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October 2013

Sports

Men’s soccer exorcises Blue Demons

A cold Wednesday meant that only a few people turned up on Shaw field for the game between the Georgetown men’s soccer team (11-3-1, 4-1-1 Big East) and the DePaul... Read more

By October 24, 2013

Features

Georgetown jams: How GU Jam Sesh is building a community for Georgetown’s burgeoning music scene

From the outside, Georgetown’s music scene often seems limited to a few visible student groups. But a capella singers aren’t the Hilltop’s only musically-inclined students. Through its efforts to build a community of student musicians, GU Jam Sesh is providing an outlet for diversified creative musical expression at Georgetown, despite the obstacles it faces from neighbors and University noise policies.

By October 24, 2013

Page 13 Cartoons

Things Georgetown should have spent $100 million on that isn’t a new school of public policy

By and October 17, 2013

Features

“Second-class faculty”: The hidden struggles of Georgetown’s adjunct professors

The concerns faced by adjunct professors at Georgetown are many, stretching far beyond access to permanent office space. Adjuncts at Georgetown and other institutions of higher learning across the United States receive salaries as low as half of those of tenure-track professors, seldom have access to any health or retirement benefits, and must cope with job insecurity year after year. Recognizing these hardships, Georgetown’s adjunct faculty voted in favor to form a union under SEIU Local 500 in May of this year.

By October 17, 2013

Leisure

Mask & Bauble plays with Woody Allen

Don’t Drink the Water, Woody Allen’s Cold War farce set in the American Embassy of an unnamed country behind the Iron Curtain, first hit stages in 1966. This midterm season, from Oct. 17 to 26, Mask & Bauble’s adaptation succeeds in bringing the script’s comic relief alive for harried students. Its madcap ensemble includes a magician priest, three tourists from New Jersey running from the communist police, and the fumbling son of a famous diplomat, protagonist Axel Magee. When Axel’s father puts him in charge of a short trip, chaos ensues—Woody Allen style.

By October 17, 2013

Leisure

Fifth Estate or Fifth Column? Cumberbatch has you decide

Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate takes an impressive cast (who doesn’t love Benedict Cumberbatch and Professor Lupin?) and combines it with one of the most controversial events in recent history to make one of the most ambitious dramas I’ve ever seen.

By October 17, 2013

Leisure

Ejiofor breaks chains and fourth wall in 12 Years a Slave

Full disclosure: I am a descendent of slave owners. However, it doesn’t take a sordid family history to be struck by the stark anguish of Solomon Northup’s (Chiwetel Ejiofor) captivity in 12 Years a Slave.

By October 17, 2013

Leisure

Under the Covers: When coming out is a crime

Born in 1973, Abdellah Taia is the first openly-gay Moroccan author to address the gay scene in North Africa. During OUTober, a celebration of LGBTQ culture here at Georgetown, I saw a friend post on Facebook about Taia’s new movie Salvation Army, an adaptation of the eponymous novel featuring a young, gay Moroccan boy.

By October 17, 2013

Leisure

Idiot Box: Primetime has gone brain dead

There’s something about zombies. I’m not sure if it’s the palatable idea of flesh-eating corpses or the escapism that a zombie apocalypse offers citizens of a government shutdown, but Americans just can’t get enough of The Walking Dead. Apparently, we like it even more than Sunday night football. This is a big deal for me, since I’m the kind of quintessential American that knows exactly what those cactus-shaped posts on either side of the field are for and wouldn’t dream of ignoring the Super Bowl until Beyoncé comes on. In short, zombies are huge.

By October 17, 2013

Voices

Carrying On: Iran, U.S. ready to make nice?

Iran finally seems ready to cut a deal with the West on its nuclear program—it’s just a matter of the West being ready to do the same. The United States... Read more

By October 17, 2013