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September 2009


News

GUSA restructures Senate

Eleven seats were cut from the Georgetown University Student Association Senate on Sunday, September 13 in an effort to improve the efficiency of the organization. The new system of representation... Read more

News

GU to launch funding drive

Georgetown University’s largest fundraising campaign to date began in stealth. The mission for the drive was mapped out, top donors were quietly contacted, and, when enough commitments have been secured... Read more

News

WMATA mulls fare increase

Facing an estimated $144 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2011, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Agency (WMATA) is considering a fare increase, as well as several other revenue-raising and... Read more

News

Saxa Politica: GUSA: a leaner and meaner legislature

The Georgetown University Student Association is coming back to campus better, faster, and stronger than before. That was the message the student senate sent when it met for the first... Read more

Leisure

Gender-bending art

Within the stark walls of the Hillyer Art Space, a hole-in-the-wall exhibition site in Dupont Circle, Susan Serafin seeks to explore the small but significant moments where we judge and... Read more

Leisure

Lez’hur Ledger: Cupcake catastrophe

A Georgetown student in search of cupcakes has many pricey options. Georgetown Cupcake offers a cornucopia of cake and frosting choices, but at $2.75 each, satisfying a serious cupcake craving... Read more

Leisure

Spin some discs with D.C. record stores

With digital music players, streaming internet radio, and file sharing services, our generation has greater access to music than any before us. But even with the ability to hear millions... Read more

Leisure

Fight this Generation

As its title would suggest, Belarus Free Theatre’s production of Generation Jeans at the Davis Performing Arts Center puts all varieties of denim pants at the center of its story:... Read more

Leisure

For your Information!

If you spend tireless nights fantasizing about what Matt Damon would look like if he put on some weight and grew a beefy moustache, you might want to sit down.... Read more

Leisure

Bottoms Up: New Student Dis-orientation

I went in to pick up my t-shirt and wristband last Thursday evening, anxious to start the most highly-anticipated week of a senior’s fall semester, Senior Dis-Orientation. A week of... Read more