Forget that it costs over half a million dollars. Ignore that it sounds like a product of name calling between second-graders.

It’s a sunny Wednesday morning in July, and a couple of guys in jeans and t-shirts are sitting with their coffees at a table outside Starbucks at 18th and Connecticut.

AU’s second-longest teaching faculty member is retiring at the end of this year.

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.

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.

Junior Tom McNutt experiences fraternity life at AU a little differently than most of his brothers.

Last year, AU announced its decision to replace the Art History Department’s most prized, high-tech classroom with a welcome center for prospective students.