Straight from print: Diving in head first
During one of her first diving practices at AU, Fiona Caulfield stepped up to the springboard for what she considered a pretty easy dive. But once she got in the air, something went wrong.
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During one of her first diving practices at AU, Fiona Caulfield stepped up to the springboard for what she considered a pretty easy dive. But once she got in the air, something went wrong.
It wasn’t pretty, but it was exactly what the Eagles needed: some momentum going into the Patriot League tournament. With a grind-it-out 66-59 win over Loyola on Saturday, the AU women’s basketball team clinched the fourth seed in the tournament, earning a first-round bye and home court advantage for their quarterfinal matchup on March 6.
When senior accounting student Connor Becker goes out to lunch with his older colleagues at a local regulatory agency, he sometimes struggles with what to talk about.
Wearing his signature blue Patagonia vest, activist and educator DeRay Mckesson arrived at AU on Thursday night to share his views on educational policies like school choice as well as answer questions about his experiences as an organizer.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell will be American University's first female president, the University announced today.
Scott O'Beirne, the library employee involved in an altercation with a student during a campus protest on Nov. 9, will retain his position at AU after being placed on administrative leave in November, according to an university spokeswoman.
A Tuesday meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and AU trustee Gary Cohn has led some students to call for Cohn’s resignation from the Board of Trustees, resulting in a small protest on Wednesday.
A library staff member has been placed on administrative leave following his involvement in an altercation during a campus protest on Nov. 9, The Eagle has learned.
After months of construction and anticipation, Chick-fil-A will open the doors to its Tenleytown location on August 11, just days before AU students arrive for Welcome Week. The new restaurant will mark Chick-fil-A’s second standalone location in the District, having set up shop in Columbia Heights last November.
After filing a Title IX complaint against the University in March, senior Faith Ferber has confirmed that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Education has opened her complaint for official investigation.
AU students are on the go year-round, and that only intensifies as the temperature gets warmer and the spring semester ends. From political conventions in California to volunteer trips in South America and beyond, summer takes students away from AU and into the world around them. This summer, the Eagle is launching a summer series chronicling their adventures. Join us as we publish a new story weekly on how students are spending their summer #AwayFromTheNest before they return to campus in the fall.
Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos spoke about free speech, his support for Donald Trump and the state of Islam on Thursday night as part of a Young Americans for Liberty event, prompting a large protest on the steps of the Mary Graydon Center.
“Find a place where you feel safe. Contact someone you trust . . ."
As part of AU Queers & Allies LGBTQ+ Week, the Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) community gathered on April 12 to hear six panelists discuss the intersections of their racial and sexual identities, coming out and barriers they have faced at AU. The week of programming has focused on raising awareness of and celebrating queerness on campus, culminating in Pride Prom tonight at 9 p.m.
With a crowd that overflowed out of the Battelle atrium, the College of Arts and Sciences celebrated the launch of the Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies Collaborative (GRGC) on April 6 with “Black Lives Matter: A Conversation.” The new initiative strives to become “the hub of socially engaged scholarship at AU,” according to Associate Professor of History and collaborative chair Theresa Runstedtler.
Three senior AU wrestlers traveled to New York City to compete for a national title at the 2016 NCAA championships led by head coach Teague Moore. For some, the time spent on the mat at Madison Square Garden ended all too soon. For one wrestler, however, the ride lasted longer than anyone outside of AU’s wrestling program could have expected.
The 2016 Student Government presidential candidates faced off publically for the first time last night in a presidential debate broadcasted by ATV. Following the debate, sophomores Will Mascaro, Devontae Torriente and Matt Mullin participated in a town hall in the Tavern where both of the debate’s moderators, junior Sarah Kravetz and freshman Kelly Conner, as well as students could ask questions directly to the candidates. Of all the questions asked, here are the four themes that stood out.
The Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) chapter at AU sparked controversy earlier this month with the announcement that it would play host to Milo Yiannopoulos, a British cultural commentator and technology editor at Breitbart News.
Sabrina Schaeffer, executive director of the Independent Women’s Forum and a regular Fox News contributor, spoke to AU students on Feb. 8 at an event hosted by AU’s chapter of the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) and presented by the Kennedy Political Union.
A combination of nostalgia and frustration filled Reeves Aquatic Center Friday night as the AU swim team honored six departing seniors in the season’s final home meet but ultimately struggled to make a strong showing against visiting Georgetown. Both the women’s and men’s teams were dominated by the Hoyas, with the men losing 158-71 while the women were defeated 133-105.