Kerry is a sports schlub
Sports columnist Phil Turner gives some sports pointers to Senator John Kerry, who has made some fandom missteps lately.
Sports columnist Phil Turner gives some sports pointers to Senator John Kerry, who has made some fandom missteps lately.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Congressman Dennis Kucinich stopped by last night for an SPA dinner and discussion series.
If Pakistan intends to become a credible and respected player in the international arena, it must correct its false image of an intolerant, belligerent Muslim state, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, said Wednesday to a gathering of nearly 1,800 Pakistani-Americans in D.C.'s Mayflower hotel.
Guest columnist Brad Vasoli argues that the AU College Republicans were mistaken in their cancellation of speaker Michelle Malkin's visit.
More than 60,000 people pulsed to the beat of native drums Tuesday as American Indians from around the hemisphere gathered for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. It was the largest gathering of American Indians in history. After a conch shell sounded at 9:30 a.m., tribes in full native dress paraded in alphabetical order from the Smithsonian castle to the new museum.
Eagle staff members present news from the upcoming week on and around campus.
IN AN EXTRAORDINARY DISPLAY OF BAD TIMING, Tuesday's NBC4 local news at 6 p.m. managed to juxtapose triumph and travesty. The broadcast featured a report from the National Mall that went something like this:
Salsa dancing, chicken fajitas and "Chicano" are all things that Americans recognize as "Hispanic." Wednesday on the quad there was an opportunity to learn more. AU kicked off the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month with "A Lo Latino," a celebration on the Quad.
The Eagle editorial staff comments on a new mentoring program in which gay mentors would spend 10 hours per week with foster children who consider themselves sexually confused or gay. The program will be run by the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs.
D.C. officials recently announced that they would create a program in which gay adults would mentor 15- to 18-year-olds in foster care who say they are gay or are questioning their sexuality. Wanda Alston, director of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Affairs, which was created Sept. 8, is facilitating the new program.
Along with national security and gay marriage, money for college students is an important issue in this year's election, with both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) proposing to provide more of it.
A listing of notable events reported by Public Safety for the week of September 17.
Danny Lieberman's Crossfire comic for September 24, 2004.
Ann Detwiler's editorial cartoon for Sept. 23, 2004.
The Eagle deeply regrets the recent act of vandalism that took place in the Muslim prayer room and condemned it in an editorial. The idea that something The Eagle fairly and accurately reported and extensively documented could be tied to what has been called a crime of bias by University Chaplain Joe Eldridge is utterly wrong and untrue.
Six months after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government was still scrambling to find Osama bin Laden, hidden somewhere in the bowels of Afghanistan. Convinced there was something more behind the deadlocked dilemma, five American filmmakers bribed their way into the war-torn country in search of answers.
Student Confederation President Polson Kanneth asked Board of Elections Chair David Blum to resign yesterday and appointed senior Marc Malon, who served as Kanneth's campaign manager last spring, as acting chair. "I gave Mr. Blum the option to resign, but I was prepared to let him go," Kanneth said.
The Eagle editorial staff comments on the Department of Education's ruling on Georgetown's sexual assault crime policy.
"September Tapes" is a gritty, groundbreaking film that depicts an American filmmaker's account of his journey to Afghanistan after 9/11.
Edgar Wright, the pale and thin 30-year-old first-time director, can talk zombies. He can talk your ear off about slow versus fast zombies or regular zombies versus viral zombies.