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Staff editorial: AU, other D.C. schools should note GW scholarship

March 29

A GW scholarship aims to help D.C. highschoolers attend college. The Trachtenberg scholarship awards nine recipients $200,000 for tuition, books, fees and room and board. There are currently no such specific scholarships at AU, but the school says it is implementing improved college recruitment methods in the District.

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News

GW creates scholarship for D.C. students

By Patricio Chile | March 29

D.C. Public School students are receiving better college opportunities because of help from schools like George Washington University, which recently awarded its Trachtenberg Scholarship to nine D.C public high school seniors, according to The Washington Post.

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News

Two AU nominees win Truman award

By Kyra Smerkanich | March 29

Anna Carpenter, a junior in the School of International Service, and JoAnna Smith, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, have been named Truman Scholars. "President Kerwin called me to tell me that I won," Smith said in an e-mail. "I was extremely excited and didn't actually believe it for the first few minutes.

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News

Campus calendar

By Brian Kalish | March 29

Thursday, March 29 "Elsewhere in Elsinore" Through March 31 8 p.m. Katzen Arts Center, Studio Theatre What are the women of Elsinore Castle doing while Hamlet plots revenge? "Elsewhere in Elsinore," a new verse play by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, explores the motives Ophelia and Gertrude and introduces the audience to other important inhabitants of the castle.

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News

Honors student explores musical alternative for senior capstone

By Drew Richardson | March 29

While most seniors in the Honors Department slave away over their 50-page plus capstone papers, College of Arts and Sciences senior Danielle Giusto is working on a different type of project. Giusto is majoring in music with a concentration in vocal performance, and instead of a paper, she is presenting a recital as her honors project.

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Sports

Stacked four teams make finals worth wait

By Justin Hall | March 29

Although there are championships held in every NCAA sanctioned sport, from field hockey to water polo, the Division I Men's Basketball tournament is the most famous and most prestigious. Ever since the first Final Four was held in 1939, players who have starred at the collegiate level have gone on to become some of the most famous players in the professional game.

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Opinion

The Politics of Water Scarcity

By Erin Wildermuth | March 29

Last Thursday was the United Nation's World Water Day. The day is meant to promote awareness about water resources, scarcity and development. This year's theme was "coping with water scarcity." On Thursday, I decided to follow the U.N.'s advice and promote awareness about water scarcity.

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News

'South Side Stories' sets poems to song

By Tara Abell | March 29

Often students stuck in a boring literature class let their minds wander. As the professor rambles on about symbolism, they start to think about what they are going to have for dinner, whether that person they met at Clyde's will call and what tremendous drama will occur during tonight's episode of "Grey's Anatomy.

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Sports

New AD hopes to boost athletics through students

By Erin Keaveney | March 29

Last Thursday, American University ended its nearly six-month national search and named Keith Gill, senior associate athletics director at the University of Oklahoma, its new director of athletics and recreation. Gill, whose newly-appointed position becomes effective June 1, will replace former AU director of athletics Dr.

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News

Campus briefs

By Kyra Smerkanich | March 29

School of Communication professors Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi have been awarded a $600,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to study how educators can teach students to analyze the media without violating copyright laws by showing images and clips, according to an AU press release.

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News

Grad student depicts Christian comics in new mockumentary

By Taryn McKinnon | March 29

Imagine a Christian version of the hit show "Whose Line is it, Anyway?" featuring games such as "Jesus Freeze" and asking the audience to provide suggestions such as "favorite Biblical city." It's not the newest release from the Evangelical TV network. Instead, it's the basis for AU grad student Daniel Jones and Dann Sytsma's film "Comic Evangelists.

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News

Out with old, in with new

By Iliana Imberman Berkowitz and Cameron Conway | March 29

Spring has finally sprung. While students pack away their pea coats and scarves, why not also replace wintry soundtracks with more seasonal, jovial albums? Here are a few frosty favorites that can be retired from the everyday rotation, and some fresh new releases to begin rocking out to this spring.

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News

National brief: Simpson book rights to be auctioned off on April 17

By Jimm Phillips | March 29

Officials from the Sacramento County, Calif., Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday they will auction off the publication rights to O. J. Simpson's controversial book "If I Did It" on April 17, according to Reuters. A Los Angeles judge ordered Sacramento County to put the book's publication rights up for auction in order to help satisfy $33.

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News

Class of 2011 connects via Internet

By Joe Arancio | March 29

Courtney Klamar has 29 friends at AU from Virginia, Kansas and Massachusetts even though she has yet to set foot on campus. Klamar, a high school senior from Columbus, Ohio, will be attending AU for the first time in the fall. She met these people through the social networking Web site Facebook, and she is not the only person using this site to find friends.

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News

Moving to New York: an isolating experience

By Benjamin Lozovsky | March 29

Oh boy! Did you read the news today? I hope you did, because I sure didn't. I missed what Eurasian pan-epidemic was stirring the global marketplace, didn't seem to catch the newest allegations against the Revenge Department (I'm sorry, did I say revenge? I meant Justice), didn't even examine the latest ex-starlet toxicology screen or wade chest-deep through any month-old, drug-ridden stomach contents.

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Opinion

A Balanced End to Poverty

By Jong Eun Lee | March 29

How can we end poverty? Stereotypical conservatives would say, "He who doesn't work should not eat." Stereotypical liberals would say, "Rob the rich to feed the poor." Like most Americans, I have come to question both extreme measures and believe solving poverty require lot more comprehensive solutions.

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News

Sex assault reporting may violate law

By Brittany Aubin | March 29

AU's handling of sexual assault reporting may be in violation of the Clery Act, a national law regulating campus crime reports, according to JoAnna Smith, the president of Women's Initiative and a junior in the School of Public Affairs. Passed in 1990, the Clery Act requires universities and colleges to publish an annual statement listing the crimes reported that year on campus and in the surrounding areas.

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