September 18, 2008

Thanks goes out to Gelman research librarians Paola Ceccarini, Caroline Crouse, Elizabeth Edwards, Deborah Gaspar, Randy Hertzler, Tina Plottel, Mark Yoffe and Shmuel Ben-Gad for the Lou Reed reference, among other choice tracks. 1. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – S. Rachmaninoff 2. New York, New York – Frank Sinatra 3. Goods – Mates […]

David Foster Wallace, American novelist and essayist associated with the literary movement hysterical realism, hanged himself last Friday evening. Hysterical realism, a genre based on use of detail and at times absurdist prose, was publicly condemned by literary critic James Woods as work that could “know a thousand things but not.a single human being.” It […]

The University’s highest-paid professor earns more than most administrators and hundreds of thousands more than most faculty. But Shahram Sarkani is not your average professor. Sarkani, a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spends up to 200 days a year on the road, crisscrossing the world to teach engineering courses to a […]

While soaring textbook prices have sent some students to discount online retailers, other students across the country are opting out of paying for textbooks altogether. Textbook Torrents, a Web site that allows users to illegally swap digital copies of textbooks with one another, has about 95,000 members and is growing by close to 1,000 members […]

The words “Obama” and “McCain” remained unspoken until the end of the program, but the five former secretaries of state assembled in Lisner Auditorium Monday afternoon had a lot of advice for whichever candidate becomes the next president. Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell shared their decades of foreign policy […]

Students enrolled in the Master of Science in Project Management program will soon be able to watch a professor’s lecture without having to leave their homes or residence halls. University officials in the Graduate School of Business announced their plan last week to integrate a “TiVo” style system called “Lecture Capture” into their program in […]

Web Extra A last-minute vote in the Senate forced the College Democrats to alter their plans to have Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., address their organization for their kick-off event Wednesday night. Instead, Klobuchar scheduler Abigail Collazo facilitated a speakerphone discussion with the senator while students called out questions on a variety of topics. Klobuchar, a […]

The Student Association executive released a formal recommendation for initial student organization allocations Tuesday night at the first official SA senate meeting of the year. In conjunction with sophomore Shawn Dejbaksh, SA vice president of student activities, SA President Vishal Aswani recommended that the senate finance committee allocate a large percentage of student funds to […]

Navigating the ins and outs of the workplace can be tough for any college student. But for American University junior Yazan Khalaf, professional life will entail extra challenges because he relies on an electric scooter for mobility. Khalaf was one of many students with disabilities who attended a disability job fair on Monday at the […]