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In Poor Taste

By March 15, 2007

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Carrying on: The tale of the enchanted rock

Sometime during my first year in the Boy Scouts, I went on a hike and never came back. I wasn’t alone; perhaps five other kids and an adult scoutmaster set off with me early that morning. It was meant to be a five-miler and we were supposed to be back by lunchtime. I wasn’t found until one in the morning.

By March 15, 2007

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A $350 problem in Phnom Penh

It’s the cardinal rule of traveling: never store your valuables anywhere except your front pant pocket. What’s more, the Lonely Planet guide for our host country of Cambodia explicitly warned us against the insecurity of backpacker guesthouses. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when my Swedish roommates jostled me awake and asked if I, too, was missing money. As soon as I discovered my missing cash, I knew it was gone and would never come home. We had broken the rule and our disregard had cost us $350.

By March 15, 2007

Voices

Zesty family life in the Rockies

I spent this past spring break skiing with my friend Colin’s family in Denver. I thought that everyone in Colorado would be horrifically toned, occupying all their time skiing, with super reinforced ice axe straps on everything from their underwear to their book bags. I nervously prepared myself for the trip by assembling a stylish ski ensemble and watching as much of Jackson, Wyo.’s neo-ski cinema that Netflix would send me.

By March 15, 2007

Voices

A major with no carrera in sight

One of the biggest hazards of winter break is the long car ride with your parents to the houses of family friends. This is, of course, nothing more than an insidious trap to get the three of you alone so that they can ask probing questions about every detail of your life for hours on end.

By March 15, 2007

Sports

The Big East Loves NY

ADDITIONAL FEATURE—“Hoya Saxa!” proved to truly be the yell of all yells as the Hoya faithful sang unchallenged under the direction of an uncharacteristically emotional John Thompson III. Behind the proud conductor, the team basked in the glory of a Big East Tournament Championship. But it wasn’t the coaches or the players that captured my curiosity in the Big Apple. It was the fans.

By March 15, 2007

Sports

Sports Sermon

As college basketball moves into the pressure-packed months of the postseason, there is little margin for error. An unlucky bounce of the ball, an untimely foul or a questionable call could be all it takes to bring a devastating end to the season. But the 2007 season has introduced a very different sort of game-changing blunder that rests on the index finger of a seemingly irrelevant character: the clock operator.

By March 15, 2007

Sports

Hoyas win big

Hoya Baseball returned to the Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday to square off against Coppin State in Hanover, Md. After going 4-5 on their Florida road trip and showing improvement with each game, the Hoyas routed Coppin State 12-0 with strong performances from a rookie pitching staff.

By March 15, 2007

Sports

Lady Hoyas hold off Hopkins

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team continued its winning ways Wednesday afternoon with a 16-13 victory over area rival and 12th-ranked Johns Hopkins. Relying on a trio of senior attackers—Brittany Baschuck, Schuyler Sutton and Coco Stanwick—Georgetown built a 8-4 halftime lead that they never relinquished.

By March 15, 2007

Sports

Mo’ Madness

All right, admit it. There was a point in this magical mystery ride of a basketball season when you thought your heralded Hoyas might not even make the NCAA Tournament. After losses to Oregon and Old Dominion, those who bled blue and gray were feeling blue and sporting some grayish facial hue wondering if the Sports Illustrated jinx had struck again. At that time, the Hoyas were about as likely to make a tourney run as Britney Spears is likely to do a shampoo ad any time in the near future.

By March 15, 2007