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D.C. public schools to use cash incentives to boost grades in middle schools

By Marisa Kendall | August 28

Several AU students see flaws in the D.C. public schools plan to begin providing cash incentives to high-achieving students. Starting in October, 14 middle schools in the D.C. area will reward high academic achievement by paying 3,000 students in grades six through eight up to $100 per month, D.

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Campus brief

August 28

The AU community remembered Lucinda Peach, an associate professor in the School of International Service and College of Arts and Sciences, during a Buddhist-inspired memorial service in Kay Spiritual Center Wednesday. Peach, 52, died July 25 due to complications from breast cancer treatments, The Eagle previously reported.

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Health insurance fails checkup

By Tony Romm | August 28

In this two part series, The Eagle examines two exclusions in student health care - the HPV vaccine and transgender health treatments - and the many ways students are fighting to get those benefits covered. To the almost 1,100 AU undergraduates who subscribe to university health insurance, the Student Health Center's announcement earlier this summer that it was changing health care providers probably seemed routine.

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Local Afrobeat band sings for Sudan

By Hilary Crowe | August 28

It's no secret that the roots of rock are African, but Ghanaian and Togolese Afrobeat band Elikeh is bringing it all back home and, with the aid of Amnesty International, to the forefront of D.C.'s consciousness. The band's show Thursday night at DC9 is the first in what Elikeh hopes to turn into a series to benefit African nations in crisis.

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Opinion

Dems as solid as GOP on defense

By Jacob Shelly | August 28

Conventional wisdom is usually oversimplified and distorted - if not outright wrong, but when it comes to the Democratic Party's strengths and weaknesses it is especially so. The cable talking heads are quick to tell us that Democrats are automatically disadvantaged in national security debates, burdened with the need to prove their patriotism and demonstrate their willingness (eagerness?) to resort to violence.

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HPV Vaccine

August 28

Over the summer, AU changed its student health insurance plan from Chickering to GM Southwest, a Blue Cross company. It was a relatively mundane change, done in the most part because GM Southwest provided similar benefits with a similar premium and also kept their annual cost-of-living increase lower than Chickering did.

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Colleges use Facebook to send emergency alerts

By Rebecca Kern | August 28

AU, the University of Maryland at College Park, and other colleges across the country have begun the new academic year by debuting the use of new technologies, including social networking sites like Facebook and text messaging alerts, to notify students of emergencies on campus.

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AU plan committee seeks input

By Jen Calantone | August 28

The Strategic Planning Committee is allowing two weeks for the campus community's suggestions, following the release of its first draft of the university's strategic plan on Monday. The committee will revise the 40 points of the strategic plan based on input of the campus community, committee Chairman Bill DeLone said.

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Opinion

Letter from the editor

By Jimm Phillips | August 28

Dear readers, Since I took over as editor in chief in late April, and through the summer break, I have been working with my staff to plan The Eagle's direction for the coming academic year. While you may have already noticed some of our new features, I want to summarize what I hope our newspaper can accomplish this year.

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Opinion

Cold War thinking needs to be scrapped

By Michael Cartier | August 28

There is little doubt that a new Cold War would be devastating for people around the world, yet it seems that the United States is pushing the world closer to the brink of another Cold War relations. South Ossetia is a semi-autonomous area of Georgia with about 70,000 people, located in central Asia.

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A Guide to: Weekends in the District

By Maureen McCarty | August 14

Although going to the monuments at night is cool, you can only do it so many times before it loses its mystique. And as awesome as the Smithsonian museums are, they, too, tend to become a little boring after awhile. Have no fear, though. Beyond the staple diet of monuments and museums, the District houses an array of events and restaurants to keep even the most veteran Washingtonians enticed. Below is just a sample of the typical AU haunts.

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A Guide to: Bethesda Row

By Rebecca Kern | August 14

The newly opened Bethesda Lane at Bethesda Row, a pedestrian street in downtown Bethesda, features 44,000 square feet of shopping and dining space in 16 shops and restaurants for students to explore.

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A Guide to: Off the Red Line

By Carolyn Phenicie | August 14

Once you've familiarized yourself with all the culinary offerings that Tenleytown and other areas near Metrorail's red line have to offer, venture farther out into the city and try these D.C. favorites.

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A Guide to: Tenleytown

By Carolyn Phenicie | August 14

For those who don't feel like a big night out or who are crunched for time, here's the best of Tenleytown and the surrounding campus. Everything is within walking distance of AU's campus or the university's Tenleytown shuttle stop.

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A Guide to: D.C. Theatre

By Ty Budde | August 14

You've been to the monuments 5,000 times with everyone from your roommate to your grandmother - now you need something new to do. You're left cashless and uneducated in your dorm while Hollywood hordes its worthwhile flicks for Thanksgiving and your roommate tunes into yet another "Rush Hour" marathon on cable.

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A Guide to: Washington Color School

By Kristen Powell | August 14

People often portray Washington, D.C., as a city full of straight-laced politicos bustling from Capitol Hill to the Beltway and back again. As true as that stereotype might be, the District played the stage for one of the greatest post-World War II art movements in the U.S.

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A Guide to: Shudder To Think

By Hilary Crowe | August 14

After a decade of bloodletting and licking the wounds of intra-band conflict, Shudder to Think resumed the work of being friends and fantastic showmen this past Saturday. At the Virgin Mobile Fest, alongside industry icons Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry and the Stooges, the band reclaimed their title as the most sonically independent band to rise and fall - and rise again - out of the Dischord Records catalog.

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