SG President MacCracken dunks AU President Kerwin
In the fifth annual “Shootout: Battle of the Presidents,” Student Government President Andy MacCracken became the first SG President to beat AU President Cornelius Kerwin.
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In the fifth annual “Shootout: Battle of the Presidents,” Student Government President Andy MacCracken became the first SG President to beat AU President Cornelius Kerwin.
AU sent 51 graduates to participate in the Peace Corps last year, the second-highest number of volunteers from all mid-sized universities, according to the Peace Corps.
During a week of canoeing in an area between Minnesota and Canada known as the Northern Tier High Adventure location, a senior in the School of Public Affairs Ryan Korn barely slept. He woke in the middle of the night to the sound of howling wolves; he only had purified lake water to drink and ate moldy spaghetti accidentally dowsed in a stream. He was eaten through his multiple sweaters by mosquitoes in 80 degree weather, came down with a fever on the third day and “definitely almost got struck by lightning. Twice.”
AU hosted the nation-wide launch of the first system specifically made to evaluate the sustainability of colleges and universities this semester.
During the weeks following winter break when the AUTO program was shut down, Community Service Center operations were forced to adjust to accommodate for their loss of the usual mode of transportation.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board of directors approved a decision Thursday to add 10 cents to current Metrobus, Metrorail and MetroAccess fares in order to generate $9.6 million to help close its $40 million budget gap.
President Barack Obama did not address District voting rights in his State of the Union address Wednesday night, despite petitions to address this issue from residents of D.C., including AU students and faculty and members of the organization DC Vote.
Basketball fans will be able to receive swine flu immunizations while watching the Washington Wizards game Tuesday.
Violent ‘snowpocalypse’
As budgets across the country are strained by the pressure of the economic climate, some cities are starting to think about taxing the student population attending universities located in those cities — a practice which is likely to spread should it pass, according to an expert from the American Council on Education.
Doses of AU’s first shipment of H1N1 vaccine will be available at a vaccination clinic this Friday, Oct. 20 at 9 a.m. on the first floor of the Mary Graydon Center.
The Board of Regents at the University of Maryland voted last week to defy a legislative order from the state of Maryland by refusing to adopt a new university policy regarding the screening of pornographic films on campus.
Schools across the country are seeing increases in both student enrollment in university-provided health insurance plans and student use of university health centers.
India’s education system is at a crossroads, India’s Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shri Kapil Sibal said during an Oct. 30 speech at Georgetown University.
After approving legislation to recognize same-sex marriages made outside the District earlier this year, the D.C. City Council is now tackling the issue of approving same-sex marriages made within the city.
The Catholic University of America will install the largest solar-energy system in the D.C. metropolitan area, with over 1,000 solar panels on four campus buildings in November.
Like universities across the country, AU is asking students and families to dig deeper into their wallets to pay increasing tuition costs.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit is expanding this November, when 20 new officers from Patrol Districts will be trained to respond to calls from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community while on patrol.
D.C.’s unemployment rate this August increased to 11.2 percent, a level not reached since June of 1983, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A larger number of students are coming to the Student Health Center this year than in the past due to fears about the swine flu.