Before this semester's pre-registration, the administration introduced a new management tool, which caused student discontent. A student petition resulted in discussions between the organizers of the petition, SG, and members of the administration and ultimately in some changes in the new rule to better reflect students' interests.

Take a look at some photos from the annual AUBG Olympics, held on April 26 on the Bachinovo baseball field. The weather conditions were good, allowing the event to occur on the planned date. This year, Bulgarian athlete Ivet Lalova was invited as a guest of the event.

This year's JMC Rocks party was held on April 22, which was a Wednesday, instead of the traditional Tuesday. The department and students majoring in Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) gathered in Piano Bar to celebrate their activities in the same format as previous years. There was a radio show, TV show, and newspaper, all of them mock versions of the original journalism media. Here are some photos from the event.

Samuel Beckett's "Play," staged at Mladejki Dom, presented students with a love triangle of three characters and their connected and disjoint lives and experiences.

The first democratically elected president of Bulgaria, Zhelyu Zhelev, gave a lecture on the situation in the country before and after communism, emphasizing on the transition period. Zhelev was invited to AUBG by the three student organizers of the event.

A play written in 1956 by British playwright John Osborne, which resulted in a new movement in literature called "Angry Young Man," was performed at the small stage in the old library as an independent projected directed by sophomore Igor Gurkin. "Look Back in Anger" was the last stage appearance for several experienced senior actors at AUBG.

Advertised by a small model of a house in the Main Building and hanging underwear in the Skaptopara 1 main lobby, the staging of "A Doll's House" at AUBG presented students with the 19th century view on gender roles. A stark look at what it meant to be a woman then and how a woman defies the norms was illustrated in a serious play with five actors.

A former Xerox executive and senior faculty member of Harvard Business School visited AUBG to speak about achieving success. Currently working as a CEO of Inner Circle Logistics, John Clendenin has been cooperating on various projects with AUBG students and faculty members since 2005.

Maxim Behar talks about PR in Bulgaria, his work and expectations as a manager of a company, as well as his opinion on the educational system in Bulgaria and AUBG in particular. Read the interview by former FlashNews reporter and video editor Presiyan Rashkov.

AUBG's first online voting determined next year's SG presidential team and the student representative to the Board of Trustees. This year, those who voted were almost twice as many as last year.

Many students received recognition for their outstanding achievements at the 16th Annual Honors Convocation Ceremony on Sunday, April 12.

The Better Community Club and PTPI organized an awareness raising campaign for the environment week which officially started on 3 April. The promotion of the campaign started a week earlier, on 28 March, with a workshop at which students could draw on a t-shirt the logo of the Environment Week.

Eleven new resident assistants were chosen for both residence halls on the basis of their maturity and time management and communication skills.

The much-awaited premiere of the musical "West Side Story" was this Friday in the "Peyo Yavorov" hall. Bad sound and a huge cameo were pitted against a hard-working cast. Read the review to see who gained the upper hand.

Abbie Morgan's play "Tiny Dynamite" was performed on April 8-9. It was an independent student project with a cast of three.

In the second edition of FlashNews's talk show, meet journalism and business professor DeAnna DeRosa in a conversation about the similarities between the life of a professor and that of a nomad, or what life looks like when your home constantly changes.

In order to express their solidarity with the violent student protests in Moldova, on Tuesday the Moldovan community at AUBG organized a protest in front of the Main Building. Students expressed their discontent with the official results of the parliamentary elections on Sunday, which pointed the Communist Party as a winner. Take a look at the photo story for more information on the protest at AUBG.

Moldova underwent a stormy semi-revolution from which nobody profited.

At this year's Honors Convocation, three editors of student media at AUBG received an award for outstanding achievement in Journalism and Mass Communication. FlashNews is proud that one of them is our own editor-in-chief Nora Georgieva.

The Skaptopara Residence Halls Internet connection has been increased from 40 Mbps to 60 Mbps as of Wednesday, April 1, Office of Communications and Computing (OCC) Director Latchezar Filtchev said.