Daily Archives: April 25, 2013
Saxa Politica: Housing headache
bi-weekly column campus news and events
Georgetown students want 2,000 pizzas
What started out as a less-than-serious hypothetical posed over pizza pies after a long day of rehearsal last Saturday became, for Wade Tandy (COL ‘09), a goal that he’s well on his way to achieving.
Signs of Protest: Inside Gallaudet
The thousands of silent protesters in front of the Capitol building last Saturday must have appeared to tourists to be the most polite agitators ever to stand on that lawn. Not a word could be heard amongst the observers as one lone voice echoed from the speaker’s platform, but the crowd rippled with constant, soundless motion.
College students volunteer more
College students are volunteering more than ever before, according to a new study, “College Students Helping America” released this month by the Corporation for National & Community Service. Volunteering and community service at Georgetown are part of this trend.
The Voice goes on a date with the dietitian
A new face in Leo’s is living behind the fro-yo machine. In an unassuming office ironically close to the tempting dessert section, you can now find Georgianne Belknap, R.D., L.D., Georgetown University’s Dietitian.
Wrens land at Bulldog
The only thing better than an afternoon concert is a free afternoon concert. Indie rock aviators the Wrens are set to play at Georgetown’s Bulldog Alley this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. before heading down to the Black Cat to play a show at a more conventional time—9:30 p.m.
Circular revolutions with line-breaks
Mark Z. Danielewski’s highly anticipated “Only Revolutions” shocked his loyal readership when it hit shelves. Three hundred and sixty pages of bright text with jagged linebreaks and sentence fragments make for dazzling if intimidating read.
Decemberists: a major label band with an indie mindset
When The Decemberists announced that they would release their fourth full-length album with mega-label Capitol Records, indie music-loving eyebrows around the world shot up in surprise. Visions of peeling back the cellophane packaging on The Crane Wife only to find a pepped-up, TRL version of the band mingled with self-righteous cries of “sell-out” from high school cafeterias around the nation. Yet a month after the release of The Crane Wife, it would seem that those people can safely shut up.
A Presidential assassination of the future
On October 19, 2007, President George Walker Bush was assassinated on his way out of a conference in downtown Chicago.
Sordid Lives gets naked
Three half naked cowboys in boxers take the stage in a small black room with a low ceiling with two pissed off, outrageously dressed southern women holding a shot gun and a revolver. A loud BANG follows and one of the lights goes out. “I said DANCE!” Sound like the next Quentin Tarantino film?
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