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Local comic store caters to new crowd

By Josh Kramer | February 9

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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News

Out of context

February 9

"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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News

Pole-dancing class offered at Canadian university

By Kate Oczypok | February 9

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

By Jesse Epstein | February 9

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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News

Early activism profiled in 'Last Days'

By Jen Turner | February 9

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

February 9

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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News

Campus-wide renovations aim to ease cramped schools, outdated facilities

By Brian Kalish | February 9

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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News

Prices force students to seek bookstore alternatives

By Olga Khazan | February 9

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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News

Metro calendar

By Kate Oczypok | February 9

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

February 9

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

February 9

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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News

Metro briefs

February 9

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

By Bill Quinn | February 9

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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News

DS game creates interactive 'wild world'

February 9

"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

By Jonathan D. McPike | February 9

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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News

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

By Kelly Kerr | February 9

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

By Drew Brown / KRT | February 9

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.

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