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January 2008

News

Fenty and Rhee fan controversy

City Council members and community activists will boycott two dozen public hearings being held tonight to address Mayor Adrian Fenty and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s controversial plans to close 23 public schools by next summer.

By January 17, 2008

News

Pounding the pavement for politics

Anthony Bonna (MSB ’09) met Mike Huckabee a few years ago, back when the former Arkansas governor was better known for his rapid slim-down than his underdog victory in the Iowa caucuses. Bonna attended the event where Huckabee first announced his candidacy.

By January 17, 2008

News

GUSA to deliver on newspapers

About two months before Ben Shaw (COL ’08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL ’08) officially step down as President and Vice President of the Student Association, the pair hope to deliver on one of their main campaign promises and top priorities: free newspapers on campus.

By January 17, 2008

Features

Georgetown’s Secret Report Card

A confidential report compiled by a group of 13 top faculty members last spring wants to significantly impact your life—how you study, what grades you’ll get, how and when you party, and whether or not you work or have an internship—and its proposals have already begun to make headway. Bad news: The report doesn’t think too highly of most of us.

Click here to download the full 72-page intellectual life report.

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

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

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

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

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

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