No students remain on campus.
The Eastern Shore school says it has not received any direct threats but “in the interest of caution” is evacuating.
Driving up Massachusetts Avenue beyond Dupont Circle and Sheridan Circle one quickly comes across Embassy Row — the expanse of real estate stretching up towards the National Cathedral occupied primarily by the embassies and residences of the many countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S. And while the houses and buildings speak of stately tradition, what happens within may not. Law students at American University’s Washington College of Law are taking to the courts…
Students are angry. Faculty are indignant. Deans are upset. Former trustees are beyond themselves. All told, American University has seen better days. Since yesterday’s announcement that ousted president Benjamin Ladner would be receiving a severance package totaling almost $4 million, there has been a flurry of activity on all ends of the leafy Northwest campus. Both the university’s student government and a coalition of anti-Ladner activists released statements condemning the settlement, while the faculty and…
D.C. being the place that it is, big protests such as those that took place this last weekend are a dime a dozen. Complaints of excessive use of force by police officers are just as recurrent, with protestors often charging that overzealous police officers step in to make arrests too quickly and offer few apologies or admissions of wrongdoing thereafter. This weekend seems to have been different in that regard — WJLA is reporting that…
Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia are scheduled to speak at Amerian University’s Washington College of Law from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 13. The talk is provocatively titled a “conversation on the Relevance of Foreign Law for American Constitutional Ajudication,” which we can imagine is likely to produce some judicial sparks. If you’re interested in attending RSVP by Jan. 10 by contacting the law school at (202) 274-4075 or secle(at)wcl.american.edu….
