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NEWS Metro Weekly boxes vandalized 4 | New club advocates for undocumented students 5

By HEATHER MONGILIO

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

President Neil Kerwin may make a decision on passing a smoking ban on campus in the next few weeks to address issues of secondhand smoke.

Kerwin discussed the possibility of a smoking ban in his annual fall email, which is sent to the entire AU community.

The change in policy has not yet been finalized, AU Chief of Staff David Taylor said in an email.

The University is con-cerned about the potential environmental effects of secondhand smoking, Tay-lor said in an email.

“Environmental certifi-cations standards have in-creasingly played a role in the conversation, especially as they affect LEED certi-fication/building criteria,” Taylor said in an email.

Over the past few years, the University Council has discussed a possible ban. The council includes ad-ministration, faculty, staff and graduate and under-graduate student leaders.

The Council will work with the undergraduate and graduate student lead-

ers to help implement any changes, Taylor said.

Student Government President Emily Yu said she met with the University Council in April. Yu’s major concerns are who will en-force the ban and how the ban will affect current stu-dent smokers.

“I would want to incorpo-rate as much student voice as possible on the smoking ban issue,” Yu said.

SG decided against tak-ing a position on the smok-ing ban, Yu said. However, SG plans to send a memo-randum to the students discussing SG’s questions about student smokers and the ban’s effect on them.

“SG and the council surveyed AU students about smoking on campus in December, The Eagle reported in March. Of the students who responded to the survey, 47 percent of undergraduates wanted SG to “advocate that campus be smoke/tobacco free” and 53 percent of graduates supported the idea of AU as a smoke-free campus.

About 10 percent of the graduate students who par-ticipated in the survey iden-tified as a non-smoker, ac-cording to the poll released

to The Eagle.College of Arts and Sci-

ences junior Erin Randall said she supported a smok-ing ban.

“I think it would benefit a lot of the students on cam-pus because of the health issue,” she said.

School of Communi-cation junior Alex Matos said a smoking ban will not work.

“They tried to make it 25 feet from the door and that didn’t work,” he said, refer-ring to the current smoking policy enacted in 2010 to discourage students from smoking near building en-trances.

Taylor said the Univer-sity will help students quit smoking if AU implements a smoking ban.

“I am confident there will be efforts extended and resources to assist anyone seeking to quit [smoking],” he said.

Approximately 774 U.S. colleges and medical cam-puses have smoke-free poli-cies as of July.

Georgetown University Medical Center is the only D.C. campus to enact a complete smoke-free policy as of July. [email protected]

By RACHEL S. KARAS

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

The Provost’s office plans to schedule a meet-ing between AU officials and faculty members to ad-dress childcare and breast-feeding on campus, accord-ing to a Sept. 24 letter from the provost and dean of aca-demic affairs.

The meeting will include Dean of Academic Affairs Phyllis Peres, Faculty Sen-ate Chair Barlow Burke and a representative group of co-signers on a faculty letter sent to Peres and Provost Scott Bass Sept. 19. Bass said the Faculty Sen-ate, Human Resources and the Office of General Coun-sel will also be involved in answering the faculty’s questions of work-life bal-ance.

Sixty faculty members from all five schools within

the University wrote that they hope to implement pol-icies to create a supportive environment for employees and their loved ones.

In the Sept. 19 letter, faculty said they were con-cerned about AU’s public response to Adrienne Pine, an assistant professor of an-thropology who breast-fed her sick child during her “Sex, Gender and Culture” course Aug. 28.

The University received national media attention after Pine published an on-line essay with her views on the breast-feeding.

Faculty members said they are troubled by an AU press statement character-izing Pine’s behavior as “unprofessional,” and that the University incorrectly implied that it provides ad-equate support for women in terms of sick leave, break times and private areas for

nursing. The private areas AU

spokeswoman Camille Lep-re refers to are bathrooms, offices and cars rather than designated nursing rooms, the faculty letter said.

“We have begun a pro-cess of discussing these is-sues so that we will come to a common understanding about what the university currently offers, what is required by law, and what more we might do as an in-stitution,” Lepre said in an email to The Eagle.

Lepre said the space provided cannot be a bath-room and can include the faculty member’s office if they have one, The Eagle previously reported.

According to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, employ-ers are required to give

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Metro Weekly staff be-lieve vandals have targeted their distribution boxes in Dupont Circle, K Street and Logan Circle.

Staff said they began noticing the vandalism less than a month ago, ac-cording to Publisher Sean Bugg.

Metro Weekly is the largest LGBTQ publication in the D.C. area, according to its website.

“At first there were stacks of maga-zines thrown all over [the] ground, and in Metro sta-tions they would be thrown into the trash,” Bugg said.

The vandalism increased as hu-man and animal waste, rotting gar-bage, food and banana peels were found in the distri-bution boxes, according to Bugg.

Bugg said he felt upset by the vandalism not only because of its attack on the LGBTQ community, but also because it added extra stress to his staff.

The Metropolitan Po-lice Department Gay Les-bian Liaison Unit is looking into the case and has been in contact with the Metro Weekly staff, according to Bugg.

Bugg said he believes the vandalism is discrimi-nation-based.

“We are the only box targeted in the area,” he said. “But it is not just an attack on our publication;

it is an attack on our LGBT readers.”

There has been no sig-nificant vandalism since last publication on Sept. 20. Bugg said he feels the van-dalism may spike over the weekend, although Metro Weekly distributes every Thursday.

The purple Metro Weekly distribution box in Tenleytown remains unaf-fected by the recent defac-ing.

While the phrase “Mar5” is sprayed on the side of the box, no other

signs of destruction are ap-parent.

Bugg said he was very proud of his staff for han-dling the situation so well.

“We’ve been in the business awhile,” he said. “Even though it is dis-heartening to realize this isn’t going to stop, they are strongly committed to the cause, job and publica-tion.”

CAMPUS LGBTQ ADVOCATES OUTRAGED

Although the recent vandalism of Metro Week-ly distribution boxes took place off campus, many AU students felt this prob-lem hit home.

“While living and going to school on such an ac-cepting campus, we some-times forget the types of heinous crimes that take place just down the street from us,” Executive Direc-tor of Queers and Allies Ray Bowman said. “This is a reminder that animosity toward the LGBTQ com-munity still exists.”

Director of LGBTQ Ad-vocacy Tyler Bowders said he considers the act indi-rect violence toward the LGBTQ community.

“More needs to be done to address the ignorance that still permeates through even the most progressive of areas, ” he said.

Bowders said he feels LGBTQ acceptance is still lacking nation-wide.

“Coming from a small, conser-vative, town I’ve

found that in most cases hate stems from fear which itself comes from a lack of knowledge, many people just don’t know what it means to be LG-BTQ, and it scares them,” he said.

Metro Weekly said they hope to catch the vandals and end the discrimina-tion against the publica-tion, according to Bugg.

“It is either someone angry at the gay commu-nity or at the Weekly, but it is definitely not some-one rational,” Bugg said. “It’s not rational to throw poop, and it is not rational to have this level of hate.”

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By SUZANNE GABER


The American Dream AU, a club dedicated to preserving the right of un-documented students to higher education, formed on campus this fall.

