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Gymnastics gains credibility in third year as club

By Rita Gallina | April 19

For senior Rachel Centariczki, graduation day is a bittersweet one. Along with fellow senior, Sarah Bishop, Centariczki started the AU gymnastics club three years ago, and has watched it grow into the program it has become today. This past week, the team competed at the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Club's annual national tournament, which was held in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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News

College Repubs pledge constitutional reforms

By Kendra Garstka | April 19

In light of recent questions about the leadership of the College Republicans, the club's executive board met April 11 with Kimberly Herrera, a staff member from Student Activities, and Bernie Schultz, the club's adviser in the Office of Campus Life, and have gone on the record in attempts to clear up confusion about the club's leadership and dues collection.

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News

Palestine Awareness Week features hunger strike, film

April 16

On the first day of the Save Gaza hunger strike, Rachel Weingartner, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she was irritable. On the second, she smoked a lot. Weingartner refrained from eating during daylight hours for four days as a fundraiser for the Save Gaza organization.

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News

Survey says job market easier for college grads

By Michael Ono | April 16

AU graduating seniors will have a slightly easier time finding a job this year than last year's graduates, according to a recent survey by the job hunting Web site Monster.com. The study also found that over a period of one year, wages failed to increase despite employers hiring more students.

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Opinion

Predictions: Legalized Marijuana and No More SG

By Tom Noble | April 16

When writing every other week for The Eagle, it is hard to decide what exactly to write about. I haven't really found the right formula. At any time, there are a dozen different things I could cover. Seeing as how this will be my last column, I want to use the space provided to list some things that, with any luck, will occur in the next 12 months.

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News

Metro calendar

By Rebecca Kern | April 16

Now through Wednesday, April 18 "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune" 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. S.W. Metro: Waterfront-SEU (green line) This play tells the story of a one-night stand between Frankie, a waitress, and Johnny, a short-order cook.

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Sports

Fennell, Yohannes lead track, qualify for NCAA regionals at weekend Bucknell Invitational

By Anna Tuman | April 16

The American University track team split up this past weekend to compete at the Bucknell Outdoor Classic on Friday night and the University of Virginia Invitational on Saturday. The 5000m race was the most talked about event at Friday's meet as senior Brendan Fennell went head to head with Matt Froys, the Patriot League Indoor 5000m Champion of Bucknell.

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News

Tourists flood Egypt with bad fashion, poor taste

By Lindsey Marburger | April 16

Tourists: there's nothing like them. They crowd around old pieces of stone, polluted and picturesque waterways and buy overpriced kitsch to take home to their nearest and dearest. (Plastic pyramid snow globes, anyone? Or maybe a T-shirt with a photo of a camel in lewd karmic poses?) The general horror over most tourists is multiplied, quite literally, by the fact that they travel in hulking charter buses.

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News

RHA elects new executive board

By Jimm Phillips | April 16

Campus residents approved the new RHA constitution and elected the 2007-2008 RHA executive board - Dorothy Mejia as Residence Hall Association president, Jeffery Bloom as vice president of finance and administration, Jackie Buente as vice president of programming and Christine Felty as vice president of advocacy - current RHA President Jeffrey Hanley, a sophomore in the School of Public Affairs, announced Friday.

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Opinion

What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Capitalism?

By Jared Kotler | April 16

I think it is pretty safe to say that AU is a very liberal college. I also think this is a very positive thing and in fact, I consider myself to be quite liberal. Unfortunately, for many students liberal is just a label when in fact their philosophy is more leftist than anything else.

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News

Forum honors past activism

By Allie Feras | April 16

The 1960s and '70s were "an electric time" at AU, School of Communication professor W. Joseph Campbell said at the "I Remember AU When ... The Age of Protest" forum Tuesday night in the McDowell Formal Lounge. The forum, sponsored by the Residence Hall Association, the Kennedy Political Union, Campbell, SOC professor John Doolittle and the AU Archives, discussed the protests that erupted at AU during the '60s and '70s.

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News

America oversweetened with sugar substitutes

By Benjamin Lozovsky | April 16

Sometimes I have dreams, simple aspirations that appear surprisingly translucent and pristine in a clouded mind perpetually stuck in a sky-darkening and bone-drenching monsoon. These notions, these hopeful premonitions, they are rapidly identifiable and always intriguing enough to at least peruse.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor

April 16

Ms. Hanson's article is disingenuous about the risks posed by studying abroad. Granted, being away from home and the comforts of the United States can "seem" very scary, but there are relatively few cases of crime or violence against students studying abroad when you take in the full volume of students going abroad.

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News

Rally advocates for more green reform

By Patricio Chile | April 16

Student members of Eco-Sense, AU's environmental sustainability club, joined hundreds of demonstrators in front of the Capitol on Saturday to demand that the government strengthen its efforts to reduce global warming. The event was part of "Step It Up 2007," a nationwide campaign held April 14 to send a message to Congress about reducing carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050.

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Music notes

April 16

All Out War "Assassins in the House of God" (Victory) Sounds Like: A fistfight between the psychotic thrash of Slayer and the street-level stomp of classic New York hardcore. Also known as metalcore without the fancy haircuts, girl-pants and eyeliner. Grade: B Sometimes all a band needs in order to deliver its mission statement is a really accurate name, like All Out War.

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Sports

When sports and politics meet: the recent free speech debate

By Mike Hoffman | April 16

It was a strange week for sports, and a strange week for the world. Unless you live under a rock, you know that "wannabe" shock jock Don Imus (who usually saves his tirades for calling Hilary Clinton a "lesbian bitch") has been fired for calling members of the Rutger's women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos.

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News

Mechanicals garner laughs, empathy

By Ruben Luong | April 16

Amid the tireless yearning, misguided brawls and tangles of unsuspecting love in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night: or what you will," the cast of Rude Mechanicals delivered a humorous performance last weekend in the Tavern, marked by occasional prancing, drunken stupors and a plot braided with amusing farce.

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