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AUG. 30 — FINDING A JOB OR INTERNSHIP THAT PAYS2–3 p.m. / Mary Graydon Center 200 (Gianni Lounge) / Join Career Sta# as they discuss how to " nd and get a paying job or internship both on and o# campus. / RSVP [email protected]

AUG. 31 — FEDERAL WORK STUDY JOB FAIR1–4 p.m. / MGC 1 / Students with Federal Work study looking for a part-time job on or o# campus should dress professionally and bring their resume to the FWS fair. Sponsored by the Career Center. / [email protected]

SEPT. 1 — REFLECTIONS ON THE EVE OF 9/11: WHAT’S CHANGED? WHAT HASN’T? 6:15–7:30 p.m. / SIS Founder’s Room / SIS’s newest dean, James Goldgeier, will moderate a discussion about the post-9/11 world between the Chair of AU Islamic Studies Ambassador Akbar Ahmed and Dr.

Edward Kessler of Cambridge University’s Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. Sponsored by SIS.

SEPT. 2 — FIRST FRIDAY FILMS8 p.m.–midnight / Tavern / Check out the newest movies for free. Sponsored by University Center. / [email protected]

SEPT. 3 — JULIUS CAESAR8 p.m. / Shakespeare ! eatre Company-Harman Hall / Take the Red Line down to Chinatown to check out Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” for free. / Visit www.shakespearetheatre.org for more information.

SEPT. 4 — WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. UNIVERSITY OF IOWANoon – 2 p.m. / Reeves Field / Cheer on the AU women’s soccer team in their match against the University of Iowa. / [email protected]

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!Back to school, back to school, to show our parents that we’re not fools. And not wasting their money.

!The days of hellish humidity are numbered! Three cheers to the crisp, cool days of autumn.

!Lock outs, shmock outs, it’s time for the NFL. Good thing, too. As if this campus could be any more starved for football.

"Alas, with classes comes the return of assigned reading. Take Rowling, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Brown — yes, even Meyer,

you Twlight fans — off your shelves, never to return. At least until December.

"Downed trees, intermittent losses of power and unnecessarily frantic parents. Thanks a lot, Irene.

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I need to get out of this small town and back to a place of diverse and interest-ing people. I guess AU will have to su! ce.

No, but really, I miss WVAU every day. YES, YES, YES AND MORE YES. IN CAPS, OBVIOUSLY. WHY CAN’T WVAU COME ABROAD WITH ME?

Why is it that when I’m away from AU I " nally re-alize all the opportunities I have in D.C., only to stay on campus for most of the time when I’m actually here? I need to live it up!

Re: former Eagle, new law student.

I just started law school too, and it is scary. I am still nervous just like my " rst few weeks at AU. I miss AU too and the friends I made there. :(

Who was the guy who stepped down from comp-troller with the poofy blonde hair? Anyone?

Is Tim McBride single? My friend Tom would be perfect for him.

Are Brett Atanasio and Kent Hiebel a couple?

Who the hell is this Liz Richards person? Seriously. Who are you? I have never seen you before in my life.

It’s weird to not be going back to AU for classes this fall, but I do have to go drop o# some library books, and I’m terri" ed of running into biddies and freshmen …

MCBRIDOSAURUS-REX

Dear “Fellow Christian” in August 19th Rants:

Right on.An Episcopalian (also not

in the Gathering)

WHY couldn’t AU have in-troduced this Public Health program sooner?

I’m so sick of an 11 p.m. curfew. Only " ve more days until back to AU …

So is Women’s Initiative ac-tually going to start solving real issues this year instead of complaining about how evil guys are? How about they " x the fact that the AU Health Center tells women that they have to get pap smears before being given birth control? Girls, there is NO law requiring a pap smear before a birth control prescription. $ e Health Center only wants to make more money o# you. Stand up for your rights.

“Mad Men” makes me re-ally want to be a housewife. But where will I get all those awesome dresses like the women in the show wear?

[Editor’s Note: Banana Re-public started a Mad Men clothing line.]

I miss AU!!!!Why did I choose to go

to grad school in a closed-minded Southern town? I never thought I would miss the hipsters. :(

I’m a freshman, my room-mate is going to a frat party tonight and I don’t know how to make friends. Great.

[Editor’s Note: Spend your time Eagle Ranting. Or join $ e Eagle. Both are great op-tions.]

I totally wanna bang my new roommate.

President McBride, you are quite the cutie in a Speedo. Come visit me. Anderson Terrace.

Why is there an article speci" cally about AU stu-dents interning at the White House? AU students intern in a variety of other places outside the typical “Hill.” I’m betting many people would be interested to hear about

other experiences outside of the norm.

Having a seizure is less painful than trying to get eaglesecure to work on my computer.

I should have videotaped you and your ex having inti-mate relations right in front of me instead of just sitting there in utter awe and hu-miliation. $ en I might feel better about you letting that @$$**** take control last year. $ anks for making me feel even worse about my own virginity and loneliness. F*** you both. I’m glad you chose someone else to room with.

Please tell me I’m not the only person who showed up to class a week early … I completely forgot they changed the schedule, and

feel like a total idiot.

Sure, Capitol One, of course I would like to open a check-ing account now that I’m standing outside on the Quad a% er having just been evacuated from MGC af-ter experiencing the biggest earthquake to hit D.C. in 115 years. For God’s sake, go away you parasites.

Earthquake hits AU — what a way to start freshman year!

Today I realized most of this year’s freshmen were born in 1993. I’m pretty sure I remember things that hap-pened in 1993. I feel old :(

I just want to say that Finan-cial Aid really needs to get its stu# together. Not only did they fail to inform me about a $1,500 reduction in my aid package this year, but they have, in the past 15 minutes,

sent me three emails: the " rst closing my claim ticket and awarding me extra funds in response to my complaint over a bill error; a second telling me to disregard the " rst as it had been sent to me by mistake and a third reo-pening my claim for further investigation. W-T-actual-F.

Dear lord, if I get another call from a concerned parent about the impending hurri-cane I will crap my pants! AU is not going to shut down; if your son or daughter misses class because you don’t want to drive them down, that is his or her problem and not mine! I will transfer you straight to the president’s of-" ce; I don’t want to hear your snooty British accent. Stay in New York, you fool!

Anyone else realize “a little too late” that college is about working hard but also party-ing hard? Let the senior year be the best year of all. HUZ-ZAH!

Wish people wouldn’t say hateful things on here (whether about Tim, the Gathering or anyone). Let’s keep Eagle Rants to their real purpose: complaining about TDR and shouts of frustra-tion about that person you’re attracted to.

Dear AU, Wi-Fi. Cheers, person who needs good Wi-Fi.

AU freshmen on Tumblr need to calm down … At " rst, following the thread was kind of funny, but now it’s just obnoxious. Every post is about how they’re better than everything that they’re supposed to be doing this week and how they want to be treated as adults. First rule of being an adult: You routinely have to do things that you don’t want to do, so suck it up and get used to it.

Dear AU, I have installed Safe-Connect twice. My girl-friend has installed it almost four or " ve times. Fix your eaglesecure network. K thx.

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AU students celebrate MLK legacy at memorial

By JULIA RYANEagle Staff Writer

School of Public A! airs Dean William Leogrande and School of Communica-tion Dean Larry Kirkman are stepping down from their positions at the end of the school year, according to announcements released by Provost Scott Bass this week.

In a memo sent to the AU community on Tuesday, Bass said Leogrande, who was appointed SPA dean in 2003, will take a brief sab-batical and return to AU as a faculty member in 2013.

Kirkman’s decision to step down as dean of SOC was announced just a day later, also in a University memo to faculty and sta! sent by Provost Bass. Kirkman has been the Dean of SOC since 2001.

Leogrande and Kirkman are the fourth deans to step down in two years, a" er Kogod School of Business Dean Richard Durand and School of International Ser-vice Dean Louis Goodman le" their posts this summer.

Leogrande said he will use his sabbatical to work on various academic projects such as writing a book on U.S.-Cuban relations and diplomatic e! orts between

the two countries.He will also co-edit the

third edition of the “A Con-temporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolu-tion.”

# e search process for a new SPA dean is still in its early stages. Leogrande said the University will hire an external search committee and the process will go on independent of him.

However, he is looking forward to seeing how his school will evolve under new leadership.

“SPA is really poised to expand its external reputa-tion,” he said. “We’re bring-ing in better students and faculty every year, and this is a real opportunity for some-one to come in and lead that change.”

Kirkman will also take a brief sabbatical before com-ing back to teach at AU. He will return to the SOC fac-ulty in 2014 in the Film and Media Arts division.

# e dean said he looks forward to recruiting a new leader who will improve and expand SOC.

“# is position is an ex-ceptional opportunity that will attract experienced, vi-sionary candidates who can enhance the school’s lead-ership role in communica-tion education, professional

practice and scholarship and guide us to a new level of achievement,” he said.

Kirkman feels his succes-sor will be joining SOC at an important time in the school’s history.

“My successor will join a school with the critical ele-ments in place for the next stage in our evolution: a strong faculty and sta! , … new graduate programs, an engaged alumni base, … leading centers for profes-sional innovation and re-search … and major media partnerships,” he said.

# e new SOC dean will also head the school’s move into the McKinley building in 2014.

Kirkman said plans for the renovation of McKinley have been submitted to the D.C. government and con-struction is expected to be-gin in early 2012.

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SOC, SPA deans to step down at end of school year

GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCKSOC Dean Larry Kirkman (left) and SPA Dean William Leogrande will both step down at the end of this school year. Both will take sabbaticals, then return to AU as faculty members in the near future.

A STONE OF HOPETourists and Washingtonians pose in front of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. The memorial opened to the public on Aug. 22 and drew large crowds in its fi rst week.

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By LEIGH GIANGRECOEagle Staff Writer

Members of the AU com-

munity came out to view the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall a" er its so" opening on Aug. 22. # e memo-rial foundation, however, postponed the monument’s opening ceremony Aug. 28 due to Hurricane Irene.

# e opening ceremony will be rescheduled to an un-speci$ ed date in September or October, according to the Washington Post.

Tyler Sadonis, the director of the Community Service Coalition and a School of Public A! airs sophomore, accompanied the SPA lead-ership program’s tour of the National Mall Aug. 26.

Sadonis said he and the new students were happy to see the memorial before the dedication ceremony. # e site was still packed late Fri-day night with a solemn and awestruck audience, accord-

ing to Sadonis.“I saw a wide demographic

of people,” Sadonis said of the crowd. “# ere was a multitude of ages from ba-bies in strollers to senior citizens and all sorts of dif-ferent ethnicities and races.”

Christyn Enser, a sopho-more in the School of Com-munication, also visited the memorial earlier that day with her 12-year-old cousin.

“It seemed like people from all across the country were coming,” Enser said. “I heard one person talking about the storm coming in who said ‘I would have tied myself to a tree right here to be able to see this, I don’t care if the storm is coming.’”

Deon Jones, a D.C. Advi-sory Neighborhood Com-missioner, was still disap-pointed at the dedication’s cancellation.

“He could march in the rain, but they can’t memori-alize him in the rain,” Jones said. “It really shows how high class the activists have

gotten now. He could march all the way from Selma to Montgomery over 100 miles, rain, shoes worn out. Now you have people today having to ride in cars, sitting in VIP sections.”

For Jones, a local political leader and African-Amer-ican, the memorial is still poignant. Jones took part in the D.C. host commit-tee, which planned events for the MLK memorial. He said that, at the last meeting, there were women in their late 60s and 70s who had participated in the March on Washington in 1963.

“# ey began to cry because they had faced the racism, had marched with Dr. King,” Jones said. “# ey started to cry because of how far this country has come and how much how hard they had fought for equality and peace. To see that erected brought tears to their eyes and tears to my eyes.”Charia Funchess, a sophomore in

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By ZACHARY COHENEagle Staff Writer

! e incoming freshman class is one of the most ra-cially diverse classes Ameri-can University has ever seen.

Over 30 percent of the stu-dents in the Class of 2015 are of a domestic minority, up from 23 percent last year, according to preliminary es-timates from Director of the O" ce of Admissions Greg Grauman. ! at includes an-yone who self-identi# es as Black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Alaskan or Pa-ci# c Islander.

More speci# c information will be available a$ er the

AU O" ce of Institutional Research and Assessment completes a student census by the # $ h week of classes.

Grauman said the in-creased diversity is the re-sult of various e% orts by the University to increase mi-nority enrollment.

