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(04/17/20 4:00am)
I ended my column a few weeks back with this: “...We are among the students being told to move out of our on-campus housing and the ones who are losing jobs and internships, as companies can no longer support us. We are the students studying abroad being told to return home and the seniors finishing their last months on AU’s campus from their couches across the country. We feel how overwhelming this time is, and we take it to heart…”
(04/03/20 4:00am)
As we continue to navigate these uncertain times, The Eagle is working hard to try to balance our coverage of the coronavirus with the regular happenings around campus this time of year. This includes how we are covering the Student Government elections.
(03/20/20 4:00am)
I am writing this week’s column from my corner of the Earth while my Eagle colleagues are dispersed across the country. As the coronavirus keeps us all apart, The Eagle staff is working to make sure our coverage can bring all of us — reporters, editors and readers — together.
(02/28/20 5:00am)
The Eagle reported on a story last week about a student in the Chi Omega sorority who was filmed on camera using the N-word. Given the nature of the incident, and its larger implications for the campus community, I felt it was necessary for us to explain what went into our reporting process and how we published the story you saw online.
(02/14/20 5:00am)
The Eagle added a position to its staff at the start of the spring semester to foster new relationships with the AU community and strengthen its existing ones. Through a collaborative effort, the Community Engagement Editor was conceived.
(01/31/20 5:00am)
It feels as though for the last several years that talk of trust — or distrust — in news media permeates political discussions, Twitter feeds and classroom discourse. The polling company Gallup recorded a steady decline in the American public’s trust in the media since the 1970s, reaching a low of 41 percent in 2019. This lack of trust is often coupled with criticism and negative feedback about the way news organizations and journalists do their jobs. As student journalists, we hear this as well.
(12/19/19 1:36am)
American University announced a new program that will offer 10 D.C. public and charter school students with full scholarships to the University for the 2020-2021 academic year.
(09/30/19 7:30pm)
A video of an AU student getting carried out of her apartment by AU police officers circulated on social media early Friday morning.
(08/19/19 4:00am)
The Office of Campus Life informed the campus community of the passing of Jayme Schlenker, a recent AU graduate, in a memo on Sunday.
(08/10/19 6:22pm)
A judge awarded former Student Government President Taylor Dumpson a $725,000 judgment in her lawsuit against the owner and a follower of a neo-Nazi website as a result of the hate crime in May 2017.
(05/08/19 4:00pm)
Maria Butina, a former American University graduate student and Russian gun rights activist, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge.
(01/23/19 3:00pm)
In November, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos proposed major changes to Title IX guidance for universities that create a new set of rights for anyone accused of sexual misconduct, a move that will almost certainly affect how AU and other universities handle Title IX complaints.
(12/13/18 8:14pm)
Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist and American University graduate, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the law governing foreign agents operating in the United States on Thursday.
(11/05/18 8:14pm)
The defense team of Maria Butina, a gun rights activist and American University graduate charged with acting as a Russian agent, was given the go-ahead to subpoena the University a second time for the student’s records on Oct. 31.
(09/28/18 6:39pm)
A lawyer for Maria Butina, the gun activist and American University graduate charged with acting as a Russian agent in the U.S., has issued a subpoena for university records, including copies of class rosters for each of Butina’s courses, AU police reports concerning Butina and a complaint Butina filed against an AU professor who made comments about her to the media.
(09/21/18 7:07pm)
Former AU student Isaiah Young died on Sept. 12 at the age of 21, leaving behind a legacy of passionate campus activism at the University.
(08/21/18 6:30pm)
It has been 125 years since Congress chartered American University in 1893, after John Fletcher Hurst, a Methodist bishop, founded the school.
(07/26/18 5:47pm)
“Dangerous.” “Scary.” “Alarming.”
(05/26/18 10:09pm)
Mary Clark, who has served as AU’s senior vice provost and dean of academic affairs since 2014, has been appointed interim provost beginning July 1, according to a campus-wide memo issued by University President Sylvia Burwell Friday.
(04/18/18 12:33pm)
This year, the University marked the first month of March in three years without a new Title IX complaint.