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Gamers say 'Halo'

By Khai Ha · Monday, Nov. 15, 2004

More than 20 students gathered Saturday at a release party for the highly anticipated "Halo 2" Xbox game. AU Gamers hosted the event in a freestyle kill-or-be-killed format. Players were separated by two rooms in teams of eight. Cries of "I've got your back!" and "Run!" echoed throughout the night. "We shifted the people that sucked around to balance the teams and made sure everyone got a turn on the projectors," said Charles Olson, supreme commander of AU Gamers.

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Folk You: Free-folk's roots take hold

Monday, Nov. 15, 2004

Just a guy and a guitar - a sighting as frequent as an orange traffic cone. Of the 30 guys with acoustic guitars in the Letts-Anderson quad, there are zero with talent. It's difficult to make the sparse sound good. Now, there's a new wave of folk music called free-folk, and we aren't talkin' 'bout "A Mighty Wind." Many of the youngsters of free-folk live in rural areas, use bare recording techniques and grow beards. The movement is spearheaded by the humble yet eccentric Devendra Banhart, who considers himself a snail in the folk garden.

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Defibrillators for a safer campus

November 15

According to the Eagle editorial board, "AU is considering the purchase of several defibrillators, devices used to restart hearts after heart attacks, but they seem to be dragging their feet when they shouldn't be."

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Sports

PL perfection for Volleyball

By Phil Turner | November 15

While many AU athletics teams have experienced Patriot League success since joining the league four years ago, none have matched the unprecedented dominance of AU's volleyball squad. In sweeping Lehigh and Lafayette in Bender Arena on Friday and Saturday, the Women's Volleyball team capped off its fourth straight undefeated PL season and extended its league winning streak to 62 games.

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Campus Brief: Black students host party

By Kate Oczypok | November 15

The AU Black Student Alliance held its first party of the semester on Friday night in the University Club. Approximately 40 to 45 people attended the event, which lasted until 2 a.m., according to BSA President Nadia Trowers. The party included refreshments, a live DJ, a spades tournament and a dance contest. The winner of the dance contest was an AU student's sister who was visiting the University for the weekend, according to Trowers.

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Film-sharers face lawsuits from MPAA

By Lauren Gardner | November 15

The first lawsuits will be filed Tuesday against people who illegally download movies from file-sharing services, the Motion Picture Association of America announced Nov. 4. "People who have been stealing our movies believe they are anonymous on the Internet, and wouldn't be held responsible for their actions," MPAA president and CEO Dan Glickman told The Washington Post. "They are wrong. We know who they are, and we will go after them, as these suits will prove."

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Soccer topples Lehigh for PL title

By Ian Quillen | November 15

The Patriot League opposition of the AU Men's Soccer team knew who to keep an eye on coming into this weekend's PL tournament at Reeves Field - or so they thought. Lafayette and Lehigh both kept sophomore midfielder Salvatore Caccavale and senior forwards Sean Albright and David Marut in check, and PL Offensive Player of the Year Shawn Kuykendall was at least contained.

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Sc, Entr, Film Review: 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie [DL]

November 15

By JASON ALREDGE Eagle Contributing Writer The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie B PG, 90. with the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Alex Baldwin, Jeffery Tambor and Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Stephen Hillenburg. Opens tomorrow. In a long list of movies based on Nickelodeon cartoons like "Rugrats," "Jimmy Neutron," and "The Wild Thornberrys," it's no surprise that Spongebob Squarepants would join the list.

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The Hit List

November 15

The staff of The Scene enumerates five things (mostly musical) worthy of your time.

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'Antigone' in academics, American Sign Language

By Khai Ha | November 15

Students auditioned for the play "Antigone" over the weekend, which will be partially performed in American Sign Language and will be produced by several professors. Valerie French, history professor and Andrea Tschemplik, philosophy professor aided in the translation and research of the play. Russel Williams, an Academy Award-winning professor, is creating a soundtrack. "Antigone" is the Greek tragedy about a woman named Antigone who goes against the king's orders to bury her brother.

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Gay marriage bans aren't representative, profs say

By George Los | November 15

While some D.C. advocacy groups think that this year's election results made a definite negative statement on the status of gay marriage in the United States, some AU professors disagree. Voters in 11 states passed ballot measures Nov. 2 to ban same-sex marriage within their states, and President George W. Bush said earlier this year that he favors a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the Federal Marriage Amendment, which died in Congress this summer. His opponent, Sen. John Kerry, also opposed gay marriage but did not endorse a constitutional amendment.

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GA approves constitution for new names, smaller GA

By Mary Specht | November 15

The General Assembly approved a new constitution by a vote of 21 to 0, with four abstaining Sunday. The new document gives the Student Confederation and GA new names and alters the composition of the GA to make it smaller. The current General Assembly will be renamed Undergraduate Senate, and the current Student Confederation will become Student Government. It will cost about $2,000 to change the SC logo on signs, banners, folders and other SC materials, the GA said. Another change in the constitution is that the GA will go from 40 to 30 members.

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University considers purchasing life-saving equipment

By Evan Wagner | November 15

The University is considering following a national trend in public health by installing heart-restarting Automatic External Defibrillators on campus, though no decision has yet been made. An AED is a laptop-sized electrical device with paddles or pads attached to it that, when placed on someone going through sudden cardiac arrest, sends an electrical shock through the victim's chest, often restarting the heart.

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Sports

Ingram racks up 20 points in 68-45 chastising of Catholic

By Jesse Epstein | November 15

The AU Men's Basketball team opened its 2004-2005 campaign with a decisive 68-45 exhibition victory over Catholic University on Wednesday night at Bender Arena. The Eagles were paced by sophomore Andre Ingram, who scored 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting, including 4 of 6 from three-point range. "We came in real excited and wanted to get ahead early and start the season off right," said Ingram, who also pulled down four rebounds and dished out three assists in 32 minutes of action.

The UFL and Why it's Good for the Sport

Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.

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