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Hart over Hoyas: Men’s basketball unable to complete comeback at No. 2 Villanova

VILLANOVA, Pa. — In just six minutes and fifty five seconds, the Georgetown men’s basketball team (13-12, 4-8 Big East) erased a 12-point deficit, silenced the once-raucous crowd at The Pavilion,... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Trailer Takes: Land of Mine, Transformers: The Last Knight, and From Nowhere

Land of Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GafFkkl0xt0 Brynne: I am so intrigued by this trailer. This may just be my bias for historical dramas, but this film looks like it’s going to have... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Halftime

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season Finale Review

In the last number of the second season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca looks out over the waters just hours before her wedding to Josh Chan, the man she’s been chasing... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Puppy Bowl XIII: The Biggest Winner Was America

In Sunday’s historic match-up, Team Ruff and Team Fluff competed for the Lombarky Trophy at the Puppy Bowl XIII. For those who were disappointed in the outcome of the “real” Super... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Columns

Hidden Hegemony: The Twisted Narratives of “American Carnage”

Over the course of the transition period and during the preliminary days of his presidency, Donald Trump has maintained much of the rhetoric that propelled him to the White House.... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Leisure

CV: Train, a girl a bottle a boat

The title of Train’s newest album, a girl a bottle a boat, reflects the band’s excessive effort to appeal to pop trends, but hardly matches the album’s actual emotions in... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Leisure

Preview: Story District’s Sucker for Love-A Valentine’s Day Special

In theory, all you need is an audience, a mic, and a way with words to be in the business of telling stories. Formally known as SpeakeasyDC, Story District joins... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Leisure

Rings Satisfies Newcomers and Old Fans of the Cult Classic Alike

After fans of the The Ring (2002) waited for 15 years for a sequel to settle The Ring’s uneasy aftertaste, the sequel Rings succeeds in satisfying audiences. The movie opens... Read more

By February 7, 2017

Columns

Open Access: “But What About Overdiagnosis?”

Is mental illness overdiagnosed? I’m not going to answer that question. The idea that we’re mistakenly diagnosing people who don’t have mental illnesses is more harmful than many realize. These... Read more

By February 6, 2017

Sports

Feeling the Blues: Women’s basketball falls to Creighton, snapping Big East winning streak

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-8, 6-6 Big East) saw its Big East winning streak come to an end with a loss to the visiting Creighton Blue Jays (17-6, 11-2... Read more

By February 6, 2017

Halftime Leisure

The Weekly List: Emilia’s Playlist

On January 31, 2017, I watched St. Joseph’s Chapel fill with the flickering flames of hundreds of candles in loving memory of Emilia Worth. She was the light of the... Read more

By February 6, 2017

Leisure

CV: Kidz Bop, Kidz Bop 34

“Kidz Bop 34” is the mind-boggling 34th offering from the children’s music brand. Created in 2001 as some sort of elaborate device for making prisoners talk, Kidz Bop has been... Read more

By and February 6, 2017

News

Student protesters from Nike sit-in receive conduct violations

Eight students in Georgetown Solidarity Committee (GSC) who participated in a sit-in to protest Georgetown’s licensing contract with Nike on Dec. 8, 2016 have been found to be in violation... Read more

By February 6, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Bands You Should Know: Pinegrove

For Evan Stephens Hall, the ampersand is more than semi-alphabetic—it’s prophetic. Hall, lead singer of indie rock band Pinegrove, has been deeply moved by the symbolism behind the character “&.”... Read more

By February 5, 2017

Sports

Fall to Hall: Hoyas drop overtime contest to Pirates

Another close game led to another heartbreaking loss as the Georgetown men’s basketball team (13-11, 4-7 Big East) fell to Seton Hall (14-8, 4-6 Big East) in overtime, 68-66, Saturday... Read more

By February 4, 2017

News

GU Politics hosts sitcom creators

Georgetown alumni Scott Conroy (COL ’05) and Peter Hamby (COL ’03), co-creators of the sitcom Embeds, discussed their experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaigns as embedded reporters during the Institute... Read more

By February 4, 2017

Halftime Sports

Matt Ryan, Do it for me

There have been twenty Super Bowls in my life, and I have almost certainly watched all of them. I have no recollection of the first one, Super Bowl XXXI, but... Read more

By February 4, 2017

Sports

Women’s basketball earns fifth consecutive Big East win in an overtime thriller

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-7, 6-5 Big East) won a thrilling conference contest against the Providence Friars (10-13, 2-10 Big East), 72-70, in overtime on Friday afternoon. Georgetown was... Read more

By February 3, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Stripped: Faux Feminism & The Ivanka Fallacy

In this episode of Stripped, Isabel Lord, Emma Francois, and guest star Claire Goldberg grapple with the ethics of wearing Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, and the problematic ways in which... Read more

By , and February 3, 2017

Editorials

Trump Administration Requires Active Resistance

Last weekend, demonstrators filled airports across the U.S. to protest President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order banning refugees, immigrants, and non-citizens from select Middle Eastern countries from entering the... Read more

By the February 3, 2017

Editorials

University Must Address Inequality

On Jan. 18, 2017, The New York Times reported on a study by The Equality of Opportunity Project which ranked colleges by how many of their students come from families... Read more

By the February 3, 2017

Carrying On

Carrying On: Feminism in the Age of Trump

Women and men of all ages and ethnic backgrounds wearing pink hats with pointed, ear-like appendages on either side carried signs emblazoned with clever slogans: “There is no Planet B,”... Read more

By February 3, 2017

Opinion

Doing Our Part in Trying Times: Cutting Down Consumption

This year, my New Year’s resolution was to not buy a single bottle of water all year. I’ve broken it already (isn’t that what New Year’s resolutions are for anyways?),... Read more

By February 3, 2017

Opinion

My Mother, a Trump Supporter

The 2016 election cycle forced me to come to terms with a dimension of my mom’s character that I did not know existed before, and that I did not want... Read more

By February 3, 2017

Leisure

CV: Migos, Culture

For a group that both invented the dab and subsequently declared it dead, it took Migos quite a while to get their big break. Migos’ revival of Memphis legend Lord... Read more

By February 3, 2017