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AU and college students nationally choose Kerry

By Daniel Pineda | November 1

An informal, unscientific poll of 607 AU students conducted by The Eagle over the past two weeks showed a strong preference toward John F. Kerry, who is challenging President George W. Bush in tomorrow's election. According to the poll, 75 percent of AU students who plan to vote or have cast absentee ballots support Kerry.

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Police Blotter

By Theodora Blanchfield | November 1

Safety and security events around campus the week prior to November 1, 2004.

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BOE chairman resigns after month in office

By Mary Specht | November 1

Marc Malon resigned as chairman of the Board of Elections at the General Assembly meeting Sunday because he said he was overwhelmed with the time and energy commitments that the position requires. Malon, a senior, was appointed Sept. 22 when Student Confederation President Polson Kanneth asked the previous board chair, David Blum, to resign, The Eagle reported Sept. 23.

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Campus calendar

November 1

The Eagle's calendar of campus events from November 1st until November 5th.

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Mathematician shows the creative side of numbers

By Alex Wang | November 1

Before Melanie Wood, a Princeton doctoral student, talked about creativity in math in Ward 1 on Tuesday night, she shared a rather humorous experience. "When I meet new people and tell them I'm a mathematician or a mathematical grad student, I get a lot of different responses," Wood said. The responses ranged from an incredulous "So do you come up with new numbers?" to "Do you study, like, Calculus 9?" to what she called the most frequent response by far: "I can't even balance my checkbook."

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Election observers restricted

By Mishri Someshwar | November 1

Election officials in the D.C. area have restricted non-U.S. citizens who want to observe the election from visiting certain polling sites, according to Vassia Gueorguieva, a coordinator of an AU-based team of election observers. "Usually election observation is done at random sites," Gueorguieva said.

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Public Safety says Nov. 2 riots unlikely

By Theodora Blanchfield | November 1

After the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees and what Public Safety called a "riot" broke out on the Letts-Anderson Quad, some at AU and the surrounding neighborhood are wondering how students will react to a Bush or Kerry win on Nov. 2. Although Director of Public Safety Michael McNair said he doesn't expect riots, Public Safety will continue to monitor the situation, he said.

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Metro Briefs: Sign wars - who is the dark side?

November 1

A brief from The Eagle on destruction of political signs in the weeks leading up to November 2.

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Straight student 'allies' herself with GLBT rights

By Rebecca Bellville | October 28

The most prominent figures in women's rights, such as Susan B. Anthony and Gloria Steinem, are women. The most prominent figures from the civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, are black. So some people might assume that those fighting for the rights of gays and lesbians, whether nationally or on campus, are gay. Not so at AU. Allison Waithe is straight and president of the AU Queers and Allies club. She works for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally Resource Center and Stonewall Democrats United, a group mobilizing GLBT people to vote for Democratic candidates this year. The latter two take up about 26 hours each week, she says.

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Higher learning and youth vote debated

By Khai Ha | October 28

The College Democrats, Libertarians and Republicans debated the problems with higher education, the PATRIOT Act and other issues as they related to students on Wednesday night in the Leonard Hall Chancery. Each political group selected one representative to speak at the debate, which about 15-20 students attended.

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Metro Brief: City closes four GW student houses since fire

By Emily Carone | October 28

A house in Foggy Bottom, where four George Washington University students and two former students lived, was shut down Tuesday after an inspection that was requested by a neighbor. It is the latest house to be shut down after inspections began in response to Georgetown University senior Daniel Rigby's death two weeks ago.

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Broken curse spurs campus frenzy

By David Hodges & Phil Turner | October 28

Seconds after the Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year-old curse, an excited fan pulled the fire alarm in the Letts-Anderson complex and spilled nearly a thousand students onto the Letts-Anderson Quad and the SIS Annex. The victory marked the end of decades of tears, anguish and heartache over "The Curse of the Bambino" - the Sox's failure to win a World Series since trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. At AU, the reaction among many students was ecstatic. Led by chants of "Yankees suck" and "It's all over," an undulating crowd of around 50 students pumped their fists and formed a makeshift mosh pit, where they flagellated each other with arms, coats and bodies in an emotional frenzy of baseball redemption.

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Drag queens reign in Dupont

October 28

Drag queens pulled up their fishnets and strapped on their sexiest stilettos and highest platforms in preparation for the annual 17th Street High-Heel Race in Dupont Circle Tuesday night. This tradition of cross-dressing to the nines and sprinting three blocks between Church and R streets had people packing the sidewalks for hours before and after the 9 p.m. race.

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Metro Brief: D.C. to hit the Target for retail shopping

By Emily Carone | October 28

Target will open its first store in D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams announced Wednesday. Target plans to break ground on the store in Columbia Heights this spring and open it in 2007, USA Today reported. The store will be publicly and privately financed.

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Professor may face prison

By Whitney M. Nichols | October 28

A former George Washington University professor was arrested Oct. 12 on charges he embezzled more than $600,000 from the university between early 2002 and April 2004. According to U.S. District Court records, Nabih Bedewi, 41, was charged with one count of embezzlement of federal funds given to the university's National Crash Analysis Center, located on its Virginia campus. The NCAC researches transportation safety, concentrating on vehicles and highways.

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FDA warns of drugs' suicide risks

By Valerie Smith | October 28

The Food and Drug Administration required two weeks ago that all manufacturers of anti-depressant medications to start placing labels on products warning of the drugs' potential to induce suicidal thoughts in children and adolescents. This decision came as a result of FDA clinical trials that showed a 2 percent increase in suicidal thoughts in children taking anti-depressants versus those on placebos. The warnings are mandated on all anti-depressants because of the inability of the FDA to distinguish their individual effects on children and adolescents.

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Campus Brief: Students want fall break, longer Thanksgiving

By Mary Specht | October 28

The majority of students living in all eight residence halls are in favor of keeping both fall break and Thanksgiving break, according to a poll by the RHA. "We're not entirely sure how that would be possible," said RHA President Scott Goldstein.

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