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Travel DVD ventures off beaten path, into irony

By Jeff Lambert | December 4

Remember watching the spring break coverage on MTV in junior high? The body shots, human taco contests and infamous three-way kisses? "The Vice Guide to Travel" feels a lot like a spring break special for pseudo-intellectual hipsters. Vice Magazine, an arts and culture magazine with offices across the globe, released the travel DVD in October.

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Satirical 'Emo Boy' pokes fun with loser superhero

By Chris Moreno | December 4

"Emo Boy Volume 1" By Steve Emond SLG Publishing 176 pages Now available While many of us try and deny it, we all wanted to be emo kids during our junior high and high school years. High school was a drag. The opposite sex didn't pay attention to us and all we had to combat this was bad poetry and our Get Up Kids albums.

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'Transformers:The Movie' gets special edition reissue

By Todd Matthy | December 4

Forget Bambi's mother. For children of the '80s it was the death of Optimus Prime in "Transformers: The Movie" that had children crying their hearts out. That moment and other wonderful scenes from the film have been restored by Sony on the film's "20th Anniversary Special Edition" DVD release.

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Opinion

Free to Travel (Unless the Government Disapproves)

By Erin Wildermuth | December 4

Cuba and the United States are not the closest of allies. There was that whole Cuban Missile Crisis thing during the Cold War. More recently, in 1996, the Cuban military felt it necessary to shoot down two of our planes. The U.S. developed five different plans for assassination of Fidel Castro between 1961 and 1963 and has been trying to bring down Cuba's communist government ever since.

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Opinion

Case for a Strongly Moderate Democrat

By Jong Eun Lee | December 4

Every political party has its loyal base. As generally the most active and generous party supporters, the base expects much from the party leadership. Often, however, the party finds itself in a strategic dilemma when the will of its base seems to contradict the will of the majority of non-base voters.

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Parents unaware of game ratings

By Jennifer Linn | December 4

'Tis the season to take up the virtual machete - that is, unless you are under the age of 17. With three major gaming consoles hitting the market in the last 13 months, consumers are ready to shell out top dollar on this season's hottest and most violent games.

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Mental recovery poses challenges after Katrina

By Robin Bravender | November 30

When social worker Julie Guyot waited for clients in her crisis-counseling tent in Pass Christian, Miss., in November 2005, no one came to her because no one was sick and no one thought they had a problem, she said. Guyot, a doctoral scholar at Howard University, spoke to students at AU on Tuesday at a discussion titled "Psychological Healing from Hurricane Katrina: Where Do We Go from Here?" The event was sponsored by Psychology Students for Social Responsibility and the College of Arts and Sciences' Graduate Student Council.

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Colombian native derided military abuses, murders

By Kyra Smerkanich | November 30

Close ties between the Colombian military and paramilitary forces have led to mass human rights violations, said Debora Barros Fince, a human rights lawyer and native of the Way£u community, a indigenous population located in northern Colombia near Venezuela that was hurt by the paramilitary's actions.

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9:30 club loves this kitten

By Marie Bibault | November 30

On Monday night, The Memphis River Band with Cat Power made a stop at the 9:30 club to deliver a moving and personal performance. The band made a discreet entry and faced a surprisingly quiet audience. But the crowd burst into applause when Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, finally sauntered on to the stage.

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Opinion

Student Op-Ed

November 30

Two weeks ago, one of the great figures of the 20th century passed on. Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, perhaps influences our way of thinking about the economy more than anyone else. The ideas he promoted, such as free markets, low inflation and low taxes, are generally accepted by both sides of the ideological chasm today.

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Sports

Women's hoops snaps five-game losing streak

By Justin Hall | November 30

The AU women's basketball team was able to pull out a win by a razor-thin margin Tuesday night with a 61-60 victory over UMBC to snap a five-game losing streak. The win was the Eagles' first at Bender Arena this season, improving their overall record to 2-5.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Geography skill problems aren't just schools' fault

November 30

A recent survey by National Geographic revealed that young adult Americans are sorely lacking in knowledge of world geography. More specifically: -Only 37 percent could correctly identify Iraq on a map -20 percent think Sudan is in Asia (It's in Africa, by the way) -48 percent think that the majority population in India is Muslim (It's Hindu) And, most shockingly, half of young Americans cannot find New York state on a map.

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News

Holiday season destroys souls

By Benjamin Lozovsky | November 30

I come to you a changed man. I arrive weary and sore yet invigorated and hopeful, bearing simply a tale of discovery and reinvention, faith and celebration and unmeditated violence and airborne swine. This is the story of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Holiday Season.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor

November 30

Dear Editor, While I appreciate efforts toward partisan equity in The Eagle's opinions section, I am nonetheless inclined to wonder if the selection of columnists is conducive to true intellectual inquiry. Conservative columnist Caleb Enerson presents metered but uncompromising support for the Republican Party in his column, "On the Right.

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National brief: Girl lights mother's bed on fire in faked abduction attempt

By Jimm Phillips | November 30

A 12-year-old girl in Miami County, Ind., reportedly attempted to fake her own abduction by setting her mother's bed on fire and driving away with two younger siblings in the family's car, according to the Associated Press. Police said the girl was sick of doing chores, according to the AP.

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Opinion

Corrections

November 30

In a letter to the editor, Lynn Nguyen was incorrectly identified as a past participant in the Washington Mentorship Program. She was accepted to the program but did not participate. The Eagle apologizes for this error.

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News

College debt increasing

By Elyse Franko | November 30

College alumni who owe more than $20,000 in student loans make up the fastest-growing group of indebted "20-something" Americans, according to credit-reporting agency Experian. Between 2001 and 2006, average student loan debt rose 16 percent to $14,379, according to the Experian report.

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