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ANC supports proposal to allow longer construction days on East Campus

By Cuneyt Dil A proposal to extend construction hours for the East Campus project won the support of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D on April 1, boosting the University’s hopes of finishing the site by fall 2016.

The proposal, now before the D.C. Zoning Commission, would extend weekday construction hours to the maximum allowed under city law, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The University would also be allowed to work Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting in September, in the event a weekday of construction is lost due to weather.

AU requested the extended hours after a four month delayed start to construction and after 50 workdays were lost due to inclement weather, the Eagle previously reported.

Current hours permit general contractor Skanska to work from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

ANC 3D voted eight to zero for the proposal, with one commissioner abstaining.

When completed, East Campus will have three residence halls housing 590 beds and two academic buildings. If the deadline for completion of July 2016 is not met, however, the University will need to wait another full semester or academic year before opening East Campus.

East Campus construction was supposed to run from May 2014 to April 2016. But work started late in September 2014 due to issues with setting up a water removal system on the site, according to Linda Argo, assistant vice president for External Relations and Auxiliary Services.

The work hours proposal is the result of a compromise the University made with ANC 3D and Westover Place residents, a townhouse complex adjacent to the East Campus construction site.

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In early February, AU originally requested construction work every Saturday, which some Westover Place residents resisted because it would mean possible construction noise on a weekend, the Eagle previously reported.

To appease 72 residents who signed a petition against the proposed Saturday work hours, AU agreed to widen the landscape buffer between East Campus and Westover Place homes and also limit work on Saturdays. Six parking lot spaces were removed from the campus plan to make way for more trees

“I want to express my appreciation to [AU], and also to all the residents of Westover for making this come about,” ANC 3D Chair Tom Smith said after the vote.

The D.C. Zoning Commission will vote on the proposal April 13, and the University requested in its proposal for the commission to skip a public hearing process and instead move straight to a vote. The extended weekday work hours would take effect soon after, according to Argo. cdil@theeagleonline.com

“I want to express my appreciation to [AU], and also to all the residents of Westover for making this come about.”

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Living the Dream: AU Alumna and EPA Congressional Office Team Leader

By Adena Maier AU students want to be a lot of things: policy makers, doctors and lawyers are only a few. But, what would AU students do if they had the choice to risk it all for a different career? The Scene answers this question with a look into strange, unassuming and brilliant careers.

During her time as an undergraduate student at AU, Carolyn Levine studied psychology, so she thought she might become a therapist, lawyer or doctor. In 1991, AU’s Career Center changed the trajectory of Levine’s career when she found an internship on their jobs bulletin board at the Environmental Protection Agency starting out as a clerk typist.

Although she knew relatively little about environmental laws, Levine connected with the EPA’s mission to ensure all Americans have access to clean air and clean water. Levine graduated in 1992 and was offered a permanent job at the agency, and for the past 12 years she’s been working in the EPA’s Office of Congressional

Affairs.

Levine grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with a nurse mother, scientist father and two older brothers who also became scientists, but she wasn’t interested in the hard sciences. She didn’t know what she wanted to do for a living but took psychology as a senior in high school and found it interesting. She decided to major in psychology and minor in justice, law, and society at AU. “Even though psychology is broad, majoring in it influenced who I am now and how I talk to and think about people,” Levine said. “It helps to have people skills- especially when interacting with Congress.”

Levine was able to take many electives as a psychology major, including classes in political science.

During her junior year at AU, she went abroad to Europe for half the summer as part of a School of Public Affairs class on the European Union that she was taking.

After AU’s Career Center helped her find an internship at the EPA,

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The M&M Report: “Mad Men” and “While We’re Young”

By Devin Mitchell and Mark Lieberman The hosts discuss the final season premiere of the acclaimed AMC drama and the latest comedy film

by Noah Baumbach.

Timecodes: “Mad Men” -- 0:30 - 18:05 “While We're Young” -- 18:05 30:05

https://soundcloud.com/theeagleThis week on The M&M Report, them-mreport/58-mad-men-whileMark Lieberman and Devin Mitch- were-young ell review the final season premiere of “Mad Men” with special guest Cuneyt Dil. Later, they discuss “While Click Here for the We’re Young,” the first film either of Rest Of the Story them saw in 2015.

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Column: Trying to talk to the Turks Before I tell you this story, there are two things you need to know about me. First, I’m a pretty friendly person. I like to talk to people, I like to hear their stories. Second, I talk fast. Really fast.

