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Idiot Box: Snape kills Dumbledore

It’s a trauma we’ve all experienced—you’re sitting on your couch, having just hit the “play” button on Netflix/Megavideo (R.I.P.)/whatever other illegal site you use, geared up for the season finale you’ve been dying to watch. Your roommate comes in, and glances at the screen. “Oh, is that Dexter? I couldn’t believe it when Trinity killed Rita!”

By Leigh Finnegan October 31, 2012

Haute Mess: Get Frankenfabulous

Whether you forgot to order your Halloween costume on Amazon or your group costume fell through, have no fear —Julian and Neha are here.

By Neha Ghanshamdas and Julian de la Paz October 31, 2012

Sports Sermon: Dealing the Beard a critical mistake

“Fear the beard.” It became a mantra of sorts for the Oklahoma City Thunder—the one lasting image from their youthfully talented group of the past three seasons. This wasn’t referring... Read more

By Kevin Joseph October 31, 2012

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: No sleep till Brooklyn for Islanders

Well, the Islanders are moving to Brooklyn, and as a native Long Islander and a lifelong Islander fan (one of the very few), I feel obliged to comment on the... Read more

By Alex Lau October 31, 2012

Nolan overcomes adversity to start for Hoyas

It is safe to say that at the start of the 2012 Georgetown football season, no one in their right mind thought Kyle Nolan would be the quarterback lining up... Read more

By Brendan Crowley October 31, 2012

Soccer prepares for Big East Tournament

For the second time in three years, Georgetown men’s soccer (15-2-1, 6-2 Big East) has claimed the Big East Blue Division Championship title. Despite playing one of their best seasons... Read more

By Steven Criss October 31, 2012

Redskins rejuvenate D.C. sports scene

It has been an unusual season for the Redskins. There have been many similarities, heartbreakingly close losses, the occasional ridiculous personal foul during the crucial points of a game, and... Read more

By Chris Almeida October 31, 2012

Four more years for the foremost, forthright President

Presidential elections often become glorified popularity contests, where questions like “Who would I rather have a beer with?” determine who obtains the most important job in the world. However in... Read more

By Joseph Vandegriff October 31, 2012

My man Mitt’s vision of the right, rosy, Republican future

The other day I was reading an article in which the author discussed the effectiveness of receiving email endorsements for President Barack Obama from political and public figures like Sandra... Read more

By Maggie Cleary October 31, 2012

Going Green: A progressive’s plea for a new party

As it turns out, President Obama was spot-on when he said Mitt Romney wanted to bring back the “economic policies of the 1920s” during their final debate—he’s just not the... Read more

By Gavin Bade October 31, 2012

International indifference

When I declared a Government major late in my sophomore year, I had only completed one class in the department and was in the middle of another. In attempt to... Read more

By Kim Tay October 31, 2012

Sports Sermon: Why the East Coast rules

The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the biggest brands in United States sports. The Dallas Cowboys and their iconic star share a similar pedestal—sustained success over the past few... Read more

By Kevin Joseph October 25, 2012

Sporty Spice: Eli’s the Man-ning now

During one of my first few days in Argentina, my five-year-old host brother, Nico, and I were playing some soccer when he asked me: “Who is the best football team... Read more

By Melissa Sullivan October 25, 2012

Hoyas hope to make noise in Big East Tournament

The Big East Quarterfinals in women’s soccer will be déjà-vu for the Blue and Gray (14-2-2, 8-1-1 Big East), as the team will face either DePaul (8-9-2, 3-6-1 Big East)... Read more

By Keith Levinsky October 25, 2012

Tennis gears up for offseason

After successful performances at the Georgetown Classic and the Margaux Powers Tournaments, the Hoya tennis programs took their momentum into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional tournaments with mixed results. The... Read more

By Chris Almeida October 25, 2012

Volleyball breaks through against DePaul

On Sunday Oct. 21 the Georgetown women’s volleyball team (7-15, 1-8 Big East) was able to heave a huge sigh of relief, as it finally ending a 14-game losing streak,... Read more

By Keaton Hoffman October 25, 2012

Features

Georgetown’s dark knights: GERMS’s 30 years of keeping the community safe

“It’s [an] amazing thing to look back on your college career and realize something you were part of in the early days is really still something that is still important to the community today.” Not many people can say that, but Chris Callsen (COL ‘85), a founding member of Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service, can.

By Julia Jester October 25, 2012

Gluten-free students still fear illness from eating at Leo’s

A year after staff at Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall began labeling gluten-free foods, complaints are again arising from gluten intolerant students about how Leo’s addresses their dietary needs.

By Rebecca Anthony October 25, 2012

Epicurean owner may be indicted for criminal contempt

On Oct. 17 D.C. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins issued a show cause order for criminal contempt against Epicurean owner Chang Wook Chon for allegedly failing to comply with court orders pertaining to two lawsuits brought against him by his employees.

By Rio Djiwandana October 25, 2012

Piracy blog puts Georgetown students among top BitTorrent users

As it turns out, Georgetown students are infamous for breaking laws other than the drinking age.

By MGM October 25, 2012

Saxa Politica: ‘Drunken’ misses the point

“They don’t get much ruder than this bunch who seems to feel the need to host a party anytime they can,” writes Burlieth resident and former American University photography professor Stephen R. Brown under a video depicting a 37th Street party. His website, “Drunken” Georgetown Students, launched in April 2010, is once again in full swing, cataloguing the drunken debauchery of Georgetown students and “young professionals” in their own back yards.

By Kirill Makarenko October 25, 2012

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective redefines pop art at the NGA

In 1964, Life Magazine inquired of pop art icon Roy Lichtenstein, “Is he the worst artist in the U.S.?” While this question might seem both ironic and a moot point in the face of Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, the 15,000-square-foot exhibition now on display at the National Gallery, this query illuminates an important characteristic of Lichtenstein’s work: his uncanny ability to simultaneously “delight and outrage” in his mastery and innovation in the pop art genre.

By Mary Borowiec October 25, 2012

Cloud Atlas passes by audiences without a silver lining

It seems Hollywood has taken the concept of past and future lives beyond the context of New Age spiritual beliefs and transferred it onto the big screen. In the overly ambitious Cloud Atlas, an epic conglomerate of stories spans 500 years and involves more characters than any reasonable person would care to count. Based on the acclaimed novel by David Mitchell, the genre-bending film involves six different plot lines that intertwine over centuries, which include a post-apocalyptic era and an Orwellian future-scape.

By Julia Lloyd-George October 25, 2012