AU reacts as Gustav prompts Gulf evacuation
AU students have mixed reactions about the impact of Hurricane Gustav.
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AU students have mixed reactions about the impact of Hurricane Gustav.
It is uncertain whether AU President Neil Kerwin will unite with 128 other college leaders in promoting the academic discussion about alcohol abuse on college campuses by signing the Amethyst Initiative.
As interns from across the country come to D.C. for the summer, many have chosen to live in AU residence halls.
The three students who make up Hard Hat Area stepped onto the Tavern's main stage and played a musical medley with their guitars and harmonica. Right next to the band, a long row of tables with representatives from several clubs sold shirts, gave out buttons and stickers and served cookies and drinks to entice students and give them information as part of AIDS Awareness Week.
Students continue to find time to serve the D.C. community despite looming exams and end-of-semester work.
From Oct. 12 to Oct. 20, the National Mall turned into what the neighborhoods of the future may look like.
Incidents of racial intolerance, like hanging nooses on a tree outside the black cultural center at the University of Maryland, are on the rise at U.S. colleges campuses. Some students said they have also noticed racially motivated incidents at AU.
A mix-up with the East Potomac Park security did not dampen the spirits of the participants of the Women of Freedom Foundation 5K Walk Sunday to kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month. AU's Women's Initiative has a department devoted to domestic violence awareness but did not participate in the walk because the group is focused on the upcoming AIDS Walk Washington, said Vanessa Mueller, director of Women's Initiative.
AU students using loans to help pay for college may get assistance in paying off those loans after graduation once Congress passes a compromise version of the current College Cost Reduction and Access Act. After it is passed, the bill must be signed by President Bush, who has threatened to veto it twice in the past.
Last week, college campuses nationwide were targets in a series of bomb threats. AU's Washington College of Law received a threat last Tuesday, and like the other threats, no bomb was found and no attack occurred, The Eagle previously reported.
Close quarters, stress, late nights and risky behavior often leave college students prone to illness, but AU students have options both on- and off-campus to meet their health care needs.
School of Communication students shifted the focus about D.C. Public Schools from its usual debate to show "what works" in the D.C. schools by releasing their findings about six programs already boosting test scores. Their findings began a discussion between the community and a panel of educators and education policy makers in the area.
A media package mailed to NBC News may shed light on what the person who killed 32 people and himself Monday in two shooting incidents on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University was doing in the time between the incidents. The new information came to light as AU, along with the rest of the nation, continued to mourn what has been called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, is leading a grassroots movement to lower the drinking age to 18, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Some AU students remain skeptical about whether he would make much of an impact on current drinking practices.
Contrary to recent rumors that Women's Initiative would be removed from the Student Government's bylaws, the Undergraduate Senate unanimously passed a resolution to "recognize the vital role... [the] organization plays in improving the lives of men and women at AU."
Colleges nationwide are paying higher prices for birth control, specifically oral contraceptives, after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to impose the regulations of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 onto birth control, according to a notice released by the American College Health Association.
Anonymous sources have become "the crack cocaine of journalism," according to Wendell Cochran, associate professor in the School of Communication, who was part of a panel at the "The Investigative Reporting Forum" sponsored by professor Gemma Puglisi's PR Portfolio class. Panelists concluded that anonymous sources are overused in today's media.
The national committee of the Delta Zeta sorority recently kicked out 23 of the 35 members of DePauw University's Delta Zeta chapter, including all the chapter's overweight members and the only Korean and Vietnamese members, causing a massive controversy within the sorority and on DePauw's campus, according to The New York Times. AU Coordinator of Greek Life Danny Kelley said he finds Delta Zeta's actions offensive, disrespectful and unlike the principles of Greek life at AU.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology biology professor ended his hunger strike Feb. 16 protesting the MIT biology department's decision to deny him tenure.
The history department of Vermont's Middlebury College decided to ban students from citing Wikipedia as a primary source in their papers for this spring semester. While AU advises students to take advantage of the library's resources for papers as alternatives to Wikipedia, many AU students use Wikipedia as a start-off point.