$1 million of PCP seized from dealers in D.C., Maryland
A metro brief on a PCP raid in the District of Columbia.
A metro brief on a PCP raid in the District of Columbia.
The engine company that responds to fires at AU moved from its temporary location on Nebraska Avenue to Connecticut Avenue. Engine Company 20 is now at 4930 Connecticut Ave. NW, sharing space with Engine Company 31. The location on Nebraska, which it previously shared with the Department of Homeland Security was "never intended to be permanent quarters," said Kathryn Friedman, D.
Many students think that finding a job after graduation can be frustrating. According to AU's Office of Institutional Research, that notion may be correct as only 35 percent of last year's graduates went straight into the work force. Despite this statistic, there are a number of resources on campus and on the Web to help graduating seniors land that first job.
"Violence is identified always as evil - never as good," said the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman of Israeli treatment of the Palestinian community in the Middle East on Monday's Interfaith Symposium. Wogaman, along with several other Jewish, Muslim and Christian panelists met in Kay Spiritual Life Center to discuss human rights and religious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Sunday.
American women are stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with the government, according to actress Janeane Garofolo. Garofolo, a longtime reproductive rights activist, spoke on a conference call with writers from several college newspapers to garner interest for the upcoming March for Women's Lives.
Safety and security events from around campus since the Thursday issue
News briefs from around campus: University tap water and AU Professor Alan Kraut
Allegations of election tampering were raised and quickly dismissed, prior to spring break according to officials in the Student Confederation, AU's student government. After the final results of the election were announced March 4, a student posted on the American Daily Jolt, a Web log administered by AU students, that she could vote on the my.
The woman who has been charged in the drunken-driving death of AU junior Andrew Burr waived her right to a preliminary hearing March 5. Shelly Wentworth will appear in court again April 9 for a status hearing, according to Channing Phillips, spokesman for the U.
AU students studying in Madrid, Spain, this semester were not hurt when bombs struck a train station there during the morning rush hour last Thursday. "They're fine. They're doing very, very well," said Maria Caballero, director of the AU Abroad program in Madrid.
While the majority of AU students prefer to hit the beaches of Cancun, Mexico, or Florida on spring break, I took a trip with the Alternative Spring Break program to Vietnam. Even though the 21-hour flying time was less than favorable, the incredible history and culture of the country made me less weary of the logistics of travel.
AU alumnus and Fox News Channel reporter Rick Levanthal came to talk with students and answer questions about his nine weeks covering Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq on March 5. Leventhal shared his experiences covering the war from different areas such as pre-war planning, security issues, relationships with the troops and interacting with the local Iraqi people.
A campus brief for March 18, 2004
Partners for Peace organized its 6th annual tour entitled "Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision." The program was sponsored at AU by the Women and Gender Studies Program. Three women, one Christian, one Muslim, and one Jew shared their stories about living in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
On March 5, former AU researcher Gao Zhan was sentenced to seven months imprisonment and eight months of community confinement after she pled guilty to illegal arms exports and tax fraud last fall, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Gao faced a possible sentence of 10 years.
Over 400 people were wrongly arrested during a protest on Sept. 27, 2002, according to a report released March 11 by a special commission of the D.C. Council. The report also concluded that that the Metropolitan Police Department then tried to place the blame elsewhere.
While the Supreme Court decided last month to uphold Washington state's decision to deny state financial aid to college theology students, this ruling will not affect colleges in D.C. According to the D.C. education office, 37 states have similar laws though D.
Since 1981, when the AIDS epidemic first became a crisis, the media has covered this terminal disease, but now the question has risen as to whether or not the media has covered it enough, according to the panelists at AU's recent American Forum. Although the numbers of deaths caused by AIDS, which is a leading cause of death among young people around the world, is increasing, the amount of coverage by the media has decreased significantly.
The admissions policies of seven public colleges in Virginia that reject illegal immigrants who apply are in question after part of a lawsuit against the schools was dismissed last month. The lawsuit, Equal Access Education v. Burton, is regarding the Virginia schools' policies of not accepting illegal immigrant applicants.
Safety and security incidents around campus for the last week