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Campus brief

November 29

AU received a Grand Award last week in the Urban University Grounds category for exceptional grounds maintenance in the Professional Grounds Management Society's 2007 Green Star Awards competition. The Green Star Awards program acknowledges grounds with a high degree of excellence in terms of landscape design and construction.

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Campus calendar

November 29

Thursday, Nov. 29 SG Open Forum: Smoking@AU 6-8 p.m. WHERE: McDowell Formal Lounge INFO: The Student Government will discuss the on-campus smoking policy. Free Chipotle burritos will be served. CONTACT: For more information, e-mail secretary@ausg.

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Tech revolutions lead to backlash

By Jimm Phillips | November 19

Freedom of the press and freedom of speech have come to mean the same thing as a result of First Amendment issues raised by the Internet, Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, said during a speech Saturday in Mary Graydon Center. While there continue to be concerns about freedom of speech issues on the Internet, the U.

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Facebook offers carpool feature

By Amanda Krause | November 19

For students who want to drive home for Thanksgiving, a new Facebook application called Carpool can help them find rides. The application allows students to post a notice if they are planning on driving and would like to have someone ride with them or if they are in need of rides, according to John Zimmer, one of the co-founders of the application.

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SG brief

By Emily Blanck | November 19

The Undergraduate Senate passed a bill encouraging President Neil Kerwin to sign a national commitment to environmental sustainability at their meeting Sunday. "A Bill to Support the Presidents Climate Commitment," sponsored by School of Public Affairs Senator Andrew MacCracken, passed by a vote of 17-1-3 at the meeting Sunday.

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National brief

November 19

A poll of more than 3,000 students at New York University recently found that two-thirds of respondents would exchange their right to vote for a year's worth of free tuition, according to Washington Square News, NYU's student newspaper. The poll, conducted between Oct.

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Metro brief

November 19

Thousands of people marched from Federal Plaza to the Justice Department Friday morning in response to a recent spat of hate crimes across the nation, including the Jena Six case. The crowd, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, circled the Justice Department building several times to protest what they claim is a slow response from the federal government in dealing with race issues and hate crimes in the U.

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Registration requirement held

By Jen Calantone and Allie Feras | November 19

The offices of Campus Life and Greek Life have suspended a requirement that all of AU's greek organizations provide the university with members' off-campus addresses, according to Student Government President Joe Vidulich. However, Campus Life is considering extending the requirement to all AU students living off-campus, he said.

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Panel: Sectarian violence reduced

By Jeanette Lenoir | November 19

Sectarian violence in Baghdad has decreased, but many significant problems remain, according to military experts at a panel held Friday in cooperation with the George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs and the Security Policy Studies Program Institute for Middle East Studies.

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Kerwin to develop strategic plan

By Jimm Phillips | November 19

The university will continue to see much of its funding come from student tuition and other fees during President Neil Kerwin's tenure, the president announced during a town hall meeting Thursday. At present, the university gets 95 percent of its revenue from tuition and fees, Kerwin said.

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International brief

November 19

A man in southern India married a female dog in a ceremony last week in an effort to ward off a supposed curse punishing him for previously stoning two dogs to death, BBC News reported. P. Selvakumar, 33, had suffered paralysis and a loss of hearing since he killed the dogs and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years ago, he told the Hindustan Times.

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SPA prof swam NJ bay while in high school

By Ashley Wolos | November 19

AW: What is your favorite way to relax after class? KCM: I am kind of a people person, so I like to pal around with others. I've got two fantastic children who are immensely distracting - I don't know if I would call it relaxing, but they are very entertaining.

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SG special election results

By Ethan Klapper | November 19

Paul Grever, a senior in the School of Public Affairs, won Monday's special election for Student Government vice president.

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Student groups volunteer time during holiday season

By Kaylor Garcia | November 19

Students continue to find time to serve the D.C. community despite looming exams and end-of-semester work. Groups like the community service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and the Catholic Student Association are pitching in to help people in need. On Monday, APO will be going to Georgetown Hospital to put up Thanksgiving decorations to bring "holiday cheer" to the patients, according to Elissa Robinson, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Kerwin, Abramson listen to student concerns

By Jimm Phillips | November 19

AU President Neil Kerwin and Board of Trustees Chairman Gary Abramson listened to students' concerns about a new alcohol transport policy and other campus issues during a town hall meeting Thursday in the Ward Circle Building. Tim Neal, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, asked whether Abramson and Kerwin would be willing to oppose the policy, which makes a studnt's second medical transport for alcohol-related reasons a violation of the university's Code of Conduct.

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Torture must be discussed and monitored, experts say

By Fahima Haque | November 19

People need to address the issue of torture even though it is an uncomfortable subject to discuss, Jumana Musa, advocacy director for human rights for Amnesty International USA, said during a panel discussion Thursday. "People don't want to talk about it," she said.

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Campus brief

November 19

Alyph Limited gave School of International Service professor Akbar Ahmed a $25,000 check Wednesday to benefit the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies in SIS. Izzat Majeed, chief executive of the investment company, which is based in the United Kingdom, gave the check to Ahmed, the current Ibn Khaldun chair.

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