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January 2007

Leisure

Bottoms Up, Wiseys!

The table is set, the romantic lasagna dinner is in the oven, and four noisy roommates have been hustled out the door of your Henle apartment. It’s five till eight and she’s on her way over; then it hits you.

By January 25, 2007

Sports

NHL Recount

Rory Fitzpatrick is the kind of hard-working journeyman that is becoming harder and harder to find in the National Hockey League today. He doesn’t have the stats of your typical all-star player. In fact, he isn’t on the official all-star ballot at all. Fitzpatrick has exactly one assist this season and only nine goals after a decade in the league. But that didn’t stop Steve Schmid of New York from starting what has now become a national movement: the Vote for Rory campaign.

By January 25, 2007

Sports

Controversial sign leads to apology

Most of the record number of students who lined up at McDonough Gymnasium earlier this year to collect their men’s basketball season ticket packages hardly noticed the cover. Recent complaints, however, have revealed a sign in the background of the cover that some have construed as homophobic.

By January 25, 2007

Voices

Hillary and Bill, sitting in a tree

After 227 years of white men in the nation’s highest office, this election has experienced a “surge” in diversity. Among the announced Democratic candidates are half Mexican-American Gov. Bill Richardson, half African-American Sen. Barack Obama, and full Woman-American Sen. Hillary Clinton. Yet while Clinton has the novel opportunity to potentially be the first female politician nominated for the presidency by a major party, her surname will constantly remind us that she is not just any lady.

By January 25, 2007

Voices

Pop! goes the femur

I knew that the head of this patient’s femur was going to need to go back into his pelvis. They would drill a hole through the bone and fix it in place to the bed frame until surgery could be performed. I had learned to steel myself for the brutal procedure, picturing it in my head before it actually happened in front of me, like I’d done countless times over the previous six months of my internship in Indianapolis’ public hospital. I remember idly wondering if they would need a spade bit.

By January 25, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Polyvinyl

Far be it from me to speculate on Kevin Barnes’ emotional state, but after listening to the latest Of Montreal release, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, I’d have to say he got burned, badly.

By January 25, 2007

Voices

A true patriot’s priorities

Five golden rings, four calling birds … three American fryers … two turtledoves and a partridge in a pair tree.

By January 18, 2007

Sports

Knights dominate Lady Hoyas

The Lady Hoyas could not find their game Tuesday night in a Big East match-up against Rutgers. Ranked 2nd in the conference, Rutgers dominated the Hoyas 71-41. The Hoyas now sit with an 11-7 record (1-4 BE), while Rutgers holds a 10-5 record, (5-1 BE).

By January 18, 2007

Sports

Sports Sermon

It seems like just yesterday that the months of anticipation gave way to the first home basketball game of the season. A preseason ranking, coupled with the rich history of a century of Hoyas basketball, left little room for any other team in the hearts of Georgetown students. Nevertheless, the somewhat disappointing season is more than half way over, with only a handful of home games left on the schedule. Thankfully, the March 3 match-up against Connecticut does not have to mark the end of the basketball experience here in the nation’s capital.

By January 18, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

The Future Journaling of Gordon Gladberry

I had to get away, to go somewhere where no one had heard of Gordon Gladberry, and start a life based on me, not my name.

By January 18, 2007