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By Kendra Garstka | October 26

Thursday, Oct. 26 Fidelity Investments Representative on Campus All day A representative from Fidelity Investments, one of the AU retirement plan providers, will be on campus to meet one-on-one with faculty and staff about their retirement savings plans. To schedule an appointment, call 800-642-7131.

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Students recruited to work polls

By Kendra Garstka | October 26

Continuing to prove its title as most politically active school in the nation, AU is the only university in D.C. that has recruited students to work at polls for the Nov. 7 midterm elections, and its 104 student workers is the largest number from all universities, said Robert Pastor, director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management and a professor in the School of International Service.

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DOH simulates flu pandemic response

By Tracy Kania | October 26

The D.C. Department of Health practiced medical emergency responsiveness yesterday in Bender Arena by simulating a medical distribution clinic to treat an outbreak of pandemic influenza. In the simulation, student volunteers, AU faculty and staff members acted as patients who could have potentially come in contact with an infected person.

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Popularity of 'Jolt' grows

By Kyra Smerkanich | October 26

For students looking to hitch a ride back to campus, learn the latest off-beat campus news or post their opinions about a variety of topics, The Daily Jolt, a multi-faceted Web site intended to give students practical information about campus life, provides these and other services designed to inform students of the AU campus vibe.

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Metro brief: Actor appears on stem cell campaign ad

By Kyra Smerkanich | October 26

Actor Michael J. Fox, who has been fighting Parkinson's disease since 1991, has weighed in on the Maryland senate race by recording a TV ad about the importance of stem cell research for Democratic Senatorial candidate Ben Cardin, according to The Washington Post.

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Students practice interview skills virtually

By Kelly Barrett | October 26

Students can now better prepare themselves for job interviews with the implementation of the virtual mock interviewing program InterviewStream this fall at the AU Career Center. InterviewStream allows students to undergo a mock interview in front of their own computer at any time, provided they have a computer with a webcam, by logging on to http://www.

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Campus brief: Katzen Arts Center opens new caf?

By Brian Kalish | October 26

The Katzen Caf? opened Monday outside the American University Museum in the Katzen Arts Center. The caf? menu includes sandwiches, espresso drinks, sodas, snacks, muffins and croissants, said caf? employee Chaunta Edmond. It is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.

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Identity theft risk high for students, AU IDs unaffected

By Wah-Hui Ong | October 23

According to the U.S. Department of Education, students nationwide are at a high risk for identity theft crimes because they are vulnerable to having their personal information such as Social Security numbers stolen, but at AU, the EagleBuck$ system is not linked to any personal identity numbers and provides little incentive for identity thieves.

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Campus brief: Annual fraternity event raises funds for children's health

By Kendra Garstka | October 23

Derby Days, Sigma Chi's annual philanthropy event, kicked off its week-long fundraiser Saturday with broomball. The money raised will go to Children's National Medical Center, D.C.'s Children's Miracle Network hospital. "All those who are participating in this year's Derby Days prove that raising money for a cause as good as this can be both rewarding and fun," said Patrick Sullivan, 2006 Derby Days Commissioner and a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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New senators sworn into SG, hold first meeting

By Cait Douglas | October 23

The second class of undergraduate senators was sworn in Wednesday night and re-elected Ben Murray as their speaker. Murray, a senior in the School of Public Affairs, said he was enthusiastic about the new class of senators. "I think we have a really great group of dedicated advocates and leaders that will start some much needed discussion on campus," he said.

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Metro calendar

By Rebecca Kern | October 23

Wednesday, Oct. 25 Washington's Most Haunted Houses 6:30-8:30 p.m. Lafayette Square Metro: Farragut West (blue and orange lines) President Andrew Jackson, navy hero Stephen Decatur, Henry Adams and his wife, Clover, are just several of the famous Washingtonians whose haunted homes will be visited on this walking tour of Washington's most haunted houses.

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Number of foreign students in U.S. falls

By Elyse Franko | October 23

The United States may soon lose its place as the top destination for international students, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Council on Education. Though U.S. universities still have the largest international student enrollment, some European and Asian countries are beating the United States in percentage growth of enrollment.

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Family Weekend features arts, song and service for visitors

By Bill Debaun | October 23

Cherie Booth Blair's speech was a part of AU's annual Family Weekend, which took place from Friday to Sunday. It offered a variety of events intended to give students and their families insight into the many different types of activities on campus. Friday's events included a myriad of open classes for families to get a taste of academic life on campus; an AU neighborhood bus tour that took families to important sites, historic and otherwise, around Tenleytown; and a historical walking tour of campus.

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Offbeat debates highlight tournament

By Stephen Tringali | October 23

Forty teams of college debaters from 12 schools gathered at AU Friday and Saturday to debate a variety of issues, some serious and some less serious, as part of an AU-sponsored event judged by the AU Debate Society. "Should conscription in the U.S. military be employed?" and "Are Vikings cooler than pirates?" were some of the cases debated.

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International briefs

By Kyra Smerkanich | October 23

Palestinian Prime Minister unharmed following gunfire attack Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was not harmed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on his convoy while traveling through Gaza Friday, according to Reuters. Officials said they did not believe the attack was an assassination attempt, Reuters reported.

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Activist signs book

By Robin Bravender | October 23

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmentalist Wangari Maathai visited the AU bookstore Saturday to greet students and sign copies of her new memoir, "Unbowed." Maathai, a Kenyan native, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her environmental activism in Africa.

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Booth Blair headlines Family Weekend

By Bill Debaun | October 23

Though the United States was the "first nation in the world founded on respect for human rights," its membership in two key international human rights documents would advance its position as a global human rights leader, said Cherie Booth Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, during her Family Weekend speech Saturday.

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