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Film: 'Jersey Girl'

By Daniel Longino | March 25

If writer/director Kevin Smith's 1997 masterpiece "Chasing Amy" was a machete, his latest film "Jersey Girl" is a butter knife. The film opens in a classroom, as the children are reading papers about their dad. As one shy-looking kid begins to say the word "shit," he is cut off at the "shh" and it is immediately clear that this Kevin Smith film is different.

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Strossen speaks about rights, Ashcroft, gallbladder

By David Hodges | March 25

According to Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the only thing she and John Ashcroft have in common is that they have both had gallbladder surgery. On Tuesday, Strossen spoke at AU in Ward 1 about freedom, civil rights and the PATRIOT Act.

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Interview with actor Marlon Wayans

By Jorge Del Pinal | March 25

In the classy Georgetown Ritz-Carlton, 31-year-old comedian Marlon Wayans looks relaxed in worn jeans, a wool sweatshirt and a beanie, while most of the others surrounding him rush around in tight and serious suits. Considering his role in the high-profile film "The Ladykillers," a remake of a classic film, in which he appears alongside the legendary Tom Hanks and under the direction of the infamous Coen Brothers, surely Wayans might be worried that he was out of his league.

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Breaking News: McNair officially hired

By Keith F. Shovlin | March 25

Mike McNair, acting director of Public Safety, can put aside his acting career after being named the permanent director Thursday. Pat Kelshian, executive director of Risk Management and Safety Services, released a memo Thursday, announcing McNair's appointment after a four-month search to replace Colleen Carson, who left the University just prior to Thanksgiving.

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Opinion

Political Cartoon: Mar. 25, 2004

By Nate Beeler | March 25

Nate Beeler's political cartoon for March 25, 2004

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Students remember friend

By David Hodges | March 25

Around 50 people gathered at Kay Spiritual Life Center Saturday for an impromptu memorial service for former AU student, junior Zachary Stacey, according to service organizer Cody Jameson. A more formal service was held earlier in Stacey's home state of Tennessee.

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Not Quite Wrong: Mar. 25, 2004

By Ross Nover | March 25

Ross Nover's comic Not Quite Wrong on non-traditional education.

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WAMU holds first on-air fundraising drive

By Kate Oczypok | March 25

WAMU held its first on-air fundraising drive since its management change in December 2003. The drive was held Feb. 27 through March 5 with a fundraising goal of $800,000. WAMU began the drive with the message: "We're still here, we're still producing great programming, and we still really need you," according to David Taylor, interim executive director of WAMU "We think it was really successful," Taylor said.

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Sports

Big East looks to dominate Sweet 16

By David Bergman | March 25

Now that everyone's bracket has been busted and the state of Alabama, not Kentucky, has two teams in the Sweet 16, the question becomes who will emerge from each bracket and earn a trip to San Antonio for the Final Four. In order to answer this question, each of the eight games from the four regions must be broken down and analyzed with precision.

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Interview with filmmaker Kevin Smith

By Daniel Longino | March 25

From surly convenience-store clerks to love-struck lesbians, filmmaker Kevin Smith has been making movies about Generation X for 10 years. According to Smith, it's time to grow up. The calls of sellout have been mustering in the midst of his core fan base, which consists mostly of potty-mouthed adolescent males who read comic books and can't get laid, this writer included.

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The Rusty Nail: The greatest rivalry hits home on campus

By L. Russell Allen IV | March 25

Baseball season is starting on April 3 in Baltimore. Red Sox vs. Orioles. To me and my fellow New Englanders, this is a holiday on par only with the classic springtime Massachusetts days of celebration: St. Patrick's Day, Patriots' Day and Bunker Hill Day. Though I walk around with my new "Super Bowl Champion" New England Patriots hat, I live and die by the BoSox.

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Water tested for lead

By KIAH CULVER | March 25

AU residents may have noticed a new look to their residence hall kitchens this past week. Faucet-mounted filters are being installed as a result of tests conducted by an environmental company to detect elevated action levels of lead in the water supply. AU Physical Plant Operations, in connection with D.

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Journalists talk about pros and cons of profession

By Mishri Someshwar | March 25

Journalists David Furst and Stephanie Kaye from WAMU's "Metro Connection" discussed the maddening deadlines, poor pay and rewarding work that are all part of being journalists at Monday's Society of Professional Journalists' (SPJ) coffee talk. Furst said that the key to becoming successful as a journalist was to "be prepared to do everything, work for nothing and generally be indispensable.

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Police Blotter

By Kate Oczypok | March 22

Safety and security events from around campus since the Thursday issue

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Campus Briefs

March 22

News briefs from around campus: University tap water and AU Professor Alan Kraut

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The Offspring: Aging punks offer tired LP

By Emily Zemler | March 22

The Offspring used to be categorized along with bands like Green Day and blink-182 as one of the original pop punk bands and it still is in some sense. Its new album begs to differ. "Hit That," the first single off the Offspring's latest contribution to the music world, sounds like a joke on first listen. Luckily the rest of the 12 songs off this CD are significantly better than "Hit That," although that's not really saying much.

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Students search for summer housing

By Rebecca Bellville | March 22

For AU students looking for places to live and people to live with during the summer, the key is to plan ahead and talk to people you know. "You basically find out which of your friends are staying and which of your friends you can tolerate for three months," junior Rachel Treffeissen said.

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