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Carrying On

My mother thinks of herself as a modest hippie. After years of being a single parent in a very traditional town, she feels “out of the rat race” and free from the country-club concerns of our neighbors. She lives relatively uninhibitedly, even while affectionately inhibiting my brother’s and my lives. So I was only mildly surprised when I learned that she had decided to pick the drums.

By October 4, 2007

Voices

D.C. schools changing for a better future

There may now be fewer Catholic elementary schools from which to choose from if the Archdiocese goes through with its plan to change eight schools that have until now participated in the D.C. voucher program into charter schools. The proposal has sent up a predictable storm of protest among parents, which is unfortunate, since such protest obscures the brightest prospect for education in D.C. in many years.

By October 4, 2007

Editorials

Administrators should have acted, not reacted

Why didn’t the University tell students about the hate crime that took place just off campus until after the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a Georgetown student in connection with the assault three weeks later? And after the crime was made public, why was the University’s response so minimal until students demanded more?

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Editorials

Law Center must stand its ground

In the face of recent opposition from religious groups, the Law Center must stand its ground and continue to fund students’ academic pursuits, even when they contradict Catholic doctrine.

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Editorials

A student hangout, with a twist

Georgetown may be short on campus hangouts—not including Leo’s or the second floor of Lauinger—but there is good news on the horizon.

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Sports

One fine day on the Potomac…

Following two days of Homecoming festivities, Sunday provided a day of rest on the Hilltop. But not for Georgetown’s rowing teams, who opened their fall season with the 27th Annual Charlie Butt Scullers’ Head of the Potomac.

By October 4, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Of all the great races that characterized the playoff push in the National League—the battle in the east between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets and the seventh one-game playoff in Major League history to decide the Wild Card between the San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockiesshy;—the MVP race is the best of all. The coveted award could easily go to any one of four young stars, all of whom were involved in the frantic pennant race: David Wright, Prince Fielder, Matt Holliday and Jimmy Rollins.

By October 4, 2007

Sports

Fast Break

Georgetown struck first when junior midfielder Stephanie Zare found the back of the net in the 22nd minute. The goal came on one of Georgetown’s seven first-half corner kicks, as Zare collected the cross at the top of the box and beat the Scarlet Knight keeper Erin Guthrie.

By October 4, 2007

Voices

Burmese monks give peace a chance

For this supreme act of peaceful courage, I submit that the spiritual force behind Burma’s democracy movement should receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

By October 4, 2007

Voices

Keep it movin’, Hoyas

Every time I eat at Leo’s, I encounter groups clustered at the top and bottom of the stairs. What causes this? Why can otherwise intelligent and competent Georgetown students not handle something as simple as stairs?

By October 4, 2007