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Day: April 11, 2002


Sports

The Sports Sermon

We at the Sermon have a new favorite basketball player. Say hello to five-year veteran and Virginia Union graduate, Ben Wallace. The soft-spoken Wallace, once considered salary cap fodder in the trade from Orlando to Detroit for achy-breaky Grant Hill, currently leads the NBA in rebounds and blocked shots and has been one of the primary reasons for the Pistons’ surprising run to the Central Division title this season.

Sports

Don’t draft me

Make no bones about it: I’m a ridiculous sports nerd. On a rough estimate, I’d say about 90 percent of my waking hours are spent watching sports, playing sports, playing sports in video game form, writing about sports, talking about sports or reading about sports.

News

DPS threatens student chalkings

Department of Public Safety officers threatened to call the Metropolitan Police Department on students who were guarding their chalkings welcoming potential first-year students in Red Square last Friday.

Members of GU Pride and the Georgetown Solidarity Committee chalked Red Square for the second Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program weekend, when potential students visit the University campus.

Leisure

Voices carry on 14th

This week, grab that $1.10 and take the G2 Metrobus down to 14th Street. Strong and exciting women’s performance nights are just springing up all over the place there, and I suggest you catch them while they last. The first of the two, Mothertongue, is a women’s spoken word night.