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AU holds first 'Take Back the Night' event

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

AU held its first "Take Back the Night" event, a campus-wide walk for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, last Wednesday night. Take Back the Night first began in 1978 in California and New York. "As a new staff member here at AU, I asked if 'Take Back the Night' was held here," said Melva Jones, program coordinator, who also works in the office of Multicultural Affairs.

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Kanneth, Trombley plan new cabinets

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

Newly inaugurated President Polson Kanneth and Vice President Jason Trombley have appointed their new cabinet members for the upcoming 2004-2005 school year of the Student Confederation, AU's student government.

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Anti-abortion side defended by speaker on Thursday

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

Stephanie Gray, a member of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (an anti-abortion group), defended her group's side of the abortion debate to members of the campus community last Thursday. Gray's organization "condemns all abortion related violence and will not associate with groups or individuals who fail to condemn such violence."

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Abortion debate plays out on the quad

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

AU Students for Life, the anti-abortion student organization on campus, placed 4,000 pink and blue flags on the Quad to symbolize the number of babies aborted each day in the United States. Members of AU Students for Life worked overnight Wednesday so students could see the "cemetery of the innocents" on Thursday morning.

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Campus Briefs

By Stokely Baksh | April 19

Campus briefs: a panel discussing the future of Central America, and University administration speaking as part of Holocaust Remembrance Week.

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Police Blotter

By Jamie Lee Lardner | April 19

Safety and security events from around campus since Wednesday, April 14.

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Former weapons inspector to speak at AU

By Kate Oczypok | April 15

David Kay, former U.N. chief weapons inspector in Iraq and special adviser to the director of the CIA, will speak at AU on April 22 at 8:15 p.m. in the amphitheater. The rain location will be at the same time in Ward 1. According to Nicholas Thorpe, deputy director of the Kennedy Political Union, Kay will speak about the weapons of mass destruction question in Iraq, since it gives topical insight to his weapons inspection job.

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WAMY Translation 2

April 15

Translations of the WAMY publication cited in the article on Chaplain Soliman.

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Bill calls for balance

By Kim Peterson | April 15

A nonbinding resolution currently being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives calls for states to adopt an Academic Bill of Rights that would balance ideological viewpoints in college classrooms. The purpose of the bill, according to a press release from the office of Rep.

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Police Blotter

By Jamie Lee Lardner | April 15

Safety and security events from around campus since Friday.

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Gao's husband sentenced

By Ryan Grannan-Doll | April 15

Xue Donghua, the husband of former AU researcher Gao Zhan, was sentenced last Friday to a year in prison for failing to report income on the couple's taxes from the illegal sale of microprocessors to China, according to The Washington Post. Xue was sentenced because he received $539,296 from his wife's illegal sale of Military Intel 486 spare DX2 microprocessors to China, The Post reported.

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Mayor promises public funding for new baseball park

By Emily Carone | April 15

Mayor Anthony Williams is trying to lure Major League Baseball to the District with a new stadium. D.C. is one of seven cities lobbying for the Montreal Expos to be relocated to within their borders. Major League Baseball officials will only move the team to a city that can provide a stadium.

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Vanilla Ice heats up the Tavern

By Emily Zemler | April 15

Nineties rapper Rob van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice, brought his brand of rap-rock to the Tavern in front of a nostalgic crowd last night. Ice, who was accompanied by drummer Chris A and his DJ (who he referred to as the "Dirty Mexican"), drew a crowd of 750 students, according to Karen Gerlach, director of Student Activities.

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Chaplain: no ties to anti-Semitic books

By David Hodges | April 15

AU's Muslim Chaplain Fadel Soliman, who is also the director of World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) International, which has published and distributed a handful of anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and anti-Shi'a Muslim books, said he made at least one of the books available to students curious about other religions.

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SIS to celebrate 46th anniversary

By Stokely Baksh | April 15

AU's School of International Service will celebrate the 46th anniversary of its founding tonight at the Embassy of Nigeria. The event's highlights include AU's plans to construct a new building to replace the school's current building which dates back to 1957.

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File sharing debated

By Zehra Rizavi | April 15

While some panelists at the American Forum Tuesday night claimed that downloading music and movies from the Internet infringes copyright laws, others argued that the practice will not stop and the government must modify current laws to accommodate it. Record labels and artists traditionally made a large chunk of their profits from CD sales, and the 50 percent dive in sales between 1999 and 2002 does more than worry record executives, said David Sutphen, the vice president of government relations for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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DC declared smartest

By Elliot Smilowitz | April 15

Washington, D.C., is the smartest city in America, according to a report published by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report says that 23.6 percent of 25-and-over residents of the District have an advanced degree, more than any other city or state in the nation.

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