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Empire State of Mind: Hoyas do the Wright thing in New York

March 18th, 2010

As the West Virginia Mountaineers celebrated on the court and the strains of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” echoed through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden, the Georgetown Hoyas sat down for a press conference. They did not have much to say.

The R Word: Recession or Revival?

March 4th, 2010

One day it was there, the next—gone. An empty storefront on Wisconsin Avenue is all that remains of Sugar, a Georgetown boutique that once sold women’s clothes and jewelry.

Guilty until proven innocent: Overturning the District’s wrongful convictions

February 25th, 2010

A plastic mail bin sits on Daniel Satin’s desk, nearly overflowing with a mix of thin white envelopes and manila envelopes so thick that a single stamp won’t suffice. Every month, he receives between 40 and 70 of these envelopes, their contents all asking for the same thing: a second chance.

Higher education: GU and GWU’s drug policy divide

February 18th, 2010

On the night of September 8, 2009, George Washington University Police Department officers responded to a suspicious odor coming from freshman Simon Abrahms’s dorm room.

Chiming in: When you’re a Chime, you’re a Chime all the way

February 11th, 2010

Last Saturday night, the audience in Gaston Hall erupted in laughter as a nearly unintelligible cacophony rang out. On stage, an unlikely cast of characters—a bourbon-drinking Jesuit, Jersey Shore’s the Situation, and Midnight Madness toilet-shooter Alex Thiele, to name a few—sang out simultaneously.

Pride and Prejudice: LGBTQ at Georgetown

February 4th, 2010

“I came out the day after the election—November 5, 2008.”

After spending eleven months working for John McCain’s presidential campaign, Carlos Hernandez (SFS ’11) was exhausted.