Unless you are a) a high school student applying for college, b) a person who works at a college, or c) the parent of someone who is applying to a college, you may not be aware of the cottage industry of websites for the college-bound. These sites are the bane of universities, largely because they [...]
WAMU 88.5 is getting a new home. American University just signed on to buy the building at 4401 Connecticut Ave. NW, and WAMU is expected to occupy more than half the space—doubling the current space it has at 4000 Brandywine St. NW. The move will put the public radio station near the Van Ness Metro [...]
Attention, part-time profs: Are you in or are you out? Starting today, adjunct faculty at American University will begin voting on whether or not to join the Service Employees International Union.
Supporters say collective bargaining can help improve pay and job security for adjuncts, the academic world’s version of migrant labor. Non-tenure-track faculty are generally paid [...]
A student at American University explains in The Eagle why he's registered to vote in D.C.:
Why would students want to change their voter registrations to D.C.? The 2010 elections were, after all, some of the most significant Congressional midterm elections in recent years — except for here in the District, which doesn’t have any voting [...]
Are student-dominated neighborhood commission districts a way of empowering D.C.'s college students—or a way of ghettoizing them?
The question arises as the District, having tweaked its city council ward boundaries following the 2010 census, prepares to adjust its Advisory Neighborhood Commission districts, too. And, just as they are on issues unrelated to the decennial population survey, [...]
Dancing Crab, the D.C. landmark whose website says it serves the "finest Hard Shell crabs from Maryland and Louisiana," has been accused of serving something else: Minors.
On Wednesday, the District's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board held a hearing regarding two investigative reports about the eatery, located at 4615 Wisconsin Ave. NW, submitted by liquor [...]
“Where the fuck are they?” says one American University student, as she and her friends join the crowd of AU students gathered to counter-protest the Westboro Baptist Church gathering on a cold Friday afternoon. “Are they here yet?”
They were. The problem these AU students were having, however, was that the Topeka-based church had brought far [...]
The doohickey seems to stare at you. Two wide eyes set in an all but indestructible black box, the Mobile Plate Hunter-900 is D.C.'s own panopticon. At a hefty cost of $16,000 to $20,000 per device, the unblinking Metropolitan Police Department robot never misses a thing. It steals a color image with [...]
"We've grown a little too accustomed to having the Army in our backyards, literally in our backyards, for the last 17 years," District resident Tom Smith tells the Los Angeles Times in Sunday's lengthy report about the military's ongoing efforts to clean up ancient munitions pits in Northwest D.C.
The fact that some local residents have been living with chemical weapon [...]
The Issue: The District Department of Transportation's plan to install a 37-mile streetcar system glaringly leaves Ward 3 out in the cold, without concrete plans for a streetcar to run up Wisconsin Avenue from Georgetown. “One of the reasons they didn’t proceed was lack in community support,” says Glover Park resident Ben Thielen and creator [...]
There was a time when Washingtonians who like their water from the tap and those who prefer it in bottles got along just fine. That time was called "last week."
Part of a canopy over a pedestrian bridge at American University—between Mary Graydon Center (MGC) and Battelle—collapsed this morning.
The Eagle reports:
About half the structure collapsed — and pieces were still falling. What was left standing was closest to Butler Pavilion.
After the collapse, few people were outside. No emergency vehicles were in the area either.
The bridge [...]
I just got this song out of my head after joking about it last week to a coworker, but this is funny. Also Alanis Morissette-ironic: That was a nasty storm, but it was not a blizzard.
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
It’s an early Saturday afternoon inside the cozy basement café at Politics & Prose bookstore on Connecticut Avenue NW. I’ve been here awhile – a good long while.
I arrive with my laptop and a yellow legal pad before 10 a.m. and install myself at one of the little tables along the wall that leads to [...]
Single Payer Action promised yesterday to picket Whole Foods stores in New York, Austin, and D.C., and today, picketing they are: Neatly, sweetly, and sweatily, making the lunch scene at 1440 P St. NW the most bucolic in the history of organic-food-store protests.
Holding up a piece of orange poster board three times as wide [...]
