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Katzen Arts Center, faculty attract prospective students to AU's Master's of Fine Arts program

By Vanessa C. Mueller | November 7

While the doors of the Katzen Arts Center's new museum space opened, students in the Master's of Fine Arts program opened the doors of their new studios to show off what they've been working on. Those who came to see were treated to a wide variety of great art in gorgeous new workspaces, ranging from paintings to prints to installations.

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Metro brief: Hundreds rally outside RFK stadium to end the AIDS epidemic

By Lauren Gardner | November 7

Nearly 300 people infected with HIV from across the country rallied outside Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Saturday to call on the president, Congress and society to renew commitments to end the AIDS epidemic, according to The Washington Post. The crowd, organized by the Campaign to End AIDS, then marched to Anacostia Park to call attention to the virus's growing devastation of the black community, especially in D.

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Homeless man stabs four near White House

By Tiffany Heimbuch-Maybee | November 7

Despite a violent knifing near the White House, a normally very secure area of Washington, D.C., AU students still feel relatively safe on campus. A homeless man was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempting to kill four tourists with a knife in Lafayette Park.

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College in Pa. requires profs to teach freshman seminar

By Kelly Kerr | November 7

Professors at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania are among a handful in the nation who are required by the universitywhere they work to teach a mandatory freshman liberal arts seminar, a program with an objective similar to AU's general education program, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Sky, standards fall in Disney's latest

By Chris Patriquin | November 7

This movie is fantastic! This movie is fantastic! Oh wait: no it isn't. It's just another screw-up from Walt Disney Pictures. How Disney ever thought it could put together a solid CG film without Pixar is unfathomable. This picture's release was pushed back a couple of times over the past year or so, and with good reason.

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Average winter expected after worst hurricane season on record

By Jimm Phillips | November 7

According to local forecasters, D.C. residents are likely to experience a fairly normal winter season compared to the record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season. Washington residents should expect this winter to "feature normal temperatures with slightly above [average] normal snowfall," according to a long-term forecast at CapitalWeather.

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Campus brief: Forum hosted on medical programs

By John Riley | November 7

AU hosted a forum in the Beeghly chemistry building last week for students interested in pursuing careers in the medical field. Speakers at the forum ranged from doctors specializing in private practice to current medical students. They related personal stories about their experiences and offered students advice about course selection, applying to medical or veterinary school, essay writing and interviewing workshops, finances and mentorship programs.

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Not always Reliant, 'K' disappoints

By Andrea L. Alford | November 7

Amid the road-torn tour buses sits a sea of people with shag haircuts, dirty baseball caps and belly shirts. Although it may have looked like a clearly crafted shot from a MTV video, the after-school crowd lining the sidewalk outside D.C.'s 9:30 Club on Oct.

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Police blotter

By Josh Goodman | November 7

Saturday, Oct. 30 A Public Safety Officer reported that the taillight of a Public Safety vehicle had been damaged while it was parked outside of the Department of Public Safety. Photos were taken and a vehicle repair request was submitted to the university.

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Music notes

November 7

Tristeza "A Colores" (Better Looking Records) Sounds like: Godspeed You Latin Santana! C- The only purely instrumental bands that seem to make it big anymore have to add some sort of regional aesthetic to their work. Maybe it's because narrative gets so much harder without a discernible frontman - your lead singer has to be a city.

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Sports

Reception no good for AU's displaced NFL fans

By Jesse Epstein | November 7

For five weeks, I've been following my Dallas Cowboys through text messages, NFL.com and phone calls from friends in far-off places where they actually show the Boys' games. In enemy (read: Redskins) territory, I rarely see a game on T.V. myself. In an ironic twist, when the Skins played on Sunday night against this region's second favorite team, the Eagles, and the Giants played at 4:15 p.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Facebook expression is no place for hate

November 7

A student at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh has been disciplined by the school for starting a Facebook group against the gay-straight alliance at the private Catholic institution, a right he absolutely holds, but executed in repulsive, if not atrocious, taste.

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Eagle men's soccer tumbles early on, rises from pitch as PL regular-season champions

November 7

The AU men's soccer team shut out Army, 3-0, on what was an oh-so-sweet Senior Day as AU clinched home field advantage for next weekend's PL tournament. The Eagles beat out Lafayette for the top spot on a head-to-head tiebreaker. Both teams were 5-2 in the PL, but AU defeated Lafayette earlier in the season, 2-1, in double overtime.

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Tech bits

November 7

'New Super Mario Bros.' on the way for Nintendo DS Mario is back. Japanese gaming magazine "Famitsu" has released new details on "New Super Mario Bros." for the Nintendo DS, the first original side-scroller to star Mario since "Super Mario World." "New Super Mario Bros.

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SG Senate allots funds for SIS dinner

By Jess Reamy | November 7

The Undergraduate Senate voted unanimously yesterday to give $600 to the SIS Undergraduate Council for its annual SIS International Dinner. The $600 is less than 1 percent of the current Senate-controlled Student Government fund, according to SG Comptroller Zach Ulrich.

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The hit list

November 7

1. "The Apprentice," by Scooter Libby In 1996, "The Apprentice" hit bookstands. An inspiring tale of conservative family values? Not so much. It's actually an extremely dirty erotic novel, many direct excerpts from which were recently published in an article in The New Yorker.

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Anti-gay Facebook group sparks First Amendment controversy

By Dave Colon | November 7

A university in Pennsylvania is involved in a First Amendment controversy involving the Facebook, an online college community popular among many AU students. Duquesne University sanctioned sophomore Ryan Miner after he used anti-gay language on Facebook.

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