The club’s goal is to en-courage the University to “examine its undergradu-ate admissions policy” in regards to undocumented students, according to the American Dream AU’s blog.

The club currently can-not find AU’s policy on undocumented students, according to School of In-ternational Service sopho-more Carlo Chavarria, who is a founding member of the club.

“We want a discussion about undocumented stu-dents here,” Chavarria said.

The administration has been unresponsive and in-direct, he said.

“[AU] offers admission

to the University to quali-fied students regardless of one’s citizenship” and undocumented students may even be eligible for merit-based scholarships, according to Maralee Csellar, associate director of AU media relations.

The club’s members are not sure if there are any undocumented stu-dents at AU, but the group hopes that if there are any that they feel comfortable coming to the club as a place of sanctuary.

Approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools every year, but 95 percent do not pursue higher education, according to The Ameri-can Association of State Colleges and Universities website.

Chavarria said only five percent of undocumented students pursue a degree because of a lack of oppor-tunity.

“The promise of the American dream is denied to them,” he said. “This is the country they know and the life they know … some of them only find out about their undocument-ed status half way through the college application process.”

The club was founded collectively by a number of students with support from the Community Ac-tion and Social Justice Coalition, also known as CASJ.

Chavarria said Ameri-can Dream AU is having a hard time connecting to the student body despite its 39 members.

However, Chavarria said he has not lost faith.

“If there is anything I have learned by working with social activists on campus,” he said, “it’s that there is always going to be someone happy to join.”

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New club questions AU’s policy on undocumented students and offers safe space for discussion

By JORDAN-MARIE SMITH


Public Safety’s Rape Aggression Defense pro-gram provides its services to more than just females.

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Sowers, manager of ad-ministrative services for Public Safety.

RAD was advertised on a poster as “a free four day workshop that educates women” with the word “women” in red capital-ized letters. The poster was displayed throughout the University in the first

few weeks of school. Public Safety said the

poster’s target group was women because of the high statistics of sexual assault against this gender group.

Approximately 25 per-cent of women nationwide are assaulted during their college career, according

to AU Sexual Assault Pre-vention Coordinator and Campus Victim Advocate Daniel Rappa-port.

O t h e r groups are al-lowed to take courses rel-evant to their gender and age even though they were ex-cluded from the poster’s message.

“The RAD Program’s curriculum is focused on specific groups to ensure

a comfortable, appro-priate training environ-ment,” Sowers said in an

email.While males were not

displayed on the poster, a male defense program

is listed on the RAD web-site. The men’s section provides the same service

but “empower[s] men to make dif-ferent decisions when confronted with aggressive behavior,” ac-cording to the RAD website.

“RAD is just one piece to making sure ev-

eryone on our campus is safe,” Rappaport said.

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By TOM HOUSE


The Office for Vehicle Maintenance and Support Services is preparing to switch all AU shuttles to biodiesel fuel in November.

A tank and trailer will house the “B20” fuel par-tially made of vegetable oil. This fuel is 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel, which will make fuel tanks cleaner and more environmentally friendly, according to Mark Feist, assistant director for vehicle maintenance and support services.

“By switching to bio-diesel fuel, our emissions will be greatly reduced and there won’t be the tendency to give off the typical diesel

black cloud,” he said.Using eco-friendly fuel

in the shuttles supports AU’s Climate Action Plan of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2020.

“Emissions related to vehicular transportation ac-count for 20 percent of AU’s total greenhouse gas emis-sions,” said Joshua Kaplan, AU’s sustainability and out-reach specialist.

The implementation of biodiesel fuel is expected to lower fueling costs and lead to a net savings in the long run.

“By buying [the biodies-el fuel] at a bulk rate, we will get a price break by or-dering it straight from the distributor,” he said.

The fuel switch is also expected to cause minimal

extra effort on the part of Vehicle Maintenance in terms of storing the fuel.

“The beauty of the bio fuel is that we can apply it right to the buses, we don’t have to buy a different bus to hold the fuel,” said Alex Worku, manager of trans-portation operations and maintenance for Facilities Management.

Feist said the only issue he foresees is that fuel fil-ters will clog easily, so the fuel tanks will need to be cleaned often and filters changed regularly.

“Since the buses use both diesel and biodiesel, we can always switch back if we have to,” Worku said.

However, preparations have already been made to deal with this issue by us-ing cleaner detergent, Feist said.

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By MARIS FEELEY


AU’s harassment policy restricts campus speech, according to the Founda-tion of Individual Rights for Education. FIRE, an or-ganization that keeps track of universities’ handling of students’ individual rights, called AU a “red light uni-versity.”

The Student Handbook defines harassment as “an intimidating, hostile, or coercive act which is inten-tional or persistent.”

FIRE attorney Azhar Majeed said this definition is restrictive because a stu-dent could be charged for harassment for disagreeing with another student if the latter alleged his opinions were defined as ‘hostile’ or ‘intimidating.’

Majeed said this defini-tion has the potential to limit freedom of speech.

“The expression of pro-tected speech, no matter how ‘hostile’ it is to the views of another person, should

not give rise to a finding of harassment,” he said. “On a college campus, students should be able to tolerate opposing views, even highly offensive ones.”

Majeed said the policy on harassment could be improved by using the stan-dard for harassment set by the Supreme Court, which defines undue harassment as “so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, and that so undermines and detracts from the victims’ educational experience, that the victim-students are effectively denied equal ac-cess to an institution’s re-sources and opportunities.”

However, Vice Presi-dent of Campus Life Gail Hanson said AU’s harrass-ment policy does not need revision.

“The Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Reso-lution Services has an ad-visory board that annually reviews the Code, and [it] just underwent an exter-nal review by experts in

matters of student conduct administration and conduct codes,” she said. “Neither the internal advisory board nor the external experts expressed concern about how the Code defines ‘ha-rassment.’”

AU’s current guidelines for free expression, which includes the harassment policy, were instated in 1982 and reviewed in 2010.

School of Communica-tion and School of Public Affairs senior Jaclyn Yeary agreed that the definition of harassment is a tricky subject.

“I think that when you’re talking about free speech, you have the right to say what you want as long as you don’t put someone else in harm’s way,” she said. “The coercive part might be a gray area, because where do you draw the line between coercing someone and trying to show some-one your opinion?”

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breast milk” until the child is 12 months old.

D.C. law also states that women have the right to breast-feed in any public or private location where they have the right to be with a child.

The Sept. 19 letter also called for AU to provide emergency or infant child-care in addition to services offered by the AU Child Development Center,

which admits children ages 2 ! to 6.

However, the faculty letter said the University needs more flexible practic-es to accommodate a work-life that does not operate around a standard, 40-hour workweek.

“While the university al-lows faculty to cancel class to attend to ill children, par-ents, or other emergencies, vulnerable untenured, term and adjunct faculty may feel

they risk their job to take such leave,” the Sept. 19 let-ter said.

“These recent events provide us with an impor-tant opportunity to evaluate and improve the support –in terms of facility, policies and ethos – the university provides for faculty mem-bers with children,” the fac-ulty wrote.

Bass and Peres said that though the letter was sent in reaction to a specific in-cident, individual person-nel matters are confidential and will not be open for dis-cussion at the meeting.

