Daily Archives: April 25, 2013
Diversity groups prepare for town hall
This week, the three working groups created last spring to address diversity issues at Georgetown, collectively called the “Diversity Initiative,” geared up for their first town hall meeting of the school year. The meeting will be held today at 5:30 in Copley Formal Lounge. University Provost James O’Donnell and Vice President for Institutional Diversity & [...]
GUSA senators point to Angert’s successes
Since their election last spring, the Georgetown University Student Association administration of President Calen Angert (MSB `11) and Vice President Jason Kluger (MSB `11) has gotten off to a strong start, according to GUSA Senators. Angert can point to concrete accomplishments such as the Saturday Safeway stop on the Rosslyn Georgetown University Transportation Service buses, [...]
DDOT cuts upper Wisconsin Circulator
On Monday, District Department of Transportation announced several changes in its D.C. Circulator bus service, including the elimination of the upper Wisconsin Avenue section of the Georgetown-Union Station line. In a press release, DDOT spokesman John Lisle attributed the cut to budget constraints, stating that the extension carried only 2 percent of the line’s total [...]
GU to improve safety with grant money
Georgetown University received a half million-dollar grant from the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools this September. The grant is designed to assist the University in its emergency planning during the next eighteen months. Department of Education guidelines restrict the grant money to areas such as training school safety teams and [...]
City on a Hill: Taxi drivers are people too
“There is power in a union,” traveling musician Joe Hill sang in 1913. Now, with only 12.4 percent of American workers unionized in 2008, Joe Hill’s sentiments seem archaic. But striking Washington cab drivers on Tuesday tried to remind the District of a time when Hill’s words rang true—or at least of 2007, the last [...]
Critical Voices: A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
When was the last time you’ve gone shoegazing, losing yourself in a detached and introspective state, with any and all hostility far from your mind? There’s a reason why this subgenre of alternative rock latches onto droney imagery: it may be the only fitting way to describe the hold this type of music can have [...]
Critical Voices: La Roux – La Roux
This year, L is for La Roux. Not the rock-synth hybrid of Ladyhawke, or the overproduced pop sound of Little Boots, and definitely not the overexposed Lady Gaga. With a name that blends the feminine form of “redhead” in French—“la rousse”—with the masculine “le roux,” the true fresh sound of female pop this year comes [...]
Short circuit
Once a year, experimental electronic artists from across the globe convene in the heart of D.C. for the Sonic Circuit Festival. In its ninth season, the Sonic Circuit Festival (which started this past Tuesday and runs until September 27) showcases the world’s greatest experimental and avant-garde electronic music. D.C. is host to a thriving underground [...]
High Fidelity: Gold sounds
Perhaps you’ve heard of that band. You know, the one that’s reforming for a big reunion tour in 2010. Yeah, that band. “The most important American band of the Nineties” or some shit; the one that laid “the blueprint for independent rock over the past generation.” When the news of their reunion broke, staid sources [...]
Culottes for you lots: Fashion weak
Twice a year, the fashion elite gathers to celebrate fashion in four cities—New York, London, Milan and Paris. For an almost endless, whirlwind month, designers, stylists, makeup artists, and editors show us what we should be wearing, now and in the coming seasons, parading from show to show in an ever-changing array of expensive outfits to prove exactly how important and stylish they are.
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