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Top tweets

November 15

This week's top tweets.

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Eagle rants

November 12

More of your Eagle rants.

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Opinion

Staff Editorial: Waking up for that 7:30 a.m. class

November 8

First came WONK. Then came Gen Ed program changes. Now, to complete the trifecta of transition, AU has made major changes to the academic calendar and schedule. For those students returning to campus next fall (sorry, seniors, you’ll be in the real world then), you should prepare for some major transitions that will forever change your world. Or, in reality, change your daily schedule and slightly affect your summer and winter breaks.

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Opinion

Coming to terms with my unseen disability

By Conor Shapiro | November 8

It took many years before I came to grips with my disability. I shunned it, stubbornly tried to compensate for it. But as it worsened, it became increasingly difficult to ignore. Coworkers perceived me as arrogant and aloof. Friends would approach and ask why I ignored them. When? I’d inquire. Just a few minutes ago, you walked right passed — didn’t you hear me call your name?

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Letter to the editor: Negative Eagle coverage of AUCC misses system’s benefits

November 8

Given the degree of coverage of the AU Club Council’s new funding allocation process, there are a few items that we wanted to correct and make public regarding this new system. Contrary to what has been previously been publicized by The Eagle, most clubs are very happy with the system. Of the 144 clubs the AUCC represents, negative feedback has been received from less than five organizations.

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Eagle rants

November 8

More of your Eagle rants!

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Letter to the editor: AU Students for Life defends stance on abortion, genocide

November 8

We write in reply to the AU STAND Coalition and its Nov. 1 letter.

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Letter to the editor: Advocating for student input: Tenure for Professor Berard

November 8

On behalf of many of the music students, orchestra members?and community of the D.C. area, I would like to make it known to the rest of the AU community that our beloved orchestra director, Manuel Berard, did not receive tenure.

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Letter to the editor: Honoring the veterans in our community this Veterans Day

November 8

While in class last Thursday, Oct. 28, I got a text from a friend I had served with, asking me to call him.?We have several mutual friends who are currently deployed, so I stepped out of class to call him back, worried that something had happened.?My friend told me a former coworker and fellow servicemember, SSG Adam Dickmyer, had died in Afghanistan.

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Letter to the editor: Raising awareness of electronic consumption, Congolese paramilitary connection

November 8

Chilling articles telling of egregious atrocities in eastern Congo have been littering every major newspaper for the past month. A report surfaced a week ago about 30 women who had been kept in a dungeon and were gang-raped for almost a month on the Congo-Angola border.

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Trending topics

November 8

Picks and pans for the week.

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Top tweets

November 8

Your top tweets of the week.

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Eagle rants

November 4

More of your Eagle rants!

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Eagle rants

November 1

More of your Eagle rants!

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Opinion

Procrastination not on the agenda for these midterms

By Conor Shapiro | November 1

Most students are procrastinators. I can’t help but chuckle as I walk into the library at midnight, the day before a stats project is due, and see half my class plugging away.

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Staff Editorial: Changing the general education program

November 1

Most students can agree on one thing: the General Education program needs work.

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Opinion

Our Band-Aid foreign policy

November 1

Forty-eight years ago, President John F. Kennedy learned of the presence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. The crisis that ensued in the final days of October 1962 brought the Cold War’s combatants to the edge of the nuclear abyss. Only after painstaking negotiations and the removal of American missiles from Italy and Turkey did the frightening prospects of nuclear war recede.

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