Legal News

Fun in the sun: Healthy break tips

Ah, spring break. What could be better? You've got your fun, your sun and your scandalously low alcohol-consumption age limits abroad. Unless, of course, you are going home to Connecticut, in which case it probably will entail hours of uneventful daytime TV and special fun with Mom and Dad.

Geometric exhibit colors American Art Museum

Splashes of color bleed across giant canvases, greeting visitors to "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975." The new exhibit, which is open Feb. 29 through May 26 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, takes on the Color Field movement, one of the immediate heirs to Abstract Expressionism.

Men's basketball misses chance to clinch PL title, loses to Navy 83-68

With first place in the Patriot League on the line last night in Annapolis, Md., the Navy Midshipmen shot down the men's basketball team with more precision than a falling satellite as their 83-68 loss halted a six-game winning streak. The Eagles faced an uphill struggle from the start.

Web exclusive: An interview with St. Vincent

At this point in her career, Annie Clark inhabits her moniker St. Vincent like an old hat. After all, the 25-year-old singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist already boasts an indie track record that would befit an act with a few more rings around its trunk.

Police blotter

Thursday, Feb. 14 A staff member reported someone had written an obscene message in the men's restroom on the second floor of Bender Library. Public Safety officers responded and contacted Aramark to remove the graffiti. A resident assistant reported graffiti on a wall on the sixth floor north stairwell in Letts Hall.

Open Library to be source for readers

Open Library, a free Internet book database, will open its pages to the public in March, providing libraries and people worldwide with easy access to information on millions of books. The Open Library, which currently contains the texts of 20 million books, aims to create a comprehensive Web page about every book ever published.

Life in the district: Dreading the Great Research Paper

Ah, senior year. A time to take classes you enjoy, make your younger friends swipe you into TDR for old times' sake and generally get your fix of college before they kick you out (you graduate). Unless, of course, you're in the Honors Program. In that case, as payback for four years of free cake in the Honors lounge and discounted tickets to "A Christmas Carol," Honors takes little pieces of your soul through a behemoth known as the Capstone.

Teeny boppers need to get 'Real'

The Wagner Logic "Easiest to Grab" Wilderhood Records Sounds like: A neat spin on your everyday garage band Grade: B- With the release of their latest album, "Easiest to Grab," Alaskan natives The Wagner Logic have concentrated their efforts, giving rise to a new form of music they call "Basementia.

Abroad students witness Cuba's transition

The transition of Cuban leadership last week made headlines around the world, but AU students participating in the spring 2008 Cuba enclave witnessed Cuban citizens' reactions firsthand. Raúl Castro, 76, became president of Cuba Sunday. He succeeded his older brother Fidel, 81, who resigned Feb.

What a travesty: Respect, support District's homeless

"Could you spare some change?" Anyone with more than a few city outings under their belt has been faced with this question. It is often an uncomfortable encounter that instantly erases any notion we have of the United States being a classless society. More importantly, it is an instance of one person asking another person for a helping hand.

Typical fairy tale enchants audiences

What if fairy tale princesses were strong women who sent powerful messages of self-respect to young girls? What if Prince Charming was a jerk, and an impoverished gambling addict had to save the day? Why aren't there more good roles for little people? All of these questions are posed by the charming new fairy tale "Penelope.

Did you know...

1. The AU men's basketball team started in 1926 under head coach G. Baillie Springston. Springston led the Eagles for a total of three years until 1929-1930 season when Walter H. Young replaced him. 2. Before Bender Arena, there was Fort Myer Ceremonial Hall, commonly known to Eagle fans back in the day as "The Fort.

Briefs

CAMPUS Former Planned Parenthood President to speak in Ward Karen Mulhaufer, former president of Planned Parenthood and founder of the Women's Information Network, an organization that assists young women in networking in the D.C. area, will speak about having a career in politics from a noncandidate point of view today at 6 p.

This week in Eagle sports

St. Vincent steals crowd's heart

Annie Clark is talented, funny and beautiful. Her finger-picking is lovely, her power chords ugly, her skin so fair, her hair dark and everywhere. She, like the music she makes under the pseudonym St. Vincent, is high contrast, and she brought the entire spectrum of that contrast to her concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel Tuesday night.

Protect your body before, after sex

Anyone who is sexually active should be prepared to confront sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Despite what you learned in your abstinence-only high school sex ed course, you won't get every STI every time you have sex, but when you are unprotected and exposed, you run the risk of getting chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, HPV and HIV, among others.

Staff editorial: Revisiting the Cuba embargo

The foreign-policy cynics among us certainly rejoiced this week over Cuban President Fidel Castro's resignation. At the isolated nation's helm for almost 50 years, Castro had done little to satisfy the needs of the people he claimed to represent in his January 1952 coup d'état, so the change in leadership was certainly long overdue.