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Tolstoy’s Karenina remastered as modern day romcom

Tragedies have a habit of giving themselves away; in many cases, the victim’s name flashes in the title like a morbid neon sign. Whatever fate befalls these characters lingers in the shadowy background, progressively coming into focus as the story unfolds. Anna Karenina is no exception, a tale of a woman whose own tragic flaw is a violent passion for a man, which consumes her entirely.

By Julia Lloyd-George November 29, 2012

Sports

Unsportmanlike Conduct: NCAA punishes the innocent

I have a bone to pick with the NCAA concerning the punishments it handed down to the Ohio State Buckeyes and Penn State Nittany Lions after scandals at each school,... Read more

By Alex Lau November 29, 2012

From TV Dinners to Happy Meals: America’s culinary history

Food is a funny thing; while eating is a natural and necessary ritual, the experience of having a meal and the implications of what—and how—we eat are not things we think about. Food: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000, a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, discusses the cultural and social changes in how Americans make, prepare, process, and ultimately eat food.

By Alexandra Golway November 29, 2012

Sports

Up-and-down weekend for women’s basketball

This past weekend, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (4-2) experienced a change in scenery, leaving behind the plummeting temperatures of D.C., for the sunshine of California. The Hoyas, playing in... Read more

By Brendan Crowley November 29, 2012

It’s beginning to look at lot like Xmas

When joking about Christmas in the District, a city ruled by politics, Jay Leno quipped, “The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C.. This wasn’t for any religious reasons; they couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.”

By Mary Borowiec November 29, 2012

Critical Voices: Wu-block, Wu-Block

An irreplaceable attribute of good music is its ability to relate to an audience; to a degree, a listener must identify with any work of art to enjoy it. The true masters stand out, however, when they deliver quality material with absolutely no semblance of a connection to the majority of society. Wu-Block, a group effort between members of New York-based rap groups Wu-Tang Clan and D-Block, does exactly this on its self-titled collaborative album.

By Kirill Makarenko November 29, 2012

Critical Voices: Alicia Keys, Girl on Fire

With the music industry plunging into and subsequently drowning in a sea of synthesizers and dubstep beats, established artists are able to venture into previously uncharted territory. Even Alicia Keys, who has for the most part been absent from the recording studio since 2009, has fallen victim to a timid yet mostly effective attempt at a stylistic transition on her gripping, self-reflective fifth studio album Girl On Fire.

By Kirill Makarenko November 29, 2012

Plate of the Union: The life of pie sisters

Every grandchild may proclaim her grandmother the best baker around, but unlike the rest of yours, my grandma has a trophy to prove it. Sitting on top of our dining room cabinet, its shiny plaque declares her the winner of the Beverly Hills Pie Contest. She makes her pies less often today, but when my brother Ross and I were in middle school, we would often come home to a dining room table piled high with Granny Smiths.

By Heather Regen November 29, 2012

Features

Artificial attention: The consequences of study drugs

It’s the end of the semester, crunch time for every class, and you’ve fallen behind on your schoolwork. The Georgetown culture, in which classes, social life, and extracurriculars fight for every minute of your schedule, is starting to take its toll, and you find yourself scraping to find enough time and energy for every aspect of your busy student life. It takes a special kind of person to pull of such a balancing act with ease. But 36 milligrams of Concerta later, that balancing act becomes a lot easier.

By Lindsay Leasor November 29, 2012

You’ve Got Issues: All’s fair in love and housing

Dear Emlyn, Despite the fact that I’m a freshman, I got things going really fast with a girl this semester, and we’re in a happy relationship. I even visited her family over Thanksgiving, and her mom loved me. The problem is this: I’ve got a terrible, terrible exam schedule, which is forcing me take time off from work. Less work means less money. I want to do things with her before we part ways for a month-long Christmas break, and I want to buy her something nice for Christmas, but I barely have any money or time. How do I navigate a thin wallet and a fat schedule? -Poor in Love

By Emlyn Crenshaw November 29, 2012

Little hope for Doha environmental conference

This week and next, signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its principal treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, are gathering in Doha, Qatar, to coordinate an international... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 29, 2012

Look to living wage bill for D.C. Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart was the target of protests at stores nationwide on Black Friday, when many workers threatened to walk out over a long list of complaints about unfair labor practices–unlivable wages,... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 29, 2012

ACC an unlikely option for GU basketball

In the latest installment of the NCAA conference realignment saga, Rutgers announced last week that it would be leaving the Big East Conference for the Big Ten, and yesterday Louisville... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 29, 2012

Voyage to foreign land of Tennessee leads to reflection on faith

Years ago, in the South, “pounding of the preacher” was a common custom used to welcome newly hired priests to the town and to the congregation. Members of the church... Read more

By Sadaf Qureshi November 28, 2012

Imagine all the people

Carl Sagan was not alone in thinking that “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Indeed, imagination’s undeniable connection to art,... Read more

By Mark James November 28, 2012

Hipster hysteria! Much maligned epithet must ironically die

It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment, but at some time early on in my freshman year, my fellow floor residents decided to collectively brand me as a hipster. Perhaps... Read more

By Julia Lloyd-George November 28, 2012

Happiness is a warm, but ignored, mark of success

Holidays are a stressful time; there are drunken relatives, nagging relatives, and generally just a lot of relatives. Inevitably they corral the younger generation to talk about their lives and... Read more

By Sara Ainsworth November 28, 2012

Features

Casting a major: The success of Georgetown’s theater department

“When I came here, we had four co-curricular theater groups, [which] were doing anywhere from eight to 10 shows a year—that is an extraordinary amount of activity for a university of our size,” said Ted Parker, a retired theater professor who came to Georgetown in 1999. “A friend of my father’s was a theater professor at [a small college]. They had about 10 people in their faculty. They did four shows a year, and they thought that was about all they could handle.”

By Connor Jones November 15, 2012

Laptop protection progam begins after spate of thefts

These days, Georgetown students’ laptops are disappearing quicker than Liam Neeson’s loved ones in a French brothel.

By MGM November 15, 2012

Students in control of Outdoor Ed. until new director is found

With its director’s visa expiring, the Georgetown Outdoor Education program, which organizes backpacking, rock climbing, and kayaking excursions for Georgetown students, is now in the hands of its students as the Center for Student Programs searches for a new director.

By Matthew Weinmann November 15, 2012

HOYAS wireless network eliminated

On Wednesday, Georgetown’s University Information Services removed the WiFi network HOYAS due to its lack of security. According to an email from UIS, the removal is part of the University’s “Fast Deployment Wireless” project focused on replacing first-generation wireless routers. SaxaNet and GuestNet have now completely replaced HOYAS, providing students with safer WiFi networks, Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis said.

By Isabel Echarte November 15, 2012

Union Jack: Minimal progress on the minimum wage

Back in 2008, when incoming President Barack Obama still seemed to incarnate progressive aspirations for a wide-reaching wave of social and economic reforms, he spoke about a very basic policy move to improve the lives of the working poor: an increase in the federal minimum wage. As part of the “Obama-Biden Plan” to tackle poverty—which noted that the former Illinois Senator was a “lifelong advocate for the poor”—the President-elect promised to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011, and index it to inflation.

By Cole Stangler November 15, 2012

Section 5 of Voting Rights Act still necessary

On Friday, Nov. 9 the Supreme Court agreed to review Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a key piece of Civil Rights-era legislation that requires the U.S. Department... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 15, 2012