Mishri Someshwar

News

Panel presents international view of cultural differences

By Mishri Someshwar | 02/05/2007

Although it costs Anisa Ismail $1,000 and takes her 36 hours to get from Washington, D.C., to her hometown of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she said the destination is worth the trip. "I love the fact that I can walk out of my house without wearing a jacket or boots," Ismail, a senior in the School of International Service, said, referring to clothes necessary to wear in the Malaysian climate.

News

Election observers restricted

By Mishri Someshwar | 11/01/2004

Election officials in the D.C. area have restricted non-U.S. citizens who want to observe the election from visiting certain polling sites, according to Vassia Gueorguieva, a coordinator of an AU-based team of election observers. "Usually election observation is done at random sites," Gueorguieva said.

News

Edwards criticizes corporate radio control

By Mishri Someshwar | 10/25/2004

Increasing corporate control over the media has reduced the diversity of opinions in the media and caused a decline in the quality of journalism, broadcast journalist and AU alumnus Bob Edwards said Friday night in Bender Arena. Edwards, the host of "The Bob Edwards Show" on XM Satellite Radio, said that when he started working in radio, a company couldn't own more than five radio stations. "Now some of them own 1,250," he said.

News

U.S. journalist describes nature of Iraqi insurgents to AU

By Mishri Someshwar | 10/18/2004

Many of the militants in Iraq are local fighters whose sole aim is to get the American military out of Iraq, photojournalists Molly Bingham and Steve Connors said Friday. Bingham was imprisoned for eight days in the Abu Gharib prison in Iraq before Saddam Hussein's regime fell.

News

Former PM urges multilateral solution

By Mishri Someshwar | 10/04/2004

The United States must work multilaterally if it wants to win the war on terror, former Canadian Prime Minister Joseph Clark said Thursday in his keynote address at the Six Universities Conference at AU. Clark, a Distinguished-Statesman-in-Residence in the School of International Service, said that since 9/11, "the international community is more inter and less national.

News

Nicaraguan film deals with crime, poverty

By Mishri Someshwar | 09/27/2004

"If this movie was made in color, all of you would want to vomit," said Nicaraguan film director Pierre Pierson, referring to the miserable conditions the characters in his short film, "Metal and Glass," live in. The film was shown at the Weschler Theatre in the Mary Graydon Center on Friday night.

News

Campus Brief

By Mishri Someshwar | 09/02/2004

Brief news from campus: The AU Student Activities office received nearly 50 applications this past summer for the dual-person position of Program Advisors. Chris Tankersley and Katrina Fauss were hired, according to Karen Gerlach, Director of Student Activities, for their experience in the field.

News

Introducing 'Icebreaker'

By Mishri Someshwar | 06/21/2004

Two seniors created AU Icebreaker, a Web site that kicked off the first week in June, so that others could get to know each other through an online forum.

Opinion

The Foreigner

By Mishri Someshwar | 04/22/2004

Columnist Mishri Someshwar ponders the nature of assimilation in an ever-shrinking world in this week's The Foreigner.

Opinion

The Foreigner

By Mishri Someshwar | 04/05/2004

New Eagle Columnist Mishri Someshwar discusses the purpose of her column "The Foreigner"