Metro may cut service
AU students who travel around D.C. on public transportation could be faced with Metro service cuts next fall due to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's projected budget gap for 2010.
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AU students who travel around D.C. on public transportation could be faced with Metro service cuts next fall due to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's projected budget gap for 2010.
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This Monday, then President-elect Barack Obama called the nation to serve in honor of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. In response, one of the largest groups ever volunteered for the AU Community Service Center's (CSC) annual MLK Day of Service at four senior housing and aid sites in D.C.
Recent poll data indicates voter turnout in Maryland and D.C. for the 2008 general election was below the expected level in the 2008.
Interest in AU's economics courses has increased this year, conforming with a nationwide increase in the number of students who declare majors and minors in the subject due to the economic downturn, according to professors in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Economics.
AU students who travel throughout the D.C. area for jobs, internships, dining or general sightseeing via Metrorail could soon encounter changes in the popular Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority service.
While some AU students were watching the outcome of the election in the Tavern, others were volunteering and interning across the city as the election results began to come in.
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics recently sent out approximately 126 erroneous absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 election to voters from D.C.'s Single Member District.
AU students may not face the same difficulties they did with course registration in previous semesters because of improvements to the wait-list system, according to University Registrar Linda Bolden-Pitcher.
AU's enrollment of minority students increased between 1997 and 2007, as 51 more students of Asian or Pacific Islander backgrounds and 73 more Hispanic students were enrolled at the university in 2007 than in 1997, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment's yearly Academic Databook.
In the past 30 years, the matriculation of American Indian and Alaska Natives in higher education has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Education. This trend has also been apparent at AU in the last 10 years.