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Day: March 1, 2007


Sports

Pac Man J

Why can’t this guy stay out of trouble? Does the utter ennui of his off-season existence drive Adam “PacMan” Jones of the Titans to find ways to make his life more interesting, regardless of the costs? Don’t they have a bowling alley or something in Nashville?

News

Gallaudet’s accreditation woes

Though the protests against Provost and former president-elect Jane Fernandes have subsided, Gallaudet University is still suffering from the long-term effects of last fall’s student strike. The country’s only deaf university may soon lose its accreditation from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the same organization that evaluates and accredits Georgetown.

News

The life and times of international students

Georgetown ranked number one in a recent survey of international relations programs and prides itself on its high percentage of international students, but faced with tasks like applying for jobs or getting a credit card or cell phone, students from abroad often have to jump through hoops.

News

City on a Hill: Council is so money and doesn’t even know it

Price of one campaign for the vacant Ward 4 seat in the District Council: $195,395.

Raising most of that money from businesses outside of the wards: priceless.

News

News Hit: Shaw inaugurated

Closing a refreshingly uncontroversial chapter in the Student Association’s election history, Ben Shaw (COL `08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL `08) were sworn in as president and vice-president at a Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.

News

Barone talks about 2008 elections

Conservative political pundit Michael Barone said that American voting trends are in flux, with voters shifting away from long-time partisan loyalties, last night in Old North. About 25 people gathered to listen to his analysis of the current political situation and the 2008 presidential election.

News

Pittsburgh tags campus

University of Pittsburgh fans vandalized a street sign between the Leavey Center and the Reiss Science Building before last weekend’s Georgetown-Pitt basketball game. The Hoya Saxa sign on Canal Road was also spray painted with Pitt graffitti.

Editorials

Step 1: Give students a box

Though we’re well into the “future,” it still feels like campus mail is stuck in the days of the Pony Express.

Editorials

Don’t make Hoyas’ home nicer

Looking to fund $50 million in renovations to the Verizon Center without opening up his checkbook, Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin did what any sensible man would do: he turned to the D.C. Council.

Voices

The truth about strangers

Unfortunately, it appears that our mothers’ favorite adage about taking candy from strangers is true. Give your amiable bus driver an inch and he’ll take a mile. Chat with the girl beside you in the Safeway line once and she’ll be lying in wait for you by the shopping carts next time you go to buy cereal. Strike up a conversation with the security guard at your office and next thing you know he’ll stop seeing your 30-year age difference as an obstacle to asking you to dinner.