News

News

Eagle Nights sumo-sized for new year

By Rebecca Shillenn | September 4

The weekly phenomenon known as Eagle Nights resumed yesterday in the Tavern with a fun-filled schedule of themed events planned, according to Eagle Nights Director Kyle Taylor.ÿEagle Nights will still retain its wacky flair, said Taylor, who took over for recent graduate Joshua "Shwa" Losben.

---

News

AU 'leid' on Labor Day

By Kate Oczypok | September 4

Students celebrated Labor Day by using their meal plans to partake in an Hawaiian Beach Party sponsored by the Student Confederation, AU's student body government, and Bon Appetit on Monday.

---

News

U.S. News ranks AU 99

By Rebecca Byerly | August 28

U.S. News and World Report published its 2004 rankings for best universities on Aug. 22. AU ranked 99 out of the 248 national universities with doctoral programs considered. The statistics used for the report were collected from information taken in 2002.

---

News

Police Blotter

By Ben Widness | August 28

Safety and incident report from around campus, covering the week prior to publication of the issue.

---

News

Return of intramural field to come

By Keith F. Shovlin | August 28

The ongoing recovery of arsenic and chemical weapons is coming to a close, according to a report by the Army Corps of Engineers on Aug. 5. The Corps is now completing the replacement of soil in the intramural field but the search will continue in an area of campus known as Lot 18.

---

News

Professort urges peace

By Chris Marsh | August 28

Monday night, AU professor and former Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy spoke about how to achieve peace in a time filled with conflict. Sponsored by The Community Action Social Justice Coalition, McCarthy spoke about topics ranging from peace in Iraq to having a successful freshman year.

---

News

Changes coming to audio tech

By Ari Natter | August 28

Audio Technology students may start seeing some changes to their major this year, as the program is being "re-centered" away from performance and content aspects, Department Chair Michael Gray said. The major was determined to have drifted away from its original focus, a science and technology program, after undergoing a review process, Gray said.

---

News

AU snuffs smokers and sales

By Mackenzie Ryan | August 28

Students taking a cigarette break will have to walk a little farther before they light up this year. The steps and walkways around the front doors of the residence halls are now designated smoke-free areas, which is just one of a handful of new procedures that AU is implementing in an attempt to promote a healthier campus.

---

News

Anderson could lose its lounges

By Evan Wagner | August 28

Anderson Hall is tentatively set to lose its formal lounge, conference room and den next year if Housing and Dining Programs, the University office that runs the residence halls, meal services, and EagleBuck$, decides to move there from its current home in the Rockwood Building.

---

News

Officer Sanchez resigns

By Evan Wagner | August 28

Officer Juan Sanchez will never again march into the Letts-Anderson Quad to break up a fight, dash into McDowell Hall to help a sick student, or cruise the quad smiling in a Public Safety SUV. After seven years at AU, "Sanchez," as he was known by students, has left the school to become a federal police officer.

---

News

Car bomber gets 32 years

By Evan Wagner | August 28

A local man was sentenced to 32 years in prison last week by a federal judge a year after attempting to blow up his father in a Friendship Heights parking garage-a term that the judge said wasn't nearly long enough. Prescott Sigmund, the son of a local businessman, admited in court that he had placed a nail-packed pipe bomb in his father's SUV last July.

---

News

Campus Briefs

August 28

Briefs from around campus for the week of August 28, 2003

---

News

Credit cards denied

By Stokely Baksh | August 28

Beginning Monday, AU will stop accepting credit cards as payments for tuition, fees, room and board , although they will still be used for other campus services including EagleBuck$ and purchases of books. According to Assistant Vice President of Finance Doug Kudravetz, credit cards were used as payments in $50 million for tuition.

---

News

Chem building renovates

By Joseph Popiolkowski | August 28

The Beeghly Building, home to AU's Chemistry Department, reopened Friday after an extensive six-week renovation of the building's ventilation and exhaust systems and removal of a potentially explosive residue, Willy Suter said, director of Physical Plant Operations.

---

News

Conspiracy argued

By Ryan Grannan-Doll | August 28

A conspiracy between the organized crime community, the Central Intelligence Agency and anti-Cuban dictator Fidel Castro rebels led to former President John F. Kennedy's murder, nationally renowned political assassination expert John Gordon argued Tuesday night.

---

News

Hoyas seek building for crew

By Rebecca Bellville | August 28

Georgetown University hopes to build a boathouse for its crew teams - an idea that has won praise from the AU Crew team. The proposed boathouse, which would be built on an acre on the Potomac River between 34th Street NW and the entrance to Georgetown's campus, would total about 33,000 square feet.

---

News

Rain brings flooding, power loss

By Rebecca Bellville | August 28

A Tuesday afternoon thunderstorm caused flooding and power outages across the AU campus, forcing the Washington College of Law to cancel Wednesday classes, and has been blamed for a car accident that slightly injured an AU graduate student. The swift rainfall brought flooding to stairwells in several buildings and the Nebraska Parking Lot and knocked out power in Nebraska Hall and the WCL building, according to Willy Suter, director of Physical Plant Operations.

---