One of the most awkward experiences I’ve ever had started out in a Turkish bath. Weirdly, the part where I was sitting in a steamy room with a bunch of European women, naked (except for this weird cloth thing that covered my, uh, dölyolu as the Turkish woman called it) wasn’t the awkward part. That part was fine. Everyone was relaxed, the steam was nice and the large Turkish women in their underwear scrubbing the other women weren’t nearly as strange as I thought they would be.

There was one issue though. My friend Sam and I paid for the cheapest

option—Turkish bath only. So I get into this room with all of these women, and I have no idea what to expect. I’ve never had a Turkish bath before, so I’m not exactly sure what it entails. It turns out, it basically entails what I described—sitting in a room full of steam with a bunch of naked women. The full service, on the other hand, entails lying on a hot platform, being exfoliated, rubbed with soap, and massaged.

But I didn’t know that until I’d sat in the room full of steam for three hours waiting to be scrubbed and a Turkish woman came and yelled at me and kicked me out.

In spite of this, it was actually still a pretty relaxing experience just one that took over three hours and left me dehydrated and tired.

My friend Sam got sick of waiting for me and went out without me, and I ended up having beers with a French guy from our hostel.

The next morning, I wake up. Sam is curled up, still in his clothes. It turned out he had an absolutely epic night. He stayed out ’til 5 a.m., met Turkish communists, philosophers and journalists. He talked about life and politics with the locals.

As he’s telling me all about it, I can’t help it. I’m jealous. I’m jealous in that sick, sad, stupid way you get when something good happens to a friend of yours. It’s unbecoming.

It makes your stomach churn a little bit, not even from the jealousy itself but because you feel bad about being jealous at all. It’s annoying. It’s not pretty. But it’s a part of life.

I know that. So I decide that the best thing to do about it is to go have an epic night of my own and meet some locals.

And that’s when the awkward part starts.

I head into a bar by myself and go order a beer. Beers in Istanbul cost about 10 Turkish lira and I have…. exactly 10 Turkish lira. Okay I think to myself, that just mean I’ll have to meet some people at this bar.

I go sit down and pull out my journal, trying to look nonchalant.

And not like I’m out hunting for locals to talk to me. I peer over my paper, getting a good look around.

Who should I talk to?

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Once an Eagle, always an Eagle

By Shannon Scovel When Ohemaa Nyanin pulled on her 00 AU basketball jersey in February 2006 for her first game against Bucknell University, she had no idea that her experience as a center for the Eagles would one day help her become the U.S. women’s national team assistant director for basketball.

“Even as I’m at my desk right now, it feels weird,” Nyanin said.

“I thought I fit in the international relations world, but now I know that I also fit in the basketball world, and there is a bridge between the two that I can build.”

Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, Nyanin grew up the daughter of a World Bank employee, and she moved all of the globe during her childhood, gaining experiences in different cultures that ultimately inspired her to study international relations. She spent her teen years practicing with the Zambian national basketball team before attending boarding school in Pennsylvania. considered continuing her athletic career.

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Men’s Basketball: Players to transfer With March Madness winding down, college basketball season is coming to a close. The Eagles, whose season has been over for a couple weeks now, have already begun preparing for next year, starting with roster changes. On March 31, ESPN reported that AU sophomore guards Justice Montgomery and Langdon Neal will be departing the program. AU Athletics confirmed Montgomery and Neal are seeking transfers along with freshman guard George Langberg.

The trio of guards were seldom played this season and are seeking playing time elsewhere, likely at a Division II or III level schools, according to AU Athletics.

Montgomery, the second-year

point guard, saw the most minutes out of the three individuals this season playing a total of 15 minutes.

Neal only played three minutes this season with fellow walk-on Langberg seeing no time on the floor.

“We wish Justice, Langdon and George the best of luck in their future endeavors,” head coach Mike Brennan said. “Both Justice and Langdon have played important roles in building this program over the past two years, while all three helped push us back to the Patriot League Championship last season.”

Montgomery saw his role and playing time significantly reduced this season from the 2013-14 season when he played in 21 games for

a total of 145 minutes. During the Eagles championship season, Montgomery came off the bench in a string of games at the beginning of the season and in key conference games. This year, however, he saw playing time in 11 games and averaged only 1.4 minutes per game. Throughout his time at AU, Montgomery was blocked at his

position by starting senior pointguard Darius “Pee-Wee” Gardner.

Even with the graduation of Gardner, Montgomery looked to be low on the depth chart with redshirts Leon Tolksdorf and Paris Maragkos coming into the rotation along with three highly touted recruits.

By Jennifer Reyes

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