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August 2002

Leisure

Attention coffee quaffers!

Coffee has become for college students what Nicorette gum is for most smokers?a hyper-addictive drug with the bonus of flavor that can be a heavy hitter on the pocketbooks. It may not be so palatable at first, but once you’re hooked, you’re hooked. With coffee’s promulgation into the mainstream comes coffee snobs who refuse anything but the bitterest and darkest of roasts and to which sugar and cream is a godforsaken blasphemy.

By the August 29, 2002

Editorials

Did you get that memo?

Twenty-four Metro police officers have been suspended as part of an ongoing internal investigation into a slew of offensive e-mails sent between squad car computers in 1999 and 2000. Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer was quoted in The Washington Post as saying that the messages included comments such as ”’Let’s go punch this person,’ or, ‘Let’s go stop this person’ based on their race or gender or sexual orientation,” and that many others included vulgar or sexual banter.

By the August 29, 2002

News

Students unable to access money through ATM

Students arrived on campus last week to find themselves with limited access to money kept in acounts with the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union. The two automated teller machines on campus operated by the Credit Union were out of order and the bank’s school-year hours did not begin until Monday.

By the August 29, 2002

News

Georgetown Jesuit turns 100

Father James Martin, S.J., the oldest living Jesuit in the United States, will celebrate his 100th birthday this Friday on campus with friends and relatives from across the country.

Throughout his 68-year ministry, Martin has served at Georgetown University twice.

By the August 29, 2002

Leisure

A spliff too far

The fanfare surrounding rock’s “latest trend” transcends garage rock’s stripped-down sound and careless attitude. Kids these days are bringing back the tight ripped jeans, staying away from the shower and cutting their own hair if the scissors are dull enough.

By the August 29, 2002

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By the August 29, 2002

Leisure

Wilco: the band, the myth, the album

In the music business, a sure way to foster interest in an artist (and thus sell records) is to build a mythology?a drama to underscore, if not transcend, the music. Typically, the most expedient way to mythologize oneself is by dying?to which still-robust catalog sales for Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake and Lynyrd Skynyrd attest.

By the August 22, 2002

News

GOCard replaces old student ID

Georgetown University is continuing the process of fully incorporating the GOCard, a new student identification card that offers more services than the former student ID.

The old IDs will not open any campus dorms in the near future, according to Margie Bryant of the Office of Auxillary Services, which is heading the GOCard program.

By the August 22, 2002

News

GU hosts summit on Afghanistan

Georgetown University played a significant role in U.S.-Afghan relations over the summer by hosting the Afghanistan-America Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction. Top Afghan and U.S. government officials as well as U.S. policymakers and experts convened for the first time in the United States on July 24 and 25 to discuss pressing issues facing Afghanistan’s new government.

By the August 22, 2002

Leisure

Summer books gone wild!

Prague by Arthur Phillips Random House, $24.99 In his posthumously published memoirs of life in 1920s Paris, Hemingway wrote, “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death.

By the August 22, 2002