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March 21

Music from various artists

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Death Penalty week a chance to learn

March 21

Monday is the start of Death Penalty Awareness Week on campus. The event, sponsored by AU's chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, includes a panel discussion, a vigil and a speech from a death row inmate. The event is a great chance to have a real dialogue about the issue, provided it does not degenerate into a shouting match.

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Sports

Sports Briefs

By David Bergman | March 21

Bucknell's NCAA trip ends vs. Wisconsin After defeating Kansas in one of the greatest upsets in tournament history on Friday night, the Cinderella story for the Bucknell Bison men's basketball team ended Sunday with a 71-62 loss at the hands of the Wisconsin Badgers.

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Opinion

Opinion: Choose coffee that promotes fairness

By Casey McNeill | March 21

Since October, the administration and our dining services provider, Bon Appetit, have been deliberating what will replace Auntie Ann's Pretzels in the Mary Graydon Center. The deadline for this decision is approaching quickly. Two companies, Pura Vida and Starbucks, are offering similar gourmet coffee shops.

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News

GW dorm fire leaves burned student in critical condition

By Elliot Smilowitz | March 21

One George Washington University student is in critical condition Tuesday afternoon, after being discovered in a ninth-floor dorm room that was in flames early Tuesday morning. The student, a male freshman from Conn., was immediately taken to GW Hospital at 5 a.

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Sports

It Should've Been Us

By Jesse Epstein | March 21

Five years ago, American University left behind the Triple A lifestyle for the big leagues of the Patriot League, or so it thought. And in these big leagues, AU was supposed to become the New York Yankees, a team so dominant every aspect, that its academics, location, athletics, excitement would be the envy of the Holy Cross' and the Lafayette's of the league.

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News

Taylor names SG secretary

By Jess Reamy | March 21

Freshman Joseph F. Vidulich was named Student Government secretary after receiving a credit waiver and being confirmed by the General Assembly, the SG's legislative branch, on Sunday. Vidulich, a freshman in the School of Public Affairs, acknowledged that it was unusual for a freshman to be nominated for an executive position, but asked the assembly to consider him based on his qualifications.

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News

Aussie embassy files complaint

By Jen Turner and Melinda C. Hall | March 21

Publicity for a play set in the 1700s about colonial Australia's history of convicted criminals and officer organization struck a nerve at the Australian Embassy, causing the Department of Performing Arts to take down the original posters and put up different ones.

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News

Persian New Year to be celebrated on AU's Quad

By David Hodges | March 21

A holiday unknown to most AU students will make its debut on campus Monday. Nowruz, Persian for New Years, will be celebrated on the Quad by the Persian Club, which brings Iranian cultural events to AU. Zubin Amiri, president of the club, said he hopes the AU community will get a sense of Persian culture and what it means to be Persian.

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News

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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News

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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News

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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News

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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News

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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News

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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News

'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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