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New life in Eagles this fall

By Jesse Epstein | August 28

Eagles Sports columnist Jesse Epstein says, "For the American Eagles, this fall season brings a clean slate. "A new school year.ÿA new Athletic Director (To Be Announced).ÿ And a new opportunity for many of AU's squads to rise to national prominence."

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News

Police Blotter

By Ben Widness | August 28

Safety and incident report from around campus, covering the week prior to publication of the issue.

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Opinion

Student Reaction

August 28

Four AU students react to the Thursday Debate question.

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News

Not Quite Wrong: August 28, 2003

By Ross Nover | August 28

Ross Nover's weekly comic Not Quite Wrong for August 28, 2003.

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News

Return of intramural field to come

By Keith F. Shovlin | August 28

The ongoing recovery of arsenic and chemical weapons is coming to a close, according to a report by the Army Corps of Engineers on Aug. 5. The Corps is now completing the replacement of soil in the intramural field but the search will continue in an area of campus known as Lot 18.

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News

Road trip 'Warped' with energized rock

By Joseph Popiolkowski and and Emily Zemler | August 28

Sweat-drenched and feeling bitter at being the oldest people there, three members of the Eagle staff took on the 2003 Van's Warped Tour from four U.S. cities. In its ninth incarnation, the Warped Tour crisscrossed the nation from Idaho to New Jersey, bringing the biggest names in punk rock and extreme sports to over 40 cities.

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News

Professort urges peace

By Chris Marsh | August 28

Monday night, AU professor and former Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy spoke about how to achieve peace in a time filled with conflict. Sponsored by The Community Action Social Justice Coalition, McCarthy spoke about topics ranging from peace in Iraq to having a successful freshman year.

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News

Changes coming to audio tech

By Ari Natter | August 28

Audio Technology students may start seeing some changes to their major this year, as the program is being "re-centered" away from performance and content aspects, Department Chair Michael Gray said. The major was determined to have drifted away from its original focus, a science and technology program, after undergoing a review process, Gray said.

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News

AU snuffs smokers and sales

By Mackenzie Ryan | August 28

Students taking a cigarette break will have to walk a little farther before they light up this year. The steps and walkways around the front doors of the residence halls are now designated smoke-free areas, which is just one of a handful of new procedures that AU is implementing in an attempt to promote a healthier campus.

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News

Anderson could lose its lounges

By Evan Wagner | August 28

Anderson Hall is tentatively set to lose its formal lounge, conference room and den next year if Housing and Dining Programs, the University office that runs the residence halls, meal services, and EagleBuck$, decides to move there from its current home in the Rockwood Building.

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News

U.S. News ranks AU 99

By Rebecca Byerly | August 28

U.S. News and World Report published its 2004 rankings for best universities on Aug. 22. AU ranked 99 out of the 248 national universities with doctoral programs considered. The statistics used for the report were collected from information taken in 2002.

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News

Officer Sanchez resigns

By Evan Wagner | August 28

Officer Juan Sanchez will never again march into the Letts-Anderson Quad to break up a fight, dash into McDowell Hall to help a sick student, or cruise the quad smiling in a Public Safety SUV. After seven years at AU, "Sanchez," as he was known by students, has left the school to become a federal police officer.

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News

New "Heights"

By Mike Menachem | August 28

"When you're 17, every day is war." That is the very fitting tag promoting "The Battle of Shaker Heights," the winner of the second Project Greenlight, a filmmaking contest created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. In the film high school senior Kelly Ernswiler (Shia LeBeouf) participates in simulated wars during his leisure time as an escape from the personal battle of his adolescent struggles with his family and schoolmates.

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News

10 things under $10: Dorm room treasures

By Rich Golaszewski | August 28

Rich Golaszewski enumerates ten of the best dorm accessories available for a ten-dollar bill or less.

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News

Car bomber gets 32 years

By Evan Wagner | August 28

A local man was sentenced to 32 years in prison last week by a federal judge a year after attempting to blow up his father in a Friendship Heights parking garage-a term that the judge said wasn't nearly long enough. Prescott Sigmund, the son of a local businessman, admited in court that he had placed a nail-packed pipe bomb in his father's SUV last July.

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News

Giamatti gets his big break

By Emily Zemler | August 28

Paul Giamatti sat eating grapes, inadvertently dropping half of them on his hotel room floor at the St. Regis in Washington, D.C. He intermittently drank from a bottle of water, which he habitually held over his mouth while speaking. After a day of interviews he appeared somewhat disheveled.

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Campus Briefs

August 28

Briefs from around campus for the week of August 28, 2003

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