Business majors will no longer have to complete concentrations in a chosen business area. The change, if approved at the January Board of Trustees meeting, will take effect in Fall 2010.

The registration procedure has been reopened after the end of pre-registration week. An additional Introductory Accounting II section was introduced, as well as two new Business Law sections. The elective BUS 497 Auditing is no longer offered. Other changes in the course offerings concern the economics, political science, and European studies.

A small cast of six students amazed the audience with an entertaining and powerful performance of the British play "The Shagaround." The setting of the independent student production was the bathroom of a pub, where a girl locks her boyfriend for owing her 50 quid. Oh, and for cheating on her.

Bulgarian vernacular and funny dialogues amused the audience of the popular Bulgarian play "Sumatoha" (translated as "Commotion") on Dec. 12-13.

A 2001 AUBG graduate, Andrey Donov is currently working at the Sofia office of McKinsey & Company.

Foreigners who come to study in Bulgaria might be surprised that one of the most popular winter holidays is the students' day on Dec. 8. This year, Dec. 8 is a Monday, which gives students the chance to enjoy a long weekend. Find out more about how AUBG students celebrate.

Chair of JMC Department Dinka Spirovska will not be teaching at AUBG in Fall 2009. Sandra Early or Phelps Hawkins will fill the position of interim chair. In Spring 2009, the university will hire a sabbatical replacement for the visual communications courses which Spirovska is teaching now.

World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, came with a major awareness campaign which lasted during the whole day. A big red ribbon, held by more than 100 people, was formed in the center of Blagoevgrad, while the AUBG campus offered free condoms and interactive information about HIV, AIDS, and sexual education.

The AUBG Choir returned from a festival in Prague with the first prize in one of the categories.

Lyubomir Galchev, junior manager at Galchev Group, which includes about 20 separate companies, spoke in front of AUBG students about the activities of the holding, its strategy, and its future projects. One of the Galchev companies worked on the construction of the Skaptopara Residence Halls.

The drama "Ivanoff" by Anton Chekhov was successfully performed by AUBG students who volunteered for the independent project directed by senior Siyka Doneva.

Students from the beginning acting class at AUBG performed "The House of Bernarda Alba," a dramatic play written by Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.

A male cast of five students gave a stunning performance of  Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."

After decades of terrorism, the country [India] is still very much unprepared for the attacks of extremists who find new ways to hurt it. This is bad news for everybody.