Music reviews from the Eagle music desk, including Eyes of Fire, Between the Buried and Me, Paul Simon, The Cooper Temple Cause, Hellogoodbye, Carina Round and Nellie McKay.
"My son asks 'How come we don't have old people in Rwanda?'" says Justine Rukeba Mbabazi, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed over 800,000. She isn't sure how to answer that question. Hutus killed her entire family and she now lives in Canada with her son.
Mike McNair is calling AU a permanent home, as he became the official director of Public Safety Thursday, leaving behind his acting title. With his new title, McNair is moving ahead with a plan for a student patrol originally brought up in the student elections last month.
The number of overweight children has doubled in the past 20 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The NCHS National Health and Nutrition Survey found that 15 percent of people ages 6 to 19 are overweight, and another 15 percent are at risk of becoming overweight.
Columnist Michael Inganamort discusses declining media attention to terrorism, a critical issue in the 2004 election.
Safety and security occurrences from around campus since Friday.
Adam Corpora's The Freshman for March 25, 2004: how to irritate your fish
Six American University students asked if they're excited for the Cherry Blossom festival.
Briefs from around campus on the passing of an assistant dean, a 16-hour charity dance marathon, and the AU Reel Journalism film festival.
The AU sports desk would like to give kudos to the AU Gentlemen's Club for bringing a baseball presence to this campus. For too long, we've been shortchanged when it comes to a variety of intramural and team sports. With any luck, that will change this spring. As a service to AU, here are the Top Ten sporting events that we feel should happen sometime in the next six weeks.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed more lawsuits Tuesday against individuals who use peer-to-peer networks to download copyrighted music files for free, including some D.C.-area college students. A total of 532 people are included in this new round of lawsuits.
Ken Sakamoto's Haiku Circus: unicellular family dynamics
"The Ladykillers" is a stylishly modern remake of the 1955 film of the same name about an attempt to rob a casino by digging through an old Southern churchgoing woman's basement. The theme is signature subject matter for the writer-director team the Coen brothers, who have crafted several dark comedies including "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski."
It's called "Scooby-Doo 2," but after seeing this excellent movie, "Scooby-Doo 2-riffic" is more like it. As the movie opens, we join Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma (Linda Cardellini), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and the lovable computer-generated Scooby-Doo - five unlikely members of Mystery, Inc., who pile into their "Mystery Machine" to discover who has been stealing monster costumes from the criminology museum of Coolsville.
The Eagle editorial staff comments on the RIAA hitting an obstacle in its anti-piracy campaign.
AU senior Nellie Ghandar settles back into the sofa and laughs as Jon Stewart, host of the "The Daily Show," describes in mock seriousness the signing of an interim constitution by the Iraqi Governing Council as the first step in the American "Operation Get Us the Hell Out of Here.
AUSTIN, TEXAS - South By Southwest (SXSW) had to happen to me. The journey had to take place - though I'm still not sure why, I just knew it had to happen. Of the past 22 years of my life, music has consumed the last decade. It wasn't until after I picked up a guitar that I had a girlfriend. It wasn't until after I tuned into the radio that I found the tools I would later use to build relationships. And 3,000 miles, 5 days, 3 cases of Red Stripe and 100 bands later, I know that the past 10 years have only been a warmup.
The Eagle editorial staff discusses the removal of a breastfeeding photo from a photography exhibit in the School of Communications.
Sports columnist Ian Quillen discusses the prospect of using the arsenic field to play baseball.
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