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AU students in Chile explore devastated countryside
By Marisa Kendall | 03/28/2010AU students studying abroad in Chile helped locals recover after an earthquake hit last month.
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AU students studying abroad in Chile helped locals recover after an earthquake hit last month.
The vibrations on the dance floor were not just a foreign special effect, as Eagle staffer Marisa Kendall found during the earthquake that hit Chile, where Kendall is studying abroad. The city where she is staying sustained some fatalities, but the worst of the quake hit 200 miles away, according to Kendall.
AU is the only area school that has chosen to ticket its students.
Public Safety has written 923 tickets to AU community members for parking on off-campus residential streets in the past year. All AU students, faculty and staff are prohibited from leaving their cars on residential streets when coming to campus.
Following the fatal June 22 crash on Metrorail’s Red Line and several Metrobus accidents, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has begun implementing several new safety procedures.
Each year, scores of AU students don their Halloween costumes after class and set out with the goal of getting candy from as many foreign countries as possible.
The Newseum’s newest exhibit will feature a re-creation of deceased “Meet the Press” Moderator Tim Russert’s office. The exhibit will open to the public on Nov. 20 and will run through 2010.
Thousands of people converged on the West Lawn of the Capitol Oct. 11, decked out in everything from rainbow flags and glitter to chicken costumes — calling for equal rights for the gay community.
The ideals of Buddhism are open to people of all faiths because they teach non-exclusive concepts such as compassion and the wisdom to tell right from wrong, Buddhist teacher and master Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche said during a panel discussion held after the Dalai Lama’s Oct. 10 teachings.
When Georgetown University student Taylor Price decided to visit a bar on M Street last semester, he was expecting a typical night out with friends. Not long after he entered the building, however, a confrontation with the manager prompted Prince to file a headline-making lawsuit.
