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April 2001


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Muslim Prayer Room vandalized

The Muslim prayer room located in the basement of Copley was vandalized sometime between last Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. A heavy antique pillar was found pushed onto the floor... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Editor’s note: Before you read this, imagine a picture of Jesse Jackson in the middle of this text. In the print edition, there are jokes about it. So you’re not... Read more

Editorials

Anti-Free Trader Joes

What do whales, ozone, sweatshop workers and the prison industrial complex have in common? More than you might think. Protestors at a recent free trade summit in Quebec drew fire... Read more

Sports

The Answer

Answer: Circle. Question: What is a columnists favorite 2-D shape? So, as a tribute to the circle, the end is the beginning. I’ve been writing some form of a column... Read more

Editorials

Theme-based policy

President Bush’s press secretary, Ari Fleischer, told reporters last week that the President had declared an environmental “theme week,” not unlike his earlier “theme weeks” related to spirituality and the... Read more

Sports

Sportsview

I can’t help it. I can’t help getting a little teary-eyed when I watch TNT and see JWill go behind the back to CWebb. It’s artistry, yes, first and foremost.... Read more

Editorials

Zoned out

In any healthy relationship, there must be give-and-take, yielding and proceeding. In its March 29 decision not to raise Georgetown’s enrollment above the 1990 cap of 5,627 undergraduate students, the... Read more

Sports

Laughs, tears: Another year on the Hilltop

Like all good things, this era of Voice Sports must also come to a slow, grinding halt, just like the dynasties of the Bulls and the Lakers (there would be... Read more

Sports

Da Scoop

Women’s Basketball?Georgetown senior guard Katie Smrcka-Duffy made history last Friday when the Sacramento Monarchs drafted her into the WNBA. After her selection in the fourth-round, Smrcka-Duffy became the first Hoya... Read more

Features

Go-Go: The Districts own music

“Are you gonna go in there?” one of the young black men asked us, half feigning shock. The four of us, all white Georgetown students, were apparently quite conspicuous, standing... Read more