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The AU volleyball team continued their winning ways last Thursday with a 3-0 victory against Navy, giving the team its fourth win in a row.
Amid one of the most successful fall seasons in AU sports history, Athletic Director Keith Gill has seen significant growth in the athletic community and sees even more coming in the future.
The AU women’s soccer seniors shined, sinking Navy 3-0 in their last game at Phil Reeves field on Saturday to clinch the second seed in the Patriot League tournament.
The AU men’s soccer team suffered its first loss in Patriot League play this weekend, losing to Holy Cross 2-0. The loss breaks a nine game winning streak by AU and puts the team 2nd in the Patriot League behind Bucknell University.
On a chilly Sunday afternoon, the AU field hockey team easily defeated the Lehigh Mountain Hawks by a score of 8-1 at Jacobs Field, to clinch the team’s seventh straight Patriot League Regular Season Championship.
Since 2006, AU’s Student Government has talked about creating a women’s resource center. The SG has also discussed starting an online veterans’ network. Next year, both projects will be completed. The Women’s Resource Center will open its doors in January 2010. The Veterans’ Network will launch next fall. The SG and the university should be commended for making good on a long-term promise. However, the creation of these centers raises questions about which special subgroups warrant their own university-funded resources.
AU will open a women's center with a library and counseling center in fall 2010 and will also launch an online support network for AU veterans this January.
A 67-year-old man has stood outside the Vatican Embassy — near the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue — every day, accusing the Vatican of hiding pedophiles. A negative experience with the church inspired John Wojnowski’s decade-long protest.
The D.C. Council will consider approving same-sex marriages made within the city, after approving legislation to recognize same-sex marriages made outside the District earlier this year.
Cultural relativism is an objectively incoherent doctrine. Let me define potentially ambiguous terms at the outset: by “cultural relativism” I mean the idea that it is wrong to cast judgment upon the culture of another nation or ethnicity. By objective, I really do mean objective: it is not up for dispute; the facts demonstrate it in the same way that they demonstrate that AU is located in Washington, D.C.
AU students looking for specialized medical advice outside of the Student Health Center will have more options when ZocDoc.com, a free Web service that helps people book appointments with doctors in their area, expands service to D.C.
Tenley Café has yet to lose its trays as AU attempts to make itself a more sustainable school.
Most AU students share a commitment to service and a desire to have a positive impact on the world around them. But what does it really mean to make a difference and how do you go about doing it?
Opera audience members were met with more than just impressive singing as Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia joined the cast of the Washington National Opera’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” on Oct. 24. Along with Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, D-D.C., Professor Martin Ginsburg and arts philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, the Justices played dinner party guests of the “the richest man in town” at WNO’s opening night of Richard Strauss’ early-20th century opera.
If anyone could turn the Parks and Recreation government department into the setting of a hysterical sitcom, it’s SNL alum, Amy Poehler. “Parks and Recreation” follows the life of Leslie Knope (played by Poehler), a Parks and Recreation deputy director in fictional Pawnee, Ind. Knope is a feminist, often citing Hillary Clinton and Madeline Albright as her heroes.
Tegan and Sara are proof that indie music can be an ever-changing genre. With their new release, "Sainthood," Tegan and Sara seamlessly blend rock, pop, punk, electronica and experimental with signature harmonies and deceptively simple lyrics — and pulling it off.
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