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AU ranks in '331 Best'

By Andrew Noyes | September 5

AU ranked twelfth for "great food" and sixteenth for "great college town" in the Princeton Review's annual 331 Best Colleges last month. Georgetown University, George Washington University and Howard University also pulled in top rankings in the book that purports the top 20 colleges in 62 categories, based on student input.

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News

Marriott changes distributor

By Anne Stopper | September 5

Marriott dining services switched food distributors over the summer in an effort to improve customer service. AU food services has had a contract with the Sodexho-Marriott distribution firm for the past 2 1/2 years, but that contract ran out over the summer and AU administrators decided not to renew it said Terrace Dining Room manager Mike Bauer.

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Sports

Eagles take Villanova Wildcat Classic

By John Sherry | September 5

Women's Volleyball won the Wildcat Classic at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Pa. over the weekend. The Eagles defeated Akron University, Rider University and Villanova to claim first place. The Eagles never lost a game throughout the entire tournament.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Many factors cause housing crunch at AU

September 5

The Eagle Editorial Board says their piece about the recent housing crunch.

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Sports

AU needs 'Plan B' for postseason

By Ashton Williams | September 5

And now for something completely irrelevant: I recently ordered one of those cable sports packages. You know the ones where you pay more money to stretch your cable dollar and see more of a sport that you really like. Those of you who have ordered a sports package know that from time to time you will find a game like Northern Rhode Island School of Veterinary Sciences against Eastern Illinois Teachers' College in the FurnitureMovers.

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News

Colleges prepare for meningitis scare

By Andrew Noyes | September 5

As colleges across the country brace themselves for the largest freshmen classes in recent history, administrators are also weary of the increased risk for meningitis. With three recent outbreaks of meningitis in Manchester, Iowa, local health officials are hoping University of Iowa students get vaccinations.

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News

Former ATV star Chris Noll goes Wylde on TV

By Scott Rosenberg | September 5

Scott Rosenberg: How's it going? Chris Wylde: Pretty good man. SR: You're all over my television. CW: It's nice to be all over television sets and not just be on ATV. You know what I mean? SR: Yeah, I can understand. CW: Like, you know, in Junior year, there were a couple of weeks there where we were literally the only thing on, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you know what I'm saying.

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Sports

Women's soccer loses one, ties one at home

By Tim Mazzucca | September 5

The women's soccer team opened its season last week with a loss and a tie in two soggy non-conference games. The Eagles (0-1-1), which added just two freshmen to their squad this year, played two rain-soaked games at Reeves Field. In the Eagles' first match with Rutgers on Sept.

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News

CUA off-campus houses face reprimand

By Andrew Noyes | September 5

Catholic University of America student tenants at three Brookland houses will be alerted this week of their school's groundbreaking decision to designate their homes as "disciplined properties" where no party can occur pending university sanctions. The policy dictates that any party or gathering at a "disciplined property" which, in the university's judgement, involves underage or abusive drinking and results in a disturbance warrants strict disciplinary action, CUA General Counsel Craig Parker said.

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News

Car crash kills AU student, injures another

By Andrew Noyes | September 5

One AU student was killed and another is in stable condition today after an early morning car accident in Silver Spring, Md. Wednesday. Thomas Peter Gallagher, 21, died when the car he was riding in veered off16th Street, struck a sign and a tree, then overturned at approximately 1:25 a.

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News

VarsityBooks.com settles industry lawsuit

By Andrew Noyes | September 5

A lawsuit filed by the National Association of College Stores against online textbook giant VarsityBooks.com last year has resulted in new standards for collegiate textbook advertising. This follows the dismissal of one of two counts in the complaint filed last fall by NACS in U.

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Sports

Volleyball ranks #1 preseason

By John Sherry | September 5

The AU women's volleyball team expects big things of themselves this season, but apparently so does the rest of league. In a preseason coaches' poll the Eagle were picked to finish first in the seven-team Colonial Athletic Association this year. The Eagles will return five seniors winners to a squad, which finished last season at 25-7.

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News

Md. colleges require meningitis vaccine

By Nicole Fuller and Simone Weichselbaum | September 5

The Maryland State General Assembly passed a law this summer-the first of its kind in the country-requiring all college students in the state to be vaccinated against meningitis. Beginning this semester, all Maryland college students living in residence halls must get the vaccination or get out of school.

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News

Dalai Lama brings teachings to AU

By Derek Simmonsen | November 9

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet spoke to a crowd of approximately 5,000 students, staff, faculty and others in Bender Arena yesterday. The Dalai Lama held a four-hour teaching, broken up into morning and afternoon sessions, based on the Eight Verses for Training the Mind, an 11th Century Tibetan ...

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News

Levellers fight censorship

By J.J. Whitney | September 5

Politics has rotated around the rock 'n' roll music world since Elvis' pelvis was first censored by the Ed Sullivan Show. Through the "Make Love, Not War" slogans of the Hippies, to the shocking and politically-inspired lyrics of the Clash and Jello Biafra, Rock 'n' Roll has often taken up both cause and controversy.

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News

Heroin, heist mark outrageous 'Killing Zoe'

By Tricia Andrew | September 5

The first image is taken from a car driving around the city of Paris at the speed of light. "Killing Zoe" zooms from scene to scene and emotion to emotion throughout. The speed does not slow down for one minute during this wonderful ride.

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News

Sex in the afternoon

September 5

Suzi Landolphi, known for her frank approach to sex and safety in the '90s entertained and informed students last week in the Woods-Brown Amphitheater.

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