Delivering American University's news and views since 1925 | Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Both MPD and Secret Service officials responded to the scene at around 7:04 p.m.
Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist who ruled K Street before being sentenced to prison for fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials in 2006, talks about his current attempts to reform the industry.
Eric Reath was appointed Student Government comptroller-designate April 28. His term begins May 1.
Seniors will have one last opportunity to love or hate the WONK campaign on graduation day. They can pose for photos with life-sized cartoons of “commencement WONKs” in full regalia, eat off WONK napkins and wear WONK buttons before AU becomes their alma mater. As the Class of 2011 leaves with WONK marking the end of their college careers, the Class of 2015 is beginning with WONK defining theirs.
One public relations class set up a model dorm triple in the Tavern and marched around Ward Circle April 22 to mobilize student support for the Campus Plan as part of their final projects.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education believes AU’s sexual discrimination and harassment policy is a “blatant violation of students’ rights.”
Presiding over his last town hall meeting, Board of Trustees Chairman Gary Abramson listened as students asked questions about Aramark’s relationship with AU, the Campus Plan, the General Education program, off-campus misconduct and faculty evaluations.
Eric Reath is taking a leave of absence from his position as the speaker of the Undergraduate Senate in order to apply for the now vacant comptroller position.
AU is investigating misbehavior stemming from a house on Upton Street in an effort to curb misconduct in the neighborhood and improve community relations.
AU students did not receive text message and e-mail alerts about a “dangerous chemical spill” in the Beeghly Building for more than an hour after the building was evacuated April 7.
