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August 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

With QB chosen, football looks eagerly ahead

SPORTS BY BILL CLEVELAND The major summertime question about the Georgetown football team’s upcoming season has been this: Who will be the starting quarterback? After a period of preseason uncertainty, Head Coach Bob Benson has selected junior Andrew Crawford to start in the position.

By the August 21, 2003

Editorials

Nice quads

After many months of construction, the Southwest Quadrangle project is complete. Students have been moving in, and the building should be filled to capacity by this time next week, mostly with sophomores surly for having been denied a shot at a Village A rooftop.

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

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

Voices

Stoking the engines of hate

VOICES BY REV. EDWARD J. INGEBRETSEN, A.C.C. I write this as a priest. It may be that the homosexual is, as Vatican documents repeat, “inordinately disordered.” But what is rarely noted is the surely disordered, even pathological, reaction to the mere presence of the homosexual in Church contexts. In the words of the old curse, dogs bark and people run screaming from the street when the homosexual voice is heard.

By the August 21, 2003