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October 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

The American League dwarfs the National League in top-tier teams. Most people expected any of the four AL playoff teams to be able to blow away the NL representative with offensive firepower once the World Series rolled around.

By October 18, 2007

News

Poet’s honor

“I still don’t know what poetry is,” Dr. Edward Hirsch said at the annual fall faculty convocation on Wednesday.

By October 18, 2007

Voices

It’s all about how you play the political game

Try this pop quiz for a second: two senators are running for president. One encounters major opposition in poll after poll, while for the other you’d be hard-pressed, as far as my experience goes, not to find an admirer. The first inspires as much divisiveness as praise, while the second is almost universally regarded as an American hero. One seems to have spent most of her life planning a way to the presidency; the other has served his country, to the point of torture and near-death in war, since his college days. Who are they?

By October 18, 2007

Editorials

LGBTQ talks need dialogue, not drama

For the best chance for their demands to be met by their November 9 deadline, GU Pride should strive to maintain a reasonable and level-headed dialogue with the administration, temporarily relaxing its confrontational tactics.

By the October 18, 2007

Sports

Strange lands with sporting ties: Hoya athletes abroad

Have some aggression to work out and would like to learn how to curse in Spanish? You’d be sure to find a home on the rugby team Alicante, Spain.

By October 18, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Liver damage. Needles. Testicular atrophy. There are a lot of downsides to anabolic steroid use.

By October 18, 2007

Leisure

The Exonerated

“This show is ultimately about hope,” show producer Jessica Stone (COL’08) said after the first run of The Nomadic Theater’s production of The Exonerated.

By October 18, 2007

Sports

Soccer wins some, loses some

Georgetown split a pair of exciting games this week, falling to conference rival West Virginia on Saturday 1-0 in overtime, then notched a thrilling 2-1 overtime win against cross-town rival American University on Tuesday.

By October 18, 2007

Leisure

Stogies 101

If you’ve seen Scarface one too many times or the allure of blowing smoke rings has gotten to you, the world of cigar smoking might have something to offer. Here’s a quick guide for picking cigars, compiled after a chat with Edward Gnehm III, the manager of Georgetown Tobacco on M Street.

By October 18, 2007

Features

Georgetown searches for its pride

How September’s hate crime reignited a decades old campaign for LGTBQ integration at Georgetown, and why both stories converge on the two-month anniversary of the assault.

By October 18, 2007