The Eagle's calendar of campus events from November 1st until November 5th.
Before Melanie Wood, a Princeton doctoral student, talked about creativity in math in Ward 1 on Tuesday night, she shared a rather humorous experience. "When I meet new people and tell them I'm a mathematician or a mathematical grad student, I get a lot of different responses," Wood said. The responses ranged from an incredulous "So do you come up with new numbers?" to "Do you study, like, Calculus 9?" to what she called the most frequent response by far: "I can't even balance my checkbook."
Election officials in the D.C. area have restricted non-U.S. citizens who want to observe the election from visiting certain polling sites, according to Vassia Gueorguieva, a coordinator of an AU-based team of election observers. "Usually election observation is done at random sites," Gueorguieva said.
After the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees and what Public Safety called a "riot" broke out on the Letts-Anderson Quad, some at AU and the surrounding neighborhood are wondering how students will react to a Bush or Kerry win on Nov. 2. Although Director of Public Safety Michael McNair said he doesn't expect riots, Public Safety will continue to monitor the situation, he said.
A brief from The Eagle on destruction of political signs in the weeks leading up to November 2.
The most prominent figures in women's rights, such as Susan B. Anthony and Gloria Steinem, are women. The most prominent figures from the civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, are black. So some people might assume that those fighting for the rights of gays and lesbians, whether nationally or on campus, are gay. Not so at AU. Allison Waithe is straight and president of the AU Queers and Allies club. She works for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally Resource Center and Stonewall Democrats United, a group mobilizing GLBT people to vote for Democratic candidates this year. The latter two take up about 26 hours each week, she says.
The College Democrats, Libertarians and Republicans debated the problems with higher education, the PATRIOT Act and other issues as they related to students on Wednesday night in the Leonard Hall Chancery. Each political group selected one representative to speak at the debate, which about 15-20 students attended.
A house in Foggy Bottom, where four George Washington University students and two former students lived, was shut down Tuesday after an inspection that was requested by a neighbor. It is the latest house to be shut down after inspections began in response to Georgetown University senior Daniel Rigby's death two weeks ago.
Seconds after the Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year-old curse, an excited fan pulled the fire alarm in the Letts-Anderson complex and spilled nearly a thousand students onto the Letts-Anderson Quad and the SIS Annex. The victory marked the end of decades of tears, anguish and heartache over "The Curse of the Bambino" - the Sox's failure to win a World Series since trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. At AU, the reaction among many students was ecstatic. Led by chants of "Yankees suck" and "It's all over," an undulating crowd of around 50 students pumped their fists and formed a makeshift mosh pit, where they flagellated each other with arms, coats and bodies in an emotional frenzy of baseball redemption.
Drag queens pulled up their fishnets and strapped on their sexiest stilettos and highest platforms in preparation for the annual 17th Street High-Heel Race in Dupont Circle Tuesday night. This tradition of cross-dressing to the nines and sprinting three blocks between Church and R streets had people packing the sidewalks for hours before and after the 9 p.m. race.
Target will open its first store in D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams announced Wednesday. Target plans to break ground on the store in Columbia Heights this spring and open it in 2007, USA Today reported. The store will be publicly and privately financed.
A former George Washington University professor was arrested Oct. 12 on charges he embezzled more than $600,000 from the university between early 2002 and April 2004. According to U.S. District Court records, Nabih Bedewi, 41, was charged with one count of embezzlement of federal funds given to the university's National Crash Analysis Center, located on its Virginia campus. The NCAC researches transportation safety, concentrating on vehicles and highways.
The Food and Drug Administration required two weeks ago that all manufacturers of anti-depressant medications to start placing labels on products warning of the drugs' potential to induce suicidal thoughts in children and adolescents. This decision came as a result of FDA clinical trials that showed a 2 percent increase in suicidal thoughts in children taking anti-depressants versus those on placebos. The warnings are mandated on all anti-depressants because of the inability of the FDA to distinguish their individual effects on children and adolescents.
The majority of students living in all eight residence halls are in favor of keeping both fall break and Thanksgiving break, according to a poll by the RHA. "We're not entirely sure how that would be possible," said RHA President Scott Goldstein.
Seniors graduating this year face a brighter future than last year's college graduates. While it's too early to tell what the hiring situation would be for May graduates, job prospects are looking up for December graduates, according to Camille Franklin, the AU Career Center's director of career development. The job market continues to improve, especially in areas of security, intelligence and government work, she said.
AU's Center for Social Media will release a study on Nov. 8 that highlights the problems that documentary filmmakers face in controlling rights for their creative work and the consequences for cultural creativity. The Center, along with the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (PIPPI) at AU's Washington College of Law, conducted the yearlong research project, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
If fall break is eliminated next year at AU, the new policy would also be somewhat unusual when compared with similar institutions. Three weeks ago, the Faculty Senate and the Graduate Leadership Council approved a proposal that would eliminate fall break and make Thanksgiving break a full week, The Eagle reported. University President Benjamin Ladner's cabinet has the final say over whether the proposal passes, according to David Taylor, Ladner's chief of staff.
Events recorded by Public Safety officers for the week beginning October 23.
AU Transportation Organization Commissioner Mike Berg said at a hearing Tuesday that he plans to resolve recent complaints about AUTO by implementing a system that allows users to reserve AUTO vans online. "This will streamline the process," Berg said. "This system will definitely improve our customer service."
Jennifer Ernst was stunned when Vice President Dick Cheney misspoke the name of her workplace in front of 43.6 million viewers at the vice presidential debate earlier this month. Ernst, who graduated from AU with a bachelor's degree in political science last May, has worked as a researcher for the campaign watchdog site Factcheck.org since June.
Solutions by The State News