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Candy used to protest Minn. eviction of Easter Bunny

By Kate Oczypok | April 13

A decision to evict the Easter Bunny in the St. Paul, Minn., City Hall has caused Marshmallow Peeps to multiply outside the building of St. Paul, Minn., City Hall, resulting in a controversy surrounding the upcoming Easter holiday. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that the furor began after St.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: AU students march to 'take back the night'

April 13

Students gathered Tuesday night at Glover Gate and took part in the annual "Take Back the Night" observance. The event drew a large crowd, and it was encouraging to see men as well as women out in support of rape victims and prevention. After marching around campus chanting slogans against violence, the participants gathered in Kay to hear from rape vicitims and support them on the road to recovery.

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Sports

Common sense says Favre will return

By Jesse Epstein | April 13

Wow, what a week. Baseball is starting, basketball and hockey are ending, and the NFL draft is heating up. Tragedy, triumph and turmoil surrounded the week. But, at the end of the day, we still have two truths. and a lie. Truth: Brett Favre will be back in the NFL next season.

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Metro reports second-busiest day in 30-year history

By Marissa Newhall | April 13

Police closed much of 16th Street Monday as hordes of immigration rights supporters marched from Adams Morgan to a rally on the National Mall. The festive march stopped traffic in the late afternoon and had many downtown workers leaning from windows to cheer and observe.

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Sports

American U. lacks American pastime

By Justin Hall | April 13

The sounds of birds chirping, the smell of freshly cut grass and the crack of a baseball against a wooden bat are the traditional signs of spring in America. However, for a number of years, that last sound has been absent on AU's campus, something that should be returned quickly.

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Hanging laundry out to dry comes with territory

By Blair Bryant Nichols | April 13

When I first started writing this column, I would brag about it with my newfound friends in London. "Yeah, I write a sex column," I would say over a pint, half-grinning and reveling in their laughter. "That's awesome, dude!" exclaimed the New York hipster.

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News

History of Civil War decays

By Jimm Phillips | April 13

Civil War battlefields from Glorieta Pass, N.M., to Gettysburg, Pa., are endangered, according to a Civil War historical preservation society. The Civil War Preservation Trust released its annual list of the 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields on Feb.

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Opinion

All thumbs

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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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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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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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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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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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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