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Dorm Storm: October 28, 2004

By Michael Lucibella | October 28

Michael Lucibella's comic Dorm Storm for October 28, 2004.

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Ray: B+

By Costa Caloudas | October 28

Biopics are a polarizing genre of film. They're either plagued with historical inaccuracies, bad impressions or bland scripts. A few have been great ("Rudy"), more have been good ("La Bamba," "Man on the Moon") and others have been god-awful ("Plath," "Dahmer"). And now, music great Ray Charles gets the biopic treatment.

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Sports

Sideline Scholars: The 'Schill' of victory: Curt becomes hero

By Jesse Epstein | October 28

Sports columnist Jesse Epstein composes an ode to Curt Schilling, the man who "delivered the Boston Red Sox to the threshold of heaven's door because they took a chance on an over-the-hill, past-his-prime hurler who left the desert heat for crisp, autumn air."

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News

Broken curse spurs campus frenzy

By David Hodges & Phil Turner | October 28

Seconds after the Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year-old curse, an excited fan pulled the fire alarm in the Letts-Anderson complex and spilled nearly a thousand students onto the Letts-Anderson Quad and the SIS Annex. The victory marked the end of decades of tears, anguish and heartache over "The Curse of the Bambino" - the Sox's failure to win a World Series since trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. At AU, the reaction among many students was ecstatic. Led by chants of "Yankees suck" and "It's all over," an undulating crowd of around 50 students pumped their fists and formed a makeshift mosh pit, where they flagellated each other with arms, coats and bodies in an emotional frenzy of baseball redemption.

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Opinion

Editorial Cartoon

By John Anderson | October 28

John Anderson's editorial cartoon for October 26, 2004.

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News

'Ray' director envisions life of musician

By Costa Caloudas | October 28

"Taylor, I'm no angel and I don't want to be painted as such. Just tell the truth." Those were the words of Ray Charles some 15 years ago when director Taylor Hackford began the project of "Ray." While Charles was not looking to rewrite his history, Hackford was presented with a hurdle: How do you tell the story about the vulnerabilities of a man who acts like he has no vulnerabilities?

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News

Not Quite Wrong: October 28, 2004

By Ross Nover | October 28

Ross Nover's comic Not Quite Wrong for October 28, 2004.

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Sports

Sports Brief: Men's and Women's Tennis travel to ITA East Regionals tournament and leave empty-hande

By Jesse Epstein | October 28

The AU Tennis teams took their show on the road to the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Regional Tournaments this past weekend. In Philadelphia, the women's team was represented by sophomores Julia Colarusso and Rachael Honig. Participating in their first ITA Regionals, Colarusso and Honig lost, 8-3, to Quinnipiac.

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News

RED SOX RED SOX

By Lester Russell Allen IV | October 28

Every now and again, I find it important to reprioritize the things you find important in life. Things like friends, family, schoolwork, and religion are all important, but it helps to figure out which of these things is most important to you. Personally, I reprioritized on Tuesday night, and I decided that the Red Sox were truly the best thing I had going for me.

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Sports

Golf ends fall season with another loss

By David Bergman | October 28

In what has become a sort of regular ritual, the AU Men's Golf team traveled to North Carolina with high hopes and came back with disappointment. Playing without senior and emotional leader Phil Kief, the Eagles stumbled and slipped their way to an 11th-place finish at the Old Dominion University/Seascape Collegiate Invitational in Kitty Hawk, N.C.

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News

Similar institutions do not share AU's fall break schedule

By ROBERT H. CHAMBERLAIN | October 28

If fall break is eliminated next year at AU, the new policy would also be somewhat unusual when compared with similar institutions. Three weeks ago, the Faculty Senate and the Graduate Leadership Council approved a proposal that would eliminate fall break and make Thanksgiving break a full week, The Eagle reported. University President Benjamin Ladner's cabinet has the final say over whether the proposal passes, according to David Taylor, Ladner's chief of staff.

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News

Caught with your pants down: 'Seven minutes in heaven'

By Connie Hess | October 28

Making out is a lost art. We received our diplomas and entered the real world, leaving behind high school days when making out meant something. Remember when gossip on Monday mornings was who spent "seven minutes in heaven" instead of who was sexiled Saturday night? What happened to those days?

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Opinion

Everyone deserves time off to vote

October 28

The Eagle editorial staff discusses time commitments and responsibilities of citizenship.

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News

Campus Brief: Study, panel to focus creative rights and filmmakers

By Stokely Baksh | October 28

AU's Center for Social Media will release a study on Nov. 8 that highlights the problems that documentary filmmakers face in controlling rights for their creative work and the consequences for cultural creativity. The Center, along with the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (PIPPI) at AU's Washington College of Law, conducted the yearlong research project, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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News

More jobs ahead for winter grads

By Kelly Kerr | October 28

Seniors graduating this year face a brighter future than last year's college graduates. While it's too early to tell what the hiring situation would be for May graduates, job prospects are looking up for December graduates, according to Camille Franklin, the AU Career Center's director of career development. The job market continues to improve, especially in areas of security, intelligence and government work, she said.

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Opinion

How do you plan to celebrate Halloween this year?

October 28

Four random AU students asked how they plan to spend their night on October 31st.

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News

Campus Brief: Students want fall break, longer Thanksgiving

By Mary Specht | October 28

The majority of students living in all eight residence halls are in favor of keeping both fall break and Thanksgiving break, according to a poll by the RHA. "We're not entirely sure how that would be possible," said RHA President Scott Goldstein.

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