Delivering American University's news and views since 1925 | Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Of the roughly 2,000 Franklinia trees in existence, one of them stands here at AU, a specimen of pride for the campus’s arboretum.
Matthew Halbe’s charge of crossing a police line was dropped on Tuesday, while Michael Dranove faces four new charges in addition to defacing government property.
Loren Cameron, a transgender man who photographs other trans people, wonders if a number of transgender individuals are actually intersex.
Matthew Halbe, a veteran of the Iraq War, woke up last Friday with no intention of going to jail. By that night he found himself in a concrete cell hoping that he wouldn’t have to spend the night.
Michael Dranove is a self-described anarchist. “It has nothing to do with chaos — that was some Wilson Red Scare propaganda that seems to have stuck to this day for some reason,” said the freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences who was arrested at the recent “Funk the War: Bad Romance” protest. “[Anarchism] advocates workers’ control over the means of production. [It’s] all about organization and community.”
D.C. police arrested two AU students at the Funk the War protest Friday. An unknown person or group vandalized the Armed Forces Recruiting Center during the protest, according to AU graduate student Geoff Ramsey. • AU students participated in two other protests Saturday at the Capitol and the mall, respectively.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, controversy about the political group GOProud broke out during one of the conference panels, according to several AU students who attended.
AU played host to six drag queens from the D.C. area Monday night. The ladies raised money for a non-profit that specializes in HIV care.
Legalizing gay marriage in D.C. in 2009 would have boosted the local economy $52 million over the course of three years, according to a Williams Institute estimate. Christopher Ramos, research associate at the Williams Institute, a think tank at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law that focuses on sexual orientation law, explained the number of dollars generated in the economy would be lower now, but the D.C. economy would still receive a boost.
Director of Facilities Management William Suter quashed rumors of lead pipes in AU architecture but confirmed the presence of other lead products.
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