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AEI president: Live like an entrepreneur and change your life

By Jonathan Bergman | February 27

American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks told audience members on Feb. 22 that they could become a “more successful person” by living like an entrepreneur.

Anders Agner Pedersen and Caspar Phillipson

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“Jackie” actor to speak at AU

By Courtney Rozen | February 27

The Kennedy Political Union and Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies will host actor Caspar Phillipson and author Anders Agner Pedersen next month in an event titled “The Speeches of President Kennedy.” Phillipson portrayed President John F.

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Life After Hours: Feb. 24-26

By Emily Martin | February 24

Wrap up February with a food demonstration, Oscars watch party and more

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California congresswoman to speak at AU

By Courtney Rozen | February 24

Rep. Barbara Lee to appear in honor of Women’s History Month

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Five DC neighborhoods for college students

By Adena Maier | February 24

To outsiders, it may seem like D.C. is simply a historic and political city with a lot of monuments and museums.

Guest Columns

Op-ed: “He’s just saying what we’re all thinking:” How political correctness fails us in the age of Trump

By Joe Henao | February 24

I wasn’t quite sure if it was a universal maxim, but I had heard friends of mine recite the humourous adage, “he’s just saying what we’re all thinking,” fictitiously assuming the role of the cucked Trump supporter proclaiming their admiration for our new Commander-in-Chief and his knack for stating the obscene, perverse and politically incorrect.

Basketball

Women’s basketball hold on for crucial victory over Navy

By Vincent Salandro | February 23

Two Reads: JE For the second time in the span of a week, the AU women’s basketball team saw a large fourth quarter lead evaporate.

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“Breaking Ground Monologues” brings powerful performances

By Elisabeth Holmes | February 22

Students wrote and performed personal pieces in the show’s campus premiere

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Think about workers before you talk about sweatshops

By Dan Fitzgerald | February 22

We have lost our humanity. I’m not talking about the kind Jimmy Carter talked about in his televised speech in 1979.

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Global health case competition will be on March 1

By Jonathan Bergman | February 22

AU students will go head to head on March 1 presenting their solutions to prevent substance abuse during this year’s AU Global Health Case Competition, sponsored by the Department of Health Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Guest Columns

Op-ed: AU is paying banks with your tuition money

By Erin Thomas | February 21

Financialization is defined as “increase in the size, scope, and power of the ﬁnancial sector—the people and ﬁrms that manage money and underwrite stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other securities—relative to the rest of the economy.” In fact, only 15 percent of the money in our economic system winds up in the “real” economy.