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March 20

CAMPUS BRIEF SOC hosts week of events Free ice cream, movie screenings and a luau are among some of the activities the School of Communication planned this week to encourage students' interest in the school's majors. The week started with a luau in the Tavern Monday.

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Black Lips show wavers between raucous, rocking

By Kristen Powell | March 20

Though Black Lips' guitarist Cole Alexander repeatedly prompted use of the "magic knob" by the lighting booth at the band's show Saturday at the Black Cat, their performance was missing the band's usual magnetism. The knob turned on a display of disco ball-like lights that seemed to promise a magical evening, but something was definitely lacking.

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Eagles can't pull through to round two of NCAA tournament

By Shaun Flynn | March 20

In their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, the AU men's basketball team lost 72-57 to the Tennessee Volunteers at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Center Friday afternoon. AU was by far the underdog. During warm-ups, the Volunteers threw down thunderous, acrobatic jams and smooth threes.

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Sports

Wrestling heads to NCAA tourney

By Justin Hall | March 20

Defending National Champion senior Josh Glenn looks to defend his heavyweight division crown when the AU wrestling team heads to the NCAA wrestling championships this weekend in St. Louis, Mo. Glenn, along with fellow Eagles junior Christopher Stout and sophomores Mike Cannon and Jasen Borshoff, qualified for the national tournament due to strong performances at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament.

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Indie pop tunes put 'Wall' of energy over D.C. ennui

By JESSICA PERRIGAN | March 20

The sold-out show at the Rock and Roll Hotel filled early Tuesday night as Omaha indie rockers Tilly and the Wall hit the D.C. scene. The band played several songs from its past two albums, "Wild Like Children and "Bottoms of Barrels." Opening band Pash, D.

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Board receives funding proposal

By Christopher Cottrell | March 20

Members of the Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board received a proposal last week from the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health that provides additional details about its plans for a follow-up health study, which they hope will help convince the D.

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Opinion

Life in the district: Healthy food too scarce on campus

By Olga Khazan | March 20

This is an ugly month for college students. Late March marks roughly six months since we've seen a full sunny week. It's been roughly half a year since we haven't had to intern all day, go to class all night and then write papers to the pale flicker of late-night infomercials.

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Music Notes

March 20

Tiger! Tiger! "The Kind of Goodnight" Chicken Ranch Records Sounds like: Something you'd want to see performed live. Grade: B Tiger! Tiger!'s new album "The Kind of Goodnight" sounds like what a garage band's album is supposed to sound like. Only in this case, you might have to rediscover your hidden love of pop to experience the full effect.

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'Bachelor Party 2' too raunchy

By Bryan Koenig | March 20

GRADE: F Sometimes, stupidity is its own reward. A film can often be so asinine and mindless that it actually manages to be funny and enjoyable. Sometimes, however, stupidity is just stupid, mindless and grating on every nerve cluster in the eyes, ears and mind.

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Opinion

What a travesty: Time to rethink District gun laws

By Travis McArthur | March 20

This month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about the constitutionality of D.C.'s ban on handgun ownership. Until now, cases regarding a local government's ability to restrict gun ownership have only been heard in lower courts. The constitutional issues involved are worthy of much discussion, but I prefer to focus on the real-world effects of this ban on the District residents.

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Sports

Something special: A season to remember

By Steven Haber | March 20

The men's basketball team's run to the NCAA tournament , to say the least. It's a vast understatement to say they've come a long way from their home opening loss to Fairfield last November. In that game, the team looked like a squad that had just lost four of their top-five scorers and three of their top-four rebounders from a year ago.

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Army Corps wants additional investigation of Pit 3

March 20

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is extending its Engineered Control Structure at 4825 Glenbrook Road to investigate other parts of an area referred to as Pit 3 for World War I-era munitions. Geophysical surveying revealed more than 60 "anomalies" - randomly strewn objects - they need to investigate.

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AU students throw Iraq protest party

By Jen Calantone | March 20

Several AU students distributed cupcakes and bottles meant to represent blood and oil as refreshments at a satirical birthday party Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. The birthday party was the beginning of a week of events relating to the Iraq War anniversary, according to Rachel Hitow, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Five years later

March 20

On the heels of yet another protest, the Iraq war's potential as a financial, political and emotional quagmire seems to have come into full fruition. In the five years since the U.S. military stormed into Baghdad under the misguided and disturbing notion of a "shock and awe" campaign, the United States has spent nearly $3 trillion on the war, according to Harvard professor Linda J.

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Eagles end first-ever NCAA bid

March 20

The No. 15 seeded AU men's basketball team lost during the first round of the NCAA tournament today to the No. 2 seeded University of Tennessee Volunteers 72-57, ending their first-ever run in the tournament. The team finished the season with a 21-12 record.

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Post publishes student voting patterns survey

By Rachel Trainer | March 20

Young voters in the battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Colorado and Virginia ranked the economy as the most important issue in the upcoming election, according to a survey conducted by AU students and published in The Washington Post March 3. School of Communication professor Jane Hall said her undergraduate "Reporting" class assisted her "Washington Reporting" graduate class in creating a survey that determined youth voting patterns.

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Police blotter

March 20

Wednesday, March 5 A Leonard Hall resident reported her roommate was feeling sick. The student declined medical treatment. A woman twisted her ankle in front of the School of International Service Building. Public Safety gave her an ice pack. A woman reported her purse was stolen from her office in the Kogod School of Business Building.

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