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New blood, Hadavi's return key for AU

The AU women's basketball team began practice for the 2005-06 season with new faces, but the same approach: win the Patriot League title. Despite preseason polls picking AU fifth in the PL, second-year head coach Melissa McFerrin and her staff will expect big things from the Eagles.

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Investigative journalism maintains quality, panel says

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Companies that own newspapers do not have a great commitment to investigative journalism, but journalistic quality has not weakened since the era of the Watergate investigation, a panel of journalists said at an American Forum Tuesday. Patrick Sloyan, director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, said the current trend at newspapers has been against investigative journalism.

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Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep are 'Prime' for success with new movie

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Two New Yorkers fall in love despite the chaos that surrounds their relationship. Not quite a new premise, but take off the typical Hollywood ending and it works. "Prime" (so called because both lovers are in their sexual prime), from writer/director Ben Younger ("Boiler Room"), follows the relationship of fashion photographer Rafi (Uma Thurman), a recently divorced 37-year-old Upper East-Sider from a broken home, and Dave (Bryan Greenberg), a 23-year-old hip-hop loving Jewish painter from Brooklyn who lives with his grandparents.

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Students want representation on board of trustees

Recently elected AU board of trustees chair Gary Abramson told student leaders on Tuesday he is open to the idea of putting student representation on the board, which is beginning to rebuild itself following the resignation of four trustees and the removal of former President Benjamin Ladner.


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Foreign tongues excite, but not in Pizza Hut

In my first social anthropology lecture, the professor introduced the way we perceive other cultures by saying, "We are initially tantalized by the exotic." I found this phrase provocative and surprisingly accurate for the way we approach foreigners. When I arrived here it was hard not to be aroused by the multitudes of accents speaking our purported native tongue.


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Cinematically beautiful 'Jarhead' takes inside look at war

If Kevin Spacey's Lester Burnham from 1999's "American Beauty" had been born later, bypassed college and enlisted in the Marines, he could have been a stand-in for Jake Gyllenhaal's Anthony Swofford in "Jarhead." Sam Mendes's latest follows the memoir of real-life Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a 20-year-old Marine who spent several months in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War.


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AU mauls Colgate, secures playoff home field

What a Senior Day it was for the AU field hockey team, especially for seniors Shannon Goans and Javiera Villagra. They combined to score seven goals as the Eagles routed Patriot League rival Colgate, 9-1, at the Jacobs Recreational Complex Saturday. The win assured the Eagles will host the PL Tournament next weekend, and improved AU's record to 16-1 (4-0 PL).


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XC reigns supreme in the PL again

The AU men's cross country team won its fourth consecutive PL title Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa., finishing 49 points ahead of second place finisher Army. The AU men boasted the top two finishers in the 8,000-meter race, Steve Hallinan and Brendan Fennell. Meanwhile, the women's team took fourth, behind Bucknell, Army and Lehigh, boasted individual winner, senior Keira Carlstrom.


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Frightnight picks

"Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge" Buena Vista Games Rated "E" for Everyone For PS2 $39.99 C- Why it took 11 years for the 1994 film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" to be re-imagined in video game form isn't that surprising. At first only moderately popular, the brilliantly inventive film gained an impressive cult following over the last five years.


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'Much Ado' deserved for clever British play on Shakespeare

Eyes will water, sides will hurt and pants will be wet from laughing too hard at the Folger Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." Director Nick Hutchison placed this comedy about two people who were tricked into admitting their love for one another in the early days of post-WWII England, with the return of Don Pedro's American soldiers to Leonato's English country estate.


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ChiSox magic relived

I still can't believe it happened. The White Sox are World Series champions. After all the years of being second fiddle to the Cubs, playing second place to the Twins or Indians and signing big-name free agents more than a second late in their careers, the White Sox have finally reached the Promised Land.


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AU celebrates Halloween with creative costume choices

On Monday many AU students will dress up for Halloween while others have chosen to celebrate the unofficial holiday in other ways. "I am planning on dressing up," said Courtney Haran, a junior in the School of Communication. "I have koala ears that I bought.


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Creating a reputation, protecting diplomas

I thought that once President Ladner was dismissed from the university and his severance package was decided that the situation would have finally reached its conclusion. Now the Senate Finance Committee has requested documents regarding Ladner's dismissal and the investigation.


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Sampling Amsterdam and bypassing American kitsch

My parents never traveled much with me when I was younger. That's fine. I probably would have been really embarrassed anyway, given their proclivity for singing in public and asking me if I've pooped lately. It's nice to be surrounded by your peers while abroad, what with common interests like staying up past 10 p.


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Music notes

Animal Collective "Feels" (Fat Cat) Sounds Like: A further out-there Mercury Rev or Spiritualized A Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deaken (members of Brooklyn's loosely-defined Animal Collective) have always been exceedingly human, even if they sound like manic creatures of the forest or frolicking toddlers.


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Tulane lays off staff members post-Katrina

Tulane University laid off 243 full-time staff members from various departments on Oct. 21 to secure the university's future operations, according to Director of Public Relations Michael Strecker. "Katrina has created challenges that are unmatched in the history of Tulane and, indeed, in the history of the United States," Strecker said.


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National brief: California teen kills two, commits suicide

A California teenager clad in a black cape and helmet went on a shooting rampage Saturday, according to USAToday.com. William Freund, 19, killed a man and his daughter before committing suicide, authorities said. He also fired shots into another house and also had a confrontation with a neighbor.


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One outrageous price tag on Ladner's farewell

Protesters of AU: Clap your hands, take a bow, and pat yourself on the back. Because of your successful efforts to oust President Ladner, we have now spent a massive amount of money. As we all know by now, former President Ladner was dismissed amid allegations of misappropriation of funds.


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Japanese 'manga': a storyline for every taste

Japanese comic books, or "manga" (mahn-gah), now dominate roughly three book sections in Borders and have their own section in Barnes & Noble. It's becoming difficult to walk past them without at least wondering what the appeal is. Unfortunately, there's such a variety of titles that it can be an overwhelming and daunting task to even choose one to look at.


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Police blotter

Wednesday, Oct. 26 The RA on duty in Leonard Hall reported that there was an intoxicated individual in the men's restroom. The individual was transported to Sibley hospital. An RA reported that posters had been vandalized in Letts Hall. Thursday, Oct. 27 A fire alarm was pulled in Centennial Hall at 12:04 a.



Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.


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