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Full Court Press: The comfort of your own home

While Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer with its barbecues and games of golf, it also signals the beginning of another significant period in the American calendar: NFL... Read more

By Joe Pollicino September 4, 2014

Volleyball serves up two wins

The Georgetown volleyball team (2-1, 0-0 Big East) won back-to-back matches against George Mason (0-4, 0-0 Atlantic 10) and Howard (2-2, 0-0 Mid Eastern Athletic Conference) to finish this past... Read more

By Kevin Huggard September 4, 2014

Women’s soccer wallops Wolfpack, tames Tigers

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (3-0-1, 0-0 Big East) defeated North Carolina State (1-2-0, 0-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) this past weekend in dominating fashion by thrashing the Wolfpack 6-0. While... Read more

By Max Borowitz September 4, 2014

Poultry fueling Nats to postseason

If Washington, D.C. is a sports town on the turnaround, the Washington Nationals deserve much of the credit for the change in fortune. Though the Nationals’ 2013 campaign proved disappointing,... Read more

By Chris Almeida September 4, 2014

The Sports Sermon: Sporting stereotypes fading away

My brother Joe and I were sitting outside at a cafe next to the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence during the summer of 2012. The other guest at the table was... Read more

By Chris Castano September 4, 2014

Editorials

Freshmen first-offense amnesty is improvement to code of conduct

The Office of Student Conduct announced last week that first-time violations of the Student Code of Conduct that occur during freshman year will no longer be accessible by prospective employers or... Read more

By the Editorial Board September 4, 2014

Editorials

Denial of visas to Syrian refugee actresses disappoints GU, D.C.

In an abrupt turn of events, 12 Syrian women slated to star in an adaption of a Euripides tragedy produced by journalist Charlotte Eagar, filmmaker William Stirling, and Syrian director Omar... Read more

By the Editorial Board September 4, 2014

Features

The Few. The Proud. The NHS.

Within the classrooms of St. Mary’s Hall, there is a community of undergraduates intently studying pathophysiology, microbiology, and numerous other complicated fields that the majority of Georgetown students will never... Read more

By Marisa Hawley September 4, 2014

Editorials

MD whooping cough cases prove danger of not vaccinating

Doctors diagnosed whooping cough in three children enrolled in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland last week, though the true number of cases may be as high as nine according to... Read more

By the Editorial Board September 4, 2014

Leaving Domestic Spheres of Thought

“Personally, I think the Cuban revolution did a lot of good. I really like Castro,” my host mom says in Spanish on one of my first nights studying abroad... Read more

By Isabel Echarte September 4, 2014

Voltaggio’s boxed lunches infuse suburbia with hipster pretense

Walk in, and a metal bucket might fall on your head. Walk out, and you are engulfed by the hypnotic hum of the American shopping experience. This is Lunchbox, restaurateur... Read more

By Sabrina Kayser September 4, 2014

‘Bountiful Waters’ coy, fluid exhibition

The traditional Japanese landscape evokes both strength and elegance, the resolute and the graceful. These dueling feelings were omnipresent throughout my time at the Smithsonian’s new exhibition “Bountiful Waters,” exploring... Read more

By Emmanuel Elone September 4, 2014

‘You Are Beautiful’ Campaigns Setting Ugly Standards

“If you can squeeze it, we can freeze it!” If driving through beauty-obsessed Los Angeles alone didn’t make me feel bad enough about myself, seeing this ad for liposuction plastered... Read more

By Lara Fishbane September 4, 2014

‘I Can’t Allow My Grief to Stop Me From Living My Life’

My dad and I had been at the hospital for a few hours when it started to rain. The doctors had just turned off all the machines and the... Read more

By Jeffrey Lin September 4, 2014

The Importance of Being Earnest: Modern Authenticity

As the world becomes increasingly populated, it simultaneously becomes increasingly competitive. The college admissions process is a kind of funnel for this competitiveness, a checkpoint through which only a... Read more

By Sabrina Kayser September 4, 2014

Delightful Duplass rekindles second chances in The One I Love

A disturbingly surreal weekend getaway serves as a young married couple’s attempt to rekindle their passion in The One I Love. Sent by a marriage counselor to spend three days... Read more

By John Buckley September 4, 2014

Under the Covers: Somewhere over the rainbow, the color gray is the warmest of all

When we look at our lives in hindsight, we tend to see the events as having fallen into place, like puzzle pieces naturally forming their way into the bigger picture—except... Read more

By Micaela Beltran September 4, 2014

Reel Talk: Is the Bechdel Test enough to save the female lead?

The film industry, like the majority of industries, has a female problem. That’s probably not the first time you’ve heard that, but people have started to try to objectively assess... Read more

By Dayana Morales Gomez September 4, 2014

Critical Voices: The Kooks, Listen

Fans of previous Kooks albums, beware––this record is not the vintage, 60s-meets-90s British rock that would be welcome in a dingy London nightclub in either decade. Lacking their usual unified... Read more

By Riley Mellen September 4, 2014