We’ve all been there: you sign into your Facebook account and see a dozen new invites to groups, events and associations that you have never heard of from people you don’t talk to.
A country with over 4 million internally displaced people (IDPs), a possible pending free trade agreement with the United States, and one of the most bio-diverse and resource rich nations on the planet, Colombia is both a gem of natural beauty and enigma of complex social problems.
An upcoming event at AU this Friday the 8th at 2pm in the Battelle Atrium, sponsored by AU’s PorColombia club, AWOL, and CASJ discusses just this subject, along with the present opportunities and challenges for the United States and Colombia.
Not everyone is in agreement whether the free trade agreement will benefit Colombia.
height="199" />A week of hastily organized publicity and overwhelming student activism culminated today in a sit-in to change an AU administrator's decision on a sexual assault prevention grant.
The repeal of DADT may represent a major and hard won achievement for the gay rights movement, but it may also be something of a death knell for the counter-recruitment movement on college campuses.
During the fall 2008 semester, professor Richard Stack offered an extra credit assignment to his Understanding Media class: write a letter to their hometown newspapers urging support for Troy Davis, an inmate at Georgia Diagnostic Prison.
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.
