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SUZANNE GABER| THE EAGLE

Looking around President Neil Kerwin’s office, it is clear that he is proud of the University he has called home for more than 40 years. The room is filled with historic University artifacts, including the federal proclamation deeming AU a university.

Kerwin’s pride in his school becomes even more apparent when he talks about AU, and why he chose to attend in the first place. “I always felt from the moment I got here that it was a place where serious work was being done, and I wanted to be a part of it,” he said.

“But God knows, none of us expected to see what we saw, and we were stunned

when we did.”

Get to know Neil Kerwin

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By Kate Magill

How to get around Washington D.C.

Living in Washington, D.C. offers students an endless list of exciting things to do. For anyone new to the district, learning how to navigate around the city is essential. Whether it’s using the district’s vast metrorail system or calling for

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Plouffe and Cutter to speak at AU

By Kate Magill

The Kennedy Political Union will host David Plouffe and Stephanie Cutter for its first speaker event of the year on Sept. 8. Plouffe served as President Barack Obama’s campaign manager during the 2008 elections and served as a senior advisor to the president until 2013, ac-cording to an Aug. 21 KPU press release. Plouffe recently became the senior vice president for Policy and Strategy for the ride share company Uber. Cutter notably served as the deputy campaign manager for Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and served as the chairman of the Board for the Presi-dent’s Inaugural Committee, according to the press release. Cutter has also worked on staff for President Bill Clinton, the Kerry-Edward campaign, Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Edward Kennedy.

By Kate Magill

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have a way to and from campus. Here are the most widely used modes of transportation for AU students to get around the city.

Courtesy of Obama for America

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Karmin and JoJo kick off Welcome Week in high spirits

A long centipede-shaped line waited outside of Bender Arena on Aug. 23 as AU students of all ages waited in anticipation for the Student Union Board’s first concert of the school year. At the end of the night, it seemed that few in the audience were dissatisfied with the performances of SUB’s three Wel-come Week acts: disc jockeys Mekanikal and R&D; opener JoJo; and main attraction Karmin.

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Behind the scenes of AU Library's elevated online presence

This summer, students, faculty and other university Twitter accounts have seen an increase in retweets, favorites and mentions from the AU Library’s Twitter account. With a fresh voice and greater interactivity with its nearly 2,000 followers the library

has opened up its channels so that it’s talking with students rather than at them. The efforts go back to last winter, when the library underwent an internal reorganization. According to University Librarian Nancy Davenport, this initiative was intended to help the staff make better use of their time and unify their efforts. While the reorganization af-fected a number of different operations, social media was a large factor. Previously, posts were generated by different departments, each promoting their own goals, without much coordination or concern for timing.

“Our goal is to be approachable and interesting and to feel like a resource that [students, faculty

and staff] can depend on if they need it,”

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By Ana Srikanth

theEAGLE JANUARY 30, 20144 SCENE5 reasons D.C. is the coolest

city in America

The M&M Report: “Breaking Bad,”reviewedIs the show as good as people say? Which seasons, episodes, performances and moments stand out? Did the finale give Walter White what he had coming to him? Lieberman and Mitchell answer these questions and more.

D.C. was recently named the coolest city in America by

Forbes, beating New York City and Los Angeles. Here are a

few reasons why that title was well-deserved.

1. Amazing coffee shops

Yes, Seattle is known for Starbucks, but D.C. is known for original, crafty and atmospheric coffee shops in nearly every neighborhood. Georgetown favorite Baked & Wired has been around since 2001 and has cupcakes to boot. The Chinatown Coffee Company has been known as a haunt for NPR staff and an AU alum even founded the Adams Morgan hotspot Tryst.

2. Incredible ethnic fare

D.C. attracts a melting pot of ethnicities every year and with it an endless offering of different authentic cuisines. Above and beyond than the famous Ben’s Chili Bowl, the 202 touts a variety of Japanese, Korean, Indian, Ethiopian, Eritrean and other restaurants that will keep your taste buds cultured. The above picture is from Chinatown’s Daikaya ramen shop. Always packed with a 30-45 minute wait, it’s just one example of the delicious surprises the District has hidden between alleys and side streets.

