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Ever wondered what getting tenure actually means? Three AU professors were denied that title last year, while 13 others received tenure. What made those three ineligible for permanence at the University? The Eagle delves behind the scenes of AU faculty. • Students protest orchestra director’s denial of tenure
In light of the Field Hockey team’s recent success, the Scene staffed did their best to connect with University sports for once. But how can we understand a sport with no Hollywood representation?
It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year — that time when we’re up to our necks in term papers, finals are right around the corner, and colds, the flu and germs in general are running amuck. Fortunately for those of us with weak immune systems, the Student Health Center is beginning a pilot program that will extend their hours. Those of you with poor timing might be in trouble as right now the Health Center will only be open late on Mondays and Thursdays, and for emergency appointments only.
The AU field hockey team’s season ended on Saturday afternoon in the first round of the NCAA tournament after being handed a stroke-off loss to the number five University of Connecticut Huskies.
A group of AU music students protested their orchestra director’s tenure denial Wednesday around campus, saying the music department is often neglected by University administration. Jesus “Manny” Berard has been AU’s orchestra director for the past five years. He was denied tenure last year.
The Department of Performing Arts offered another flawless performance Nov. 12. Faculty, family and friends gathered to attend a powerful and enticing performance by the AU Wind Ensemble, titled “At the Movies.” It was an entertaining rendition of movie soundtrack favorites.
Military idolatry isn’t reserved for Veterans Day. It’s present at halftime shows and seventh-inning stretches. It’s lurking before previews at your local movie theater. It’s evident in posted discounts at restaurants and exclusive lounges at airports. It’s displayed through commercials on television and sponsored road races on the weekend. It’s strewn together in statues, parades and official holidays. And like sitting during the National Anthem, if you dare speak out against it, you’re bombarded by insults and face gratuitous intimidation and/or violence.
The Bauers are continuing their countrywide cupcake takeover with the opening of three Crumbs locations in D.C. The F Street location opened this past Saturday morning, and stores in Clarendon and Union Station will open by the end of the year. Crumbs is widely considered to be the pioneer of the cupcake explosion, being the first “cupcakery” in New York City and in the country. In the early 2000s, the only places to sell cupcakes in New York were the famous Magnolia and Cupcake Café, but Crumbs was one of the first to profit on the cupcake business.
General Than Shwe is not widely known as one of the world’s worst dictators. People would likely recognize Omar al-Bashir, Kim Jong Il, or Robert Mugabe before Shwe. But he has earned the distinction. The statistics since he came to power are staggering: over 70,000 child soldiers (the most in the world), over 3,500 villages burned since 1996, forced portering, and countless cases of land mine victims, rape and torture as the junta’s method of war. Over the summer, Foreign Policy ranked Than Shwe as one of the world’s most oppressive dictators, one slot behind Kim Jong-Il.
Guard Wayne Simon II and forward Tony Wroblicky are a freshman dynamic duo for the men’s basketball team. Simon and Wroblicky are the only two freshman on the team. While they are teammates on the court and good friends off the court, they couldn’t be more different.
In light of the recent discussion surrounding the abortion debate, I feel it necessary to voice my opinion after counseling women from varying backgrounds and circumstances. Some of these women choose abortion, some do not. No matter what they choose, I support and trust them. Ultimately, with every woman I speak to, the issue is the same at its core. This debate transcends discussion of unborn babies, genocide, potential life or murder. It is about dignity, respect and the basic human right to control our lives. This debate is about women.
I love British television. The day I discovered BBC America was a legendary step forward for my television experience. Apparently American television executives love British television just as much as I do. The network executives and producers have this terrible habit: they decide to remake perfectly good British shows for American audiences with mixed results. For some reason, producers in the U.S. feel that every good show created on the BBC simply needs to be remade.
The third-seeded AU men’s soccer team started off its Patriot League tournament by surprising No. 2 Lehigh on Friday night, but fell in the championship game to No. 4 Bucknell at Colgate’s Doren Field in Hamilton, N.Y.
AU athletic attendance has increased this year, bringing in record-breaking crowds at men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and women’s volleyball games.
“127 Hours” is the story about Aron Ralston — a canyoneer who is faced with an impossible choice: amputate his own arm, or die alone in a canyon where no one knows where to look for him. James Franco plays Ralston as a reckless lover of life — he’s completely prepared and geared for hiking and in love with the outdoors, but is less rigorous with his own life. This was one aspect that Oscar-award winning director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) chose to emphasize, and it was executed spot-on.
You may have seen musicians on the quad, posters taped up in the Katzen Arts Center, white armbands and ribbons, picket signs, music students fuming. Maybe you know this has to do with tenure denial. Maybe you just think the music kids have lost their minds. But this fight goes beyond personal stories and raw emotions. There are facts to consider.
Montreal electro-rock band Suuns is currently wrapping up its nationwide tour with Land of Talk. The Eagle had the opportunity to chat with two members of Suuns at the Rock and Roll Hotel about the tour and their recently released album, “Zeroes QC.”
Every winter, spring, and summer AU students lead and participate in groups through Alternative Break that travel all over the world exploring human rights issues and doing hundreds of hours of community service in some of the most impoverished places in the world.
Proposed changes to the General Education program could mean students will no longer be able to take those classes pass/fail next fall.
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