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As Documentary Photography students look for a place to exhibit their semester’s work, it becomes apparent that the university lacks sufficient facilities. With rumors of a possible new major, art studies, surfacing, one has to wonder where exactly students would be able to exhibit or hold exhibitions for art to study. 



Anglo-American University was proud to support the Week of Charter 77 and its 35th anniversary in March, also dedicated to one of the most important Czech philosophers, Jan Patočka.

Today playwright dissident and the president Václav Havel died aged 75. Havel was a signatory of Charta 77 and one of the leaders of the movement that led to the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Then he became president of Czechoslovakia and in 1993 the first democratically elected president of the Czech Republic. Despite surgery because of lung cancer in 1996 he stayed in the position until 2003.

Foreign students often experience a variety of problems that Czech students don’t usually notice. These foreign students simply lack the information they need: residency and labor laws (how to find a job/obtain a visa) and social issues (where to find new friends, NGOs for migrants, problems with tolerance, medical care).   

The AAU Student Council invites you to the first university party of this semester - AAU Welcome Boat Party- which will take place on this Friday 16th September from 19:30 on the boat Tyrš which will be sailing on the Vltava river. The ride is 4 and half hours long and Dance Radio will be in charge of the music. After the ride there will be an official afterparty with no entrance fee. The location will be announced.

AAU’s student council has accomplished many things in the past two years: parties, movie nights, international student’s day, a Christmas charity event, ISIC school ID cards, cooperation with other schools, our first ever ball... the list goes on.

And with a new year upon us, student council elections are not far behind.

From Sept. 28th til Oct. 2nd, students will be able to vote for twelve new members to run your SC this coming year, and while old members may choose to run again, new candidates are welcome to run as well.

Protests from a group of Anglo-American University law students over fees they call “rather questionable steps” have caused the school to reverse itself on two of the three issues they raised in an open letter in March.

The group of 10 students of the Comparative Law program, who submitted the letter to president Alan Krautstengl, met with him to discuss AAU’s handling of new textbook fees, foreign student tuition rules and its collection methods for students who owe fees.

Anglo-American University attracts students and staff from all corners of the globe, which results in its quirky culture. Being a Canadian born with a Czech last name - and someone who is often mistaken for an American exchange student - I can school you on the top five issues I’ve observed going into my second semester. But I have also realized that it is these issues that make our school an experience different from any other.

- The CEA/degree-seeking student barrier:

Anglo-American University’s first dance team is seeking girls for whom dance is not just a word.

With the slogan “come and dance with us for fun and competitively,” the group aims to add something missing at AAU since its founding in 1990. This semester, law student Dajana Imenova got the idea of creating a dance crew when she first enrolled.

“Life is dance,” she says. “A good dance group is the face of the university.” In February Imenova won approval from the Student Council.

After his French 2 class, held near the library, Honza Hladík headed next door to Gloria Jean’s Coffee for his interview with ALW.

A first-year International Relations student studying his second semester at AAU, a tall Hladík in his very recognizable black rimmed glasses, gives a warm hello and treats himself to a Cappuccino before getting ready for our interview.

“Excusez-moi,” he says, fresh from his last class and apologizing for his short delay.

Anglo-American University was the only Czech University to send a delegation to the 57th Harvard Model United Nations Conference in Boston in February.

The group was larger and more successful than the one last year, with AAU students spending two weeks in the United States. Model UN conference aside, four of them met the Andorran ambassador at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.