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November 2002

Editorials

Guard-ing student opinion

At the beginning of the school year, the administration implemented a new safety policy which restricts student access to dormitories and other campus buildings. Unlike the old policy, which allowed students to enter all residence halls with a valid Georgetown ID, the new policy restricts entrance to residents of the building.

By the November 14, 2002

Leisure

Rangila expands its focus

The silhouettes of two women on linen screens are all that is visible on the darkened stage. The dancers shift to a lively drum beat until they emerge from behind the screens, their bodies speckled with glow-in-the-dark paint. The traditional percussion and sitar change to techno, and the dancers seize burning sticks of incense and fuse traditional South Asian dance with the more abandoned moves of a raver.

By the November 14, 2002

Sports

Back it up

Statistics from this past weekend in the NFL: Marc Bulger 36 of 48, 453 yards and four touchdowns; Tommy Maddox 28 of 41, 473 yards and four touchdowns. What do these two quarterbacks have in common, besides breaking franchise records? They were both sitting on their respective team’s benches at the beginning of the NFL season, not expecting to play at all this year.

By the November 14, 2002

Sports

Hoffman’s steady career ends

Senior defender Casey Hoffman has many nicknames. Head Coach Diane Drake calls her the Cal Ripken of the Georgetown women’s soccer team because she started every game of her collegiate career and missed only one practice in four years. Drake also teasingly calls her Mute, for her quiet, uncomplaining leadership style.

By the November 14, 2002

Sports

Women’s volleyball misses postseason

This year’s women’s volleyball team more resembles the 16-13 team from two seasons ago than the 1999 squad that made the NCAA Tournament or last year’s team, which made an appearance in the Big East Championship. With two games left, the Hoyas are out of contention for the Big East Tournament, currently standing at sixth in a conference where only the top four of 14 advance.

By the November 14, 2002

Features

The future of music is now

A young woman with short, dyed-red hair, dressed stylishly with a hint of thrift-store nonchalance, stands confidently behind the podium among Gaston Hall’s stained-glass-and-oak-paneled grandeur. Names of great thinkers are etched on the wall behind her, and a herd of dark-suited lawyers, powerful businessmen and curious musicians sit in front of her.

By the November 14, 2002

Voices

Ode to life

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think I don’t have her. To feel that I’ve lost her. To hear the immense night, more immense without her. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. What does it matter that my love couldn’t keep her. The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

By the November 14, 2002

Voices

Darn-all the bathrooms

I am a simple man. Although I have the relative good fortune of living in the wealthiest state in the world and occupy a position of seemingly infinite upward mobility, my needs and desires are few. I have no use for the highly coveted bling- bling of Lexuses, flashy jewelry, high-powered video game machines or even fine dining at the District’s various five-star restaurants, though my financial station and societal privilege may one day entitle me to these things.

By the November 14, 2002

Voices

Sunday Night Syndrome exposed

Mornings are my favorite time of day because the endless possibilities of life are upon me. I relish my first cup of coffee and sing out with the morning birds about the hopefulness that each new day brings. As the morning drifts into the afternoon and the sun moves across the sky, a sense of foreboding comes over me as I realize that the night is fast approaching.

By the November 14, 2002

Leisure

Heaven takes earnest look at post-war ennui

Ten bucks says that Ricky battered Lucy and Ward Cleaver had a crush on Rock Hudson. It is almost a game now among pop culture nuts to decode the subtexts of those unbelievably pure television shows of the 1950s. A war had just ended and audiences wanted something that reflected their desires for an existence that was simple, happy and clean.

By the November 14, 2002