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Furry Animals snuggle up to 9:30

By Chris DeWitt and Marissa Newhall | November 10

Oh, the Super Furry Animals. It's difficult to describe the music of a band with a penchant for five-part songs and futuristic cartoon creatures. A sizable crowd shuffled into D.C.'s 9:30 Club Tuesday night, hoping that seeing these eccentric Welsh rockers live would clear up the confusion.

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National brief: High school student shoots one, injures two

By Kate Oczypok | November 10

A Tennessee high school student shot and killed an assistant principal and injured two other administrators Tuesday, according to The Washington Post. Campbell County High School Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was fatally wounded in the chest during the shooting.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Google Print offers books sans library

November 10

Internet beheamoth Google, which offers services such as GMail, Google Earth, and a picture editing service, Picassa, has found another niche to carve out for itself: books. For those of you who loathe treking to the library, Google now enables you to search for a book and topic, and then browse the relevant parts of the book.

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Triangles of love aren't always right

By Blair Bryant Nichols | November 10

In kindergarten, we were taught that sharing is caring. Having this cemented in my consciousness since my first year at St. Thomas Catholic Elementary, I've always been more than willing to share with my friends. Notes, clothes, alcohol and even money is willingly lent to my close friends.

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Opinion

Stay on message, AU demands board reform

November 10

Dear Students, As the Board of Trustees meets today, I felt it important to speak to the campus community. I am writing to reassure you that your student government is doing all it can to effectively advocate for you with the board of trustees. The decision to give now ex-President Ladner $3.

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News

Campus calendar

By Kate Oczypok | November 10

Thursday, Nov. 10 "Community-Based Research: Linking Academic and Community Needs" 12:30-2 p.m. Mary Graydon Center, room 200. The faculty event will feature Sam Marullo, chair of the sociology and anthropology departments at Georgetown and cofounder of the Community Research and Learning Network of Washington, D.

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Mature 'Atmosphere' surrounds new disc

By W. Spencer Coffer | November 10

The release of a "mature" album by an artist usually signals the end of the purity, effervescence and spontaneity that made previous albums successful. Such albums are usually marked by a self-conscious urge to weigh in on important issues not particularly well served by a 50 to 70 minute running time.

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Sports

Sports brief: Crew brings home gold from Virginia competition

By Ian Quillen | November 10

AU rowing finished its season with a gold medal and a fourth-place finish at the Head of the Occoquan race Sunday. The Eagles took first in the Men's Novice 4 division, a classification for 4-man boats for first-year rowers, finishing the 5,000-meter course in 20:17.

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News

Google sued for distribution of copyrighted works

By Debbie Kang | November 10

Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, is being sued by two organizations, the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers over the company's scanning and distribution of copywrited works through its Google Library program without the permission of the authors.

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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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News

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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News

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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