Now that his secretary of state days are over, retired Gen. Colin Powell lives just like any other American.
Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK, a women-initiated movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, was barred from AU for a year after she protested at last night’s speech.
The Beeghly Building was evacuated at 11:54 a.m. due to vapors of sodium acetate, a crystallized compound commonly found in handwarmers. The building has since been re-opened. A handwarmer in boiling water set off a smoke alarm and evacuated the Beeghly Building for nearly an hour while the D.C. Fire Department’s Hazardous Material Unit (Hazmat) responded to the incident.
“Twilight” and “True Blood” fans can quench their vampire thirst this fall with AU’s new course, HIST-296 “Vampire Narratives and American Society.”
A new social networking site, Spotflag, is currently being beta-tested exclusively at AU.
A woman received minor injuries after driving her car into a cement pole in the Katzen Garage at 1:25 p.m. Tuesday.
With more than 40 students camped outside her office, Vice President of Campus Life Gail Hanson agreed to hold an open forum on sexual assault in early fall 2011. The forum would outline and present updates on AU’s plan to increase sexual assault programs and education on campus.
Incoming freshmen will not be able to test out of College Writing completely.
No Student Government candidate this year spent above the campaign finance limit of $300 for executive candidates and $60 for class council candidates.
For both the Twitter-savvy, the technologically-challenged and everyone in between, the AU Social Media Club’s inaugural Social Learning Summit featured panels on topics ranging from “Peace Through Tweets: Peacebuilding and Crisis Management in a Connected World” to “The NEW Media: Journalism in the Social Age.”
This story is the fifth in a series investigating World War I-era chemical weapons and equipment buried under AU’s campus and in the Spring Valley neighborhood
With nearly double the number of participants from last year, AU raised a record $82,000 for the American Cancer Society at its annual Relay for Life.
Of the roughly 2,000 Franklinia trees in existence, one of them stands here at AU, a specimen of pride for the campus’s arboretum.
For the second year in a row, about half of AU’s freshmen and new transfer students reported in an online survey that they do not drink alcohol.
Last week Kirk Acevedo woke up at 7:30 a.m. and walked 20 miles around D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Some residence hall showerheads are being replaced after AU technicians noticed over spring break that some of them were not the ones originally installed.
Even though Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., went to Georgetown University, the AU students in Ward 1 Tuesday night didn’ t seem to hold it against him.
AU will not submit a grant proposal that would provide $300,000 to fund sexual assault education programs and support services.
Students climbed up a rock wall and dropped down into a dunk tank at Tuesday’s Diversival. The Diversival, sponsored by the Residence Hall Association, took place on the quad and featured dunk tanks, a “moon bounce for equality” and “rock climbing for change,” according to RHA Vice President ...
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