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Faculty letter advocates work-life balance

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By MARK LIEBERMAN


An energized group of newly minted, theatri-cally inclined AU students demonstrated consider-able talents in acting, singing, dancing and gen-eral showmanship in the New Student Showcase on Sept. 21 and 22 in the Greenberg Theatre.!

This program is an an-nual tradition designed to assimilate freshmen, transfer students and new-ly declared theatre majors into the school’s Depart-ment of Performing Arts, providing an opportunity to interact with upper-classmen and faculty who share a similar passion for the stage.

“Anyone can do this,” said Joel Iscaro, a cast member and freshman student in the School of Communication. “You don’t have to have any ex-perience. It was a really cool way to see if maybe I want to do theater as a ma-jor or minor.”

All students who audi-tioned were accepted to participate in the program, according to Iscaro. Each year, the script credited to AU performing arts Pro-fessors Caleen Sinnette Jennings and Javier Rivera is trimmed, expanded and modified to accommodate the differing cast sizes and personality types. The music by Robert Rokicki and Michael Ruby under-

goes a similar process.The year’s show be-

gan with a hearty laugh of recognition from the audience as a familiar phrase fills the air: “Mass Avenue walk sign is on to cross.” The new students entered, introducing themselves by their actual names to emphasize the “showcase” aspect of the performance.

In the first of two acts, the actors portray new students in a Performance 101 class, advised by Per-forming Arts Assistant Professor Karl Kippola narrating from beyond the audience’s view. As the students prepare for their first audition and endure the pressures of their first semester, their songs and monologues reflect the show’s themes of adjust-ing to a new environment, balancing personal aspi-rations with practical re-sponsibilities and valuing creative fulfillment over petty competitiveness.

In one memorable scene, a girl (played by freshman Sarah Snead) thinks about dead pup-pies and “any episode of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’” in order to generate tears. Later a chaotic crowd scene fea-tures the students argu-ing with their parents on the phone, climaxing in a chorus of “I love you!” that drew cheers from the au-dience.

Act Two consisted of the students’ perfor-

mance of the play-within-the-play, “Outta Here,” in which a group of college students attend a reunion and reminisce about the glory days and days that were not so glorious. An opening number, “I Wan-na Go Back,” is a nostal-gic throwback to simpler childhood days, and the show climaxed with the triumphant refrain, “You can do anything,” an em-powering message as the actual performers begin their second month of college.

When asked about the most fulfilling aspect of his first foray into college drama, Iscaro praised the stage crew, largely comprised of juniors and seniors and the show’s director Cara Gabriel, an assistant professor in AU’s Department of Per-forming Arts.

“We get to work di-rectly with some of the faculty members,” Iscaro said. “It’s great to meet people who have had lots of experience.”

As the semester con-tinues, many of these stu-dents will likely be seen as actors and crew mem-bers in upcoming drama productions. The New Student Showcase served as their first brush with the college theater expe-rience, with many more delightful encounters still to [email protected]

By DANIEL AFFSPRUNG


As the first American painter to hold a solo ex-hibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jules Olitski and his work re-ceived widespread acclaim throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Today his break-through color field paint-ings provide an insight to his avant-garde approach to artwork.

On the third level of the Katzen Art Gallery, you can visit an exhibition by Olitski, one of the last clas-sic modern painters, until Dec. 16. “Revelation” hous-es more than 30 enormous canvases from public and private collections.

The pieces on display consist of many themes, noticeably the use of out-line or lack thereof. Several of Olitski’s paintings have very gradually blended colors achieve a cloud-like image.

In many of his stain paintings however, out-

lines are distinct, showing monochrome circles and other shapes. Other paint-ings have no room for out-lines; they are a wash of creativity, hundreds of col-ors in swirls, with lumps of paint an inch or more high on the canvas. Olitski does not strive for the illusion of depth.

The paintings are striking in person, as the texture and nuance of the paint couldn’t be re-produced in any other medium. In the various displays, the texture of the canvas may resemble sandstone, tree bark, dark prismatic oil spills or sun-stained clouds.

The exhibition presents works from Olitski’s en-tire career through stain paintings, spray paintings, baroque and high baroque paintings and the last great series, “With Love and Dis-regard.”

“With Love and Dis-regard” points toward Olitski’s painting philoso-phy. According to a press

release, he took great mea-sures to ensure that he had nothing prepared as to what the painting would look like when he was finished with it. Early in his career, he would paint blindfolded or late at night using unconventional in-struments like mops and hairdryers. These tech-niques were attempts to remove himself from the conception of the paint-ing, aiming instead to paint from talent and intuition.

By understanding Olitski’s philosophy, one can understand the title of the exhibition. Through his methods, the paint-ings were revealed to him, almost as though he were not adding paint to the can-vas. He is erasing or clear-ing away a white shroud of blankness, revealing the meaning of his work. It is this “Revelation” which in-spires the exhibit’s title. It is an exhibit which must be seen to be understood.

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SCENENew Student Showcase displays up-

and-coming theater students

Katzen has ‘Revelation,’ hosts avant-garde modern painter Jules Olitski

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By AMBER COHEN


From little children to middle-aged couples, book lovers gathered at the 12th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival Sept. 22 and 23 to celebrate their love for reading.

The event was co-chaired by President Barack and Michelle Obama, but there was no confirmed sighting of them.

Conveniently located right outside the Smith-sonian Metro station, the festival encompassed the National Mall between 14th and 7th Street. The location was also beauti-ful, with blue skies on both days highlighting the

Washington Monument on one side and the Capi-tol Building on the other.

Barnes & Noble spon-sored the festival and of-fered books for sale in the “Books Sale” tent. Volun-teers dressed in hot pink shirts handed out maps of the festival as people walked into the tent.

Inside, nine tables were spread out, each selling a different genre from “How to Write” to “Fic-tion and Mystery.” The tables coincided with the tents around the festival, and books by the authors at the festival were for sale. It was convenient for those who want a book signed but the prices were high since most books were hardcover.

Once the book shop-

ping was done, there were many tents to explore. Most tents featured genre-specific guest speakers, but a few had special events inside.

The Library of Con-gress Pavilion gave an in-sider’s look at the nation’s famous literary landmark. History buffs could ask li-brarians any question and could use the World Digi-tal Library to explore cul-tural treasures worldwide. Even kids had activities, from learning about ge-nealogy to a reading from Pippi Longstocking.

Let’s Read America also offered readings and other activities for chil-dren and their parents. In

By JARED ANGLE


East London folk rockers Dry The River headlined the Black Cat Backstage on Sept. 19 kicking off their 18-stop tour with Midwestern folk quartet Houndmouth.

Dry The River drew nearly 200 people to the ven-ue, with most members of the audience finding them-selves shoulder-to-shoulder in a semi-circle around the small stage while others lin-gered in the back near the bar.

As the voice of lead gui-tarist Peter Liddle blends with the background vocals of guitarist Matthew Taylor and bassist Scott Miller, it

elicits a sound similar to that of Fleet Foxes. But the band’s mix of alternating gritty and soft guitars and rhythmic bass releases a raw energy that meshes well with the ambience of Will Harvey’s keyboards and violin.

