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Punks & pols unite

By Chris Nye | March 21

Four-man punk band Anti-Flag stood alongside House Reps. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Peter Stark (D-Calif.) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) on the terrace of a congressional office building Thursday afternoon to announce the initiation of a grass-roots campaign against a provision of the No Child Left Behind Act that requires high school administrators to provide military recruiters with students' names and contact information.

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Taste of home from afar

By Colleen McCarthy | March 21

Every February, my family gathers to celebrate the holiday of holidays, the crowning event of the post-Christmas/pre-Easter season. President's Day sweeps through our household with a gust of perplexing joy. At universities near and far, we try to explain ourselves to incredulous friends and scurry home, where an Americana-themed cake has appeared and a turkey has laid down its life for the cause.

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Lessons from down under

By Vanessa Mueller | March 21

"Our Country's Good," the newest performance by the Department of Performing Arts, ran from Wednesday until Sunday and addressed a host of issues: Power struggles between races, classes, social rank and gender. The show also raised questions about whether to punish or reform prisoners as well as the nature of art and the nature of justice.

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Sports

Record Finish for Wrestling

By Kevin Hilgers | March 21

AU wrestler Daniel Waters had been through a lot before making it to last weekend's NCAA Championships in St. Louis. Before transferring to AU two years ago, the 28-year-old senior had to watch the title bouts from the sideline at Penn State, and before that he was even farther from the college mat as a Navy SEAL.

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Stephen Kellogg and Sixers mix old with new

By KATE DRIZOS | March 21

In the arithmetically impaired footsteps of the now-defunct trio Ben Folds Five, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers are a three-man outfit with an unfathomable amount of energy and an infectious love for their job. The band combines an unassuming rock and alt-country sound with improvisational and intimate stage shows for a unique and consistently memorable live experience.

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Death penalty examined

By Valerie Smith | March 21

In response to death row inmate Vernon Lee Evans' planned execution, and in an effort to raise general awareness about the issue, the chapter of the AU Campaign to End the Death Penalty has organized Death Penalty Awareness Week for March 21-25. "This week is about education, activism and mobilization to stop a pending execution," said Sedira Banan, a junior in the School of International Service and the College of Arts and Sciences and co-head and co-founder of AU Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

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Hit List

March 21

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.

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'Real world' opportunities

By LEANA ZBOROVSKY | March 21

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.

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Crafting FBI's image

By Lauren Gardner | March 21

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.

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Chemical treatment helps lessen lead in D.C. water

By Robyn Abzug | March 21

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.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Victory for gay marriage rights

March 21

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.

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Opinion

News teaches morals

By Eric Fantegrossi | March 21

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.

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Sports

Men's hoops crashes in PL semifinals

By Ian Quillen | March 17

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.

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Sports

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

By Jesse Epstein | March 17

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.

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Eagle celebrates 80 years of news

By David Hodges | March 17

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.

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Sports

Break me out to the ballgame

By Jordan Beane | March 17

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.

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Opinion

Comics

March 17

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

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