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Athletes protest AU's cut of tennis, golf teams

By Kevin Hilgers and David Bergman | February 28

The Men's and Women's Tennis and Men's Golf teams will be eliminated after this season, AU Athletic Director Joni Comstock announced Thursday. The cuts were made to stabilize an Athletics Department that has developed a $500,000 deficit during the past fiscal year and lacked administrative consistency over the past four to five years, Comstock said.

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A few raised degrees doesn't call for shorts and tees

By Arienne Thompson | February 28

Spring fever definitely hit early this year. Stores like Banana Republic and H&M and lines like Ideology and H Hilfiger rolled out their flip-flops and tanks more than a month ago. While this is somewhat standard operating procedure for the fashion cycle, one of the ramifications for us regular shoppers is the burning desire to ditch our boots, coats and scarves in favor of halters, minis and sandals in a hurry.

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Sports

Women's hoops lose regular season finale at Navy, limp to PL tourny rematch v. Midshipmen.

By Ian Quillen | February 28

The AU Women's Basketball team had trouble generating offense at times without injured junior point guard Tala Hada, who hasn't played since an early-season ligament tear. But never did the Eagles struggle at a more inopportune time than on Saturday afternoon, when Navy held AU scoreless for the last 8:41 en route to a 49-46 win in Annapolis, Md.

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Protesters demand stronger HIV/AIDS relief from gov't

By Claire Maude | February 28

More than 3,000 students lobbied for increased HIV/AIDS awareness Saturday, waving signs and chanting slogans as they marched from the White House to Capitol Hill. "We're here to demand that the government take action," said Student Global AIDS Campaign coordinator Healy Thompson in the first speech of the event at Lafayette Park, just north of the White House.

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SIS students dance the night away at black-tie event

By Joseph Popiolkowski | February 28

Graduate student Will Owens, 25, and his girlfriend, Am? Brewster, 25, revel at the Graduate Council's Masquerade Ball Friday night at the National Press Club. More than 200 students enjoyed an hors d'oeuvres buffet, including dim sun, quesadillas and phyllo dough with goat's cheese.

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Mice make home in Tenley halls

By ERICA LEMASTER | February 28

Mice are scurrying about the halls and rooms of Tenley Campus, according to Washington Semester students. Jenny Nowatzke, a Washington Semester student from Omaha, Neb., said she and her two roommates caught at least three mice between January and Feb. 21 and found evidence of other mice.

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Presidential candidates debate

By David Hodges | February 28

The four Student Confederation presidential candidates debated their policies at a televised debate on ATV Thursday night. The candidates talked about Bender Library, the downloading program Ruckus and the need for a more transparent student government. The 30-minute debate, which was moderated by representatives from campus media, sought to provide a window to students on the candidates' platforms.

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Sports

Money interrupts pure sport

By Jordan Beane | February 28

This week in the world of sports, there were some notable salary cap casualties. The world champion New England Patriots cut cornerback Ty Law, the Buffalo Bills cut quarterback Drew Bledsoe, and American University cut the golf and tennis programs.

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Police Blotter

By Kate Oczypok | February 28

Wednesday, Feb. 23 Theft was reported in Anderson Hall. A vendor was bringing in a candy cart, and an unknown individual who was believed to be a student grabbed a case of candy and ran away into the building. A vehicle accident was reported off campus. On Ward Circle, the back of a student's car hit an AU shuttle.

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Opinion

Opinion: Take money from Ladner rather than axing teams

By Zachary Sears | February 28

It is with disappointment that I write this letter regarding AU's decision to cut three of its current sports programs - Men's and Women's Tennis and Men's Golf. According to Athletic Director Joni Comstock on AU Athletics' Web site, the program cuts are being made to "target our efforts into sports that will further augment our athletics profile, and will build support from our former student-athletes and friends.

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Opinion

Take the juice out of sports

By Eric Fantegrossi | February 28

A recent story about steroids has brought a great deal of scrutiny to the game of baseball by questioning the use by players over the past two decades. For those of you who don't religiously watch "SportsCenter" in the morning, Jose Conseco, a former MLB Most Valuable Player, has published a book in which he exposes the rampant use of steroids by himself and former teammates.

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Eastwood's 'Baby' sweeps Oscars; Rock rolls as host

By Daniel Longino | February 28

For the 77th Oscar broadcast, things were looking bad when the ceremony ended its opening clip reel with the cinematic blasphemy of a digitally inserted Shrek walking alongside Charlie Chaplin. However, the show moved at a brisk pace and proved to be highly entertaining as "Million Dollar Baby" won four of its six nominations: Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, Best Actress for Hilary Swank and Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman.

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Players, parents speak out at GA meeting

By Melinda C. Hall | February 28

More than 100 athletes, some of their parents and other supporters of the golf and tennis teams voiced concerns about the Athletics Department's announcement that it will cut the teams at a tearful Sunday meeting of the General Assembly, the Student Confederation's legislative branch.

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Opinion

Opinion: Poor Eagle's Nest quality is AU's fault

By Kevin Wunder | February 24

Hi. My name is Kevin Wunder. You may know me as the guy who made you a kick-ass Subway sandwich that one time at the Eagle's Nest. More likely, you didn't pay much attention to who was making your sub because you were too busy watching the sandwich like a hawk, making sure I wouldn't grab one of those gross tomatoes, or use a dirty knife, or use bread that is crumbling and falling apart.

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Alumni's 'Autism' an Oscar favorite

By Daniel Longino and Megan Slack | February 24

AU alumna and former adjunct professor Gerardine Wurzburg are nominated for the Best Documentary Short Subject category at Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony. Three other School of Communication alumni also worked on the film: Gary Griffin served as cinematographer, Barbara Ballow as the editor and Elissa Ewalt as an associate producer.

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Movie Matches: Tommy Lee Jones and big hats

By Daniel Longino | February 24

Tommy Lee Jones + five cheerleaders = big hat. That's right. In "Man of the House," Tommy Lee Jones has a really big cowboy hat. Let's take a walk down large chapeau lane and look at some of the big hat flicks of yesteryear.

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The lost art of making out

By Jessica Bacharach | February 24

I knew I wasn't going to sleep with him. Why? Because I liked him. It was date three with my beer-chugging environmentalist and so far I was impressed. I had taken him bowling, he had taken me to dinner and while I was fantasizing about getting him naked, he also made me laugh.

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