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Steve Jennings, the head coach of the AU field hockey team, was a member of the United States men's field hockey team that competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He said the team's trip to Atlanta was nothing short of a disaster. "The team in Atlanta had a lot of distractions that hurt our performance," he said.
Thursday, Sept. 11 FBI Volunteer Internship Program information session 4:30-5:30 p.m. WHERE: MGC 247 INFO: The FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) offers several internship positions for qualified upperclassmen and graduate students who are interested in working for the bureau.
The Metrobus system is the most difficult mode of transportation to understand in D.C. Without the ease - and resultant expense - of taxis, or the reliability of Metrorail, Metrobus seems to go everywhere and nowhere all at once. Freshmen who make their way to a Metrobus stop for the first time are bound to spend at least a few minutes trying to decipher the hundreds of seemingly random times that make up the posted schedules.
Thursday, Sept. 11 9/11 Truth Film Festival: "Terrorstorm Final Cut" 6 p.m. WHERE: Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. N.W. METRO: U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo (green and yellow lines) INFO: This documentary looks at the history of government-sponsored terrorism.
The AU women's lacrosse team welcomed 11 freshmen and one transfer student to its team this week, including three high school all-Americans. The freshmen are Jordan Allen, Kaska Komosinski, Emma Larkin, Paige Lin, Bernadette Mahar, Bailey McDonough, Chelsea O'Neill, Emily Reichard, Lauren Schoenberger, Emily Stankiewicz and Alice Thomson.
This weekend is jam-packed with eclectic artsy extravaganzas. The best part is that they are all free! If you were ever going to ask someone out on a date, this is the weekend to do it. Let's have all of those welcome week hook-ups amount to something more.
New technology allowed the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to report that more than 25 percent of its buses did not arrive on their scheduled times in July, according to data released recently on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Web site.
The Adams Morgan community will celebrate its culture and diversity this weekend with its 30th annual Adams Morgan Day Festival. Adams Morgan Main Street, a coalition that works to keep Adams Morgan alive and vibrant, will host the event from noon to 7 p.m.
Sept. 2 A female student approached an officer in the Letts-Anderson quad and reported that an unknown person struck her in the face on the 3300 block of New Mexico Avenue N.W. The student stated she was not injured and did not need medical assistance. The Metropolitan Police Department responded.
The College Opportunity and Affordability Act signed into law in August requires the Department of Education to list the least affordable universities on its Web site. The Education Department will post the universities with the highest percentage increases in tuition and fees in a three-year period as well as the 5 percent of universities with the highest tuition by July 2011.
AU students will surely welcome the opening of the new bridge to Mary Graydon Center and Butler Pavilion. Since the start of this school year, the bridge has been closed to foot traffic as construction crews crafted rounded steps to replace the simple "straight" steps from years past.
Fresno, Calif., police arrested a man Monday after he broke into the home of two farm workers and proceeded to rub one with spices and beat the other with an eight-inch-long sausage before he fled, according to the Associated Press. Authorities found Antonio Vasquez, 22, hiding in a nearby field wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, the AP reported.
I am in no way a pacifist. I believe in military strength, covert operations and being able to fight when someone threatens our livelihood or that of our allies. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama share that belief with me. But that is where our shared views on the military end.
Police evacuated a dormitory at Gallaudet University Wednesday morning after finding what they believed to be bomb-making supplies, the Associated Press reported. A maintenance worker found six boxes of fertilizers and pesticides in an air duct in an unoccupied dorm room, fire department spokesman Alan Etter told the AP.
A London jury found three men guilty Monday of participating in a plot to detonate bombs on trans-Atlantic airlines headed for the U.S. and Canada in 2006, CNN reported. The jury failed to reach a verdict on four other men charged in connection to the plot and found one not guilty on all counts.
Intermittent rain and uncontested races resulted in a low turnout citywide as former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry won the Democratic Party's re-nomination for his Ward Eight city council seat with almost 80 percent of the vote. A large number of write-in votes appeared on city ballots, muddying the results of the Republican at-large council seat in which challenger Patrick Mara claimed victory over five-term incumbent Carol Schwartz.
Women's soccer junior forward Kelsey Brasher was named AU Student Athlete of the Week and Co-Patriot League Player of the Week after scoring three goals in matches against Mount St. Mary's University and the University of Maryland, College Park. Brasher became the league's Offensive Player of the Week while teammate junior defender Erin Stebbins became Defensive Player of the Week.
The Undergraduate Senate heard the first reading Sunday of Tre Matthews' nomination to be the new Student Union Board director. Matthews will go before the senate on Sunday for further consideration.
The AU women's basketball team hired Erin Lindroth as an assistant coach this season. Lindroth joins the Eagles after spending the last four years as an assistant at Daytona Beach State College in Daytona Beach, Fla., where she worked on practice and game preparation as well as academic tutoring and counseling.
Solutions by The State News