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AU in the News

Showcasing AU programs, professors, students and alumni in the news
Week of May 3 - 9

Online Job Networking
The Internet provides many resources for employment searches, but it is the networking that proves to be the most effective in landing the job, WRC-TV reports. Camille Franklin, Director of Career Development at the American University Career Center, appeared on WRC-TV’s Friday Finds segment to discuss AU’s networking tools as well as other online career networking tools. “A lot of times, seasoned professionals forget about their university career center,” she said. (5/2/08)

Finals and the Primaries
With the North Carolina and Indiana primaries occurring during the time of year when most students are taking final exams and wrapping up the school year, organizers for Sen. Barack Obama urged students to vote early in order to maintain Obama’s youth-vote momentum, reports the Wall Street Journal. "Everything I've seen says it's an Obama phenomenon rather than a youth-getting-into-politics phenomenon," says Curtis Gans, co-founder and director of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate at American University, who also noted that the Obama campaign benefited tremendously from the surge in youth voting. (5/6/08)

Today’s Real Estate Market
According to SmartMoney, major metropolitan cities have been seeing large declines in single-family home values; however, an increase in job availability has helped the real estate market avoid rapid declines, with Charlotte, N.C., producing a major gain. Peter Chinloy, professor of finance and real estate at American University's Kogod School of Business, said that banks such as Bank of America and Wachovia placing their headquarters in the state have attracted a large number of young workers. (5/7/08)

Paying Your Dues
In the race for the Democratic nomination, a blue-collar fault line runs through the party, where life is about paying dues and putting in work to gain success, writes American University professor Leonard Steinhorn in an opinion piece for Politico. “At the kitchen table and the local tavern, the degree you receive is less impressive than the character education you earn at the school of hard knocks,” he wrote. “This is the quintessential post-Depression narrative that gained hold in the '50s: Men are sturdy and women are stoic, tradition and loyalty mean more than innovation and change, and what you accomplish is not as noteworthy as how hard you worked to get there.” (5/5/08)

A More Modern Cuba?
Since succeeding his ailing brother Fidel, Raul Castro has brought slight changes to Cuba, such as easing restrictions and lifting bans, creating a flurry of questions as to how much more change is on the horizon, The New York Times reports. “This is the Asia model,” said Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations at American University. “Still, the signals he has sent are so faint and so tentative that it's not at all clear where he wants to take Cuba or where Cuba will go.”(5/2/08)

Middle East peace task force vs. Israel
In order to prevent a possible collapse in its peace process with Palestine, the Middle East peace task force – the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the U.S. – sent an urgent request to Israel to end all West Bank settlement activity and install more negotiations, the Associated Press reports. However, according to Clovis Maksoud, a former Arab League ambassador and currently a professor of international law at American University in Washington, it is likely that little progress will be made. “The Quartet meets periodically to keep the peace process going, but without any way to implement any kind of concrete results," he said. This article appeared in 20 news outlets. (5/2/08)

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