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Staff editorial: Basketball brouhaha

A recruiting brochure for AU's men's basketball team caused an uproar and threats to pull funding for next weekend's Phil Bender festivities. The Graduate Student Leadership Council and Women's Initiative planned to hold their wallets if the basketball office did not apologize for advertising D.

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SIS welcomes more summer 2006 programs

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New summer programs introduced by the School of International Service offer students the opportunity to earn credit and expand their knowledge in a particular area by studying in Washington D.C. or a foreign country. The SIS Summer 2006 Institutes expanded their program to include destinations to New Mexico, Italy, South Africa and Northern Ireland, and also extended its Malaysia program SIS Dean Louis Goodman said there are many incentives for students majoring in SIS and non-SIS majors to participate in these summer study programs.

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Cartoons: take a chill pill

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In a recent letter to the editor, Riazul Raquib attempts to justify, or at least explain, the violent protesting by some Muslims in Europe. He does so by arguing that Islam is essentially above criticism, much less comedy. Specifically, he states that "satires of Jesus may not create much unrest to the overall Christian community, [yet] the same principle does not simply carry over into the Muslim worldview.

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Local comic store caters to new crowd

Around the corner from Best Buy and the Container Store is an easily missed Tenleytown treasure: Fantom Comics. Last November, owner and sole employee Matt Klokel opened the store to work for himself. "I had a good job, and I had a good boss, and I still wanted to work for myself, so I made a business plan and did it," Klokel says.


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Out of context

"Don't hold your breath." - Professor Brec Cooke to all the women in his Education for Social Justice class who raised their hands after being queried as to who was holding out for a fairytale wedding. Ah, NCOR. What better way to hone those indispensable do-it-yourself skills? This year's activist participants flooded Mary Graydon this past weekend, attending workshops with names like "Guerilla Poetry," "Mountain Justice," "Urban Gardening Training," "Improv and Anarchy," "Queers and Gentrification," "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" and "Parenting for/as Radical Social Change.


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Pole-dancing class offered at Canadian university

The University of British Columbia became the first North American university to offer pole-dancing lessons, a move that caused discussion among members of the AU community. The class, "Pole Dancing 101," teaches students the art of spinning, dancing and hip swaying, according to The Tyee newspaper's web site, www.


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Sports

PL-leading Bison thrash Eagle women

The AU women's basketball team lost, 73-38, to the Bucknell Bison at Sojka Pavilion Tuesday night to fall to 3-6 in the Patriot League. Coming off an emotional win at Lehigh over the weekend, the Eagles never got on track against the Bison, falling behind early and never getting back in the game.


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Early activism profiled in 'Last Days'

Student life and activism have gone hand in hand for quite some time. But today, protests against Starbucks and Taco Bell seem rather lackluster. Are these un-revolutionary times or do the efforts of the present just seem like small potatoes compared to the past? The first thing that comes to mind is the work done by students against issues like the Vietnam War in the 1960s, but the concept of young people striving to inspire change is nothing new.


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Opinion

Letter to the editor

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to Mr. Riazul Raquib's column in The Eagle. While I agree with Mr. Raquib that the several of the cartoons depicting Mohammad were childish and offensive, and that the riots in response to the cartoons have been "gross overreactions," I am particularly concerned with Mr.


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Campus-wide renovations aim to ease cramped schools, outdated facilities

AU is set to begin as many as five major campus construction projects within the next two years, according to Jerry Gager, the university's director of facilities planning and development. These capital improvements will leave the campus with one new building, two renovated buildings, an expanded student union and possibly a new dorm.


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Prices force students to seek bookstore alternatives

The spring semester is in its fourth week, but some students may still be waiting for their textbooks to come from amazon.com. Rising textbook prices have increasingly pushed students toward the library and online used-book sources, away from the campus bookstore.


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Metro calendar

Thursday, Feb. 9 "The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: A Legal Framework in Crisis." 8:30 am.-5:15 p.m. Washington College of Law, Room 603 The 2006 Annual Conference of the International Law Review will be a timely assessment and discussion of the current legal framework for nuclear nonproliferation.


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Sports

No luck for Eagle men either

The AU men's basketball team headed to Patriot League-leading Bucknell (19-3, 10-0 PL) Wednesday searching for its first win there since 2002. But Bucknell, poised for a second-straight PL regular-season title, cruised to a 74-57 win over the Eagles (7-15, 3-6).


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Opinion

Staff editorial: Changes in the Nest

Students have been busy complaining about changes to the campus convenience store, the Eagle's Nest, as popular chips, cookies and other snacks have been replaced by organic products and healthy foods. The Eagle's Nest and Bon Appetit insist the inconvenience is temporary while they restock and reorganize the store.


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Metro briefs

UDC raises tuition to aid development, utilities The University of the District of Columbia is raising tuition and fees by $625 to improve teacher development and student counseling and to cover the cost of rising utility bills, The Washington Post reported.


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Opinion

No thanks, NCOR

I was going to keep quiet, but I cannot possibly stand idly by with the pro-NCOR conference columns that were all over the Eagle. ÿThey're message and mission could be positive, and it very well may be. ÿThat's not what I'm writing about. ÿTo be honest, those who were here this weekend were some of the most offensive and ignorant people I've ever encountered.


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DS game creates interactive 'wild world'

"Animal Crossing: Wild World," a new life simulation for the Nintendo DS, is a lot like TV's "Seinfeld": it's a game about nothing. In "Animal Crossing," there's no fighting and no enemies. There is only one town to explore. There is no way to win, per se, unless one considers "living well" to be the best kind of victory.


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Opinion

Column: Nickel and diming AU

For a student body that prides itself on liberal activism, social justice and sticking it to the man whenever possible, it never ceases to amaze me that AU students so often forget to look out for themselves. Sure, students were up in arms over the expense account abuses of Ladnergate, but then those were hard to miss.


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Half of Iraqi citizens support attacks on U.S. forces

Half of Iraqi citizens support attacks on U.S. forces, including nine out of 10 Sunnis, according to a poll recently released by the Program on International Policy Attitudes. The poll, conducted Jan. 2 through 4, asked 1,150 Iraqis of all religious and ethnic backgrounds about their support for attacks on U.


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Army has no plans to cut troops despite Congress complaints

WASHINGTON _ The Army has no plans to cut National Guard and Army Reserve troops, senior Army officials said Thursday, responding to complaints from governors and members of Congress that the Army's restructuring plan would weaken those forces. In the 2007 budget plan that President Bush will send to Congress next week, the Army proposes funding 333,000 troops for the National Guard and 189,000 for the Army Reserve, the current totals.



Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.


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