! e University had used more # nancial aid funds for need-based scholarships in-stead of merit-based awards. Representatives from the University also recruited in di% erent regions of the United States and at di% er-ent high schools with more multicultural students.

“Diversity is an important component of a university education, and American University is committed to

closing the education gap for underrepresented mi-norities seeking and com-pleting higher education,” Grauman said in an email.

In addition to the increased racial diversity, the increase of need-based aid will also further the economic diver-sity of the student body, Stu-dent Government President Tim McBride said. Making AU’s education more a% ord-able allows those without the means to pay for full tui-tion to attend, he explained.

“It’s the sign of a thriving school that’s breaking down glass barriers towards … opportunity and education,” McBride said.

! is year’s freshmen also had a high school grade point average of 3.9, better than the Class of 2014’s 3.87. ! is is the fourth year in a row that the new freshman class had a higher GPA than its predecessor.

AU prepares professors for diverse student body

In response to the in-

creased diversity, the Uni-versity is strengthening the programs that facilitate discussion among di% erent racial, socioeconomic, po-litical and religious groups on campus. Mentorship programs for # rst-gener-ation college students and facilitated dialogue groups help foster a more welcom-ing environment, accord-ing to Fanta Aw, assistant vice president of Campus Life and director of Interna-tional Student and Scholar Services.

Administration personnel are also advising professors on the challenges that come with a more diverse student body through New Faculty Orientation and voluntary seminars, said John Doolit-tle, an associate director at the Center for Teaching, Re-searching and Learning and a professor in the School of Communications. Faculty and sta% are being taught to be sensitive to the views of students who come from di% erent political, econom-

ic, social or cultural back-grounds.

“For some of us who have been around a long time, we think we know the land-scape of our student body in the classes that we teach,” Doolittle said. “But what we’re hearing is it’s chang-ing.”

AU, SG aim to decrease event fees

Administration o" cials are also advocating for more free or subsidized events.

“With the socioeconomic diversity, not all students have the same access to re-sources, and so we’re creat-ing programs and others that are not going to basi-cally result in additional fees and charges to students,” Aw said.

! e administration has a responsibility to help stu-dents, Aw said. ! ough student programs are better for gaining traction among their peers, the University is still expected to create the infrastructure through

which student-led initia-tives can take place, she said.

“Students have good ideas about what I think speaks to their peers and what mat-ters to their peers, but at the same time, it is up to us, the administration, to create the opportunities and the right structure for it,” Aw said.

! e Student Government is already working to cre-ate those opportunities. McBride and other student leaders have been work-ing this summer to create a multicultural coalition of AU student groups.

McBride is also advocating for ways to help students pay for SG election campaigns, giving more students the opportunity to have a voice in University policy.

Last year, some SG candi-dates spent close to $300 of their own money on cam-paign materials, ! e Eagle previously reported.

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One-third of freshmen identify as racially diverse

By NICOLE GLASSEagle Staff Writer

! e O" ce of Information Technology’s recent estab-lishment of a new wireless network, eaglesecure, aims to make on-campus Web sur# ng faster and easier.

Last year, AU students, fac-ulty and sta% were prompt-ed to enter a username and password every time they used the old wireless net-work, eaglenet.

“You should # nd that you are no longer asked to log in every time you connect [to eaglesecure], as with the old system,” said Senior Direc-tor of OIT Chris Gehring.

Aside from the easier login, eaglesecure di% ers from eaglenet in four ways, Gehring said.

It is faster, easier to moni-tor and to troubleshoot, more secure and more widely available on campus, he said. OIT can also view how many users are online at each location on campus.

“! e upgrade took a lot of planning and manpower

to implement, but we feel that AU's wireless access is one of the most important resources we provide to our students, faculty and sta% ,” Gehring said.

! e eaglenet wireless net-work had 230 wireless ac-cess points, which were not enough to serve its approxi-mately 4,000 wireless users. Eaglesecure has about 830 access points, providing more coverage and better signal quality throughout campus, Gehring said.

“! is meant that there were many wireless clients per access point causing slow speed and, at times, loss of connectivity,” he said.

! e primary reason for the switch to eaglesecure was to increase speed and e" cien-cy, Gehring said.

! e transition to eaglese-cure was led by OIT’s Direc-tor of Network Operations, Hassan Marvi. It occurred gradually starting in March 2010, ending with the re-moval of eaglenet this June.

! e wireless network is available in all campus buildings, as well as on the

Main Quad, in the Woods-Brown Amphitheater and the Tenley Campus Quad.

Gehring said there have been no major problems with the eaglesecure wire-less network so far, and that “those who are using it are very happy with it, as it is faster, more reliable and eas-ier to connect to.”

During the transition, however, some computers were not able to connect to eaglesecure while both the new and the old network were active, he said. ! is was due to the fact that the two networks had to operate on di% erent bands to pre-vent radio frequency inter-ference.

But once eaglenet was de-activated in June, all mem-bers of the AU community were able to connect to it.

“! e faculty and sta% reac-tion has been positive so far,” Gehring said. “With regard to students, we should wait a bit longer since school has not started yet.”

If students are having dif-# culty logging onto the net-work they can attend OIT’s connection fair through Sept. 2 in the library. AU alumni can also request to gain access to the network.

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By JULIA RYANEagle Staff Writer

! e Aug. 23 earthquake did not put a damper on this year’s Freshmen Ser-vice Experience, with over 600 freshmen coming out to work at more than 50 sites across D.C. and Maryland.

To a theme of “! ere’s No Place Like D.C.,” the stu-dents volunteered with a wide range of nonpro" t or-ganizations such as the Co-lumbia Heights/Shaw Fam-ily Support Collective, the Barry Farm Resident Coun-cil and Centronia.

FSE is a three-day program that gives freshmen the op-portunity to do service at various community organi-zations, faith-based groups and schools in the D.C. area.

! e freshmen logged over 10,000 hours of service this year, according to the AU website.

Opening Ceremony! e FSE opening ceremony

on Aug. 23 came just a few hours a# er a 5.9-magntitude earthquake hit the District and caused signi" cant dam-age in some parts of the D.C. area.

! e keynote speaker, Paul Monteiro, the associate di-rector of the White House O$ ce of Public Engage-ment, was slightly delayed because of tra$ c resulting from tra$ c light outages

immediately following the earthquake. But he eventu-ally made it to the ceremony and thanked the freshmen for committing to service.

He stressed that even the smallest actions can have a large impact on the D.C. community.

“Don’t underestimate the importance of your own experience and what you’re bringing,” he said. “A lot of people who come to me want solutions from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but the changes comes from you, where you live.”

Jobs with JusticeAt the Home Depot on

Rhode Island Avenue in Brentwood, 10 FSE partici-pants and three leaders con-versed with Hispanic immi-grant workers waiting at the store to be hired for short-term construction jobs.

! e students, most of which were chosen for the site because they were bilin-gual, talked to the workers about their lives, jobs and wages in hopes of making them more comfortable speaking English and to en-courage them to seek out formal English classes. Sta% -ers from Jobs with Justice supervised the students.

! e nonpro" t organization is a coalition of labor, faith-based and other community organizations across the country that help people of

all backgrounds get jobs.Denise Paarlberg, a fresh-

man in the School of Inter-national Service, said she was glad for the opportunity to interact with people from di% erent backgrounds.

Most of the workers she spoke to were from Guate-mala, but she met with other workers from Mexico, Hon-duras and Venezuela.

“We’ve met hard-working people and let them tell us their stories,” she said. “I hope they can take our ad-vice and get more comfort-able talking to people about their issues.”

Carmen Mason, an FSE leader and a sophomore in the School of Communica-tion, talked to three workers about their lives and di$ -culties moving to the United States and " nding jobs.

! e workers are o# en hired for jobs from the Home De-pot, but then are drastically underpaid or not paid at all, she said.

“! ey don’t speak English, and they don’t understand what’s going on, so they don’t have the means to " ght back,” she said.

Arturo Gri$ ths, a D.C. Jobs with Justice, called this phenomenon “wage the# ,” and said it is one of the many problems his organi-zation is looking to tackle in the near future.

Mason hopes the discus-sions FSE participants had with the workers at Home Depot will empower the workers to seek change in their working conditions.

“I hope they see there are people out here " ghting for them and who want to see things change and want to make a di% erence in their

livelihood,” she said.Gri$ ths called the discus-

sions between students and workers an “open class-room.” ! e workers im-proved their English, and the students learned about the issues a% ecting the D.C. immigrant community.

“I hope [the students] get to see them and understand what’s going on with Latin America, how hard it is to come to this country and then get rejected by this so-ciety,” he said.

Closing CeremonyAt the FSE closing ceremo-

ny Aug. 25, Robin Adams, the assistant director of the Center for Community En-gagement and Service, joked she expected a lot out of the FSE freshmen this year given the hurdles they had to overcome to get to their service sites.

“You are the " rst FSE group that brought an earthquake and a hurricane, so I’ll be interested to see how you ‘shake things up’ this year,” she said.

Keynote speaker Beat-riz Otero, the D.C. deputy mayor of Health and Hu-man Services, called on the students to form a “safety net” of people willing to go out and help others in D.C. through service.

She told the students every act of service is important, no matter how small it may seem.

“Each individual action counts, because every in-dividual action becomes a collective action, and that collective action becomes a movement,” she said.

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Freshmen ‘shake things up’ with service in D.C. during Welcome Week

RISING UPFreshmen heard from Center for Community Engagement and Service Assistant Director Robin Adams (left) and D.C. Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services Beatriz Otero at the FSE closing ceremony Aug. 25 in Bender Arena.

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SPA, called the crowd at the memorial a true “melting pot” of Caucasians, African Americans and Hispanics.

Funchess was also im-pressed with the detail and likeness of the statue. How-ever, it was the juxtaposition of King, an ordinary citizen, between President Lincoln and Je% erson that le# an im-pact on her.

“I think that people should think about him being be-tween two very powerful men, that he’s the only per-son who’s not a president,” Funchess said. “! is man who wanted and advocated for change for so long was just at the time an ordinary American man trying to make a change.”

Enser and her cousin agreed the memorial’s entrance and multiple viewpoints made it a standout on the Mall.

“It’s not like he’s being worshipped in a temple like something Lincoln has, or even Je% erson,” Enser said. “You can see him through all di% erent angles.”

Even more than the impos-ing physical presence of the memorial, the dedication to Martin Luther King Jr. has been symbolic of the pro-gress made since the March on Washington in 1963.

“I think it’s progression in American society, what it says is you don’t have to be elected to a position to be honored, you can actually do great things and great work and be honored,” said Don-ald Curtis of AU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service.

Curtis said CCES planned to attend the memorial dedi-cation with ACLU volunteers until it was postponed. ! e project was spearheaded by AU Class of 2011 alumna Althea de Guzman, accord-ing to Curtis.

“Our mission is to be that glue between the alumni and undergraduates and o# en times in the community,” Curtis said.

AU in the 1960sLong before the memo-

rial was erected on the Mall, King le# an indelible impact on D.C. and AU.

Many AU students attend-ed the March on Washington in 1963 where King delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

As marchers & ooded in from across the United

States, they looked to AU for a place to stay. According to a Washington Post article in 1963, the chairman of the housing volunteer group ne-gotiated with AU for dorm space for 150 people.

Two years later, King was slated to speak on AU’s campus in April as the clos-ing speaker for a three-day forum sponsored by the Center for Liberal Studies. However, King was not able to attend because of previ-ous commitments, and his executive assistant Harry G. Boyte attended in his place.

Following King’s assassi-nation on April 4, 1968, his impact on AU took a somber turn. ! e daily life of AU stu-dents was shaken up by the sudden and untimely death of the civil rights leader, from cancellation of classes to an extension of student government nominations, according to 1968 articles in ! e Eagle. In the District alone, violent riots raged for three days, according to the Washington Post.

According to a 1968 article in ! e Eagle, the doors of Anderson Hall were blocked on the evening of April 5. ! e article said that, while rumors circulated that this was a precaution against “the possibility of campus disor-ders following the assassina-tion of Martin Luther King Jr.,” it merely coincided with Easter break. Still one An-derson resident was quoted as saying, “! e tone in the dorm was not one of fright or fear, although there was a certain tenseness there was a much more prevalent feel-ing of grief, somberness and restraint.”

At the end of April, AU chose to commemorate the memory of King. On April 26, the Eagle reported that “as many of as 25 economi-cally and socially disadvan-taged students from Wash-ington’s ‘inner city’ will be admitted as freshman here next year on full scholar-ship grants.” ! e program was tentatively planned to be dedicated in King’s memory.

