Candidates seek AUSG positions
The following students are candidates for Student Government offices for the 2009-2010 academic year. All undergraduate students may vote online March 31 and April 1 on the my.american.edu portal.
The following students are candidates for Student Government offices for the 2009-2010 academic year. All undergraduate students may vote online March 31 and April 1 on the my.american.edu portal.
AU Provost Scott A. Bass announced the faculty that will be honored in this year's annual Faculty Recognition Dinner in a campus-wide e-mail yesterday. In order to qualify for an award, a faculty member must "exemplify excellence in scholarship, service and teachings," or be celebrating a landmark anniversary in the number of years they have been teaching - anywhere from 25 to 40 years, according to the e-mail.
AU students need more information regarding the chemical weapons buried on the university's campus after the end of World War I, said Ginny Durrin during a screening Thursday of a film she is producing on the subject. The U.S. military used AU's campus as a chemical weapons testing site from 1917 to 1918.
Thousands of protesters, including some AU students, marched on the Pentagon and defense corporations in Arlington, Va., Saturday afternoon to protest U.S. aid to Israel the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The demonstrators chanted and shouted as they marched from a starting location near the Lincoln Memorial to the Crystal City headquarters of companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Seven Goodwill Ambassadors will represent Japanese-American relations at the Cherry Blossom Festival next week - including three AU students. The Cherry Blossom Festival is a series of festivities celebrating the friendship between the United States and Japan with the blooming of the blossoms and the arrival of spring at the Tidal Basin.
Five AU councils have not submitted budget proposals for the upcoming year, according to Class of 2010 Sen. Steve Dalton at Sunday's Undergraduate Senate meeting. The Class of 2010 Council, Class of 2012 Council, Arts Council, College of Arts and Sciences Council and Eagle Nights did not present budget proposals to the senate budget committee, Dalton said.
A 3-year-old girl was almost buried alive in Bolivia Monday after her parents, who thought she was dead, prepared for her burial, CNN.com reported. The girl was suffering from several injuries, including burns on her face and contusions on her body, Jose Carlos Camacho, director of Hospital Universitario Japones in Santa Cruz, told CNN.
In an e-mail to various university officials last week, AU Debate Society President Spencer Siegel outlined his club's and other student organizations' frustration with obtaining "reliable and affordable" transportation through AU to off-campus events. "Current transportation options are hardly feasible and do not service the needs of certain groups on campus," he said in the e-mail, which 13 student groups signed.
Two men who stole money and jewelry from a Milwaukee jewelry store Wednesday did not manage to hold onto the loot for long, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. As the robbers left the store, they were robbed by at least four other men, Lt. Thomas Welch told the Journal-Sentinel.
Housing and Dining Programs has delayed the Hall Reapplication and Campus Reapplication process to Monday due to technical difficulties, according to an e-mail sent out by Housing and Dining this past week. Students who would like to live in their current residence hall must take part in the room reapplication process that will take place today, starting at 7:00 a.
March 23 | 9:09 p.m. » An eyewitness has come forward and named a possible suspect in this weekend's Relay for Life vandalism incident, according Julie Rinehart, the event's coordinator and a senior in the School of Public Affairs. It is unclear whether part of the $24,000 raised for cancer research during the event Friday night and Saturday morning will still go to cover repairs in the Bender Arena men's restroom, where three stall dividers were torn down at some point during the event.
Monday, March 23 Mayor's Arts Awards 6 p.m. WHERE: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St. N.W. METRO: Foggy Bottom-GWU (orange and blue lines) INFO: An evening of performances by local groups such as the Washington Ballet and Washington Improv Theater hosted by D.
AU President Neil Kerwin released the fiscal year 2010 and 2011 budget information to the campus community last week. For FY2010, the university's budget is $456,700,000 and for FY2011 is $479,200,000.
Prince George's County Police officers and Maryland National Capital Park Police officers shot and killed an armed man early Tuesday morning in a Temple Hills Restaurant, The Washington Post reported. D.C. resident Nicholas Howard was shot several times by officers who were called to Gill's Holiday Liquor Sports Bar and Restaurant, according to the Post.
College of Arts and Sciences professor Anastasia Snelling worked as a dietician in a clinical setting where the patients were motivated to improve their diets because they were seriously ill; her work now focuses on preventing people from getting ill in the first place.
The School of Public Affairs plans to celebrate its 75th anniversary with the "What do we expect from our government?" conference beginning March 26, according to an AU press release. The conference will include a range of panelists, professors, elected officials and distinguished alumni.
March 5 A student drank beer in a McDowell Hall lounge. Housing and Dining personnel informed the Department of Public Safety that they would handle the matter internally. An employee injured his shoulder when he slipped on steps in the Public Safety office.
A large portion of President Obama's stimulus bill is delegated toward higher education, and many of its proposals could help AU students save money on school expenses, according to AU administration. Out of a $787 billion stimulus package, Obama has reserved $106 billion for education, including designated funds on a college level.
The current recession has caused some AU students to reconsider their study abroad plans, but the AU Abroad office said it has not seen a significant decrease in study abroad applications. AU Abroad director Sara Dumont said she did not have the final number of applications submitted for fall 2009 programs but said she did not think the requests for admissions she had seen indicated that the economy was affecting the number of applicants.
A Metrorail train struck and killed a Metrobus driver at the McPherson Square station Friday afternoon, The Washington Post reported. Kurtland Johnson, 42, jumped onto the tracks in front of a blue line train. Johnson was on administrative leave after an accident involving his bus and another car, the Post reported.