Click here for our newest edition! Year 95, Edition #24 In this week’s edition: Media & Communication Studies Department to be retained in School of Arts & Sciences University announces speaker for 129th Commencement Ceremony Founders Day and Odyssey Day considered a financial success Op-ed: It’s Not Easy Being Green Op-ed: A psychological look at empty Read More …
By Alexander Santana America lost a much beloved and admired first lady with the tragic passing of Barbara Bush, the wife of the 41st President George H.W. Bush and the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush. Barbara Pierce Bush passed away on Tuesday, April 17th at the age of 92 surrounded by her Read More …
By Duane Paul Murphy The Catholic University of America’s provost and Academic Senate have decided to keep the Media and Communication Studies department within the university’s School of Arts and Sciences. The decision to keep the department came last week on Thursday, April 12th. Originally, the Provost proposed the consolidation of the Benjamin T. Rome Read More …
By Jimmy Cassidy In an announcement Monday, April 16th, the university announced Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez as the commencement speaker for this year’s graduation ceremonies. Gomez will address the class of 2018 at Catholic’s 129th annual Commencement Ceremony on May 12th. Gomez, who will receive an honorary fine arts doctoral degree, currently serves Read More …
By Abby Anderko This past week, the university hosted two big events, Founders Day Challenge and Odyssey Day. Both of these events generated publicity for the university, but more importantly, they also helped the university with its future in financial status and enrollment goals. On Tuesday, April 10th, the university celebrated its annual Founder’s Day, Read More …
Click here for our newest edition! Year 95, Edition #23 In this week’s edition: Students vote for next student government executive officers SGA Senate discusses increases to tuition, student activity fee in meeting PEERS hosts “Empowerment Week” events during sexual assault awareness month Former NSA, CIA Director Michael Hayden Speaks at Symposium Op-eds: Anti-American, “Ok, we Read More …
By John Connolly, Class of 2019 I was in the fifth grade when the guidance counselor came to our class so he could discuss something our teacher called “very important.” I knew what a lockdown was. I knew that we had to do lockdowns because of events like Columbine and Virginia Tech. But still, every Read More …
By Duane Paul Murphy, Katie Ward The Catholic University of America’s Institute of Human Ecology hosted a symposium on modern intelligence surveillance this Thursday at the Columbus School of Law’s Auditorium. Entitled “The Ethics of Technical Intelligence Collection”, the symposium was moderated by Nicholas Dujmovic, director of the university’s Intelligence Studies program. Invited guest members Read More …
By Katie Ward As scores of sexual assault allegations in the Hollywood and national political scenes has started to die down, PEERS has organized an “Empowerment Week” of events from April 9th to April 13th to promote conversation and support between survivors of sexual assault and violence. The organization, which stands for Peer Educators Empowering Read More …
By Abby Anderko On Monday, April 9th, the Student Government Association Senate met for its ninth meeting of the year. On the meeting agenda, the senate passed two new resolutions, one regarding limiting tuition increases and the other regarding an increase in the undergraduate student activity fee. Before reviewing the resolutions, SGA Vice President Jonathan Read More …