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Sports

Meet the Hoya freshmen

A short profile on each of the freshmen on the Hoyas and their expected impact this season.

By November 8, 2012

Sports

Sugar, Sugar how you get so fly?

Sugar Rodgers, the third-leading scorer in the Big East last year and second leading scorer in Georgetown women’s basketball history, is hungry for more, working a lot on her game this offseason to cement her legendary legacy at Georgetown.

By November 8, 2012

Sports

On the record with women’s Head Coach Keith Brown

Georgetown is a special place. I don’t recruit kids; I give them the opportunity. What you find out by being here at Georgetown is that it’s the opportunity that lasts you a lifetime.

By November 8, 2012

Features

2012 Basketball Preview

The Hoyas enter the second-straight season unranked in all national polls, failing to garner even one vote in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. Just like last season, they don’t seem to care all too much.

By November 8, 2012

News

Ph.D. student-professor benefits fall short of other schools

As the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) moves to unionize adjunct faculty on the Hilltop, one group of instructors is being left out— Ph.D. students who teach undergraduate courses.

By November 8, 2012

News

Georgetown Environmental Initiative sprouts with $20 million donation

The Georgetown Environmental Initiative has officially been launched, thanks to a $20 million donation from an anonymous family affiliated with the University. The Initiative aims to orient the Georgetown community toward advancing the study, understanding, and implementation of sound environmental policy.

By November 8, 2012

News

Obama supporters mob White House, GOP faithful dismayed

Here at the Princeton Review’s second most politically active university in the nation, the Georgetown University College Republicans and College Democrats held election parties Tuesday night in anticipation of the 2012 election results.

By November 8, 2012

News

Saxa Politica: Sandy brings out the best

Just after 6 p.m. on Oct. 28, Georgetown students rejoiced; University spokeswoman Stacy Kerr sent a broadcast email to the campus community cancelling Monday classes in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy’s onslaught.

By November 8, 2012

Leisure

Daniel Craig proves he’s a tux-worthy Bond in Skyfall

Bond is back. After a rather torturous hiatus of four years, the famous franchise is up on its feet and has hit the ground running with Skyfall. American Beauty director Sam Mendes has managed to breathe life into a series that many considered to be on a downward spiral, and though the original material of the Ian Fleming spy novels has dried up, the writers have managed to come up with an entertaining storyline that doesn’t stray too far from the films’ roots.

By November 8, 2012

Leisure

BMDT’s Fire in Her Eyes ignites Walsh’s Black Box Theatre

If “Gangnam Style” is the extent of your knowledge about the current dance world, the time has arrived to experience Georgetown’s Black Movements Dance Theatre. Appropriately titled for its emphasis on girl power and ethnic culture, Fire in Her Eyes opens this weekend at the Walsh Black Box Theatre. And what the show lacks in technical consistency, Fire makes up for with the dancers’ passion, highlighted in energetic performances which mix a myriad of styles.

By November 8, 2012