Leisure

Critical Voices: Arctic Monkeys

Who the fuck are Arctic Monkeys was hardly an appropriate name for the Arctic Monkeys’ 2006 EP. Soon after the Monkeys gatecrashed the British and world charts with their first album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, they become an overnight success.

By Anastasia Stepanova April 19, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: The Field

Axel Willner, Stockholm native and sole member of electronic outfit The Field, has a gift for making the most out of the least. His recently released debut, From Here We Go Sublime, deftly exploits the hypnotic potential of musical repetition with little more than a few looping samples and austere techno beats. Though the album’s lack of variation is an acquired taste, each track is pure bliss for the patient of ear.

By Traviss Cassidy April 19, 2007

Leisure

Translations gives off good vibrations

“Translations,” written by Brian Fiel and directed by JoJo Ruf (Col ‘08), is a solid tale of Irish identity with a little bit of fun and a great deal of soliloquy. It is the first student production to be staged in the Davis Center since it was built last year.

By Ryan Maye Handy April 19, 2007

Editorials

Relay for Life races against cancer

It’s Georgetown’s first year participating in Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society’s annual fundraiser, but students here have made a splash.

By the Editorial Board April 19, 2007

Editorials

Choose life—without abstinence

A Bush administration study released last week reminded us, once again, that science has proven that abstinence-only education policies don’t work.

By the Editorial Board April 19, 2007

Editorials

Remembering 33 students

Around midday on Monday, students in the ICC began to overhear trickles of news reports from people who had checked their e-mail or caught CNN.

By the Editorial Board April 19, 2007

Corrections

Student’s school and year mis-identified

In “Basketball graduation rate criticized” (News, April 12, 2007) Cliff Goldstein’s year and school were identified as COL ‘09. He is, in fact, SFS ‘08.

By Corrections April 19, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Georgetown more diverse than Howard

The implication in the April 12 editorial that Howard University is a much more diverse campus than Georgetown is unfortunately not based in reality.

By Letter to the Editor April 19, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Thanks Tony: Imus should go

Thank you to Anthony Francavilla for his timely piece on Don Imus’ recent blunder. (“The Sports Sermon,” Sports, April 12, 2007)

By Letter to the Editor April 19, 2007

Voices

Nothing but a pack of foma

Kurt Vonnegut was a writer engaged in the business of time. He was fascinated with humans’ harnessing of the natural world and their resulting alienation. He wrote stories entrenched in waves of political consciousness, telling tales of world destruction by an incidental afterthought as simple, at times, as the pushing of a button that could unleash the atom bomb.

By Lauren Gaskill April 19, 2007