3. Concerts aplenty

D.C. is always on the list of tour locations for your favorite bands, both Top 40 and obscure. Acts like Slowdive, Iggy Azalea and Danny Brown have made their way to the District in venues like 9:30 Club, U Street Music Hall, Tropicalia and the Black Cat. These venues and others

also showcase comedy troupes like Upright Citizens Brigade, a famed troupe where comedy greats like Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler got their start. Keep an eye on the constantly updated calendars or else tickets might sell out quickly.

4. Free world-class art

From the National Portrait Gallery to the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C. is rich with free art galleries. Afternoons after class can be spent walking the Portrait Gallery’s halls and marveling at the always-evocative pieces. Along more avant-garde lines, the Hirshhorn Gallery hosts work by provocative artists like Yoko Ono and Ai Weiwei and always welcomes the strange. Art is also a huge part of the more unassuming galleries in the Capitol building and the Library of Congress. It may sound boring, but it is anything but commonplace.

5. Small city, big town

D.C. is about 10 miles wide, which means it is packed with great things to see on every street and in every neighborhood. It also means that the city is small enough to cover in a day and a half. Experiencing so many unique neighborhoods in one day is what makes D.C. special. Many people think about the Hill when they think of D.C., but every neighborhood from Cleveland Park to Anacostia has its own vibe that makes each new place different from that last. Visiting these spots on foot is a priceless (completely free) adventure that keeps the city fresh.

By Jordan-Marie Smith

"Hunger Games" trilogy required reading in new fall

course

History professor Stef Woods is bringing pop culture to American studies with her fall course “American Cultural History: ‘Hunger Games’: Class, Politics, Marketing.” Between the trilogy’s pages, students will discover how various plots relate to modern American society as well as the factors that went into turning the novels into a profitable franchise.

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“In class, we’ll analyze how the series impacted the publishing industry and what aspiring writers can learn from

Collins’ journey.”

By Matthew Allard

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It’s been nearly five months since an anonymous source leaked emails between members of the unofficial fraternity Epsilon Iota. In the time that has passed since these emails were released, AU has made significant and extensive changes to its sexual assault policies. Many students felt the leaked correspondences were indicative of a larger presence of rape culture on campus. The emails contained not only crass, offensive language, but also extended discussions of plans to sexually assault young women who attended the group’s parties. They created a rightful uproar on campus and a call for stricter regulation of Greek life, as well as more intensive education on rape culture for the AU community. In response to students’ complaints, the

administration opened a position for another sexual assault prevention coordinator and victim advocate in addition to Daniel Rappaport, thoroughly investigated every claim made in the documents, added a new program to the Welcome Week curriculum called Stand Up AU and kept the entire AU community updated through emails from Vice President of Campus Life Gail Hanson. The Eagle feels that each of these emails has done a

tremendous job of informing students, parents and faculty of the administration’s work over the summer to ensure

that the contents of the emails would not go unpunished. But change does not stop with policy. It is up to students, particularly upperclassmen, to take the next steps. We must educate all students at AU about the specifics of consent and safe sex. We need to teach our peers how to gain the confidence to stop a sexual assault from occurring, whether it is in a bar or a dorm. Because most assaults take place off campus, the

administration is limited by its jurisdiction. This leaves a huge gap in responsibility that falls on the students that attend the

“But change does not stop with policy.”

parties where these attacks occur. As a student body, we need to begin to focus on changing the behavior of older students who have already been ingrained with the sexual assault culture sometimes present on campus. Now that some of these harmful attitudes have been addressed on paper, we have to bring this change into action. Without a campus-wide conversation about the importance of consent and bystander intervention,

any progress made over the summer will be wasted. -E

Still a long way to go on matters of campus sexual assault