This synergy is exempli-fied in the track “No Rest” from the 2012 full-length al-bum “Shallow Bed,” as the introduction’s melancholic harmonies build up to an intense climax that matches Jon Warren’s smooth and calculated drumming.

“Weights and Measures” follows a similar formula but with a greater focus on lyr-ics that convey a sense of longing, which was well re-

ceived by the audience.The members of Dry

The River had excellent stage presence, spurring many in the audience into dancing to the music. Band members also chatted with the crowd between songs.

Miller was in good spir-its as he relaxed by the bar after the concert, tak-ing photos with the guests who were lining up to talk to him. He said that he did not mind the fact that the band was moved from the main stage to the Backroom stage. When asked about the band’s prospects for the rest of the tour, he was en-thusiastic.

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Arthur, of the eponymous PBS children’s series, was spotted around the tent.

But the main attrac-tion everyone came for was to meet the authors. Eight authors signed at a time in front of lines 60 people long. The big name for AU students this year was John Green, author of “The Fault in Our Stars.”

He spoke for 45 minutes on Sept. 22 in front of a packed tent of “Nerdfight-ers” (a nickname for fans of the “vlogbrothers,” a video blog series that Green co-hosts with his brother, Hank). He also signed for three hours af-ter his presentation.

Other famous authors included children’s horror writer R.L. Stine, “The Vir-gin Suicides” author Jef-

frey Eugenides, “Eragon” series writer Christopher Paolini and popular teen writer Lois Lowry.

Jewel, a Canadian sing-er and children’s book au-thor, also presented and signed books. Renowned journalist and author Bob Woodward, who reported on the Watergate scandal, was also in attendance to present and sign books.

Most people stayed for a few hours and then re-turned to their cars or to the Metro carrying bright pink reusable bags filled with treasures from yet another successful book

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By MATT SUTTON


A self-proclaimed “love story in reverse,” “How I Met Your Mother” follows a rather simple premise: a fa-ther tells his kids the story of how he met their mother.

As told through flash-backs and narration, this often simple story has evolved into one of the most complicated and hi-larious love stories ever told. The protagonist, Ted Mosby, takes on two roles throughout the show, as the narrator (voiced by Bob Saget, “Full House”) telling

the story to his two kids in the year 2030 and as a young architect (Josh Rad-nor, “Happythankyoumore-please”) facing the modern dating scene in New York City in the present.

Starting with a simple premise, the creators and writers have turned the show in to one of the most innovative comedies to date. Unlike most TV sit-coms, “How I Met Your Mother” is moving toward an ending that the writ-ers have been teasing the audience about since Sea-son one.! The question of “When are we going to

meet the mother?” may at times irritate the audience into madness, but the char-acters, scenarios and the life lessons that Mosby has taught the audience remind viewers that they are ex-cited to listen to one more story before he reveals that legendary moment.

And with CBS pushing for a ninth season, this love story may not be over quite yet.

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EAGLE COLUMNIST

This week’s pop cul-ture headlines varied from the latest albums on sale, ranging from Kanye to the Killers, to the an-ticipated upcoming re-lease of the much-hyped film “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

JUDGMENT DAY No fewer than four

big-name superstar art-ists signed on as judges and mentors for reality competition shows this week. “American Idol” de-buted its new lineup only hours before the judges’ first day on the job. “The Immortal Dawg” Randy Jackson joins the previ-ously announced Mariah Carey along with two new additions: country heart-throb Keith Urban and pop-rap whirlwind Nicki Minaj, who promises to add fresh genre perspec-tive and youthfulness to an aging franchise. Mean-while, NBC announced that Usher and Shakira will fill the gap left by Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera on the spring in-stallment of “The Voice.”

MUSICAL BOUNTY Sept. 18 was a banner

day for album releases. Summer sensation Carly Rae Jepsen attempts to distance herself from “Call Me Maybe” with “Kiss,” and P!nk’s first studio album in four years, “The Truth About Love,” features duets with Eminem and Nate Ruess. For stadium rock fans,

The Killers’ “Battle Born” should satisfy cravings for huge guitars and shout-along choruses, while lovers of indie rock can spin Grizzly Bear’s stellar fourth album, “Shields.” Finally, the new compila-tion from Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music rap crew wins the award for most star power, with contri-butions from R. Kelly, John Legend, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Pusha T and mul-tiple others on the “Cruel Summer” release.

THE PERKS OF BEING A MOVIE

Most films adapted from literary works risk tainting or subverting the vision of the original work, but the new film “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” avoids that stigma. Stephen Ch-bosky, the author himself, wrote the screenplay and directed this critically acclaimed adaptation of his bestselling teen angst novel, which fol-lows troubled teenager Charlie (Logan Lerman of “Percy Jackson” fame) through his tumultuous high school years. The cast also features Emma Watson in her most prom-inent post-“Harry Potter” role yet Nina Dobrev, star of “The Vampire Diaries” and Mae Whitman, a valuable player on NBC’s “Parenthood.”

IHEARTCONCERTS For the second year in

a row, a cavalcade of pop superstars took over the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas for a two-night ex-

travaganza sponsored by the music recommender iHeartRadio. The first night’s festivities boasted a superstar duet featur-ing P!nk and No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani; a high-energy set from Usher that drew comparisons to Michael Jackson; and a volatile performance from Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, who un-leashed numerous exple-tives upon the crowd after the band’s set time was slashed in half. The sec-ond night drew attention for Prince’s surprise duet with Mary J. Blige. High-lights from the festival will be packaged into an upcoming TV special.

A “PREMIERE” WEEK FOR TV ADDICTS

Primetime, most re-cently a cheesy reality wasteland, will be boom-ing this week as the of-ficial TV season begins, leading to time manage-ment issues for college students who double as TV aficionados. CBS’ hit comedy “How I Met Your Mother” is back for what may be its final season. Over on ABC, a parade of “all-stars” has infiltrated the ballroom on “Danc-ing with the Stars.” FOX’s Tuesday night comedy block features two new shows, Mindy Kaling’s “The Mindy Project” and family comedy “Ben and Kate,” and two return-ing favorites, “New Girl” and “Raising Hope.” The scheduling conflicts will mount [email protected]

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By AURORA DE PERALTA


For the electronica group Tycho, it’s all about the music. The San Fran-cisco-based group stayed nearly silent during their Black Cat performance on Sept. 21, simply letting their songs mesmerize and ener-gize their audience.

The crowd was already in a trance-like state from the sustained synth chords that echoed throughout The Album Leaf’s open-ing set. But despite the smooth, soothing rhythms of the group’s songs, the audience was far from fall-ing asleep; The Album Leaf’s music featured a violin, a trumpet, a guitar and vocals, creating a multi-faceted sound that kept the audience captivated.

Once Tycho took the stage, the now slightly drunk audience started to push closer together. Pro-jections of arctic waters and glaciers illuminated the band as crescendo-ing synth arpeggios filled Black Cat’s low-ceilinged second level. Frontman

Scott Hansen promptly went to work, switching between his synthesizer, his keyboard and his gui-tar. Zac Brown strummed out rolling bass rhythms and Rory O’Connor added energy with staccato drum beats.