! e commerations contin-ue today with student partic-ipation in the Martin Luther King Day of service every January. Over 200 students volunteered across D.C. on this day last year, ! e Eagle reported.

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Student Government updates its website for second time in two yearsBy ANNA SCALAMOGNAEagle Staff Writer

! e Student Government is upgrading its website to make it more user-friendly and to create more visual unity between SG depart-ments.

! is is the second time the website has been redesigned in a little over a year.

! e new site features a dif-ferent template and naviga-tion system. Current SG Secretary Kevin Sutherland started redesigning the web-site spring semester with former Secretary Kent Hie-bel. Sutherland was then working as deputy director of Web design.

! e changes aim to make it easier for users to navigate the content of SG’s three branches, four executive cabinets and dozens of de-partments, as well as hun-dreds of events, services and advocacy and outreach ini-tiatives, according to Hiebel.

SG unifi es department logos! e di" erent SG depart-

ments will have uniform logos, according to Suther-land. Design Director Ash-ley Persie and Sutherland started designing some of the department logos over the summer.

! e uniform look of the new logos and site are part of a push started by Hiebel to emphasis the connection between Student Govern-ment and its departments.

“Some people don’t real-ize what departments are in SG,” Sutherland said. “Peo-ple know about the Kenne-dy Political Union, but they don’t know they are part of SG.”

Final site and logos to be completed this fall

! ough Sutherland started working on the site redesign last semester, it is still a work in progress. ! e # nal site and logos should be com-pleted during fall semester, he said.

“It’s a bigger task than I expected,” Sutherland said. “You’re really managing 15 to 20 sites.”

Second AUSG.org redo in two years

Hiebel worked with former IT Director Douglas Bell on a redesign last year. Bell helped to move the site from SG’s past content manage-ment system to Wordpress.

However, Sutherland said not enough time has been devoted to the site in the past.

“We’re # nally giving it

enough attention,” Suther-land said.

In the past, each depart-ment was responsible for updating their content on the SG website. Sutherland hopes to have more central-ized content by giving this responsibility to someone within his Cabinet.

“! e departments have been really supportive,” Sutherland said. “It makes it easier for people.”

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By KATE FROEHLICHand KAYLYNNE DAKIN Eagle Staff Writerand Eagle Contributing Writer

McDowell Hall received $3 million worth of renova-tions over the summer, in what Executive Director of Housing and Dining Chris Moody calls both cosmetic and infrastructure renova-tions.

Carpet, paint and furniture in dorm rooms and com-mon areas were upgraded. “Signi# cant work” was also done to the plumbing, pipe and ventilation systems that should nix McDowell’s old moniker “McFoul,” Moody said.

He said students have re-acted positively as a result of the “more modern, more contemporary feeling” of the building. ! e design work was done through Housing and Dining with an interior designer from the University Architect o$ ce.

! e University also worked with the Department of Public Safety to allow Mc-Dowell residents to use an ID card system instead of keys to enter dorm rooms.

In addition to allowing the school to be more “modern with technology,” as Moody said, the system is easier to operate. If an ID card is lost or stolen, the card can be deactivated as opposed to replacing the entire lock and key.

Residents who lose their smart chip-enabled ID card

pay $20 to replace the card, said Chad LaDue, director of Operations and Admin-istration for Housing and Dining, while the lost card’s access capability is deacti-vated. ! e penalty for a lost mechanical key, however, is $95, charged to the resident to replace both the key and the hardware on the door.

DPS did not record a sin-gle the% during the pilot program in Roper or Clark Halls last academic year, ac-cording to Captain Norman Bailey. A similar result in McDowell relies on the pru-dence of residents, who can prevent the% by allowing doors to shut and auto-lock rather than propping them open, Bailey said.

! e electronic system could also assist DPS in the instance of the% or crime is tracking capability. Bailey said the surveillance in-formation, which includes failed access attempts and successful entries, would only be used in investigating security breaches.

“! e tracking and the au-diting of locks is only for in-cidents,” Caraker explained. “We don’t take statistical data and archive it or any-thing like that.”

Employing the new system in McDowell required a dif-ferent protocol for lockouts than that used in the pilot program due to the higher volume of residents, LaDue said. Once technical glitches related to accessing the ap-propriate AU Internet net-work are resolved, students

will be able to obtain a tem-porary electronic key coded at the front desk of the resi-dence halls.

DPS would not disclose how much the new locks cost. However, the cost of the installation in Clark and Roper last year was $650 per lock and a one-time $15,000 for additional so% ware, ! e Eagle previously reported.

AU IDs also feature color-coded stickers on resident identi# cation cards as part of a new protocol that helps front desk sta" distinguish if a person resides in North Side, South Side or Tenley Campus, which prevents unauthorized people from accessing a complex without an escort, LaDue said.

McDowell’s lobby was renovated as well. A% er last summer’s renovation of An-derson Hall, Moody said the University learned to use a di" erent & ooring in the lobby. Anderson’s tiled lob-by & oor has had problems with bubbling, so McDow-ell switched to a tile system with a di" erent vendor, re-sponding better to moisture and high tra$ c.

! e renovations were com-pleted from May 11 to Aug. 15 this year.

LaDue said Letts Hall is the next residence building due for upgrades, and Moody said Hughes Hall will get a makeover a% er that.

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McDowell Hall replaces dorm room keys with smart-chip ID cards

A NEW STARTThe SG unveiled an updated website this fall, with a new template and navigation system. The SG will also be creating uniform logos for all of its departments to correspond with the look of the new site.

CHECKING INA student uses the new ID card access system now installed in McDowell Hall rooms. Housing and Dining and Public Safety installed ID card systems in Clark and Roper Halls last fall.

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Two AU students had the unique opportunity to in-tern at the White House this summer.

Greg Saperstein, a senior in the School of Communi-cation, worked in the O! ce of Presidential Correspond-ence, responding to mail sent to the White House.

“Every day there is some-thing new, and it is a fast-paced o! ce,” Saperstein wrote in an email.

Nile Johnson, who just completed her masters in the School of International Service, was an intern in the O! ce of Scheduling and Advance, which coordinates the itineraries and logistics for the president and the White House Press Corps.

“Given the challenges cur-rently facing our nation, it is a humbling experience to be here,” Johnson said in an email. “" e 110 percent that each of my colleagues gives every day is nothing short of

extraordinary.” Both students said they

have a passion for public service, making their sum-mer experience all the more worthwhile.

“" e value I place on being a public servant combined with this current admin-istration’s inclusiveness of young Americans in every facet of the White House contributed to my desire to serve as a White House in-tern,” Johnson wrote.

White House interns are given the opportunity to participate in many di# er-ent community service pro-jects throughout D.C.

At the White House In-ternship Program Speaker Series, Johnson introduced Special Assistant and Per-sonal Aide to the President Reggie Love. Saperstein met Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Johnson will begin a ca-reer in the Foreign Service upon the conclusion of her internship, and Saperstein

will start an internship with a marketing $ rm in Arling-ton, Va.

" ough neither intern was paid, they were both thrilled to have the opportunity to work in a professional envi-ronment among coworkers who were passionate about what they were doing.

“Working at the White House is a once-in-a-life-time opportunity, and I am glad to be a part of it,” Saper-stein wrote.

Ten American Univer-sity students have done in-ternships for credit at the White House in the past three years, according to AU Career Center’s Francine Blume, who oversees of ex-periential education.

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MAIL MANGreg Saperstein worked at the White House Offi ce of Correspondence, where he responded to mail sent to President Obama.

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!Freshman students were

welcomed to AU Aug. 26, as they processed into Bender Arena for the Convocation ceremony accompanied by bagpipes, the AU pep band and school deans in their academic robes.

As the 1,550 students took their seats in Bender Arena, the administration and stu-dent leaders invited them to join the AU community.

“We consider Convocation the beginning of a new aca-demic year and the begin-ning of academic careers at American University for each of you … just such a milestone,” AU President Neil Kerwin said.

" e Class of 2015 is ex-pected to leave the Univer-sity and become leaders in their # elds, Kerwin said.

“When it’s our turn to re-

place our leaders on the Hill and our titans of industry, let’s pledge ourselves to re-place them not with the pettiness that we see on the news but the idealism and the sense of community that we # nd today and that this University has fostered for 120 years,” Student Govern-ment President Tim Mc-Bride said.

Administration o$ cials said AU students will have to use their skills to solve some of the greatest chal-lenges faced in generations.

" e Class of 2015 will need to be able to analyze and solve problems, understand the complexity of the global society and tackle the tough ethical questions of life, Provost Scott Bass said.

“" ese are all outcomes [of education] so desperately needed in today’s ever-so contentious and divisive so-ciety around us,” he said.

" ough the speakers talked

about all the University has to o% er, Faculty-Scholar and School of Public A% airs Pro-fessor Robert Durant said not all the solutions will be discovered here on campus.

“Here’s the dirty little se-cret: we’re not going to give you answers to those ques-tions,” Durant said. “You’re, over the course of your life-time, going to address those issues and you’re the ones to provide the answers.”

More than 18,000 students applied to AU this year, but only 1,550 have a “coveted seat” at convocation, Bass said.

“We hold this convocation so that you will pause for a moment and consider the obligation to yourself and to those who got you here,” Kerwin said.

Students will be expected to take full advantage of their opportunities here, Durant said.

Students may not be ac-

customed to new aspects of life and will encounter new viewpoints here. But expo-sure to new experiences at AU will transform the way they think, Durant said.

“More than tolerance is needed here,” he said. “You need to embrace the di% er-ence, embrace what’s new.”

It will all be worth it in the end, said Vice President of the Alumni Association Chip Gri$ n. " e connec-tions that students form here are mean to last a life-time, Gri$ n said.

“You may not # nd your own life partner or business partner here at AU, but you can very well meet your best friend, your future boss, the editor of your novel, your # rst client, or your cam-paign manager,” Gri$ n said.

He said that, with convoca-tion, students began a jour-ney that does not last merely four years, but a lifetime.

“Once an Eagle, always an Eagle,” Gri$ n said.!

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AU administration, SG welcome freshmen at opening convocation

COME TOGETHERABOVE — Over 1,550 freshmen attended the Opening Convoca-tion ceremony in Bender Arena Aug. 26.

WISE WORDSBELOW — President Neil Ker-win, Provost Scott Bass and others shared their words of advice for freshmen at the cer-emony.




DRIVE ON Yearly resident parking rates were increased to $988 in May, up from $964 in May 2010. One-semester parking rates were raised to $494, up from $482 last year.

By PAIGE JONESEagle Staff Writer

AU main campus resi-dents return to an increase in parking rates, which were implemented this May.

Academic year parking rates for students who live on Main Campus increased from $964 in May 2010 to $988 in May 2011, accord-ing to the AU website.

One-semester parking rates for resident students increased as well, from $482 to $494.

Terrence Campbell, Of-! ce of Parking and Tra" c assistant coordinator, said the rates increased to match D.C. parking rates and those at other universities.

“All of our parking rates are at or below rates currently charged at local universi-ties and are either below or competitive with D.C. park-ing fees for premium me-ters,” Campbell said in an email.

George Washington Uni-

versity charges students from $760 to $860 per se-mester for parking while Georgetown University does not o# er student park-ing on its main campus.

“$ e revenues received as a result of parking fees are returned to the University’s General Funds and used to bene! t the campus com-munity, as well as the cost of providing parking ser-vices to our campus drivers,” Campbell said.

How to get a parking permitStudents living on Main

Campus with a car must purchase a parking permit for their vehicle, according to the AU website.

$ is permit only applies to that individual and their vehicle and cannot be used by another student or for a di# erent vehicle.

Parking permits can be purchased online by ! lling out an application and pick-ing up the permit at the De-partment of Public Safety.

Campbell said it takes one to two business days to ob-tain a parking permit.

Campbell said students must pick up their parking permit from Public Safety as soon as possible to “ensure students are not charged for the permit until it is picked up.”

Students are required to bring a copy of vehicle regis-tration and a photo ID when picking up their permit, ac-cording to Campbell.

Parking fi nes and regulationsFreshman and Washington

Semester resident students are not permitted to park their cars on campus with-out special permission.

Students may only park in the residence hall lot they are assigned — Nebraska Hall Lot, McDowell Hall Lot or Centennial Parking Ga-rage. All students can park in the Nebraska Avenue Parking Lot and Katzen Ga-rage in addition to their as-signed residence hall park-ing lot.

