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GU looks to quake the Quakers in rematch

After splitting a doubleheader with the University of Pennsylvania last weekend, Georgetown is set to travel to Winter Park, Florida, to face the Quakers once again, with one game on Friday and one on Saturday. The Hoyas are coming off an offensive surge, having scored 21 runs in their last two games.

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A-Rod’s juiced up stats destroy childhood memories

A-Rod’s steroid use has tainted my childhood memories. The scandal has even, on a certain level, created more of a disconnect with those memories. From now on, I will associate those numbers with a player who dishonestly juiced himself up, rather than with a simpler time, when a Yankees game, my dad, and a box of Twizzlers made everything right in the world.

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Voices

A break up of operatic proportions

So perhaps a happy relationship was never in the cards for Wagner and me; perhaps there was just too much baggage. We both did what we could. He got me cheap tickets, and I struggled to accept his mythological quirks and overpowering brass section. But in the end, we’re just two very different people. But maybe we can still hang out sometime.

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Sex Positive Week: Events were counterproductive and one-sided

This year, Sex Positive Week only served to promote dangerous stereotypes through events and discussions which are fundamentally inconsistent with Georgetown’s identity as a Jesuit university. Simply put, we deserve better.

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Voices

Sex Positive Week: sex positivity can be part of a Jesuit education

Sex positivity is a simple yet radical idea that an individual’s right to make sexual choices must be respected. Sex positivity discourages sexual shame and coercive sexual acts, espousing instead safe, healthy, and responsible choices for one’s body and mind.

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Editorials

GUSA no longer moderately enDowd

Since taking office as GUSA president last March, Pat Dowd (SFS ‘09) has handily accomplished what he promised to do in his campaign, creating a Summer Fellows Program, revising Georgetown’s... Read more

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Editorials

D.C. schools trying to spare the rod

In the District, misbehaving public school students often learn more about the plagues of punishment than the power of the pen. The D.C. Public Schools’ current student discipline policy allows... Read more

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Editorials

District given vote at barrel of a gun

Last Thursday, D.C. got one step closer to gaining representation in Congress, as the Senate approved the D.C. House Voting Rights Act. If approved by the House of Representatives, the... Read more

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