Opinion

Staff Editorial: Cuts streamline AU

AU will soon announce the termination of the master's dance program from the Department of Performing Arts roster, in order to further focus on the undergraduate dance program. Though the natural reaction among students tends to be indignation toward the administration for cutting something, we feel the University's decision makes sense.

Bankruptcy bill bankrupt

Bloggers, editorial pages, my parents - everywhere I go, liberals are bashing the bankruptcy bill that passed the Senate last week. And to be fair, it's an absolutely terrible piece of legislation. Professor Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard expert in bankruptcy law, says it isn't fair and that it "beats up the average family already staggering under the weight of bad luck and huge debts, while it lets real abusers go free.

Comics

Staff Editorial: Support Pura Vida in AU coffee wars

Sometime in the near future, AU will decide on the fate of a premiere piece of real estate on campus. The spot currently occupied by Auntie Anne's Pretzels will soon be replaced, either by a Starbucks or a Pura Vida coffee shop. Strangely, the administration has brushed off a huge outpouring of support for Pura Vida as "less than one-fifteenth of campus.

Opinion: Choose coffee that promotes fairness

Since October, the administration and our dining services provider, Bon Appetit, have been deliberating what will replace Auntie Ann's Pretzels in the Mary Graydon Center. The deadline for this decision is approaching quickly. Two companies, Pura Vida and Starbucks, are offering similar gourmet coffee shops.

Staff Editorial: Death Penalty week a chance to learn

Monday is the start of Death Penalty Awareness Week on campus. The event, sponsored by AU's chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, includes a panel discussion, a vigil and a speech from a death row inmate. The event is a great chance to have a real dialogue about the issue, provided it does not degenerate into a shouting match.

Comics

Staff Editorial: Victory for gay marriage rights

Gay and civil-rights activists are celebrating this week, as a superior court judge in California's San Francisco County ruled that the State Supreme Court cannot ban the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples, based on a clause in the California constitution that protects all the state's residents from discrimination.

News teaches morals

Recent courtroom activities and congressional hearings have captured America's attention on a level the likes of which have not been seen since the O.J. Simpson trial a decade ago. Once again the best place to find your favorite celebrity is on reality court TV.

Letter from the Old and New Editors

Dear readers, For seniors, spring semester means purgatory; I'm just a member of the Class of 2005 in limbo. I schedule job interviews between classes. Phone calls from parents, which had come less frequently since high school, are picking up again as Mom and Dad anxiously inquire after summer plans.

Staff Editorial: CUA cuts not in spirit of academics

The Catholic University of America announced last month that it would cut scholarships for the campus newspaper, campus yearbook and student government. The announcement came just a few months after CUA administration cut ties with the newspaper, The Tower, due to unhappiness with The Tower's reporting on campus issues.

All Thumbs

Thumbs Up: St. Patrick's Day ... Because God knows college students need another reason to drink copious amounts of alcohol. SOC alumnus donates items ... Director and AU alumnus Adam Friedman generously donated money and video equipment to the SOC. It's wonderful to see successful alumni contributing in ways truly beneficial to the programs they graduated from.

Comics

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Editorial Cartoon

Decision-making process at AU unfair

In The Eagle's staff editorial last week, it was argued that AU's move to implement software that can block file sharing was the latest in a long string of decisions made by the University without student input. It's not a new complaint. It was the same one I heard from seniors at Ultimate Frisbee practice during my first week as a freshman almost five years ago.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: Twenty-nine Rogoffs are listed on a piece of paper with notes about the day they were killed by the Nazis. This looks all too similar to a list made by Darfurian refugees documenting their families' murders. In 50 years their grandchildren will visit a memorial to their family killed in Darfur, just as I did for my family that perished in the Holocaust.

Staff Editorial: Lights out in the air

The Transportation Security Administration will institute a ban on cigarette lighters on April 14. The TSA decided to prohibit passengers from carrying any lighter on their persons or in carry-on luggage in secure areas of airports or on planes. Passengers carrying lighters from now until April 14 will receive warnings about the up-coming ban.