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Monahan's 'train' wrecks, Drew brings more of same

Pat Monahan "Last of Seven" (Columbia) Sounds like: Something you'd have to be middle-aged and sipping Mike's Hard Lemonade to enjoy. In his first departure from Train, Pat Monahan has constructed an album so excruciating it makes "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" tolerable.

Campus brief

Dr. Gordon Adams, a former senior White House official for national security and foreign relations budgets, was recently announced as one of AU's new professors of international relations for the School of International Service, according to a press release.

Top 10

10 "Houston, we have a problem." Yeah, it's really funny to compare your mundane dilemma with intergalactic catastrophes. OK, maybe it was funny once, but get real: This is the 21st century, and it's time to update your quips. 9"I'm not gonna lie..." Looks like you're a shoo-in for the honesty award.

Students canvass S.C. for Obama

On Saturday, approximately 20 members of AU's Students for Barack Obama traveled to Florence, S.C., to lend their support to the senator's campaign. More students from AU traveled to South Carolina than any other school in the District, according to Dave Simnick, co-director of AU's chapter of Students for Barack Obama.

Breastival raises $2,000 for cancer research

The Breastival raised more than $2,000 for breast-cancer research, said Vanessa Mueller, director of Women's Initiative. "I'm really, really proud of our volunteers and what the campus community has done," Mueller said. The Breastival promoted breast cancer awareness, said Sarah Brown, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and member of Women's Initiative.

Copyright mix-ups limit profs, students

Confusion about copyright laws negatively impacts teachers' and students' classroom experiences, according to a report recently released by AU's Center for Social Media. The study, "The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy," was released Sept. 25.

Dorm recipe: White creamy mac and cheese

As I mentioned in the Sept. 20 issue, food is my passion. If I could, I would spend 24 hours a day in the kitchen, creating new dishes. However, there are some days when I am just too tired and want to eat the type of dinner that requires little cleanup and only a few ingredients.

Speech ends Breastival

Cancer affects many Americans: 50 percent of men and one in three women will at one point have some form of cancer, said Elizabeth Edwards, presidential candidate John Edwards' wife, at the closing event of the Breastival Tuesday. "Cancer is an equal-opportunity disease," Edwards said to a crowd of a few hundred students.

Students say AU not immune to racial conflicts

Incidents of racial intolerance, like hanging nooses on a tree outside the black cultural center at the University of Maryland, are on the rise at U.S. colleges campuses. Some students said they have also noticed racially motivated incidents at AU. Sometimes acts of racism are not as blatant as nooses hanging in front of buildings.

Last known pit of WWl weapons to be excavated

World War I-era weapons buried on university property and in the surrounding neighborhood is scheduled to begin Oct. 29, Army Corps of Engineers officials said at a public meeting at Sibley Hospital Auditorium Tuesday night. The area, known as "Pit 3," is located at 4825 Glenbrook Road, a university-owned property.

National brief

A volunteer firefighter in South Carolina is facing arson charges after confessing to igniting three fires in an effort to improve his reputation among fellow firefighters, a local news station in Greenville, S.C., reported. Samuel Thomas Moss was attempting to override his status as a registered sex offender by setting fires and responding to them to "show he was a good firefighter and hard worker," Greenwood County sheriff's investigator Jeff Graham told WYFF4.

Editorial cartoon

Fall movies showcase history, wonder

Th is sequel to the Academy Award-winning fi lm, "Elizabeth," further explores the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth nurtures her secret love for adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), even as military and political forces threaten her empire at home and abroad.

Douglas gets bid for SG secretary

Acting Student Government Secretary Cait Douglas is now the nominee to take over the position permanently and will be up for confirmation at one of the Undergraduate Senate's next two meetings, according to SG President Joe Vidulich. Vidulich decided to nominate Douglas for the position after a selection committee favorably evaluated her and Seth Cutter, Undergraduate Senate clerk.

Sexual assault victims don't have to cope alone

Well, this week I didn't get any questions, and because I don't make up questions, I thought I'd give you some information I've been researching recently with the help of health educator Kathy Haldeman from the Wellness Center. I went to a lecture by someone from the DC Rape Crisis Center, a group that helps victims of sexual violence.

AU Greeks defy stereotypical roles

Fraternity and sorority life often brings to mind stereotypical scenes reminiscent of the 1978 film "Animal House," complete with parties, alcohol, sex and mayhem. Yet according to Greeks and non-Greeks, this stereotype doesn't hold up at AU. Veronica Torres, a sophomore in the School of Public Affairs who serves on AU's Greek Life Public Relations Committee, said what AU fraternities and sororities lack in the "Animal House" aspect of Greek life they more than make up for in scholarship and community service.

'Darjeeling' delivers limited thematics

Wes Anderson usually makes films that feel like they take place inside snow globes: tiny, fictitious, Technicolor worlds that have virtually no reference points to the outside world. His 2001 opus, “The Royal Tenenbaums,” was set in a surreal, bubblegum-and-candy-colored vision of New York, but all the locations, such as the family’s residence at 111 Archer Ave.