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1. Eagle rants (Oct. 4)
2. Setting limits: Clear consent key to having pleasurable sex
3. Meet Mr. South side,freshman Deon Jones
4. ANC candidates canvass,rally support
5. Eagle rants (Oct. 7)
NEWSPolice blotter / Eagle rants (3), Employee profi le (7), Smoking policy (10), MGC theft (11)
OPINION Staff editorial / Conor Shapiro (8)
SCENEEdward Norton (12), Abroad column (14), WVAU reviews (16)
SPORTSField hockey (20), Sideline Scholar (19), Men’s soccer player profi le (18)
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, O! ce of Intelligence and Analysis5 - 6 p.m.WHERE: McKinley 155 Conference RoomWHAT: Come learn about the Department of Home-land Security’s scholarships, fellowships, internships and training opportunities to be exposed to the broad na-tional security mission at this information session.CONTACT: Blair Ufer at [email protected].
KMA Fall Speaker Series with Joe Petrucci6 - 7 p.m.WHERE: Mary Graydon Center 245WHAT: Come to the Kogod Marketing Association’s fourth speaker event: Joe Petrucci, owner of Way Bet-ter Marketing. ! ere will be a presentation followed by refreshments.CONTACT: AU Marketing Club at [email protected].
2010 Mid-Term ElectionsL What Might Happen and What if Means for Republicans6:30 - 9 p.m.WHERE: Ward 2WHAT: A panel discussion with Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online, Byron York of the Washing-ton Examiner and Michael Barone of the American Enterprise Institute.CONTACT: Stephen Lau-done at [email protected].
Women’s Volleyball vs. Lafayette College7 - 9 p.m.WHERE: Bender ArenaWHAT: Come support women’s volleyball team as they take on Lafayette College. CONTACT: Kathryn Tor-torici at [email protected].
Men’s Soccer vs. United States Naval Academy1 - 3 p.m.WHERE: Reeves FieldWHAT: Come out and cheer for the men’s soccer team as they take on Navy.CONTACT: Kathryn Tor-torici at [email protected].
Safe Space Sticker Training3 - 6 p.m.WHERE: Mary Graydon Center 245WHAT: ! is workshop provides an opporunity to examine assumptions about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and explore the impact of het-erosexism and homophobia.CONTACT: Matthew Bruno at [email protected].
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IN THIS ISSUEIn the sta# editorial, “Making our voices heard on Capitol Hill,” ! e Eagle encouraged student organizations to actively advocate in Congress for causes they believed in. ! is is a violation of AU’s 501(c)(3) nonpro" t sta-tus and is against AU policies. We still believe that students should take advantage of living in the District and directly advocate for their beliefs, however, we encourage students to do so privately or through organiza-tions with no o$ cial ties to AU.
In “Student pro" le: Dubuisson’s work supports women, Haiti,” it was stated that Yuzzy Gaina Dubuisson traveled to Haiti in a volunteer group through the Clinton Global Initiative. ! e group actually traveled to Haiti through the Children and Families Global Development Fund, Inc. It was also stated that Dubuisson met Haiti’s ambassador to the U.S. at a gala Honoring Haitian artist Hector Hyppolite in the Katzen Arts Center. ! e gala was actually at the Organization of American States.
! e Eagle regrets these errors.
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CORRECTIONS FOR OCT. 5, 2010 EDITORIAL STAFFEditor in Chief Charlie Szold
Managing Editor for News
Meg Fowler
Managing Editor for The Scene
Michael Richardson
Managing Editor for Web
Ethan Klapper
Design Editor Chris Droukas
Photo Editor Ana Santos
Student Life Editor Julia Ryan
Administration and Local News Editor
Stefanie Dazio
News Assistants Anna Scalamogna
Sports Editor Sam Lindauer
Sports Assistants
Kate GreubelTyler Tomea
Editorial Page Editor Linda Barnhart
Arts and Entertainment Editor
Yohana Desta
Music Editor Stephan Cho
Scene AssistantsMaggie
Hollander Kelly Holliday
Web Content Editor Sarah Parnass
Assistant Design Editor Jessica Liu
Multimedia Editor Kira Kalush
Assistant Web Editor
Rocio GonzalezMarissa Cetan
Copy EditorsRocio Gonzalez
Marissa Cetin
BUSINESS STAFFBusiness Manager Sam Yolen
Finance Manager Bobby Jones
Sales Director Alexander Robinson
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Ad Reps Jonathon Gaynes
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World Youth Day for Democracy2:30 - 5:30 p.m.WHERE: Ward 2WHAT: ! e Peacebuilding and Development Institute is recognizing the World Youth Movement for Democracy by hosting a Human Rights leader from Zimbabwe, Ta-pera Kapuya.CONTACT: Patrick Shirak at [email protected].
Overcoming Procrastina-tion Workshop5:30 - 7 p.m.WHERE: Mary Graydon Center 245WHAT: ! e Academic Support Center is o" ering a workshop on “Overcoming Procrastination” as part of a series of academic and writ-ing skills workshops during the fall semester.CONTACT: Academic Support Center at [email protected].
Oct. 2A student reported hav-
ing le# her cell phone unat-tended on an ATM machine in the McDowell Hall lobby. Upon returning to retrieve it, she only found a SIM card. She is not sure whether the card was from her phone.
Public Safety responded to a $ re alarm and discovered smoke on the third % oor of Capital Hall. A burnt ob-ject was found on a burner. Public Safety turned o" the burner. Reportedly a student used a plastic bottom teapot to cook food. He le# the pot on the stove unattended. When he returned, the pot was on $ re. He put the pot in his room when the alarm activated and le# the build-ing. Facilities Management responded and found no damage to the stove. Ara-mark was contacted to clean the burner.
University Library person-nel discovered two empty beer cans in a lower-level men’s bathroom in Bender Library.
A resident assistant report-ed gra& ti on a wall on the $ # h % oor of Anderson Hall. A witness heard a noise and discovered the gra& ti at 7 a.m. ! e gra& ti consisted of lyrics to a song with negative remarks about police. Ara-mark was contacted to clean the area.
Oct. 3A neighbor complained
about noise involving AU students at 4000 Block of
47th St. NW. Public Safety responded. No noise was heard emanating from the house.
A laptop computer was tak-en from an unsecured room while occupants were asleep inside in Anderson Hall. A witness saw an unidenti$ ed suspect in the area attempt-ing to remove a television from a wall in the terrace level North lounge.
Two laptop computers were taken from a residence hall room in Nebraska Hall. ! e computers did not contain any sensitive information.
At 5:17 p.m., Public Safety responded to a report of an injured person at Bender Arena. ! e individual signed a medical refusal form. At 6:07 p.m., DCFD and Public Safety responded to Centen-nial Hall for the same indi-vidual. He was transported to the hospital via cab.
Public Safety responded to a $ re alarm inside Clark Hall. ! e annunciator panel indicated a smoke detector on the $ rst % oor. No smoke or $ re was found. However, the smell of popcorn was noticed. Facilities Manage-ment responded to the scene and checked the detector. It is presumed that cooking popcorn activated the detec-tor. ! e panel was reset.
Oct. 4! e complainant, an em-
ployee with Aramark, re-ported a fellow employee approached her at the on-
campus McDonalds and stat-ed she would run her down with her car. ! e complain-ant replied she did not want any problems with the other employee and le# the area. ! e complainant reported having no involvement with the other employee outside their employment with Ara-mark. MPD responded.
A resident assistant found a bag of suspected marijuana outside of his door in Letts Hall. Public Safety took cus-tody of it. It tested positive for marijuana.
A laptop computer was un-intentionally le# in a bath-room in the second % oor bathroom of Bender Library. When the owner returned, the computer was gone. No personal information was on the computer.
Oct. 5Public Safety and DCFD re-
sponded to a report of a sick person on the Kogod side-walk. ! e individual signed a medical refusal form.
A student reported he sat on a desk chair in the East Quad Building when it col-lapsed. No injuries were reported. A medical refusal form was signed. ! e chair, a headphone remote and microphone were damaged.
! I love my club. I like writing budgets. I hate the AUCC.
! Dear Exchange Students using the Basement % oor in the Library,
I get it. You need to talk to each other so you can help each other understand the material. But must you do it at the top of your voice? You aren’t in a room by yourself or in a lounge, YOU ARE IN THE LIBRARY. I don’t care if its not the quiet % oor there are still people trying to get stu" done. As a side-note, PLEASE do not leave your cell phone on “loud” and then wait six rings be-fore you pick it up, and then proceed to have as loud of a conversation as you would if you were in a crowded room.
It’s called COMMON COURTESY.
! Leonard 6: Don’t hate us cause you ain’t us. Come join us or stop complaining. It’s dorm life, wear earplugs. Love: Leonard 7.
! Dear Cutie,You keep catching my eye
and laughing at the ridicu-lousness of our professor with me. And with this pro-fessor, that happens a lot. Can you introduce yourself, please?
Sincerely,Me.
! Dear Asshole two % oors below me Blasting Bon Jovi at 10 a.m. on a Saturday:
Some of us like to sleep in on the weekends. We are in
college a# er all. You’ve made me hate Bon Jovi twice as much as I did before. ! anks for waking me up!
! So glad you ASKED if we could take things further. Is it bad no one has ever asked me if it was OK to remove clothing? Not that it hasn’t happened, but most people don’t have the chivalry to ASK. ! anks.
! FYI guys on my % oor. ! e louder your speakers, the less I want to talk to you.
! Hey AUSG, Simmer down! We all know
the reason you all got defen-sive was because you know you waste money.
! ! anks, curly-headed dude who helped me re-place the planter near Mega Bytes. I know Sat. night is all about blowing o" steam, but blocking the road is dangerous! ! ere are more exciting things to topple and leave in the middle of the street, anyhow.
! Scariest moment of my life. When my roommate’s mom walked in and o" ered to take out my solo cup $ lled garbage. ! en proceeded to almost open my liquor-$ lled cabinet. I am telling her to stop bringing her MOTHER to our room.
! Can people stop using Ea-gle Rants to complain about how much they hate this school? Most likely, you were the one who chose to come here. And if you didn’t, you
might as well try to make the best of your situation. AU is far from perfect, but if you truly can’t $ nd something to enjoy about this school or D.C. or the people, the prob-lem is more with you than your surroundings.
! Do you remember that time I was mauled by rats?
! Do you remember that time I ran out of TDR swipes at the end of September and subsisted o" of rats cooked over a $ re like some sort of mountain man?
! Nutella? YES!!!
! Dear AU Athletes,Keep doing what you’re do-
ing. Field Hockey Number 10 in the nation? Say what?!
-AU Student Who Appre-ciates You
! Do you remember that time when a teacher with dreams of singing on Broad-way instead settled down with a high school sweet-heart who proceeded to destroy his life only to $ nd redemption by teaching a group of immature children to follow their own dreams?
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By MEG FOWLEREagle Staff Writer
Neighbors and local com-missioners told AU admin-istrators they were not sat-is! ed with changes being made to the Campus Plan at an Advisory Neighbor-hood Commission meeting " ursday night.
AU Chief of Sta# David Taylor gave a presentation to the ANC board, the ! rst time AU administrators have o$ cially presented on the Campus Plan to ANC 3D. Taylor said that pri-orities for the AU Campus Plan include the following, among others:! undergraduate student
housing! a new law school facility! improved athletics facili-
ties! new admissions and
alumni welcome centersANC commissioners and
residents feel that the plans to develop an “East Campus” on the Nebraska Parking Lot with dorm and retail build-
ings are still too intrusive on their neighborhoods, even a% er changes made to miti-gate its impact on the neigh-borhood, they said.
“A% er talks and meetings with the people of Wesley Heights, we don’t see the plan as getting better,” said ANC 3D 01 Commissioner Elizabeth Sandza. “Can you please be more responsive than you have been?”
One resident of Wesley Place stood up in the meet-ing and objected to AU’s plans to build on the Ne-braska Parking Lot, saying students would be able to look into her bedroom win-dow.
Residents of Westover Place have hired a lawyer to deal with their problems with the Campus Plan, according to ANC 3D 06 Commissioner Ann Heuer. ANC Commis-sioners discussed hiring a lawyer through ANC funds, but they did not all agree. " e amount in the ANC 3D budget they could use to hire a lawyer is about $20,000.
“We’re not going to get a whole lot of lawyer for only $20 grand,” ANC 3D 04 Commissioner Stuart Ross said.
ANC 3D 08 Commissioner Lee Minichiello said there are concerns about tra$ c congestion, which is already signi! cant around the area of the corner of Nebraska Avenue and New Mexico Avenue. He and his constit-uents do not want retail on that corner to further hinder the & ow of tra$ c, he said.
Minichiello also asked whether the buildings — now planned to be six stories tall — could be lowered by adding levels underground.
