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Staff editorial: Drinking Age Proposal Is A Catalyst for Debate

April 12

John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College, recently began advocating for a qualified lower drinking age. People ages 18 to 20 would be given a "drinking license" similar to a driver's license after completing a required alcohol education class.

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News

AU College Republicans e-board under fire

By Brian Kalish | April 12

A general meeting of the College Republicans on April 2 turned into a near shouting match when club members voiced concerns over recent allegations of constitutional violations by the club's current executive board, highlighting concerns of some about the club's internal affairs.

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News

Dull 'First Snow' lacks originality, strong focus

By Chris Patriquin | April 5

"First Snow" is a disappointing project from start to finish. There are elements of a good movie inside of it, but the plot has been done to death and it just comes across as stale. The biggest problem with the movie is that it tries to be existential, pulls off the thrilleresque moments only marginally well and has random injections of comedy that seem out of place.

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News

Metro brief:Bill advances to give D.C. mayor control of schools

By Jimm Phillips | April 5

D.C. City Council members gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would give D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty control of the city's public school system, according to The Washington Post. If the council and Congress give final approval of the policy, Fenty would have direct control of the school system with the school superintendent reporting directly to him.

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News

Ted Leo plays to appreciative fans at 9:30 club

By Josh Kramer | April 5

Darkness falls on the stage, and a pulsating techno beat begins to play loudly. As the lights slowly come up, one could see Ted Leo and his band, the Pharmacists, taking the stage to Daft Punk's "Human After All." Leo, who gained some fame for his D.C.-based punk revival band Chisel in the '90s, is always well-received in the District.

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Sports

Three blind predictions: Pondering the 2007 MLB season

By Michael Hoffman | April 5

Yogi Berra once said, "In baseball, you don't know nothing." Truer words had never been uttered by the man who once said, "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." I mean honestly, do any of us really know anything about this game? If you were the one guy who on a drunken limb told your buddy that midseason rookie call-up Anibel Sanchez, who started the season in AA, would be the guy to break the longest no-hitter drought in Major League Baseball history, well, hell man, give me a call, we need to find some real estate! With that said, here are three predictions I am making for the 2007 season.

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News

Md. executions suspended, death row convict tells story

April 5

John Booth is in his mid-50s. He has salt-and-pepper hair that is parted in the middle and braided in two parts that lie close to his temples. His poignant brown eyes are widely set, and his thick lips are turned up in a small smile. He is outfitted in khaki scrubs, a frayed white tank undershirt, gold chains and two large gold rings that rest on his right pinkie.

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News

Metro calendar

By Brian Kalish | April 5

Thursday, April 5 Men's Health Fair 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bender Arena Lobby Community organizations and AU departments will provide health screenings and resource information. Free, confidential HIV testing for faculty, staff and students will be available until 2:30 p.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: At Rove Event, No One Group Was To Blame

April 5

More than 80 protesters tried to stage a citizen's arrest of White House adviser Karl Rove after he spoke at a College Republicans event Tuesday night. About 16 of the protesters laid down in front of Rove's car as he tried to leave campus, causing Public Safety and Rove's Secret Service detail to break up the protest.

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News

SG begins debate over allocation of $500,000 budget

By Cassie Passinault | April 5

Executive-based organizations asked the Student Government for more money during the SG's annual budget hearings, held March 31. These hearings are one of many steps necessary for the SG to draft a budget plan for the 2007-2008 school year. The SG budget totals over $500,000.

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News

Protesters confront Rove post-speech

By Allie Feras and Kara Newhouse | April 5

Karl Rove's Secret Service detail and American University campus police dragged protesters from the road between Kay Chapel and the Ward building Tuesday night after 16 AU students and community members broke through police tape to lie in front of Rove's car as he exited a College Republicans sponsored event.

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News

Candid camera captures college

By Blair Bryant Nichols | April 5

I got my first digital camera when I was in high school. I was 16, and like early cell phones, it seemed to weigh 47 pounds. Often it was easier to carry disposable cameras around than to worry about losing or breaking my camera, which in hindsight seems as old as it was heavy.

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News

Murphy shakes up film with passionate acting

By John Grooms | April 5

"'Twas hard the woeful words to frame to break the ties that bound us But harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us And so I said, 'The mountain glen I'll seek at morning early And join the bold united men,' while soft winds shake the barley.

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News

Princeton's quota policy limits grade inflation

By Jewel Edwards | April 5

Princeton University's adoption of a new grading policy to reduce grade inflation by limiting the number of A's given to students has led some Ivy League schools to consider implementing a similar policy. AU faculty members said grade inflation is a problem at AU, but they do not have or plan to use a similar grade deflation policy.

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News

Deceptively simple post-rockers delight

By Cameron Conway | April 5

Do Make Say Think needs no opener, as Sunday's concert proved, opening with only a few songs by the band's own producer. Brood, previously scheduled to play had canceled, but the Canadian band which killed his time slot prevailed. Do Make Say Think is a special kind of band, in the way that it appears to be incredibly deceiving.

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Opinion

The Wrong Side of History

By Paul Perry | April 5

There are certain issues and stances on which we look back and wonder, "How the hell could people have ever felt this way?" From the big, scary phenomena such as slavery and genocide, on down to lesser concepts such as the denial of suffrage for women and African Americans and Prohibition, we wonder how society, as a collective, could have ever deemed such practices to be feasible and just.

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Sports

Lacrosse doomed by slow start, fall to UMBC, 15-9

By Justin Hall | April 5

The AU women's lacrosse team lost its second straight match Wednesday afternoon, falling to the UMBC Retrievers 15-9 in Baltimore, Md. The loss drops the Eagles below the .500 mark on the season at 5-6. The Eagles were down early, as two goals by Ali Levendusky sandwiched around a tally by Abbey Swift gave the Retrievers a quick 3-0 advantage only three minutes into the game.

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