AU students will be equipped with more ways to pay for college when GradeFund, a company that pays students for good grades, gets a makeover in three months.
The SG Senate passed a bill Sunday encouraging Housing and Dining to create unofficial package hours from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Anderson and Centennial Hall dorms.
Howard University and Virginia Tech University are now expanding their intelligence curricula as part of a five-year, $2.5 million academic program funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Eco-friendly taxicabs, intended to minimize foreign petroleum importation and create jobs, will soon be available for the AU community to use in the greater D.C. area.
Cairo’s streets are now littered with trash after the president of Egypt ordered every pig in the nation to be killed in an attempt to combat swine flu, according to The New York Times.
A 15-year-old D.C. resident died after jumping in front of a Metro train on Thursday at the Columbia Heights station, according to Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority officials.
The Undergraduate Senate will debate a constitutional amendment this Sunday that would make the comptroller and secretary appointed, as opposed to elected, positions.
The Office of Campus Life was the first to hop on the “green” train, and they are not getting off anytime soon. After certifying 100 percent of their staff in less than a year through training and informational courses with Eco-Sense, AU’s student-run sustainability organization, the OCL is working daily to make sure they live up to and exceed the standards set by the certification.
Interns working on Capitol Hill this semester may be required to hand over a bit of extra information and carry a government-issued ID card under the new DC One Card program.
AU is located in the one of the best metropolitan areas in the country for attending college, according to College Destinations Index. The 2009-10 College Destinations Index recognized the 75 best locations for students to attend college, with D.C. ranking as the fourth-best metropolitan area after New York, San Francisco and Boston. The report was based on academic environment, quality of life and professional opportunities. “Choosing the right college isn’t just about professors and classes,” said the conductors of the study, the American Institute for Economic Research, on their Web site. “Conversations in coffee houses, performances in concert halls and opportunities for corporate internships also contribute to education.”
The Student Government Judicial Board garnered campus attention Sept. 4 when it temporarily halted impeachment proceedings against former Comptroller Matt Handverger.
“I don’t think anyone at AU is qualified enough to make that big of a decision. I know that AU is a very politically active school, but I don’t think appointed positions would go over very well with the students.” Chelsea Spichs, CAS/ SIS junior “I mean, yeah, it could be beneficial because ...
A Johns Hopkins University senior used a Samurai sword to kill a man who broke into his off-campus home Tuesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins’ campus paper, The John Hopkins News-Letter.
AU students pay $468 per semester for parking, according to AU’s Web site.
School of Communication Journalist-in-Residence Nick Clooney, an attorney and an SOC professor discussed releasing names of confidential sources and the 2003 Valerie Plame-CIA leak grand jury investigation at AU's Reel Journalism series opener on Monday.
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.
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