They call him Sabertooth.

As a school continually ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the most politically active in the nation, here at AU it’s worth positing the question: how do ya figure that?

Well, any minor search into the rankings goliath that is the Review will tell you that these results are shady at best.

When a conspicuously white reporter walks into Eagles Barber Shop on lower Georgia Avenue, several guys there have a question.

“You going to write a story about gentrification?

Though some local residents feel insulted by the word gentrification, the barbers and customers at Eagles want me to hear the word.

On my 16th birthday, I remember listening to a radio report about a mass shooting that killed 33 people on a university campus.

Luckily, the woman wasn’t dead.

When we think of torture survivors, we usually don’t think of the people we pass on the street, going about their lives and living in our communities, but there are 50,000 in the DC region alone according to the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition.

One of those survivors is Selam Heran Tarik.

A streetcar is coming to H Street Northeast late this year, but Austin Stubbs won’t be using it.

“There’s absolutely no reason to get on the bus or Metro,” Stubbs said.

Stubbs, 27, shapes his life and livelihood around the bicycle.

The area around H Street is flat, and bike lanes plentiful, making the five-minute ride from Stubb’s home at 15th Street Northeast and East Capitol Street a breeze.

It’s new residents like Stubbs who are behind some of the changes to the H Street Corridor.

While carrying her reusable tote bags close to her on this windy day Eula-Mae White was not discouraged in stopping to say “hello” to passers-by as she walked down Georgia Avenue.

Nothing much happens in Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania.