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This article has been updated April 30, 2010 at 1.30 p.m. to include the original email exchange between Ralica Ninova, Ann Ferren and Tanya Papazova.

I am not sure how to describe the feeling that overwhelms me every time AUBG elections are coming up. Whether it is senator, SG president, Student Representative, MoreHonors or Miss AUBG elections (or defacto polls, for that matter), something in the idea of "I get to decide" gets me more than excited. So, like a responsible and involved student that I am, I participate and click on someone’s name every time, and keep my fingers crossed.

Effective from Fall 2010 semester, a new curriculum for the Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) major has been introduced. The JMC faculty worked on it for the past two years, but most of the work has been done this semester.

While many AUBG students hurry to their classes grumpy and dissatisfied, consumed in daily routines, they often fail to notice and enjoy the charm of AUBG life. For an outsider, it seems to be different. Saskia Troycke thinks the AUBG campus is admirable, and finds Balkan culture, as well as chalga music, "interesting and different". Coming from a place near Munich, Saskia is in Bulgaria on a quest for an exciting cultural experience.

The More Honors (MH) Academy announced this year’s MH Scholarship winners during their 13th annual awards ceremony in the Skaptopara Sports Hall on April 16 in front of more than a thousand students and faculty members. Three winning teams were awarded a total of 3,000 leva.

This year the task was to prepare a short video clip on any topic, showing creativity and clear understanding of the values of More Honors.

Passion, age and relationship doubts mixed successfuly in "Three Tall Women," a play by Edward Albee which was shown April 21 and 22 in the Nikola Vapcarov theatre Chamber Hall of Blagoevgrad.

Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the play is currently performed at the finest theaters around the world. Professor Nedyalko Delchev embarked on the challenging task of appropriately staging such a meaningful, passionate, intelligent and well written play.

The second Friends of the Library initiative is taking place at the Panitza Library between April 15 and May 14. AUBG students can donate money to the library in exchange for a selection of books available in front of the library entrance.

The initiative was set up for the first time last April to discard unused items and collect contributions for the library. The interim director of the library, Sophia Katsarska, said that the discarded books were initially supposed to be donated to other Bulgarian universities, but none of the universities sent a positive response.

The recession definitely lowered the chances of graduating seniors to get hired. We, the seniors, are also anxious about the upcoming graduation. But one way or another there is something we want to say before we put on our caps and gowns. While still here, we asked ourselves a question about the quality of education at AUBG, in particular of the Business Administration (BUS) major that we had chosen a few years ago.

Traycho Traykov, the Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, gave a lecture in the New Academic Building (NAB) Auditorium on April 22. The topic of the presentation was "How can the government stimulate the sustainable growth of the Bulgarian Economy?" The event was organized by AUBG Business club.

The student newspaper from the Foreign Language High School Romen Rolan of Stara Zagora won the first AUBG-organized high school competition in journalism. The competition was organized by the AUBG Admissions Office together with the JMC department. A total of 16 high school newspapers fulfilled the requirements and participated in the contest.

The Vasil Levski High School from Velingrad and the Foreign Language High School Lyudmil Stoyanov from Blagoevgrad won the second and third places, respectively.

The Academic Policies committee will make the final recommendation to the president by the end of the semester regarding the removal of D- and D+ grades from the AUBG grading scale. The recommendation, if accepted by the president, will be effective as of the Fall semester, Dean of Faculty Steven Sullivan said.

The AUBG community celebrated its third Environmental Week from April 19 to 25. This year, the event also marked the 40th anniversary of the Earth Day on Thursday, April 22.

The week was dedicated to activities promoting environmental awareness and healthy life style. It was organized by the Environmental working group, People to People International AUBG Chapter (PTPI), Better Community Club (BCC) and Roctaract Club Blagoevgrad - Centrum.

Hairspray, this year's Broadway Performance Club musical, was wonderful not only because of its success in Blagoevgrad and on the national tour, but for the unforgettable experience it gave to the cast members as well.