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Before we exchanged pleasantries, she greeted me with a bright smile, a soft gaze and a tight hug. She held me for a few moments longer than I expected. It felt like reconnecting with my grandmother and the older women in my family. In a way, I knew her character before she formally introduced herself. Professionally, ...
The Peaceworks Foundation’s Emerging Leaders program hosted a masterclass at American University on Feb. 11, encouraging students to engage in constructive dialogue and long-term conflict resolution surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Peaceworks Foundation is a nonprofit organization that ...
Students and professors joined thousands in a nationwide classroom walkout to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement at 2 p.m. on Feb. 6 outside the Kay Spiritual Life Center. The walkout, organized by Latinos En Acción and American University’s chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists ...
Inside American University’s Reeves Aquatic Center, evening practices connect the members of the club swim team. Some of these swimmers joined as a way to replace the team environment they missed after leaving high school sports behind. Several members of the executive board say that AU Club ...
Following previous suspensions and a cease-and-desist, American University’s Students for Justice in Palestine club is on suspension until 2027, according to an Instagram announcement on Feb. 5, leaving several students angry. After the post, students and alumni responded in the comments that they ...
American University’s Student Government Undergraduate Senate voted to pass Resolution 21-009, advocating for transparency from the administration regarding unconfirmed allegations against School of International Service Professor Earl Anthony Wayne on Feb. 7. Wayne’s name was identified within ...
Nearly two dozen Buddhist monks arrived at American University on Tuesday morning, Feb. 10, marking one of the final stops of their months-long pilgrimage. According to Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, who led the group, the Walk for Peace is rooted in the belief that peace begins within oneself ...
Increased violence across the nation between civilians and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers brought Washington, D.C., students to Howard University’s campus in below freezing temperatures. On Jan. 30, hundreds of students and protestors engaged in a walkout and marched to the White ...
Un gran grupo de manifestantes se reunió al frente de los cuarteles generales de la Agencia de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) el 24 de enero para protestar contra de un agente de ICE el cual disparó y asesinó a Alex Pretti esa mañana en Minneapolis. Pretti quien era un enfermero del Departamento ...
University reviewing claims against SIS professor and former ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne
A large crowd rallied together in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Headquarters on Jan. 24 to protest an ICE agent shooting and killing Alex Pretti that morning in Minneapolis. Pretti was an ICU nurse for the United States Department of Veteran Affairs and a part of a community network ...
On Jan. 22, former U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat-turned-Independent from Arizona, spoke at American University about her career accolades, political friendships and future ambitions. The event, hosted by the Kennedy Political Union and the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, included Sinema’s ...
The shiny new doors of American University’s Meltzer Center, the premier athletic facility on campus, have officially opened. Located between Reeves Field and Bender Arena, the center opened on Jan. 16 as part of the $500 million investment to the AU Change Can’t Wait campaign. The Meltzer ...
A small crowd convened on American University’s quad on Jan. 20 to protest President Donald Trump one year after his second inauguration. The demonstration was one of several Free America walkouts taking place across the country that day and began at 2 p.m. in front of the Mary Graydon Student Center. ...
The American University administration’s establishment of a new, on-campus Hillel center ignited polarizing reactions among AU’s Hillel and an anti-Zionist Jewish student group, spotlighting divisions within the campus’ Jewish community. AU’s Anti-Zionist Jewish Student Front — named ...
Initiatives include guaranteed funded internships, Civic Learning
Across the two years she has worked at the American University library, Sydney Henry has compiled a notebook of her experiences. The pages chronicle what she says is a years-long pattern of intimidation and belittlement by supervisors. Henry said she was left out of meetings and was told she was ...
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