Tycho played their most popular number, “A Walk,” early on in the perfor-mance. Upon hearing Han-sen play the song’s gentle melody, audience members smiled and cheered ap-preciatively. As rumbling rhythms rolled through the crowd, individuals almost involuntarily swayed back and forth. Even some of the most stoic audience mem-bers couldn’t help but tap their feet to the song’s up-beat sound. Once the song finished, Hansen walked up to the microphone to thank D.C., his first words of the night. He didn’t speak throughout the rest of the set until thanking the audi-ence once again after clos-ing with “Dive.”

But Hansen emerged from the shadows minutes later, after much appeal from the crowd for an en-

core. He spoke briefly, an-nouncing that he was per-forming a brand new track. The untitled song was pos-sibly the most well-received piece of the night. Its sound was uplifting and engag-ing with high-pitched trip-lets scattering throughout the bubbly melody. Audi-ence members threw their hands up in the air, openly dancing and cheering ap-preciatively.

While the audience was focused and engaged on Tycho’s performance, the band didn’t reciprocate the attention. Group members remained intensely focused on their instruments and rarely looked out into the crowd. It seemed as though Tycho wanted to connect to the audience solely through their music, rather than winking and smiling at their fans à la Mick Jagger.

But showmanship and theatricality wasn’t neces-sary to make Tycho’s per-formance a veritable show. Despite being awash with the multi-colored images of the projector, the members’ intense passion was palpa-ble to the audience, making

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The blues punk veterans’ reunion offers exactly what one would expect: high-energy, greasy rock.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is perhaps the perfect name for the band and “Meat + Bone” the perfect album title. Right off the bat, you’re going to get exactly what you would imagine. The band plays sloppy, swaggering,

fuzzy blues-rock while Spencer mani-cally yelps, howls and grunts into the microphone, sounding like the Rolling Stones if they played stupidly drunk and listened to more D.C. punk.

The album jumps off to a start and never loses its energy, only slowing down for its jammy closing track and the angular “Unclear.” While it may be diffi-cult to say you haven’t heard something similar, “Meat + Bones” is a fun, unpre-tentious album that manages to avoid the embarrassment that normally comes with such reunions.

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THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION MEAT + BONE

Michael Kiwanuka may be a soul singer from Britain, but his sound is a lot closer to R&B’s roots in the American South.

Not only does he play an older style of R&B, he himself sounds older than he is, with a voice that, like Otis Redding’s, is gentle and soft but with an edge that

suggests a lifetime of hard times. The album takes an all-encompassing

approach to R&B, incorporating ele-ments of folk, blues, country, jazz and gospel throughout. The high points on the album are also the songs that push the boundaries of R&B hardest, such as the jazzy “Tell Me A Tale,” which is reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron; “Bones,” which is more doo-wop that R&B; and “Lasan,” which sounds like a soulful reworking of a folk-country tune.

RIYL: Lee Fields, Gil Scott-Heron, Sam Cooke

MICHAEL KIWANUKA HOME AGAIN

“Falling” delivers an incredibly catchy indie pop listen, with airy vocals and lively guitar riffs that are marked by beachy cords and chill harmonies.

Seapony’s second full length LP, “Fall-ing,” matches its release (and album name) perfectly for a sweet listen for the transition into fall. Once again, this Seat-tle trio is able to compose a number of catchy jangles by layering the sound of vocalist Jen Weidl’s comforting croons against euphonic cords and splashes of percussion. Although the release is rather short, hitting under the 40-minute mark, it makes effective use of its

time by providing a balanced contrast between soft songs (like “Sunlight” and “Fall Apart”) and more upbeat tunes (such as buoyant “Tell Me So” and “No One Will”). Every track is characterized by pleasantly harmonic riffs, as high-lighted in “Follow,” where the instru-mentals almost sound like they could be right out of The Smiths back catalog.

The lyrical content in most of the tracks is simple, at times reminiscent of Best Coast’s lonely-sad-girl songs. However, this sense of simplicity works in the favor of the material, as it is car-ried out in a way that suits the bubbly instrumentals well and overall, makes “Falling” a solid lo-fi pop record that is difficult not to replay. RIYL: Cults, Blouse, Wild Nothing

By ANDREA CORTES

SEAPONYFALLING

Clocking in at just over half an hour, “Ob-servator” is a much more intimate side of The Raveonettes.

Each track has a hazy production qual-ity to it and deceivingly simple arrange-ments that highlight the skill of this band. The first half of this album is a notable amount more relaxed than the second half, where The Raveonettes decide to head back toward the sound they’re known for, but with a notable amount of control that

hasn’t been seen in their previous releases. In the early tracks on the record like

“Observations” the duo’s harmonies shine, and with this track specifically the intro-duction of an ethereal piano paired with the noise of the guitars layer for a master-ful dissonance. “Sinking with the Sun” comes a bit later in the album and is driven by twangy guitar and cloudy vocals that demonstrate a new production style.

“Observator” as a whole gives off the vibe of being recorded in someone’s base-ment coupled with a thoughtfulness that’s new to the noise pop duo.

RIYL: Young Prisms, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose

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THE RAVEONETTES

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Leggings may not be pants, but my butt looks great in them.

I always get fat when I come back to AU.

Anyone know if the Quidditch club team is still around?

somebody pay attention to me

To the girl chomping your snack next to me on the silent floor of the library- Shut up: you’re being obnoxious!

Any cute, gay, single and

smart guys out there? Any? Am I asking for too much?

GOOD LORD, WHY CAN’T YOU TAKE A HINT?!?

I want to defend the wonk campaign just to spite the annoying haters.

There’s nothing wrong with floorcest.

In the words of the prophet Kayne, “Sunglasses and Advil, last night was mad real.”

I can’t believe I wasted my

weekend rushing the honors fraternity. I would have rather been drinking.

dear guy that thinks he can use me for a booty call: i think i have mono. i hope you have go through this sore throat fakery. peace and blessings!

motion to change the name of TDR to terrorist dining room?

I see so many attractive guys in TDR and I always wonder how I could start a conversation without being sketchy.

Dude, why were you sitting on the sheep? There’s a glut of park benches a yard away.

Dear roommate, I’m sending lots of gay vibes off. I’m too scared to come out to you, but seriously… I couldn’t be more gay looking/acting. So I am not interested in the guy you keep trying to set me up with. Besides floorcest…. gross.

So is that some chamomile iced tea you spilled on your yoga pants or are you just happy to see me?

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OPINION

AU’S MIXED RECORD ON FREE SPEECHSTAFF EDITORIAL

Usually it’s fine to ignore rat-ing sites and their suggestions, but AU’s most current ranking requires an exception.

The Foundation of Individual Rights for Education (FIRE) claims that AU is a “red light university” for free speech due to our vague definition of ha-rassment. Currently, the Stu-dent Handbook defines harass-ment as “an intimidating, hostile or coercive act, which is inten-tional or persistent.”

With our current harassment policy, students can be charged for something as simple as dis-agreeing with another student, according to FIRE. If a student claims someone’s opinions were “hostile” or “intimidating” and the administration agrees, a ha-rassment case can be filed.

However, The Eagle believes

that calling AU a “red light uni-versity’” solely because of our harassment policy is unreason-able. If FIRE looked at AU’s track record of on-campus pro-tests, it would be impossible to deem AU a university with little free speech.

