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Fast teams have good times

Hoya swimming kicked off their season this past Friday at the Potomac Relays hosted by American University. Georgetown’s men placed second with 324 points, 18 behind first place George Mason. The women’s team came in fourth, with 284 points, 20 points ahead of fifth place Mary Washington.

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Sports

The Sports Sermon

Seafaring wisdom holds that a captain goes down with his ship. Monuments were erected for the brave fishermen of Gloucester who sank with their vessels, Captain Smith of the Red Star Line’s tragic demise was immortalized in the film “Titanic” (though he was summarily overshadowed by Rose and Jack’s vehicular hokey-pokey) and on Monday night, Joe Torre likely bid adieu to his tenure as Yankees manager as his team sank yet again into the vast expanse that is playoff-less October.

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Editorials

Hybrid cabs: a good first step for D.C.

Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) recently introduced a proposal that would help mitigate transportation-related pollution with an environmentally-sound taxi fleet.

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Editorials

WASA didn’t start the fire (or stop it)

The District’s residents are entitled to the basic public service of fire protection.

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Crosswords

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Voices

Action, not reaction

On Tuesday night, I received an e-mail from President John DeGioia, reassuring the Georgetown community that he “will not tolerate homophobia or any other form of discrimination on our campus.” The e-mail marked exactly a month of DeGioia’s silence after a Georgetown student was assaulted for being gay, so I guess you could say it came in the nick of time, just as I was starting to wonder whose side DeGioia was on, anyway.

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Voices

An afternoon with the Scientologists

We passed the Church of Scientology, and, luckily, they were offering free personality tests and guided tours. It sounded like a pretty sweet deal. Who doesn’t like free things from an organization that’s well known for being controversial? We approached the ornate wooden doors and entered without knowing it would be another three hours until we would manage to escape.

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Voices

Carrying On

The most surreal part of becoming a United States citizen, and there are many, is the citizenship exam. In a few months, I will have the privilege of standing before some bored INS official and answering ten randomly selected questions, needing six correct answers to get that elusive right to vote.

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Sports

JTIII +Gaston=Madness!

Tomorrow night there’ll be one on-campus party that has no chance of being broken up. Since John Thompson III is the host, DPS or Metro intervention is unlikely.

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Sports

Split decision

After a string of one-goal losses, the Georgetown men’s soccer team had a schizophrenic week. The Hoyas got back on track this past Saturday, defeating Providence (5-4-1, 2-2-1 BE) for their second conference win, but fell to D.C. rival George Washington on Tuesday, dropping to 3-8 (2-4 BE).

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