The typical AU student lives an economically-secure life on a tidy campus of material comforts. But for the 106 campus custodial employees who do the tidying, the prospect of a secure and comfortable future remains indefinite.
The "obelus." That short horizontal line and the two dots it separates introduced division to us as just another mathematical function early in our childhood.
As a first generation college student from a working-class family in Northeastern Pennsylvania, attending a private university has given me a sense of Otherness.
Last spring, we printed a page of “Forgotten Current Events.” We’ve decided to make it a regular feature—each issue highlighting a group of ongoing current events that haven’t gotten the media attention they deserve, and adding neglected context to public discourse on important issues.
One Saturday night, I stand on the border. The great divide between two highly similar and notionally divided ways of life: that of North side and that of South side.
“Your visit to American University is like a premiere!" reads a new section of AU's Web site, which lauds the birth of the “Green Room" in the Katzen Arts Building.
