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Sports Sermon

“He always joked about the NCAA, never seemed to take it seriously, “-Georgia student on asst. coach Jim Harrick Jr.

Hey serm’, I’ve been living in a hole the past two weeks, I didn’t miss anything did I? No athletes got in trouble did they? Its nice to see that the sports world has cleaned up its image and that the legal ledgers have been cleared of high-profile athletes clogging up the courts.

By March 4, 2004

Sports

Curling for Columbine

Can you smell it? The fresh cut grass and pine tar in the air. Can you hear it? Flashbulbs popping and crowds cheering as the home team takes the field. Baseball season is rounding third base, and a month from now the craziest off-season of all time will hopefully be followed up by a great season of America’s favorite pastime.

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Sports

Brunson leads women’s hoops through mixed week

In a frustrating year for fans of Georgetown basketball, the women’s team has occasionally provided succor. The team, after all, boasts two record-smashing players, senior Rebekkah Brunson-the first woman ever to lead the Big East in both scoring and rebounding-and Mary Lisicky-a junior who broke the university’s three-point shooting record earlier this season.

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Editorials

Racism: a tradition of toleration

EDITORIALS Four years ago, a rash of high-profile hate-based incidents occurred at Georgetown. In response, students and administrators cooperated to address serious omissions in the student code of conduct regarding bias-related offenses. Now, a new movement is preparing to tackle another form of racism, one that is more subtle and pervasive.

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Editorials

Sen. hatches bad gun law

It’s safe to say that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) doesn’t live in the District. It’s also safe to say that from his house in the posh Federal Heights neighborhood of homogenous Salt Lake City he has little grasp of what the introduction of handguns would do in America’s most murderous city.

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Editorials

Learning from botched elections

When students return to campus after Spring Break, a month will have passed since the Georgetown University Student Association held elections for its presidential and vice-presidential positions. The student body, however, will still not know the outcome of that election.

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Sports

Curling for Columbine

As I sat down Sunday to simultaneously watch the CBS and ESPN men’s basketball tournament selection shows, I awaited hearing where my team would be headed. Unfortunately, that team is my hometown Texas Longhorns, not my beloved Hoyas.

If someone told me five years ago that I’d be certain Texas was in the tourney and Georgetown was out, I’d have called them crazy.

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