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Achieving peace at Georgetown

As the violence in Gaza stretches into its fourth week, signs of the conflict are seeping into campus life. On Monday, Students for Justice in Palestine gathered in a pro-Palestinian... Read more

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Sports

The Sports Sermon: Monroe’s flaw

The next time you have a chance to watch a Georgetown basketball game on television, sit back, relax, and listen to every broadcaster announce to the world that Greg “The Doctrine” Monroe is the best freshmen in the country. Monroe-mania has taken hold of announcers like Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas, among others, who yak on and on about Monroe’s superb court vision and ability to facilitate Georgetown’s Princeton style offense.

By January 15, 2009

Sports

What Rocks: Hollis Thompson

The best college football recruits in the country usually graduate from high school a semester early and enroll at their college of choice for the spring semester. This year, Georgetown’s number one basketball recruit is taking a page out of the pigskin playbook. Hollis Thompson, a 6’7” small forward, has enrolled for the spring semester. In a press release announcing the move, Coach John Thompson III stressed that Hollis will only be acclimating to college life and will not suit up for the Hoyas this season.

By January 15, 2009

Sports

Huolette helms Hoya victory

After losing to Notre Dame on Saturday, the Georgetown women’s basketball team looked to get back on track against St. John’s Tuesday night in the Big East Game of the Week. The Hoyas were seeking their seventh win in 10 games, and to get it, they needed a mature player to step up. Senior guard Karee Houlette filled just that role leading the team with a career high 22 points as Georgetown defeated St. John’s 64-48. The win helped improve the Hoyas’ Big East record to 2-1, and with a tough conference schedule approaching, each victory is vital.

By January 15, 2009

Voices

If you like everyone … do you like anyone?

Is being judgmental really what’s wrong this country? I’m actually proud of being judgmental—though, perhaps “discerning” is a better word.

By January 15, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

Alaska: neither lipstick, nor pitbulls, nor Sarah Palin

The meaning of my Alaskan identity changed on a Friday afternoon last semester in Walsh 392. That day, John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. In a matter of mere hours, strangers and friends alike stopped asking me about frigid temperatures and polar bears, and began inquiring about my opinion of Sarah Palin.

By January 15, 2009

Voices

Fleeting impressions from the souls of Marrakesh

Street performers in every city, great and small, charm the penniless and the penny-plenty, the foreign and the familiar, the old and the young alike, in a shameless effort to earn a few dollars.

By January 15, 2009