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Scholarship program helps students with drug charges

By Denise Moriba | February 12

The University of California Berkeley created a new school-funded scholarship on Jan. 24 for students with drug convictions, according the Los Angeles Times. AU students had mixed reactions to the scholarships. The scholarships were created because students with drug convictions have been unable to receive federal financial aid since a drug-conviction penalty amendment was added to the 1998 Higher Education Act, according to Web site of the Drug Policy Alliance, a D.

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Sports

Horrible conditions make Super Bowl worth

By Michael Hoffman | February 8

While executives at the NFL may have been concerned about the conditions in Miami, after years of seeing championship games played in domed stadiums and under pristine conditions, I was personally very happy to see "monsoon-like conditions" hit during the game.

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News

-Journalism careers more dangerous now than ever

By Kaylor Garcia | February 8

ABTI-American University representatives and American University students challenged Nigerian Election Forum speakers about the intricacies of Nigeria's third election. The term "free and fair" repeatedly came up in discussion because of recent controversies among rivaling parties and accusations of corruption.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor

February 8

Caleb Enerson's column decrying racism on the part of certain Democrats completely mischaracterizes the situation. It is true that members of both sides are vulnerable to making verbal gaffes that may be construed as racist. However, in the end, it is highly important to realize that Democrats have been, historically and to this day, in the forefront of advancing issues important to minorities, such as a living wage, crime and poverty, and civil rights.

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News

Honesty, openness key to breakup bliss

By Blair Bryant Nichols | February 8

My sophomore-year roommate loved to play "Something to Talk About" by Bonnie Raitt. We joked that it was our theme song. I was known to be well-acquainted with the boys of D.C. He was known to cavalierly fling empty liquor bottles down our Honors floor hallway.

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News

Urban myths, hoaxes color American life

By Benjamin Lozovsky | February 8

While I've always prided myself on my stellar news coverage (sitting just above FOX News and falling right behind elementary-school PA system announcements in the media spectrum), I only wish I didn't have to report this. Deep in the jungles of Borneo, scientists have discovered a highly advanced race of humans.

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News

Metro briefs

By Jimm Phillips | February 8

Deadline change may allow Virginia to reconsider Tysons Metro tunnel Virginia state officials could reconsider a proposal to place a portion of a new Metrorail line underground now that the Federal Transit Administration is giving the state more than a year to submit its plans, according to The Washington Post.

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News

Cross cultural dispatch: Croatia embraces independence, individuality

By Jeff Lambert | February 8

When Americans think of Eastern Europe, I believe there are a lot of characteristics we impose on the countries here: wild lands of unfiltered cigarettes, communist-era architecture and a general fascination with all things Western. Upon arriving in Zagreb, the capital of the young republic Croatia, I was expecting to find all these symptoms of "Eastern" Europe.

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News

Intimate 'Lear' captures audience but loses intensity

By Mia Steinle | February 8

It only makes sense that a play about familial bonds should be staged in a space as intimate as the Folger Theatre. In this new production of Shakespeare's "King Lear," the audience is placed in the midst of the action while the story of the mad king and his three daughters unfolds.

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Sports

Woes continue as men's basketball drops another close one

By Patrick Ambrosio | February 8

Andre Ingram led all scorers with 23 points, but was unable to connect on a game-tying three-pointer as Bucknell defeated AU, 69-66, on Tuesday night at Bender Arena. The game featured 19 lead changes, including four in the last 1:36. With AU down by two, Arvydas Eitutavicius was fouled while attempting a three-pointer and hit all three foul shots to put AU up 64-63.

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News

Stevens sizzles in orchestra duet

By Kim Bryden | February 8

On a freezing January morning, hundreds of people lined up before dawn in hopes of receiving free tickets to one of the most inspirational concerts held at the Kennedy Center. Many AU students waited in the cold for hours to get a ticket. C.J. Schmied, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, arrived at 11 p.

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News

Campus brief: Library penny drive raises $500

By Kyra Smerkanich | February 8

The Friends of the American University Library completed its penny drive fund-raiser in December, collecting over 1,300 feet in pennies, according to a Friends of the AU Library press release. The drive asked teams of students, faculty and staff to donate spare change in an effort to buy more books for the library, according to the press release.

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Sports

Women's hoops loses third in a row

By Justin Hall | February 8

The AU women's basketball team lost its third game in a row Tuesday night, falling behind early in an eventual 70-57 loss to the Bucknell Bison. The defeat drops the Eagles to 4-5 in the Patriot League and 9-15 overall. The Bison scored the game's first basket only 24 seconds into the game and built an 8-0 lead before the Eagles could score their first hoop almost four minutes into the game.

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News

French actor reinvents Lecter in 'Silence of the Lambs' appetizer

By Bryan Koenig | February 8

Since his debut on the big screen in 1986, Hannibal Lecter has become the embodiment of madness. He is an icon of cinema, immortalizing the psychopath like no other, save perhaps Norman Bates of "Psycho." However, where the Bates Motel scared audiences senseless in but one film, Hannibal has terrified us in four, soon to be five.

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News

AU Catholic priest leaves for new post in Maryland

By Kaitlyn Houston | February 8

Father Zygmunt Kurzawinksi, a priest serving AU's Catholic community, left AU to take another post in Maryland. Kurzawinski announced his reassignment, effective immediately, at Mass on Jan. 28. "Father Zygmunt's sudden departure is shocking to all of us in the Catholic community, but we most certainly understand the importance of his vocation," Danielle Imhoff, president of AU's Catholic Students Association, said.

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News

Author recounts his religious conversions

By Tomer Konowiecki | February 8

It is unlikely to find a Jewish-born American working for a radical Islamic charity group that supports terrorism. While discussing his new book, "My Year Inside Radical Islam," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross said he falls into that improbable category. Gartenstein-Ross spoke at the bookstore Politics and Prose last Sunday.

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News

Expelled student to appeal ruling

By Allie Feras | February 8

A second-semester senior expelled from AU for discrimination, physical abuse and conduct that endangers others will be submitting an appeal to the Judicial Affairs and Mediation Services and is considering suing the university. Rick Kamdar, formerly a senior in the Kogod School of Business, was expelled for an incident that occurred Nov.

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