There are countless reasons that peace activists oppose the US military. From the military’s ever-growing budget to the deaths of civilians during war, the peace activist community has made clear its concerns over the damage brought by war. But for years, resistance to the military on college campuses has coalesced around one flagrant issue: the [...]

During the fall 2008 semester, professor Richard Stack offered an extra credit assignment to his Understanding Media class: write a letter to their hometown newspapers urging support for Troy Davis, an inmate at Georgia Diagnostic Prison. He instructed his students that the deadline — “no pun intended” — would be the date of Davis’ scheduled [...]

The beauty of the US political system is that our elected representatives are supposed to, well, represent us. It’s a point of pride for American democracy.  When it comes to the representation of women, though, the reality isn’t as pretty as the rhetoric: only 17 of 100 US Senators are women. Perhaps by the time [...]

College life tends to turn students’ worlds upside down. Sleep schedules, living habits and study patterns — they all experience changes as social and academic demands grow more intense throughout the semester. Another, more unlikely, change: religious habits. After arriving at AU, students’ spiritual lives often become more focused on exploration and tolerance than on [...]

Open a newspaper or turn on the TV today, and the topic of racism is as prominent as it has ever been, despite the fact that open expressions of hatred have become relatively uncommon. Anthropology Professor Sabiyha Prince works to make meaning of this paradox: In her classes, she teaches about how power relations and [...]

AU’s second-longest teaching faculty member is retiring at the end of this year. Charles R. Larson is a pioneer in the study of African literature in the Western world. Chris Lewis, AWOL editor-in-chief and former Larson pupil, sat down with him to discuss his storied career. Next semester Larson will teach “The African Writer” — [...]

Junior Tom McNutt experiences fraternity life at AU a little differently than most of his brothers. McNutt, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, is part of an increasingly noticeable group of AU students who have not historically been known to join the fraternity ranks, at least openly: gay men. “There were some awkward conversations in [...]

As I fumbled through the day’s lesson plan, I realized I wasn’t going to fill enough time. “Uh, all right,” I said in Spanish, “Now we’re going to play a game. I’ll draw an animal on the board, and you all raise your hands if you know its name in English.” Here I was in [...]

Not long ago, the Davenport Coffee Lounge received a dubious donation from AU’s University Communications and Marketing (UCM) office: coffee mugs, painted with white block capital letters. They read “KNOW,” and underneath, “WONK.” Dr. Teresa Flannery, UCM’s Executive Director, said the mugs were intended to give faculty “who don’t tend to wear t-shirts” a chance [...]

Eric Sheptock is a homeless, homeless advocate based in Washington, D.C. The feature above is the result of three days following Sheptock along his daily routine, from the shelter to Facebook to Twitter. Social media is his platform for pursuing “revolutionary change” in the way society views housing. He almost certainly has more Facebook friends [...]