Taylor said housing has been an issue on campus, where there are currently 200 to 300 triple rooms housing students. " e net number of students AU is trying to house on campus through the campus plan is 1,400, Taylor said.
ANC questions Campus Plan
! see ANC on page 5
By ALLIE MOONEYEagle Staff Writer
Members from both Stu-dent Activities and the Stu-dent Government have said that their current relation-ship is strained in light of multiple miscommunica-tions and policy disagree-ments.
Recent disagreements between the SG and Stu-dent Activities include the failed Health Center ref-erendum and recent prob-lems with election polls on my.american.edu.
" ese disagreements bring light to a history of incon-sistent communication and services on the part of Student Activities, Class of 2012 Senator Adam Dan-iel-Wayman said. " e SG and Student Activities have a relationship in which eve-rything the SG does must go through Student Activities.
In the last meeting of the Fi% h Undergraduate Sen-ate, a resolution sponsored by Daniel-Wayman enti-tled “A Resolution to Start a Conversation” was passed
at their meeting on Sunday in an attempt to rebuild the relationship.
" e resolution identi! es miscommunication and a non-transparent policy as part of the problem between the SG and Student Activi-ties.
“[" e refusal of the Health Center referendum] is hard-ly the only case where the standards Student Activities imposes on the activities of the Student Government have been protean, mysteri-ous and seemingly obstruc-tionist,” Daniel-Wayman wrote in the text of his reso-lution.
Andrew Toczydlowski, the Student Activities coor-dinator of governance and leadership, also said the re-lationship between the SG and Student Activities is not where it should be.
“It’s a two way street. I will agree that there are things we can do on both of our ends to make sure we are communicating more e# ec-tively,” Toczydlowski said.
Toczydlowski said that it is possible to redeem the rela-tionship between Student
Activities and the SG. He recognizes that there is more Student Activities can do to help the SG.
“On our side of things I think we can work on being more proactive. Sometimes I feel Student Activities reacts to situations that happen within Student Government, so being more cognitive and proactive with the situation,” he said.
Both SG President Nate Bronstein and SG Speaker of the Undergraduate Senate Eric Reath plan on arrang-ing regular meetings with Student Activities.
“Hopefully [we will] get on the same page concern-ing what the Student Gov-ernment can and can’t do,” Reath said.
Toczydlowski said he is optimistic for the next steps from the resolution.
“I think that this will be a catalyst for change and we will be able to start the sixth session on a positive note,” he said.
By STEFANIE DAZIOEagle Staff Writer
With less than a month to go before the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, the youth vote is still up for grabs, panelists said at Wednes-day’s American Forum in the Katzen Arts Center.
“Young voters are most like-ly to make up their minds on Election Day,” said panelist Karen Finney, an MSNBC political analyst and former communications director for the Democratic National Committee.
Republicans courted the youth vote well in 2004, ac-cording to panelist Kevin Madden, a public relations executive, Republican strat-egist and former press secre-tary for Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign and for House minority leader John Boehner.
But the GOP’s work in 2004 was only what Madden
called “version 1.0.” In 2008, Madden said, then-candi-date Barack Obama took it youth engagement to “ver-sion 7.0.”
" e American Forum is an hour-long, multimedia town hall event that “seeks to connect and engage young people with national and international media issues,” according to its website. It is sponsored by the School of Communication.
AU School of Communi-cation Associate Professor Jane Hall moderated this event, which was called, “Is Your Vote up for Grabs?”
While Finney and Madden debated Obama, the youth vote, Congress and the Tea Party, an on-stage screen projected a live Twitter feed, where audience mem-bers could contribute their thoughts.
Madden said he could not believe social media is still sometimes referred to as “new media.”
“It’s standard media now,” he said.
" e American Forum isn’t the only event using a Twit-ter-style town hall. Panelists discussed MTV’s recent an-nouncement that Obama would appear in a similar event Oct. 14 in a push to re-engage the fan base that helped propel him to the White House in 2008 for congressional Democrats.
A lot of youth voters are not necessarily motivated by House candidate A or Sen-ate candidate B, Finney said. Obama’s presence might re-engage the youth and make them more enthusiastic about the midterm elec-tions.
But Obama’s base is not just made up of youth vot-ers, Madden said.
Nor is it made up of just liberals, he added. Obama did not have 70 percent ap-proval ratings at one time on just those groups — he had the support of independents and some Republicans too.
“He did not run because people thought he was a liberal,” he said, noting the campaign appealed to the center.
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Bon Appétit liquor license expandedBy STEFANIE DAZIOEagle Staff Writer
Despite the protests of commissioners in Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D, Bon Appétit’s renewed liquor license now covers the entire AU campus.
Bon Appétit must renew its liquor license with the Alco-holic Beverage Regulation Administration every three years, and the previous license only allowed the food service company to serve alcohol in seven buildings on campus:! the Mary Graydon Center! the School of International
Service building (now the East Quad Building)! the Ward Circle building! the Kay Spiritual Center! the Katzen Arts Center! the Kogod School of Busi-
ness building! the Batelle/! ompkins
building! is June, when Bon Ap-
pétit petitioned ABRA to renew its license and extend it to include all AU campus buildings, ANC 3D formally complained to the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Admin-
istration to object the type of license Bon Appétit had.
ANC Commissioners Stuart Ross, ANC District 3D 04, and Tom Smith, ANC District 3D 02, whose single member district encompasses AU, " led formal letters of appeal with ABRA, saying Bon Appétit should have a catering license rather than a restaurant one.
“! e concern was that Bon Appétit had the wrong li-cense,” Smith said.
Smith’s letter also said there have been reports of “exces-sive noise and tra# c at cam-pus-related functions where alcoholic beverages have been served,” but Penny Pagano, director of Community and Local Government Relations, said she has never heard of any problems.
! e ANC’s complaints were originally dismissed because it failed to send representatives to a hearing. ! e complaints were reinstated, however, be-cause of previous paperwork errors.
But on Sept. 15, the ABC Board dismissed the ANC complaints again, saying they did not " le their protests on
the appropriate grounds.According to the agency’s
regulations, complaints must discuss how the license af-fects:! peace, order and quiet! “real property values”! “residential parking needs
and vehicular and pedestrian safety”! “schools, recreation cent-
ers, daycare centers and pub-lic libraries”! ability to attract school-age
children before, during and a$ er school! creation of an “over con-
centration of license estab-lishments”
Pagano said the majority of the special events are small and short. ! ey are typically retirement celebrations, end-of-the-year parties and art gallery or exhibit openings.
Pagano and Bon Appétit Vice President Maisie Green-awalt said there were never any issues with past renewals.
“Perhaps things are more sensitive when we have a Campus Plan,” Pagano said.
In a July 20 letter to the Alco-holic Beverage Control Board, which oversees ABRA, Bon
Appétit attorney Jerry Moore III said the University’s liquor license should expand with the University.
“A recurring need arises for special events to be held in the venue that is associated with a particular University activity,” Moore wrote in the letter. “For example, it is unlikely and im-practical for a Washington School of Law special event to be held at the University’s School of Business.”
AU can also rent out univer-sity space to outside groups — the Kay Spiritual Life Center can be rented out for a wedding — and those groups can apply for a one-day liquor license, according to Pagano.
! e license is a Class D res-taurant license, the same as it was in 2006, and allows Bon Appétit to serve beer and wine to 99 people or fewer at a time for a $600 fee. A catering license could cost the com-pany anywhere between $500 and $5,000 because it is based on the caterer’s gross annual revenue.
ABRA regulations also stip-ulate that food or snacks and non-alcoholic beverages must
be available at events where alcohol is served.
AU’s Alcohol Policy has stricter guidelines than the ABRA ones, including the prohibition of alcohol in Uni-versity residence halls, Bender Arena and at open-air events.
Moore’s letter said alcoholic beverage sales have accounted for less than 3 percent of Bon Appétit ’s total food and bev-erage sales from 2006 to now.
Recently, a$ er its formal pe-tition to ABRA, the ANC ap-proached ABRA to informal-ly ask Bon Appétit to change their license to a di% erent Class D type — a DX multi-purpose / public hall facility license, which has a $650 fee.
ABRA Community Re-source O# cer Cynthia Simms said this change would be vol-untary, and Bon Appétit has the right to keep their cur-rent license. So far, Bon Ap-pétit has not " led to make any changes.
“From our perspective, it has been settled,” Greenawalt said.
Madden cited the recent success of the Tea Party in channeling independent voter anxiety and anger at the de" cit, spending and overall Washington discon-nect into a move toward the right end of the political spectrum.
Hall’s last question to the panelists took this political shi$ to the right into account and asked them to predict the percentage of youth vot-ers that would vote Republi-can in the 2022 election. In the 2008 presidential elec-tion, 66 percent of the 18-29 year-old demographic voted for Obama, according to the New York Times.
Madden started with 30 percent, but then upped his guess to 45 percent.
Finney guessed 60 percent.“Well most people that are
voting now will probably be Democrats, because if you vote three times in the same direction, you tend to continue to vote that way,” Finney said.
! e East Campus site would hold about 860 stu-dents, according to Taylor, and there will be four build-ings for mixed use, includ-ing retail. ! ere will also be underground parking on that site to hold 300 cars. ! e Nebraska Parking Lot currently has 870 parking spots.
Taylor also stressed that AU has become a positive addition to this neighbor-hood.
“It’s no secret that AU is surrounded by neighbor-hoods,” he said. “AU is a much prettier place to walk around.”
Ross wants to " nd the best path to a successful plan for AU and its neighbors, he said.
“It is palpable that there is an awful lot of tension be-tween these parties right now,” Ross said. “We’re in this together. AU is going to be here and we’re going to be here.”
! from ANC on page 4
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! e School of Public Af-fairs will launch a Center for Environmental Policy Wednesday for students who are interested in exploring local environmental issues through policymaking.
! e center’s director, Dan Fiorino, said the purpose of the center is to sponsor lec-tures and programs, convene dialogue sessions and con-duct research in regards to environmental issues. With the knowledge gained from such activities, the Center for Environmental Policy will improve local govern-ance on the environment, Fiorino said.
“What they’re going to try to do is bring together private companies that are known for being green cor-porations and talk about how to further advance col-laborative policy initiatives in the federal government, as well as state and local,” said Robert Durant, chair-man of SPA’s department of Public Administration and Policy and a key player in founding the center.
! rough this new center, Fiorino said he hopes to indirectly change environ-mental policy within the lo-cal government and nearby companies.
“We’re not a scienti" c re-search organization per se, although we are interested in how science is used, and we’re not an economics re-search organization per se, but we’re really focused in on the quality of governance and our ability to bring peo-ple together to resolve issues and to solve environmen-tal problems,” said Fiorino, who is also SPA’s executive-in-residence.
! e concept for the Center for Environmental Policy began when University Provost Scott Bass asked the various departments to brainstorm ideas for new centers on campus. Durant " rst approached Fiorino to start such a center since they both had an interest in envi-ronmental policy.
Durant said he strongly advocated for this center because he personally knew Fiorino since they partici-pated in writing the books “Environmental Govern-
ance Reconsidered: Chal-lenges, Choices, and Oppor-tunities” and “Managing for the Environment” together. Furthermore, Durant knew of Fiorino’s work experience as the Environmental Pro-tection Agency’s director of the National Environmental Performance Track.
With approval from Dean of SPA William LeoGrande last spring, Fiorino began organizing the foundation of the Center for Environ-mental Policy.
! e Oct. 13 launch event is restricted to the faculty involved in environmental issues and students who are currently enrolled in envi-ronmental classes.
“! is [launch night is] try-ing to reach out to the gen-eral environmental policy community, make people aware of our existence and what we’re doing,” Fiorino said.
Fiorino said he hopes to attract more students for future events, which will be open to the campus.
By ZACHARY COHENEagle Contributing Writer
Members of the AU commu-nity are working to establish an AU chapter of the Lions Club, an organization dedicated to local and global service.
Professor Anthony Quaint-on, AU’s diplomat-in-resi-dence and former ambassador to Nicaragua, Kuwait and Peru is spearheading this project with others at AU. Quainton will serve as the faculty adviser for the club.
Quainton has been involved in Lions Club throughout his diplomatic career, which has spanned over 40 years, and he is a member of the Wash-ington Lions Club, the oldest Lions Club in D.C.
Quainton also worked with
Professor William DeLone of the Kogod School of Business and his wife Debra Brown-DeLone, a former president of the Rockville Lions Club and a School of Public A# airs alumnus.
! ey approached the O$ ce of Campus Life in July and the Student Government on Aug. 25 to see if there would be in-terest on campus in starting an AU Lions Club.
! e Lions Club set up a table at the Student Involvement Fair on Sept. 15, and over 75 undergraduates declared in-terest in the club.
