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Groups unite, display talents for AIDS slam

By Kaylor Garcia | November 29

The three students who make up Hard Hat Area stepped onto the Tavern's main stage and played a musical medley with their guitars and harmonica. Right next to the band, a long row of tables with representatives from several clubs sold shirts, gave out buttons and stickers and served cookies and drinks to entice students and give them information as part of AIDS Awareness Week.

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Italian Embassy to host Kerwin's inauguration

By Jimm Phillips | November 29

rmine whether they will charge for tickets to AU's 2008 Founder's Day Ball, according to Presidential Chief of Staff David Taylor. If there is a charge, it will be no more than Founder's Day tickets have been in the past. Last year, Founder's Day tickets cost $15.

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Vans to run from Nest to CVS

By Anthony Jaffee | November 29

The Student Government plans to begin running free shuttle vans next semester from AU's main campus to the Tenleytown branches of CVS and Whole Foods to give students a lower-cost alternative to The Eagle's Nest. The primary goal of the program is to pressure The Eagle's Nest to decrease its prices, according to SG President Joe Vidulich.

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'Red' campaign falls short in AIDS fight

By Allie Feras | November 29

The Product Red campaign could do more to fight AIDS in Africa if it focused less on consumerism, said Erin Burns, national organizer for the Student Global AIDS Campaign, at "The (Red) Question" forum Tuesday night in the McDowell Formal Lounge. "The messaging of the Red Campaign tricks people into thinking it is making a huge difference," she said.

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International brief

November 29

An 83-year-old woman from Guardbridge, Scotland, was saved from a potentially fatal super bug by ingesting feces from her daughter, according to The Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper. Ethel McEwan was near death from Clostridium Difficile, a bacteria that can cause severe colon infections, when she received the treatment, which involves feeding a close relative's liquid feces down a tube into the patient's stomach, the Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper, reported.

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Metro brief

November 29

Hundreds gathered at the Redskins' headquarters in Ashburn, Va., Tuesday to mourn team member Sean Taylor, who died one day after being shot at his home in Palmetto Bay, Fla. Fans formed a circle Tuesday evening around Taylor's number, 21, painted on a grassy area in front of Redskins Park, Fox 5 News reported.

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Kerwin, Abramson listen to student concerns

By Jimm Phillips | November 19

AU President Neil Kerwin and Board of Trustees Chairman Gary Abramson listened to students' concerns about a new alcohol transport policy and other campus issues during a town hall meeting Thursday in the Ward Circle Building. Tim Neal, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, asked whether Abramson and Kerwin would be willing to oppose the policy, which makes a studnt's second medical transport for alcohol-related reasons a violation of the university's Code of Conduct.

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Student groups volunteer time during holiday season

By Kaylor Garcia | November 19

Students continue to find time to serve the D.C. community despite looming exams and end-of-semester work. Groups like the community service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and the Catholic Student Association are pitching in to help people in need. On Monday, APO will be going to Georgetown Hospital to put up Thanksgiving decorations to bring "holiday cheer" to the patients, according to Elissa Robinson, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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SG special election results

By Ethan Klapper | November 19

Paul Grever, a senior in the School of Public Affairs, won Monday's special election for Student Government vice president.

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SPA prof swam NJ bay while in high school

By Ashley Wolos | November 19

AW: What is your favorite way to relax after class? KCM: I am kind of a people person, so I like to pal around with others. I've got two fantastic children who are immensely distracting - I don't know if I would call it relaxing, but they are very entertaining.

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International brief

November 19

A man in southern India married a female dog in a ceremony last week in an effort to ward off a supposed curse punishing him for previously stoning two dogs to death, BBC News reported. P. Selvakumar, 33, had suffered paralysis and a loss of hearing since he killed the dogs and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years ago, he told the Hindustan Times.

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Kerwin to develop strategic plan

By Jimm Phillips | November 19

The university will continue to see much of its funding come from student tuition and other fees during President Neil Kerwin's tenure, the president announced during a town hall meeting Thursday. At present, the university gets 95 percent of its revenue from tuition and fees, Kerwin said.

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Panel: Sectarian violence reduced

By Jeanette Lenoir | November 19

Sectarian violence in Baghdad has decreased, but many significant problems remain, according to military experts at a panel held Friday in cooperation with the George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs and the Security Policy Studies Program Institute for Middle East Studies.

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Registration requirement held

By Jen Calantone and Allie Feras | November 19

The offices of Campus Life and Greek Life have suspended a requirement that all of AU's greek organizations provide the university with members' off-campus addresses, according to Student Government President Joe Vidulich. However, Campus Life is considering extending the requirement to all AU students living off-campus, he said.

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Metro brief

November 19

Thousands of people marched from Federal Plaza to the Justice Department Friday morning in response to a recent spat of hate crimes across the nation, including the Jena Six case. The crowd, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, circled the Justice Department building several times to protest what they claim is a slow response from the federal government in dealing with race issues and hate crimes in the U.

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National brief

November 19

A poll of more than 3,000 students at New York University recently found that two-thirds of respondents would exchange their right to vote for a year's worth of free tuition, according to Washington Square News, NYU's student newspaper. The poll, conducted between Oct.

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SG brief

By Emily Blanck | November 19

The Undergraduate Senate passed a bill encouraging President Neil Kerwin to sign a national commitment to environmental sustainability at their meeting Sunday. "A Bill to Support the Presidents Climate Commitment," sponsored by School of Public Affairs Senator Andrew MacCracken, passed by a vote of 17-1-3 at the meeting Sunday.

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