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Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025
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NO PARKING — As part of AU’s 2001 “Good Neighbor Policy,” Public Safety can give members of the AU community $75 tickets for parking on residential streets near AU when going to campus. Reflecting complaints of residents living near campus of excessive student parking, AU mandated that students, faculty and visitors must park in AU lots for campus-related business.

Public Safety tickets cars off campus

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Public Safety has written 923 tickets to AU community members for parking on off-campus residential streets in the past year. All AU students, faculty and staff are prohibited from leaving their cars on residential streets when coming to campus.

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Parking policy causes concern

This university’s parking policy is preposterous. The rules are ridiculous and vague. It’s especially unfortunate, considering the consequences for breaking the rules are serious and appealing these consequences is challenging. Something must be done — and the first step is for everyone to understand the lunacy of the status quo.

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SG should update site regularly

A recent look at the AUSG Web site has revealed its content and updates to be neglected. While current SG President Andy MacCracken posts informative updates somewhat regularly — about once a month — those filling other positions rarely, if ever, follow suit.



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Opinion

Feminist — err, women’s center wastes money

Why are we installing a Feminist Resource Center? Oops! I mean — Women’s Resource Center? In 2006, the New York Times declared that female dominance of men in universities was “the new gender divide.” About 60 percent of U.S. college students are female, and that number is even more staggering at AU, where about two-thirds of our students are women.


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News

Prescott to face SG committee

The former SG comptroller raised concerns that an event wasn’t adequately prepared for and advertised — concerns that the vice president later disputed.


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Opinion

Obama critics v. Bush critics: a comparison

Many of us have had a good laugh listening to the ravings of talk show hosts Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. Their zany crusades against President Barack Obama have constituted nothing more than rumors and innuendo. The more extreme opponents of Barack Obama have also made themselves open to ridicule, accusing the president of being a foreign-born Nazi, communist and Islamic terrorist who seeks to destroy freedom, liberty and America itself.


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Opinion

Letters to the editor

I was sorely disappointed in The Eagle's "AU's Busiest Student" competition. Why is this something that even needs to be featured?







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News

‘Boondock II’ holds true to indie original

In comparison to “The Boondock Saints”, the new sequel is bigger, badder and certainly funnier. In “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,” fraternal twins Connor and Murphy MacManus, (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) are hidden deep in Ireland with their father (Billy Connolly), having narrowly escaped capture in the last movie. But when a murderer in Boston kills a priest and frames the Saints, they cut their hair and beards and leave the sheep farm to clear their name in Boston.


Shear Madness
photo by Scott Suchman, 2008
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‘Shear’ fun at Kennedy

"Shear Madness" is the longest running show at the Kennedy Center. Put on eight times a week since 1987, it also happens to be the second longest-running play in the history of American theater. A comedy who-dun-it murder mystery where the audience gets to solve the crime, "Shear Madness" is best for a first date, or to drag one's parents to when they visit D.C.



ALL SMILES — “Generation Change: 150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country and Our World,” written by Jayan Kalathil (above) and Melissa Bolton-Klinger (below), gives tips on ways to get inspired.
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‘Change’ gives partisan advice

You’re young, politically-inspired, electronically-savvy tweeters ready to change the world. According to Jayan Kalathil and Melissa Bolton-Klinger, the authors of “Generation Change: 150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country and Our World,” you are “Generation Change.”


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Palmer goes beyond boundaries on tour

Amanda Palmer is today’s traveling muse. Over a decade into her multi-project career, the alternative-punk-cabaret songwriter best known for being one-half of the Dresden Dolls is done releasing music.


YOUNG  MONEY — In a documentary following a nationwide competition, underprivileged youths strive to create a winning business plan for the grand prize of $10,000. “Ten9Eight” chronicles the stories of participants in the annual Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s business plan competition, with entries ranging from custom guitars to organic body products to programs for teaching sign lanugage.
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Competition makes youths count

Creating an original film about underprivileged youths pulling themselves up by their bootstraps would obviously prove to be a challenge. Then add a national business plan competition with a first place prize of $10,000. Now there is a recipe for something fresh.



Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.


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