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The Guide

December 9

The Scene staff highlights upcoming events in the District.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: SAD days ahead

December 9

The Eagle warns of the dangers of the colder season, and suggests some remedies to get through it.

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News

AU Recording Artists hold show Friday in Tavern

By Costa Caloudas | December 9

AU Recording Artists is holding its fall showcase Friday in the Tavern. AURA founder Andy Thompson (bass/keys player for the band ADHD) founded the club this semester in an effort to unify musicians on campus.

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Caught with Your Pants Down: Under the ex-mas tree

By Jessica Bacharach | December 9

I have an eclectic collection of ex-boyfriends, and I am proud to say that I am still "friends" with almost all of them. I prefer the friendship be revived even after the romance has died. This policy has helped me to accumulate a closet overflowing with exes of all shapes and sizes, colored with the romantic history of years past.

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News

Dorm Storm

By Michael Lucibella | December 9

Michael Lucibella's comic Dorm Storm for December 9, 2004.

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News

Washington Sculpture Center faces down stadium planners

By Costa Caloudas | December 9

"How would you feel if one day you were drinking coffee in your house, and then you hear on TV that they are going to take your property away and give you what they think it is worth?" asks Patricia Ghiglino. Ghiglino and her husband, Reinaldo Lopez, are several property owners in Southeast D.C. - in an unnamed neighborhood near the Anacostia riverfront - whose land is the stadium site for Washington's forthcoming baseball team, the Nationals.

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Opinion

Student Opinion: How are you going to spend winter break?

December 9

Four random AU students reveal how they plan to spend their holiday break.

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Sports

Sports Brief: Men's Track out of the blocks for indoor season

By Ian Quillen | December 9

The AU Men's Track and Field team came out of the blocks flying in the Navy Invitational last Friday night at the Navy Lidlifter meet in Annapolis, Md., taking three individual titles back to D.C. after the first meet of the indoor season. AU dominated the middle-distance categories, picking up all its individual wins in that area. Senior Sean Duffy won the 3,000-meter run in 8:21.55, beating two pursuing Navy runners by about four seconds, while AU sophomore Rob Hoffman finished fifth. Meanwhile, sophomore Dustin Ermani took the 800-meter title, completing the four laps in 1:55.65, while his teammates finished fourth, seventh and 15th.

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News

'Blade' cuts a fine film

By Jason Alredge | December 9

Wesley Snipes returns as Blade in this third film of the trilogy and he's just as great as before. David S. Goyer, who wrote the last two "Blade" films, also wrote and directed it. "Blade: Trinity" has lots of action, but it also has more laughs than the first two. So that shouldn't be a problem for movie fans.

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News

Not Quite Wrong

By Ross Nover | December 9

Ross Nover's comic Not Quite Wrong for December 9, 2004.

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News

Baseball's return to city in jeopardy

By Emily Carone | December 9

The D.C. Council passed preliminary plans to build a new baseball stadium in Anacostia last Tuesday, but the future of the newly named Washington Nationals is still in jeopardy. Six council members approved the stadium plans, four voted against it and three abstained.

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor

December 9

A letter to the editor from SOC freshman Athelstan Spilhaus.

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News

Campus Brief: Alternative gifts help human rights

By Kate Oczypok | December 9

AU students will have the opportunity to do some "alternative" Christmas shopping this year with the Alternative Gift Fair, which will be Friday in the Mary Graydon Center. Project Hope International, a campus group that combats human trafficking and works with a D.C. nonprofit organization of the same name, is sponsoring the event.

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Sports

Eagles roar past Towson Tigers, 75-64

By Ian Quillen | December 9

After senior forward Jason Thomas scored 23 points against Vermont Saturday, tying his career high, his teammates and coaches could only hope it was a sign of things to come. But even the most optimistic could not have predicted a repeat performance as soon as the one he gave Wednesday night in AU's 75-64 win at Towson.

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News

Campus Brief: Library open longer, AUTO goes to airports

By Mary Specht | December 9

The library will stay open from 8 a.m. on Tuesday to midnight on Dec. 17 to offer students more time to study there for finals. The Student Confederation will contribute approximately $2,000 to help fund the extra hours of operation, said SC President Polson Kanneth. "The students requested 24-hour access, and the Student Confederation helped make it happen by contributing financially," said librarian Patricia Wand. "Student input is vital to the library, and I am pleased that the students worked so diligently with the library to achieve this goal."

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: D.C. 'blackballs' poor

December 9

The Eagle's editorial staff discusses some thoughts on the potential Washington, D.C. baseball stadium.

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News

Youth can fight abuse

By Kate Oczypok | December 9

Women between the ages of 16 and 24 represent the group most likely to be abused, according to a program on teen dating and domestic abuse held at AU yesterday. Kisan Patterson, a staff attorney for Break the Cycle, a nonprofit organization that aims to help youth end domestic violence, spoke at the program.

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