What Does a University President Do with $911,613?
Dr. John DeGioia, president of Georgetown University. (Flickr/Center for American Progress) This article on pay raises for DC area college presidents, posted last week by the Washington Examiner, made me uneasy for two reasons. For one, presidents of DC area universities are seeing their pay bumped up a cool 42 percent. Georgetown president John DeGioia is [...]
The Unlikely Muslim: In College Park, the way to Islam as a Latino
Across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center’s twin towers, on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus where he studied engineering, he watched plumes of smoke billow from gaping openings where the planes had just hit. All at once, he was overcome by the realization of life’s fragility. “What if tomorrow’s not promised for [...]
Professor Profile: Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves
Critically recognized as one of the most abstruse and exasperating books ever written, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is arguably the most challenging text in modern philosophy — even for AU’s ace philosophy majors. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, when a course on the book appeared on AU’s Spring 2009 course catalog, its waitlist [...]
Global warming? But did you see all that snow?
It was an unusual winter in Washington, D.C. While the city was buried beneath the area’s largest snowstorm in recorded history, AU students relished a week without classes and witnessed the collapse of the Mary Graydon Center canopy as it succumbed to the weight of over two feet of snow, falling to the ground with [...]
My Encounter with Howard Zinn
By Chris Lewis
The progressive community took a loss this past January with the death of historian Howard Zinn — college professor, World War II bombardier, and author of the renowned “A People’s History of the United States.”
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The Art of the Possible: Obama and the Progressives
By Richard Phillips
Standing on the National Mall in the midst of President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony, it’s no wonder the crowd’s excitement was visible.
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Too many girls? College gender ratio
By Kelcie Pegher
On a normal Friday night, Monica Sindwani is getting ready with her friends for another night at Lotus Lounge, a club near Dupont Circle. The four girls are listening to music and making cocktails before they take the Red Line Metro out for a night of dancing. Boys are commonly absent from this part of [...]
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The Tour You Never Had
By Suzanne Monsivais
It’s a gorgeous mid-April day in the District. So gorgeous, in part, because the Office of Admissions at American University has chosen today to be AU Preview Day. Incoming freshmen from all over the Eastern Seaboard flock with their parents to this beacon of higher education in our nation’s capital. The booming voice of a [...]
Posted in Jabs and Jest, Spring 2010Comments (0)
Explained: What is CASJ again?
By Geoff Ramsey
The Community Action and Social Justice Coalition — like many American University clubs — has an office on campus managed by volunteers. But unlike other groups, it doesn’t promote a single activist issue on campus; instead, it promotes general activism. In many ways, the CASJ office, located in the basement of the Kay Spiritual Life [...]
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Editor’s Note: Goodbye AWOL
By Bobby Allyn
Two and a half years ago, I set out on campus with a handful of fliers — none sporting the Student Activities approval stamp — and tacked them around Ward, MGC, and the library. The fliers decried both my eagerness and desperation: “Interested in Progressive Politics? Writing? Photography? Design? Come brainstorm with me!” These early [...]
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Personal interest: Kuman Singh
By Alex Burchfield
Sitting behind the counter of the Mud Box is a small, soft-spoken man named Kuman Singh. Patiently tapping on his iPhone until customers approach, he greets them with a warm smile. If you ask him what he recommends, he’ll tell you to order his favorite drink, a caramel macchiato. As he slides off his stool, [...]
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Passing Thoughts Column: Division
By John Bly
The “obelus.” That short horizontal line and the two dots it separates introduced division to us as just another mathematical function early in our childhood. As we grew older, we began to see division didn’t solely occur between numbers. It parted families and carved up cities; it dissected countries into classes and political factions; it [...]
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Along Class Lines: The Cultural Divide
By Bobby Allyn
As a first generation college student from a working-class family in Northeastern Pennsylvania, attending a private university has given me a sense of Otherness. Coming to AU, I had never traveled out of the Mid-Atlantic, the latest issues of the New Yorker or Harper’s never graced my family’s coffee table, and I thought every working person [...]
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Professor Profile: Richard Cambridge
By Nora Pullen
In each issue, AWOL will highlight the life and work of one AU professor. This profile is the first in a series.
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