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Crafting FBI's image

By Lauren Gardner | March 21

The FBI works in various ways alongside the public and media to catch criminals and ensure the bureau is portrayed accurately in films and television, said Neal Schiff, an FBI public affairs specialist, when he spoke to professor Gemma Puglisi's Public Relations Writing class Thursday.

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Death penalty examined

By Valerie Smith | March 21

In response to death row inmate Vernon Lee Evans' planned execution, and in an effort to raise general awareness about the issue, the chapter of the AU Campaign to End the Death Penalty has organized Death Penalty Awareness Week for March 21-25. "This week is about education, activism and mobilization to stop a pending execution," said Sedira Banan, a junior in the School of International Service and the College of Arts and Sciences and co-head and co-founder of AU Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

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Campus, D.C. mourn gay rights activist

By Kate Oczypok and Jen Turner | March 21

The director of the mayor's Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs was found dead after being stabbed in her home Wednesday afternoon. Wanda Alston, an executive member of Mayor Anthony Williams' cabinet, was found dead in her home in Northeast D.

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Report examines role of Internet in media

By Rochelle Chounet | March 21

The State of the News Media annual report was released March 14, examining the strengths and weaknesses of news media, including the emerging role of the Internet. Reporting is moving toward faster, looser, and cheaper models of journalism, according to the media report.

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Ballplayers face scrutiny on steroids

By Elliot Smilowitz | March 21

Less than a month before the Washington Nationals start their inaugural season in D.C., baseball has already come to the capital - just not the way it would have liked to. The House of Representatives' Government Reform Committee on Thursday held an all-day hearing regarding the problem of steroid use in baseball.

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Police Blotter

By Kate Oczypok | March 21

Wednesday, March 17 A two-vehicle accident was reported at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 48th Street. Washington College of Law security reported the accident, and injured individuals were taken to George Washington Hospital. Graffiti was reported on the exterior wall of the handicapped entrance to Bender Library.

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Campus Calendar

By Mary Specht | March 21

Monday, March 21 Working Time, Discrimination and the Law: The Family Responsive Workplace in Europe and the United States 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Washington College of Law room 508 This conference will deal with working time organization and its role in law, policy and corporate practice in redressing gender discrimination in Europe and the United States.

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Metro Brief: IMAX film explores coral reefs in Fiji

By Veleka Burrell | March 21

"Coral Reef Adventures," a 2003 documentary co-produced by AU's Producer-in-Residence Chris Palmer, was shown Wednesday at the Natural History Museum. It was one of 106 films featured at the 13th annual Environmental Film Festival, which ran from March 10 to Sunday.

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GW dorm fire leaves burned student in critical condition

By Elliot Smilowitz | March 21

One George Washington University student is in critical condition Tuesday afternoon, after being discovered in a ninth-floor dorm room that was in flames early Tuesday morning. The student, a male freshman from Conn., was immediately taken to GW Hospital at 5 a.

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Taylor names SG secretary

By Jess Reamy | March 21

Freshman Joseph F. Vidulich was named Student Government secretary after receiving a credit waiver and being confirmed by the General Assembly, the SG's legislative branch, on Sunday. Vidulich, a freshman in the School of Public Affairs, acknowledged that it was unusual for a freshman to be nominated for an executive position, but asked the assembly to consider him based on his qualifications.

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Persian New Year to be celebrated on AU's Quad

By David Hodges | March 21

A holiday unknown to most AU students will make its debut on campus Monday. Nowruz, Persian for New Years, will be celebrated on the Quad by the Persian Club, which brings Iranian cultural events to AU. Zubin Amiri, president of the club, said he hopes the AU community will get a sense of Persian culture and what it means to be Persian.

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Punks & pols unite

By Chris Nye | March 21

Four-man punk band Anti-Flag stood alongside House Reps. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Peter Stark (D-Calif.) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) on the terrace of a congressional office building Thursday afternoon to announce the initiation of a grass-roots campaign against a provision of the No Child Left Behind Act that requires high school administrators to provide military recruiters with students' names and contact information.

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AU loses Dorothy Ditter Gondos Beers, a living piece of history

By Kate Oczypok | March 17

Dorothy Ditter Gondos Beers, a former AU professor, died of pneumonia last month at a retirement home in Fairfax, Va., at the age of 95. Beers taught undergraduate and graduate history for 27 years at the University, The Washington Post reported. She served as chair of the history department and chair of women from 1949 to 1953.

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Police Blotter

By Kate Oczypok | March 17

Thursday Mar. 3 Graffiti was reported in Anderson Hall when several offensive remarks were found etched onto a restroom stall. Friday Mar. 4 Theft was reported in Bender Library when a student reported that a CD player was taken from the student's backpack when it was left unattended.

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Campus Brief: Director makes communication donation

By Melinda C. Hall | March 17

Director Adam Friedman, who has worked on music videos and biographical films on cable television, donated $10,000 to the School of Communication along with an advanced video-production camera on Wednesday. The money will be added to the dean's discretionary fund and be used to purchase more advanced equipment.

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Airlines to ban lighters next month

By Kate Naseef | March 17

Officials at BWI Airport stopped an AU student at a security checkpoint and warned him that the matchbooks and lighters he had in his carry-on bag would not be allowed through checkpoints in the future. Kevin Gilnack, a junior in the School of Public Affairs and a smoker, said he did not see the lighter as a big threat, but he would follow the new policy.

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Libraries move toward future

By Mary Specht | March 17

The collegiate library of the future will be accessible to students at all times, offer learning materials in a variety of mediums and provide a comfortable space for students to gather, according to a symposium of library and higher-education specialists AU hosted Monday and Tuesday.

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