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Campus Brief: Professor wins Sadker Award for advertising

By Kate Oczypok · Thursday, March 3, 2005

AU's School of Education awarded Jean Kilbourne with the Myra Sadker Equity Award for her work on women in advertising. After she received the award, Kilbourne discussed her documentary "Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women." Kilbourne has worked in the advertising field for more than 20 years and is the author of "Can't Buy Me Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel.

Despite violence in Lebanon, peace awaits, prof says

By David Hodges · Thursday, March 3, 2005

As Middle Easterners watch protests in Lebanon and elections in Iraq, AU professor Abdul Aziz Said is optimistic that people from the region may embrace more liberal and less repressive systems of government. "There is a crisis of governance in the Middle East," said Said, the Mohammad Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace in the School of International Service.

PR club hosts national networking event at AU

By Melinda C. Hall · Thursday, March 3, 2005

Public communication majors can network and learn from public relations professionals at "PR in D.C.: It's Not Just Politics" April 1 and 2, the first regional activity sponsored by the AU Public Relations Student Society of America. About 50 out-of-state and AU students have registered to attend, including undergraduate students from Maine, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York.

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Taylor wins SG presidency

By Mary Specht | March 3

Posted March 3, 2005. Kyle Taylor won the Student Government presidency with 55.8 percent of 711 votes and will assume the position April 17. Joe Gallina got 43.7 percent of the vote in the run-off election held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. "[I feel] overwhelmed, but all the exhaustion sort of disappeared," said Taylor, a junior in the Kogod School of Business and the School of International Service.

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Poor body image leads to poor health

By Ariel Amante | March 3

The Extreme Measures Tour of colleges kicked off its national body image campaign and Eating Disorders Awareness Week on Monday night at AU, as more and more young women have plastic surgery and eating disorders, said tour co-coordinator Beth Nichols. The event featured a woman who dealt with complications due to breast implant surgery, a plastic surgery expert, a woman who recovered from an eating disorder and a mental health professional, who all shared their experiences and knowledge to increase awareness of plastic surgery risks and eating disorders.

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Metro Brief: Howard's Hilltop makes history with daily

By Emily Carone | March 3

Howard University's student newspaper, The Hilltop, began publishing daily on Monday, making it the first newspaper at a historically black college to do so. The Hilltop started publishing every Tuesday and Friday in 2001, and is now making the jump to five issues per week under Editor in Chief Ruth Tisdale, a junior political science major.