Adam L’Episcopo will get to graduate this spring, but soon thereafter he may be headed to Iraq — again. L’Episcopo is a senior in the School of International Service and he has a remarkable story. He served four years in the Army, including 18 months in Iraq.
Since last year’s election season, partisanship has become our new national pastime. While not every member of the electorate officially belongs to a party, nearly every voter casts their support to either the Republicans or the Democrats, breeding the rivalry that plagues today’s political atmosphere and eliminating possibilities for common ground.
Until this weekend, I gave the Tea Partiers the benefit of the doubt. On principle, I support protests. I think they’re good for democracy. Besides, I didn’t want to believe these anti-tax, anti-Obama demonstrators were the rabid, right-wing radicals Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and other liberals made them out to be.
Where’s the line between a hook-up and sexual assault? The recent Eagle column, “’Sex’-perimentation defines Welcome Week,” indicated no such boundary exists. The line, however, is clear and we want you to know what sexual assault is and what to do if someone is sexually assaulted. The authors made the boundary between hook-up and assault blurry. It’s actually simple.
Adam L’Episcopo wrote his admissions essay from inside an armored combat vehicle in Baghdad. On patrol in the middle of the night, he bent over the page with a flashlight and wrote about why he wanted to come to AU.
Conservative AU students marched on the Capitol Building Sept. 12, along with tens of thousands of other protestors demanding that President Barack Obama curb spending, withdraw support for liberal health care reform and other measures seen as unconstitutional. The protesters, a loose coalition of fiscal, moral and foreign policy conservatives animatedly cheered along with speakers denouncing Obama’s “socialist” agenda. When former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, spoke to the crowd, they chanted “freedom works.” Armey is now the leader of the conservative group Freedomworks, a main sponsor of the march. The crowd ranged in age from young children riding in strollers — some with signs propped against their little hands — to senior citizens in wheelchairs. One young child held a sign that read “We [the children] can’t afford your health care.”
After some students reported cases of H1N1 flu in AU dorms, the university is preparing for the worst, as health officials expect the frequency of swine flu cases to increase significantly this fall, AU President Neil Kerwin said in a memo.
Two AU psychology professors earned a five-year grant of $300,000 per year from the National Institutes of Health to continue work on reducing drug addiction.
An unknown male intruder entered a Georgetown University student’s apartment Sept. 1, in what is now the ninth or possibly tenth case of sexual assault in the Georgetown University area in the past year and a half.
Over the summer, AU undertook significant renovations in Bender Library in order to better match students’ desires and expand the book collection, according to Diana Vogelsong, associate university librarian.
The new School of International Service building is steadily heading towards its scheduled May 2010 completion, according to Director of Development Morris Jackson. Since the groundbreaking ceremony in November 2007, AU has seen the construction site evolve from a gaping hole to a sizable building, ...
Student Government will renew their search for a new AUTO Commissioner once a replacement is found for former Comptroller Matt Handverger, according to President Andy MacCracken.
Former reconnaissance Marine Sergeant Rudy Reyes discussed ways people can draw upon their inner potential to improve themselves at a Sept. 9 Kennedy Political Union event. Reyes, who served two tours of duty in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, shared with AU students his belief that by improving one’s mind and body, a person can set a good example for others to emulate.
Student Government executives must provide information on nominees for cabinet positions to the Undergraduate Senate, according to an executive order issued Sept. 11 by President Andy MacCracken.
As summer draws to a close, so does yet another season of baseball. While many are ready to transition to the football season, eight teams will be preparing for a playoff run.
Anne van Erp and Christine Fingerhuth are two nationally recognized field hockey players. They are also international students, whose first trip to the United States was in August of their freshmen year.
On the evening of Sept. 11th, the National Basketball Hall of Fame welcomed arguably the best class in its 50-year history. It included former Spurs All-Star David Robinson, Jazz point guard John Stockton, Head Coaches C. Vivian Stringer and Jerry Sloan as well as the big man himself, Michael Jordan.
Things were looking good for AU early in the match as they were able to take the first set of the evening. It was not easy though, as the first game went back and forth showing that Yale was a formidable opponent.
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