Students who park in a lot that is not designated on their permit will receive a $35 ! ne. Students cannot park in the School of Inter-national Service garage.

Parking lot rules are en-forced 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Campbell said it is possible for a student’s license to be suspended because of nu-merous AU parking tickets.

“Vehicles owing $300 or more, or with three or more outstanding citations (open for more than 30 days) or cited for false registration or unauthorized use of permit are subject to immobiliza-tion,” Campbell said.

$ e ! rst parking ticket from Public Safety is a warning, but all other ones are violations. Campbell said citations double a% er 30 days as a penalty.

Parking ! nes begin at $15 for the smallest infraction of displaying your permit incorrectly to $200 for park-ing in a handicap spot. Stu-dents can be ! ned $100 for parking in a neighborhood, unless you are a resident liv-ing on the street, a visitor to a resident or not conducting University business, accord-ing to the AU website.

Students may pay ! nes at the Parking and Tra" c Services o" ce from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. or online at www.parkingticketpayment.com/american with cash, credit card or check.

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Eagle Staff Writer

$ e AU Honors Program is three years overdue for a program review and sta# will be brainstorming im-provements over the next few months, according to interim Honors Director Michael Manson.

Program reviews ensure that AU faculty and sta# are adequately preparing students for success in their ! elds.

$ e last review of the Hon-ors Program was conducted in 2001 and, prior to that, in 1993. AU reviews each Uni-versity department every seven years.

“$ ese program reviews are like research papers,” Manson said. “You’re always trying to improve your pa-per and make it better in every way possible”

“We’re in the ‘napkin’ stage. Basically we’re asking stu-dents, faculty and sta# ‘what do you think?’ ”

Any changes made to the Honors program will be to improve the overall pro-gram rather than ! x a prob-lem, he said.

“I like to compare the Hon-ors program to a smooth running car,” Manson said. “Nothing is broken, it’s just the world of AU is chang-ing.”

$ e Honors program has already helped make Hughes Hall an Honors hall.

All but 15 Honors fresh-men are living in Hughes Hall this semester, accord-ing to Manson.

“I’m intrigued by this kind of community and what im-pact it will have on the stu-dents’ education,” Manson said.

Manson will serve as inter-im director for the Honors Program for the next two years until a suitable candi-date is found.

“$ e search committee haven’t found the right can-didate, so I was appointed the job,” Manson said. “We’ll see what comes next.”

Manson previously taught Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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We the Kings, a popu-lar alternative rock group, and singer-songwriter Ben Kweller will perform in Bender Arena Sept. 9.

$ e Student Union Board concert marks the begin-ning of Artemas Ward Week.

“I am such a big fan of these artists, and I know they will put on an amaz-ing show,” SUB Director Ira Grylack said.

Kweller, who has authored numbers such as “$ e Rules” and “Sundress,” is opening for We the Kings, who are known for their hits

such as “Check Yes Juliet” and “We’ll Be a Dream.”

Admission to the event will cost $5 for anybody with an AU ID and $10 for guests. Tickets will be available for purchase online shortly, Student Government Vice President Liz Richards said.

Doors open at 8 p.m., and the show will start at 9 p.m.

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We the Kings, Ben Kweller coming to AU

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By HOAI-TRAN BUIEagle Staff Writer

We know there are proba-bly about 500 other lists out there telling you the mov-ies you should see this fall. But most of these lists don’t take into account the varied tastes (and wallet sizes) of the average college student. ! e Scene has compiled a list of movies that are com-ing out this fall for students of all movie tastes to enjoy.

THE BLOCKBUSTER: “SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS”

! ere’s not much to the fall blockbuster, and the same can probably be said of “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. In this sequel, Sherlock Holmes faces o" against his

famous archenemy, Profes-sor James Moriarty, in a battle of the wits. Judging from the trailer, the movie seems to be following the “rinse and repeat” formula of the # rst # lm, only with a di" erent female sidekick; this time in the form of the talented Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (of “! e Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” fame). However, Downey Jr. and Law look like they’ll be turning on their bromantic charm and playful bickering again, so the movie may not turn out half bad.

Release date: Dec. 16

THE WAY TOO INTENSE TO WATCH TWICE MOVIE: “THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO”

Speaking of “! e Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” have you heard that they’re do-

ing an American remake? Directed by David Fincher (“Fight Club,” “! e Social Network”), and starring newcomer Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, this # lm looks to be a darkly twisted update of the already dis-turbing Swedish # lm. ! e heroine, Lisbeth Salander (Mara), is an antisocial computer hacker who teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) to solve the mystery of a missing girl. Fincher’s intense style is a perfect match for this # lm, which has been adver-tising itself as the “feel-bad movie of Christmas.”

Release date: Dec. 21

“500 DAYS OF SUMMER,” THE SEQUEL: “50/50”

OK, “50/50” is not really the sequel to the quirky-cute 2009 # lm “500 Days of

Summer,” but it comes close to being its successor. With Joseph-Gordon Levitt as the lead and a delightfully indie soundtrack, “50/50” may at # rst appear to be too similar to “500 Days of Summer,” but it’s a great # lm in its own right. In “50/50,” 27-year-old Adam suddenly # nds himself diagnosed with cancer and has to learn to deal with the breakdown of his relationships, his career and his own emotions. It’s not all depressing, though, because “50/50” is a surpris-ingly funny and heartfelt look at the other side of can-cer, where you can laugh at yourself if only you had a friend like Seth Rogen.

Release date: Sept. 30

YOUR CHILDHOOD: “THE MUPPETS”

Judging from the trailers released for “! e Muppets,” this new # lm looks to be a clever, hilarious take on the beloved puppets from our childhood. Kermit and the gang return from retirement at the urging of zealous fan

Gary (Jason Segel) and his girlfriend (Amy Adams). If you’re nursing your in-ner child or you still have that hole le$ in you by “Toy Story 3,” “! e Muppets” is probably the best way to re-live your childhood.

Release date: Nov. 23

THE ONE WITH ALL THE ACTORS YOU LOVE: “CONTAGION”

“Contagion” has the dream cast that every movie wishes it had: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard and Lau-rence Fishburne. But it also has a classic virus-wiping-out-all-of-humanity story, which should bring in cyn-ics who think the cast would likely belong in a dull pres-tige # lm. ! e movie looks intensely entertaining, the actors are great and the sto-ry is tried-and-true.

Release date: Sept. 9

THE OSCAR CONTENDER: “J. EDGAR”

“J. Edgar” is a Clint East-wood movie, starring

Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer. If that’s not enough reason to sway you, it’s an intriguing biopic on the polarizing # gure of J. Edgar Hoover, the man who oversaw the creation of the FBI and its rise to power. However, once he also rose to power, Hoover soon be-came corrupt and paranoid. Leonardo DiCaprio promis-es to give yet another Oscar-worthy performance, and Clint Eastwood has become one of the most prestigious directors in Hollywood.

Release date: Nov. 9

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BY HOAI-TRAN BUIEagle Staff Writer

To avoid the wrath of avid TV watchers who are disap-pointed that their favorite show was not mentioned, this list will mainly concern new TV shows that are pre-miering this fall season.

Also, the fall TV season o! en introduces some of the best and more memora-ble shows, especially in this golden age of prime time television.

“NEW GIRL” (FOX)Zooey Deschanel hits the

small screen with yet anoth-er variation of her quirky-girl character. Deschanel plays Jess, a socially awk-ward girl recovering from a recent break-up who moves in with three single guys (Max Green" eld, Jake John-son and Damon Wayans Jr.).

However her incessant sobbing and rewatching of “Dirty Dancing” soon drive them crazy and they resolve to help her re-enter the dat-ing scene.

“New Girl” promises to be funny, heartwarming and, yes, quirky to the extreme.

Premieres Sept. 20

“RINGER” (CW)Bu# y is back! But not in

the way you expect. Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to television in the upcom-ing show “Ringer,” a soapy thriller about mistaken identity and murderous conspiracies.

Gellar plays twins Bridget and Siobhan, one on the run a! er witnessing a mur-der and another a wealthy socialite presumed dead. Bridget (the one on the run) soon takes over her sister’s seemingly perfect life, only to discover that all is not as it seems.

Nestor Carbonell (“Lost”) and Ioan Gru# udd (“Fan-tastic Four”) round out the show’s cast.

Premieres Sept. 13

“TERRA NOVA” (FOX)$ is show has been in de-

velopment purgatory for the past few years or so, but now it’s " nally hitting TV screens. A show produced by Steven Spielberg that in-volves dinosaurs and time travel — you have to wonder why it took so long.

Judging from the trailers, “Terra Nova” looks to be as

high budget as some of the best blockbusters, with an excellent storyline to boot. “Terra Nova” centers on the Shannon family, who escape from a polluted future Earth to prehistoric times to save the human race, along with a small colony of humans from the future. It sounds weird but looks to be good old-fashioned dinosaur-killing fun for the most part.

Premieres Sept. 26

“GRIMM” (NBC)Fans of fairy tales should

pay attention to this little TV show. David Giuntoli stars as a detective who " nds himself protecting humans from fairy tale villains that have invaded the real world.

“Grimm” looks to be an ex-cellent merging of the clas-sic procedural show with the fairy tale element that seems to becoming more popular as of late.

Premieres Oct. 21

“PERSON OF INTEREST” (CBS)

It’s a J.J. Abrams show. ‘Nu# said.

Well, to elaborate, Abrams teams up with Jonathan No-lan (You might have heard of his brother, Christo-pher?) to create “Person of Interest,” starring Michael Emerson of “Lost” and Jim Caviziel.

Emerson plays Finch, an enigmatic billionaire who creates a surveillance pro-gram for the government that can identify people who will commit crimes in the future. Caviziel plays an ex-CIA agent recruited by Finch to catch these future criminals. $ ink “Minority Report.”

Of course, knowing J.J. Abrams, it’s probably a lot more elaborate and confus-ing than that. But at least it sounds awesome.

Premieres Sept. 22

“PAN AM” (ABC)“Mad Men” fans might

want to check out this TV show about the lives of Pan Am stewardesses in the ’60s.

Christina Ricci is the big-gest name in the cast, but all the actors in the cast are bursting to the seam with potential. “Pan Am” looks like it will be a sleek, fun-" lled romp through the skies of the 1960s.

Premieres Sept. 25

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Television’s new crop of small screen heroes

UP IN THE AIRA variety of new TV shows are springing up on basic cable this fall. Among the lineup is “Pan Am,” starring Christina Ricci as a fl ight attendant in the 1960s.

ET TU, BRUTE?Fans of the Shakespeare Theatre Company got a treat when tickets for the opening night of the classic play “Julius Caesar” were absolutely free!

Courtesy of ABC ENTERTAINMENT By ZACHARY COHENEagle Staff Writer

As people lined up out-side to get the last remain-ing tickets for the opening night of “Julius Caesar,” they didn’t seem to mind the rain. $ at’s not surprising; all of the tickets were free.

Each year, the Shakespeare $ eatre Company in Gallery Place holds a “Free for All,” where the theatre reproduc-es one of its previous perfor-mances of a William Shake-speare classic at no cost to viewers. $ e “Free for All” runs from Aug. 18 to Sept. 4.

$ is D.C. theater tradition would not have been possi-ble without help from a few AU community members.

Jason Arnold, a designer in residence in AU’s De-partment of Performing Arts, assisted in designing the lighting for the original production of “Julius Cae-sar” back in 2008, and was in charge of lighting for this remounted production.

$ ough “Free for All” had the same set and starring actors as the original show, many of the technical ele-ments changed. Of the 200 light changes in the original show, 90 percent of them were altered to accommo-date stage movement chang-es and a smaller budget.

“We had a few expensive high-ticket items we need-ed to swap out because our budget wasn’t as high as the

" rst time,” Arnold said. Other AU community

members joined Arnold in remounting the production.

Chris Baine, who has di-rected sound design at AU productions, such as “Tartu# e,” helped manage sound e# ects and music.

While the previous per-formance of “Julius Caesar” had live music, Baine and other sound designers man-aged recordings of the mu-sic from the original show for this production.

Leah Pope, who graduated AU in May, helped hang and focus lights for the show.

$ ese theater profession-als are participating in a program that is part of a na-tional trend toward o# ering Shakespeare productions for low prices or even for free, said Gus Heagarty, the assistant director of “Julius Caesar.” Low-cost produc-tions are important because they give people the oppor-tunity to experience Shake-speare when they normally wouldn’t have the option, Heagarty said.

