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Working OT can't solve women's soccer's problems

If AU's women's soccer team had one weakness Monday, it was set-play defense. Against Towson, that problem came to agonizing light. Towson scored two goals, one off a corner kick and one off a free kick, to beat AU in overtime, 2-1, at Reeves Field. Towson scored the game-winner off an Alison Reinhart free kick that got through the box and AU's 'keeper in the 106th minute.

On the surface, AU teams are divided

In 1965, baseball's Houston Astros got a quick horticultural lesson: Grass grows best outside. After their first season in the Astrodome, their natural-grass field withered away. So they replaced it with the growing technology of synthetic turf, and thus began turf wars, which have divided athletes, fans and sports medicine experts.

President Ladner's 1997 contract

Metro brief: Student shot after high school sports game

Students at three Montgomery County high schools are struggling to piece their lives back together after last week's football game that left a 15-year-old girl dead. "It's terrible," said Evan Levine, 18, a senior at James Hubert Blake High School, where Kanisha Neal was stabbed Friday night.

Jessica Alba goes 'Into the Blue'

"Jessica Alba plus Paul Walker equals cinema gold!" This must have been the premise from which "Into the Blue" was born. Granted, Jessica Alba certainly knows how to hold the attention of an audience, and Paul Walker is no slouch in the looks department, either.

Faculty Senate unanimously calls for Ladner's resignation

Posted Sept. 29 at 5:39 p.m. The Faculty Senate voted unanimously this afternoon to call for President Benjamin Ladner's resignation or removal, and to examine the university's governance structure. "Benjamin Ladner no longer has the moral authority to lead this university," said senator Philip Jacoby, a business professor who presented the motion to ask the president to step down.

Police blotter

Thursday, Sept. 23 A fire alarm was activated in Anderson Hall. After finding no signs of fire, Public Safety determined malicious intent to be the cause of the alarm. Students were observed with open alcohol containers in a car in the Centennial garage. The students were reprimanded, the alcohol was confiscated and a report was filed.

Out of context

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson Some University College students in McDowell, who allegedly never leave the lounge, confirmed this suspicion in song. The lyrics went a little something like this: "We're always in the loooouunge/Yeaaahh Yeaaah.

Hundreds rally to protest Ladner

A student-run rally calling for suspended AU President Benjamin Ladner's resignation yesterday ended with students storming a Board of Trustees meeting in Butler Pavilion. Students staged a sit-in blocking all exits to the meeting, which was being held in the Butler Board Room on the sixth floor of Mary Graydon Center.

Library of Congress interns work with pieces of history

Emily Hurst was puzzled when Library of Congress staff interviewing her for a summer internship in Washington, D.C. asked if she would mind wearing a mask and apron, or lifting 40 lbs boxes. "We're going to be in the basement somewhere?" she remembers asking.

A satisfying sex life comes from knowing how to get yourself off

It doesn't take adolescent boys very long to figure out that if they keep touching themselves in a centralized location they will produce a euphoric feeling - and eventually something that needs to be cleaned up before mom walks in. I had my first real orgasm while I was still in my "Days of Delusion" (I still thought I was straight) while watching some Alicia Silverstone movie where a kidnapper forces her to undress.

Past Austin city limits

If the Austin City Limits music festival had a custom-made perfume, it would consist of two parts body odor for every one part marijuana smoke. Spraying the scent would spread a cloud of dust throughout any space, and the bottle would come embedded in a nest of dry grass and burrs (or "stickers," as they call them down south).

Danger abounds on our home turf

With Ladnergate, September 2005 will not be remembered as AU's brightest historical moment. But, I'm getting sick and tired of hearing people complain about money misspent for things that don't affect the school. So, as a frustrated flag football player and president of Delta Tau Delta, I'm going to complain about the thousands of dollars AU did spend for a "good reason.

Staff editorial: The Eagle's 15-point plan

Yesterday's seizure of the board of trustees' meeting by student protests marked a turning point in the scandal surrounding AU President Ben Ladner's excessive spending. The board must be given credit for giving the protesters a voice in the meeting (20 of them were allowed to ask board members questions), and for their collective disclosure that they would vote for Ladner's dismissal.

Letters to the editor

Dear Editor, Yesterday's Washington Post reads that the Board of Trustees have been negotiating a new contract with Dr. Benjamin Ladner to bring the now infamous University President back to campus, stating that it, "would include compensation of about $800,000 for Ladner and a salary for his wife, Nancy Ladner, of at least $80,000.

AU community reacts to Rita

In the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, AU students and professors have both praised and criticized both how the media covered the storm and how the government responded to aid the victims. Zach Silverman, a junior in the School of International Service, is originally from Houston.

Horoscopes

Aries (March 21 - April 19) If he or she wants to be with you, baby, there's a price to pay. You're a genie in a bottle, and he or she has to rub you the right way. Just remember, there's a reason your heart is saying no. Lucky undergarment: Negligee. Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Oops, you did it again! You played with some hearts, and got lost in the game.