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Seven ANC 3D02 residents seek "declaratory relief" from the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.
“You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Woody Allen’s latest endeavor, presents a convoluted tale of love, life and death with that special directorial touch. Or, as someone in the audience whispered succinctly, it’s “so Woody Allen.”
Green Eagles staff members and other volunteers sorted through over 1,000 pounds of garbage for a waste audit Oct. 5, hoping to gain an understanding of how much waste students produce.
AU is in the running for a PETA-sponsored competition, the Most Vegan-Friendly Colleges this year.
Professor James Thurber discussed the lack of involvement in politics by the millennial generation in a speech at the Roosevelt Institute’s event, “Millennial Generation’s Impact on Elections” on Oct. 12.
An AU alum convicted of misusing diplomatic license plates in November regrets the decision to do so and is worried about its effect on his career plans.
Friends and family celebrated the life of 2009 AU alumnus Andrew Wolf in a memorial service Oct. 12.
Director of Sustainability Chris O’Brien drafted a policy that would launch the campus towards LEED certification but would limit smokers’ rights by banning them from smoking within 25 feet of buildings. Signage outside of some entrances already enforce this.
In addition to the disappearance of spare time, money (spent on mostly coffee these days), and perhaps a bit of our sanity, furniture from the University Center and Butler Pavilion have been disappearing over the course of this semester. We don’t know who the perpetrator of such vile acts is — students on a vandalism lark, students too poor to furnish their house this semester or a dastardly villain that isn’t a student at all. Regardless of the culprit, however, the humor in this situation is fading fast.
The character actor of “Fight Club,” “American History X” and “Incredible Hulk” fame, Edward Norton, spoke about the film industry in Ward on Tuesday. The Scene sat down with Norton to discuss his latest role as a crude criminal from Detroit in the film, “Stone.” The film hit theaters Oct. 8.
One attribute you quickly acquire as a writer is thick skin. As an undergraduate columnist in San Diego, I once shadowed syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette for the day. After a brief introduction, he asked me to follow him upstairs. He led me to his office and asked if I’d hold on just a minute. After a few moments he waved me over, pointed to his desktop and I peered over his shoulder.
The garage is dark. There are four crates, spread in a loose cluster. One makes the bed of a sleeping man. He is cast in an ethereal, bluish light and as he wakes voices boom from hidden speakers. As the echoes reverberate around the room, the company enters, and “Macbeth” begins its whirlwind ride through insanity. The setting of AU Players’ “Macbeth” may at first seem an odd logistical choice — it wasn’t easy to find (located in the P3 level of the Katzen Parking Garage), there’s no set stage and unfortunately, AU couldn’t do a thing about having one of the more climatic scenes interrupted by a revving Ford Explorer.
If you are anywhere near Germany for the last three weekends of September, it is this author’s sincere recommendation that you go to Oktoberfest. For those of you who do not know, Oktoberfest is the world’s largest beer festival. According to materials from the travel company Bus2Alps, over the three weekends of the festival, six million people from all over the world will eat 18 million chickens and drink 8 million liters of some of the world’s best beer. Do I really need to do any more convincing?
With only one album to their name, London natives The xx performed like seasoned pros at the 9:30 club on the chilly night of Oct. 5. The reigning indie cool kids reflected the themes of minimalism and intimacy on their 2009 self-titled debut album in their mature, refined performance, seducing the sold-out crowd.
AU was put on the map last week. On Oct. 7 the Tenley Campus served as the starting block for the final leg of the Sudan Freedom March, which began in New York City on Sept. 15. Thousands walked the 6.2 miles from our campus to Capitol Hill for a rally in support of “democracy and freedom from genocide and slavery?throughout Sudan.”
Bon Appétit received an extended liquor license that now covers all of campus, despite local government’s disapproval.
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