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The Sports Sermon

Although the New Year’s resolution influx of Yates visitors has subsided, a new motivation is pushing numbers up at the gym. With spring break a week away and warm weather in mind, if not in sight, more people are trying to tone up what they let go during the winter months.

By February 21, 2008

Sports

What Rocks

Last weekend, the Georgetown softball team (3-7) traveled to Statesboro, Ga for the Georgia Southern Invitational tournament. While there, freshman Aimee Moffat hit the Hoyas’ first homerun of the season—a two-run homerun—in the bottom of the 7th inning during a Friday game against Drexel. Her two RBIs were the only Hoya runs in their 4-2 loss to the Dragons.

By February 21, 2008

Editorials

Muslim center’s no madrassa

It seems like 2005 again as a $20 million donation from a Saudi royal stirs up media controversy, casting aspersions on Georgetown’s academic ethics and credibility.

By the February 21, 2008

Editorials

Fenty out of bounds on stadium

Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) thus far hasn’t shown himself to be a gambling man. His plan to finance a professional soccer stadium with money intended for debt repayment, however, would throw Washington’s future on a roulette wheel.

By the February 21, 2008

Editorials

Firearm database won’t misfire

The District responded limply to an increase in gun violence in the past year, mainly with the Metropolitan Police Department’s ineffective All Hands on Deck initiative, which tried to reduce crime by having all officers work overtime some weekends. Luckily, the mayors of eleven East Coast cities have a better idea: a database to share information on known gun offenders. There is no reason Washington shouldn’t sign on.

By the February 21, 2008

Voices

University fails on affirmative action

Fact one: there’s a direct connection between that college degree we’re all struggling to earn and economic mobility. Fact two: economic mobility has stagnated in the last three decades, mainly because it is becoming increasingly difficult for poor minorities to obtain a higher education, according to a new Brookings Institution study. And fact three: a majority of black children born in the middleclass ended up with lower incomes as adults, and nearly half wind up in the lowest quintile of earners (only 16 percent of whites face the same fate).

By February 21, 2008

Voices

Dispatches from fractured Kenya

“My friend, how is your Valentine’s like? Here in Kenya it is exclusively a youth affair. The seniors dismiss it as merely foreign culture. Still, shops are still colored by red. I wish you were near! We would celebrate together! Keep good, my friend. Pray for us.”

By February 21, 2008

Voices

Dirty rotten scoundrels on the ‘Riviera’

“You were dealing with illegal drugs. Tell me, as a [former] police officer, how that isn’t being a drug dealer?”

By February 21, 2008

Voices

Obsession doesn’t culminate in face paint

I have never been to a Georgetown basketball game. Okay, you can stop throwing things at me now. I watch them on TV sometimes, and I stay vaguely aware of how we’re doing, much as I stay vaguely aware of how much money is on my GoCard. I don’t have season tickets, and I don’t want to go through the hassle of finding a ticket, getting up early, and taking some sort of bus to the Verizon Center. I relish brunches in a mostly empty Leo’s, and the quiet feel of the campus when all the action is elsewhere. I haven’t lost my voice yet, and I have never scrubbed blue facepaint out of my hair (or at least, never for basketball reasons.)

By February 21, 2008

Sports

Going Bearcat hunting

Cincinnati basketball is less than three years removed from the ultra-intimidating, uber-athletic Bobby Huggins era. Since the current West Virginia coach’s forced resignation in 2005, the Bearcats have stepped out of the Conference USA stratosphere and into the Big East basement. The once-feared Bearcats have looked more like kittens in their first three seasons in the conference, and the Cincinnati sideline that was once stalked by the imposing Huggins is now occupied by the diminutive Mick Cronin.

By February 21, 2008