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Lucien Holmes lays out big plans for AAU's new Alumni and Career Center: An AAU family network, mentoring programs, managers hosting seminars, a job fair in Spring and a job database.

Krautstengl, while not agreeing to any refunds, responded that there is a legal point of view but also one of “simple logic.” And - as the president pointed out - he is a mathematician.

Among community barricades at an international school, language barriers are surely a key contributor. Especially when the national language seems to lack the use of vowels in words and the rolling effect of the hacek could make a non-native speaker lose their gum.

“We found out by accident,” said Julie Kolmanová and Kamila Hrebicková, also third year Humanities students at AAU. Kolmanová told ALW that she and her friends were told about the tuition discount through a friend who says that he read the information on a poster he saw around school.

AAU President Alan Krautstengel received an open letter this week that asks him to rethink new out-of-state fee and book-administration-fee policies and demands a public apology for the list of students with outstanding financial obligations the school put up. Who wrote the letter, what does it say and what happens next?

When he was "just a kid" he would take baths with "two nice black twin sisters from next door." He says that it was nothing since they were all so young but that there was "racial harmony in the bathtub."

The school offers different types scholarship: The merit-based grant requires them to maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 and to complete eight courses over the last two semesters. The need-based scholarship, meanwhile, helps students who have to deal with changing financial circumstances.

As another semester creeps up on us, we as students are saddled with the never-ending burden of finding things to occupy our time - outside of pullin' all-nighters. With the multitude of options Prague has to offer, I would like to officially announce that the Anglo-American Student Council is alive and well - and will be offering the AAU Student Body the opportunity to participate in a whole host of leisure activities.

Michael LeMoine, council president, intends "improve the quality of fun time" this semester, he said.

Only when email's attached file was opened could readers discover the surprisingly document informing them about the increase in tuition for spring semester 2010, of about 29 percent in comparison to the previous rate.

Student evaluations of teachers at Anglo American University, which until now have been shown only to faculty being reviewed, could be shared with other students, say school officials.
But if, especially in the digital age, information is power, questions remain as to how much power students should be given.