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Editorials

Obama best vote for students

Both in primaries and the general election, Georgetown students need to vote for a presidential candidate that will lead the country in a new direction in both foreign and domestic policy. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is that candidate.

By the January 17, 2008

Editorials

Keep academic discussion open

Are you partying all the time? Not working hard enough in your classes? Getting lots of inflated grades and easy A’s? You must be a Georgetown student, according to a confidential report created last year by Georgetown faculty critiquing the quality of undergraduate intellectual life on the Hilltop.

By the January 17, 2008

Editorials

Lanier disappointing on crime

Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier took office in January 2007 pledging to stem the District’s notoriously high crime rate. Unfortunately, 2007 brought just the opposite—increased crime and ineffective policing gimmicks.

By the January 17, 2008

Voices

Sippin’ on gin ‘n’ juice

The Duchess of Windsor nearly hit the nail on the head when she said, “a woman can’t be too rich or too thin.” Nor, apparently, can she be too muscular. It was surely beyond old Wally’s wildest gold-digging, man-eating imagination to think that a lady would ever seek to cultivate impressive bicep bulges beneath the fluttering sleeves of her newest atelier-made frock. But Janice Dickinson, that interminable pioneer of all things artificial, spoke out last week on behalf of the ladies who lunch … and juice.

By January 17, 2008

Sports

Rough conference beginnnings

After posting an impressive 10-3 non-conference record, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (10-6, 0-3 BE) looked to break a two-game Big East losing streak against reigning conference champion and national runner-up Rutgers (14-2, 4-0 BE) this past Tuesday at McDonough Arena. Despite being a heavy underdog against the fifth-ranked Scarlet Knights, the Hoyas entered the game undefeated at home this season and were confident leading up to the game. With the Hoyas’ 57-47 loss, though, the team has now started 0-3 in conference play for the first time under head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy.

By January 17, 2008

Sports

What Rocks: Ingrid Wells

No one would have expected the most successful season in the history of Georgetown women’s soccer to be sparked by a 5-2 freshman. Leading the program to a record-setting 14 wins and its first-ever NCAA tournament birth was the last thing on Ingrid Wells’ mind when she arrived on the Hilltop last summer. Instead, the Upper Montclair, N.J. native was simply focused on earning the respect of an already tight-knit team.

By January 17, 2008

Sports

Where’s Malibu?

Last year, the all-knowing sports sages at ESPN offered the hungry masses a veritable steak dinner amidst the tasteless buffet of daytime television. The network’s retro affiliate, ESPN Classic, lived up to its name with the re-airing of a true television classic: American Gladiators.

By January 17, 2008

Voices

Grading the life of the mind

The 2006-07 Intellectual Life Report concludes that Georgetown students party too much, study too little and get too many “A” grades. Like the 1996-97 Intellectual Life Report, which had nearly identical findings, the current Report recommends that faculty assign more work and give out fewer A’s.

By January 17, 2008

Leisure

Not cool

It’s January. In January, wearing a sundress when the thermometer hits sixty degrees is the fashion equivalent of wetting your pants with excitement: overzealous, and (eventually) uncomfortably cold.

By January 17, 2008