A portion of the structure over the bridge between Mary Graydon and Battelle-Tompkins collapsed under snow Wednesday. No one sustained injuries.
The Founder’s Day Ball originally scheduled for Feb. 20 has been postponed due to snow, according to the Student Government.
Student Government’s highest-ranking executives make $8,500 yearly — high in comparison with D.C. counterparts but lower than in previous years.
A select group of AU students will be testing SmarTrip-compatible AU ID cards in the weeks leading up to spring break to see if the ID cards can be offered to the AU community in the near future.
Locals raised concerns over AU's increased development at an Advisory Neighborhood Committee meeting Feb. 3.
During a week of canoeing in an area between Minnesota and Canada known as the Northern Tier High Adventure location, a senior in the School of Public Affairs Ryan Korn barely slept. He woke in the middle of the night to the sound of howling wolves; he only had purified lake water to drink and ate moldy spaghetti accidentally dowsed in a stream. He was eaten through his multiple sweaters by mosquitoes in 80 degree weather, came down with a fever on the third day and “definitely almost got struck by lightning. Twice.”
The AU base of the Community Supported Agriculture program has shown a drop in membership this year from last year’s total of 16 participants.
Last week’s blizzard ravaged regular campus activities. The administration canceled classes from Monday to Thursday, put up staff overnight nearby and limited Bender Library’s hours, though the library remained open selectively each day. Some trees on campus and the canopy beside the Mary Graydon Center succumbed to the snowfall and collapsed.
This winter’s unusually heavy snowfall and low temperatures in D.C. are evidence of climate change, according to the National Wildlife Federation.
Despite students missing a week of classes, Provost Scott Bass assured the campus community in an e-mail Wednesday that no changes to the academic calendar will be made at this time.
The Undergraduate Senate passed new Clean Energy Revolving Fund legislation yesterday by a vote of 16-4.
The Founders’ Day Ball, originally scheduled for Feb. 20, has been postponed indefinitely due to complications resulting from this week’s historic snowfall, according to Student Government Vice President Alex Prescott.
AU hosted the nation-wide launch of the first system specifically made to evaluate the sustainability of colleges and universities this semester.
Cartoonist Rights Network International, an organization that supports political cartoonists around the world who are at risk because of their work, established its first collegiate chapter at AU on Feb. 3 during a Kennedy Political Union event.
Students seeking a side job will have one more option in their employment search with the launch of the Web site, mycubi.com.
Students can now print one sheet double-sided for 10 cents at two locations on campus as part of AU's environmental initiative, "The American Dream is Green."
The record-breaking, two-punch snowfall that has blanketed campus for the last week has led to AU staff being housed nearby or on campus as well as nearly a week of class cancellations.
After some debate, SG President Andy MacCracken and Senator Steve Dalton said they created a bill that would serve as a compromise regarding the Clean Energy Revolving Fund. Money for the green-friendly fund would not come from students’ activities fees under the bill unless an individual specified otherwise, according to Dalton.
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