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Few AU students return home after graduation

By Sarah Rudnick · Monday, Oct. 13, 2008

The majority of AU graduates have not ended up moving back into their parents' homes following graduation, which contrasts with recent national statistics. A recent study from CollegeGrad.com, a job search Web site, found that 77 percent of college students moved back into their parents' homes after graduation in 2008.

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Kent State prof fires back at Web site

By Rachel Lynne Smith · Monday, Oct. 13, 2008

Students aren't the only ones who look at RateMyProfessors.com anymore. An increasing number of students and professors access the Web site, a forum for students to discuss their positive or negative feelings about specific teachers. Professors at AU and schools across the nation have begun to view the site more as a place for students to vent than to post useful information.

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Students average $20k in debt

By Elena Isella · Monday, Oct. 13, 2008

The average debt AU undergraduate students accumulate in four years of college for federal loans is $19,000, according to Shirleyne McDonald, associate director of Financial Aid. However, there is no way for the Office of Financial Aid to keep track of personal student loans because the student initiates those loans, she said.

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Annual documentary series to begin this week

By Olivia Stitilis | October 13

The ninth annual Human Rights Film Series, which begins Thursday, will highlight social issues through up-to-date documentaries, according to Micael Boger, the project manager for the School of Communication's Center for Social Media. The Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law will present the series, which is open to both the AU community and the public.

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National brief

October 13

The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the state's three-year-old ban on same-sex marriage Friday. Connecticut is the third state to legalize same-sex marriage, after California overturned a similar ban in May and Massachusetts took similar action in 2004, according to The New York Times.

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Fulsom reflects on Watergate

By Clint Rice | October 13

School of Public Affairs professor Donald Fulsom said during a "Professors Are People, Too" event Thursday night that when he was a White House correspondent in the early 1970s, he was the first person to connect the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate complex to Richard Nixon's presidential re-election campaign.

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Campus brief

October 13

AU's board of trustees approved the Strategic Planning Committee's progress during their meeting in late September, President Neil Kerwin said in an e-mail to the campus community Wednesday. "The trustees were impressed with the process that has brought the plan to its current state and with the quality of analysis and ideas presented in both themes and goals," he said in the e-mail.

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Metro brief

October 13

Crime on the Metro could reach a new high by the end of the year. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has reported 1,348 crimes - including robberies, aggravated assault and vehicle theft - thus far this year, according to the Associated Press.

CALL ON ME - The U.S. Senate passed legislation Oct. 1 that will expand cell service in the Metro if President Bush signs it into law. Service will extend from only Sprint and Verizon to all other carriers in the 20 busiest stations on Metrorail.
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Metro plans cell service upgrade

By Julia Ryan | October 13

AU students will get better cell phone service when they travel on Metrorail because of legislation that will fund plans to expand cell phone service to include all carriers in the 20 busiest Metrorail stations, according to The Washington Post. The Senate passed the bill that included this funding Oct. 1, after the House of Representatives also approved it. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will make these updates within the next year, The Post reported.

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Some colleges allow pets in dormitories

By Sarah Rudnick | October 13

Sometimes AU students will have a roommate that has puked on their bed, peed on their floor or ate their pizza that has sat around for five days. Students in other colleges across the nation have similar problems - but these roommates are pets. Several colleges have begun to allow students to keep animals in their dormitories, but AU is not one of them.

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International brief

October 13

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences presented three scientists with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for discovering a protein in jellyfish that aids in the study of diseases. U.S. scientists Martin Chalifie and Roger Tsien worked with Japan's Osamu Shimomura to discover the green florescent protein, known as GFC, according to a press release.

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AU may take action against gossip site

By Ethan Klapper | October 9

AU will not take any action against the Juicy Campus Web site until it sees what action Georgetown University takes, according to Associate Dean of Students Sara Waldron. The AU community has been reacting to the Web site since it established an AU site Sept. 29.

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Enrollment of American Indians at colleges increases

By Meg Fowler | October 9

In the past 30 years, the matriculation of American Indian and Alaska Natives in higher education has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Education. This trend has also been apparent at AU in the last 10 years. AU's American Indian enrollment has risen from 41 students in the fall of 1997 to 73 in 2007, according to the Office of Institutional Research's yearly Academic Databooks.

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Metro brief

October 9

The D.C. Council passed legislation Tuesday that will ban the sale of individual containers of beer, malt liquor or ale in specific parts of the District. The bill is intended to combat public intoxication, disturbances and litter, according to NBC 4. The bill targets areas in Ward 4 including the Adams Morgan and Shaw neighborhoods, according to The Washington Examiner.

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National brief

October 9

Federal authorities detained more than 300 illegal immigrants after raiding a South Carolina chicken processing plant Tuesday. The House of Raeford in Columbia, S.C., was under investigation for months before the raid. Officials entered the farm during an afternoon shift change, according to the Associated Press.

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International brief

October 9

Two Americans, including one AU alumna, are missing in Lebanon, and the U.S. embassy is appealing for information about their whereabouts, the Associated Press reported. Holli Chmela, 27, an AU alumna and former Eagle staffer, and Taylor Luck, 23, were en route from Beirut to Tripoli, according to the AP.

FEEL YOUR BOOBIES - AU students stop by a table at the Breastival to learn how to screen for breast cancer. The best to fight breast cancer is through early prevention, according to Student Health Center representatives.
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WI holds Breastival

By Nabila Chami | October 9

The fifth annual Breastival, a "health and empowerment festival" that took place on the main quad Tuesday, focused on early detection, fundraising and an overall awareness about breast cancer. The festival was dedicated to the memory of AU professor Lucinda Joy Peach, a professor of religion and philosophy, who lost her battle to breast cancer this summer, according to Ashley Evans, director of Women's Initiative, who was responsible for organizing the event.

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Campus calendar

October 9

Thursday, Oct. 9 Kennedy Political Union: Professor Don Fulsom 8-9 p.m. WHERE: MGC 200 INFO: Don Fulsom, a professor in the School of Public Affairs, will talk about his experiences as a bureau chief for United Press International and his attendance on Nixon's trip to China.

THE ADVOCATE - Judy Shepard, whose son Matthew was killed 10 years ago because of his sexual orientation, speaks at a Kennedy Political Union event Monday. She called on all Americans to vote for candidates and policies that support gay, lesbian, bisexual
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Speech marks week

By Howie Perlman | October 9

Judy Shepard asked AU students at a Kennedy Political Union event Monday to join her in advancing the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans who live in areas of the country that are not as accepting of the GLBT community as D.C. Two men killed her son, Matthew, almost 10 years ago because of his sexual orientation.

The UFL and Why it's Good for the Sport

Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.

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