Sports

The Sports Sermon

Next to, “nothing good happens after midnight” and “don’t tell your mother about this ticket,” my father’s favorite advisory catchphrase is, “you make your own good time.”

By admin September 13, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

In the winner-take-all world of professional sports a number of people live by the adage, “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.”

By John Cantalupi September 13, 2007

Sports

The Buzbee buzz: Georgetown son takes on the NFL, real world

Ask anyone related to Georgetown football about Alex Buzbee, and you’ll hear the same refrain: he’s a hard worker and he leads by example.

By Anthony Francavilla September 6, 2007

Leisure

Death Sentence: the bad side of Bacon

The logic behind Death Sentence is pairing a recognizable actor with some good old-fashioned ass-kicking. Enter Kevin Bacon, and a bevy of traditionally successful action-flick conventions: a convincing motive, some nameless people to be killed and perhaps a few cool cars.

By Shira Hecht September 6, 2007

Features

Back on the Market

Eastern Market reeks. One step inside the door and it hits, wafting off of the exiting patrons. Somehow they’ve carried an odor that can only be conjured up by a mingling of distinguishable smelly things. Fish, irises and raw meat lay claim on the nostrils of newcomers.

Then, depending on who walks by, the entering shopper is struck by scents as diverse as the crowd inside. There’s the elderly couple with a bag full of cheese that a virgin nose might tag as goat. There’s a young mother fending off scurvy from her kids with a bundle of citrus and there are the newlyweds with a few links of sausage from Canales Quality Meats for a Labor Day barbecue.

By Phil Perry September 6, 2007

Voices

The Italian Job

It was Kamilla’s idea to get on the bus. We couldn’t read Italian; there was no schedule. “We’ll just see where it goes,” she said. “We don’t even have to buy a ticket. We’ll sit in the back and if they start checking we’ll be like, ‘oh, in Italy you have to buy a ticket for the bus?’”

By Sarah Harman September 6, 2007

News

Darfur survivors speak out

Daoud Hari spent most of his life working on a family farm in Musbat, a village in Darfur, until his village was bombed by his own government. He escaped to join an estimated 2.5 million other Darfurian refugees.

By Crystal Chung and Daniel Newman September 6, 2007

News

On the Record: Jack DeGioia

Georgetown University President Jack DeGioia recently sat down with representatives of several campus newspapers to discuss issues important to students.

By John Lawless September 6, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Part 2

Continued from our August 30 Issue

By Michael Keller September 6, 2007

News

Alcohol policy stifles student social life

Students and administrators rarely meet at midnight. But at 12:30 a.m. last Saturday, Student Association President Ben Shaw (COL ‘08), Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Jeanne Lord, Director of Student Conduct Judy Johnson and Copley hall director Mary Ellen Wade met in front of Healy to take a stroll through campus the weekend after Todd Olson, Vice President of Student Affairs, sent an e-mail that outlined the new alcohol policy.

By Kate Mays September 6, 2007