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NHL, if you come back, get new ideas

By David Bergman | January 27

As a few of you may have already noticed, there is no professional hockey being played this season. This is a travesty. With the NHL players and owners entangled in a legal battle over salary caps and revenue sharing, the world is being deprived of one of the most exciting spectacles in all of sports.

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News

Police Blotter: Jan. 23-26

By Kate Oczypok | January 27

Sunday, Jan. 23 Disorderly conduct was reported inside Centennial Hall. A resident assistant requested help with three males who were acting inappropriately. The individuals had alcohol in their possession and were in a room without the room's resident. Monday, Jan.

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Metro Brief: Gingrich speech sparks controversy

By Emily Carone | January 27

Newt Gingrich spoke at Catholic University Tuesday, prompting discussion about the university's restrictive speaker policy, which bars any speaker who does not represent Catholic values. The university's College Democrats said Gingrich's campus appearance violated the school's speaker policy because his past extramarital affair and support of the death penalty were anti-Catholic values.

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AU ranks No. 12 in '04 Peace Corps alums

By Joseph Popiolkowski | January 27

AU inched up a spot over last year to No. 12 in a national ranking of colleges and universities whose alumni joined the Peace Corps. AU holds this position in the medium-sized colleges and universities category, which includes schools with an undergraduate enrollment between 5,001 and 15,000.

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Job market looking up for 2005 grads

By Lauren Gardner | January 27

The job outlook for college seniors graduating in 2005 is steadily improving, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a nonprofit group based in Bethlehem, Pa., with 25 percent of employers increasing their hiring projections and 62.5 percent remaining the same.

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News

Out of Context

January 27

"Don't have your political orgasm here today, hold it off as long as you can so you can work longer and harder." -Alec Baldwin, at a student leadership conference in Washington, D.C.

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Grads aim to foster 'love for reading'

By Kate Oczypok | January 27

Paul Glick and Lindsey Kingston, two AU graduate students, were awarded the $1,000 Martin Luther King Jr. Grant by the Eagle Endowment for their project, titled "The Webb Elementary School Book Club," at a ceremony last Tuesday in the Kay Spiritual Life Center.

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News

North Face jackets a 'must-steal'

By KEOSHA JOHNSON | January 27

North Face jackets are a must-have this winter, although some wearing the jackets may have acquired them illicitly. This is an example of the increasing number of stolen jackets in the D.C. area, according to an article in The Washington Post. Crime reports from local law enforcement agencies indicate that North Face jacket robberies occur almost daily, wrote The Post columnist Courtland Milloy.

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SHARE hosts parties, sells cocoa to raise funds

By Melinda C. Hall | January 27

AU Students Helping Asian Relief Efforts (SHARE), a student-run group raising money for tsunami victims, is wrapping up its first three weeks of fund-raising. With the cooperation of the Center for Peace Building Institute of Washington, the group helped raise $20,000 to rebuild a destroyed village in Sri Lanka.

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Sports

Women's B-ball: Finding the point without Hadavi

By Jesse Epstein | January 27

A well-oiled machine. A finely tuned instrument. A cohesive unit. A team bound for the NCAA tournament. These four statements were all uttered early in the season about the AU Women's Basketball team. Playing under their fiery, vibrant new coach Melissa McFerrin, the consistency of seniors Chanel Hunt and Joanna Barnes, and the electric-quick and sharpshooting newcomer Tala Hadavi, the Eagles were ready to take the next step and play deep into March.

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MPD to monitor party complaints in Georgetown

By Mary Specht | January 27

With help from the Metropolitan Police Department, Georgetown University aims to get its "party problem" under control, said members of the Georgetown University Student Association. Two off-duty, uniformed police officers will patrol the Georgetown neighborhoods of Burleith and in West Georgetown and respond to neighbors' calls to the Student Neighbor Assistance Program hotline beginning in early February, according to Georgetown 's student newspaper, The Hoya.

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Opinion

Question of the Week: Have you ever felt unsafe at a college party?

January 27

"I do most of my 'partying' at clubs and bars, as I find them safest and most enjoyable." -Jared Kanefsky is a sophomore in Kogod. "Yes; once, a balcony with 150 people collapsed onto people underneath it." -Abby Lipskis is a junior in Kogod. "No, because unlike my friends, I usually get out before the cops come.

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Studio Theatre's new venue needs hot talent

By Molly Norris | January 27

In the shell of a building, mediocrity hatched. The production of Mark Jackson's "Death of Meyerhold" opened The Studio Theatre's new experimental venue - a hollowed-out, industrial-feeling attic in its theater complex. The Theatre calls it Stage Four, a "flexible, raw theatre space.

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Pell Grants may increase

By Kelly Kerr | January 27

College students currently receiving Pell Grants from the government might soon be seeing an increase in their financial aid, President George W. Bush announced Jan. 14. At a speech in Jacksonville, Fla., Bush said he intends to increase the maximum award of the Department of Education's Pell Grants by $500.

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Pacino's 'hoo-ha' movies

By Daniel Longino | January 27

"William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice" hits theaters tomorrow starring none other than the feisty mad dog of cinema himself Al Pacino as Shylock, Here are five of the most "hoo-ha!" Pacino performances, rated from one to five "hoo-hahs!" One "Hooh-hah!" "Any Given Sunday" - 1999 Oliver Stone's football flick featured as much crazy Pacino as it did giant locker room man-sausage.

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Opinion

Peaceful Eagles

January 27

Thirty-seven AU alumni volunteered in 2004 to join the Peace Corps, ranking the school as having the 13th most volunteers among medium-sized universities. AU's ranking has risen steadily in this list over the last several years. Significantly, AU is among the smallest of the group of schools categorized as medium-sized, with an undergraduate enrollment of just over 5,000.

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Campus Briefs: Greeks' party to fundraise for tsunami

By Kate Oczypok | January 27

Three AU students will host a party to benefit the victims of last month's tsunami. The "Do Your Part" Party, created by Robyn Wilkov, Jaclyn Mason and Simon Guindi, will take place on Feb. 3 at the Home nightclub on F Street. "As a college student, I desired to make a significant contribution to the relief efforts," Wilkov said.

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