The Eagle editorial staff comments on the birth control availability issue on campus, and discusses its ramifications for students' well-being.
Directed and choreographed by AU professor of theatre Karl Kippola, "Kiss Me, Kate" presents hot musical numbers, flashy chorus girls, gangsters and tender romantic moments quintessential to its 1948 Baltimore setting. The story, a play within a play, follows the on-and-off stage relationship of a divorced couple, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, as they star together in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
After beating AU to become the Patriot League champion the Lehigh Mountain Hawks lost to Florida A&M, 72-57, in the NCAA tournament opening round Tuesday. The Rattlers, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champions, were led by guard Terence Woods, the nation's best three-point shooter, who overcame a deep thigh bruise to score a game-high 21 points on 7-of-16 shooting from the floor.
"Violence is identified always as evil - never as good," said the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman of Israeli treatment of the Palestinian community in the Middle East on Monday's Interfaith Symposium. Wogaman, along with several other Jewish, Muslim and Christian panelists met in Kay Spiritual Life Center to discuss human rights and religious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Sunday.
American women are stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with the government, according to actress Janeane Garofolo. Garofolo, a longtime reproductive rights activist, spoke on a conference call with writers from several college newspapers to garner interest for the upcoming March for Women's Lives.
Sports briefs from The Eagle Sports Desk, including AU Golf's trip to Hawaii and victories for Women's Tennis
Album reviews from The Eagle's music desk, including Ani DeFranco, Bob Dylan, Ill Bill, Clumsy Lovers, Washdown, Keb' Mo', Decahedron and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
This week's political cartoon from Ed Sack of the Star Tribune
Andrew McNamee and Ross Nover review the newest editions of "Mario Kart" and "Final Fantasy."
Columnist L. Russell Allen IV takes on recent crashes in AU's server in this week's Rusty Nail.
Liberal columnist Kevin Sheneberger: "No, God is not dead. In fact, last time I checked, He was assisting John Kerry with his recent sweep in the Tuesday primaries. American University, despite its best efforts with the CLEG program, often fails to introduce cross-academic intellectual pursuits and analysis when it so benevolently bestows upon us our $32,000-education. As a result of this void, we find action without passion, passion without depth, and politics without philosophy. It is my humble hope that, through introducing a pinch of philosophical support for my ideas, I might aid in the growth of inter-academic relations."
The Eagle editorial staff on the lack of media coverage of the AIDs crisis, which is still a crisis despite the madia lapse into inattentiveness.
Polson Kanneth was elected president of the Student Confederation, AU's student government, on March 4 after a one-day election runoff against Steve Gilbert. Both had beaten out competition from three other candidates in the general election, which was held from Feb.
Safety and security incidents around campus for the last week
The question is not why did they do it, but why didn't they do it sooner? After all, it seems like a perfect fit. The elastic comic star of Hollywood plays the lead role in a film by the resident genius screenwriter of un-Hollywood fare. Charlie Kaufman has created memorable roles which have drawn masterful, divergent performances from Cage and Cusack, so why not from Carrey?
The admissions policies of seven public colleges in Virginia that reject illegal immigrants who apply are in question after part of a lawsuit against the schools was dismissed last month. The lawsuit, Equal Access Education v. Burton, is regarding the Virginia schools' policies of not accepting illegal immigrant applicants.
The Eagle Sports Desk counts down the top ten predicted athletic upsets in this year's first round.
Since 1981, when the AIDS epidemic first became a crisis, the media has covered this terminal disease, but now the question has risen as to whether or not the media has covered it enough, according to the panelists at AU's recent American Forum. Although the numbers of deaths caused by AIDS, which is a leading cause of death among young people around the world, is increasing, the amount of coverage by the media has decreased significantly.
The AU Men's Basketball team's third-straight trip to the Patriot League final proved even less charmed than it's first two. While the Eagles' PL championship losses to Holy Cross in 2002 and 2003 were disheartening, neither equaled the cruelty of Sunday's 59-57 loss at Lehigh, which again cost the Eagles the league championship and their first ever trip to the Div.
While the Supreme Court decided last month to uphold Washington state's decision to deny state financial aid to college theology students, this ruling will not affect colleges in D.C. According to the D.C. education office, 37 states have similar laws though D.
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