Nadine Morgan, a junior in SIS and the president of the AU Lions Club, is actively seeking members to bolster the new club.
! e new AU Lions Club only needs 20 o$ cial members, ac-cording to Brown-DeLone. When that is accomplished, the club will be able to submit paperwork to Student Activi-ties for o$ cial recognition by the University.
“! e Lions Club is open to anyone who is willing to be a
member and help out in the local and international com-munity through fundraising and charities,” Morgan said in an e-mail. “We are more than happy to hear others’ ideas and opinions on how to help out.”
She also said the AU Lions Club is already beginning to develop ideas for projects and fundraising. Some of these ideas include a drive to collect eye glasses to be given to those who cannot a# ord them.
“! e AU Lions Club will focus primarily on the lo-cal community, the campus here at AU and D.C., to set up drives or promote causes to aid or assist our community, as well as aid the international world through other charities and fundraising events,” Mor-gan said.
Lions Club International has over our 45,000 clubs and 1.35 million members across the country, making it the world’s largest service club organiza-tion, according to Lions Club International’s website.
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By STEFANIE DAZIOEagle Staff Writer
Alba Vigil, originally from El Salvador, ! ed to Califor-nia 20 years ago to escape the civil war in her home country. She came to D.C. a year later and has worked at AU since.
She said her family started immigrating to the U.S. one by one when the military started getting violent. She now lives near Columbia Heights.
Vigil has been working as a cleaner at AU for 20 years and came here on the refer-ral of a friend, who is also still working here.
Vigil now works for Ara-mark Monday through Fri-day, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but in El Salvador she was a cook in her family-run seafood restaurant.
Her brother still runs the restaurant there, but the rest of her family is in the U.S.
Vigil became a U.S. citizen last year, with help from her tutors in the AU student-run organization Commu-
nity Learners Advancing in Spanish and English. " e group aims to bridge the gap between the University’s non-English workers and the students through tutor-ing and community bond-ing.
Vigil met once a week with her tutor to prepare for the citizenship test, which she said was easy. But to her, learning English is like a puzzle.
While talking with " e Ea-gle, she answered questions in both Spanish and Eng-lish, with help from CLASE tutors Melissa Mahfouz, a junior in the School of Inter-national Service and Aaron Montenegro, a graduate stu-dent in the College of Arts and Sciences.
She loves to cook and likes making everything except pupusas — one of the most popular Salvadoran dishes — which are stu# ed tortillas similar to Spanish empana-das.
Her two children, now 22 and 26 years old, originally stayed in El Salvador when
Pro le: Aramark employee shares how she came to AU
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Alba Vigil, an Aramark employee, left her home in El Salvador 20 years ago to escape the country’s civil war. She has worked at AU almost the entire time since.
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Your club needs money.
We want to give it to you.
If you’re a club leader, be sure to submit a budget no later than this Friday, October 15th, to be considered for
funding during our October budget cycle.
Budget application coversheets are available outside our office (MGC 260) and on our website. Completed
budgets are due by 5 PM on Friday, October 15th to the Student Activities Front Desk (MGC 271).
For more information, please e-mail us at [email protected] or check out our web-site, www.auclubcouncil.org
Local student govt allianceorganizes D.C. service day
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FIVE FACTS! She is the second-oldest
of eight in her family.! She has dual citizenship
in El Salvador and the U.S.! She loves to cook and eat
any kind of seafood, except pupusas. ! She likes go to the beach,
especially Ocean City, Md.! She calls herself “crazy,”
and says she sings and danc-es around her house con-stantly.
she came here. But now, her son is working toward his master’s degree in education at the University of Mary-land.
She said there are occa-sionally problems with stu-dent and sta# respecting her when she cleans, particu-larly the men’s bathrooms. However, the majority of the time she does not have any problems.
Without the students here, she would not have work, Vigil said.
By JESSICA LIUEagle Staff Writer
" e D.C. Student Alliance is planning a community service initiative called Stu-dents Serve on Oct. 23.
" e day is meant to encour-age college students from the D.C.-metro area to vol-unteer in the community.
Formerly known as the D.C. Metro University Stu-dent Alliance, the D.C. Stu-dent Alliance is an organiza-tion involving the student governments of 15 univer-sities in the D.C. area that convenes, shares ideas from each school and collaborates on events for D.C. college students.
Former AU Student Gov-ernment President Andy MacCracken is now execu-tive director of the Student Alliance, one of the organi-zations top two positions.
“" e more we can get stu-dents to think of themselves as D.C. students in addition to AU students and [George Washington University] stu-dents and Howard [Univer-sity] students, the more uni-$ ed we will be,” MacCracken said in an e-mail.
" e idea of Students Serve came up when the Howard and GWU representatives shared that their schools were planning community service events on Oct. 23, which is National Make a Di# erence Day.
" e board of directors decided that all the cam-puses should coordinate a region-wide, multi-campus service activity on that date. " e D.C. Student Alliance also decided to do a service event again in late March and planned to continue in the future.
Howard, AU and GW will
be hosting the volunteer op-portunities on Oct. 23.
Students of any college campus in the D.C. Student Alliance can register online or just show up on the day of the event to volunteer.
“All the students partici-pating in the service day will wear a shirt that will represent their campus for diverse representation and collaboration,” MacCracken said. “" ere is a Facebook event for Students Serve, and any student can go from any campus and pick which service site they want to go to. We want to avoid having AU kids just being at AU and Howard kids just being at Howard.”
Service, advocacy and building relationships with D.C. city council members are current and upcom-ing initiatives by the D.C.
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Rami cations of these thefts are worse than just some missing chairs.idea who is to blame. It could be a student, an employee or a random individual who came across MGC open late on a week/weekend night and decided they needed some Butler Board Room chairs. Despite the lack of a scapegoat or responsible party to hold accountable, the underlying issue remains: Even if we students are not directly responsible (or even if we are) for the damages done to this campus, we are held ! nancially accountable for them. Past and present residents of the dorms can attest to this, having paid for numerous damages done to ceiling tiles, bulletin boards and pulled ! re alarms at some
In addition to the disappearance of spare time, money (spent on mostly co" ee these days), and perhaps a bit of our sanity, furniture from the University Center and Butler Pavilion have been disappearing over the course of this semester. We don’t know who the perpetrator of such vile acts is — students on a vandalism lark, students too poor to furnish their house this semester or a dastardly villain that isn’t a student at all. Regardless of the culprit, however, the humor in this situation is fading fast.
An e-mail was circulated on campus last week regarding the the# s and the estimated costs
of replacement for the items stolen, including ten bar stools from the Marketplace and a booth seat from the Tavern. $ at ! gure currently hovers around $7,000, a fortune to us students that o# en ! nd ourselves paying to intern (for credit and transportation).
Better yet, if the items are not returned, the costs of replacing these items comes out of our tuition money. While $7,000 dispersed amongst a student population of over 6,000 seems insigni! cant, it’s really an issue of the principle of the matter — we’re paying for furniture rather than our education.
To be fair, we have no
point in time. While the majority of us are not running around on a Saturday night punching out ceiling tiles or stu% ng Tavern booths into our trunks, people out there are. And we are the ones paying for it.
In addition, this string of the# s could one day mean a change in our ability to use MGC late at night. MGC is open 24 hours a day and has served not only as source of food and center of learning, but also as a study area and place of refuge during middle-of-the-night ! re alarms for many of us. $ e# s of this magnitude tend not to occur in those buildings that are locked up at night, such as Ward.
Personal Rant: AU, stop and smell the roses sometimes
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If MGC continues to be pillaged and plundered in the middle of the night (or another time of day that someone can sneak a Tavern booth out the back door unnoticed), then our ability to use these facilities may be jeopardized. While some of us can spend hour upon hour in Bender Library, those of us that get that soul-crushing feeling from spending too much time there will be unduly impacted by the disappearance of this favorite late-night alternative study location. While these the# s appear at ! rst to be fairly insigni! cant or even humorous, the reality is that unless the items are
returned and the actions cease to occur, the e" ects will have repercussions for us all.
If the culprit or culprits are students, we ask you: Please return these items. Please do not steal any more items. Not to mention that you’re bringing down heaps of bad karma upon yourselves. $ is is our community. Our home away from home, if you will. We all live and share in it, and by doing stupid stu" like this, you’re hurting all of us — and may whatever higher power you believe in help you if we ! nd out who you are a# er we spend all night in the library.
$ e barrage of vitriolic e-mails was not an aberra-tion. See for yourself. Many articles or op-eds posted online elicit disparaging ad hominem attacks. At times, they’re warranted (see the tasteless Alex Knepper col-umn last semester), and sometimes they’re not (see columns I compose). I, for example, have been referred to as a dolt (fairly accurate), and criticized for being too smart (way o" base) by us-ing too many polysyllabic words for the same column. Even the Negative Nancy’s disagree over their disap-pointment.
It begs a larger question, why are we more motivated to act when we’re angry or upset than when we’re hap-py? Why does it take a re-cession before people start saving? Why does a girl have to threaten to dump her boyfriend before he starts paying attention? Why do
we slander a professor for an unreasonable exam and & ippantly ignore the bonus points gi# ed the week prior? I could go on and on.
Are we simply irascible and yearning to be ticked o" ? Or is our reluctance to show equivalent approbation un-der positive circumstances, a societal failing in need of repair? Either way, we’ve got one giant unattractive chip on our shoulders.
Last week I watched our volleyball team dismantle Holy Cross and encore that performance by escaping a tough Navy team. $ e sec-ond match was exhilarating, with the second set going to a nail-biting 34-32 before the Eagles prevailed. Yet aside from both basketball teams and a few friends/parents of the team, attend-ance was sparse. I’ve seen more vegetarians at Burger King.
However, I presume if AU
administrators were consid-ering axing the volleyball program (they’re not thank-fully), there’d be a campaign of letters and exponentially more fans overnight. $ e outrage would spread in-stantly and suddenly we’d all be cheering as loud as Blake Jolivette (you’d know if you were there) at home games.
Perhaps we’re all wound up so tightly in our jobs, internships, homework and personal lives, it’s a chore to take a deep breath, ac-knowledge the good, and go out of our way to dem-onstrate our satisfaction like we do when we’re incensed. Perhaps it’s an aggregation of these stresses that make us aggressive drivers or in-duced the need for Eagle Rants (which I wholeheart-edly endorse). It’s great to have a forum to blow o" steam, but too frequently that venue encroaches on our typical behavior.
Let’s face it — we take the positives for granted.
How o# en do we pull a professor aside and say thanks a# er an inspiring lecture? How o# en do we tip 30 percent instead of 20 percent for excellent serv-ice? How o# en do we deride our employers behind close doors, while rarely appre-ciating them signing our checks?
Not as o# en as we should. And while AU students are admirably provoked by na-tional and international in-justices — we’re widely seen as the most (politically) ac-tive in the nation — inspi-ration to act should come from positive circumstances too.
Conor Shapiro is a graduate student in the School of Inter-national Service and a liberal columnist for ! e Eagle.
One attribute you quickly acquire as a writer is thick skin. As an undergraduate columnist in San Diego, I once shadowed syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette for the day. A# er a brief in-troduction, he asked me to follow him upstairs. He led me to his o% ce and asked if I’d hold on just a minute.
A# er a few moments he waved me over, pointed to his desktop and I peered over his shoulder.
I was stunned. $ e ! rst words I read were: YOU (RHYMES WITH BUCK-ING) (INSERT RACIST SLUR HERE). He smirked and clicked on the next one. To the biggest idiot in San Diego! He shrugged. $ en held the cursor on the scroll bar for approximately 10 seconds and said wryly, “Not bad for 12:00 p.m., eh?”
“$ at’s enough insults to last a lifetime,” I replied. “Just wait till the east coast wakes up,” I stupidly mut-tered under my breath.
SMARTER THAN I LOOK
CONOR SHAPIRO
Refocusing the U.S. on Sudan as key referendum approaches
ment is trying to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of Southerners living in the North. Citizenship policies remain unresolved. With only three months until the referendum, the road ahead is foggy.
I have not mentioned Su-dan’s main humanitarian crisis: Darfur. In Septem-ber, I visited the Woodrow Wilson Center to hear Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the lead prosecutor of the ICC. In his discussion of his case against Sudanese government of-! cials, Ocampo noted that Darfur and the referendum are not separate. In fact, a former Interior Minis-ter charged with managing the Janjaweed and later the
AU was put on the map last week. On Oct. 7 the Tenley Campus served as the starting block for the ! nal leg of the Sudan Free-dom March, which began in New York City on Sept. 15. " ousands walked the 6.2 miles from our campus to Capitol Hill for a rally in support of “democracy and freedom from genocide and slavery throughout Sudan.”
