On first appearance, Jenny Matthews is a short petite woman with a soft British accent and a chuckle. However, Matthews who spoke last Thursday in the Wechsler Theater, has presented the struggles of women through her lens from the crisis in Afghanistan to massacres and displacement of people in Mozambique to women in Iraq.
Power-pop band Jackson played a strong opening set for Sugarcult and Story of the Year at the Black Cat last Thursday. Jackson's set started while Black Cat patrons were still being let into the club at a snail's pace. At the end of its set the crowd was about 200 strong.
Opinoin Columnist and Editorial Page Editor David Hodges discusses religion and the role it played in his upbringing.
Students polled about their favorite substance abusing Hollywood idol is.
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.
Three separate incidents of sexual advances that appear to be related occurred on campus late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
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.
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.
The Eagle believes that the Health Center needs major reform -- and offers suggestions in their staff editorial.
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."
Guest Columnist Jordan T. Landry discusses his experience going through JAMS.
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.
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.
The Eagle believes that the University should take a firm stance on battling the high number of sexual advances reported this semester in their staff editorial.
The Eagle lists the five ring-leaders of the destructive side of chemistry
Some use cocaine to party. Others seek out the drug to escape from unhappiness. Now some seem to have turned to the stimulant for weight loss, according to Richard Garcia, director of the Student Advocacy Center.
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.
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.
Guest Columnist Zachary Constantino discusses his decision to resign as Speaker of the General Assembly.
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