News
DPS to ban laptop, tablet use while student guarding
A slew of residence hall burglaries over the past year has prompted the Department of Public Safety to evaluate some of its security policies. DPS reconsidered the way its student guards should conduct themselves and, starting this summer term, will prohibit student guards from using laptops and tablets while they are on duty. DPS Chief [...]
Federal budget cuts to harm research funding and financial aid
D.C. votes for budget autonomy and Anita Bonds
Saxa Politica: Kegging it back to campus
Leisure
GU Hispanic Theater students take the quixotic route
Mischief and trickery may be the staples of any Cervantes play, but the amusing antics involved are always grounded by heavier social commentary. Organized by director and novelist Professor Barbara Mujica’s Hispanic Theater class, two of the Spanish playwright’s lesser known one-act plays, El retablo de las maravillas and La cueva de Salamanca, explore this dichotomy between comedy and something a little darker.
Art majors make a promising Pit Stop in Spagnuolo Gallery
Critical Voices: Snoop Lion, Reincarnated
Critical Voices: Phoenix, Bankrupt!
Sports
Pros and cons for varsity teams in new Big East
When the seven Catholic schools that split from the former Big East, now the American Athletic Conference, and added Creighton, Butler, and Xavier to form the new Big East, all attention flooded to the conference’s new basketball matchups. After the push toward football caused the exit of several members of the former Big East, college [...]
The Sports Sermon: Enough with the Lakers already
D.C. United struggles in early season play
All The Way: Hamilton lagging in lineup
Voices
GenderFunk a crass caricature of a complex trans identity
Last weekend, students and community members gathered in New South’s Riverside Lounge for GU Pride’s annual GenderFunk. It’s a night of fun, dancing, friendship, and yes, drag. This year’s line-up was particularly impressive, headlined by a star from RuPaul’s Drag Race (and a local celebrity for those of us from Western New York). Even so, [...]
Even gun lovers can support sensible, moderate regulation
Medical discrimination: Handicapped left for dead
Carrying On: Adversity’s afterglow
Editorials
University should fully embrace Gtown Day
Last Thursday,Todd Olson agreed to student demands to repeal the one-keg restriction at campus parties, calling the measure a reasonable and promising approach to bringing student social life back onto campus. Though the keg ban was a misguided policy from the beginning, we applaud Olson’s decision to recognize the on-campus social scene.





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