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Students safe in Spain

By Rebecca Bellville | March 18

AU students studying in Madrid, Spain, this semester were not hurt when bombs struck a train station there during the morning rush hour last Thursday. "They're fine. They're doing very, very well," said Maria Caballero, director of the AU Abroad program in Madrid.

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Sports

Eagles fall in final game

By Jesse Epstein | March 18

The AU Women's Basketball team came tantalizingly close to its first NCAA tournament appearance, but lost 71-60 to Colgate last Wednesday, ending their season in the Patriot League Championship game. "There wasn't a time when I didn't think the outcome would be different tonight," said Eagles head coach Shann Hart.

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News

Hearing waived in case of DWI death

By Rebecca Bellville | March 18

The woman who has been charged in the drunken-driving death of AU junior Andrew Burr waived her right to a preliminary hearing March 5. Shelly Wentworth will appear in court again April 9 for a status hearing, according to Channing Phillips, spokesman for the U.

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News

Jerusalem women speak about their lives, faith and visions for students

By Kate Oczypok | March 18

Partners for Peace organized its 6th annual tour entitled "Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision." The program was sponsored at AU by the Women and Gender Studies Program. Three women, one Christian, one Muslim, and one Jew shared their stories about living in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

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Sports

Keeping the faith in sports

By Ian Quillen | March 18

Walking out of Stabler Arena after AU's crushing 59-57 loss at Lehigh in Sunday's Patriot League Men's Basketball championship, I knew the drive back to AU would be long, lonely and depressing. I'm a writer - not a player, a coach, a manager or a member of the athletics department. But having covered the team for the last two years, I couldn't help but hurt for them.

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News

Provost Kerwin to stay at University for a little longer

By Keith F. Shovlin | March 18

A campus brief for March 18, 2004

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News

Weekend Hot Spots

By Costa Caloudas | March 18

The Scene's Costa Caloudas gives advice on things to see and hear this weekend. You had best heed it, if you know what's good for you.

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Sports

Eagles ready to take care of business

By Jesse Epstein | March 4

In Women's Basketball head coach Shann Hart's four years at AU, this weekend will be the biggest yet. This Friday, the Eagles enter the Patriot League tournament as the second seed in their attempt to win the league and earn an NCAA tournament bid. "We're a little disappointed with the season we had, as I thought we'd win the league, but second seed is great," Hart said. "We've definitely got something to prove."

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News

Film: 'Starsky and Hutch,' interview with Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson

By Kaitlyn Lavender | March 4

"Starsky and Hutch" - the new movie based on the 1970s television show in which two charismatic, and definitely hilarious, undercover cops are paired up to fight crime in Bay City - is one of the funniest movies you will ever see.

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Sports

Mens Basketball heads to tourney

By Ian Quillen | March 4

The AU Men's Basketball team might be the hottest team in the Patriot League entering this weekend's opening rounds of the conference tournament in Upper Marlboro, Md. In the last two weekends, the Eagles (16-12, 10-4) have won four straight games to secure a share of a regular season PL title that looked well out of reach in mid-February.

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Opinion

Political Cartoon for March 4, 2004

By Ed Sack / Star Tribune | March 4

Ed Sack of The Star Tribune contributes the political cartoon for this week.

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News

Making spring break a road trip

March 4

Ideas for activities over Spring Break, locally and across the coast, by Kaitlyn Lavender and Alex Kargher.

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News

Senate committee's next step unclear

By Rebecca Bellville | March 4

The Senate Finance Committee is waiting to receive financial records from charities suspected of funding terrorist activities, including the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, before deciding the next step in its investigation of these groups, according to a Senate official.

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News

Tradition of D.C. punk lives on in Decahedron

March 4

D.C.'s music scene has bred a number of sounds over the past 20 years. From the straight-edge hardcore of Minor Threat to the Dismemberment Plan's impossible-to-pigeonhole indie rock, the District's grounds have given life to hundreds of bands and possibly even more genres.

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News

Campus Briefs

By Kate Oczypok | March 4

Campus News Briefs about a Table Talk Forum Wednesday in Kay and an upcoming event with AU alum Rick Leventhal.

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Sports

Goodbye sports page :(

By Laura Randisi | March 4

Sports editor Laura Randisi asks, "Ever notice how the endings always seem so bittersweet? How people romanticize the wonderfulness of their job and relate how the rough spots made them better people?"

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News

Independent study aims to 'break the silence'

By Timothy Taylor | March 4

One AU freshman is working to open students' eyes and mouths about sexual abuse in relationships. Jessica Hollander believes it is time to "break the silence" about sexual abuse and unhealthy relationships. To do this, she has started an independent study with the Women's Initiative and the Women's and Gender Studies department with the goal of starting some sort of program or organization to increase awareness of unhealthy relationships.

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