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Opinion: The learning curve is in more than just the classroom

By Anna Gephart · Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022

It’s not enough to be in academia, students must know how to play the game that comes with it

Opinion: WoMen’s rights?

By Allie Grande · Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022

What can the AU community do to help as reproductive rights are stripped away

Opinion: Barriers to ADHD Assistance in colleges are not only impractical, but damaging

By Jelinda Montes · Monday, Aug. 29, 2022

American University and other D.C. school’s stringent rules for undiagnosed students wanting ADHD assistance make seeking care expensive and arduous

Opinion

Opinion: The rise of monkeypox and the unpredictability of our upcoming academic year

By Kayla Kelly | August 3

How gruesome should the next pandemic be for the AU administration to value life over profit?

Opinion

Green on paper: school image or true sustainability?

By Emily Brignand | July 8

Students demand more effort and commitment from AU to build a green and sustainable environment

Opinion

Opinion: Student Government’s toxic environment: The organization’s failings stem from the top

By Jelinda Montes | May 27

The newly re-elected Student Government President inherits the issues of her last term

Opinion

Opinion: The AU Housing Hierarchy

By Meliha Ural | April 15

AU’s housing system perpetuates classist ideals

Opinion

Opinion: ‘TDR workers are so rude!’: Your negative feedback contributes to the 'angry Black individual' trope

By Meliha Ural | April 14

Students’ negative attitudes toward TDR workers are expressed through the feedback device

Opinion

Opinion: Don’t put student trauma up for sale

By Anna Gephart | April 5

Students often have to retell their traumatic experiences to receive scholarships to pay for a college education

Opinion

Opinion: Ethnic names matter and they always will

By Meliha Ural | April 4

It is time we recognize the importance of ethnic names

Opinion

Opinion: The bad and ugly of American University’s only testing center

By Allie Grande | March 25

Individual COVID-19 test kits could incentivize students to continue testing

Opinion

Opinion: Being a transfer student at AU is not for the faint of heart

By Kamryn Olds | February 17

I still grapple with complicated feelings about the overall experience of being a new student

Opinion

Opinion: The behind the scenes of the glamorized college experience

By Meliha Ural | February 16

The idealized college experience we know of is a myth

Opinion

Opinion: Students deserve safe and healthy housing on campus

By Anna Gephart | February 10

University leaves some residence halls unchanged despite health and safety concerns

Opinion

Opinion: Black allyship or Black erasure?

By Kayla Kelly | February 9

AU administration and its students fail to create and sustain a safe space for marginalized communities

Opinion

Opinion: AU Counseling Center needs to increase appointment accessibility

By Sierra Rodriguez | February 8

The AU Counseling Center is unacceptably slow at getting students in for appointments

Opinion

Opinion: AU’s KN95 mandate needs work

By Alexis Bernstein | February 7

AU must make KN95 masks more accessible to students

Opinion

The AU community has a duty to help and protect DC’s unhoused — here’s how they can

By PJ Cunningham | February 4

Mayor Bowser’s government has not acted in the unhoused’s best interests

Opinion

Opinion: Mandatory testing at American University is necessary

By Allie Grande | February 3

In the wake of the Omicron variant, testing can ensure the health of all students and outside communities

Opinion

Opinion: Scholarship displacement: The fallacy of being 'overawarded'

By Jelinda Montes | January 26

AU administration hurts high-achieving students by reducing need-based aid

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