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Tennis serves up new team

By Ian Quillen | February 10

What's new for the AU Men's Tennis team this year? In a word: everything. Gone is head coach Martin Blackman, who left the program to run a tennis academy and spend more time with his family after coaching the Eagles to their first three Patriot League titles.

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News

Campus Brief: Annual Founder's Day Ball approaches

By Kate Oczypok | February 10

AU's annual Founder's Day Ball will be held on Feb. 19 at the Galleria at Lafayette Center, announced Student Confederation Vice President Jason Trombley. "The theme of this year's event is 'Glitz and Glamour: 1930s Hollywood,'" said Trombley, who organizes the event.

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Opinion

Anti-U.S. event foiled

February 10

Last weekend, the Marriott in Bethesda was planning on hosting a convention funded by the Iranian government titled the "Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the victory of the glorious Islamic Revolution and Death To America Day." It was only after an Iranian dissident group caught wind of it and alerted Marriott that the event was shut down.

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News

AP doesn't spell success

By Brittney Galloway | February 10

Two recent studies found that Advanced Placement course experience does not correlate with success in college, even as the College Board, which gives the tests, strongly disagrees. The first study, presented Jan.

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News

American Forum Discusses Marketing To Youth

By Kate Oczypok | February 10

American Forum Discusses Marketing To Youth By Kate Oczypok Eagle Staff Writer Over 200 students, faculty, and staff gathered in Mary Graydon Center Tuesday evening to discuss marketing towards the youth of America at one of four American Forums hosted by the School of Communication at AU.

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Opinion

'Wealthy' an interest group

By Dan Miller | February 10

In today's atmosphere of heated political rhetoric, almost every group is attacked. Unions selfishly feed at the trough. Liberal egghead academics plot to instill their values in our youth. Only one group is rarely if ever attacked: those who control concentrated wealth.

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News

Metro Brief: Iranian Revolution event exposed

By David Hodges | February 10

An event celebrating the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Bethesda was cancelled after the owners hosting the event were informed that it is illegal to do business with Iran, The Washington Post reported. The event, which was billed as the "Twenty Sixth anniversary of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution and Death to America Day," was scheduled for Sunday at the Bethesda Marriott, according to Activist Chat, an Iranian dissident group based in the United States.

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News

AU 2-year budget outlined

By Kate Oczypok | February 10

About 20 members of the University staff met to talk about the 2006 and 2007 fiscal year budget and the projected 4.5 to 6.5 percent yearly tuition increase Monday afternoon in a discussion moderated by Provost Neil Kerwin and Don Myers, vice president of Finance and Treasurer.

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor

February 10

This Issues Letter to the Editor

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News

Police Blotter

By Kate Oczypok | February 10

Friday, Feb. 4 Fraud was reported with a parking permit in the Centennial Hall upper level garage at 12:31 p.m. Burglary was reported inside Capitol Hall at 1:03 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5 A student was found sleeping in another person's room in Anderson Hall at 5 a.

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News

'Ong-Bak' to the basics

By Daniel Longino | February 10

In "Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior," the head of the Ong-Bak statue is stolen from a village, and Ting (Tony Jaa) travels to Bangkok to retrieve the lost head, which helps the village prosper. In order to locate the gangsters who stole the artifact, Ting must infiltrate a Muay Thai fight club and bust some skulls to save his village from drought.

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News

Tobacco, alcohol marketing debated

By Kate Oczypok | February 10

About 250 students, faculty and staff listened to debate on the morality and finances behind tobacco and alcohol marketing to youth at Tuesday evening's American Forum. The event, "Marketing Cool: The Buying of Young America," drew a standing room-only crowd to Mary Graydon Center rooms 4 and 5.

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News

Droopy drops his rhymes

By Janel Knight | February 10

The Black Student Alliance brought the artist Drew "Droopy" Anderson to campus Tuesday night to recite his poetry at "The Mic," an open poetry jam held twice a month in the Battelle-Tompkins Atrium. "The Mic is like a confessional - all of your business just comes out," Droopy said.

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Sports

Bush-league Pro Bowl just too amateur

By Kevin Hilgers | February 10

With the Super Bowl finally over and the cries of dynasty slowly fading, sports fans are faced with the annual disgrace known as the Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl - or NFL All-Star Game, if you will - is the ridiculous spectacle put on every year in an attempt to showcase the best talent in the NFL.

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Opinion

Opinion: Complications in college life diminish love

By Timothy Meyer | February 10

Writing this sort of piece has become somewhat of a tradition for me around this time of year. Frequently, I write about politics, culture or world affairs. But every once in a while it becomes necessary to write not about ideology, but from the heart. The cynics are wrong - chivalry is not dead.

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News

The power of porn

By Jessica Bacharach | February 10

The first time I watched a porno I was 12. It was called "Love Boat." The clinching line came from an overweight man in his mid-30s, sporting a blond mullet and beer belly, who proclaimed, "My name is 'Trumpet,' now blow me..." and suddenly a 20-year-old blonde bombshell drops to her knees and goes to town.

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Opinion

Over the line at VMI

February 10

Two weeks ago, pictures of a Halloween party that took place in barracks at Virginia Military Institute where students dressed in costumes mimicking gays, Nazis and blacks surfaced online. VMI instituted a panel of three students to investigate and suggest disciplinary action against the students.

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