Few bands embody the rise of independent music over the last decade better than Belle & Sebastian. This Scottish seven-piece began their career as the final project of front man Stuart Murdoch’s college music class in 1996. Since then, Belle & Sebastian have been hailed as the triumphant return of classic British pop.
In 1966, when John Lennon quipped that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” people went nuts. They burned records and religious groups pounded home the argument that Satan loves rock and roll. A little ironically, the Beatles have since become so canonized that these days comparing any musical act to them is decried as blasphemy.
The hardest-working organs in any college student’s body are probably the eyes. They are continuously glued to a computer-screen lit in harsh, artificial light, gazing at power-point slides during class lectures, pouring over glossy textbook pages into the early morning, or adjusting to the strobe-lights at a Saturday night party.
The terrible feeling of defeat is never easy to deal with, especially after victory is within sight. On Saturday, the Georgetown football team fell victim to a fourth-quarter comeback for the second time this season, when they were outplayed by Wagner University and lost 22-16 in a thrilling double overtime classic at Multi-Sport Field.
Friday will signal the change of the season for the Georgetown sports fan. Let’s be real, for most students there are only two sports seasons on the Hilltop—basketball season and basketball offseason. Midnight Madness is the start of the better one.
The Georgetown women’s soccer team hit the road this week for a string of four away games, and so far they’ve come out the winners against two Big East opponents. The team took on the Cincinnati Bearcats (7-6-1), whose offense got an early lead when they scored in the 13th minute.
While the Georgetown men’s soccer team has had many ups and downs so far this season, one player has been as steady as they come. Steve Neumann is far and away the team leader in points, with six goals and five assists. What makes Neumann’s performance all the more impressive is that he is a freshman, and he has only started one game this season.
Somewhere in Major League Baseball’s excruciatingly long 136-page rulebook, a provision in Section 9.2 reads, “If there is reasonable doubt that any umpire’s decision may be in conflict with the rules, the manager may appeal the decision and ask that a correct ruling be made. Such appeal shall be made only to the umpire who made the protested decision.”
The Corp is not perfect. That’s why feedback, like last week’s Voice op-ed by Julie Patterson entitled “Corporal punishment: My daily dose of café-au-hell” is so important to us. While I take issue with a great deal of the author’s commentary—and all of her blatant falsehoods—the article was not useless.
Being upset because a friend has been accepted to a school that rejected you is understandable. But it is a little too much when a friend tells you, to your face, that you didn’t actually deserve your acceptance letter. Throughout senior year, everyone knew that my first choice was Georgetown.
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