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Birdgang, Skrilla's hip-hop picks

By Sam Bromell | March 6

Hip-hop music was born almost 30 years ago on the streets of the Bronx in New York City. In its earliest form, hip-hop was nothing more than a DJ, an MC (master of ceremonies), two turntables and some bass-heavy break-beats blasting out of a set of speakers.

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SOC professor takes on a new role, gets laughs

By David Wilezol | March 6

School of Communication professor Chris Palmer is a Renaissance Man. He's served in the British Navy, been a high school boxing champion and worked on an Israeli kibbutz. He was a naval officer, an engineer, a business consultant, an energy analyst, the chief energy advisor to a senior U.

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Sports

AU has big work ahead if it wants to win PL

By Patrick Ambrosio | March 6

The future for the AU men's basketball team should be bright, with all five starters returning next year and a freshman class that contributed significantly to the team. However, Sunday's 64-50 loss at Bucknell exposed some problems that the Eagles need to fix if they are to be one of the elite teams in the Patriot League next season.

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Sports

For Eagles, it's over and out

By Patrick Ambrosio | March 6

LEWISBURG, Pa. - Facing a deafening Sojka Pavilion home court and an undefeated Bucknell for its Patriot League turnament semifinal, the AU men's basketball trailed from the beginning and lost, 64-50.? The Eagles' failure to score ultimately ended their season, a problem that's plagued them throughout the year.

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A guide to New York City's hardcore musical landscape

By Andrew Yonki | March 6

After the first wave of punk rock died off in the early '80s, small scenes in Southern California and Washington, D.C., began to crank out punk rock in a louder, faster, more aggressive form. This sound of punk rock became known as hardcore. Conspicuously absent in the early years of hardcore was any contribution from New York City, where punk started.

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Opinion

'Wrong' is Will Haun's new middle name

By Daniel Cohen | March 6

American University will cause any logical person with the slightest concept of political ideas to become steaming mad at one idea or another. The outlets for such emotion generally consist of uselessly irrational political banter. Having felt such pressures before, I want to thank Will Haun for writing an article so asinine that I actually chuckled and became happy rather than angry.

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Ambassador emphasizes democracy

By Tiffany Heimbuch-Maybee | March 6

The American University Foreign Policy Association presented His Excellency Mr. Shamsher M. Chowdhury, the Bangladeshi Ambassador, to the United States last Thursday. Chowdhury served in the War of Liberation of Bangladesh, earning several honors and decorations.

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National brief: Upcoming NASA missions cut

By Ryan Grannan-Doll | March 6

Upcoming NASA missions will be delayed or cancelled due to recent cuts in the agency's new budget, according to The New York Times. The affected missions are planned scientific research missions. Delays come after promises that "not one dime" of funding would be taken from President George W.

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South Dakota abortion law will challenge Roe v. Wade

By Brittany Schell | March 6

South Dakota recently approved legislation to ban nearly all abortions and awaits Republican Gov. Mike Rounds' signature, a move many AU student leaders oppose. The bill would make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save a woman's life, but there would be no exceptions in cases of rape or incest, according to The Washington Post.

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Opinion

Coca-Cola running scared from labor rights violations

By Lesley Gill and Travis McArthur | March 6

The Coca-Cola Company is scared. New York University, Rutgers University and the University of Michigan have ended contracts with Coca-Cola because of the corporation's egregious labor practices in Colombia, and students around the country are urging other universities to follow suit.

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Sports

AU has all the right moves in early tourney exit

By Jesse Epstein | March 6

Trekking up to Worcester, Mass., for her team's Patriot League tournament game against Holy Cross, AU coach Melissa McFerrin knew exactly what her seventh-seeded Eagles needed to do to have any hope of scoring an upset: Hustle, play defense and keep the game in the 50s.

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State legislatures pass Plan B laws

By Rebecca Kern | March 6

The Food and Drug Administration's inability to decide whether the emergency contraceptive Plan B, also called the morning after pill, should be available without a prescription, hassled state legislatures to monitor the availability of the drug, according to The Washington Post.

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'Walkathon' struts across two screens

By Daniel Longino | March 6

It's no secret that I love Paul Walker. The 2Hot 2Talented hard-bodied bro has had a string of amazing films, cementing his place in movie history. Walker first made a splash in the Disney surfing buddy comedy "Meet the Deedles"(not to be confused with Peter Jackson's Muppets-on-acid "Meet the Feebles," which I did once, and I'm not really sure how those kids handled the scene in which the bunny puppet thinks he has an STD).

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Speaker resigns from SG

By Cait Douglas | March 6

Speaker Chris Sgro resigned this week as leader of the Undergraduate Senate after telling members he could no longer serve a body that has been overtaken by senators "playing politics." The Undergraduate Senate unanimously elected Ben Murray, a junior in the School of Public Affairs and School of International Service, to fill the empty position.

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Garrett's Vintage Shopping Tips

By Lenore Costello | March 6

Ask for what it is you have in mind. Vintage stores can often be overwhelming, and the sales attendants may be able to find something for you more easily than you would be able to do on your own. Give yourself time. When you finally find that perfect green paisley skirt you've always wanted, it will be well worth the five hours you spent hunting for it.

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E-textbook technology catches on slowly

By Michael Scher | March 6

E-textbooks, versions of books that can be read using programs like the Adobe Acrobat reader or put on Palm Pilots for reading, are now available at the AU bookstore. E-textbooks are considered by many to be the wave of the future, however according to bookstore staff, texts are not regularly available in electronic formats unless a professor requests it for a class.

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Sports

Sports briefs

March 6

Howard spoils home opener for women's tennis The AU women's tennis team was defeated by Howard Sunday, 4-3. The doubles matches were tight, with Howard winning two of them by an 8-4 margin to capture the doubles point. The AU tandem of Julia Colarusso and Malvina DeLaCanal won the third doubles match for the Eagles Things were going well at first for AU in singles play, as Colarusso's opponent, Aja Wright, retired because of an injury in the beginning of the first set.

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