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AU rises to 83rd among 'best colleges'

August 14

AU tied for 83rd place on the list of top national universities in the 2009 edition of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" guide.

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A Guide to: Transferring

By Tony Romm | August 14

The decision to transfer to AU is always a great idea ... until you actually do it. Although the university offers its disgruntled newcomers a plethora of advising resources, no amount of informative prose or lengthy lectures can address the more unspoken difficulties of changing colleges. The task of finding a new niche, making up for lost credit hours, addressing spotty financial aid qualms and - most laboriously - surviving yet another new student orientation can prove incredibly difficult, so here are a few tips to get you by.

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Opinion

Introducing... politics@theEAGLE

By Tony Romm | August 14

With the help of students past and present across AU's academic disciplines, The Eagle is launching politics@theEAGLE, the newspaper's premier election blog, this fall semester.

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A Guide to: The Red Line

By Tamar Hallerman | August 14

Are you tired of the Cheesecake Factory? (If you aren't, which I know you aren't, there's one of those too, located right by the Friendship Heights Metro station.) Yawning into your Maggiano's minestrone? Weeping while ordering another Domino's pepperoni pizza over the phone? Here is a sampling of the fantastic culinary selection that lies conveniently along Metrorail's red line that will keep you full, enlightened, or at the very least, not bored.

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A Guide to: D.C. Movie Theatres

By Donny Sheldon | August 14

Although Washington cannot match Los Angeles or New York's bustling film scene, there is an impressive array of theaters to be found. Whether you're craving a big budget comic book movie with a rambunctious crowd or that somber documentary The New Yorker raved, you're bound to discover your theater niche in D.C.

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A Guide to: Procrastination 101

By Jen Calantone | August 14

Contrary to the common belief among college students, there are all kinds of online wonders outside of Facebook and Blackboard. A few Google searches will prove that the Internet is filled with thousands of mindless ways to waste time when you're supposed to be studying for an exam or paying attention to a macroeconomics lecture.

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Club members send aid to Myanmar

By Maureen McCarty | June 19

Since Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar on May 2, several members of American University's Student Campaign for Burma have taken personal initiatives to increase aid to the country, according to Leslie Miller, former president of the AUSCB and a 2008 graduate from the School of International Service.

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Cutter dismisses SUB director

By Jimm Phillips | June 19

Student Government President Seth Cutter removed Student Union Board Director Amanda Mustafic from office Monday, SG Chief of Staff Amanda Fulton said in a press release today. Cutter decided to dismiss Mustafic because she had not met the job's requirements since taking over the position at the end of the spring semester, Fulton said in the press release.

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AU summer housing rates similar to area schools

By Kaylor Garcia | June 19

As interns from across the country come to D.C. for the summer, many have chosen to live in AU residence halls. Most interns who use AU housing live with the university's summer students in one of the three South side residence halls, according to information on the university's Web site.

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Philosophy and religion professor dies at 52

By Jimm Phillips | June 19

Lucinda Peach, an associate professor in the School of International Service and the College of Arts and Sciences, died Friday due to complications that resulted from treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer.

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SG announces new SUB director nominee

June 19

Tre Matthews is the new nominee for Student Union Board Director, Student Government President Seth Cutter announced in an e-mail to campus media this afternoon. Matthews, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, is an artist and currently works as an intern at Nightsky Productions, according to an SG press release.

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Metro brief

June 19

The 48-inch water pipe burst at 9 p.m. Sunday evening near Rockville Regional Park, releasing 100 million tons of water into close-by Rock Creek. Following the main water break, Montgomery County ordered 1,200 restaurants that use water from the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission to close on Monday, according to NBC4.

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Opinion

Three campaign narratives to avoid

By Tony Romm | June 19

How tempting it is, this general election season, to succumb to the simplicity of elegant political prose. The never-ending jet stream of faux-"comeback" narratives and paltry predictions is enough to send shivers down the spines of even the most cynical of pundits, perhaps myself included.

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Learning communities meant to assist incoming freshmen

By Jen Calantone | June 19

Approximately 300 incoming freshmen will be involved in the Learning Communities Project next semester, according to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, chairman of the Learning Communities program. The new programs, targeted at first-year students, are an attempt to expand the University College program.

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Silver screen god lights up Silver Spring

By Donny Sheldon | June 19

In a season plagued with mindless blockbusters, franchise features and sequels upon sequels, the Jean-Luc Godard Film Festival at the Silver Spring, Md.-based American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center serves as an alluring alternative. "It is a real retrospective moment for Godard and the other names associated with the French New Wave movement in filmmaking," said Todd Hitchcock, an AFI film programmer.

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Metro calendar

June 19

Thursday, June 19 Summer Concerts at Farragut Square: Crowded Streets 5-7 p.m. WHERE: Farragut Park, 17th and K streets N.W. METRO: Farragut North (red line), Farragut West (blue and orange lines) INFO: Crowded Streets will perform at this free weekly summer concert series Thursday afternoons.

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Opinion

McCain: The only logical choice

By Caleb Enerson | June 19

It seems every four years, we hear that this particular election is the most "crucial" one of our time. While one must always take this claim with a grain of salt - especially because one generally hears it from pretentious blowhards that threaten to leave the States if the election doesn't go their way (I'm talking about you, Susan Sarandon) - it is valid in the sense that the two major candidates for president offer extremely different views for our country and for its future.

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