“Bringing them here and show them how exciting a night of theatre can poten-tially be is awesome,” Hea-garty said.

Disclaimer: Arnold is Co-hen’s professor this fall, and Pope was his director for a student play last fall.

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As a college student, it’s hard to stay informed about current health and wellness issues — whether they are issues of personal health and wellness or the wider issue of the health of our planet.

In today’s society, we are constantly bombarded with reminders to be eco-con-scious in every aspect of our lives. We are told to recycle, drive less, bike more, eat organic and always turn o! the lights.

" is column will to help weave these things into your daily life as a student. And the # rst topic on the menu is the ever-expanding green movement.

" e green movement has

recently gained even great-er momentum in grocery stores across the nation with Americans basing their food choices on “environmental reasons.”

But what really is the en-vironmental impact of our groceries?

Actually, as it turns out, quite a lot.

According to TIME maga-zine, an average Ameri-can family diet generates 2.8 tons of carbon dioxide, while driving only yields 2.2.

Similarly, 30 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions across the globe stem from agriculture, more than that from transportation, ac-cording to TIME.

Perhaps the fact that your dinner can produce more emissions than your car seems crazy at # rst, but con-sider how food arrives to your plate.

Agriculture takes up al-most 40 percent of the world’s land, causing large amounts of deforestation and carbon emissions.

Besides land, a farm neces-sitates machines and ferti-lizer, both sources of carbon. Sources must also trasnport food to stores, which adds the emissions from trans-portation into the equation.

Moreover — and apologies to meat and dairy lovers — the foods with the highest carbon footprint are meat, speci# cally beef and lamb, closely followed by cheese.

While the ratio of fossil-fuel energy to food calorie energy is around 2 to 1 for produce, it is close to 80 to 1 for beef. In layman’s terms this means the amount of energy needed to produce beef is strikingly high com-pared to the amount of en-ergy it provides to the body (measured calorically).

Beef production involves environmental pitfalls at every step. For instance, the massive amounts of grain fed to cows and the fertilizer used to grow those grains

can cause surface runo! s, leading to dead zones in waters such as the Gulf of Mexico.

“Cattle feeding presents perhaps the greatest poten-

tial of the U.S. cattle and beef industry for negatively impacting the environ-ment,” noted a 2000 report by the World Wildlife Fund.

Another major concern is that, a$ er eating those fer-tilized grains, cows belch large amounts of methane into the air — a greenhouse gas 20 times as toxic as CO2, according to TIME.

So even though you may feel you are protecting the planet by walking instead of driving to McDonalds, your meal is really much worse for the environment than your drive.

With this in mind, Jona-thon Kaplan of the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental action group that # ghts to protect wildlife and, says, “If you can’t buy a Prius, you can certainly eat like one.”

As college students, a Prius is not even in the budget. However, the easiest and most e! ective way to “eat like a Prius” is to reduce the amount of meat in your diet.

According to a University of Chicago study, switching

to a vegetarian diet from a red-meat diet can save as much carbon as switching from a Camry to a Prius.

While vegetarianism is ideal, it is o$ en not realis-tic for everyone. Instead, experts advocate for a “low-carbon diet” consisting of high quantities of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, # sh and lean meats.

" is is good news for your waistline too, as it turns out the foods with the highest carbon footprints are also the unhealthiest.

We have complete control of what food goes into our bodies. How can we not choose to do what is best not only for our body, but also for our planet?

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Learning about the environmental impact of a student’s daily dietOLIVIA STITILIS — VITAMIN O Perhaps the fact

that your dinner can produce

more emissions than your car

seems crazy at first, but consider how food arrives

to your plate.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

ETCHED IN STONEVisitors to the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial snap photos of the National Mall’s newest piece. The memorial opened Aug. 22, but the opening ceremony was postponed to later in the fall due to Hurricane Irene.


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GOOD EATS AUDIOPHILE

ST. VINCENT

GIRLS

THE RAPTURE

STRANGE MERCY

FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST

IN THE GRACE OF YOUR LOVE

By MAEVE McDERMOTTEagle Staff Writer

! is fall, a crop of highly anticipated fall albums accompanies the changing leaves. Settle in to the cooler weather with twisted baroque pop, dance-punk, dazzling indie pop and Peter Gabriel-esque witch house.

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With an album named a" er an “Arrested Development” quote and a stage name drawn from a Dylan ! omas reference, St. Vincent’s eclectic style ranges beyond her music. Annie Clark, who performs under the St. Vincent moniker, has cultivated a be-loved following for her music that toes the line between ornate and twisted.

Her # rst two albums, “Marry Me” and “Actor,” drew critical acclaim for their un-orthodox style, a maniacal sort of chamber pop featuring a wide array of instruments and dark lyrics. Her third album, the much-anticipated “Strange Mercy,” will be released Sept. 13. Check out her new video for the al-bum’s second single “Cruel,” which features Clark as a housewife whose family, in typical St. Vincent fashion, buries her alive.

In the least Google-friendly move of 2009, the San Francisco-based duo Girls released their debut album, titled “Album.” Girls’ mu-sic is as straightforward as their album title suggests, featuring perfectly teenaged lyrics accompanied by plenty of classic rock nods, most obviously the band’s Elvis Costello sound-alike front man, Christopher Owens. Blogs buzzed over Owens’ wacky and de-batably true back-story about his troubled childhood spent in a cult, but nothing could steal the attention away from “Album’s” re-markable strength.

Girls followed “Album’s” success with last year’s “Broken Dreams Club EP,” one of the best EPs of 2010. ! eir second full-length al-bum, the more comprehensively titled “Fa-ther, Son, Holy Ghost,” comes out Sept. 13. ! e # rst two singles give an exciting preview of FSHG, from the slow-burning, gospel choir-bolstered “Vomit” to the snappy surf-rock of “Honey Bunny.” Expectations are high for Girls’ sophomore album, but based on what we’ve heard so far, “FSHG” will be a stunning release.

By KELLY HOLLIDAYEagle Staff Writer

I try to stay away from trends as much as humanly possible. I # nd that when it comes to clothing or music, ballet $ ats and Eric Clapton will always be classic where-as the novelty of leather “jeggings” and Auto-Tune poster-child Ke$ha will soon wear o% . In my life, the same attitude applies to food.

Take some of the popular food items of the last year: “haute” dogs? Um, no. In which universe does cilant-ro or pineapple slaw pair well with a hot dog? Surely not this one.

How about the in$ ux of powders and crumbs in res-taurants? No o% ense, but no dessert menu should feature “chocolate dirt” as an op-tion.

And while it seems that food trucks and cupcaker-ies are here to stay (in D.C., at least), I spent the spring not-so-eagerly waiting to see which new food craze would pop in and out of our city this summer.

Having spent the # rst half of this year in Italy and con-suming my body weight in frozen desserts (namely, gelato), I was pleasantly surprised to # nd that the icy treats made their way across the pond. It seems as if frozen yogurt, gelato and popsicles have taken over the District, and I couldn’t be happier.

And while I’ve spent the better part of this column unleashing my hatred for food trends, I still # nd the allure of a cold treat on a hot

city day incredibly enticing.A handful of di% erent fro-

zen yogurt businesses have appeared in the District over the last year, including Mr. Yogato, Sweetgreen, Yogen Fruz and the ever popular and trend-setting Pinkberry.

It seems the basis of frozen yogurt’s appeal is that most businesses are self-serve, where customers have com-plete control over the quan-tity, $ avors and toppings in their cups.

! e whole shtick is quite deceptive, as customers tend to buy larger portions when they are serving themselves, thus paying more as most shops charge by ounce. But it’s no matter when you’re o% ered a plethora of topping options, including fresh fruit, crumbled cookies, granola and a wide assort-ment of breakfast cereals.

While frozen yogurt thrives on o% ering multi-ple $ avors of yogurt and an array of toppings, gelato — froyo’s sophisticated and thicker cousin — $ ourishes on simplicity. Because it is whipped with less air, gelato is denser and creamier than ice cream, making it a rich and indulgent end to a meal.

As such, gelaterias have sprung up in the District, boasting “artisanal” ingre-dients and fresh $ avors. Pitango, with three loca-tions in Penn Quarter, Lo-gan Circle and Capitol Hill, uses only grass-fed organic milk and imports pistachios from Bronte, Sicily. Serving only 20 $ avors at a time, on any given day you can # nd classics like crèma (vanilla), traditional Gianduja (choc-olate and hazelnut) and es-

presso, as well as exotic $ a-vors such as spicy chocolate and Sicilian almond.

In Bethesda, Georgetown or Dupont at Dolcezza, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with dulce de leche or avo-cado honey orange.

But the most refreshing, and, in my opinion, tastiest of all, is the reemergence of the ice pop. In perhaps the smartest food marketing move ever, Pleasant Pops, a small ice pop business, meshed two of D.C.’s fa-vorite culinary trends: fruity popsicles and food trucks.

Pleasant Pops has spent the summer coasting around the city in their truck, “Big Pop-pa,” and setting up stands at area farmers markets. Each week the $ avors of the pops change, but almost all fea-ture locally grown fruits and organic local milk, like sum-mer peach and raspberry cream mint.

For just $2.50, you can en-joy a frozen snack and remi-nisce about a" ernoons spent running through sprinklers and exchanging sticky coins for a melty treat from the ice cream truck.

I have to say, it’s rather genius to market and sell a product that populated eve-ryone’s childhood summers. Would you rather have a slice of cheesecake a" er lunch or a frozen treat that simultaneously tastes deli-cious, refreshes you and cre-ates a sense of nostalgia?

I’ll take the ice pop, please.

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Frozen treats prove to be a classic dessert staple, not just a food trend

WHERE TO GET IT

FROZEN YOGURTMr. YogatoWhere: Dupont CircleGet there: Dupont Circle Metro (Red Line)

GELATOPitangoWhere: Logan Circle/Capi-tol Hill Dupont Circle Get there: Metro (Red Line)/Eastern Market Met-ro (Blue/Orange line)

POPSICLESPleasant PopsWhere: Check out their truck’s schedule online for the latest locations!

! e Rapture has experienced a revival of the weirdest fashion. It’s been almost ex-actly # ve years since the DFA dance-punk band released their last album “Pieces of the People We Love.” With the exception of the Strokes, the other bands from the post-punk revival era have either called it quits or faded from popular favor, and, given the interper-sonal struggles among the Rapture band mates over the past few years, it seemed like-ly that the Rapture would join the Vines and the Hives in the second category. But a few months ago, when the phony “rapture” was supposed to wipe out humanity, the Rapture were dragged into the mess as a punchline. And before they disappeared as a passing meme, they released the dynamite single “How Deep Is Your Love.”

! e Strokes new album still stinks, and LCD Soundsystem is still retired, so the Rapture’s new album “In the Grace of Your Love,” to be released on DFA on Sept. 5, can hopefully provide due consolation.

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As an abroad columnist in Turkey, I’d better get this out of the way:

Istanbul is a vibrant me-tropolis, old as time it-self, rich in history and yet modern. It’s a place where East meets West — because that phrase can totally en-compass a nation’s entirety. Where else could one en-joy exciting new experi-ences like smoking hookah, drinking tea or buying rugs? Where, I ask you? And all this against a backdrop of towering minarets and a glittering postcard-quality sea accentuated by the wa! -ing strands of the call to prayer.

Lastly, for your reading pleasure, I shall now give this intro a suitably punny conclusion, thereby provid-ing a swi! ‘n’ tidy under-standing of my adorable adventures abroad: Once “Orient”-ed, I found Istan-bul to be a magical city; a true Turkish Delight!

Well, now that’s taken care of. Moving on …

Before beginning my se-mester abroad in London, I impulsively shoved into my itinerary a two-week jaunt to Istanbul. I set out with an unshakable belief that, with my superior cultural sensitivity, Turkish society would immediately accept me with open arms. I would be praised as the one tourist who truly understood this exotic land. In no time lo-cal mothers would beg me to wed their strapping sons. Goats would be slaughtered in my honor. Merry feasts would ensue.

Somehow this did not oc-cur.

Within minutes of arriv-ing, my glori" ed self-image as Cultural Ambassador Ex-traordinaire was stamped into a bloody pulp by a place not resembling my guide-book’s cover whatsoever. Is-tanbul seemed a monstrous, noisy, clustermuck-of-a-

city. It felt an insurmount-able foe.

