Daily Archives: April 25, 2013
GU vets given less aid than peers
Undergraduate student veterans at Georgetown receive far less in education benefits than veterans at neighboring institutions like George Washington University and peer institutions like Dartmouth College and University of Pennsylvania, according to figures from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The disparity results partly from the structure of the post-September 11 GI Bill, and partly from [...]
Diverse crowd marches for gay rights
Activists from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C. this Sunday for the National Equality March, where protesters sought equal civil rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community. The march began at I and 15 streets, moving to the front of the White House before ending in a rally on the U.S. [...]
Midnight madness buys carbon offset
This Friday’s Midnight Madness will emit thirteen tons of carbon, according to an audit conducted by Georgetown Eco-Action. To offset these carbon emissions, Georgetown will spend about $170 on carbon credits. The proposal, headed by GUSA’s Secretary of Green Initiatives and Chairman of the Corp Green Initiative Adam Alfi (MSB `11), was approved earlier this [...]
GU OpenCourseWare just lifting off
Over the summer, Georgetown made online materials for a handful of courses free to the public as part of the OpenCourseWare movement that grants the public access to syllabi, lectures, notes, and assignments from classes. Georgetown’s foray into the field of OCW is still in its fledgling stages. Currently the University’s website only consists of [...]
New Rosslyn circulator considered
Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) introduced legislation last week that would allow the Circulator buses, such as the Union Station – Georgetown route to expand into nearby areas like Rosslyn, Virginia. The bill, introduced on Tuesday, October 6, would amend a section of D.C. Official Code that limits the Circulator to stops inside the District. [...]
Saxa Politica: GU’s Woes on the World Wide Web
Georgetown’s Communications Department will take charge of giving the University website a badly-needed update, its first since 2002. The project “will redo the homepage and content found just off of it,” but not the whole site, and is likely to take at least a year, according to University spokesperson Julie Greene Bataille. Not that the [...]
One man’s Exit is another man’s entrance
At No Exit, everything is done well, nothing seems out of place, and the effect works. Audience members walk through an impeccably decorated antechamber, creepy and Halloween-appropriate in red and black. The music as you walk in and out is the perfect blend of kitschy injoke and sincere soundtrack. They even had Georgetown Cupcakes at [...]
Klosterman’s critical theory
We all rely on gimmicks. We discover actions that please us—a particular manner of speaking with hand gestures, crossing a left leg over a right knee, incessantly quoting The Hangover—then copy and repeat those actions because they give us identifiable personalities. Gimmicks are an attempt to shape ourselves as we see fit. For writers, gimmicks [...]
Lez’hur Ledger: Solar flair
Ever since the first forest-dwelling pagans grotesquely sacrificed children and virgins to what they believed to be the Sun God, humans have recognized the significance of the brilliant orb of energy around which our planet revolves. But even so many millennia after our ancestors performed violent rituals in ineffectual attempts to harvest just a bit [...]
An audience in search of good theater
If you’re looking for a breezy Saturday night, stop reading now: Six Characters in Search of an Author isn’t light fare. The Department of Performing Arts’ first performance is an adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s iconic play, Six Characters In Search Of An Author, directed by department Chair Derek Goldman. With a cast of 21, Goldman [...]
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