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Public Safety hopes extra lighting, patrols will improve campus safety

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Public Safety is re-evaluating the safety of AU after five reported sexual advances on campus since August, four within the past two weeks. Director of Public Safety Colleen Carson met with Physical Plant representatives Friday about installing new Blue Lights in problem areas, adding officers to the evening shift patrol and comparing data with the Metropolitan Police Department and public safety directors at other area schools.

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Health Center set to improve

The Student Health Center will undergo a revitalization and change in location over the next few semesters, Health Center Director Bethany Chiaramonte said Thursday night. At a Town Hall Forum, Chiaramonte, who is in her first year as the health center director, outlined her four-tiered plan for improving the center's often-criticized services.


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Sports

Get some action in Bender Arena

Columnist Ryan Sherwin: As the Men's and Women's Basketball season kicks off within the next week it is becoming more and more apparent that AU sports fans' support has been suffering.



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Shake-up in the GA, senior members quit

When Gordon Simonett, a relatively junior General Assembly member representing the Class of 2004, left the GA meeting Friday night, he didn't imagine that the next time he would take those steps he would be leaving as the body's most senior member. But after a week that began with the expulsion of one GA member and that resulted in the resignations under fire of most of the group's leadership, the GA has in Simonett's words "thrown out experience and brought in ideas."



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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Dear Editor, I noticed a slight mistake in your headline article "Scholar speaks on Islam" (Nov. 13, 2003). You note that "Both Indonesia and Pakistan have women in higher positions than the United States and Great Britain." The current prime minister of Pakistan, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, is a male.


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Sports

Kucerkova steals spotlight, V-ball still unbeaten

It may have been Senior Night for AU Volleyball Saturday, but the small Bender crowd knew it was really Kucerkova Night. Senior Karla Kucerkova was honored as the only senior in her final regular-season home game, a 3-0 drudging of Maryland-Eastern Shore, just one night after she secured the career kill record in a 3-0 victory at Navy.





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Cartoons aren't just for kids

Simba and Bugs Bunny just don't cut it for some people any more. Traditionally, animation has been aimed at children and their parents. A variety of animation styles has become popular recently, and the animation industry seems to be gravitating more toward adult-oriented animation based on comedy as well as action.


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2-D or not 2-D?

Walt Disney Studios has had a huge impact on the world of feature-length animation, releasing the first full-length animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," in 1937. While Disney was a trendsetter in two-dimensionally animated film, this corporate giant has now been downsizing its traditional non-computer animation department and gearing its production towards computer-animated films exclusively.



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Music Notes

The Eagle music contributors review new CDs from bands including Catch-22, Guster, Primus, Northern State, Thursday, Isobel, and a bluegrass tribute to Blink-182


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Conference analyzes democracy

This past weekend, distinguished guests and experts in the field of democratic studies were featured in a conference on elections and democracy in North America.



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International students avoid post 9-11 troubles

International student enrollment dropped more than 30 percent across the U.S. and 16 percent at AU since 9-11, according to a new study. The Institute of International Education, the student and faculty exchange organization that administers the Fulbright Program, conducted the study this year.



Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.


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