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D.C. awarded $7,000 and $10,000 each to protesters who claimed they were wrongly arrested in a 2002 World Bank protest. The settlement, reached three weeks ago, gives hope to George Washington University students filing a similar suit and may motivate some AU students to question police misconduct in inauguration protests.
There have been prettier games than AU's 58-56 win over Lafayette Sunday. But at this point in the season, a win is a win. Senior forward Chanel Hunt played her strongest game of the season, scoring 13 points, pulling down 9 rebounds and leading a controlled Eagles offense that completed a 10-point second-half comeback to knock off the lesser opponent and stay in contention for the third seed in the upcoming Patriot League tournament.
The Kyoto Protocol took effect on Wednesday. It requires 35 industrialized nations to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to levels equal to or below what they emitted in 1990 by the end of 2012. The United States is not a party to the treaty.
Public Safety used video technology to help capture a man in his 60s responsible for several etchings of naked women in elevators in Bender Library and Mary Graydon Center, according to Michael McNair, director of Public Safety. The etchings appeared off and on for a year, and the man was caught Feb. 14 by Public Safety.
More than 400 students celebrated AU's annual Founder's Day Ball with dancing and grinding, and glitz and glamour Saturday at the Galleria at Lafayette Center in Dupont Circle from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.
An AU graduate student was mugged during the afternoon near the Tenleytown Metro on Feb. 8 as others stood nearby, which has made her question the safety of Tenleytown and the concern of bystanders.
The National Cathedral held its first service ever to honor a Muslim, School of International Service professor Akbar Ahmed, on Sunday afternoon. Senior Rabbi Bruce Lustig joined Ahmed and Bishop John Chane by reading a passage from Hebrew scripture and speaking about the work that Ahmed has done.
AU Men's Basketball blew a nine-point lead with three and a half minutes to go and lost at Lafayette in overtime Saturday, 93-89. Sophomore guard Andre Ingram scored a game-high 37 points for AU, but Marcus Harley's five overtime points for the Leopards sealed AU's fate.
In wrestling, if you can't make weight on match day, you can't compete. AU head coach Mark Cody wanted to be sure that his wrestlers could make weight on three straight days, since they will have to at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships as well as the national tournament, so he scheduled matches this weekend for three consecutive days.
Amy Klinger withdrew her candidacy for Student Government comptroller in an announcement Monday, citing an internship that would compromise her ability to serve. "I have been given the opportunity to pursue an internship that is of great significance to my future career goals," said Klinger, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and Kogod School of Business. She wished both remaining candidates for comptroller, Ali Khan and Zach Ulrich good luck, endorsing neither. Read more...
In honor of Black History Month, Kennedy Political Union will host Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, in Kay Spiritual Life Center on Wednesday. "We wanted to show the role black nationalism played in the Civil Rights Movement," said Emily Fuller, KPU director.
Do you ever wonder what happens to your $36,000-plus when your parents (or hard-working students, in some cases) write that check to AU? Well, after listening to President Ladner justify higher tuition recently, students should be even more worried about how their money is spent.
D.C. police blamed "go-go" music for violence in a Northwest D.C. club at an Alcohol and Beverage Control Board hearing Saturday. "It's this go-go," Cmdr. Larry D. McCoy of the 3rd Police District said, according to The Washington Post. "If you have a black-tie event, you don't have any problem.
1. NASCAR Sunday's Daytona 500 kicked off NASCAR's incredible nine-month-long season. The Great American Race came complete with performances by washed-up musicians like Five for Fighting and Vanessa Williams, and people dancing around American flags shaped like the good ol' U.
1. Online "Grand Theft Auto?" David Jones, the creator of "Grand Theft Auto," awarded publisher Webzen the rights to his latest creation, "All Points Bulletin," a massive multiplayer online crime game. "All Points" is a game based in living, breathing cities that will feel familiar to players, as they accurately replicate famous cities all over the world.
AU Men's and Women's Indoor Track teams didn't finish the weekend's Patriot League Championships with the most points, but they could be called the competition's most efficient squads. Eagle runners placed first in 10 of their 13 events as the women finished fifth and the men finished third, their best-ever finish in the PL Championships.
Solutions by The State News