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Mass tran secuirty threats prompt searches, evacuations

By Kelly Kerr | October 17

Despite threats to U.S. transportation systems, AU students returned back to campus safely and some AU students said they were affected by the delays and searches, but it didn't change their travel plans. As AU students vacationed across the U.S. over fall break, both Philadelphia's and New York City's public transportation systems faced terrorist threats and bomb scares.

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News

Same school, different worlds

October 17

SENIOR Name: Jennifer Singleterry Age: 21 Hometown: Coos Bay, Wash. Ideal friday night: Avoiding homework. It's 7:30 Tuesday morning. Jennifer Singleterry wakes up, gets dressed, leaves her Tenleytown apartment and heads to the Metro. She travels to the McPherson Square stop on the orange and blue lines and arrives at her paid internship in the advocacy department at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids by 9 a.

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Sports

Hockey's artificial turf: a real advantage

By Jesse Epstein | October 17

Many of us have openly cried for big-time sports to come to AU. For the first time in my tenure here, we have a team that has a legitimate chance of winning the national championship: AU's field hockey team. For those who missed it, I may have been a bit critical of their playing surface a few weeks ago.

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News

Music notes

October 17

Harvey Danger "Little By Little" (Phonographic) Sounds Like: Pulp, Spoon B Remember "Flagpole Sitta"? Yeah, Harvey Danger is another one of those talented one-hit-wonder bands from the '90s. After a five-year hiatus, the band is back with their third album.

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News

Journey to Poland definitely worth a million Zlotych

By Jen Turner | October 17

Up until last week, I had never missed a plane, train or automobile in my 20-plus years. It's not that I operate on a schedule of rigid timeliness and punctuality. Anyone who has agreed to meet me at TDR knows this. It's more about sheer luck. But alas, I was due.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Alcohol awareness week

October 17

For those who did not know, people at college drink beer. Unfortunately, many abuse the drink and become more of a burden than they are worth. The university is sponsoring awareness activities all week to educate students on what alcohol does and what they can do to avoid bcoming a Sibley Hospital statistic.

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News

Study abroad mandatory at two national universities

By Elizabeth Royall | October 17

Goucher University in Baltimore and the new Soka University of America in Southern California have made study abroad mandatory for all its students to graduate. Starting with the class of 2010, Goucher University requires that all students must participate at least three weeks - if not a semester or year - in an intensive study abroad program.

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News

Tech bits

October 17

Steven Spielberg to create games Film director Steven Spielberg will oversee the development of three original video games for Electronic Arts, EA announced last week. The games will be unrelated to any of the director's movies or EA's current game franchises.

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News

National brief: Wilma is 21st named storm of the season

By Lauren Gardner | October 17

A tropical storm warning was in effect Sunday for the Cayman Islands and the system could affect the Katrina-battered Gulf Coast later this week, according to the Washington Post. The system, which is currently classified as a tropical depression, could become Tropical Storm Wilma.

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Sports

Women's soccer slips, volleyball back on track

By Dan Jacobson | October 17

From the first point of Friday evening's match, it was clear how badly the AU volleyball team wanted, and possibly needed this game. Coming off their first loss in 70 Patriot League games, a streak that lasted over four years, the Eagles were determined to start a new streak.

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News

Prospectives, donors give mixed feedback on Ladner

By John Riley and Lauren Gardner | October 17

Student groups involved in recruitment and fundraising have received mixed reactions from potential donors and prospective students regarding the investigation of former AU President Benjamin Ladner's misuse of school funds and his subsequent termination.

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News

AU questions Miers' experience

By Jimm Phillips | October 13

White House Counsel Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court on Oct. 3 has caused AU students and faculty to question her qualifications, judicial philosophy and her connections to President Bush. Ashley Mushnick, a junior in the School of Public Affairs and president of College Democrats, said Miers lacks the qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice.

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News

Helsinki builds a house of rock

By Chris DeWitt | October 13

The stage at the Black Cat was crowded before the band even came on. With 33 instruments (everything from trombones and keyboards to zithers and novelty noise makers), there was precious little room in which to fool around. When the members of Architecture in Helsinki finally hit the stage, they were all business - the most fun, entertaining and danceable business around.

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Flaming Lips to scorch the Vegas strip

By Neal Fersko | October 13

There is something cosmically unfair and maybe a little un-American about Halloween falling on a Monday this year. The burden, henceforth, falls on the activities of the weekend before to provide a degree of mischievous fun and a sense of the fantastic. Looking at the lineup of the first Vegoose musical festival in Las Vegas, there's a fair amount of dress-up on the lineup to make for the scheduling flap.

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News

University survives scandal

By Kate Oczypok and Lauren Gardner | October 13

The Board of Trustees voted Monday that Benjamin Ladner would not return to lead the university, sparking memories of then-President Richard Berendzen's resignation in 1990 and reminding the AU community of its ability to weather scandal. School of International Service professor and faculty member-in-residence John Richardson taught at the university in 1990 when Berendzen abruptly resigned amid allegations he made indecent phone calls from his office.

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News

Students speak out on diversity

By John Riley | October 13

When Viola Irvin applied to American University her senior year of high school, she knew that it was a predominately white university, but it was more diverse than some of the other schools she was considering and actively marketed its large international population.

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Escort service tempting, but is it kosher to bang for bucks?

By Blair Bryant Nichols | October 13

When I was little the only movie I remember not being allowed to watch was "Pretty Woman." I don't know if it was the sex scenes, the adult language or simply the situations it involved, but it was deemed too mature for my 13-year-old friend and me to watch.

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