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D.C murder rate drops to 237

By Andrew Noyes | January 22

A strong local economy, lower unemployment and blossoming neighborhood development projects across the city contributed to a decline in the number of recorded homicides in the Washington, D.C. for the fourth year in a row. Murders fell by 50 percent in past decade, hitting their lowest level since 1987, Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey announced earlier this month.

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Opinion

Our Take: Basketball marketing

January 22

The Editorial Board discusses the lack of attendance at AU Men's Basketball games.

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Sports

Hoffer has stellar year

By Brandin McMillen | January 22

Marc Hoffer took off last season to train and wrestle internationally. This season red-shirt junior has returned with a vengeance by amassing a 20-1 record two months into the season. His performance this year makes him a top-contender to become AU's first national wrestling All-American, according to wrestling head coach Rob Puzio.

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News

Parade entertains thousands

By Kate Anderson | January 22

Despite the cold and the rain, the 54th Inaugural Parade, themed "Celebrating America's Spirit Together," drew a large and enthusiastic crowd on Saturday. The parade began at the Capitol Building at about 2:40 p.m. - almost an hour later than originally scheduled due to delays at the inaugural brunch.

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News

United Students Against Sweatshops protests working conditions in Mexican factories

By Andrew Noyes and Kate Anderson | January 22

In the wake of the firing of Nike-related sweatshop workers in Mexico, student groups on more than 20 university campuses rallied together on Wednesday to protest Nike sweatshops and their monitoring agents, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The event was sponsored by United Students Against Sweatshops, a federation of 175 chapters on U.S. campuses.

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News

Homecoming court selection arrives

January 22

"Action Through the Ages" is the theme of this year's homecoming celebration, which will be held February 18-24. The highlights include men's and women's basketball games, a fashion show and silent auction in the tavern, a block party on the quad and the Founders Day Ball.

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News

AU students spend break in Israel

By Simone Weichselbaum | January 22

In the last two weeks of winter break, a group of AU students joined thousands of Jewish college students through out the world in a free pilgrimage to Israel. Hillel, the campus run religious and social organization that is geared towards the Jewish student population of American colleges and universities across the country, sponsored the 12-day trip.

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News

"Vagina Monologues" visits AU for V Day

By Rachel Beamer | January 22

Speaking your mind can begin with your body - or your vagina, as one playwright has proved. With the three upcoming performances of Eve Ensler's play, "The Vagina Monologues," AU women will have the chance to say it all. On Feb. 14, AU Choice USA, a chapter of the national pro-choice organization, along with the V-Day College Initiative Project, will sponsor three showings of the hit play on campus.

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News

Students question Gen Ed

By Andrew Martel and Dorothy Hughes | January 22

The General Education Review Committee, as part of its yearlong review of the program, is currently debating several changes concerning the structure of General Education classes and clusters. Surveys were conducted both by the AU administration and by the Student Confederation to get a feeling for student opinions on the General Education program as it stands.

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News

Fleetwood Mac performs at inauguration

By John Sherry | January 22

Eight years ago this week, a photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton graced the front page of The Eagle, marking the inauguration of President Clinton as the 42nd American president. While the Clintons moved in to the White House, their daughter Chelsea Clinton moved into the Sidwell Friends School just two miles from AU's campus.

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News

George W. Bush sworn in as 43rd President of the U.S.A.

By Evan Wagner | January 22

An estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people attended President George W. Bush's Inauguration Saturday, braving 30-degree weather and a chilly downpour from a sky that would before long yield still-present snow.

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News

AU student stands in for Mrs. Bush

By Brett Zongker | January 22

She will not appear on an episode of "The West Wing" as Mrs. Bartlet, but Sally Renfro, a junior in College of Arts Sciences, was playing the role of the real first lady for the cameras of NBC on Friday morning before the inauguration. Renfro was recruited by friend and fellow AU student Kate Black, a senior in the School of Communication, who was serving as a runner for NBC's pool coverage of the Inauguration.

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Opinion

Our Take: Salvaging General Education

January 22

The Eagle Editorial Board discusses the changes to the General Education program.

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News

President Bush decides to remove D.C. tags from limousine

By Andrew Noyes and Sarah Schumacher | January 22

As one of the first controversial actions of the days-old Bush administration, the new president removed his limousine's "Taxation Without Representation" license plates - a move made by Clinton to show support for the District's full voting rights. Bush told The Associated Press last week that the tags will be replaced with special 2001 inaugural tags issued by the city, citing no interest in using license plates to make a political statement.

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Opinion

Cheating my way to the top

By Jennifer Kepka | January 22

Staff Writer and Guest Columnist Jennifer Kepka discusses her plans if she were to become an AU administrator.

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News

'And I'm still alive!'

By Dave Cuozzo | September 11

Does anyone else long for 1992? '92 was a year before teen pop and angry white rappers took over the airwaves. It was before coffee houses were money-making machines. It was even a time when the "Batman" films were still decent. The most missed thing about '92 however, is the music.

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News

Organization lobbies for youth debate in presidential election

By Kate Anderson | September 11

Seventy-seven percent of all voters support making one of the three presidential debates a youth-focused event, a recent poll taken by Third Millennium, in conjunction with the nationwide program Youth Vote 2000, indicated. The poll, administered by a branch of Third Millennium entitled Neglection 2000, also showed that if this debate were to occur, there would be a significant increase in voter turnout by all age groups.

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