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.

By the Editorial Board March 1, 2007

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.

By Will Sommer March 1, 2007

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.

By Dylan Richmond March 1, 2007

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.

By John Lawless March 1, 2007

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.

By John Lawless March 1, 2007

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.

By Jessica Bachman March 1, 2007

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.

By Michael Bruns 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?

By Dante Randazzo March 1, 2007

Sports

Hoyas drop a heartbreaker

Hoya baseball (2-4) was riding a two-game winning streak going into yesterday’s game against Navy (9-2). The team got another very solid pitching performance from Jimmy Saris, but their bats let down the sophomore righty as the Hoyas dropped the close game 2-1.

By Anthony Francavilla March 1, 2007

Sports

New and improved GU cycling

The riders of the Georgetown University Cycling Team took to the roads of Williamsburg, Va. last weekend in their first-ever team competition. The team’s maiden race was a success, as the Hoyas rode through sleet and freezing rain to finish second of 10 Division II cycling teams in the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Cycling opener.

By Anthony Francavilla March 1, 2007