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April 2004

Leisure

Madvillainy, Madvillain, Stones Throw

Every once and awhile an album comes around that is so highly anticipated that it seems impossible it can live up to the hype. Most of them don’t. But for every 10 or 15 disappointments (see Beck’s Sea Change or Belle & Sebastian’s Fold Your Hands Child …), there emerges one album that delivers on its promise.

By the April 29, 2004

Leisure

Galloping through Foxfields

According to its official website, Foxfields is one of the handful of steeplechase horse races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association. It is also, according to Georgetown students, “a total shit show,” “a day of drunken debauchery,” and “just a whole lot of beer.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Enslaved by Zara

I see it. I am on a path toward it. Nothing will deter me now. With arms shaking under a load of acrylics and wool knits, I look straight ahead and imagine myself there-at the red and orange clothing rack across the room. The obstacles ahead present a challenge: meandering customers with wandering eyes, glancing at the shiny white walls in search of the perfect evening ensemble, a smart suit or a sales associate to assist them with their shopping needs.

By the April 29, 2004

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Power trip: check.

I left my dignity in Dahlgren fountain.

And your bra.

The deal was I run through the fountain, you make out with me. Damn you.

Not the magic formula you expected? Life is like that.

“Serenity Now?” “No, Sterility now!!” “The Amish?” “No, the office!”

Seniors work? Jay isn’t feelin’ it.

By the April 29, 2004

Sports

Men’s, women’s lacrosse heading in different directions

Two days saw two very different results for Georgetown’s lacrosse teams. While the no. 5 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team’s dominating 16-7 victory over the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers helped cement the Hoyas’ postseason hopes, the no. 7 women’s loss at no.

By the April 29, 2004

News

Two Hoyas on two sides as protesters flood National Mall

Rebecca Danis (SFS ‘06) and Kristina Gupta (CAS ‘05) would not normally find themselves at the same protest. On Sunday, however, they took opposing sides at the March for Women’s Lives.

Several hundred thousand protesters, some of whom came from as far as Washington State and Alaska, marched on the National mall, where a rally featured celebrity speakers such as Whoopi Goldberg, Sen.

By the April 29, 2004

News

Protect aliens

This country functions according to the concept of federalism. It’s pure enlightenment theory, straight out of Montesquieu-the separation of powers is essential to democracy. One of the powers our founding fathers gave to the federal government was the creation and enforcement of immigration law.

By the April 29, 2004

Leisure

The Incomplete Triangle, Lansing-Dreiden, Kemado

The three surfaces of the case for The Incomplete Triangle fold to form an equilateral triangle, and, naturally, the skewed white lines on each surface form a triangle as well. Oh, no-is this another avant-garde, experimental concept album by some art school drop-out? The accompanying biography reads, “Lansing-Dreiden is a company that sees no distinction between art and commerce-or anything else.”

By the April 29, 2004

Sports

Manning Up

When NFL commisioner Paul Tagliabue stepped to the mic at Madison Square Garden to announce that San Diego Chargers had selected Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning with the first pick in the 2004 draft, you could feel the Manning family’s heart palpatations.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Sunshine boy goes to hell

Sounds of giggling and squealing are leaking through the hall as the couple next door play around with the vibrating, coin-operated bed. I’m sitting in my room at the Hotel 69 doing homework, automatically making me the biggest loser in the building. It doesn’t matter that everyone else in the building is porking an aging hooker, it still has to be more fun than memorizing characters from a textbook by the dim lamplight.

By the April 29, 2004