Daily Archives: April 25, 2013
GUSA creates new club fund
Georgetown University Student Association President Calen Angert (MSB ’11) and GUSA Vice President Jason Kluger (MSB ’11) delivered on their campaign promise to create a GUSA Fund to provide an alternative source of club funding, but students have some doubts about how helpful the GUSA Fund will be. On Sunday, the Senate passed a bill [...]
Laptops lost
On October 27, Andrew Malzberg (COL ’11) was on the fourth floor of Lauinger Library around 1 a.m., where he saw Department of Public Safety officers confiscating unattended laptops “A lot of people leave laptops on the table because they go to the bathroom or Midnight Mug, and the officers started picking them up,” Malzbergsaid. [...]
GUSA may propose budget takeover
The Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee has drafted a bill to strip the Student Activities Commission and other funding boards of their votes at the annualspring Budget Summit. The Budget Summit determines the allocations and control of the student activities fee and student activities endowment. Currently, the annual Budget Summit is made [...]
GU group pushes DPS raise
Georgetown Solidarity is launcing a campaign to raise the pay of Department of Public Safety officers. The campaign coincides with ongoing contract negotiations between Allied International Union, which represents DPS officers, and the University. The last contract, which raised DPS officers’ pay by $2.50 to $15.60 per hour, was signed two and a half years [...]
More student space
A summit to find more space for students on campus was held on Tuesday, October 27. Members of the Student Space Working Group, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, and Georgetown administrators met to discuss plans for reorganizing existing student space and creating new student space on campus buildings like New South Hall. The [...]
Saxa Politica: Ten years with no new housing?
In March 2009, when the University met with the surrounding community to discuss Georgetown’s Campus Plan, University Architect Alan Brangman had drawn up plans that included space for 200-800 more students to be housed on campus. The current plan has space for no additional students. That’s right, zero. Georgetown needs to provide more University housing [...]
Tomorrow’s Classics: Television
The Voice reminisces about its favorite shows of the decade. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cartoon Network, 2000- A rapping spider with a pyramid scheme to unleash demons from hell, a universal remote monster (“remonster”) from outer space, and sentient trees with harsh punishments for polluters—and that’s just in the first two seasons. Adult Swim’s flagship [...]
Caroline’s changes fall too short
It is hard to talk about Caroline, or Change—Tony Kushner’s frustrating, engrossing musical, currently in production at the Gonda Theater—without talking about writing. The play, which is described as “semi-autobiographical,” is about a quiet Jewish boy, Noah Gellman (played by Sean Silvia, from Chevy Chase Elementary School), growing up in Louisiana in 1963—Kushner’s own backstory—and [...]
D.C. Comics: The District’s other bookstores
If you think comic books are meant for greasy, perma-pubescent mouthbreathers with no friends, stop reading right now. Go find Johnny Lawrence and Biff Tannen to talk about what it’s like being the villain in an eighties teen movie instead. Gone are the days of being stuffed in lockers. These days, comic books are pretty [...]
A portrait of the author as a middle-aged man
Goodloe Byron may have graduated from the College in 2004, but when he returns to the Hilltop from time to time, he brings with him his vigorous spirit, a few copies of his latest novel, and usually his lawyer—Hunter S. Thompson style. Having finished both Mach I and Mach II of his two-year “Zero Dollars” [...]
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