Archive

  • By Month

August 2003

Leisure

Hail Radiohead redux

Over the summer, Radiohead had indie rock aficionados more excited than a sugar-happy nine-year-old on his birthday-and all they did was release another album. When the group that is often called the Earth’s most relevant rock band plays, everyone listens.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

New basketball assistants settle in

The Hoyas roster wasn’t the only part of the men’s basketball team that underwent a major overhaul this summer. When assistants Ronny Thompson and Chip Simms left the team to take a position at the University of Arkansas and explore other coaching options, respectively, Georgetown was left with two significant holes in its staff.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

The Serm returns for Fall session with a docket of new cases.

We will begin with Texas vs. Dotson, Carlton. Now, Mr. Dotson, you are charged with murder in the first degree in the death of Patrick Dennehy, your basketball teammate at Baylor University. I see here that you are claiming to have had delusions previously, hearing voices and such.

By August 21, 2003

News

In Memoriam

Rev. Joseph T. Durkin, S.J. The Rev. Joseph T. Durkin, Professor Emeritus of History, died this summer shortly after his one-hundredth birthday. An extremely active community member even in old age, Durkin worked with prison inmates and Alzheimer’s patients, as well as Georgetown students.

By the August 21, 2003

The Back Page

The Back Page

Free Unclassifieds: Don’t fret, plun. Welcome freshpeople! nijntje But who could forget the viceroy? I’d feel awful. Surely you are misled. The British love picnics, and so one didn’t not have a picnic merely because the environment didn’t lend itself particulary well to picnics.

By the August 21, 2003

Editorials

Too many buses

When Georgetown University sold the Medical Center to MedStar in 2000 to avoid further financial losses, part of their agreement addressed traffic and parking issues. It was agreed that by 2002, MedStar would control almost 2,800 of the 4,080 on-campus parking spaces allowed by zoning laws—800 more than the hospital could use previously.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

Scavenge, win

I don’t really do sports. I sit on the couch and watch them. I listen to my friends talk about them. I even watch a basketball game or two at Yates while I’m running on the treadmill. But I don’t do sports.

So what got me up at 6:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning to jog two miles? And why am I loading up on carbs and consuming four Nalgenes of water a day? It’s because the race of all races, the challenge of all challenges, the adventure of all adventures is just around the corner.

By the August 21, 2003

Editorials

A tasteless commencement

The commencement speaker at Georgetown’s college graduation ceremony this May was Cardinal Francis Arinze, a well-known Nigerian prelate who has been mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II. Suggested as a speaker by College Dean Jane Dammen McAuliffe, the Cardinal was expected to discuss interreligious dialogue (he has a great deal of experience with Muslim-Christian relations).

By the August 21, 2003

Leisure

Embellish!

Was your summer less than exciting? Maybe you sat on your fine ass watching three straight months of All My Children. If a first-year, perhaps you allowed your parents to convince you that college would entail a full summer of preparation and spent the entire time searching for the perfect shade of blue extra-long twin sheets.

By the August 21, 2003

Leisure

Colonial misadventures

Don’t Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller Random House, $12.95 Although a grammar teacher would balk at the title, don’t let its wordiness fool you. In her memoir Don’t Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recounts with wonderful clarity her upbringing in Africa in the 1970s and 80s.

By the August 21, 2003