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October 2006


Editorials

Generation Y: A giant pat on our own backs

Sick of sanctimonious baby boomers blaming our generation’s political apathy for the sad state of the country’s affairs? Well, now you’ve got a rebuttal to hurl back at the next grey-ponytailed ex-radical who asks where your conscience is: we’re better people than they are. Numbers don’t lie.

Editorials

Recognize Gallaudet’s demands

Dr. Jane K. Fernandes has generated so much heartfelt and intense opposition from both students and faculty that she cannot become the next president without thorough consideration of other options.

Voices

What are you doing about Iraq?

Examining the role of students in protests against the war.

Sports

Luck of the Irish holds out against Hoyas

Notre Dame denied senior midfielder Chrissy Skogen and the rest of the Georgetown women’s soccer team a storybook ending to their match against the Fighting Irish and to their 2006 season.

Sports

Pouting Irish

“One of the teams [Tennessee] that jumped us had the same game we had. They’re down, they’re playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team [Florida] that jumped us wasn’t even playing. They were at home eating cheeseburgers, and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.”

News

Saxa Politica: Housing headache

bi-weekly column campus news and events

Editorials

Hoyas for intellectual choice

A frightening trend is emerging among Catholic colleges, one that flies in the face of the open dialogue so vital to academic discourse.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Controversy filled the lungs of the World Series faster than Kenny Rogers could wash his hands. I am not a Tigers fan but have been supporting them this postseason. Rogers’ dirty hand, though, made me begin to question my support of possible cheaters. I couldn’t let my baseball morals deteriorate.

Sports

Zeller blasts Georgetown to victory on Senior Day

The old saying goes that “a win is a win,” but for Georgetown seniors Andrew Keszler, Ricky Schramm, Benjamin Jefferson-Dow, Daniel Grasso and Tim Convey, Saturday’s overtime thriller was so much more.