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Pipe problems flush out student use of campus toilets!

By Annasus Dier and Ettenneaj Lemmik · Thursday, April 1, 2004

According to AU's Director of Facilities, I.P. Knightly, all restroom facilities on campus will close for five days beginning this afternoon at 3 p.m. "High lead content in the water has been causing build-up that clogs pipes around campus," Knightly said.

FBI Agents storm SIS!

By James Jesus Angleton · Thursday, April 1, 2004

On Wednesday morning, armed FBI agents stormed the School of International Service building and arrested Dean Julius Rosenberg and professors Azzam Azzam, Robert Hansen and Alger Hiss. FBI agents also took 40 boxes filled with documents and what appeared to be a weapons cache.

China, broadcast and SOC

By Stokely Baksh · Monday, March 29, 2004

Journalism may be one of the last professions in the world that still has an air of romanticism. This feeling is sometimes inspired by films like those from AU's recent Reel Journalism Film Festival, which highlighted the dedication of journalists like Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in uncovering the Watergate scandal, and of Sydney Schanberg in the midst of the Khmer Rouge in war-stricken Cambodia.

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Archbishop remembered at ceremony

By Story Elmore | March 29

More than 80 members of the AU community attended a campus ceremony last Wednesday to commemorate the life of El Salvador's Monsignor Oscar Romero. Archbishop Romero, a well-known opponent of violence, was assassinated by the Salvadoran military. During the time, the small Central American country was involved in civil war.

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Train bill sponsored in wake of Madrid

By Phil Turner | March 29

In the wake of the Madrid terror attacks that left over 200 people dead, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is leading the charge into an inquiry about rail safety to prevent a similar tragedy from occurring in the United States. Last week, Norton sent a letter to Homeland Security Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) requesting a full committee hearing on the nation's rail and subway systems.

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Metro Briefs

March 29

Short news clips from the D.C. Metro area.

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