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Abroad student discovers the more scenic side of education at Oxford

By Olivia Stitilis | March 21

I often feel I spend an inordinate amount of time strategizing how I can see as much of Europe as possible while abroad. However, as I was recently reminded, with this mindset it is sometimes easy to forget how many great places are only a short train or bus ride away from London.

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Fashion: Look of the Week: a southern accent

By Nicole Moutis | March 21

For some, spring break meant going home, relaxing and putting all those countless assignments to the side for a while. But for others, it meant going south and getting away to a tropical paradise filled with endless palm trees, the sound of the waves crashing on the beach and the feel of the sunshine ...

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Safe sex comes down to numbers

By Tara Culp-Ressler | March 21

When it comes to your sexual partner, do numbers matter?

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AU TV Studio class explores D.C. talent in NBC Web series

March 14

Instead of attending an hour-long lecture or discussion once a week, AU Professor Sarah Menke-Fish has her TV Studio Production class spend their time filming an episode for their NBC Web show, “Adept or Inept.” “Producing the show is our entire class time,” said Carter Gibson, a junior in the School of Communication. “If anything, we spend much more time out of the classroom than I have in my other classes.”

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Movie Review- Limitless

By Geoffrey Beebe | March 14

If someone has ever suggested that life is “mind over matter,” then that same person would probably like “Limitless.”

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Movie Review- Rango

By Travis McKay-Roberts | March 14

For years, Johnny Depp has made a living out of playing a lone, unconventional hero with plenty of quirks and oddities. In his newest movie, his character is a sheriff who has all these characteristics dropped in the middle of the Wild West.

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WVAU Reviews

March 14

Every other week The Eagle asks the assistant music directors and DJs at WVAU what they’re listening to. Here’s what they recommend. Check out WVAU.org to listen.

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Audience howls approval for Arena Stage performance

By Madeline Wolfson | March 14

Far too often modern theater focuses on the spectacle — the lights, set, sound effects and other budget breaking elements of razzle-dazzle — in an attempt to woo an audience.

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Art-rock girl group Warpaint to battle the beat at Black Cat

By Maeve McDermott | March 14

Warpaint, an all-female indie rock quartet hailing from Los Angeles, are playing the Black Cat mainstage Saturday, April 2 at 9 p.m. At first glance, Warpaint seemed just like all the other indie girl bands that have recently debuted over the past year or two. But the art-rock quartet have been around ...

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‘The Adjustment Bureau’ successfully blends romance, sci-fi

By Antoaneta Tileva | February 28

Can one outrun one’s fate? “The Adjustment Bureau” answers that question quite literally. Based on the short story “The Adjustment Team,” by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, the film is a sci-fi-tinged romance not unlike “Gattaca” or “Code 46” in its ethos, and despite its fairly grave subject matter, it is incredibly entertaining and captivating in its human angle.

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AU brings Tennessee Williams’ lesser-known work to the stage

February 28

The works of Tennessee Williams are known primarily for two things: a heavy Southern influence and deep, brooding themes concerning the nature of humanity. His less popular play, “Orpheus Descending,” certainly does not stray from these distinctive markings, and the production of the show put on by the AU Department of Performing Arts was able to do the play justice.

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Fictional characters become immortalized in statue form

By Michael W. Richardson | February 28

Detroit has officially decided that, bowing to pressure from a campaign of residents and outsiders, they will build a statue of Robocop in their fair city, thus ruining all the credibility the city built up with that Chrysler ad with Eminem. The metallic savior of the city, which in the film is portrayed as crumbling ruins (any joke here would be too easy), will be remembered forever as a reminder of what happens when a big corporation has too much power and tries to destroy your entire city (metaphor!).

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AU abroad student tastes wine, pasta under the Tuscan sun

By Kelly Holliday | February 28

While living in Rome, I often find myself wishing that I had 10 sets of eyes. Even on my short walk to campus each morning, I’m nearly tripping over the cobblestones because my eyes have traveled to the nearest lemon-tree-adorned balcony or window display of Italian leather shoes.

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Student gains perspective on downfalls of different study abroad experiences

By Olivia Stitilis | February 28

Though it has been statistically proven that traveling and living in any foreign country — be it Sweden or somewhere in the middle of the Sahara — will raise confidence levels, global perspective and even self-esteem, all study abroad programs are not created equal.

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National Gallery brings Venetian-themed exhibit to D.C. art community

By Eric Langlois | February 28

On the mezzanine level of the National Gallery’s East Building, a black Venetian gondola is posed in front of a scene of the Grand Canal, intended to transport the viewer back in time more than two centuries into the world of 18th Century Venice.

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Renegade rap group delivers shock value with new single

By Stephan Cho | February 28

A shadowy figure sits in the distance like Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” as an eerie but simple hip-hop beat starts playing amidst guttural mumblings. As the camera lens slowly zooms in and adjusts into focus, Tyler The Creator snaps out of his reverie as he opens with “I’m a fuckin’ walking paradox / No, I’m not.”

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Keeping the spark alive in long-distance relationships

By Tara Culp-Ressler | February 28

Maybe you and your high school girlfriend ended up going to different schools in different cities. Or maybe your boyfriend is spending a semester abroad. Maybe you graduated a year early and moved away. How do you make it work? Are long-distance relationships worth it in college?

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