As I wandered the streets aimlessly that " rst day, my face resembled the kid in the “Home Alone” mov-ies. I searched my brain for any comparable experiences and, " nding my mind blank, felt isolated in ways I never knew possible.

By nightfall I did what seemed only logical: I began drinking at the base of Gala-ta Tower (a watchtower built by the Genoese in 1455) among hoards of Turks and tourists. A foolproof remedy for culture shock, right? Well, it wasn’t long before the police’s attempt to break up the open-air rager prompted a riot. # e scene soon became a frenzy of journalists, police o$ cers and enraged and inebriated youths. Luckily, around this time I met my friend, and ex-Eagle writer, Will Ze-man, who calmly removed me from the mayhem.

Will, my former Mission Improvable mate, had been living in Turkey, improving his Turkish and working in Istanbul. He had graciously o% ered to show me around and house me. More impor-tantly, he provided familiar-ity and ushered me into life here.

It’s been a week now and my fear of Istanbul has turned to love. I’ve seen the must-see sights, eaten the must-eat eats and petted the must-pet street cats. More importantly, I’ve learned to embrace being an outsider, separated by language and appearance. I’ve given up trying to analyze my sur-roundings, and I’ve accepted my lack of control. # is re-alization has made Istanbul beautiful to me. I don’t have to understand or conquer this place. I can just exist.

# e most unexpected and in" nitely rewarding aspect has been meeting the many people who have made a

AU student heads to ‘where East meets West’

MADELINE WOLFSON — ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Whome here. I spend days wandering neighborhoods, a! ernoons talking with Turkish, German and Alba-nian & at mates, and nights dancing with French stu-dents, Iranian couch surfers and American ex-pats — all of whom have shown me nothing but hospitality.

I’ve gone from experienc-ing loneliness in a way I never knew I could feel to an equally as foreign state of pure contentment.

And yeah — I smoked a damned hookah. It was lovely.

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EASTERN MARKETStudents who go abroad often take the opportunity to travel as much as possible. Such is the case when our London columnist ventures out to Istanbul.

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It has also been a while since we’ve heard from Grizzly Bear, whose third album “Veckatimest” was among the best of 2009. In the meantime, the band’s bassist/producer Chris Tay-lor produced two excellent albums for the Morning Benders and Twin Shadow and founded the Terrible Records label, which has recently released music by Class Actress and Acrylics.

As if Taylor wasn’t busy enough, he’s set to release “Dreams Come True,” his ! rst solo album under the apostrophe-less moniker CANT on Sept. 13, an album pegged with genres ranging from experimental to prog metal to witch house.

Taylor worked with Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. on “Dreams,” so it’s not a surprise that the album ref-erences his recent work for Twin Shadow, rather than Grizzly Bear’s psychedelic sound.

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TODAY, AUG. 30: VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ AT 9:30 CLUB" e 9:30 club mostly brings bigger-name indie rock acts, but today features a change

from the traditional rock show with Mali’s Vieux Farka Touré. " e son of Ali Farka Tou-ré, one of Africa’s renowned guitar virtuosos, Mali-born Vieux carries on the tradition of his father’s music with his own take on the desert blues of Northern Mali. Vieux’s new album, “" e Secret,” features collaborations with Derek Trucks and Dave Matthews. Trained as a percussionist, Vieux also studied the harp-like kora and has been dubbed “the Hendrix of the Sahara.”

THURSDAY, SEPT. 1: THEATER J’S IMAGINING MADOFF D.C.’s " eater J is the professional theater group of the Jewish Community Center, and

their 2011 season opener is “Imagining Mado# ,” a play written by Obie Award winner Deb Margolin about infamous Ponzi schemer Bernard Mado# . " e much-anticipated play revolves around a ! ctional encounter between the now-imprisoned Mado# and the victims who he scammed. Imagining Mado# was supposed to be staged by " eater J in May 2010, but Holocaust victim and famed author Elie Wiesel objected to the play’s use of his character, forcing the play back into revisions. " e new version is playing this fall at the D.C. Jewish Community Center.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 3: THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY’S JULIUS CAESAR

D.C. is a city generous with its free events, o# ering free museums, music events and even the occasional play. In what has become a beloved D.C. tradition, the Shakespeare " eatre Company stages a free play every year, and this year’s o# ering is a reboot of their 2007-2008 production of Shakespeare’s lauded tragedy “Julius Caesar.” Tickets are free, and can be obtained by entering your name in the ticket lottery on the company’s website. “Julius Caesar” closes at the end of this week, so don’t miss this yearly o# ering of free Shakespeare.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31: WISE BLOOD AT DC9Wise Blood doesn’t record songs so much as he weaves together a drugged-out collage

of samples. " e mysterious project of Pittsburgh native Chris Laufman, Wise Blood’s warped, lo-! experimental music has been steadily gaining buzz over the past year. Lauf-man recently released the “+” EP featuring the Led Zeppelin-distorting single “B.I.G. E.G.O,” as well as contributed a woozy cover of Strokes hit “Someday” to Stereogum’s “Is " is It” tribute compilation. Wise Blood is touring in anticipation of his upcoming “" ese Wings EP.”

FRIDAY, SEPT. 2: THE WAR ON DRUGS AT THE RED PALACE" e Philadelphia-based band " e War On Drugs are touring in support of their new

album “Slave Ambient,” which has received positive reviews and snagged a BNM on Pitchfork. Kurt Vile was a founding member of the War on Drugs before he le$ the band to record his own music, and his in% uences are apparent on the band’s rustic rock sound. " e album’s expansive indie rock is made for live shows, so don’t miss the War on Drugs at the Red Palace, supported by Cavemen and Paperhaus.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 4: NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S LABOR DAY CAPITOL CONCERT

In a Labor Day tradition, the National Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Kicking o# their 2011 season, the National Symphony Orchestra will perform a program that pays musical tribute to legends of D.C. music, including John Phillip Sousa, jazz great Duke Ellington and Chuck Brown, the father of go-go music, whose band will follow the orchestral portion of the evening.

WELCOME WEEK IS OVER, AND, WITH THE START OF CLASSES, COMES YOUR CHANCE TO START EXPLORING THE CITY. THE D.C. FALL ARTS SEASON IS JUST BEGINNING, SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BEST CONCERTS, PLAYS AND OTHER ARTS EVENTS D.C. HAS TO OFFER THIS WEEK. GOING OUT

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! e Student Advocacy Center, a department of Student Govern-ment, is here to provide the stu-dent body of American Univer-sity with information on a range of topics.

Typically, we speak to students a" er they have come into con# ict with the University, be it for a vio-lation of the Residence Hall Regu-lations, a breach of the Academic Integrity Code or something along those lines. And while we know this is an important service, the members of SAC also feel that the best guidance is preventative, giv-en before a problem arises.

It is with this in mind that I pre-sent a few words of advice to help you better live within the Univer-sity’s rules, secure your privacy and avoid unnecessary, unpleasant run-ins with University sta$ .

O" entimes, students come to us

with questions about their resident assistants and what rights and re-sponsibilities both parties have. ! ere are a few issues here I would like to address.

SAC advocates always advise that students be polite with RAs and answer their questions honestly. Failing to comply with the direc-tions of university o% cials, includ-ing housing sta$ , is listed under AU’s prohibited conduct. Fur-thermore, dishonesty, fraud and misrepresentation in university matters are also prohibited — so be honest.

! at said, if an RA asks you a question you don’t feel comfort-able answering, don’t feel com-pelled to answer. ! ere is nothing wrong with saying you are uncom-fortable and not answering. Again, it helps to be polite. If you are anxious about letting an RA into

your room, you have the option of speaking to them in the hallway. If they suspect a policy violation is in progress in your room, they can enter, but talking in the hallway is a way to clear up any misunder-standings while preserving your privacy.

Also, if an RA asks to look in your refrigerator, shelves or cabi-nets, you do not have to let them. Only a Residence Director or Public Safety O% cer can order a search of the room. RAs can look around the room, but are limited to gathering evidence on what is in plain sight. With that in mind, I’ll mention that knowingly and will-ingly being in the presence of alco-hol or drugs in the residence halls is a violation of AU rules.

Advocates are also trained in matters concerning the Academic Integrity Code. We see students every year who have run afoul of these rules because they don’t understand them or didn’t know about them.

So a few words of advice: ! e most important thing I can tell a student is to cite everything in a paper. If it is questionable, take the & ve minutes and cite it anyway. Plagiarism is an incredibly serious charge and even a minor violation

will result in failure of the class. Honest mistakes are tolerated, but if there is even the slightest chance you need to cite something, write up the attribution. Saving a few minutes is not worth it when your GPA or college career are on the line.

Many students also accidentally violate the code with reference to Inappropriate Collaboration. ! is one can be confusing, as of-ten professors will encourage their students to work together. Take it too far though, at the professor’s discretion, and you may be in vio-lation. If you are worried you may be inappropriately collaborating, ask your professor. Also, only turn in original work.

! ere is more I could tell you, so stop by the SAC o% ce in MGC 264 or email us at [email protected].

Our advocates are here to help you. Everything we do is con& -dential and we aren’t here to judge you.

We’re students, just like you. It’s college, stu$ happens; we get it.

Matt Kabak is the Director of the Student Advocacy Center

Besides being the youngest Ea-gles on campus, the Class of 2015 is special in another way. Our new-est classmates are part of the most diverse class in recent memory at AU, with over 30 percent self-iden-tifying as a domestic minority.

More than achieving racial di-versity, the administration has also expanded its recruiting e$ orts to various regions of the United States, in addition to increasing the number of need-based & nan-cial aid packages, creating a socio-economic motley crew of fresh-men.

! e Eagle welcomes this con-scious shi" towards a more diverse campus. We’ve all heard that col-lege is the place where we will be exposed to new ideas and di$ erent perspectives. And this is absolutely true. But this process of discovery extends beyond the walls of our classrooms and the pages of our textbooks.

It includes having a roommate that celebrates Ramadan, sharing a hallway with a West Coast na-tive unphased by a 5.9 earthquake, talking with that friend whose Southern drawl relaxes everyone within earshot, discussing the

merits of unemployment insur-ance with an acquaintance whose family actually depended on it. If Julius Caesar was correct in say-ing experience is the teacher of all things, then a diverse campus certainly promotes a wide range of knowledge.

However, AU must guide this de-

mographic transformation with a steady hand, as increased diversity will come with new challenges for the administration and the student body as a whole. O% cials have thus far shown an impressive an-ticipation of such problems, estab-lishing mentorship programs for & rst-generation college students

in addition to multiple programs encouraging interactions across socioeconomic groups. ! ese ef-forts — coupled with an o% cial push for more free and a$ ordable events on campus — will foster a welcoming campus environment to all students.

However, in order to provide the

necessary increase in need-based aid, the University has shi" ed fo-cus away from merit-based schol-arships. Here, this paper o$ ers a word of caution.

Merit-based scholarships may no longer be as necessary to attract students to AU as they were in the past. Nevertheless, we still believe

they have — for a lack of a better word — merit.

Rewarding previous accomplish-ments is something that appeals to everyone’s sense of fairness, and we can’t help but wonder how many well-accomplished students did not receive aid that might have in years past. More than sev-eral current Eagle sta$ members would not be attending American University if not for their merit awards. ! roughout the school’s e$ orts to expand the makeup of its student body, merit-based scholar-ships should continue to play a key role in AU’s admission strategy.

Reservations aside, the Univer-sity’s movement towards diver-sity should be celebrated. To those who continue to sco$ at the sig-ni& cance of diversity, we direct them to the words of journalist Joe Klein. “Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow ar-ray has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.”

Our University is a thriving in-stitution. A balanced embrace of diversity will be yet another illus-tration of this health and vigor.

My third year at AU, and already so much has changed. New build-ings, new academic majors and new labels (#WONK) have revital-ized this campus and made us re-think how we identify ourselves as a university.

But even when our university is in constant # ux, there are pro-grams and traditions in the AU Student Government that can keep you grounded through it all.

As the vice president of Student Government, I am in charge of all AUSG programming. Over the years, AUSG has established tradi-tions such as Artemas Ward Week, the Founders Day Ball, the Breasti-val and many more.

What many people may not know is that programs such as the Ken-nedy Political Union, the Student Union Board and Women’s Initia-tive are all departments of AUSG. My job as overseer of KPU and SUB (President Tim McBride oversees Women’s Initiative) is to make sure these departments run smoothly, provide top-quality events and collaborate as much as possible.