Last week’s rally highlight-ed the historic opportunity facing Sudan on Jan. 9, 2011. " at day a referendum will be held on whether to split into two nations. " e refer-endum is one of the remain-ing milestones of the Com-prehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 that ended decades of civil war in ethnically and religiously divided Sudan. Another referendum will be held the same day in Abyei state, one of the disputed areas along the north-south border, to decide whether it will join the North or South.
" e referendum was spot-lighted on Sept. 24 when President Barack Obama participated in a meeting on the sidelines of the UN Gen-eral Assembly that focused on Sudan. " e message from Obama to Vice President Osman Ali Taha, who was representing Sudan Presi-dent Omar al-Bashir, was clear: " e referendum must be held on schedule or there will be consequences.
Will that alone do the trick? Unlikely. " e South (Abyei in particular) contains most of the country’s oil reserves. " e Government of the North — led by Bashir, who has been indicted twice by the International Criminal Court for war crimes — is unlikely to let the South secede smoothly. Although he has pledged to honor the outcome of the referen-dum, the prospect of an in-dependent South will mean revenue losses for the North.
Voter manipulation — prac-ticed with impunity during Sudan’s national elections in May — will be a real threat.
" ere are yet more obsta-cles to a timely referendum. " e North’s ruling party — the National Congress Party — wants the border o# cially demarcated be-fore the referendum, even though that isn’t required by the CPA. Voter registra-tion was recently delayed until mid-November. " e commission overseeing the referendum was only o# -cially constituted on Sept. 15. " e Southern govern-
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From the time that we were prospective students, we have heard about the Univer-sity’s commitment to public service, social responsibility and community. However, the University falls short of its own sanctimonious spin far too o$ en, especially when dealing with University em-ployees.
On Sept. 30, 2007 AU agreed to recognize and ne-gotiate with the shuttle bus drivers’ union. " is came a$ er a long, drawn-out battle with the University in which union supporters’ jobs were threatened and AU admin-istrators tried to sabotage a union election.
Today, three years later, nothing has changed. " e shuttle bus drivers’ union is the only union on cam-pus, and the administration
seems determined to break it. " e University ! ghts the union tooth and nail and the shuttle drivers continue to feel exploited, abused and discriminated against. Shut-tle drivers were not given the same 3.5 percent raise that other University employees were, disciplinary policies are kept secret, shuttle drivers are ! red without warning or jus-ti! cation, union leaders are intimidated, and AU refuses to cooperate or compromise with the shuttle drivers.
" e shuttle bus drivers have two simple demands: two 15-minute breaks for every eight and a half hour shi$ and ac-cess to the disciplinary pro-cedures that apply to them. " ese are the same rights that all other University em-ployees currently have. Are these demands unreason-able? No. Is it wrong to ask for the same treatment that all other University workers?
No. Are the shuttle drivers a part of the so-called “AU Community”? Yes.
It is time that AU live up to its own image and pay more than lip service to “commu-nity” and “social responsibil-ity.” It is time for AU to stop discriminating against the shuttle drivers and their un-ion and to start treating all of its hard working employees with the respect that they de-serve.
Ethan Miller is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sci-ences.
! e Author is a member of AU Solidarity, which meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the CASJ o" ce in the basement of Kay Spiritual Life Center.
AU rhetoric outpaces action on ‘social responsibility’
LETTER TO THE EDITORGUEST COLUMNISTHumanitarian A% airs Min-ister is now the governor of South Kordofan, a border state next to Abyei and po-tential & ashpoint like Dar-fur. One of the key actors in Darfur and closest con! -dants of President Bashir is positioned at what could be the eye of the storm.
For AU students interested in con& ict, political devel-opment and humanitarian a% airs in Africa, the Sudan referendum is signi! cant. If it is stalled or manipulated the South will be deprived the right to self-determi-nation. If mishandled, the chance of another civil war, and violence spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo and other neighbors, is possible. U.S. security interests are also at stake. Combating terrorism in the Horn is well-served by an empowered South.
What can be done from our end? U.S. pressure on the parties is imperative. Economic incentives and disincentives, along with the prospect of normalized rela-tions, are important carrots and sticks. Obama and Sec-retary of State Hillary Clin-ton have recently ramped-up this e% ort. " is should continue. A bill introduced last week by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., — the Sudan Peace and Stability Act — shows congressional interest. Urg-ing your elected o# cials to prioritize Sudan or teaming with an advocacy group is a great way to help further this objective.
" ere are less than 100 days until Jan. 9. Sudan should stay on the front-burner un-til then — and beyond.
Max Weihe is a graduate student in the School of In-ternational Service.
For AU students interested in
con ict, political development and
humanitarian affairs in Africa,
the Sudan referendum is signi cant.
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By ANNA SCALAMOGNAEagle Staff Writer
Smokers might soon have to be more careful about where they light up on campus. A new revised policy could pro-hibit students from smok-ing within 25 feet of campus buildings.
! e new policy, dra" ed by Director of Sustainability Chris O’Brien, would not only give clean air rights to non-smokers tired of breathing in secondhand smoke but is also a pre-requisite for LEED certi-# cation of campus buildings, including the School of Inter-national Service building.
Currently, smoking inside all academic buildings and work areas on campus is prohibited, but smoking on University grounds and outside build-ings is permitted, according to the policy listed in the Student Handbook.
However, the new signs out-side of the Mary Graydon Center asking students to not smoke within 25 feet of the building con$ ict with this policy.
O’Brien has been dra" -ing a new policy over the last year that institutes an o% cial Student Handbook policy to enforce these signs. Other administrators are currently reading the policy, but O’Brien does not know if or when it would take e& ect.
! e new signs, added Oct. 6 by the O% ce of Campus Life, supplement existing signs on MGC’s doors, which read “Smoke Free Area.” ! e new stand-alone signs can be seen outside the main doors of MGC, as well as by the side entrance closest to the Tavern.
Director of University Cent-er Operations Scott Jones believes the signs are already making smokers outside of MGC more conscious of their location.
“With the new signs, as we approach folks, there’s a much more respectful response,” Jones said. “We’ve seen less [smoking] overall.”
! e proposed smoking poli-cy has not come to the presi-dent’s cabinet yet, making it di% cult to project a timeline for its formal consideration.
! e e& ective date is up to President Neil Kerwin, Han-son said.
Reasons for New PolicyO’Brien’s new policy re$ ects
AU’s awareness that second-hand smoke is a form of air pollution, he said. It is meant to address vagueness and con-fusion surrounding AU’s cur-rent smoking policy.
! ere are currently no LEED certi# ed buildings on AU’s campus, but the new School of International Building is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council and is being considered for LEED Gold certi# cation, according to O’Brien.
Even if a campus-wide policy is not in place, the SIS build-ing would need to have a 25-foot smoke-free perimeter to be certi# ed, according to O’Brien.
A push from students is also responsible for the possible change in policy.
Noah Jacobs, a graduate stu-dent in the School of Com-munication, produced a # lm about AU’s smoking policy and the issues surrounding the policy.
“! e University is so progres-sive, but this is a fundamental right,” Jacobs said. “Smoke lingers. It’s not something you can choose not to breath.”
Jacobs’ 15-minute docu-mentary tries to clarify exactly what the current smoking pol-icy means and how it applies to building entrance ways. His # lm is currently featured on SmokeFree D.C.’s website.
“I don’t think smokers should be making the decision on what I breathe as I walk into ac-ademic buildings,” said Jacobs, who is a former smoker. “I don’t want to be perceived as someone who hates smokers ... ! e issue is smokers aren’t aware if they are in violation of the policy.”
Enforcement! e 25-foot boundary de-
scribed by the new signs outside of MGC are part of a “courtesy zone,” according to Gail Hanson, vice president of Campus Life.
! ere is no actual enforce-ment of this zone by the Uni-versity, and AU still relies on “community enforcement,” Hanson said.
She de# ned community en-forcement as a “community member to community mem-ber” system that relies on stu-dents and sta& to ask others to be more considerate.
“It’s a civility thing,” Hanson said. “It’s not a rule. People won’t be punished but will be considerate.”
However, Hanson is only re-sponsible for managing stand-alone buildings where Campus
Life departments are the only or principal occupants. ! is includes MGC, the Kay Spir-itual Life Center, the residence halls and McCabe Hall.
! e vice president of Finance and Treasurer is responsible for all other University build-ings, including the SIS build-ing.
Public Safety does not have the resources to enforce a smoking policy, according to Public Safety Chief Michael McNair.
“You should use the least amount of force required,” McNair said. “Public Safety shouldn’t be the # rst resort.”
But Jacobs thinks concrete processes of enforcement are necessary. Just the threat of a ticket would decrease the number of smokers in en-tranceways and would require
minimal University e& ort, Jacobs said.
Modes of enforcement for the possible new policy are still in discussion. O’Brien be-lieves any type of enforcement would follow the same proce-dures as currently outlined for any type of misconduct in stu-dent handbook.
Public Safety will respond to violations of the policy if called by faculty and sta& . So far this year, Public Safety has responded to seven to eight smoking violations, according to McNair.
All of these cases involved a person smoking inside a building who refused to stop when asked by a faculty or sta& member but when confronted by Public Safety was compli-ant, McNair said.
McNair feels that smoking
on campus isn’t nearly as big a hazard as it has recently been publicized. He feels Jacobs’ video was exaggerated for ef-fect.
“I walk campus a fair amount, and I don’t see 25 people in one place light up at once,” McNair said. “I usually see one or two. Not sure that constitutes any hazard.”
A new policy and/or any type of enforcement of this policy will be met by a lot of resist-ance from students, McNair said.
“It’s an issue that’s going to plague us for years to come,” McNair said. “! ere’s no silver bullet.”
Mind your smoke: Campus policies might be revised
Georgetown University
- Prohibits smoking indoors- Does not have a # ne for non-
compliance- ! e O% ce of Student Conduct
is responsible for ensuring com-pliance by students. However, stu-dents, faculty and sta& are respon-sible for enforcing the policy with visitors.
“Members of the community who choose to smoke must do so in des-ignated areas outdoors at a distance from the building that does not block entrances, transmit smoke into buildings, or cause others to be exposed to second-hand smoke.”
Source: Georgetown University Student A& airs and Related Policies
George Washington University
- Prohibits smoking indoors- Does not have a # ne for non-
compliance- “Individual buildings may have
additional restrictions on smoking near the building entrances due to concerns over air quality or the presence of combustible materials.”
Policies applies even in “the ab-sence of posted “No Smoking” signs.” Violations of the code are resolved according to their Code of Student Conduct.
Source: George Washington University Smoking Policy
Catholic University
- Prohibits smoking indoors and within 25 feet of building
- Does not have a # ne for non-compliance
- “Vice presidents, deans, direc-tors and managers are responsible for enforcing this policy with sta& , faculty, students and visitors ... Vio-lations of this policy may result in disciplinary actions or termination as permitted by law and University personnel practices.”
Source: ! e Catholic University of America Smoke-free Policy
Types of enforcement practiced at other universities include fees and/or designated smoking areas.
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LIGHTING UP — Russel Krantz, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, takes a smoke break on the steps of the Mary Graydon Center. New signs outside of MGC and the Tavern encourage smokers to stay at least 25 feet away from the entrances of the building.
Students speak: How do you feel about the proposed smoking policy?
Non-smoker“Twenty-# ve feet is a good
enough distance where [smoke] won’t just wa" into the build-ing.”
Maggie McGuire, CAS, junior
Smoker“I think if they provide a cov-
ered location for people to smoke in during rain that has benches where we could smoke would be # ne. But give me a place to smoke.”
Megan Ackerman, SOC, sen-ior
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By STEFANIE DAZIOEagle Staff Writer
AU o! cials recently circu-lated an e-mail to students, asking for the return of sto-len University property by Oct. 18 with no penalties.
" e property, worth a total of $7,311.30 in replacement costs, includes 10 Market-place barstools, a Tavern booth seat, 30 Butler Board Room chairs and one Tavern high table, according to the e-mail.
Scott Jones, the University Center’s director of opera-tions, said the replacement costs come out of student tuition, as the University Center’s budget is funded directly by tuition dollars.
" e 10 bar stools were sto-len during Welcome Week and the rest of the items have been taken over the course of the semester, ac-cording to Jones.
Jones said this year’s the# s have been “completely ex-cessive,” and this is the most that has been stolen in one semester in his nearly seven years at AU.
" e amnesty period lasts until Oct. 18. A# er that, the University will hold people accountable for having sto-len the items.
" e items might seem ex-pensive to students — one barstool costs nearly $350 — but Jones said the prices are typical of industrial-grade standards.
“It’s a higher grade than something like IKEA,” he said, adding that the inven-tory has been in use for $ ve to seven years.