Students, for the most part, have been given freedom to speak their minds. Last year, students staged a protest during Gov. Jan Brewer’s speech. Following the protest there was disciplinary action taken by Uni-versity administration, but it did not go any further. Only a month later students protested Gov. Rick Perry’s arrival on campus. Public Safety was on scene, but

other than that no preventative measures to decrease student’s free speech were taken.

This semester has already seen a few protests, one being the Students for Justice in Pal-estine’s hunger strike, which wasn’t questioned by AU admin-

istration.The Eagle gives the admin-

istration credit for being mostly hands-off in these cases. Their open-mindedness allows our campus environment to be full of controversial and thought-

provoking opinions.With all of the campus activi-

ty, FIRE’s rating seems arbitrary and incorrect. However, it does bring up a valid point about AU’s harassment policy. With such an ambiguous definition, adminis-trators get to decide what is and

isn’t harassment. When asked, Vice

President of Cam-pus Life Gail Hanson said AU’s harass-ment policy does not need revision. The Eagle disagrees and fears that the admin-

istration will continue to avoid the issue. The current policy makes it easy for the adminis-tration to limit free speech by defining cases as harassment that, in a more explicit policy, would just be considered stu-

dent expression.If pressured to define harass-

ment the administration may change their views. Organiza-tions like the Student Media Board and Student Government need to critically look at the policy and address the vague wording. Clear guidelines are essential so both students and administration will be able to more accurately handle harass-ment cases in the future.

As a student newspaper, The Eagle stands behind the protec-tion of free speech. The harass-ment policy can be an easy fix if AU put in the effort to make the necessary changes. Although the “red light” warning may mean very little, FIRE makes a good point. Their concerns should be acknowledged. ! E

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With such an ambiguous definition, administrators get to decide

what is and isn’t harassment.

In the year 2030, 50 percent of Americans will be obese. In 13 states, the rate of obesity will exceed 60 percent. There will be dramatic increases in dia-betes, coronary heart dis-ease, stroke and cancer. Health care costs will sky-rocket up to $66 billion.

Not to worry: McDon-ald’s has announced that it will post caloric infor-mation on its menus and drive-throughs. McDon-ald’s representatives have

also proudly stated that over 80 percent of its na-tional menu items are less than 400 calories. We should all feel healthier al-ready.

Beyond the illogical assumption that when people go to McDonald’s they only order a single item (and do not order any sauces or dressings), the typical meal at McDon-ald’s will probably account for somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of a per-

son’s daily caloric intake. This depends on your gender, age and size. Then again, who’s counting? There is little scientific evi-dence that posted caloric information leads to any significant reduction in ca-loric consumption.

There is an obsession with counting, managing and quantifying how much we eat. Serving sizes and calories create a mind-numbing haze of mean-ingless numbers. Bravo

to those who look up the precise caloric informa-tion of every consumed item, precisely recorded in a food journal, but the reality is that most people aren’t counting.

We are told again and again that Americans need to eat less, but there is little discussion of what we are eating. The super healthy Chipotle BBQ Snack Wrap from McDon-ald’s (a lean 250 calories), contains 18 ingredients in the chicken breast fil-let, not including the ad-ditional 15 ingredients in the liquid margarine with which it is prepared. Some highlights include yeast extract, maltodextrin, chicken skin and sodium phosphate.

Mystery ingredients are not merely a fast food phenomenon. Even things in the “organic” aisle some-times top 15 ingredients. Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilem-ma,” perhaps said it best, arguing not to eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize or any-thing with more than five ingredients. Everything else, dig in.

The problem of the American diet lies not in the quantity but instead with a disregard for what is eaten. Other cultures eating habits are focused on what is accessible, local and fresh. This attention leads to healthier diets and healthier people. There should be no limits to eat-

ing fresh fruit, vegetables and local fish and meat. No counting is necessary.

While raw-food diets are beyond most people’s self-discipline, there is something admirable in ensuring that what you eat is pure food, absent of any “bonus” ingredients. My attempts at a raw food diet typically fail around lunch-time. Despite those fail-ures, there is something deeply satisfying in know-ing exactly what I am con-suming. There is no am-biguity, no maltodextrin and, more importantly, no counting.

Sam Mendelson is a sophomore in the School of International Service.

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Reporting on the news means directly engaging with culture. Social val-ues shape what journal-ists decide to call news and how they investigate it. Because journalism is perceived as a series of objective facts rather than a cultural context, journalists are respon-sible for creating and re-inforcing particular social values.

The Eagle’s coverage

of Dr. Adrienne Pine’s de-cision to breast-feed her child in class may seem like a simple report on campus life. The investi-gation, however, reveals how society understands gender relations.

We consider Dr. Pine breast-feeding her child to be news because our society has socialized us to believe that breast-feeding is inappropriate and sexually explicit.

Body parts aren’t inher-ently sexual. Rather, our society assigns body parts a sexual value.

Even though breast-feeding has been done for thousands of years and is a natural function of life, we are taught that breasts exist as sources of sexual arousal. This view is in-dicative of how society objectifies women’s bod-ies. They are seen as erot-ic, even when being used to perform a natural task.

Our society teaches us a lot about how to treat women’s bodies. They are routinely seen as sex-ual objects and available to public discussion. We can turn on the news and

hear politicians debating abortion, women’s repro-ductive rights and contra-ception.

We live in a society that permits and encourages us to discuss women’s bodies as if we owned them, as if they were our bodies to debate.

However, bodies are private. I wouldn’t want you to touch my body without permission. And I wouldn’t want you to talk about my body to some-body else behind my back — even if I was in public — because it’s my property. If I haven’t done anything wrong, then you cannot publish an article about my body because it

doesn’t belong to you.The Eagle decided to

investigate a story about Dr. Pine’s body because our society teaches us that women’s bodies be-long to the public. We’re taught that women have no privacy when it comes to their bodies and that they exist within the pub-lic domain.

I’m not debating whether or not Dr. Pine was professional when she breast-fed her child in class. I argue that by investigating Dr. Pine, the Eagle has directly rein-forced several social val-ues here on AU’s campus. Their attention sends the message that breast-feed-

ing is newsworthy be-cause women’s bodies are sexual. It tells AU women that their bodies are not truly private, and that we don’t need their permis-sion to discuss them.

Publishing an article about Dr. Pine sent a loud message about gender re-lations on AU’s campus. The message, embodied by our social norms and reinforced by The Eagle, is something we are all accountable for challeng-ing.

Derek Siegel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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By GENNARO FARONE

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

The AU field hockey team returns home for the first time in nearly a month to begin Patriot League play Sept. 29 against No. 18 La-fayette at Jacobs Field.

The Eagles (3-6) lost their first three home games of the season and were outscored 8-2 in those contests. AU has been playing better since then, compiling a 3-3 record with an upset over then-No. 19 Massachusetts. While the

Eagles are winless at home, they have faced their tough-est opponents at Jacobs Field, with Richmond, Old Dominion and Ohio State all having been ranked in the Top 25 this season.

Ball security will be key for the Eagles to start conference play off on the right foot against La-fayette (6-1), according to AU head coach Steve Jen-nings.

