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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hoyas barely swat away Mountaineers

West Virginia fans do not like Patrick Ewing Jr. Last year’s small scuffle with then-coach John Beilein earned the senior forward the chagrin of the Mountaineer Maniacs, but his game-ending, heartbreaking block on Saturday night placed the crown prince of Georgetown basketball somewhere between Satan and former football coach Rich Rodriguez in the current Morgantown lexicon of hatred.

By January 24, 2008

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By January 24, 2008

Page 13 Cartoons

The Elegance of Winter

It’s amazing how the winter can pick me apart, piece by piece. First the actual dream, then the hope, then the reason for hope, then the possibility for hope. It... Read more

By January 24, 2008

News

News Hits

The Hoya + GUSA Staff members of the Hoya will present their case for the paper’s independence and desire to keep its name at a GUSA Senate meeting this coming... Read more

By January 24, 2008

News

A dream of D.C. voting rights

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), the District of Columbia’s non-voting Representative in Congress, was honored by the University on Martin Luther King Jr. day for her continuous efforts for civil rights, and said that she will keep working until D.C. residents gain full representation in Congress

By January 24, 2008

News

LGBTQ: working it out

Based on recommendations by a working group formed in November to assess the efficacy of the University’s bias reporting system, Public Safety Alerts will undergo several changes in the spring semester. The alerts, which previously included only robberies and assaults, will now notify students of incidents of bias and will be available every day of the week

By January 24, 2008

News

City on a Hill: Farewell to cheating cabbies

The past few months have been quite an emotional rollercoaster for the District’s taxi riders—and the Taxicab Industry Group’s latest call for strikes ensures that it won’t end any time soon. With Mayor Adrian Fenty’s decision to switch to metered fares to be instituted April 6, the strike is largely for show. And what it shows is that the first priority for many cab drivers is preserving their ability to rip off their customers.

By January 24, 2008

News

Metro slowdown

Major rehabilitation on Metro Center’s platform caused delays on the red, blue and orange Metro lines last weekend, tripping up students who attended Georgetown’s basketball games on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening at the Verizon Center. Trains travelling in both directions from the nearby Gallery Place-Chinatown Station were put on the same track, causing delays of half-an-hour or more.

By January 24, 2008

News

Hope you have the time of your pro-life

Members of Georgetown’s Right to Life organization joined as many as 200,000 other pro-life activists on a march from the National Mall to the Supreme Court Tuesday as participatants in the March for Life, an annual protest held on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion as a privacy issue.

By January 24, 2008

Features

Pluralism in action?

ROB HURTEKANT SFS ‘08 “It seems silly to even use the word ‘challenges,’” Rob Hurtekant (SFS ’08) said of his experiences in a wheelchair at Georgetown. Hurtekant, an African Studies... Read more

By the January 24, 2008