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April 22

Briefs from the news desk on an ethnic experience seminar course, and Madeline Albright signing books in the AU bookstore.

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Metro Brief

By Emily Carone | April 22

Metro brief on politicians participating in Special Olympics running event.

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University honors 16 students with awards

By David Hodges | April 22

Sixteen seniors will be recognized at the University Honors Convocation for their accomplishments during their four years as AU students in Bender Arena on Saturday, May 8. The Student Achievement awards range from academic achievement to racial understanding to service to the University community.

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Soup kitchen thrives

By Ashley Bleimes | April 19

A soup kitchen hardly seems like the place to find children clawing at pastries while adults chat and make new friends. But at Martha's Table, everyone from squealing children to serious professionals chip in to prepare food for the homeless.

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Breaking News: Fire in Anderson Hall

By Keith F. Shovlin | April 19

Updated 1:45 a.m. A fire sent Southside residents out of their rooms Monday night. At least six emergency vehicles responded to the alarm which went off at 10:55. Students were allowed back into the halls as of 11:50, although there were mixed messages about when students could reenter. Smoke was seen in the hall in Anderson Hall 3 North just prior to the alarm, according to students who watched the trucks from outside the SIS Annex. The fire was caused by a lamp that was too close to a bed, according to students who live near the site of the fire.

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Defending the right to choose in front of abortion display

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

AU Students for Choice members Allison Kessler, Emily Wolkowicz, and Kayley Harrington handed out materials near the flag display by the AU Students for Life.

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Metro Brief

By Emily Carone | April 19

Metro Brief from the News desk on a D.C. delegate petitioning to award a Time journalist from Iraq.

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Microsoft to release ad blocker for Explorer

By Rebecca Bellville | April 19

Microsoft will soon release a new feature for its popular Web browser, Internet Explorer, that will block pop-up advertising. The blocker will be available to computer users who use the Windows XP operating system, as part of a new package of security updates called Service Pack 2, set for release in June.

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SC transition is smooth

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

After thanking his new staff, consisting of Vice President Jason Trombley, Comptroller Moamar Tidjani-Dourodjaye and Secretary Jamie Rea, newly inaugurated Student Confederation President Polson Kanneth claimed that this year was good but next year should be even better.

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Mass transit systems increasing security

By Lucia Walinchus | April 19

Mass transit systems along the East Coast are increasing security measures in the wake of the bombing of a train station in Madrid, Spain, last month and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. "We've implemented security changes, and we're constantly reviewing them on a daily basis," said John McCarthy, spokesman for New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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AU holds first 'Take Back the Night' event

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

AU held its first "Take Back the Night" event, a campus-wide walk for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, last Wednesday night. Take Back the Night first began in 1978 in California and New York. "As a new staff member here at AU, I asked if 'Take Back the Night' was held here," said Melva Jones, program coordinator, who also works in the office of Multicultural Affairs.

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Kanneth, Trombley plan new cabinets

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

Newly inaugurated President Polson Kanneth and Vice President Jason Trombley have appointed their new cabinet members for the upcoming 2004-2005 school year of the Student Confederation, AU's student government.

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Anti-abortion side defended by speaker on Thursday

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

Stephanie Gray, a member of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (an anti-abortion group), defended her group's side of the abortion debate to members of the campus community last Thursday. Gray's organization "condemns all abortion related violence and will not associate with groups or individuals who fail to condemn such violence."

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Abortion debate plays out on the quad

By Kate Oczypok | April 19

AU Students for Life, the anti-abortion student organization on campus, placed 4,000 pink and blue flags on the Quad to symbolize the number of babies aborted each day in the United States. Members of AU Students for Life worked overnight Wednesday so students could see the "cemetery of the innocents" on Thursday morning.

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Campus Briefs

By Stokely Baksh | April 19

Campus briefs: a panel discussing the future of Central America, and University administration speaking as part of Holocaust Remembrance Week.

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Police Blotter

By Jamie Lee Lardner | April 19

Safety and security events from around campus since Wednesday, April 14.

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Former weapons inspector to speak at AU

By Kate Oczypok | April 15

David Kay, former U.N. chief weapons inspector in Iraq and special adviser to the director of the CIA, will speak at AU on April 22 at 8:15 p.m. in the amphitheater. The rain location will be at the same time in Ward 1. According to Nicholas Thorpe, deputy director of the Kennedy Political Union, Kay will speak about the weapons of mass destruction question in Iraq, since it gives topical insight to his weapons inspection job.

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