Artemas Ward Week is a prime example of that collaboration. ! e week will kick o$ Sept. 9 with SUB’s & rst big show of the year in Bender Arena. On Sept. 11, the Commu-nity Service Coalition (another department of AUSG) will have a day of service on the Quad to com-memorate the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. And on Sept. 19, KPU will wrap up the week with their & rst speaker of the year.

Although these are not the only events of Artemas Ward Week, they are events that will give you a great idea of what AUSG (and American University in general) is all about.

Keep an eye out for more news on Artemas Ward Week events and other AUSG programming by fol-lowing us on Facebook and Twitter (@AUStudentGov).

And as always, my door in MGC 270b is always open.

Liz RichardsStudent Government Vice [email protected]

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Student rights: what all new and returning students should know

AU’s new diversity brings rewards, challenges SG VP promotes Ward week

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MATT KABAK — OP-ED

American University must guide our transformation to greater diversity with a steady hand.

It was about a year ago that AU students returned to campus to discover a rather unpleasant surprise await-ing them, which presented itself in the form of a four-letter word: WONK. And in that year, AU has spent over $800,000 convincing us that a wonk is "a hard-working, intellectually curious per-son," as opposed to some of the less-pleasant de! nitions that might come to mind."""""

AU spent that money giv-ing out free WONK shirts to students, posting WONK ads in what felt like every Metro station and bus shelter in D.C., redesigning the Wel-come Center for the second time in as many years, giving away prizes to students who took pictures of themselves in front of WONK ads and providing graduates with the opportunity to pose for photos with life-sized "com-mencement WONK" car-toons. Our tuition dollars hard at work.

In fairness, most branding campaigns have somewhat of an inherent illogicality to them. However, I believe WONK has failed not so much due to the substance of the campaign, but due to the University's stubborn refusal to respond to students' con-cerns about the campaign.""

From the beginning, con-troversy over WONK spread quickly across campus. Al-though a lot of students ac-quiesced to WONK a# er learning the premise behind it, many other students stood vehemently opposed to the idea of WONK being used as a label for the AU communi-ty. Complaints ran the gamut from issues with the word itself to the budget allocated to the campaign and even to claims of RAs feeling pres-sured to wear WONK shirts for fear of their jobs.

University Marketing Di-rector Teresa Flannery, in an interview with"$ e Eagle, ob-stinately stated that the nega-

tive reactions "mirror[ed] the range of reactions we saw when we tested the concept.” She also claimed that stu-dents were "extensively and repeatedly" consulted over the two-year process of con-ceiving of WONK, although Student Government o% -cials told"$ e Eagle"that they had not learned of the cam-paign until that summer.

Eventually, the Market-ing Department relented and scheduled its own stu-dent town hall meeting on WONK. But in the months that followed the town hall, there appeared to be no vis-ible actions taken to address any student grievances, while WONK parapherna-lia continued to proliferate campus culture.

Students who had concerns about the WONK campaign couldn't bring them to the Student Government either. $ e Senate enacted a policy of neutrality on the WONK campaign: no member of the SG could take any public stance on WONK.

$ e policy indicated that it would allow the SG to gauge student opinion, but really it allowed the SG to dodge its responsibility of represent-ing students' concerns to the AU administration on this touchy issue. $ e policy’s mandates for gauging stu-dent opinion — SG-organ-ized town halls and email surveys on WONK — never happened, and the neutrality stance remains in e& ect.

$ e inaction of the Student Government, and the blithe indi& erence of the Universi-ty and its marketing depart-ment, have caused the out-rage over WONK to simmer down to little more than a stream of snarky comments in Eagle Rants. But it is shameful that at the Univer-sity ranked among the most politically active in the coun-try, we have been given the message that we have no real

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BELL, PAGE 20 !MORIZIO, PAGE 20 !

When you click on AU’s homepage, you’ll notice a variety of intriguing headlines. A recent headline features a study by AU students detailing the impact 9/11 had on American lives, aptly named “Growing up in the Shadow of 9/11.”

$ e project surveyed over 1,000 people from across the United States. $ e website (www.growingup9-11.com) is exceptionally well done with videos, photos and data charts that reveal our generation’s sentiments.

Last week, when the ground rumbled beneath us, many immediately feared the worst. Was it a bomb blast? A plane used as a mis-sile?

Unless you’ve experienced earthquakes before, your mind — scarred by that dreadful day — may have initially feared a repeat at-tack. It’s not dramatic; it’s en-tirely plausible, as we expect earthquakes in D.C. like we expect tuition prices to stag-nate — it never happens.

If you peruse the data in the study, you ! nd that an

astounding 29 percent of respondents declared 9/11 didn’t change their lives.

Yet it a& ected all of us di-rectly, indirectly or a mix of the two. I shouldn’t have to explain how it changed all of our lives (anymore than the need to explain AU abbrevi-ates American University). Whether it was the deaths of people we knew, over-whelming airport security, lost civil liberties via our na-tion’s deceitful response, friends/family who enlisted, bolstered imperialism, etc.

Su% ce it to say, whether we like it or not, we’re all im-pacted by politics. And the political trajectory in this country shi# ed enormously in the years a# er 9/11.

While the study ful! lls its purpose dutifully, it’s relatively cushy journalism about as revealing as a bur-qa. I am much more curious how other nations’ respond-ents would answer, spe-ci! cally those located in the Middle East. As victims of two terrorizing invasions by the United States Military, I wonder how much 9/11 im-

pacted their lives.$ e intentionally provin-

cial study neglects the exter-nal fallout a# erward. While 9/11 elicited a noteworthy amount of fear within the United States, which the government exploits daily, I can only speculate how our relentless presence and bombing has scarred citi-zens of the Middle East.

As college students (and inquisitive Americans), we should be asking these ques-tions.

We don’t, because we’re self-absorbed. Coddled by our parents and adored by our friends, our chief con-cern is always me, myself and I. We tweet about ourselves, Gchat about ourselves and Facebook about ourselves. At the end of the night, we ponder, “how unfair all these stresses are to me.”

You can’t spell America without M-E and I. We’re overly consumed with how things relate to us, rarely the reciprocal. College for most of us is our ! rst time away from home, and it’s time we turn that self-centered men-

tality on its head. How are we impacting oth-

ers? How are our actions af-fecting them?

My intent is not to criticize the AU study or belittle the feelings of Americans. Both matter and deserve their due. However, a# er a decade of senseless warfare and a region plagued by American occupation, perhaps it’s time to start asking how residents in the Middle East feel. It seems a little haughty for Americans to remain so self-centered while our nation has all but destroyed others in the decade since.

$ e study demonstrates a microcosm of American ex-ceptionalism — colloquially invoked to show that the world must revolve around the “benevolent and God blessed” USA. Listen to the GOP candidates and you hear it time and again. Presi-dent Obama and his cronies footle about it too.

We have a duty to demand better. For better or worse, America’s business is the world’s business. As stu-dents of AU, I hope we can start recognizing not how the world is impacting us, but how we’re impacting the world.

Conor Shapiro is a graduate student in the School of Inter-national Service. Please send comments and responses to: [email protected]

DOUGLAS BELL — THE WRITER OF OUR DISCONTENTS

A global mentality: post-9/11 beyond our own backyard

Why WONK Failed

CONOR SHAPIRO — SMARTER THAN I LOOK

Washington is said to be ! lled with movers and shak-ers, but I don’t think any of us were prepared for this start of fall semester.

I had never experienced an earthquake before and felt the tremors as I was rid-ing down the elevator of my apartment building. I did have a ' eeting thought of panic before the doors opened, where the stern woman working the front desk was frantically answer-ing the multiple phone lines.

$ at incident, coupled with

the storm that is brewing outside my apartment win-dows as I type this, has me thinking of natural disasters.

Speci! cally, how the media responds to them. It made me wonder, are we crying wolf? Certainly Irene will do horrible damage, but when I look to mainstream media for news, I only ! nd myself shaking my head at its hyper-bolic statements and perhaps the tinge of glee on the faces of the weathermen who have so few chances to shine.

$ e only place, it seems,

to really ! nd short, accurate quips about current situa-tions appears to be Twitter. CNN’s headline could be something like “Killer storm of the century about to rock east coast; mandatory evacu-ation routes in place.” Yadda yadda yadda.

On the other hand, CNN’s Twitter feeds reads, “Mayor Bloomberg says NYC mass transit will shut at noon be-cause of Hurricane.”

Is the 140-character revolution bringing back into vogue the old ideas about

journalism, where we drop the Oxford comma to make room for more characters in our biweekly columns and keep sentences short, simple and to the point? (Being a rhetoric columnist, I feel no inclination to follow this general rule; I love my semicolons too much.)

$ e era of the 24-hour news channel brought about sense of having enough time, something news programs didn’t have before CNN started broadcasting. News corporations now have so much time to tell stories that they invented an entire new form of news: infotainment.

Not that there isn’t enough news to keep these channels running for 24 hours, but Americans like their enter-tainment with a slice of news, not the other way around.

“$ e View” is tied for the number one Daytime TV

Hurricanes, earthquakes and hyperbole, oh my!

FRANCESCA MORIZIO — SPEAK MY LANGUAGE

say over our own identity. It is ridiculous that the admin-istration continues to force WONK upon us through gimmicks like photo contests and life-sized cartoons.

And it is disappointing that a golden opportunity to bring this campus together by creating a common iden-tity for ourselves was shat-tered due to an unwillingness to communicate with — and listen to — students.!

Douglas Bell is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Please send comments and responses to: [email protected]

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! BELL, PAGE 19

! MORIZIO, PAGE 19

program and “60 Minutes” is the only news program to break into the top 10 Nielson-rated shows on an average weekly basis in 6th place.

Either the key is that Bar-bara Walters looks better in the morning or people prefer to watch celebrities talk about world problems rather than people who actually experi-ence them.

" e average moderately in-telligent newspaper in this country, the New York Times or the Washington Post for instance, has a reading level of roughly around 9th grade. Something de# nitely is to be said about the American edu-cation system in that regard, but part of that can be linked to our relationship to how we like our language.

It seems that we can only re-ally focus on an event if it is made into a doomsday situa-tion. Hyperbole is important, but does it have a place in the media? When everything be-comes the worst something, does it really matter? We’ve stopped intelligent discussion about news and replaced it with doomsday watches and overly sensationalized stories.

I look at the images on my TV screen and I can see the devastation, I can hear the howls of the 30 mph wind, but the weatherman is so overdone that I can’t take him seriously. Irene is personi# ed out of proportion; she’s spun out of control.

Francesca Morizio is a dou-ble major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Kogod. Please send comments and re-sponses to: [email protected]

AU basketball fans were shocked earlier this summer when starting center Ste-phen Lumpkins, who was expected to lead the Eagles this season, was dra$ ed and then signed by the Kansas City Royals.

You see, the Royals are a baseball team. AU, you might have realized, doesn’t have a baseball team.

Last year, Lumpkins was dra$ ed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 42nd round of the MLB dra$ , but did not sign. Yet, somehow, the le$ y pitcher was selected 29 rounds sooner in 2011 a$ er only playing six games with the Bethesda Big Train last summer.

No one can blame Lump-kins for signing. If playing professional baseball is his dream and this was his op-portunity to do it, then he had to.

In fact, Lumpkins’ decision has prompted me to reeval-uate what I want to do to with my life. Instead of be-ing a journalist, I’ve decided I’d rather be a politician.

To those of you thinking, “Ben, you can’t do that, you have no experience being a politician,” apparently I don’t need to.

" e selection made little sense for the Royals. While Lumpkins is 6 feet 8 inches and throws with his le$ arm, he topped out at 88 mph during workouts for various MLB teams prior to the dra$ . " e hope for the Royals is that they can work with him to increase his ve-locity since he is so raw.

While that is nice to hope for, Lumpkins has lost sig-ni# cant development time having played little organ-ized baseball since high school.

I haven’t pitched competi-tively since I was 12 in Capi-tal City Little League. Can I be dra$ ed too?

To those of you now think-ing, “Ben, he is 6 feet 8 inches and throws almost 90 mph. You’re barely 5 feet 3 inches and never got it up to

50,” I say … shut up." e MLB dra$ has 50

rounds, so to use a 13th round pick on a player like Lumpkins seems to be a reach.

I do not claim to know many of the players avail-able in round 13, but I have to believe that someone with more of a track re-cord of success, and who had actually played a lot of competitive baseball with-in the last two years, was available. Players who were much better players in high school than Lumpkins, such as Drew Henson, who was

once touted as the next great Yankees third baseman, have not made it because they lost developmental years.

