Legal News

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.

Staff Editorial: Lights out in the air

The Transportation Security Administration will institute a ban on cigarette lighters on April 14. The TSA decided to prohibit passengers from carrying any lighter on their persons or in carry-on luggage in secure areas of airports or on planes. Passengers carrying lighters from now until April 14 will receive warnings about the up-coming ban.

Spring break fantasies hollow and infested with STD nests

When I was in high school, watching MTV Spring Break, I always thought I would be the girl to win the wet t-shirt contest. But being a senior in college on my last spring break in the Bahamas, I felt for the innocent girls lashing off their bikini tops for MTV's retired "Real World" cast and an audience of Mr.

AU community examines Michael Jackson trial

The drama of the ongoing Michael Jackson trial, in which the popular musician has been accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, has sparked debate among AU students. The issue has caused some to attempt to separate their impressions of him as both a musician and an individual.

Movie Matches

The first English language film starring Latin super-hottie Gael Garc¡a Bernal, "dot the i," opens tomorrow at the Landmark E St. Theater, and is a darkly comic story about a love triangle (what is it with Bernal and love triangles? "Y Tu Mam  Tambi?n?" More like: "Heck, I'll even do the whole family!").

All Thumbs

Thumbs Up: St. Patrick's Day ... Because God knows college students need another reason to drink copious amounts of alcohol. SOC alumnus donates items ... Director and AU alumnus Adam Friedman generously donated money and video equipment to the SOC. It's wonderful to see successful alumni contributing in ways truly beneficial to the programs they graduated from.