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Mental Borders: Mental Health Challenges in the Latinx Immigrant Community

Mental Borders: Mental Health Challenges in the Latinx Immigrant Community

Savanna Strott January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. Tatiana Murillo came to the U.S. from Nicaragua at 11 years old with hopes of better opportunities and a chance to “be somebody”...

At Their Most Vulnerable: The Rise of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

At Their Most Vulnerable: The Rise of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

McKenzie Beard January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. It’s a quiet Tuesday afternoon in Capitol Hill and a woman stands in front of a brick building painted white with a forest green trim....

Deaths in the District, Part I

Deaths in the District, Part I

Braeden Waddell and Grace Vitaglione January 15, 2020

This is the first part of an AWOL investigation which examines the effects of environment on deaths caused by opioid overdose, with a focus on the D.C. area. The second part of the series will focus on...

Freemasons and the Future Apocalypse: A Look into the Denver International Airport Conspiracy Theories

Freemasons and the Future Apocalypse: A Look into the Denver International Airport Conspiracy Theories

Maddie Eunis January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. There’s a secret society that has housed many of the country’s founders, like George Washington, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin....

Fighting Racism in Grading: Will Anti-Racist Pedagogy Fix Freshman Writing Classes at AU?

Fighting Racism in Grading: Will Anti-Racist Pedagogy Fix Freshman Writing Classes at AU?

Maaz Qureshi January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. Should students be allowed to use different forms of English in their writing? Is Black vernacular English equivalent to the English...

Pledging #MeToo: AU Frat Culture During #MeToo

Pledging #MeToo: AU Frat Culture During #MeToo

Elizabeth Posada January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. Greek life has been a staple of American culture for decades. Starting in 1776 with Phi Beta Kappa, fraternities began as groups of...

Underpaid and Underrepresented: The AU Adjunct Experience

Underpaid and Underrepresented: The AU Adjunct Experience

Teddy Everett, Staff Editor January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. Derek Tokaz would like to put some savings into the 401(k) plan his adjunct benefits include. Unfortunately, he doesn’t make enough...

AU Swipes

AU Swipes

Lana Green, Staff Editor January 15, 2020

This story first appeared in the Fall 2019 print edition of AWOL. American University student Nickolaus Mack received an email on Oct. 22, 2018, asking for the immediate termination of AU Swipes, a...

Suspicious Spending in Student Government

Suspicious Spending in Student Government

Shannon Durazo and Braeden Waddell December 9, 2019

American University Student Government has an annual budget of over half a million dollars. Every student pays an activity fee of $88.50 to fund clubs, student media and AUSG.  Half of these funds...

Office of Campus Life

AU faces more federal investigations into its handling of sexual violence cases than any other university

Katherine Long and Braeden Waddell December 2, 2019

Each year for the past five years, a new investigation has been opened into American University’s Title IX Office regarding their handling of sexual violence cases.   Office of Civil Rights cases...

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Ratastrophe D.C.: City rodent complaints reach record high

Braeden Waddell November 21, 2019

Rodent complaints in the District have officially surpassed last year’s total for a whopping 6,036 rat reports as of Tuesday evening.  Conflicting reports from local media outlet WTOP and the official...

An AU student protested the university’s investment in fossil fuels – she was fined, fired, and prevented from studying abroad

An AU student protested the university’s investment in fossil fuels – she was fined, fired, and prevented from studying abroad

Braeden Waddell November 13, 2019

An American University student was fired from her campus job, fined $1,240 and put on year-long disciplinary probation after protesting against the university’s investment in fossil fuels.  Anna...

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