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Mudslides, torrential rain cause problems in California

By Valerie Smith | March 24

The past winter has brought uncharacteristic weather to many regions of the United States. While most AU students spent the season living on campus, friends and family coped with unusual conditions. The most devastating weather has affected Southern California, which was hit with heavy rains throughout February.

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Opinion

Opinion: Barbie 2008? No thanks

By Melinda C. Hall | March 24

If you ever happen to wander into my room (don't regard this comment as an open invitation), you'll notice something slightly unconventional on my desk amid notebooks, scissors and highlighters - a Barbie. No, this isn't some defense mechanism in which I regress to my childhood in order to find happiness.

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Sports

golf brief

By David Bergman | March 24

Playing in the fourth tournament in as many weeks, the AU Men's Golf team placed 12th at the Diablo Grande Invitational in Patterson, Calif. The team finished with a combined score of 968, 64 strokes off the lead. However, only 32 strokes separated fourth through twelfth place with AU being kept out of the top ten by a mere 13 strokes.

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Sports

How Wrestling fought 15-point takedown

By Kevin Hilgers | March 24

With the Tennis and Golf programs in their penultimate year, questions have been swirling around campus about the vision AU Athletics has for its future. Those who don't want to see tennis and golf cut might find hope in the AU Wrestling program, which was rescued three years ago by alumni fund raising and lobbying.

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Opinion

Bankruptcy bill bankrupt

By Dan Miller | March 24

Bloggers, editorial pages, my parents - everywhere I go, liberals are bashing the bankruptcy bill that passed the Senate last week. And to be fair, it's an absolutely terrible piece of legislation. Professor Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard expert in bankruptcy law, says it isn't fair and that it "beats up the average family already staggering under the weight of bad luck and huge debts, while it lets real abusers go free.

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News

Police Blotter

By Kate Oczypok | March 24

Saturday, March 19 Defaced property was reported in the Mary Graydon Center. A Public Safety officer saw graffiti outside MGC. 2FIX cleaned up the graffiti. Unlawful entry was reported in Anderson Hall. A female student reported that she woke up with an unknown male in bed with her.

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News

Metro Brief: Student shot over jacket

By Kate Oczypok | March 24

An Eastern Senior High School student was shot in the thigh and shoulder March 17 after a man attempted to steal his North Face jacket, according to washingtonpost.com. The 15-year-old and several friends were walking to Eastern Senior High, which is located in Southeast D.

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Sports

Do not deScrabble your TV

By Jordan Beane | March 24

Just imagine for a moment the future of sports in America. In the future, your ability to become rich and famous through competition will no longer be based on your strength, physical prowess or athletic ability. Instead, anyone will be able to become famous, be on ESPN and make a good living without ever having to run a mile or throw a pass.

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News

Student hurt in GW fire

By Elliot Smilowitz | March 24

A George Washington University student is in critical condition after being discovered in his ninth-floor dorm room that had caught fire early Tuesday morning. The student, a male freshman from Connecticut, was taken to George Washington University Hospital with severe burns at approximately 5 a.

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News

'Old Crow' medicine cures what ails the 9:30

By Chris DeWitt | March 24

The Old Crow Medicine Show, a bluegrass six-piece band based out of New York City, knows how to put on a show. In the years before they were signed to a record label, the band traveled the country as street performers. They cut their teeth the way they were meant to cut: On the hard life of modern-day minstrels.

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News

Love, tragedy in 'Afterplay'

By Molly Norris | March 24

The Studio Theatre's "Afterplay" imagines what would happen if two characters from separate plays by the same author met in a Moscow caf?. Irish playwright Brian Friel delicately documents the dashed dreams of two down-and-out Russians first realized by the great Anton Chekhov.

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News

Sexuality and espionage dominate teen movie

By Robyn Abzug | March 24

From the outside, "D.E.B.S." looks like the general teenybopper's dream: cute teenage girls in short plaid skirts, girl power to the extreme, catchy music, bright colors, a one-dimensional plot and an all-encompassing romance. On the inside, the D.E.B.S.

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News

Taylor shares ideas for upcoming year

By Jess Reamy | March 24

In an interview with The Eagle, President-elect Kyle Taylor discussed some of his top policy priorities as well as his quirky side as he prepares to take office in April. For Taylor, who can perform the "Napoleon Dynamite" dance, he also has some serious ideas for his presidency.

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News

Local arts on display at indie showcase

By Emily Carone | March 24

The "deaDCity Arts Collective," a group of D.C. punk artists devoted to promoting creativity in the city, opened its first art show on Friday. The show, "Never Mind the Corcoran," is in the Warehouse gallery at 1019 Seventh St. NW, which has been filled with art from local young artists, including AU sophomore Carni Klirs.

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News

New frat comes to campus

By Mary Specht | March 24

Recruiters from the largest fraternity in the nation, Sigma Phi Epsilon, moved on campus last week to begin a new chapter of an organization that distinguishes itself from other frats by not having a "pledge" status for its members. Unlike other frats, all new members have the same status as returning members, one of many aspects recruiters say make the fraternity attractive to AU students.

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News

AU groups support fair-trade coffee

By John Riley | March 24

Debate over the ownership of a proposed coffee shop in the Mary Graydon Center is rising to the surface faster than it takes a pot to percolate. An unidentified student dropped two banners promoting Pura Vida coffee from the roof of Mary Graydon at 11:10 on Monday morning while many students were switching classes.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Support Pura Vida in AU coffee wars

March 24

Sometime in the near future, AU will decide on the fate of a premiere piece of real estate on campus. The spot currently occupied by Auntie Anne's Pretzels will soon be replaced, either by a Starbucks or a Pura Vida coffee shop. Strangely, the administration has brushed off a huge outpouring of support for Pura Vida as "less than one-fifteenth of campus.

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