Again, I’m not criticizing the Royals for taking him. I’m criticizing them for tak-ing him so early.

However, there is one piece of good news for Lumpkins, as a lot of All-Stars and fu-ture Hall of Famers were se-lected in the 13th round. It’s possible he could join the likes of Albert Pujols, Jim " ome, Juan Pierre and Josh Beckett as successful 13th rounders.

" e question now is: what does Lumpkins’ departure mean for AU basketball? " e system was already depleted with the gradu-ation of two-time All-Pa-triot League forward Vlad Moldoveanu.

Lumpkins’ departure seri-

ously decreases the team’s chances of winning the Pa-triot League championship in 2012.

Now, senior Troy Brewer, who averaged 11.5 points per game in 2010-2011, will lead the team.

Aside from Brewer, the team should struggle of-fensively. Of the players still on the roster, senior Jordan Hinkle had the second most points per game last year, averaging 4.5. It doesn’t take a genius to # gure out that when your top two o% en-sive leaders from last season combine for an average of

16 points, you’re not in very good shape.

" is does not even take into account what Lumpkins did for the team defensively, averaging 8.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks last season.

Time will tell if the Royals made the right decision, or Lumpkins himself for that matter.

For the Eagles though, this is a loss they will most likely not recover from this sea-son.

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Lumpkins departure to MLB is not a good deal for anyone

BEN LASKY — SIDELINE SCHOLAR

Time will tell if the Royals made the right decision

with Lumpkins.

By SAMANTHA RAPHEL-SONEagle Staff Writer

" e AU # eld hockey team fell 4-1 to the Old Domin-ion University Lady Mon-archs in Charlottesville, Va., in their season opener Aug. 28, a$ er preseason rankings supported a much tighter matchup.

" e game began sourly for the Eagles (0-1), who began the season ranked No. 10 in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Poll.

Emma Batten scored fol-lowing a goal from Kelsey Smither for the No. 12 Mon-archs (2-0), which support-ed an early lead within the # rst 13 minutes of play.

“Old Dominion is a great team and played very well in all facets of the game,” Head Coach Steve Jennings told AU Athletics. “We were

not able to sustain the level of play we would have liked for the entire game. " is is a disappointing loss, but we can learn a lot from the re-lentlessness ODU showed as we prepare for next week.”

AU struggled for most of the game trying to beat Old Dominion goalie Devon Seifert, with a total of four shots by Gina Hofmann, and one apiece by Jenn Bradley, Shelly Montgomery and Kati Rothenhoefer.

Bradley was able to score AU’s single goal at the 53rd minute, but by that time Old Dominion had doubled its score. ODU’s Lydia Velzian scored her # rst goal of the season, while Emma Bat-ten added her second of the game.

" e Eagles’ struggle to penetrate the goal coupled with their inability to

Field hockey loses battle of top-15 teams

FIELD HOCKEY, PAGE 22 "

BRIGHT SPOTJenn Bradley scored AU’s lone goal in its season-opening loss to the Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs Aug. 28.

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Women’s soccer freshman Erin Mulhern scored her ! rst career goal, and that was all Klare Lazor and the AU defense would need in the Aug. 26 1-0 victory against the New Hampshire Wildcats at the University of Vermont.

A freshman forward, Mul-hern found the back of the net from 15 yards out a" er a failed New Hampshire (0-2) clear. Assisted by Lind-say Muri, Mulhern’s goal came in the 26th minute and stood for the rest of the contest.

“I thought we played very well and created a num-

ber of opportunities,” Head Coach Dave Bucciero told AU Athletics. “I thought Erica Correa (New Hamp-shire’s goalkeeper) played a very good game to prevent more goals for us. We’re very happy with this win and hopefully we can carry over this good play (against Vermont).”

# e Eagles (2-1) are o$ to a nice start a" er drop-ping their ! rst eight games in 2010. During those eight games last season, AU only scored two goals. A" er three games this fall, the Eagles have already exceeded that total with three goals.

AU tallied eight shots, while the Wildcats totaled seven Friday a" ernoon. Seven of AU’s targets were

on goal, compared to three from UNH. Mulhern and Muri each recorded two on goal, while Katarina Kingston, Allison Slattery, Michelle Montilio and Sa-mantha Trotta each totaled one.

Lazor made three saves in goal, while Correa kept the Wildcats in the contest all a" ernoon by register-ing six saves. Despite Cor-rea’s strong e$ ort, the New Hampshire o$ ense couldn’t get on track in the loss.

AU was scheduled to con-clude its road trip on Sun-day, Aug. 28, against the

Klare Lazor registers clean sheet as Eagles open the season at 2-1

Mulhern’s first career goal leads AU past Wildcats

WSOC, PAGE 22 !

STARTING STRONGCarleigh Morba and the Eagles have won two of their fi rst three games. A junior forward, Morba has one goal on the season for the team.

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University of Vermont Cata-mounts, but weather post-poned the match. ! e game will now be played Monday, Aug. 29 at 1 p.m.

When the road trip con-cludes, the Eagles will return to Reeves Field for their next two games. ! e " rst will be against the Robert Morris Colonials on Friday, Sept. 2 at 4 p.m., with the second against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Sunday, Sept. 4 at noon.

AU’s next contest on the road will be a big challenge, as the Eagles will travel to College Park, Md., on Wednesday, Sept. 7 to take on the University of Mary-land Terrapins.

! e Terps opened the sea-son with two wins and a draw and are ranked No. 4 in the country.

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“We did not have a good " rst half,” Buckeyes Head Coach John Bluem told Ohio State Athletics. “I think we were tentative and didn’t pressure the ball well at all, and American was able to put together a couple good attacking movements, scoring on one. A# er the in-terval, we played better and controlled much of the sec-ond half and overtime.”

! e equalizer came a# er David Tiemstra intercepted an AU pass and connected with Cunningham, who found the back of the net for the Buckeyes. Eagle goal-keeper and 2010 All-Patriot League second team selec-

tion Matt Makowski made three of his " ve saves in the second half to preserve the draw.

For the contest, the Buck-eyes outshot the Eagles 23-7, with six of Ohio State’s attempts on goal and Chris Kuramoto’s try the other AU attempt on goal outside of Goldman’s. Ohio State pos-sessed a 9-0 advantage in corner kicks, including three in the second overtime. AU committed 15 fouls to Ohio State’s 7.

! e Eagles will play an-other ranked opponent on Monday, this time on the road against the No. 18 Pennsylvania State Univer-sity Nittany Lions as the squad concludes the Penn State Classic.

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“Overall, I am pleased with our

starting point with this team. We have some things to clean up, but we will build on this.”

– Head Coach Todd West

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defend Batten provided the reason for the season-opening loss.

ODU outshot AU 9-7, and each team attempted " ve penalty corners for the game.

! e Eagles will need to do a better job of capitalizing on these penalty corners as the season wears on.

Stephanie Burry surren-dered four goals and made one save for the Eagles, be-

fore Ashley Dalisera took over for the remaining 24 minutes. Seifert stopped three shots for the Mon-archs.

AU will return to the " eld this weekend as they host the University of Pennsyl-vania Quakers on Friday, Sept. 2 at 5 p.m. and No. 7 Princeton on Sunday, Sept. 4 at 2 p.m.

Sunday’s game also marks the annual Phil Jacobs event, which had a turnout of 1,013 fans last year.

A return to their home turf for two games could give the women the boost they need to start the 2011 season on the right foot.

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! e AU men’s soccer team began its 2011 campaign Saturday with a 1-1 draw against the Ohio State Uni-versity Buckeyes in the Penn State Classic at University Park, Pa.

Seth Goldman put the Ea-gles (0-0-1) on the board " rst in the 32nd minute, and AU was minutes away from knocking o# the Buckeyes (0-0-1), who entered the season ranked No. 15 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Poll. But Ohio State’s Kenny Cunningham provided the equalizer in the 83rd minute for the 1-1 draw.

“! e team defending was great today, and we were seven minutes away from beating a top-15 team,” Head Coach Todd West told AU Athletics. “Overall, I am pleased with our start-ing point with this team. We have some things to clean up, but we will build on this.”

AU put together a few strong attacks in the " rst half, culminating with the Goldman goal 13 minutes from hal$ ime. ! e break-through came when Colin Seigfreid found Goldman, whose header notched the game’s " rst score.

Following the Goldman goal, the rest of the " rst half saw one shot on goal, an at-tempt by Ohio State’s Sebas-tian Rivas. For the opening 45 minutes, the Buckeyes outshot the Eagles 6-4, while holding a 2-0 advantage in corner kicks.

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Not even a Washington, D.C., collegiate volleyball at-tendance record could help AU to its " rst win, as the George Washington Univer-sity Colonials out-killed the Eagles 62-43 Friday en route to a 3-1 victory over AU.

“! ey got more kills than

we did, the storyline of the game is their 62 kills and our 43 kills,” Head Coach Barry Goldberg said. “! ey continued to keep pounding the ball at us, and we didn’t continue to pound it back in the same way.”

! e Eagles (1-1) looked to feed o# a Bender Arena crowd of 2,122 that attended the " $ h annual Bender Blue Out, part of the D.C. Vol-leyball Challenge. But GW controlled the net in a close " rst set with 13 ties and two lead changes that saw the Colonials prevail 30-28 on a Lauren Whyte kill to take a 1-0 lead.

Sophomore Juliana Crum and a new-faced Eagles

team of eight freshmen then fought back to win the sec-ond set 25-22 and even the game at one apiece.

But GW’s Whyte, who led all players with 19 kills, helped the Colonial attack earn the victory despite freshman Sara Rishell’s 14 kills and sophomore trans-fer Morgan Hendrix’s 13 for the Eagles.

“I think [George Washing-ton] wore us down a little bit; you could see by the end of game there they kept pop-ping it at us and we didn’t respond to that,” Goldberg said. “! ese are experienced players that are conditioned for knowing what it takes to get through some of these longer matches, and we’re going to learn those things and get better, but overall, I think there were a lot of positives in today. It’s things we can take and get better on.”

! e Eagles won the sec-ond match of the D.C. Vol-leyball Challenge Saturday when they defeated George-town University 3-1 to pick up their season’s " rst win. Crum, Alexandra Hammer and Monika Smidova each recorded a double-double to lead the AU squad to vic-tory.

Despite being out-killed 62-53 Saturday, the Eagles won with set scores of 25-22, 27-25, 23-25 and 25-22.

Rishell " nished with an-other 14-kill performance, as Crum and Hendrix led the team with 15 kills apiece. Hammer recorded 25 as-sists, as well as a career-high three service aces.

A$ er ending the weekend at 1-1, Goldberg sees the D.C. Volleyball Challenge as more of a learning curve for a young team than just two games.

“It’s not good to get it out

of the way, it’s actually good to compete,” Goldberg said. “A lot of good teams are playing early and our team is going to learn how to bat-tle one way or the other.”

Due to Hurricane Irene, AU’s " nal match of the chal-lenge against the George Mason University Patriots was postponed to Wednes-day, Sept. 14. ! e Eagles will return to the court at home Wednesday, Aug. 31 to face the University of Oregon Ducks at 7:00 p.m.

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UPCOMINGGAMES

SPORTSAugust 30, 2011 24

AU men’s soccer ties No. 15 Ohio State

Eagles fall despite record crowd, salvage weekend vs. Georgetown

RISING UPSara Rishell prepares for a spike in Friday’s Bender Blue Out against George Washington. Rishell had a team-high 14 kills in the season-opening loss.

Volleyball splits weekend games

AUG. 31 SEPT. 1 SEPT. 2 SEPT. 3 SEPT. 4!Volleyball vs. Oregon at 7 p.m. Men’s soccer vs. George Washington at 5

p.m. (D.C. College Cup @ GMU)!Women’s soccer vs. Robert Morris at 4 p.m.!Field hockey vs. Penn at 5 p.m.Volleyball vs. Niagara (Cornell Invitational @ Cornell) 5 p.m.Cross Country @ Mount St. Mary’s 5K Duals at 10 a.m.

Men’s soccer @ George Mason at 7:30 p.m. (D.C. College Cup)Volleyball vs. UTEP at noon (@ Cornell Invitational)Volleyball @ Cornell at 7 p.m. (@ Cornell Invitational)

!Women’s soccer vs. Iowa at noon!Field hockey vs. Princeton at 2 p.m. (Phil Jacobs game)

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!Home Game

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