Jones is encountering prob-lems ordering replacements, however. Some of the fabrics for the items have been dis-continued, and some items have been discontinued al-together.
“It’s de$ nitely costing more to replace these items than if they were simply returned,” he said.
" e Department of Public Safety did not respond to re-quest for comment by press time.
Student Alliance to act as a cohesive voice by represent-ing the di% erent campus voices through the D.C. gov-ernment.
Last year, the organization worked with the Mayor’s Of-$ ce to help count students in the area for the census.
“" e basic idea is that D.C. is a college town, but no one knows it. Students within D.C.’s boundaries represent 1/6 of the population, yet we never think of D.C. as a stu-dent-oriented city. We want to change that,” MacCracken said in an e-mail.
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By JULIA RYANEagle Staff Writer
Recent changes to the budgeting system of the AU Club Council have le# some student groups wondering how they will manage to $ -nance their events for the rest of this school year.
Debate Society President James Schmitt and Vice President of Finance Steph-anie Caravias said this new monthly budgeting system puts their group at a signi$ -cant disadvantage because it hinders their planning for the year.
" e AUCC instituted a new monthly budget sys-tem in September. Groups can apply for a monthly budget, ranging from $100 to $6,000.
" ey must submit their proposed budgets by the 15th of each month. " e clubs are then noti$ ed of the AUCC’s budget decisions on
the 30th of the month, " e Eagle previously reported.
AU College Democrats and Pep Band missed the September budget deadline to receive AUCC allocations for use in October, accord-ing to AUCC Chair Kate-lyn Hurley. Other student groups like the Peace and Empowerment Project and the Debate Society expressed concern that they would have problems adjusting to the new monthly budgeting system, Hurley said.
Schmitt and Caravias worry they will not be able to cover the expenses for their debate tournaments, especially those that need to be paid months in advance of the tournament, such as travel expenses and partici-pation fees.
" e Debate Society re-ceived $3,000 this month, the highest allocation the AUCC gave out. However, the Debate Society is sup-posed to compete in a na-
tional debate tournament from Nov. 5 to 6, but Cara-vias said she is unsure how the group will be able to get there.
“We need a couple thou-sand [dollars] up front to compete, so the budget we were allocated for does not cover travel expenses, let alone the cost of the tourna-ment,” she said.
Schmitt said he under-stands this new monthly budgeting system will give smaller student groups more & exibility and the ability to put on more events, but the system is not helpful for larger groups like the Debate Society that need to plan events months in advance.
Last year, Debate Society received a total of $6,000 af-ter initially getting $2,500 for the whole school year.
" ey then appealed this budget and got an addi-tional $500 for the semester, according to Caravias. " e group had to ask again for
$3,000 for the next semes-ter.
He is concerned his group may not even be able to function in the near future under the monthly budget-ing system.
“Unfortunately, the way it stands now, if we don’t get some sort of solution or $ x, that really cripples our ability to compete,” he said. “We’re looking at not being able to compete in tourna-ments, not be able to com-pete on the national circuit.”
" e Club Council makes the $ nal decisions about what budget system to put in place, and how much each group gets for a budg-et, according to Hurley. But Student Activities will in-tervene if they feel a certain club’s budget is too high or too low.
AUCC Chair Katelyn Hur-ley said she will be working closely with larger student groups in the near future to adjust them to the monthly
budgeting system.She also noted that student
groups can seek other sourc-es of funding besides the AUCC. " e Student Gov-ernment and Student Ac-tivities both give out grants to student organizations throughout the year.
Student organizations can also fundraise, solicit dona-tions from outside groups or co-sponsor events with vari-ous AU o! ces like the O! ce of Campus Life if the event is expected to have a fairly large turnout.
Hurley said the AUCC is working with as many sources as possible to help AUCC-funded student groups make the transition from a yearly to a monthly budgeting system.
“We want to work with them to make it work for them,” she said.
Over $7,300 worth of furniture stolen from AU
Student tuition will cover costs
Some clubs struggle with new AUCC system
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Norton talks new lm, personal aspirations at AUBy YOHANA DESTAEagle Staff Writer
Edward Norton is the post-er boy for character actors everywhere. While most may recognize him as the deranged and radical Tyler Durden from “Fight Club,” Norton manages to stand out amongst Hollywood’s most talented thespians. From playing a skinhead in “American History X” to a revamped Bruce Banner in “! e Incredible Hulk,” Nor-ton prides himself on his ability to completely blend into the characters he plays.
“I don’t really tend to ap-proach [" lms] thinking about how they interact with me,” Norton said in an interview with ! e Eagle. “I just am not that interested in splattering myself out there.”
In one of their " rst big events of the year, ! inkTalk, a D.C.-based television pro-gram, and the AU Film So-
ciety hosted a Q&A with the famed actor. Students " lled up Ward 2 to ask him a couple of their own burn-ing questions, which ranged from asking how life-chang-ing “Fight Club” was to his experience with documen-tary " lms. In addition, Nor-ton discussed some " lms that have personally in# u-enced him, such as Spike Lee’s groundbreaking “Do the Right ! ing” and " lms from Terrence Malick and Milos Forman.
In his most recent work, “Stone,” Norton plays the titular character, a criminal from Detroit trying to get parole a$ er serving eight years of a " $ een-year jail sentence. Stone is the stere-otypical thug, complete with cornrows and a foul mouth. Most of the " lm takes place inside the o% ce room of Stone’s parole o% cer, Jack Mabry, played by Robert De Niro. While true Norton fans know that this is not his
" rst " lm playing a criminal, Norton dispels any queries that “Stone” is an action-packed thriller with a sec-ondary script.
“! ere’s no chase scenes and no weapons,” Norton said. “! e drama in this " lm comes from this cork-screwing tension that just evolves in conversation. So if you’re an actor, it’s like, ‘At last — I matter!’”
In order to accurately portray Stone, Norton and “Stone” director John Cur-ran traveled to prison facili-ties just north of Detroit to research exactly how they should model Stone.
“A lot of the people we were interested in were coming out of the gang and drug culture in southwest Detroit ... John and I spent a lot of time mining what they said and transferring it over into the script,” Norton said. “Literally, for the sound of my voice, there was this one guy in particular we
met who had a very bro-ken, gravelly, strange sort of voice. John and I both found it very hypnotic.”
Along the course of the " lm, Stone discovers re-ligion, which changes the entire theme of the movie. It is not solely about spir-itual awakening, but rather about dealing with morals and convictions. It was not a personal application for Norton, so much as it was for Curran.
“To me, the speci" cs of what Stone gets into are beside the point,” Norton said. “What I liked was that John was aiming at open-ing up the question of ‘how does one assert that there’s only one way for a person to achieve illumination?’ Or one text, or one notion of how we communicate with the divine or get a sense of the divine?”
Norton was truly inspired by Curran’s take on direct-ing and his opportunity to
have a very hands-on role in the development of this " lm. As an actor for the past 12 years, Norton has amassed a wealth of knowl-edge about the " lm industry that he is keen to share with others.
“I think that people com-ing up now need to push against the model in their own ways. I would tell " lm-makers to take inspiration from Radiohead and what they did, self-releasing their record to people. I’m excited to see how people leave the " lm distribution industry behind and stop worrying about how they’re going to " nd a way to get embraced by the mainstream, because that model’s going to be dead someday, sure as the record industry is going to be dead.”
! is advice is something that Norton lives by, hav-ing produced and directed “Keeping the Faith” himself, as well as producing eight
other " lms and documen-taries. His accomplishments even caught the eye of the White House, and Norton was appointed to serve in the Committee on the Arts and Humanities along-side such actors as Forrest Whittaker and Sarah Jessica Parker.
“We’re there to advise the President on policy deci-sions about where to al-locate funds for the most e& ectiveness. One project recognizes and awards small a$ er school arts programs that work with at-risk kids. So, within our budget we give these awards to about two dozen groups per year,” Norton said.
It’s clear that the multi-talented actor has tried his hand at a number of dif-ferent careers, succeeding at whatever he works on. “Stone” is out in theaters everywhere.
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‘STONE’ COLD FOX — Edward Norton speaks in Ward about a wide range of topics including his new fi lm “Stone,” his efforts to improve arts education for youth and some of the fi lms that inspired him. Here, ThinkTalk host Erica Thomas asks Norton a question.
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By TRAVIS MCKAY-ROBERTSEagle Contributing Writer
! e garage is dark. ! ere are four crates, spread in a loose cluster. One makes the bed of a sleeping man. He is cast in an ethereal, bluish light and as he wakes voices boom from hidden speakers. As the echoes re-verberate around the room, the company enters, and “Macbeth” begins its whirl-wind ride through insanity.
! e setting of AU Players’ “Macbeth” may at " rst seem an odd logistical choice — it wasn’t easy to " nd (located in the P3 level of the Katzen Parking Garage), there’s no set stage and unfortunately, AU couldn’t do a thing about having one of the more cli-matic scenes interrupted by a revving Ford Explorer.
“! ere were some very unique challenges to work-ing with the space,” Direc-tor Leah Pope said.
However, Pope pulled o# working within the con-" nes of a parking garage with skill and " nesse, and said the space had “a certain resonance.”
“[We did things in Katzen] that we couldn’t do in Kay,” she said.
! e “we” behind the show? A talented cast of primarily freshman, a motley crew of mechanicals — and some truly excellent actors.
“It was a very personal show,” Pope said. “Every cast member took it and made it their own,” Pope said.
Take Macbeth for instance, played by freshman Ariel Du# y. From the beginning of the play, he plays a devot-ed husband " rst, and a hu-bristic quasi-villain second. His acting, especially when coupled with the brilliant sociopathy of Emily Good-ell (the talented sophomore behind Lady Macbeth) em-bodies the bone-chilling theme of corruption and the addicting nature of power
extending throughout the play. Goodell is perhaps the stand-out thespian in this show — she walks a " ne line between madness and despair and keeps the audi-ence enraptured throughout the show.
Another standout actor is sophomore Brad Parker, the " ght captain and ac-tor for Macdu# . He is not only a talented actor, full of force and personality, but also an incredible swords-man. His climatic " nal bat-tle with Macbeth was one of the standout moments of the play — the vigor and intensity looks downright professional — as it should. ! e " ghts were all directed by AU alumnus Kyle Enci-nas, a professional " ght di-rector who AU Players got for “much cheaper than we should have,” according to Pope.
! e cast is rounded out by a " ne set of secondary and tertiary characters — so-phomore Erin Crandell (Lady Macbeth’s servant, and Lady Macdu# ) delivers perverted Shakespearean humor in " nest order, and freshman Zachary Cohen delivers a " ne performance as the ! ane Angus. It is an intensely passionate show that su# ers only (if at all) from some slow pacing in the middle. However, when the show hits its unraveling, the emotional vitality the cast delivers under the " ne direction of Pope speeds the show along to a wonderful conclusion.
It is very rare for addi-tions to the Bard’s work to improve the show, but the " nal moments of the play cast Macbeth’s very mad-ness into doubt, and le$ the audience speechless. Leah Pope, the cast and all involved should be " ercely proud of their " ne produc-tion.
AU Players perform macabre ‘Macbeth’
Courtesy of ELIZABETH ENNIS
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES — The AU Players performance of “Macbeth” conveyed the play’s dark atmosphere. Here, Macbeth (Ariel Duffy) and Lady Macbeth (Emily Goodell) during a scene in the Katzen Parking Garage.
Production uses gloomy Katzen garage for play’s haunting and creative atmosphere
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Stumbling through Oktoberfest: Enjoying drink and food in GermanyCROSS-CULTURAL DISPATCH
MUNICH, GERMANY
By YANIV NAHON
If you are anywhere near Germany for the last three weekends of September, it is this author’s sincere recommendation that you go to Oktoberfest. For those of you who do not know, Oktoberfest is the world’s largest beer festi-val. According to materials from the travel company Bus2Alps, over the three weekends of the festival, six million people from all over the world will eat 18 million chickens and drink 8 million liters of some of the world’s best beer. Do I really need to do more any more convincing?
To be entirely truthful,
Oktoberfest is actually the world’s largest wedding anniversary. The Crown Prince Ludwig was mar-ried to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on Oct. 12, 1810. The citi-zens of Munich were invit-ed to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. The fields have since been named Theresienwiese. Horse races in the presence of the Royal Family marked the close of the event. It was celebrated as a festival for the whole of Bavaria, a region of Germany.
In 1811, the festival con-tinued with horse races and an Agricultural Show. In 1816, carnival games were introduced. As the 1800s rolled on, the tradi-tional parade commemo-rating Ludwig was added, food stalls were construct-ed, and large glass mugs of beer were introduced. By the end of the 19th
century, Oktoberfest had evolved into the giant party that this author was proud to have taken part in last week.
I will attempt to sum-marize the experience and point out some highlights.
