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Report shows D.C. lacks in AIDS awareness programs

By Kelly Kerr | March 30

AU students need to be aware of AIDS risk behaviors and prevention methods, according to on-campus organizations such as The Naked Truth and the Wellness Center. Following a harsh report on the District's response to the city's HIV/AIDS problem, a follow-up report gave the city a mixed review on its six-month review last Thursday, according to The Washington Post.

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Opinion

Presidential and vice presidential candidates

March 30

Rob Boisseau Class of 2006 Undergraduate Senator Junior, SPA and CAS Annapolis, Md. In brief: Too often, candidates will disregard their responsibility to offer real information about their campaigns, instead posturing and offering pretty words about their qualifications that run short beyond the first.

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Opinion

Secretary and comptroller candidates

March 30

Joe Colarusso Class of 2008 Senator Sophomore, CAS and SPA Mastic, N.Y. In brief: Clubs need more money and a larger presence on campus. Students need a voice on the board of trustees, students need to understand what the SG is and the SG needs to understand what the students want.

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News

Police blotter

By Kate Oczypok | March 30

Saturday, March 18 A laptop was stolen from a classroom in the Ward Circle building. Officers responded and a statement was taken. Graffiti was found on the first floor restroom of the Asbury Building. A mulch fire was reported in front of Anderson Hall. Officers responded and extinguished the fire that was caused by an impromperly extinguished cigarette.

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News

Indie queen Lewis charms Birchmere with twins in tow

By Annie Rebekah Gardner | March 30

On Thursday night at Alexandria's Birchmere, Jenny Lewis, 5'1" and bedecked in western-style vintage clothing, graced the metropolitan area with her own cowboy boot-wearin' entourage, which included the musical duo the Watson Twins. Lewis has long been the hip front woman of the band Rilo Kiley, but on this night she transformed from a mildly embittered rock star to a sweet and sentimental crooner (in a good way).

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News

Catering to others' wishes might not secure yours

By Blair Bryant Nichols | March 30

A wise woman once said, "Tell people what they want to hear, so they will give you what you want." That woman was Paris Hilton. This tactic may work wonderfully when trying to convince your middle-aged hotel magnate father to give you a new Rolls Royce for your birthday, but when it comes to love and relationships, telling someone what you think they want to hear can be the worst thing of all.

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News

Local politics gives students more access

By Lauren Gardner | March 30

Students can help affect change in politics by becoming more active in the local governments of their schools, said professors and campaigning politicians Jamin Raskin and Mary Cheh at a lecture at George Washington University Monday. Raskin, a professor of constitutional law at AU's Washington College of Law, is running in the Democratic primary in September for Maryland State Senate against 20-year incumbent Ida Ruben, Raskin said.

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News

Horoscopes

By Tamara Brown | March 30

Aries (March 21 - April 19) Jinkies! It will be extremely difficult to solve the mysteries placed before you this week, Aries. If you get the right people in the van and supply them with a large quantity of sandwiches, you will discover who or what has been haunting the amusement park.

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News

Campus brief: AU radio station to partner with traffic website

By Kate Oczypok | March 30

WAMU 88.5 FM has partnered with Traffic.com to make listeners' commutes a little less stressful, according to The American Weekly. The service uses a state-of-the-art network of road sensors, fire and police radios, mobile vehicle road reporters, airborne traffic monitors, and more than 300 cameras across the D.

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News

Let the rhythm hit 'em: classic hip-hop

March 30

With this column, we want to reintroduce anyone who cares to listen to the fun, truly introspective and downright funky music that is real hip-hop music. Therefore, we are bringing you our classic hip-hop picks, records that embody the sound and expand the scope of hip-hop in amazing ways.

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News

SG presidential candidates talk policy

By Cait Douglas | March 30

As banners flutter on the Quad, a sure sign that Student Government elections are in full swing, the SG presidential candidates participated in the first debate of the spring campaigns Wednesday night answering student questions in a town hall forum. The forum, organized and moderated by the Board of Elections, allowed for the candidates to discuss their platforms and positions on issues of concern to students.

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Panel looks at women's role in Middle Eastern society

By April Astor | March 30

The image of a Middle Eastern woman covered by a burkha may conjure up strong feelings for Western feminists. During the Taliban regime however, there was more public outrage over the group's destruction of Buddhist statues than over their harsh treatment of women, said AU professor Catherine Warrick at a panel discussion Monday night.

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Sports

Patriots' revolution will fail in Indy

By Jesse Epstein | March 30

Wow, I'm a battered human, a shell of my former self, dead to the world, or any other pathetic clich? you can come up with for what happened to me and my bracket last weekend. If you can find it in your hearts, please disregard the "four truths" column I gave last week, when I proclaimed Duke, Villanova, Gonzaga and U-Conn.

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National/world briefs

By Kate Oczypok | March 30

Abramoff sentenced five years for fradulent purchases Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for his role in the fraudulent purchase of a fleet of casino cruise ships, www.

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Opinion

Don't politicize Iraq casualties

By Jonathan D. McPike | March 30

Last Tuesday night, members of the Community Action and Social Justice Coalition and the Movement for Global Justice, two AU student-run groups, met outside the Kay Spiritual Life Center. Armed with cans of spray chalk and cardboard cutouts of human bodies, they outlined the figures in red "to make the campus look like a war zone," according to an e-mail from MGJ to its listserv that I obtained.

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Sports

Sports brief: The Mount tops women's tennis

By Kevin Hilgers | March 30

The AU women's tennis team's top two earned victories, lbut the Eagles ost the match Tuesday at Mount. St. Mary's, 4-2. Junior Julia Colarusso and sophomore Malvina DeLaCanal each won, 2-0. Colarusso defeated Jen Isosue, 6-3, 6-3, while DeLaCanal beat Katie Muething, 6-1, 6-2.

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Metro crash in 2005 leads to improved safety

By Kate Oczypok | March 30

Metro officials are planning to install rollback protection on trains within the next year due to last year's collision in which a train rolled backward for 78 seconds and slammed into another train, according to Metro spokeswoman Candace Smith. The operator of the runaway train at the Woodley Park Station in November 2004 failed to break because he was probably asleep, federal safety officials said last week.

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