“They [Lafayette] play very organized on their de-fensive pressure,” Jennings

said. “And so what they do is, they’re able to get a lot of turnovers and create a lot of

counter attacks off of that”. Those turnovers and

counter attacks can lead to goals for AU’s Patriot League rival, but the over-riding issue Jennings stressed was attitude.

“That for me is the be

all, end all,” Jennings said. “Way beyond tactics, or way beyond technical skill, it’s all about us coming out and really wanting it desperately as a group.”

It’s that drive that can lead AU to a Patriot League title, Jennings said.

The Eagles will go into their league opener coming off a 3-2 loss at Quinnipiac (5-4) Sept. 23. AU surren-dered all three Bobcat goals in the first half and trailed 3-1 at halftime.

The Eagles tried mount-

ing a second-half come-back, and Keelin Winslow’s second goal of the season off Gina Hofmann’s assist made it 3-2. AU had seven second-half penalty cor-ners, including one in the final minute, but the Eagles couldn’t tie up the game.

AU outshot the Bob-cats 12-11 and held a 9-6 advantage in pen-alty corners. Although the Eagles came up short, Jennings noticed a difference in his team

between the first and sec-ond half.

“We started passing, we started playing together,” Jennings said. “We started playing together defen-sively, we played together offensively, had far more of

an aggressive mindset and had a lot of determination, something that was missing in the first half.”

Shelly Montgomery was one bright spot from the loss against Quinnipiac, and the junior will look to make an impact against Lafayette.

Montgomery scored her fourth goal of the season against the Bobcats. The junior had 14 shots, scored three goals and recorded an assist in the team’s last three games.

“I think Shelly is the per-son that embodies determi-nation on our team prob-ably the most,” Jennings said. “She just goes for it every second that she’s out there.”

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By MICHAEL GARDNER

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

Although a second-half goal from Colgate’s Pat-rick Letourneau erased the Eagles lead, the AU men’s soccer team opened up Patriot League play with a point in a 1-1 draw Sept. 22 in Hamilton, N.Y.

“Our team played well tonight, we created several quality chances,” AU head coach Todd West told AU Athletics. “I am happy with the performance. An effort like tonight should pro-duce some victories in our upcoming Patriot League matches.”

Both teams had chances to put goals on the board in the first half, but neither

team was able to convert on the opportunities.

AU (4-4-1, 0-0-1 PL) got the first scoring oppor-tunity of the game early. Charlie Hunter’s corner kick found Dale McDonald, but McDonald volleyed the ball wide and the game re-mained scoreless.

In the 15th minute, Col-gate’s Wade Martin cleared McDonald’s pass, mak-ing it difficult for Alassane Kane to put the ball away. Five minutes later, Raiders goalkeeper Liam Stapleton denied Kane’s shot gener-ated from a breakaway op-portunity on net.

The Raiders (1-4-4, 0-0-1 PL) kept the momentum with a dangerous free kick played into the 18-yard box

with 10 minutes left in the first half. The ball went into the goal, but the officials disallowed the score due to a Colgate handball.

Seth Goldman opened the scoring in the 50th min-ute when Hunter’s corner found Goldman’s head, and the redshirt senior finished to put AU in front 1-0.

The Raiders responded with the equalizer in the 68th minute, when Letour-neau slipped the ball past AU goalkeeper Billy Knut-sen off Mike Garzi’s corner kick.

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Men’s soccer ties Colgate in 2011 conference championship rematch

“Way beyond tactics, or way beyond technical skill, it’s all about us coming out and really wanting it

desperately as a group”-AU field hockey head coach Steve Jennings

with and proud about is the way our guys battled,” Colgate head coach Erik Ronning told Colgate Ath-letics. “Coming back from a goal down in the Patriot League is never easy, and we showed a little bit of re-siliency. “

Colgate held a 3-2 advan-tage in shots in extra time, but Knutsen and Stapleton made stops to preserve the tie, and each squad picked up a point.

“Hunter and Jay Shoates got their first collegiate starts and played well,” West said. “Our back four was very good tonight. We put together a quality team performance with some key players missing.”

The Eagles switched

gears with a non-confer-ence match Sept. 25, but were shut out at Loyola (Md.), 2-0, to mark their third consecutive game without a win.

The Greyhounds (5-3-1) struck first in the 20th min-ute, with Stephen Dooley finding the back of the net from 20-yards out by send-ing a right-footed shot past Knusten.

In the 72nd minute, Lar-ry Ndjock sealed the game for the Greyhounds.

Dooley carried the ball deep into the box through several AU defenders and chipped the ball to Ndjock, who was able to head the ball in for the 2-0 lead.

The Eagles will get back to their conference sched-ule Sept. 29. when they host Bucknell at Reeves Field.

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By SAMANTHA RAPHELSON

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

After giving up two goals in the first half, the AU women’s soccer team couldn’t make up the defi-cit and fell, 2-0, at Rich-mond Sept. 22.

The loss kills the Ea-gles’ (2-7-2) momentum, after they brought the of-fense in their two previ-ous matches against D.C. rivals Howard and George Washington.

Becca Wann led Rich-mond throughout the first half, scoring both goals for the Spiders early.

“Richmond took advan-tage of their chances, and Becca Wann is a special

player,” AU head coach Dave Bucciero told AU Athletics. “I am happy with the way we played on both sides of the ball, and we are a better team today than three weeks ago. Our total focus now has to be on conference play and a new season that starts to-morrow.”

Wann’s first goal came in the 13th minute off Vio-let Miller’s cross, and Ash-ley Williams provided the assist for Wann’s second goal, which came just 4:22 later.

Andrea Young was too good in goal for the Spi-ders (4-5), and the Eagles failed to ignite their of-fense in the second half.

In the 57th minute, Jasmine Mohandesi and Kirsten Eriksen’s back-to-back shots were blocked in front of the goal. Bren-na Smith and Michaela Cowgill took advantage of opportunities in the game’s final 15 minutes, but Young grabbed both shots.

Despite the two early hiccups, AU goalkeeper Charlene Belanger tallied eight saves on the game, with six coming in the sec-ond half.

Richmond outshot AU 21-6 for the game with a 10-2 advantage in shots on goal.

A shutout loss isn’t the way the Eagles hoped to end non-conference play, and they have a tough task ahead of them in the Patri-ot League opener Sept. 28 at Navy.

After being shutout by Maryland in its first match of the season, Navy

has gone on an 11-game winning streak, with four shutouts.

Junior Ashlynn Soell-ner and sophomore Mor-gan Dankanich have led the Midshipmen (11-1) with nine and seven goals on the season, respective-ly. Paloma Perez and Julie Schumacher have each totaled six assists, which shows the team has chem-istry offensively.

The Mids went 4-2-1 in the conference a sea-son ago, eventually los-ing to Army in the Patriot League Championship.

After a tough stretch, it is important for AU to start off Patriot League play strong.

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Eagles shut out at Loyola, 2-0

By ERIC SALTZMAN

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

Postseason baseball will be coming back to the na-tion’s capital, as your Wash-ington Nationals clinched a playoff berth for the first time in franchise history, second if you count the time as the Montreal Expos. This doesn’t mean the Nats have clinched the division, but assuming they play at a reasonably high level for

the remainder of the sea-son, the National League East should be theirs.