First of all, the festival itself is essentially a giant county fair. There are car-nival rides, food stands, and it is absolutely im-possible to find parking. Though, considering the sheer amount of beer con-sumed over the course of the festival, that is probably a good thing.
However, Oktoberfest has something no other fair does: beer tents. Don’t let the name fool you, as most of these glorious establish-ments are not literal tents. For the most part, they’re small buildings, with the exception of the two of the most celebrated tents, which I will now talk about — since they’re the only two I made it to.
First of all, the Hofbrau tent is by far my favorite tent. It is the largest, most popular tent, and it is where you will find the ma-jority of Americans, Aus-tralians, and other Eng-lish-speaking foreigners. After waking up at 7 a.m. to get a seat, I managed to get my hands on my first beer of the festival at about 9. Ignoring the possible repercussions of drinking that early, I took my first sip. And in that split sec-ond, I completely under-stood why Keystone Light was the worst thing in the world. There are no words to describe how good that beer tasted. It was crisp and cold and happy and it felt like home. I ordered a few more steins.
After leaving the Hofbrau’s loving arms, I decided to get something to eat. At this point, my options were many and varied. However, having heard good things about Oktoberfest chicken,
I decided to try some. This chicken is slowly cooked rotisserie style, wrapped in herbs, and served with a few wooden skewers and a bundle of paper and nap-kin that you will eventually use up in the vain attempt to clean off your face from the godly flavor of this chicken. Try it.
Eventually, I somehow made it to the Augustin-er Tent. This is actually Munich’s oldest brewery, whereas Hofbrau is simply the largest. It’s like Yueng-ling and Anheuser-Busch, except it makes them both taste like water and urine. This tent is a far more au-thentic experience. (Think more lederhosen — a lot more lederhosen.) There are also more German songs and table dancing, whereas Hofbrau really only offers British people singing football chants and the occasional New Zea-lander drunkenly doing a traditional Maori dance.
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Either tent is an incred-ible time, and I encourage anyone who makes it out there to try both, or try new ones.
Which acts as a lovely transition into my next point: time. You will need a lot of it, and you will need to make the most of what-ever time you have. This requires pre-planning. You need to wake up early if you want to make it to the tents in time for a seat. You want to plan what tents to go to, and try and find out how quickly they fill up. Don’t be ashamed to ask locals, for the most part they are friendly, helpful and mod-erately fluent in English well enough. Don’t leave a fun tent just to try and stick to a concrete plan, but defi-nitely have a framework.
And for the love of God, go to Oktoberfest. All of you.
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By MARISSA CETINEagle Staff Writer
With only one album to their name, London natives ! e xx performed like sea-soned pros at the 9:30 club on the chilly night of Oct. 5. ! e reigning indie cool kids re" ected the themes of minimalism and intimacy on their 2009 self-titled de-but album in their mature, re# ned performance, seduc-ing the sold-out crowd.
Vocalists Romy Mad-ley Cro$ and Oliver Sim breathed the sensual lyrics, almost as if the audience was eavesdropping on an exchange between lovers — if those lovers were in-explicably hip, had match-ing haircuts and out# ts, and were followed around by an MPC sampler played by Jamie Smith. ! e nearly pitch-black 9:30 — save for the artsy, bright backlight-ing, “xx” on the MPC booth, and a strobe “x” backdrop — created a chilling atmos-phere that perfectly compli-mented Smith’s cool, crisp beats, Cro$ ’s catchy guitar melodies and Sim’s rolling bass lines.
Starting o% the set with the appropriate “Intro,” a drum ‘n’ bass-based intro of its own, xx set the tone that this show would be a slightly tweaked version of their album. With only 12 songs, the setlist was a jum-bled version of the album’s tracklist, featuring covers of Womack & Womack’s “Tear-drops” and Robin S.’s “Show Me Love.” ! e xx shined on “Show Me Love;” the lighter,
dancier feel worked well against the more subdued original tracks.
Excited gasps came from the otherwise reserved au-dience within the opening notes of more popular songs “Crystalised,” “Basic Space,” “Vcr” and “Islands.” Minor tweaks like a slowed, a cap-pella end to “Basic Space” and extra dance beats in several songs were fantastic additions that helped break a too-close adhesion to their album’s sound.
A chilling, creepy side to “Fantasy” was revealed live, but the standouts were clos-ing songs, “Night Time” and “In# nity.” Smith’s additions with the MPC sampler and drum machine brought “Night Time” to life and gave the song a driving, build-ing feel that proved why ! e xx has earned so much hype in the past two years. Finale “In# nity” started o% with a yearning intro of the call-response “Give it up / I can’t give it up” between the crooning Sim and coo-ing Cro$ . ! e same back and forth section at the end of the song was predict-ably prolonged, powerfully building to the end of the cool, jamming set.
Cro$ , Sim and Smith played a one-song encore, “Stars,” with a newly-lit background to match. Despite not being the strongest song in the set, “Stars” perfectly summed up the show: sexy, chill and a notch above the quality of the album.
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The xx bring sexy, smoky vocals to 9:30
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Superchunk — Majesty Shredding(Merge)
Superchunk once held court in indie rock’s Mount Olympus. ! ey and their Matador labelmates, Guid-ed By Voices and Pavement, truly de" ned the genre. In 2010, the genre has given way to new forms, and most of their contemporaries have become legacy-touring acts. But in Superchunk’s latest e# ort, “Majesty Shredding,” the Chapel Hill slackers continue to rip like it’s 1991, featuring ri# -laden, catchy material that sounds far too fresh for a group over three decades old. ! is album starts like a riot in “Digging For Something,” and refuses to slow down through 11 incendiary tracks, making a bold statement that the indie rock-punk movement will not fade away into the night.
Recommended if you like: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Screaming Females, Yo La TengoRecommended tracks: 1, 2, 7– Brad Barbour
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Grade: ARuntime: 102 minutesScene Says: Inspiring look at the decidedly uninspiring U.S. education system by the director of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
By HOAI-TRAIN BUIEagle Contributing Writer
It doesn’t take much for a " lm to incite controversy. However, it does take a lot for a " lm to inspire hope. “Waiting for ‘Superman’’” achieves both these things, but heated discussions and debates have overshadowed how good the " lm actually is.
A " lm that delicately bal-ances human emotion with the cold politics of the edu-cation system, “Waiting for ‘Superman’” is an inspiring documentary " lm by direc-tor Davis Guggenheim, who previously directed “It Might Get Loud” and the award-winning “An Inconvenient Truth.” Both " lms add ma-jor weight to Guggenheim’s resume, but “Waiting for ‘Su-perman’” might be his great-est achievement to date.
! e documentary focuses on the stories of " ve chil-dren in various parts of the country as they and their parents struggle for a quality education. Much of the " lm focuses on charter schools as one of the few beacons of hope, despite their lottery systems, which leave many a child’s fate to luck.
“! e lottery is a metaphor for a good education,” Gug-genheim said in an interview with ! e Eagle. “People in college are the one’s who won the lottery. Millions of people don’t have access to a great education.”
Shocking statistics are presented through cutesy animated sequences to help audiences better understand the numbers involved. How-ever, these quirky cartoons don’t help so$ en the blow that American kids rank 25th in math and 21st in sci-ence among 30 developed countries.
“Waiting for ‘Superman’”
also focuses on other issues such as so-called “drop-out factories” in which few stu-dents are expected to gradu-ate, dated practices such as tracking and tenure and the failure of teachers’ unions in protecting bad teachers.
Despite the bleak prospects, Guggenheim does spotlight several “superheroes,” such as the ‘tough-love’ D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee and education reformer Ge-o# rey Canada, who serves as the main narrator and a sig-ni" cant presence through-out the " lm.
“My real passion is that there’s such inspiration in peoples’ stories. People are really moved and trans-formed when you hear someone else’s story,” Gug-genheim said.
“Waiting for ‘Superman’” is not so much a political " lm as a heart-wrenching narra-tive of how children’s edu-cation all over the country is subject to fate. ! e " lm may present many problems with few solutions, but the narrative is so coherent and appealing that the audience itself becomes part of the so-lution.
“Movies can’t motivate pol-icy — inspiring people that it is possible makes it easier for regular people to learn what they can do,” Guggen-heim said.
And “Waiting for ‘Super-man’” is exactly that — an in-spiring movie that is a call to arms for ordinary people to get involved and " x the pub-lic education system. Sitting in a movie theatre makes it easy to forget the reality of the situation, but it takes a documentary like “Waiting for ‘Superman’” to remind people that these aren’t just stories, they’re real life.
Deerhunter — Halcyon Digest(4AD)
Bradford Cox is a very busy man, having created three full length LPs with Deerhunter, two with side-project Atlas Sound, and more EPs than you can shake a stick at in just two years. ! at being said, it’s a small miracle that the well of inspiration has not been drained before the making of Halcyon Digest, and instead manages to sound like the product of a band infused with new life. ! e familiar shoegaze dreaminess of their previous e# orts has been stripped down and made more accessible, culminating on transcendentally building “Desire Lines” and hazy “Earthquake.” And if the fact that Deerhunter sounds exactly like ! e Strokes on “Coronado” isn’t evidence of the band’s adventurism, I don’t know what is. Overall, Halcyon Digest is the kind of album that can make someone who previously disliked Deerhunter (yours truly) to consider this the best album of the year (i.e: pretty darn good).
Recommended if you like: ! e Radio Dept., Real Estate, My Bloody ValentineRecommended tracks: 3, 6, 8– Brad Barbour
Zola Jesus — Stridulum EP(Sacred Bones)
Zola Jesus probably wins “Best Goth Artist 2010” by default. She’s writing slow, mournful songs backed by minimalist synthesizers and maybe a guitar once in a while. Honestly, if this had been released in 1986, it would have blended in with the mountain of other goth artists, but today, a$ er the genre has been killed by emo and acoustic guitars, Zola Jesus sounds fresh. It never moves beyond the “Siouxsie singing for Berlin” sound, but EPs this unique can stick with one style and still resonate.
Recommended if you like: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Berlin, Xiu XiuRecommended tracks: 1, 3, 4– Alex Rudolph
Aloe Blacc — Good Things(Stones Throw)
Many artists " nd soul music to be one of the hardest genres to create because it’s so hard be authentic. Soul music, in the vein of Stevie Wonder, Al Green, and Sharon Jones, is made of equal parts love and heartbreak. Yet it doesn’t seem a problem for rapper-turned-singer Aloe Blacc, who’s created one of the most honest albums of the year. A$ er moving from style to style in the underground rap scene, Blacc " nally found some sort of signature sound on “Good ! ings.” He combines a rapper’s knack for lyricism with a soul singer’s smooth demeanor to curate an album about heartbreak, women (including a tearful ode to his aging mother), money and politics. Less innovative and sporadic than his " rst album “Shine ! rough,” it seems that with “Good ! ings,” Blacc has " nally found a genre where he feels comfortable enough to stay for a while.
Recommended if you like: Mayer Hawthorne, Raphael Saadiq, Stevie WonderRecommended tracks: 1, 3, 5, 11– Kevin Kunitake
Crocodiles — Sleep Forever(Fat Possum)
Crocodiles’ second album is an even mix of synth pop and krautrock. ! e problem that casual listeners can have with krautrock is its lack of melodies, but Crocodiles’ best songs retain the genre’s repetitive, precise keyboard and drum patterns while building guitar and vocal hooks. ! e strongest cuts here are Springsteen-style anthems with a ton of distortion and a 10 second keyboard loop stretched out over the course of " ve minutes.
Recommended if you like: Spacemen 3, ! e Jesus and Mary Chain, ! e HorrorsRecommended tracks: 1, 7, 5– Carrie Walters
Every other week The Eagle goes about asking the assistant music directors and DJs at WVAU what they’re currently listening to. Here’s what they’re recommending. Check out WVAU.org to listen.
