Leisure

Sure, hop on board another football Express

The Express, Universal Pictures’ latest sports biopic, is guaranteed to please sports and schmaltz lovers of all ages. The story centers on the life of Ernie Davis, the first African American athlete to win college football’s prestigious Heisman Trophy, paying particular attention to the racial barriers he confronted and shattered as a standout running back at Syracuse University.

By Eliott Grover October 9, 2008

Leisure

Two artists, two visions, one landscape

“Natural Affinities” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum marks the first time in history that the works of painter Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Ansel Adams have been paired in an exhibition, and it seems long overdue. Both icons of the American art scene, they explore and interpret the landscape of the American southwest in their works, drawing parallels between the land and artistic expression, and pointing toward two distinct visions of the natural world.

By Madeline Reidy October 9, 2008

News

Virus subsides, source still unknown

As the total number of Georgetown students who sought medical treatment for a norovirus infection climbed to 215 on Wednesday, the Leo J. O’Donovan dining hall resumed normal operations for the first time in a week, and the University’s cleaning and sanitization project for high-traffic areas continued.

By Alisha Crovetto October 9, 2008

News

Saxa Politica: GU owes students a free lunch

After Kathrin Verestoun (SFS `11) watched her norovirus-infected roommate vomit all over their room last week, it took her a while to muster the faith to trust Leo O’Donovan Dining Hall again. But on Sunday night, out of Flex dollars and short on cash, Verestoun decided to brave Leo’s once more.

By Kate Mays October 9, 2008

News

Political Profs

Last year, Professor Mike Green of the School of foreign Service arrived in a New York airport on his way to meet with the top advisers to presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Both campaigns were seeking his services as a top foreign policy adviser.

By Molly Redden October 9, 2008

News

On the Waterfront

Georgetown Waterfront Park opened last week nearly two decades after the initial proposal was put forward, and after several delays and design changes.

By John Cooke October 9, 2008

News

Metro expands its cell service

On October 1, Congress passed a law that will require the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to allow any cell phone service provider to operate within the Metrorail system. Currently, only Verizon Wireless customers receive service in the Metro because Verizon built WMATA’s emergency communications network in 1993.

By Juliana Brint October 9, 2008

News

Med student victim of hate crime

Last Friday at around three a.m., two men shouted homophobic slurs at a Georgetown University medical student, and one struck him across the face with a Grey Goose Vodka bottle.

By Marie Negrin October 9, 2008

Sports

Hot in the saddle: Georgetown’s newest club sport

If there’s an epicenter of equine activity in the United States, it’s probably not far from here.

“Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania—these are historically the hotspots in the United States,” trainer Jeff Becker said. “It’s probably the largest concentration of horses in the country, literally thousands of stables and every week new ones open.”

Becker runs one such stable, Lakeside, which he calls “the best office in the world.” This “office,” located on 200 acres at the base of Sugarloaf Mountain in Clarksburg, Maryland, is home to some 50 horses, a donkey named Jacob, and one of Georgetown’s newest club sports: the GU Equestrian Team.

By Anthony Francavilla October 9, 2008

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Washington International Horse Show

The first words of the equestrian feature on the opposite page are easily the first I’d ever written about horse shows. But now that I’m in the equine spirit, I may as well take it a little further—that’s what happens when someone who has never been within 20 feet of a horse finds himself surrounded by dozens on a Sunday afternoon. Besides, Greg Monroe won’t take his first official shot for over a month, but in just a few weeks the Verizon Center will play host to the 50th Annual Washington International Horse Show.

By Anthony Francavilla October 9, 2008