The Undergraduate Senate allocated more than $619,920 to student government departments and organizations for the next school year.
This is an increase from 29.5 percent for the class of 2014.
The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution April 10 expressing support for a mandatory online sexual assault education course.
A Student Government resolution recommending AU invest in U.S. companies that are based in or invest in Israel failed after contentious debate April 10.
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.
The Army Corps of Engineers’ contractors were excavating World War I chemicals on the South side of campus in 2003 when they made a puzzling discovery. Near the Child Development Center, the Army Corps unearthed the rusted frame of a four-door sedan, manufactured in the 1920s.
Public tenley, a new bar on 41st Street next to the Dancing Crab, opened April 1.
The sale and possession of synthetic marijuana products, commonly known as “spice” and “K2,” is now considered a violation of AU drug policy.
When disaster struck in Japan last month, most students were preoccupied with winding down their spring breaks. AU junior Ari Katz, however, got to work.
Twice, Nyi Nyi Aung was imprisoned, tortured and released for speaking out against the Myanmar government — first as a student in 1988 and then in 2009, on the pretext of having foreign currency.
D.C. Councilman at Large Michael Brown stressed the need for conversation, cooperation and compromise between the neighbors and AU to successfully implement AU’s Campus Plan during his visit April 4.
Biologist and author Richard Dawkins argued in favor of atheism during a question and answer session with students in Ward 1 on April 4.
Now that his secretary of state days are over, retired Gen. Colin Powell lives just like any other American.
Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK, a women-initiated movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, was barred from AU for a year after she protested at last night’s speech.
The Beeghly Building was evacuated at 11:54 a.m. due to vapors of sodium acetate, a crystallized compound commonly found in handwarmers. The building has since been re-opened. A handwarmer in boiling water set off a smoke alarm and evacuated the Beeghly Building for nearly an hour while the D.C. Fire Department’s Hazardous Material Unit (Hazmat) responded to the incident.
“Twilight” and “True Blood” fans can quench their vampire thirst this fall with AU’s new course, HIST-296 “Vampire Narratives and American Society.”
A new social networking site, Spotflag, is currently being beta-tested exclusively at AU.
A woman received minor injuries after driving her car into a cement pole in the Katzen Garage at 1:25 p.m. Tuesday.
With more than 40 students camped outside her office, Vice President of Campus Life Gail Hanson agreed to hold an open forum on sexual assault in early fall 2011. The forum would outline and present updates on AU’s plan to increase sexual assault programs and education on campus.
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