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August 2009


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Be Cool.

If you’re the kind of freshman that we once were, then by the time you read this, you’ll already have committed at least one faux pas that you’re desperately trying... Read more

Voices

Steel Butterflies and the Back to School Blues

I briefly considered retiring from my formal education a few days ago. It seemed to me that I had had enough—for real this time. The thought of going back to... Read more

Voices

This Georgetown Life: Stories of College Infancy

I was awakened by a knock on my door around 10 a.m. on Homecoming Weekend my freshman year. At the door was a preppy, intoxicated senior followed by an apologetic,... Read more

Voices

10 Year Plan: Then and Now

On a Saturday morning in late May, a handful of Georgetown administrators gathered at the nearby Duke Ellington School for a five-hour sparring match with the neighbors. It was the... Read more

Page 13 Cartoons

GUSA President: Open Letter to Incoming Students

When trying to define the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA), I have not found a succinct statement that adequately encompasses every aspect of this organization. In essence, GUSA consists of... Read more

Leisure

Culottes for you Lots: School supplies

Some people follow football or the stock market or Congressional politics; I follow fashion. The colors, the shapes, the possibilities—fashion is creative expression for the artistically challenged. Like Legos, you... Read more

Leisure

While we were out: a summer arts retrospective

The dark days of summer film Maybe it’s the desire to get out of the heat, or the fact that kids are busy not thinking about everything they learned in... Read more

Leisure

Hitler had it coming

Inglourious Basterds is more Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly than it is The Dirty Dozen or Guns of Navarone.  Don’t... Read more

Leisure

So long, summer reruns

Following last year’s underwhelming crop of freshman TV series, nearly every network is looking to rebound in the ratings. A number of new and returning shows will be fighting to... Read more

Leisure

Artistic Egg-cellence

Photographer William Eggleston captures typical Southern scenes in landscapes and social snapshots, but unexpectedly introduces an intimacy with the American South. Eggleston escapes a replication of the standard iconic imagery... Read more