Everything is looking pretty good in the land of “Natitude.”

The Nats accomplished the postseason berth by having arguably the top pitching staff in the game, ranking in the top two in the majors in ERA, WHIP and opponents’ batting av-erage.

Traditionally, having

good pitching is a recipe for success for a team to make a deep playoff run. Good news for the Nats.

Unfortunately, most of the pitchers for the Nation-als have little or no playoff experience, so the bright lights of October could be somewhat disorienting.

The key player for the Nats offense will likely be Ryan Zimmerman, who is the second-most tenured athlete in the D.C. area (just behind Capitals for-ward Brooks Laich). Zim-merman has long been considered the face of the franchise during the dark times before Stephen Stras-burg and Bryce Harper.

With a postseason berth all but assured, it is time for Zimmerman to live up to his status and be a key of-fensive contributor for the team.

But if history is any indi-cator, the biggest heroes in October are often the play-ers least expected to make big contributions.

In Game 6 of last year’s World Series, St. Louis Car-dinals third baseman David Freese secured his place in baseball lore. With the Cardinals trailing by two runs and down to their final strike, Freese hit a triple to tie the game and then hit a walk off home run two in-nings later to win it.

While the success of the Nationals in the regular season is excellent, it is im-portant to remember not to get carried away.

October is unlike any other month. October is where great teams become elite.

In October, what hap-pens in the regular season means almost nothing.

All of those over-the-top commercials that talk about how October is where he-roes are made are all cor-rect.

So the big question is: Are the Nats a great regu-lar-season team or a cham-pionship-quality team?

If anything is certain, it’s that anything can happen in October. Unless you’re the Cubs, in which case you know going into the post-season you won’t be win-ning a championship.

The best advice for all Nats fans about the playoffs is to not settle for anything less than a championship. Runner up is just the first loser.

As a Yankees fan, I can tell you with no hesitation that nothing is worse than going to the playoffs and being eliminated. It doesn’t matter how big or small

your payroll is, losing in the postseason is absolutely miserable.

Nothing is guaranteed in sports, and missing out on an opportunity to win a championship will haunt for months, maybe even years. Just ask the Red Sox.

What is interesting about the situation is that despite going to the play-offs for the first time since the move to D.C., the Nats are arguably the favorite to win the series.

More than anything else, embrace October. It is the greatest month of the year for baseball. En-joy the month, but remem-ber when the final pitch is thrown, make sure that it’s your team holding up the trophy as the best in the [email protected]

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Women’s soccer falls at Richmond, faces challenge at Navy

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SEPT. 27No games scheduled

SEPT. 28Swimming and diving Potomac

Relay Invitational at 3 p.m.Volleyball vs. Lafayette at 7 p.m.Women’s soccer @ Navy at 7 p.m.

SEPT. 29Cross-country @ George Mason

Invitational at 10 a.m. Field hockey vs. Lafayette at noonMen’s soccer vs. Bucknell at 1

p.m.Volleyball vs. Lehigh at 4 p.m.

SEPT. 30Field hockey vs. Monmouth at

12:30 p.m.

OCT. 1, OCT. 2, OCT. 3No games scheduled

SCHEDULE

PATRIOT LEAGUE

STANDINGS

FIELD HOCKEYLafayette 7-1, 0-0 PL

Bucknell 5-5, 0-0 PL! American 3-6, 0-0 PL

Lehigh 3-7, 0-0 PL

Colgate 2-7, 0-0 PL

Holy Cross 1-8, 0-0 PL

MEN’S SOCCERNavy 5-2-1, 1-0 PL

Bucknell 5-2-2, 1-0 PL

Holy Cross 2-6, 1-0 PL! American 4-4-1, 0-0-1 PL

Colgate 1-4-4, 0-0-1 PL

Lafayette 3-5-1, 0-1 PL

Army 2-6, 0-1 PL

Lehigh 1-7, 0-1 PL

WOMEN’S SOCCERNavy 11-1, 0-0 PL

Bucknell 7-4, 0-0 PL

Colgate 5-4-2, 0-0 PL

Army 5-6, 0-0 PL

Holy Cross 4-5-1, 0-0 PL

Lafayette 3-5-2, 0-0 PL! American 2-7-2, 0-0 PL

Lehigh 1-7, 0-0 PL

VOLLEYBALLArmy 10-5, 2-0 PL

Colgate 4-12, 2-0 PL

Lafayette 8-5, 1-1 PL! American 8-6, 1-1 PL

Lehigh 4-7, 1-1 PL

Navy 5-9, 1-1 PL

Bucknell 6-9, 0-2 PL

Holy Cross 0-16, 0-2 PL

By JOSH PAUNIL

EAGLE STAFF WRITER

In its quest to win a third straight Patriot League Championship, the AU vol-leyball team opened confer-ence play 1-1 after falling to Army, 3-2, and sweeping Holy Cross, 3-0, in Bender Arena.

“Army played us hard and got better and better as each set went on,” AU head coach Barry Goldberg said. “We were up and down, while they steadily kept get-ting better in the match and that made the difference by the end of it.”

The Eagles (8-6, 1-1 PL) got off to a quick start against the 2011 PL run-ners-up Sept. 21, winning the first set 25-15 after scor-ing seven straight points to close out the game.

“We really didn’t play that well in the first game hitting the ball, but [we] ended up beating them on some great blocking,” Goldberg said.

The second set was more of the same, as the Eagles recorded their best hitting percentage of the match (.333), off 14 kills and just two errors. Junior outside hitter Juliana Crum and sophomore outside hitter/middle blocker Sara Rishell each earned four kills in the 25-16 win.

Army (10-5, 2-0 PL) came out strong with its backs against the wall, causing 15 lead changes in the first 15 points of the third set. The Black Knights then used a 9-2 run to gain a 17-9 edge. AU quickly responded with

a 5-1 spurt of its own, but it was to no avail as Army stayed alive by winning the set, 25-21.

The Eagles had a strong showing in the fourth set with a hitting percentage of .278, but it wasn’t enough as Army recorded four more kills (17) and won, 25-23. Army called a timeout facing a 23-20 deficit, and scored five straight points to win the set.

AU got off to a sluggish start in the do-or-die fifth game, losing five of the first seven points. The Eagles never came within three points of the Black Knights, who closed on a 5-0 run to win the set, 15-7.

Hoping to bounce back, the Eagles came out strong the following day against Holy Cross, hitting .379 and winning the first game 25-12. They didn’t relent in the following two sets, winning 25-17 and 25-13 to cruise to an easy victory.

“We knew we had to come out firing for every single game,” junior oppo-site hitter/middle blocker Morgan Hendrix said. Hendrix picked up nine kills and a game-high four blocks.

AU dominated Holy Cross (0-16, 0-2 PL) in near-ly every category, record-ing twice as many blocks as the Crusaders.

The Eagles will look to carry their success against Holy Cross into the week-end, when they face two more conference oppo-nents. AU will take on La-fayette Sept. 28, and then square off against Lehigh

AU begins defense of conference crown by

starting PL play 1-1

Morgan Hendrix, seen here in a Sept. 19 match, totaled 18 kills last weekend.

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