, and cause a variety of problems. One outage in a heavy traffic area can cause long queues, bottlenecks, and delays. "The Metrorail system is heavily dependent on escalators to function smoothly," Taubenkibel said. There are 86 Metrorail stations, with a total of over 550 escalators operating at any given time, according to the WMATA website. As of February 17, 32 of these were out of service. According to Taubenkibel, most of the damage done to the escalators comes as a result of the daily pounding the stairs take from an average of 600,000-700,000 pairs of feet. "A lot of the trouble comes from people in a hurry who run up and down and jump the last few stairs," said Taubenkibel. He said the average lifespan of an escalator ranges from 10-20 years, depending on traffic and use. Another source of malfunction comes from sensitive safety devices being triggered by bumps or jolts to the stair surface. The devices stop the escalator belt from moving and have to be manually re-set before they can be mobile again. A safety switch or a tune-up only takes a few days to fix. More involved repairs, such as the replacement of an entire escalator system, require months of work. Many AU students didn't mind climbing the stairs while the Tenleytown elevators were out of service, but were annoyed with the outage for other reasons. "For me it's more of a safety hazard issue," said SPA sophomore Caroline Barrett. "Climbing up the stairs when it's raining is dangerous because they're slippery and people can fall down," she said. "What I don't understand is how they can have both escalators under construction for such a long period of time," said SIS freshman Elyse Franko. "It's not really an inconvenience for me, it's just weird it takes them so long to fix it, but I can see how it would be a burden to older people," Franko said. Taubenkibel said the Tenleytown escalators should remain operable for now. They will soon be restoring the West escalators at the Tenleytown station.
In mid-November, two high-ranking officials at George Washington University rejected student efforts to put a student on the Board of Trustees. University President Stephen Trachtenberg and Board of Trustees Chairman Charles Manatt said they did not support a Student Assembly resolution in favor of adding a permanent student member to the Board of Trustees, The Hatchet, George Washington's student newspaper reported. AU's Board of Trustees adheres to a similar policy.
The Food and Drug Administration required two weeks ago that all manufacturers of anti-depressant medications to start placing labels on products warning of the drugs' potential to induce suicidal thoughts in children and adolescents.
The late-August release of a Microsoft security update has created problems for some colleges' technology departments, but AU "doesn't have any major issues with it," according to AU's e-operations Executive Director Carl Whitman.
In response to the rising costs of textbooks, students are exploring alternative retailers such as Amazon.com and Half.com in hopes of finding a better bargain.