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WI holds Breastival

By Nabila Chami | October 9

The fifth annual Breastival, a "health and empowerment festival" that took place on the main quad Tuesday, focused on early detection, fundraising and an overall awareness about breast cancer. The festival was dedicated to the memory of AU professor Lucinda Joy Peach, a professor of religion and philosophy, who lost her battle to breast cancer this summer, according to Ashley Evans, director of Women's Initiative, who was responsible for organizing the event.

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Famed dancer teaches ballet workshop

By Fraziska Z. Kabelitz | October 9

It is a challenging undertaking and you have to be ready for it. The winding corridors and staircases, the elevator, all the dark, seemingly abandoned offices in the Kennedy Center's backstage areas can be intimidating and confusing. Eventually, though, you will be rewarded: you follow a corridor on the first level, then take the elevator upwards, cross two other hallways, which will lead you to a white, sun-light flooded spacious room that contains not much more than a piano, a giant mirror and a collection of ballet barres.

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The Eagle sits down with Judy Shepard

October 9

Eagle Staff Writer Tamar Hallerman sat down with activist Judy Shepard before her speech to the AU community Monday.

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Campus calendar

October 9

Thursday, Oct. 9 Kennedy Political Union: Professor Don Fulsom 8-9 p.m. WHERE: MGC 200 INFO: Don Fulsom, a professor in the School of Public Affairs, will talk about his experiences as a bureau chief for United Press International and his attendance on Nixon's trip to China.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Women's Issues column off mark on rape prevention

By Ashley V. Evans | October 9

While I respect Ms. Lincoln's point in her recent editorial about condom availability on campus, I think she has missed several important issues. First, the article inaccurately confuses safer sex programs and rape prevention. The data is quite clear that, for preventing the spread of HIV and other STDs and in reducing unwanted pregnancy, condoms are very effective.

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Speech marks week

By Howie Perlman | October 9

Judy Shepard asked AU students at a Kennedy Political Union event Monday to join her in advancing the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans who live in areas of the country that are not as accepting of the GLBT community as D.C. Two men killed her son, Matthew, almost 10 years ago because of his sexual orientation.

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AUCC releases allocations; clubs can file appeals

By Jen Calantone | October 9

This list indicates the amounts of money the AU Club Council will give to the clubs that applied for funding for the 2008-2009 academic year. Clubs that had budgets that were well organized and realistic got the most funding this year, according to Alexander Livingston, AUCC's chairman.

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Flu shot season begins

By Marisa Kendall | October 9

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending flu vaccinations for a record number of people this season, and the AU Student Health Center has seen a high demand for the shots. Flu shot season officially began Sept. 24, according to FOX 5's Web site.

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Sports

The NHL's back: Does anybody care?

By Justin Hall | October 9

As the second weekend of October approaches, it is a time to reflect on what is most important in the sports world. No, it's not the extremely competitive Major League Baseball Division Series, nor the fifth week of the National Football League season. What I am talking about is the start of the National Hockey League season.

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Campus brief

October 9

College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kay Mussell will step down as dean at the conclusion of the academic year. Mussell became CAS dean 10 years ago, according to an e-mail the Provost's office sent to the university community Tuesday. During her time as dean, she helped plan and open both the Greenberg Theatre and the Katzen Arts Center, and helped raise almost $14 million for CAS.

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Georgetown U. fights norovirus outbreak

By Lindsey Anderson | October 9

An outbreak of norovirus at Georgetown University last week prompted AU health officials to warn students of the disease and to educate them on its prevention. Last week, almost 200 Georgetown students and two employees ended up in the hospital for the virus.

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Students hang Obama effigy in Ore.

By Katie Litvin | October 9

Students and administrators at George Fox University in Newburg, Ore., were outraged after four students hung a cardboard cutout of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama from a tree two weeks ago, an act that also spurred discussion among members of the AU campus community.

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Sports

Women's soccer falls to Princeton, 4-0

By Justin Hall | October 9

AU women's soccer team's struggles continued on Tuesday afternoon, as the squad lost to the Princeton University Tigers 4-0 at Reeves Field. It is the Eagles' seventh straight loss via shutout, which drops them to 3-9-2 on the season. The Tigers came out of the gate with a red-hot offensive and never looked back.

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Sports

Time to drop the puck: Excited for the NHL

By Tom Feeney | October 9

This weekend marked a busy time in the sports world. Fans were glued to the television for week five of the National Football League season, Chicago baseball fans threw things at the television, and halfway around the globe, the puck dropped on the National Hockey League's season in Prague, Czech Republic.

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DiCaprio, Crowe uncover nation's 'lies'

By Jordan Coughenour | October 9

Director Ridley Scott, known best for "American Gangster," "Black Hawk Down" and "Gladiator," poses one of the questions that has become the 'Great Divide' inside the American government in the first minutes of his new political thriller, "Body of Lies:" "Do we belong there, or do we not?" Much like the lawmakers that continually dance around issues, Scott chooses not to answer the inquiry directly, but has rather composed a gruesomely vivid and disturbing cinematic love note to the waning American spirit.

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Enrollment of American Indians at colleges increases

By Meg Fowler | October 9

In the past 30 years, the matriculation of American Indian and Alaska Natives in higher education has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Education. This trend has also been apparent at AU in the last 10 years. AU's American Indian enrollment has risen from 41 students in the fall of 1997 to 73 in 2007, according to the Office of Institutional Research's yearly Academic Databooks.

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Dates to please both jokesters, romantics

By Mia Libido | October 9

A friend of mine was trying to advise me on all of those unwritten rules of dating - how people, even though they complain like hell about it, love the chase. Or even how a small thing like a text message at the wrong time could be a disaster. I was thinking about this and wondered, what fostered these ludicrous rules? Is it the media, with shows and movies portraying over-analytical characters plotting and scheming their next moves? Or is it some natural instinct of ours to be so curious to stalk our prospective mate for hours on Facebook? Listen, all I'm saying is I know there are a ton of different ways to handle a situation, and a lot of different personalities out there.

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