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Big East Media Day Roundup: DSR, Copeland earn preseason honors

Georgetown senior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera and sophomore forward Isaac Copeland earned preseason honors at the Big East’s annual media day Wednesday at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In a poll... Read more

By Joe Pollicino October 14, 2015

Big East Media Day Roundup: Hoyas picked to finish second in coaches’ poll

For the second consecutive season, the Georgetown men’s basketball team has been picked to finish second in the Big East’s annual preseason coaches’ poll. The league announced the results at... Read more

By Joe Pollicino October 14, 2015

The Weekly List: Classic Coffee Shop Tunes

Greetings and welcome to another edition of Halftime’s the Week List! We are now in a time of pumpkin spice, colorful leaves on the trees, and apparently hurricanes (all the... Read more

By Michael Bergin October 14, 2015

Halftime TasteTest: “SmallBites”

Halftime TasteTest is back! And this time, we have a compilation of ultra-mini-pods, called “Small Bites,” where our writers try different foods from around the DC Area and give live... Read more

By Halftime Staff October 13, 2015

Role Call: Feminism in Pop Culture

This summer saw the budding friendship between Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer, much to the joy of every Buzzfeed user and Twitter fanatic. According to Rolling Stone, after spending the... Read more

By Amy Guay October 13, 2015

Leisure

Critical Voices: Ryan Adams, 1989

It’s fashionable to hate Taylor Swift these days—but Ryan Adams didn’t seem to get the memo. When Adams announced he would cover Swift’s 2014 blockbuster album 1989 in mid-August, many... Read more

By Noah Buyon October 13, 2015

Leisure

Zemeckis’ New Film a Walk to Remember

A work of art is forever. The Walk tells the true story of Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the high-wire artist who walked between the World Trade Center towers, which... Read more

By Sarika Ramaswamy October 13, 2015

The Chase Utley Suspension: The Consequences of Hard Play

On Saturday night, during the seventh inning of Game 2 of the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets, Dodgers infielder Chase Utley, in sliding to... Read more

By Tyler Walsh October 13, 2015

When Expectations Fall Flat

Imagine this- you walk into Chipotle and confidently place your order. The worker gives you the biggest scoop of chicken you’ve ever seen, and the cashier hands you a water... Read more

By Tyler Pearre October 12, 2015

Seil-ing to Victory: Goals by Seiler, Allen lead Hoyas past Butler, extend undefeated streak to eight

The beautiful weather on Homecoming Saturday seemed perfect for the occasion, as the No. 12 Georgetown men’s soccer team (7-2-2, 3-0-0 Big East) defeated the No. 21 Butler Bulldogs (6-2-3,... Read more

By Tyler Pearre October 12, 2015

Zebra Hunt: The Problem with Today’s NFL Officiating System

There is one job in sports that, believe it or not, is more thankless than being an NFL kicker: being a game official. Whether in football, baseball or basketball, the... Read more

By Amanda Christovich October 10, 2015

Calming the Storm: Quick start helps women’s soccer down St. John’s

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (8-4-0, 3-0-0 Big East) handed St. John’s (11-2-0, 3-1-0 Big East) its first Big East loss Thursday afternoon. “Score early and score often” seemed to... Read more

By Chris Dunn October 9, 2015

QI : Quite Interesting, Quite Entertaining

A garishly dressed Stephen Fry sits sandwiched between panelists, asking the simple question, “How many moons does the Earth have?” Alan Davies presses his buzzer, and it releases the sound... Read more

By Jon Block October 9, 2015

News

Are You Ready program examines role of bystander intervention and support

The 13th annual Are You Ready program, which is aimed at addressing the issues survivors of sexual assault and their allies encounter, took place on Oct. 7 in Copley Formal... Read more

By Cassidy Jensen October 9, 2015

News

LGBTQ Resource Center and Athletics Department sponsor discussion group for LGBTQ student-athletes

The first session of a new bi-weekly discussion group for LGBTQ varsity student-athletes took place on Oct.7 with Women’s Golf Team member Lauren Gros (SFS ’18) hosting the discussion that... Read more

By Justin Plumb October 9, 2015

Remembering the Past: Georgetown charges working group on university’s history with slavery, considers African American Studies major

A Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation has recently been charged by President DeGioia to confront Georgetown’s history involving slavery. According to two university-wide emails sent by President DeGioia,... Read more

By Laura Isaza October 9, 2015

How Roger Can Rule the Tennis World Again

When I was eleven years old, I watched Roger Federer lose the 2008 Wimbledon final to Rafael Nadal. I’ll never forget my mom cheering in excitement as her favorite athlete... Read more

By Noah Nelson October 9, 2015

Structuring Creativity: an examination of the simulation game

On October 7th, Fortune.com released a report explaining why virtual reality is about to majorly hit mainstream markets. Future plans for virtual reality headsets range from users playing around in... Read more

By Erika Bullock October 9, 2015

Behind the ‘Glass Man’

Tuesday night. I had my headphones in on the loudest setting attempting to accomplish an incredible feat— avoid any sports media for an entire week. My team and I had... Read more

By Christian Hallmark October 9, 2015

Opinion

You Can’t Handle The Truth: The Importance of Free Speech on Campus

We have a duty to offend. That duty does not fall to me, to you, or to any one individual—but make no mistake that it does fall to us. As... Read more

By Joe DiPietro October 8, 2015

Opinion

Right To Life, With Conditions: The Hypocrisy of the “Pro-Life Generation”

The day before Kelly Renee Gissendaner was executed by the state of Georgia last week, Georgetown’s Right to Life group, Vita Saxa, held a “Pro-Life Rally” in Red Square. “Join... Read more

By Sophia Kleyman October 8, 2015

Carrying On

Carrying On: The Value of Knowledge for Knowledge’s Sake

When a high school teacher, the marvelous Ms. Hadley Moore, introduced the word “perennialism” into my vocabulary, I immediately thought of perennials, the plants. You know, those plants that come... Read more

By Megan Howell October 8, 2015

Break Point: The murky future of tennis on Georgetown’s campus

Casey Distaso (NHS ’14, M ’18) used to stand on the Georgetown tennis complex next to McDonough Arena and look. He looked over at Multi-Sport Field, and then beyond to the surrounding dormitories. He captained the Georgetown varsity men’s tennis team to wins and losses against some incredible teams on those courts. Standing there, he felt like he was in the center of campus, at the heart of Georgetown.Distaso managed to stick around the Hilltop as a student at the Georgetown School of Medicine,

By Chris Almeida and Joe Pollicino October 8, 2015