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Day: September 10, 2009

Leisure

Culottes for you lots: Bobo a go-go

Senior year means big things on the horizon for me. I’ve been doing a lot of growing up and changing over the past few years as I prepare to enter... Read more

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Leisure

High Fidelity: A ticket to ride

By the time you pick up this paper (or read it online), millions of children, adolescents, adults, and seniors worldwide will have congregated in dens, dorms, living rooms, and basements... Read more

By September 10, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices – Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Part II

Just going by the album cover, which features Raekwon and partner-in-crime Ghostface Killah recreating the unforgettable pose they struck 14 years ago on the front of their original classic, Only... Read more

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Leisure

Critical Voices: Drake – So Far Gone EP

You’ve probably heard Drake and his song “Best I Ever Had” at least once, if not two or three times an hour this summer on most pop radio stations. This... Read more

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Leisure

Hello, reruns

The television DVD set hasn’t been around for a long time, but in its short lifespan, it has changed drastically. Initially, the DVD set of a television series was merely... Read more

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Voices

Transparency needed on student-centric plans

In the coming months, students will have their say on the University’s Ten Year Plan, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, who said that the administration would... Read more

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Voices

9/11 remembered: a ringing phone and rising smoke

I don’t like to answer the phone. Even when my caller ID tells me who is calling, my throat still tightens and a small pit forms in my stomach. The... Read more

By September 10, 2009

Features

Freedom of the Press: The Hoya’s struggle to buck the University

On March 31, the day before April Fools’ Day, Max Sarinsky (COL ’09), then chair of The Hoya’s Board of Directors, received an e-mail that his newspaper had been awaiting for over five years and dreaming about for decades more. Meeting in two days, it read. Bring your pens. Let’s make a deal.

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Voices

Healthcare, money, and you

Here’s an oft-cited figure in the debate over health care reform: U.S. health care expenditures—16 percent of gross domestic product in 2007—are outpacing GDP growth by so much that the... Read more

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Voices

U.S. past point of no return in Afghanistan

In an editorial last Tuesday, Washington Post columnist George Will, a prominent conservative voice, called for “rapidly reversing the trajectory of America’s involvement in Afghanistan.”  The piece was plainly titled:... Read more

By September 10, 2009