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Destination: Where are you going?

By Hillary Beulah | October 20

Quad watching is a favorite pastime for many AU students. Also, it is often a refresher course in fashion hits and misses. The lines of fashion have become blurred and many have fallen prey to the myth that if something feels good then it also looks good.

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Police blotter

By Josh Goodman | October 20

Wednesday, Oct. 13 A staff member reported damage to her vehicle parked in the Sports Center Garage. Public safety removed an individual not affiliated with the university from the President's Office after the man ignored repeated requests from the staff to leave the premises.

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Metro brief: Poetry jams at Howard homecoming celebration

By Kate Oczypok | October 20

Poets from Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam performed Monday night at Howard University's Cramton Auditorium as part of the university's homecoming celebration this week. Leading up to the special guests were poets from the Howard community known as Messiah, Rasheem, Drew "Droopy" Anderson and Rhonda, according to Howard University's student newspaper The Hilltop.

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SG election results released

By Jess Reamy | October 20

The student body elected 25 members this week to the inaugural Undergraduate Senate, the new legislative arm of the Student Government that replaces the expired General Assembly. The election also determined the four officers of the freshman class council, which will be led by Class of 2009 President Andrew Gardner.

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Northeast endures 10 days of heavy rain, flood warnings still in effect

By Kate Oczypok | October 20

The northeast endured 10 days of torrential rain this month, causing flooding in many cities, including Boston's ninth wettest October on record. In Massachusetts alone, the flooding was estimated to have caused more than $6.5 million in damage, said Massachusetts Gov.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: AU's fiscal condition

October 20

In recent months we have all seen what a miserable job AU has done managing finances, or so it would seem to those watching from the outside. Former President Ladner's scandal was only one of the university's missteps when it comes to finances. In the last school year, the athletic department unceremoniously cut the tennis and golf teams, as the school claimed it needed to save the money and find wiser ways to spend.

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McGregor makes audiences 'Stay'

By Chris Patriquin | October 20

What if one man's nightmare became another's reality? "Stay," the latest vision from "Monster's Ball" and "Finding Neverland" director Marc Forster, explores a surreal world where the line between life and death, sanity and psychosis and dreams and reality are blurred.

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Campus calendar

By Kate Oczypok | October 20

Thursday, Oct. 20 Training Opportunity: Preventing Harassment, Promoting Respect 10 a.m.-noon, location TBD. Mandatory for all full-time staff members and must be completed within the first six months of employment. Registration required; contact Katie Boggs at boggs@american.

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Opinion

Board: Don't give Ladner a "golden parachute"

By Dr. Stanley J. Weiss | October 20

American University is a tuition-supported institution where many students work for meager hourly wages to make ends meet. Circumstances very often force them to take out loans to pay their tuition, loans they will be struggling to repay for many years after they graduate.

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Sports

Volleyball fetches win vs. Retrievers

By Dan Jacobson | October 20

From the opening game to the final point, AU woman's volleyball team had played better matches. Multiple times during its bout against the Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers Tuesday night at Bender Arena, there was miscommunication between the AU players that led to several Retrievers points.

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Board of trustees names Gary Abramson as new chair

By Kate Oczypok , John Riley and Josh Goodman | October 20

Gary Abramson, an AU alumnus, has been selected as the new board of trustees chair, in the wake of former chair Leslie Bains' resignation on Oct. 9. The board of trustees met for three hours Thursday afternoon to discuss naming a new board chair, as well as the issue of former President Benjamin Ladner's severance package, which could reportedly be as much as one million dollars or more.

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Horoscopes

By Tamara Brown | October 20

Aries (March 21 - April 19) There's nothing wrong with taking it easy and trying to let things go sometimes. So do something a little out of the ordinary this week. Let a bottom-feeder use you to serial cheat on their significant other. Every player gets a prize.

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Fall Out Boy rises from obscurity to major label

By Marjorie Korn | October 20

To call Fall Out Boy an emerging band would be to imply they have some kinks to work out. But it seems the band, now six-years-old, has finally found what works for them. Their new album, "From Under the Cork Tree," was their first release under a major record label and was met with critical acclaim.

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Sports

What would Johnny U. think of the dresscode?

By Jordan Beane | October 20

The NBA recently announced that a dress code would be going into effect for the new season. The new code says that basically, whenever an NBA player is seen in public, he can't be wearing doo-rags, shorts, T-shirts, jeans and in a code I think needs to be adopted here at AU, no sunglasses indoors.

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Student organizations plan earthquake relief

By Steve Dorsey | October 20

Student clubs are among the many local and national organizations that have begun organizing relief efforts for the regions of Pakistan and Kashmir that were devastated by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake over a week ago. As national organizations like the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and UNICEF are working to deliver aid to South Asia, the South Asian Student Association is working to raise money to send to the ravaged areas.

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Sports

Mountaineers too tall for men's soccer

October 20

A controversial goal by West Virginia helped bury the AU men's soccer team Wednesday at Reeves Field, 2-0. A shot off the foot of West Virginia sophomore Andrew Halsell early in the first half clanked the crossbar and bounced directly down to the goal line as AU (3-8-1) lost its early-game momentum.

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Ravi and Anoushka Shankar impress Strathmore crowd

By Michael Reichenberg | October 20

Standing ovations were commonplace on Sunday as sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar performed at the Strathmore Music Center. The sold out show was filled with an eclectic audience, from sari-clad women to enthusiastic ex-hippies. The two-part performance featured Ravi Shankar and his daughter, Anoushka Shankar, as well as talented musicians playing an assortment of classical Indian instruments.

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