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Metro Brief: Club's music blamed for assault

By Emily Carone | February 21

D.C. police blamed "go-go" music for violence in a Northwest D.C. club at an Alcohol and Beverage Control Board hearing Saturday. "It's this go-go," Cmdr. Larry D. McCoy of the 3rd Police District said, according to The Washington Post. "If you have a black-tie event, you don't have any problem.

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The Hit List

By The Scene staff | February 21

1. NASCAR Sunday's Daytona 500 kicked off NASCAR's incredible nine-month-long season. The Great American Race came complete with performances by washed-up musicians like Five for Fighting and Vanessa Williams, and people dancing around American flags shaped like the good ol' U.

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Comics

February 21

This issue's comics

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Video game newsbits

February 21

1. Online "Grand Theft Auto?" David Jones, the creator of "Grand Theft Auto," awarded publisher Webzen the rights to his latest creation, "All Points Bulletin," a massive multiplayer online crime game. "All Points" is a game based in living, breathing cities that will feel familiar to players, as they accurately replicate famous cities all over the world.

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Sports

AU runs to best-ever PL finish

By Kevin Hilgers | February 21

AU Men's and Women's Indoor Track teams didn't finish the weekend's Patriot League Championships with the most points, but they could be called the competition's most efficient squads. Eagle runners placed first in 10 of their 13 events as the women finished fifth and the men finished third, their best-ever finish in the PL Championships.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Security cameras could help safety

February 21

The case of the pornographic etchings may finally be solved. This week, Public Safety apprehended a man it said was in his 60s who was caught carving a vulgar image into the wall of a Mary Graydon Center elevator. The man was caught only because of the surveillance cameras in the MGC elevators.

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Tenley escalators open after six-month repairs

By Valerie Smith | February 21

The escalators on the east entrance of the Tenleytown Metro Station reopened Wednesday after being closed for repairs for six months. The escalators were scheduled to reopen Jan. 10 after about five months of repairs, but were not opened until last week as District- and state-mandated inspections caused delays, said Metro spokesman Steve Taubenkibel.

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Sports

AU still ordinary where it counts

By Ian Quillen | February 21

Ever since the Eagles swooped down on the Patriot League, they've been a dominant force, right? Well, that is the running narrative around Nebraska Avenue. And yeah, there's some merit to it. AU has won a plurality of league championships since it entered the league when.

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Proposed bill limits 'meth' ingredient

By Theodora Blanchfield | February 17

A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives that would limit the sale of pseudoephedrine, an ingredient commonly found in over-the-counter cold medicines, because it can be used to make methamphetamine, a harmful and illegal drug.

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Sports

Good and bad of black legacies

By Chad Bascombe | February 17

You would be hard-pressed to find a sport whose history over the past 100 years has not provided some meaningful juncture in the struggle for the equality and recognition of blacks in the 20th century. From baseball to football, and more recently golf, diversity in sports is reflected in many of the stunning achievements of pioneering black athletes who graced sports with style and athleticism.

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News

Examiner tabloid seeks to steal local readers from The Post

By Valerie Smith | February 17

The Examiner, a free daily tabloid-sized newspaper, debuted in the D.C. metro area at the beginning of February and looks to provide a local-leaning alternative to established D.C. newspapers. The Examiner circulates 260,000 copies daily and delivers for free to more than 200,000 homes in D.

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Opinion

Ed Cartoon

February 17

Brittany Laur

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Metro Brief: D.C. ranks in 5 worst cities for asthmatics

By Emily Carone | February 17

D.C. is the fifth most challenging place for asthmatics to live, according to a recent study done by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Washington jumped from No. 50 to No. 5 on the "Asthma Capitals" list. The ranking is based on 12 questions about topics such as annual air quality, pollen level, poverty and school inhaler access laws.

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AU history 'Honored'

By David Hodges | February 17

The history of AU, and the honors program's place in it, was celebrated on Wednesday at a tea talk in Hurst Hall. Professor Abdul Aziz Said, a veteran of the school for half a century, explained to the audience what it means to be from AU and how its alumni have "a lineage to be proud of.

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Students encouraged to teach English abroad

By Kate Oczypok | February 17

AU will work to increase enrollment this summer in Learning Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that sends U.S. college students abroad to teach English in rural villages. The group, which recruits from Harvard, Stanford, American, Georgetown and New York universities through campus and program volunteers, will send the first group of five AU students to Panama this summer.

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Opinion

America should heed Kyoto

February 17

July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to set foot on an extra-planetary body. After reaching the lunar surface, Armstrong famously proclaimed, "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." We have later come to find out that these timely words were much less divinely inspired than they were quickly improvised.

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Intelligent poetry ignites the Dav

By Chris DeWitt | February 17

The Davenport Coffee Lounge played host Wednesday to a night of poetry and hip-hop sponsored by AU's Student Organization for African Studies. Themes for the night ran the gamut of politics, war, love and sex. But the strongest message of the night was empowerment and positivity.

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