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(06/24/16 12:33am)
Muriel Bowser, Mayor of D.C. and alumna of AU’s Masters of Public Policy Program, called for our nation’s capital to become a state in a speech in April of this year. Immediately, I was fully on board with the goal that she set forth. I thought it was completely unfair that we inhabitants of the District had to pay federal taxes and receive no true democratic representation in the legislative body. After all, isn’t “taxation without representation” the problem that this country fought to combat in the first place? As we are coming up on celebrating the independence of our country, it is the perfect time to consider the less-than-democratic system under which our city of residence operates.
(06/18/16 8:00pm)
"When boarding, please move to the center of the car."
(06/17/16 3:00pm)
Every day we walk to our jobs, we go to classes, we chat with friends. We do what college kids do without having fear of an incoming attack or being senselessly bombed by other governments. Very few people stop to realize just how important our armed forces are to this country. Giving back to veterans and making sure they have what they need to succeed when they return to civilian life should be a top priority not only for the government, but for every U.S. citizen.
(06/15/16 5:47pm)
Recently, there has been a lot of rancor surrounding an incident that occurred at the Cincinnati Zoo.
(06/15/16 6:45pm)
It was a Tuesday. We sat in the cold backroom of the center, reading a book about lions. I was worried about finishing my service hours before the end of the semester and he told me he was worried about going to jail. I was frustrated because I had to continually stop and explain certain words. He was frustrated that his illiteracy could one day send him to jail. I had four years to make something of myself and he said he had until third grade.
(06/10/16 8:27pm)
There I was, sitting through the interview with the guys who would eventually become my fraternity brothers. I was nervous. Questions kept popping up in my head. What if I don’t make a good impression? What if I don’t like them or even worse… they don’t like me? Am I trying to join an organization that isn’t as great as they have made it out to be thus far? But most of all I was worried about whether joining this fraternity would help me leave a good mark at my school. As it turns out, all of my worries were for naught.
(05/25/16 11:18pm)
With the 2016 presidential election upon us, politics and rhetoric are seemingly everywhere, from newspapers to television… and social media. Unlike other public exchanges of ideas through media, social media breaks down a necessary barrier in discourse that has existed since the advent of conversation—self imposed restrictions on tone and thoughtfulness.
(05/25/16 10:15pm)
On final move out day, campus is bustling with activity as a majority of students leave one by one for summer. Within a week, campus is a desert. After commencement has taken place, the class of 2016 leaves campus with their heads held high and the campus is naked with no students lingering around. The sun of summer life has risen on AU’s campus and it will not set till freshmen move-in in August.
(05/26/16 12:12am)
Our criminal justice system is broken. We regularly send people to jail for unnecessarily long periods of time for nonviolent, largely drug related, crimes. These sentences cause lasting damage even after a prisoner is released. In particular, young Americans who have any type of criminal history, no matter how minor, often face difficulties finding jobs, thus encouraging them to turn back to those same crimes that put them in jail in the first place. Enter the criminal justice reform movement, whose solitary goal is to properly punish criminals and show them a clear path to rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
(05/20/16 1:51am)
Hollywood is a man's world. Sorry, ladies.
(05/19/16 11:48pm)
As Beyonce fans, we seem to think we know everything. Despite the meticulous literary analyses that have been written for her latest visual album drop, Lemonade, a lot of us missed one of the most explicit messages in the entire project. While we were enamoured with Queen Bey’s extravagant fur coat and edges-snatching lyrics in “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” our eyes glossed over the black and white text that flashed across the screen for a split second: “God is God and I am not.” It doesn’t get much clearer than that, but the “Bey-hive” appears to be very resistant to criticism regarding Lemonade because we’re too busy idolizing her as a god.
(04/28/16 6:37pm)
Trigger warning: Gun violence
(02/17/16 1:10am)
The AU community owes a distinct gratitude to the Kennedy Political Union, who announced on Feb. 1 that former Senior Adviser to George W. Bush, Karl Rove, would address campus later in the month. We should be thankful not for the opportunity to hear from who KPU called “one of the most sought-after political brains of our time.” Quite the opposite, in fact; AU students owe KPU for the opportunity to protest Rove since they missed their last chance at a good demonstration earlier this school year.
(09/26/14 9:40pm)
Last April, I wrote a column about why AU needs to divest and why students should support that measure. This weekend, nearly 150 AU students went to the People’s Climate March in New York, but when it comes to climate change, supporting these big actions isn’t enough.
(08/05/14 8:31pm)
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recently gained ground in Iraq and has begun to take steps to form its own state. In the U.S., there have been calls to begin a campaign to defend Iraq from ISIL.
(04/08/14 6:31pm)
I strolled into the classroom at the beginning of the semester ready to begin a fun new class. I was early so I waited a few minutes as the rest of the class trickled in. Finally a student arrived, walked up to the front of the room, and said in a polite voice, “Good morning class. I hope this will be a great semester.”
(03/25/14 8:41pm)
Fraternities have existed almost as long as the residential college experience has. In 1825, a group of young men decided the best way to rebel against their administration was through the formation of a secret club—the Kappa Alpha Society. College life used to be quite different from what we experience now. As Caitlin Flanagan explains in an article from The Atlantic, the idea that “pursuing a bachelor’s degree might be something other than a deeply ascetic and generally miserable experience was once preposterous.”
(02/28/14 7:27pm)
There was a time when students could make their own sandwich without waiting for someone to do it for them at TDR. There was also a time when you could have as much mac and cheese as you wanted without being told by a worker that you can “only have one scoop.” There was a time when a plate was a plate, not a teacup saucer. Lines didn’t stretch out to the registers and students were in charge of what they ate. We were not limited to two ribs, we did not need to ask permission for seconds and a swipe into TDR was worth the price of admission.
(02/27/14 9:58pm)
They happen only once a semester at the very end. No, I’m not talking about finals. I’m talking about professor evaluations.
(02/24/14 6:40pm)
I decided on a whim to spend my spring semester in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I couldn’t be happier with that decision. I chose Denmark because I had never been to Scandinavia, and I wanted to experience something new. Since arriving in Copenhagen on Jan. 19, and spending the first week or two being extremely confused and lost, I have grown to love my home for the next four months.