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La Excelencia7:30 p.m.WHERE: ! e Ballroom at Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, ArlingtonMETRO: Rosslyn (orange and blue lines)WHAT: ! e Artisphere is a new culture center in D.C. that will provide over 100 events every month from galleries to " lm screenings. ! e Ballroom is certain to be a " xture for local dancers with its new tradition of Sal-sa Tuesdays, featuring New York City’s La Excelencia.COST: $20 ($15 with stu-dent ID)CONTACT: Artisphere at www.arlingtonarts.org
Felipe Esparza8 p.m.WHERE: D.C. Improv, 1140 Connecticut Ave. NWMETRO: Farragut North (red line)WHAT: Esparza was the winner of the latest season of “Last Comic Standing.” Since then, he has gone on to release an album, “Rebound Material,” and has made nu-merous appearances on no-table comedy shows.COST: $20CONTACT: D.C. Improv at www.dcimprov.com
Ingrid Michaelson6 p.m.WHERE: 9:30 club, 815 V St. NWMETRO: U Street/African-American War Memorial/Cardozo (green and yellow lines)WHAT: Born to a sculp-tor and a composer, Ingrid Michaelson has lived her life through art. Since her debut in 2002, her songs have been featured in popular televi-sion shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” and her career as an independent artist is un-rivaled.COST: $25CONTACT: ! e 9:30 club at www.930.com
FRIDAY 15 SATURDAY 16 SUNDAY 17! e ! ermals9 p.m.WHERE: Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NWMETRO: U Street/African-American War Memorial/Cardozo (green and yellow lines)WHAT: Portland indie band ! e ! ermals are joined by Cymbals Eat Guitars and So Cow to play hits from their latest album, “Personal Life.” ! ey’re known for their de-lightful blend of power-pop and punk rock as seen in their third and most nota-ble album, “! e Body, ! e Blood, ! e Machine,” which won many raving reviews.COST: $15CONTACT: Black Cat at www.blackcatdc.com
Super Diamond8 p.m.WHERE: 9:30 club, 815 V St. N.W.METRO: U Street/African-American War Memorial/Cardozo (green and yellow lines)WHAT: Super Diamond is a tribute band to world-fa-mous singer Neil Diamond. While that might not sound too appealing to students, Super Diamond is able to make it palatable to younger generations by mustering the energy and vigor of Neil at his prime.COST: $22 CONTACT: ! e 9:30 club at www.930.com
Colors of the Oasis1 p.m. – 5 p.m.WHERE: ! e Textile Mu-seum, 2320 S Street, NWMETRO: Dupont Circle (red line)WHAT: In 19th-century Central Asia, it was no hard-er to appraise a man’s worth than to observe his clothing. ! is fascinating collection from a number of contribu-tors, the art of ikat textile weaving explores and each design tells a unique story.COST: $5 suggested dona-tionCONTACT: ! e Textile Museum at www.textilemu-seum.org
Two Cow Garage9:00 p.m.WHERE: Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NWMETRO: U Street/African-American War Memorial/Cardozo (green and yellow lines)WHAT: ! is six-member Ohio alternative rock band is joined by Dave Hause and ! e So So Glos to play songs from their latest album, “Sweet Saint Me.” ! e group is known for their widely successful second album, “! e Wall Against Our Back,” and subsequent tour documentary.COST: $10CONTACT: Black Cat at www.blackcatdc.com
By STEPHAN CHOEagle Staff Writer
For D.C. natives, mapping the history of one of the earli-est and most in# uential mo-ments in punk rock isn’t any harder than looking in their own backyards. During the ‘80s, the District served as one of the birthplaces of the underground hardcore punk scene, in# uenced by the Brit-ish punk rock movement that captivated scads of disa$ ected youth at the time.
! e ‘80s were as fractured a decade as any to foster the kind of haven that was ideal for punk rock to make its mark. When considering the spirit of the times — solidly in the world of Reagan and social conservatism — rebel-lion and anti-establishment were attractive sentiments. Musical movements were able to bolster a feeling of camara-derie, which is especially true for punk rock, a genre that not only dwelled in the under-ground but, out of necessity, thrived on it.
London landmarks like ! e Clash and the Sex Pistols sang of anarchy and attacked con-formity with an intentionally grungy garage-rock style. Here in the States, the Ramones would gain a following amidst the disapproval of people who found their music to be too much of an acquired taste.
Hardcore Punk As punk rock was able to im-
mediately grip punk culture in its budding stages, hard-core punk was also beginning to take root. Unlike the more popular acts of the early ‘80s, hardcore punk bands placed importance on the individual, promoting brotherhood and a strong work ethic. ! ey em-phasized the strength of a uni-" ed whole as opposed to the sum of its parts, eschewing any corporate powers for help.
Unlike the mainstream punk subculture of patched leather jackets and neon-colored lib-erty spikes, most hardcore
punk acts did away with the # ashy gimmickry and stressed the anti-authoritarianism. ! eir sound was heavier and their subculture was one of intense discipline. Bands typi-cally refused signing to major labels and would instead go on to create their own labels, working from the ground up in the most literal sense. Hardcore punk bands also ab-stained from self-destructive habits like drugs and alcohol, challenging popular miscon-ceptions of the subgenre.
To speak of hardcore punk without at least mentioning its predominance in the D.C.-metro area would be a major disservice. Here are a few of the most memorable names in hardcore punk.
Minor ThreatIf you happen to be in
Tenleytown, take a walk down Nebraska Ave. until you reach the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School on Chesapeake Street. You’ll be surprised to know that this was where the founders of the “straight edge” movement got their start. Lead singer Ian MacKaye and drum-mer Je$ Nelson played for ! e Teen Idles before teaming up with Georgetown Day School students Brian Baker and Lyle Preslar to form Minor ! reat in late 1980.
“Straight Edge,” arguably one of their most iconic songs o$ their " rst EP, would instill a key component in modern hard-core punk. With its imploring lyrics — “I don’t even think about speed /! at’s something I just don’t need… Always go-ing to keep in touch/Never want to use a crutch” — hard-core punk would be de" ned by its de" ant attitude towards drugs and alcohol.
MacKaye would later form the in# uential band Fugazi. MacKaye and Nelson also founded Dischord Records, a D.C.-based independent hardcore punk label that al-lowed them to produce and distribute their own albums. Although they disbanded in 1983, their members still make
notable contributions to music and their albums are incom-parable in the world of punk rock.
Bad BrainsFormed in 1977, Bad Brains
is said to have been the pio-neers of D.C. hardcore punk. ! ey gained immediate atten-tion in the underground scene not only for their unusual and diversi" ed sound, but also be-cause they are African-Ameri-can. ! ey would frequently play shows alongside Minor ! reat and other bands signed to Dischord Records but were eventually barred from Dis-trict venues a% er a brief scu& e with the authorities.
! eir self-titled 1982 debut album had a kind of energy unmatched by hardcore punk bands of the time, brought on by the endless hours of strenu-ous practice in between school and jobs. Early interviews show that they drew in# u-ence from the Sex Pistols, ! e Clash and even Led Zeppe-lin. ! e bands and artists that would later draw in# uence from them, including Henry Rollins, Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys, are innu-merable. Although their style is ever-changing, their " xture in hardcore punk remains the same.
State of AlertWhile they only released one
album on Dischord Records and played a few gigs in the course of their year-long ca-reer, State of Alert had an in-# uence on punk rock that is still palpable to this day. It was the starting point of contem-porary hard rock icon Henry Rollins before he joined prom-inent punk band Black Flag in 1981. Although SOA’s songs barely registered at the 60-sec-ond mark and their “No Poli-cy” album clocks in at a mere eight minutes, their punchy, aggressive style would only be emulated for decades to come by the many branches of hard-core punk.
Genesis of hardcore punk brings counterculture to buttoned-up capital
TEEN IDLESMINOR DISTURBANCE
Ian MacKaye’s " rst release — the few who listen pick up guitars and start playing loudly
MINOR THREATMINOR THREAT EP
Introduces the world to straight-edge and makes D.C. the American capital of punk.
YOUTH BRIGADEPOSSIBLE EP
Ex-Teen Idles members reform for a year and put out an EP with eight songs lasting 10 minutes.
REQUIRED LISTENING
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Talented Capitals try to get over the playoff humpBy ERIC SALTZMANEagle Contributing Writer
John Wall may be the most hyped athlete playing in D.C., but Alexander Ovechkin is the most talented.
Over the last couple of sea-son the Capitals have distin-guished themselves not only as an elite teams in the Eastern Conference, but also the entire NHL. Since Bruce Bourdeau took over as head coach three seasons ago, the Capitals have
won the Southeastern Divi-sion each year. In addition, last season the Caps won the Presidents’ Trophy for most team points in the league.
While the Caps are a talented team, all eyes will be focused on Ovechkin. He is a speedy winger who uses his elite puck-handling skills along with a great slap and wrist shot to be one of the NHL’s top scorers. He has already won Rookie of the Year, MVP in back-to-back years and the Art Ross
trophy for being the player with the most points. What separates Ovechkin from oth-er elite scorers is his edge. He isn’t afraid to be hit and even ! ght other players. Ovechkin also isn’t shy about showing o" how good he is even a# er he has scored, prompting some to disapprove.
Ovechkin is not alone on of-fense. $ e Capitals ! nished with a league leading 3.82 goals per game and a 25 per-cent Power Play success rate. Besides having Ovechkin, the Capitals also have scoring threats Nicklas Backstrom and Alex Semin. Backstrom really came into his own last season with an outstanding 33 goals, 68 assists, and 101 points, good for fourth in points be-hind Ovechkin who was third in the league with 109 points. Semin is similar to Ovechkin
By MARK NATALEEagle Contributing Writer
Alassane Kane stood behind the ball, down 2-1 to the U18 national team and prepared to take a penalty kick. $ e na-tional team’s goalie had been ejected. His own team, the Atlanta Fire, had been trailing the entire game. Kane lined up the shot, ! red, and scored, ty-ing the game at 2 and giving his team the momentum to eventually win the game, 3-2.
Kane, a sophomore at AU, was born in Hartwell, Ga., but soon moved to Athens, Ga., where he would grow up to become a dominant force on any soccer team he played on.
Because his mother worked at the local YMCA, Kane start-ed playing soccer but soon le# the sport to go try others.
“Didn’t like it,” Kane said. “I tried everything else and went back to it.”
At 8 years old, Kane began playing on the Athens Side-kicks, an 11-12-year-old team. Kane continued to “play up” until his freshman year in high school, when he ! nally started
playing against kids his own age.
Playing for Stratford Acad-emy in high school, Kane started most games, even as a freshman. At the end of his freshman year, Kane’s team made it to the state champion-ship. While his team eventually lost, his two goals in that game will forever remain engrained in his memory.
“Freshman year we lost in the state championships, sopho-more year we got upset, junior year we lost in the [semi-! -nals] to the champion, and senior year we lost in the state championship,” said Kane. “It was heart-breaking.”
At the time, Kane was faster than anyone else on the team, so team strategies consisted of playing the ball into space and letting Kane run onto it. When he played against players who were as fast as him, Kane still had the ball control and foot skills to beat the defender.
“I feel like that’s a di" erent part of my game that most people don’t know that I have,” said Kane.
Selected to First Team All-
Middle Georgia all four years, and Male Athlete of the Year in 2008, Kane’s talent was not unnoticed.
A# er graduating from Strat-ford Academy, Kane attended Berkshire School for a year be-fore attending the University of Vermont for his freshman year of college.
“People don’t know this about Vermont, but it’s actually a re-ally nice place. At the time, they had a great soccer team, great facilities and everything — it was unfortunate that we had that one bad year.”
Kane soon decided that he needed to transfer and set about contacting as many schools as he could.
“I need a change,” said Kane. “I felt like I got worse when I was playing there. I wasn’t the same player that I was before.”
AU e-mailed Kane back, interested in his playing abili-ties. $ e School of Public Af-fairs’ political science program helped seal the deal, as Kane is an aspiring lawyer.
Kane’s transition to D.C. has been “pretty easy.” Taking the time over the summer to
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Kane makes instant impact as an EagleSophomore leads Patriot League in goals scored
Courtesy of AU ATHLETICS
KICK — Alassane Kane, a sophomore transfer student playing for men’s soccer, has scored six goals this season, the most in the Patriot League. Kane originally played for the University of Vermont.
in that he is a great puck han-dler and has a nose for getting the puck in the net. He also ! nished the year with a career best 40 goals.
$ e goaltending last season was far from elite. Jose $ eo-dore, who started most of Washington’s games, posted a bad 2.81 goals against average. It appears that the new starter is youngster Semyon Var-lamov. Varlamov has posted solid numbers in a handful of games. In 26 games last season he had 15 wins with 2.55 GAA. He is expected to be backed by Michal Neuvirth who saw a little action last year as a backup. Neither Varlamov nor Neuvirth come into the sea-son with a particularly strong resume. Varlamov ! gures to be the starter but he hasn’t won over the coaching sta" as shown by the fact he was un-
able to replace the struggling $ eodore.
$ e best way to help weak goaltending is a good defense. $ e Caps have received mixed reviews in this department. $ e Capitals possess one of the best o" ensive defensemen in Mike Green. Green led all defensemen with 76 points. However, his defensive skills have really fallen o" since his breakout season two years ago. $ e Capitals have the ben-e! t of two solid defensemen in Tom Poti and Je" Schultz. Schultz doesn’t have any spe-cial skills but he does use his size and reach to compliment a good understanding of the game. Poti is the veteran, 33, of a young group. He has good size and speed yet he o# en does not use his physical tools to the best of his ability.
