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February 2009


Sports

The best ever?

Sports pundits have called Sunday night’s battle on the gridiron “the greatest Super Bowl of all time.” While I’m not quite ready to forget Super Bowl XXXVIII, in which the Patriots defeated the Panthers 32-29, I will allow that this was perhaps the strangest championship game of the modern football era.

Sports

Georgetown runners on the fast track early

Over the last few months, the Georgetown track and field team has been working tirelessly to prove that they are a force to be reckoned with. Distance runners have run... Read more

Sports

Fast Break: Women’s hoops falls to DePaul

After losing to top-ranked UConn on Saturday, the Hoyas traveled to DePaul Wednesdy night to take on the 24th-ranked team in the nation. Facing their third straight ranked opponent in a row, the Hoyas had little time to catch their breath.

Sports

Fast Break: Swimming and diving team falls to UConn

Last weekend, head coach Steven Cartwright and Georgetown University’s swimming and diving team suffered losses to the University of Connecticut at McCarthy Pool. The men fell by a score of 163-122, and the women were taken down by a score of 164-127.

Editorials

Time for econ to end the sophomore slump

In large undergraduate economics classes at Georgetown, where professors often lecture before more than one hundred people, teaching assistants can make or break a student’s experience. Many freshmen must take... Read more

Editorials

GPB needs to make concerted effort

Last semester, Georgetown University students were sickened by both a viral outbreak and a string of seven consecutive losses by Georgetown’s football team. Adding insult to injury, Georgetown’s Program Board... Read more

Editorials

End taxation without representation

Our nation’s independence was founded on a fundamental belief in representative government, in every voice being heard. But for as long as the nation has been free, the District has... Read more

Page 13 Cartoons

Relieve the suffering of the Palestinian people

As members of “Georgetown for Gaza,” greeting our friends and professors on campus with “Happy New Year” after winter break seemed bitterly paradoxical.