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Meditation club brings guest speakers, new ideas

By Tiffany Heimbuch-Maybee | February 20

Rebekah Moan, a senior in the School of Communication started a meditation club at AU last semester that offers different types of meditation, including destressing and spiritual enlightenment. "The meditation I teach, Ananda Marga, is a mantra meditation, where you repeat a phrase over and over again to focus on God and love," she said.

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Metro calendar

By Kelly Kerr | February 20

Monday, Feb. 20 George Washington Birthday Parade 1-3 p.m. King and Royal Streets, Alexandria, VA (Old Town Alexandria) 703-991-4474 Take the Metro to King Street (Blue and Yellow Lines) Admission: Free Old Town Alexandria will celebrate George Washington's birthday with a parade featuring more than 100 marching bands, equestrian groups, military units and reenactment units, with Earl Lloyd, the first Afican American to play in the NBA, as the parade's Grand Marshall.

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February 20

Students protest Belarusian dictatorshop Students for a Global Democracy protested against Belarusan dictatorship last Thursday in front of the Belarusian Embassy on New Hampshire Avenue. The students joined citizens worldwide in protesting on behalf of Belarusian political prisoners, abducted opposition leaders and missing journalists, according to a Students for Global Democracy International press release.

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D.C. councilman takes interest in local college students

By Brian Kalish | February 20

Robert Gordon, a longtime Advisory Neighborhood Council commissioner, officially announced his candidacy for the D.C. City Council Thursday. His announcement was made at the historic Avalon Theatre on Connecticut Ave., which Gordon helped restore. Gordon is running in the Democratic primary for the city council, which includes AU.

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Changes to GRE will occur this fall

By Lauren Gardner | February 16

Changes to the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) graduate school entrance exam will not be implemented until October 2007 because of the switch from fixed testing centers to a secure Internet system, according to David Payne, executive director for the GRE program.

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Media professionals look at changing technology

By Laraine Weschler | February 16

With broadcasting available on cell phones, iPods and computer screens, "having a cup of coffee with your morning paper no longer requires any paper," said Tony Varona, a professor at the Washington College of Law at a panel on media convergence last week.

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Gospel choir unites students

By Sereena Hamm | February 16

After nearly 30 years of club status on AU's campus, the gospel choir, whose goal is to bring students together through performance and fellowship, is more diverse than ever before. Joy Henry, a senior in the School of Communication and chaplain of the choir, said the diversity of the group is one of its greatest strengths.

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Facebook continues to create tension: Class of 2010 joins early

By Laraine Weschler | February 16

Many of the incoming students of the Class of 2010 have already joined Facebook.com, the popular college social network, even though their freshmen year won't start for another six months. Sixty-five students now belong to the Facebook group, "AU Class of 2010.

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Report shows employment rates steadily increase

By Rebecca Kern | February 16

The National Association of Colleges and Employers issued its Job Outlook 2006 report predicting employment rates to increase 14.5 percent during the 2005-2006 year. Katherine Stahl, executive director of the Career Center, said the 500 students and employers who participated in last week's School of International Service Career Week are "exemplary of what is going on in terms of the job market heating up a bit.

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Dialogue needed in response to cartoon controversy

By Kyra Smerkanich | February 16

At a discussion yesterday, AU professors said that the debate over freedom of the press and respect for religion shows the need for an open dialogue in response to the upheaval about the provocative Muhammad cartoons that ran in a Danish newspaper. As previously reported in The Eagle, tensions between Western countries and the Muslim world erupted when the Danish paper chose to publish cartoons that portrayed the prophet Muhammad, despite the fact images of Muhammad are prohibited in Islam.

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Campus brief: Kogod grad school wins ad campaign award

By Elyse Franko | February 16

Kogod's Graduate School of Business won a Gold Advertising Award in the Admissions Marketing Report Annual Advertising Awards competition Feb. 1. Kogod received the award for the "Where are you going?" campaign, which appeared in D.C. Metro cars and print ads last year.

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National briefs

February 16

Intelligence unit flagged September 11 terrorist A secret Pentagon intelligence unit flagged September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta 13 times before the attacks ,said Rep. Curt Weldon in an Associated Press report Wednesday. Weldon also said in 2000 the "Able Danger" intelligence unit identified "a problem" in Yemen shortly before the U.

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'West Wing' actor calls politics 'dueling publicity'

By Ryan Grannan-Doll | February 16

Bradley Whitford, a veteran stage actor famous for his role as Josh Lyman on "The West Wing," spoke about how political campaigns are decided through the perception of candidates who blurt talking points on television through "dueling publicity." Whitford talked to students on Monday night in Bender Arena and offered former presidential candidate Howard Dean's scream at a campaign appearance as an example of the role appearances play in politics.

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Forum explores economic reform in North Korea

By Carolyn Phenicie | February 16

North Korea is experiencing "real economic reform," said professor Alexander Vorontsov at the 98th Washington Asia Forum, which the Center for Asian Studies sponsored Wednesday. In July 2002, the North Korean government announced new economic reforms, including raising wages and food prices, greater independence for the managers of companies and the end of subsidized rice production.

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Facebook continues to create tension

By Laraine Weschler | February 16

Faculty, staff and students recently attended a conference at AU to learn about Facebook and other similar online communities and how employers have used student's profiles to screen potential candidates for jobs. "A number of important issues were raised at the inservice," said Dean of Students Faith Leonard.

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By Kate Oczypok | February 16

Thursday, Feb. 16 "The Death Penalty: Religious, Moral and Legal Perspectives" 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., WCL, room 603 This event will examine the development of the death penalty in religious law and the evolution of social moral thought relating to the death penalty.

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Protesters denied FOIA expedition

By Jimm Phillips | February 16

The Department of Defense refused a request to expedite the processing of a Freedom of Information Act by an anti-war group whose protests have been under Pentagon surveillance, according to the Partnership for Civil Justice, a civil rights organization. The Partnership for Civil Justice filed the FOIA request on behalf of the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism Coalition and the National Lawyers Guild on Dec.

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