The red patch is more than just a fashion statement. The square of felt that American University students wear symbolizes their protest against tuition increases.

tudents at AU and across campuses in the U.S.

Brenna Raffe, an AU freshman, would love to get an internship. But between her part-time work study job at the Davenport Coffee Lounge, full course load as a double major in literature and public relations, sorority membership and participation in club basketball, it seems unrealistic. 

“Even thinking about doing an internship during the school year next year gives me extreme anxiety,” Raffe said.

arah Snead’s experiences of personal development and growth are common among college students who study abroad.

“We have a much better relationship. He’s more level-headed most of the time,” Exten said. “He still has his parrot days where he goes crazy; he’s still a macaw, but then when he does go off the deep end or whatever, I understand why.

I enjoy walking around Whole Foods because it makes me progressive. I’m not talking about the neo-hippie, trash bag wearing wannabe crowd; I mean the real live stick-it-to-the-man type who doesn’t conform to middle-class fashion trends.

Chris Palmer teaches Environmental Filmmaking at American University. Born in Hong Kong and raised in London, Palmer came to the United States and joined American's University's staff in 2004.

Suicide haunts jails across our country. Unfortunately, the Central Detention Facility, DC’s city jail, is no exception to this trend.

    More than half of all prison and jail inmates in the United States have mental health problems, according to a 2006 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Another BJS report that year found that suicide caused 32.3 percent of deaths in local jails.

    According to the DC Department of Corrections, two suicides were committed from 2009 to 2012 at the Central Detention Facility.

Zoé Orfanos once taught a convicted murderer how to use Google. She was volunteering with Offender and Restoration, a nonprofit in Arlington, Virginia.

As a resident of the United States, you have Inter-American rights. They are defined by the Charter of the Organization of American States and the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man.