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Hit List

1. www.pheer.com When religiously checking the Black Cat and 9:30 club websites gets a little too tiresome, check this out. It lists all music shows in the Va./Md./D.C. metro area, covering everything from your everyday high school hardcore band to the next big deal in town.

'Real world' opportunities

Seniors hate being asked what they are doing after they graduate. It seems to be an automatic question, as if being a senior means the next step is a corporate job and getting out into the "real world." The whole world can be an office - why be confined to a cubicle? In "Delaying the Real World," recent Yale graduate Colleen Kinder introduces some college graduates who have done almost anything but trade in their sweats and jeans for a business suit.

Crafting FBI's image

The FBI works in various ways alongside the public and media to catch criminals and ensure the bureau is portrayed accurately in films and television, said Neal Schiff, an FBI public affairs specialist, when he spoke to professor Gemma Puglisi's Public Relations Writing class Thursday.

Chemical treatment helps lessen lead in D.C. water

A newly implemented water treatment process has led to a decline in the lead levels in local drinking water, according to The Washington Post. In August, the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority implemented the process, which uses the chemical orthophosphate, according to the assistant to the general manager at WASA, Johnnie Hemphill Jr.

Staff Editorial: Victory for gay marriage rights

Gay and civil-rights activists are celebrating this week, as a superior court judge in California's San Francisco County ruled that the State Supreme Court cannot ban the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples, based on a clause in the California constitution that protects all the state's residents from discrimination.

News teaches morals

Recent courtroom activities and congressional hearings have captured America's attention on a level the likes of which have not been seen since the O.J. Simpson trial a decade ago. Once again the best place to find your favorite celebrity is on reality court TV.

Men's hoops crashes in PL semifinals

If the final act of the Eagles' season followed any script, it reeked of bitter existentialism. For the first time in four tries, the AU Men's Basketball team (16-12, 8-6 in the Patriot League) fell short of the PL finals, crashing to a 53-35 defeat at Bucknell in a March 6 PL semifinal before 3,212 hostile fans at Sojka Pavillion in Lewisburg, Pa.

Women's hoops swept by Navy for season in 62-40 1st-round loss

The AU Women's Basketball team ended its season of inconsistency by getting shellacked, 62-40, at the hands of Navy in Patriot League tournament first round on March 3 in Worcester, Mass. Navy's win over AU, combined with two regular-season wins, earned the team a season sweep.

Eagle celebrates 80 years of news

The Eagle, AU's student-run newspaper, celebrates its 80th year today as the sole student-life journal at the University. The paper has chronicled students, faculties, the district and the world since its debut in 1925. The Eagle's archives include everything from the end of World War II to a debate between then-Sen.

Break me out to the ballgame

You can keep your beaches, your bathing suits and your Mardi Gras beads. I'll take my infields, Red Sox jersey and autograph pad. You visit your Daytona Beach, Cancun and Montreal. I'll visit my Fort Myers, Sarasota and Clearwater. You go on spring break; I'll go to spring training.

Comics

Not Quite WrongRoss Nover The Wizard's Layer Danny Friedman Dorm StormMichael Lucibella

Editorial Cartoon

Libraries move toward future

The collegiate library of the future will be accessible to students at all times, offer learning materials in a variety of mediums and provide a comfortable space for students to gather, according to a symposium of library and higher-education specialists AU hosted Monday and Tuesday.

Decision-making process at AU unfair

In The Eagle's staff editorial last week, it was argued that AU's move to implement software that can block file sharing was the latest in a long string of decisions made by the University without student input. It's not a new complaint. It was the same one I heard from seniors at Ultimate Frisbee practice during my first week as a freshman almost five years ago.

Airlines to ban lighters next month

Officials at BWI Airport stopped an AU student at a security checkpoint and warned him that the matchbooks and lighters he had in his carry-on bag would not be allowed through checkpoints in the future. Kevin Gilnack, a junior in the School of Public Affairs and a smoker, said he did not see the lighter as a big threat, but he would follow the new policy.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: Twenty-nine Rogoffs are listed on a piece of paper with notes about the day they were killed by the Nazis. This looks all too similar to a list made by Darfurian refugees documenting their families' murders. In 50 years their grandchildren will visit a memorial to their family killed in Darfur, just as I did for my family that perished in the Holocaust.

Vice and virtue in fashion

"Vice Do's and Don'ts" Vice magazine Gavin McInnes Synopsis: The definitive critique of real-life winners and losers in the fashion game. A Note to all men: shoes on, sandals off. Otherwise, end up sandwiched between a medieval punk riding a Vespa and a 300-pound woman wearing a "foxy" T-shirt on one of the "don'ts" pages of the "Vice Do's and Don'ts" book.