An exploration of the American University College Republicans’ mishaps.
Read MoreCallie Whicker’s personal entries and photographs on the days leading up to VP Harris’ concession.
Read MoreThe second installment of The Rival American’s advice column!
Read MoreIn the wake of the 2024 Presidential Election, some men are remorseful.
Read MoreA comic about the depths of the Capitol…
Read MoreHalloween may be over but a chill still sweeps our campus. The end is near, graduation is coming.
Read MoreAn “American Psycho” parody.
Read MoreThe first installment of the Rival Remedies advice column written by Nora Lewis and Greta Redleaf.
Read MoreThe original art for Travis Scott and Quavo’s "Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho” album cover is currently in Katzen as part of a Ralph Steadman exhibit. If you don’t know about the Katzen Museum, you’re not alone...
Read MoreDuring the spring semester, AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center hosted a Lunch and Learn event titled The Solidarity Question: Why is Palestine Important to Antiracist Student Organizing? The event focused on pro-Palestine student organizing through an academic perspective, bringing in experts in history, social movement theory, and decolonial theory to engage in dialogue together and with students in attendance. This transcription is intended to be used as an archive for those who are interested and were not able to attend.
Read MoreIn all likelihood, my peers growing up could probably pick up on the deep insecurity that sat in my ribcage at all times. I was unsure of essentially every step I took, trying desperately to both stand out by just being myself while avoiding any infamous attention for being the weird “other.” In reality, I think I blended into the background just fine, from which feeling like the “second choice” was born.
Read MoreFor these “open-minded” closed-hearted individuals, friends are just like their internships: stepping stones for a greater scheme. The slightest infraction from friend group policy is often totally unforgivable and must be punished, even by so-called prison abolitionists. Maybe I have an idealized view of the past, but I feel like during the Vietnam War, radical politics were about loving human life and connecting with your like-minded peers (and smoking weed). Now, it’s about getting mad at people for hanging out with someone that didn’t say hi to you once.
Read MoreAsk yourself: has the university admin already chosen a side?
Considering the death threat sent to a Palestinian faculty member and how there was not much done to protect Palestinian members of our community after this. Also consider how the admin has rarely mentioned the Palestinian community in their emails, while almost always, the Jewish community was mentioned at least a few times per email. Admin has already chosen a side. A side they cannot say out loud because they’re supposed to be “inclusive.” They even have chosen to reinvent the curriculum of AUx 2, and even getting the FBI involved. Has anything happened? Not that I’m aware of. Previously, it was all about racism and teaching us students at this PWI about what intersectionality is, to a point where we know what it is and it feels like they are covering their asses by saying “we force everyone to take a class that teaches them to be inclusive.”
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