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September 2002


News

Fair trade coffee campaign finds success at GU

Georgetown Students for Fair Trade have made considerable progress toward their goal of having Georgetown’s campus serve only Fair Trade-certified coffee. Fair Trade guarantees farmers a higher wage and meets higher product standards.

New South, the Center Grill and Buzz now serve the coffee.

News

GU for sale

As liberal-minded, idealistic college students, many of us at Georgetown would like to say that we are wholeheartedly against the corporatization of our school. We come to university to learn and to be challenged intellectually?not to be bombarded with corporate logos and sponsorships.

Editorials

Do unto others …

On a January night in 1998, top-level Georgian diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze slammed his Ford Taurus into a line of cars waiting at a stoplight on Connecticut Avenue just blocks from Dupont Circle, killing a 16-year-old Maryland girl. Makharadze, who was driving drunk, initially claimed diplomatic immunity from arrest.

Leisure

Cinema & spice

For all those D.C. residents who want to check out the Kennedy Center but don’t have the desire to see the National Symphony Orchestra or Shear Madness, the next two weeks provide you with a perfect reason: The American Film Institute Theater is hosting the fifth Latin American Film Festival from Sept.

Sports

Men’s soccer loses in overtime

Men’s Soccer (2-4)?The Georgetown men’s soccer team lost a 1-0 heartbreaker to Towson University on Tuesday, allowing the Tigers to score a late goal in double overtime. The lone Towson goal was scored by senior Randy Tolson, who netted the strike past Hoya junior goalkeeper Tim Hogan with only 2.

Sports

Cross country gears up for successful seasons

The women’s and men’s cross country teams won their respective races in the Great Meadow Invitational this Saturday at The Plains in Great Meadows, Va. While both teams were satisfied with their success over the weekend, their focus is on preparing for the Big East and NCAA Tournaments in November.

Leisure

Buzz closes after nine years

In a sad turn of events for District clubgoers, Buzz, a weekly dance party that has been held at Nation (1015 Half St., S.E.) for the past nine years, has unexpectedly closed, effective immediately. Buzzlife Productions, which ran the event every Friday night, announced the closing on its website Wednesday evening.

News

Student robbed at gunpoint

In the early morning hours of Sunday Sept. 8, a Georgetown student was robbed at gunpoint near the corner of 30th and Dumbarton Streets as he was walking home.

The Georgetown Department of Public Safety issued a campus-wide e-mail this Monday informing students of the incident and advocating caution.

Features

September 11, 2002

Photography by Rob Anderson, Alana Burke, Debbie Hwang and Kazuo Oishi

Leisure

Anthems examines D.C. a year on

Washington is a city that often seems to lack a unified voice. From Anacostia to Capitol Hill, from Adams Morgan to Georgetown, there could hardly be a more disparate half million people. In the wake of last September, the question of a common identity for Washington has attracted new attention, and in its first show of the season, Arena Stage seeks to find an anthem befitting our impossibly diverse city.