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April 13

Thumbs up... Holocaust Remembrance Week... The Jewish communtiy reflected on the horors of this part of history. Kerwin Panel... Even though he's been interim Prez for less than a year, we've seen more of him than Ladner. Keep engaging us, Neil! Notre Dame gets tolerant.

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News

Organization encourages resident involvement

By Rebecca Kern | April 13

D.C. Appleseed, a nonprofit organization that focuses on solving important public policy problems in the D.C. metropolitan area, is holding a contest to compile new public policy input from D.C. area residents, according to their Web site, dcappleseed.org.

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Sports

Year by year, gymnasts are vaulting forward

By Erin Keaveney | April 13

Most students at AU might be surprised to hear that the AU women's gymnastics club team competed in a national competition over the weekend. That's because most students probably weren't even aware that AU had a gymnastics team. "People don't really know about us because we don't have meets," junior Rachel Centariczki said.

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News

TV series pushes boundaries

By Jorge Del Pinal | April 13

The seventh season of "South Park" is by far one of the best of the controversial animated show's ongoing run. Its no-holds-barred satire of society, using four fourth grade students and their crazy hometown of South Park, Colorado, hits up everything from illegal music downloading and metrosexuality to protesting/anti-protesting, Native American casinos, Mormons and stem cell research, among other topics.

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News

Classroom bias doesn't affect grades

By Olga Khazan | April 13

A recent study showed that conservative students perform equally well as liberals in courses involving political or social issues, which could be due to the open and accepting nature of the college environment, said Susan McDonic, assistant professor of anthropology at AU.

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News

Notre Dame permits 'Vagina Monologues' performance

By Rebecca Kern | April 13

The University of Notre Dame's president will continue to allow the performance of the play "The Vagina Monologues" and the school's gay film festival, a decision that contrasts with his January speech questioning the appropriateness of both events according to The New York Times.

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News

Horoscopes

By Tamara Brown | April 13

Aries (March 21 - April 19) The warm weather has given you a new lease on life, so really make the most of it. Feel the cool breeze as it blows your miniskirt up in front of your crush, relish the stains from your dripping ice cream cone and good luck with that painful bee sting that may or may not cause your face to swell.

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News

Campus brief: 2006 AU commencement speakers announced

By Ryan Grannan-Doll | April 13

The AU administration announced the graduation speakers for this year's commencement ceremonies, including former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker, CEO Of The Washington Post Donald Graham, theatre director Michael Kahn and Associate Judge of the District Of Columbia Court Of Appeals Vanessa Ruiz.

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Sports

Army coach remembered for leadership

By Jesse Epstein | April 13

A month ago, Army women's basketball coach Maggie Dixon found herself on top of the world. She was headed to her first NCAA tournament in her first season as a head coach against one of the greatest programs in the country, Tennessee. Life couldn't get any better for the 28-year-old firecracker of a coach, who became the nation's sweetheart through her countless ESPN interviews and stories of the dream season she led.

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News

Band brings eclectic mix and bag of tricks to AU

By Chris Moreno | April 13

Every five seconds, a so-called "musician" is born in New York. The question is, how does one distinguish themselves from the sea of frauds and mediocrity and rise above it all? The answer: "Be awkward." Flying is a Brooklyn-based quartet whose brand of jazzy, noisy, experimental music has recently been generating some buzz.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: St. Paul, Minn., City Hall evicts Easter Bunny

April 13

ÿ No, the headline is not wrong. St. Paul really did ban the Easter Bunny from its city hall building. The conflicts of recent years over religious holiday displays has now gone from impassioned to silly. The reasoning given by city officals was that the Easter Bunny, the loveable creature you had your picture taken with when you were 2 years old, would offend non-Christians.

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News

Half a million people protest immigration laws in D.C. Monday

By Kate Oczypok | April 13

In Washington, D.C. thousands of people marched in an immigration rally Monday afternoon. Participants marched in Hispanic neighborhoods past the White House then converged on the National Mall. Hundreds of thousands of pro-immigration demonstrators mobilized in the nation's capital and in as many as 100 cities across the country in a powerful display of grassroots muscle-flexing to protest Congress' failure to reshape immigration laws.

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News

Events mark Holocaust Remembrance Week

By Tiffany Heimbuch-Maybee | April 13

The Jewish Student Association hosted Holocaust Remembrance Week, which featrued a variety of events focusing on different aspects of the Holocaust, ending with a speech by "Nazi Hunter" Arnold Weiss. The Jewish Student Association presented the speaker Arnold Weiss to speak of his experiences in Germany as a Jewish boy in an orphanage and being sent to the United States on Sunday.

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News

Heavyweight rockers hit D.A.R.

By Rebecca Armendariz | April 13

Alex Kapranos spread his legs apart during the punches of the "Walk Away" chorus, pounding his pelvis to the beat set forth by drummer Paul Thomson. His pants gave new meaning to the term "tightie whities," as his constrained bottom struggled against the stiff fabric.

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News

Dulles on the docket for Metro

By Chris Moreno | April 13

It's a hassle to get to Tyson's Corner without a car. Both the East and West Falls Church Metro stops (orange and blue lines) have buses that go into Tyson's Corner, but all of this seems a bit much. Currently, there is project to add a new rail line to the D.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: AU faces loss of caring and involved student

April 10

ÿ American University lost a caring person and a smiling face Saturday when Ramona Narine passed away. The AU junior was very active on campus and left her mark on many lives. Narine died when the vehicle she was driving collided with another on a rain-slicked road Saturday.

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Sports

Never mind the mud, say ruggers

By Janel Knight | April 10

Mother Nature did not stop the AU women's rugby club from playing in the Cherry Blossom Festival's annual tournament last weekend on the National Mall. The players slipped and slid across the pitch, shutting out Catholic University, 5-0, in their first game Saturday morning.

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