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Staff Editorial: College Writing program edits need revision

April 4

Anyone who’s taken College Writing at AU can tell you a different tale about their experience with the program. It was informative, it was a joke, it helped some win $200.

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Sports

How to make the sports world better for devoted followers

By Tyler Tomea | April 4

While agonizing over my busted bracket, I decided to compile a list of ways to make sports better.

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Sports

Lerner investment in Nationals’ future could pay major dividends in long run

By Ben Lasky | April 4

A lot of people, myself included, questioned if Redskins owner Daniel Snyder had also bought the Nationals when it was announced that the Nats signed soon-to-be-32-year-old outfielder Jayson Werth to a seven year, $126 million contract. While the contract is terrible in many ways, what it represents should make D.C. baseball fans very happy.

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News

WVAU Reviews

April 4

Every other week The Eagle asks the assistant music directors and DJs at WVAU what they’re listening to. Here’s what they recommend. Check out WVAU.org to listen.

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News

New students no longer able to fully test out of College Writing

By Scott Marturano | April 4

Incoming freshmen will not be able to test out of College Writing completely.

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Sports

Barry Bonds may never win in court of public opinion

By Sam Lindauer | April 4

In case you’ve been too busy concentrating on your brackets, Barry Bonds is on trial. Yes, he’s facing perjury charges and is looking at hard time in the big house, but he’s also on trial with us — the fans. Whether he beats the charges against him is almost meaningless, which is unfortunate.

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Opinion

No but(t)s about respect and consideration

By Conor Shapiro | April 4

I’m not a smoker — it’s not for me. When I turned 18, I went through a phase where I kept a cigarette between my lips because I thought it looked cool. I thought it would help enhance my rebel image and attract girls. But it was rarely lit, and when it was, I never inhaled. Nevertheless, I befriended authentic smokers outside buildings on cold days (when my breath was most visible) and cultivated relationships I maintain today.

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News

SG candidates’ campaigns stayed in budget

By Zach C. Cohen | April 4

No Student Government candidate this year spent above the campaign finance limit of $300 for executive candidates and $60 for class council candidates.

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News

Social Media Summit tweets about future of education, news

By Rachel Karas | April 4

For both the Twitter-savvy, the technologically-challenged and everyone in between, the AU Social Media Club’s inaugural Social Learning Summit featured panels on topics ranging from “Peace Through Tweets: Peacebuilding and Crisis Management in a Connected World” to “The NEW Media: Journalism in the Social Age.”

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News

‘South Park’ creators find humor in religion with Broadway-bound play

By Haely Jardas | April 4

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are two of the most loved and hated creative minds in today’s pop culture.

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News

1986-1993: Construction at AU and Spring Valley unearth dangerous World War I artifacts

By Sylvia Carignan | April 4

This story is the fifth in a series investigating World War I-era chemical weapons and equipment buried under AU’s campus and in the Spring Valley neighborhood

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News

AU Relay for Life raises $82,000 for American Cancer Society

By Kate Froehlich | April 4

With nearly double the number of participants from last year, AU raised a record $82,000 for the American Cancer Society at its annual Relay for Life.

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News

Popular author Jodi Picoult visits the District

By Meghan Bousquet | April 4

Jodi Picoult, best-selling author of “My Sister’s Keeper,” came to Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on Tuesday, March 22 to discuss her new book, “Sing You Home” with The Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles.

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News

Police Blotter: April 5

April 4

Public Safety actions reported to the Eagle.

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News

Seeds of AU’s arboretum sprout in 1700s

By Ashley DeJean | April 4

Of the roughly 2,000 Franklinia trees in existence, one of them stands here at AU, a specimen of pride for the campus’s arboretum.

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News

AlcoholEdu reports half of new students don’t drink

By Lauren Landau | April 4

For the second year in a row, about half of AU’s freshmen and new transfer students reported in an online survey that they do not drink alcohol.

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News

Acevedo to raise money for Myanmar student with 450-mile walk

By Leigh Giangreco | April 4

Last week Kirk Acevedo woke up at 7:30 a.m. and walked 20 miles around D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

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