Even though the Capitals
have a talented roster, a nice arena, and an enthusiastic fan base, they have yet to take the next step and make a deep playo" run. $ e Capitals have had major problems making it out of the ! rst round. In the last three years, Washington has only made it out of the ! rst round once.
$ e Capitals have all the tal-ent in the world and they are in a prime position to excel in the Eastern Conference. It comes down to getting over the playo" hump. Fans of the Capitals have a good team to look forward to. Even though the Caps do have holes, they have enough talent to over-come their % aws. If all else fails, they still have “$ e Great Eight,” Alex Ovechkin.
make sure he was in shape for this season, Kane feels much more prepared than he was at Vermont.
AU Head Coach Todd West’s coaching style is o# en de-scribed as fair and direct, but demands respect, which Kane is more than willing to give.
With six goals scored so far this season, Kane has been a breakout on the team and is the Eagles’ leading scorer thus far.
$ e Eagles are now entering the second-half of the season, which is ! lled with Patriot
League opponents. Kane is aspiring to score at least a goal a game, looking to launch his team into the Patriot League Championship.
On Friday, Kane scored the game-winning goal for AU against Lafayette College. His six goals currently lead the Pa-triot League. In a close second is Navy’s Dave Arnold with ! ve goals in the league.
Kane is extremely con! dent heading into the upcoming schedule.
“I’ve seen most of the teams before and when we play at our best, there’s no team in our
conference that can compete with us,” said Kane. “We just have to stay focused and not get complacent every time we get a win. $ at’s what it comes down to — we’ve got to stay focused.
Kane won’t even think about his future career at AU, he is just focused on the season at hand. As for playing a# er col-lege?
“Of course [I would play] if I’m able to,” he said. “What col-lege soccer player wouldn’t?”
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Don’t fear the machine: Baseball needs instant replay
EAGLE FILE PHOTO
DRIVING TO THE GOAL — Sophomore Kendra Jones manuevers past a defender in a game from earlier this season. Jones scored the game-winner against Holy Cross Friday. The Eagles won 1-0 for their fi fth win of the season.
By ERIC SALTZMANEagle Contributing Writer
! e AU women’s soccer team beat the College of the Holy Cross 1-0 Friday and then tied the United States Military Academy in double overtime this Sunday.
! e win marks the third time in the last four years the Eagles have beaten Holy Cross.
! e lone goal came unas-sisted o" the foot of senior mid# elder Kendra Jones. Sophomore mid# elder Michelle Montilio led the Eagles with two shots (one on goal) while Jones, junior mid# elder Allison Slattery and sophomore forward Jas-mine Mohandesi each con-tributed one shot. ! e Eagles were outshot 7-5 by Holy Cross. AU goalie Lindsey Farthing stopped all three Holy Cross shots on goal.
Jones’ shot was set up when freshman Katarina Kingston made an aggressive move
in the Holy Cross zone re-sulting in a foul. Jones took the free kick and attempted a 25-yard shot, which was blocked by Holy Cross. However, the ball bounced right to Jones who took her own rebound and put it into the Holy Cross net in the 67th minute.
“We worked really hard for the victory tonight, and I thought we defended ex-tremely well,” Head Coach Dave Bucciero told AU Ath-letics. “A$ er Kendra gave us the goal, we had to really hang onto the lead for the last 25 minutes. I’m proud of the way we were able man-age the game and come out with the victory.”
In the Eagles’ Sunday game, they played to a 0-0 draw in double overtime against the Patriot League leading Army Black Knights. ! e tie marked the Eagles # rst draw of the season.
AU had an excellent per-formance from goalie Lind-
sey Farthing who played the whole game. In addition, Farthing is currently riding a two game shutout streak. ! e shutout is Farthing’s third shutout of the sea-son. ! e Eagles tallied four shots, only one of which was on goal. ! e Black Knights took sixteen shots but only # ve were on goal. ! e Ea-gles’ four shots is the second lowest shot total on the year. AU did not play a particu-larly disciplined game, as they committed 16 fouls in the game.
Farthing began the season second in line to Arianna Efstathiou, but Farthing has been starting recently. In eight games this year Far-thing has posted a 1.62 goals against average and a .744 save percentage.
A$ er starting out the year with eight straight losses, the Eagles have bounced back by winning # ve of their last seven games. ! e Eagles are 1-1-1 against Patriot League
opponents this season. AU continues its season
this weekend with more conference play against Col-gate University on Sunday Oct. 17 at Reeves Field.
Soccer’s weekend includes win, tie
With a two-run lead and two outs in the ninth inning on Wednesday, Yankees right # elder Greg Golson made a shoe-string catch that was called a base hit because the umpire ruled that he had trapped the ball. Replays showed that this was not the case. ! ankfully for MLB, Twins DH Jim ! ome popped out to end the game, instead of tying the game with a home run.
Eventually one of these blown calls is going to take place in a key situation with millions of people watching and it’s go-ing to cost a team a chance at a World Series title. If baseball is smart it will institute a replay system before this happens.
Just imagine if the scenario I just laid out were to happen with the Cubs on the losing end. You’re talking about Steve Bartman times a thousand. ! e goat population in the U.S. would decrease by 50 per-cent within the hour.
It’s not just the teams that would bene# t from replay. ! ink Jim Joyce doesn’t wish replay was available? Now in-stead of being remembered as an umpire who has worked numerous postseasons, he’ll always be known for costing Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Arman-do Galarraga a perfect game.
In game six of the 1985 World Series, umpire Don Denkinger blew a call in which he called the Royals’ Jorge Orta safe when he was clearly out. Orta eventually scored and the Royals went on to beat the Cardinals in that game and in game seven. A$ er the se-ries, Denkinger received death threats from angry Cardinals fans because of the call. Replay was not an option at the time because technology wasn’t up to snu" , but it is my belief that the MLB should probably do all it can to prevent its em-ployees from receiving death
threats from fans in the future.! e arguments against in-
stant replay make no sense. Some feel it would ruin the human element of baseball o% ciating, while others argue that baseball games are slow enough as it is and taking a minute or two to look at a re-play would interfere with the & ow of the game.
In the NFL, each team has the opportunity to challenge two plays and if both calls are overturned, the team gets a third. ! e referees still exist. And they’re still actual human beings. So the whole human element argument is ridicu-lous. If baseball had replay, umpires wouldn’t just vanish. You think they’re going to put RoboCop out there?
! e time argument makes more sense, but is still & awed. When a controversial call is made, the same thing happens every time. ! e manager of the team that is negatively a" ected by the call goes out and has what we all know is a friendly conversation with the umpire. Sometimes the conversation is so friendly that the ump gives that manager the rest of the day o" . ! is sequence of events usually takes several minutes to end. In that time, the umpire could simply have looked at a replay and made sure the call was correct.
It wouldn’t be such a dramat-ic change. Have the crew chief either look at a replay himself in a place with a monitor or have him call someone in a booth to tell him if the call was correct or not. Give each team a certain amount of challenges just like in the NFL. Honestly, who doesn’t want to see Ozzie Guillen throw a red baseball at an umpire?
Right now the only thing that can be reviewed in baseball is home runs. Next season that needs to change. ! is season blown calls have kept teams o" the scoreboard, out of the win column and for one Ti-gers pitcher, out of the history books. And the sad part is, for no apparent reason.
SIDELINE SCHOLAR
BEN LASKY
AU: 1(5-9-1, 1-1-1)
Holy Cross: 0(3-6-2, 0-1-1)
Black Knights:(11-3-1, 2-0-1)
WOMEN’S SOCCER
AWAY
AU: 3(11-2, 2-0)
Duke: 1(6-8, 0-4)
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Eagles extinguish No. 14 Blue Devils
Men’s soccer takes down Lafayette in double overtimeBy TYLER TOMEAEagle Staff Writer
! e AU men’s soccer team remained undefeated in Pa-triot League play a" er de-feating the Lafayette College Leopards on the road 2-1 in double overtime.
Sophomore Alassane Kane notched the game-winning goal in the 101st minute of play, giving him his Patriot League-leading sixth goal of the season. AU’s Seth Gold-man opened scoring with his second goal of the sea-son, followed by a Lafayette goal by Blake Fink 18-min-utes later.
“I am happy for our guys that we were able to battle for a tough road win,” AU Head Coach Todd West told AU Athletics. “From [goalie Matt] Makowski to our back four, along with the mid-# elders and forwards, it was a great defensive team e$ ort. Alassane came up huge with a goal in OT to deliver a great conference road win.”
Makowski made three saves and Lafayette goalkeeper Andrew Pianko made one during a scoreless # rst half. ! e Eagles held a 7-0 advan-tage in # rst-half corner kicks while the Leopards outshot AU 6-3, but neither team was able to score a # rst-half goal.
Four minutes into the sec-ond half, AU took a 1-0 lead a" er a Goldman header o$ a Jamie Davin cross. Gold-man’s second goal of the season makes him tied for second on the team, while Davin recorded his team-high sixth assist.
But Lafayette responded with the tying goal shortly a" er.
Neither team could score the game-winning goal in regulation, and the match went to overtime deadlocked at one. In the opening 10-minute session of overtime, each team registered a cor-ner kick and one shot, but neither side could provide
the breakthrough goal.Just 39 seconds into the
second OT, Kane scored the game-winner o$ a pass from Ryan Morales to give AU the 2-1 victory.
For the contest, Lafayette outshot AU 18-11, while the Eagles held a 10-3 advantage in corner kicks. Makowski totaled six saves while Pi-anko had three for the Leop-ards.
Saturday’s match marked the sixth straight time that AU and Lafayette have needed extra time to decide the game. With the victory, the Eagles have now won each of the last two seasons in double OT, while the pre-vious three contests resulted in draws.
! e victory improves the Eagles to 6-5 overall and gives them their second straight 3-0 start in confer-ence play. ! e loss drops Lafayette to 5-4-2 on the season and 1-2 in the Patriot League.
AU will next play at the University of Pennsylvania Tuesday before resuming conference play Oct. 16 with a match against the United States Naval Academy Mid-shipmen.
By MICHAEL GARDNEREagle Contributing Writer
! e No. 10-ranked AU # eld hockey team closed out the weekend with a 3-1 vic-tory over the No. 14 Duke University Blue Devils on Sunday in front of a record crowd of 1,013 at Jacobs Field.
! e Blue Devils went on the attack early in the # rst half, forcing AU goalie Hannah Weitzman to make a diving save in the 13th minute o$ of a Grace Christus shot in
front of the goal, but AU was able to counter o$ Duke’s missed chances.
Five minutes later, fresh-man Constanza Palma stole the ball in the mid# eld, drib-bled through multiple Blue Devil defenders and passed it to Shelly Montgomery, who attempted a shot. Even though Duke goalkeeper Samantha Nelson made the initial save, freshman Alex McMackin was there to tap the ball in and score the Ea-gles’ # rst goal of the game.
A" er McMackin’s goal, the momentum swung as AU outshot the Blue Devils 8-2 in the # rst half. With 15 minutes le" in the # rst half, Melissa Casale scored AU’s second goal o$ of a saved Lotte van de Mierop shot to put the Eagles up 2-0 at half-time.
Christine Fingerhuth add-ed the Eagles third and # -nal goal, scoring her second penalty stroke of the week-end and her 11th goal of the season a" er she stole the ball just beyond the scoring cir-cle and drew a foul.
AU’s defense was a key factor in the game, forc-ing multiple turnovers and only conceding one goal o$ a penalty corner in the 50th minute. With a 3-1 lead, AU’s defense, led by junior Tatum Dyer and senior Gina Hofmann, denied the Blue Devils another goal despite three penalty corners in # ve minutes late in the second half.
“We always try and make sure the circle is something that is like this ‘untouchable area,’” Dyer said. “We really want to guard it with our lives.”
“We knew we needed to step up and play a great game. ! ere was a huge crowd and I think the team likes playing really good, challenging opponents,” Head Coach Steve Jennings said. “So I think they were ready to go, and we just got a" er it.”
! e victory was AU’s fourth consecutive match against top-25-ranked opponent and extended their winning streak to 10 games.
! e Eagles go on the road to face Colgate University in a Patriot League matchup on Oct. 16. Perhaps their most di% cult challenge to date, AU will play No. 2 Univer-sity of Maryland on Oct. 20. ! e Eagles will return home against the Bucknell Univer-sity Bison on Oct. 23.
ANA SANTOS / THE EAGLE
DUKE NUKEM — Christine Fingerhuth dribbles past a Duke University player. Fingerhuth scored AU’s third goal in the victory.
“We knew we needed to step up and play a great game.”– Steve Jennings, coach
FIELD HOCKEY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
AU: 2(6-5, 3-0)
Lafayette: 1(5-4-2, 1-2)
MEN’S SOCCER
EASTON, PA.
