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Metro brief

March 26

Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., moved out of his doublewide trailer and into his new office in the Russell Senate Office Building Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Johanns worked out of the trailer, which was parked in the courtyard outside of the building, for nearly three months, the AP reported.

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Law aims to cut birth control price

By Joseph Kelly | March 26

AU's Student Health Center may not receive the same cheaper birth control options - the result of a new national spending bill - as other university health centers. President Obama signed the bill March 11 that would allow pharmaceutical companies to resume selling discount contraceptives to college health clinics.

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Class examines TDR waste

By Katie Litvin | March 26

Bon Appetit, AU's on-campus food management service, has partnered with an environmental studies class to study the environmental effects of removing trays from the Terrace Dining Room. College of Arts and Sciences professor Kiho Kim's section of Environmental Issues has conducted five out of six planned sampling sessions to measure the amount of food students take with and without trays. The class will announce whether or not tray removal contributes to reducing waste on Earth Day - April 22.

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Campus calendar

March 26

Thursday, March 26 AU Job and Internship Fair 1-4 p.m. WHERE: Bender Arena INFO: AU students can meet employers for job opportunities and internships. Students must bring AU identification to enter and should wear business-appropriate clothing. CONTACT: For more information, visit www.

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National brief

March 26

A new room on the International Space Station may be named after comedian and television host Stephen Colbert, the Associated Press reported. Colbert won NASA's online naming contest after he asked viewers of "The Colbert Report" to write him in. More than 230,000 viewers entered "Colbert" as their vote, according to the AP.

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Candidates seek AUSG positions

March 26

The following students are candidates for Student Government offices for the 2009-2010 academic year. All undergraduate students may vote online March 31 and April 1 on the my.american.edu portal.

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Campus brief

March 26

AU Provost Scott A. Bass announced the faculty that will be honored in this year's annual Faculty Recognition Dinner in a campus-wide e-mail yesterday. In order to qualify for an award, a faculty member must "exemplify excellence in scholarship, service and teachings," or be celebrating a landmark anniversary in the number of years they have been teaching - anywhere from 25 to 40 years, according to the e-mail.

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Film explores WWI weapons under AU

By Marisa Kendall | March 23

AU students need more information regarding the chemical weapons buried on the university's campus after the end of World War I, said Ginny Durrin during a screening Thursday of a film she is producing on the subject. The U.S. military used AU's campus as a chemical weapons testing site from 1917 to 1918.

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Anti-war rally draws crowd

By Clint Rice | March 23

Thousands of protesters, including some AU students, marched on the Pentagon and defense corporations in Arlington, Va., Saturday afternoon to protest U.S. aid to Israel the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The demonstrators chanted and shouted as they marched from a starting location near the Lincoln Memorial to the Crystal City headquarters of companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

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Festival honors blooming relations

By Nicole Glass | March 23

Seven Goodwill Ambassadors will represent Japanese-American relations at the Cherry Blossom Festival next week - including three AU students. The Cherry Blossom Festival is a series of festivities celebrating the friendship between the United States and Japan with the blooming of the blossoms and the arrival of spring at the Tidal Basin.

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SG brief

March 23

Five AU councils have not submitted budget proposals for the upcoming year, according to Class of 2010 Sen. Steve Dalton at Sunday's Undergraduate Senate meeting. The Class of 2010 Council, Class of 2012 Council, Arts Council, College of Arts and Sciences Council and Eagle Nights did not present budget proposals to the senate budget committee, Dalton said.

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International brief

March 23

A 3-year-old girl was almost buried alive in Bolivia Monday after her parents, who thought she was dead, prepared for her burial, CNN.com reported. The girl was suffering from several injuries, including burns on her face and contusions on her body, Jose Carlos Camacho, director of Hospital Universitario Japones in Santa Cruz, told CNN.

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Clubs seek more transit options

By Tamar Hallerman | March 23

In an e-mail to various university officials last week, AU Debate Society President Spencer Siegel outlined his club's and other student organizations' frustration with obtaining "reliable and affordable" transportation through AU to off-campus events. "Current transportation options are hardly feasible and do not service the needs of certain groups on campus," he said in the e-mail, which 13 student groups signed.

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National brief

March 23

Two men who stole money and jewelry from a Milwaukee jewelry store Wednesday did not manage to hold onto the loot for long, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. As the robbers left the store, they were robbed by at least four other men, Lt. Thomas Welch told the Journal-Sentinel.

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Campus brief

March 23

Housing and Dining Programs has delayed the Hall Reapplication and Campus Reapplication process to Monday due to technical difficulties, according to an e-mail sent out by Housing and Dining this past week. Students who would like to live in their current residence hall must take part in the room reapplication process that will take place today, starting at 7:00 a.

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Vandals strike Bender

By Ethan Klapper | March 23

March 23 | 9:09 p.m. » An eyewitness has come forward and named a possible suspect in this weekend's Relay for Life vandalism incident, according Julie Rinehart, the event's coordinator and a senior in the School of Public Affairs. It is unclear whether part of the $24,000 raised for cancer research during the event Friday night and Saturday morning will still go to cover repairs in the Bender Arena men's restroom, where three stall dividers were torn down at some point during the event.

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Metro calendar

March 23

Monday, March 23 Mayor's Arts Awards 6 p.m. WHERE: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St. N.W. METRO: Foggy Bottom-GWU (orange and blue lines) INFO: An evening of performances by local groups such as the Washington Ballet and Washington Improv Theater hosted by D.

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