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ANC candidate needs to get off the fence

Single Member District 3 of the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which includes Copley and Harbin Halls, as well as dozens of student townhouses, also hosts the strongest opposition to Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan. The winner of the November’s ANC election will be an important voice in ongoing debates over the plan as the community pushes the University for more concessions. Unfortunately, the only candidate on the ballot has explicitly avoided voicing his position on the campus plan.

By the September 15, 2010

Editorials

Free Newspapers Apparently Too Expensive

Print journalism just lost another audience: Georgetown students. As the Hoya reported last week, students will no longer be receiving free copies of three national newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today due to lack of funding. The second demise of the College Readership program in two years should have both faculty and administration concerned about the deterioration of Georgetown’s intellectual environment.

By the September 15, 2010

Page 13 Cartoons

Mr. Saturday Night Fever

If you ever encounter Mr. Saturday Night, be sure to treat him with extra care. He’s one of our best customers. Who’s Mr. Saturday Night? Don’t worry, you’ll know him once you’ve served him. He comes in every Saturday night and gets the same thing: a Gotta-Have-It size chocolate ice cream with peanuts, strawberries, peanut butter, and two Reese’s cups served in a to-go cup with no lid. And he always tips well, really well. Man, we were a little worried after the incident that he wouldn’t be coming back and he wasn’t for a while. But he started coming back about two weeks ago and we knew it was okay then.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

TGIF: The Friday Music Series makes its return

There was more music to hear on campus than Third Eye Blind last semester, yet some of the most talented acts came and went unnoticed by much of the student body. There were classical Brazilian guitarists and representatives of the Washington National Orchestra, Grammy-winning horn combos and Obama-approved gospel choirs.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

The nerd herd swarms for indie comics

This Saturday is the start of the Small Press Expo, one of the largest exhibitions devoted to independent comics and graphic novels on the East Coast. Jeff Alexander, the expo’s executive director, gave us an insider’s tour of his own personal Fortress of Solitude.

By September 9, 2010

Features

Campaigning for Georgetown

On Nov. 2, 2010, Jake Sticka (COL ’13) will run for a two-year term on Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission. To get on the ballot, Sticka needed 25 signatures of people registered to vote in his Single Member District. Only two were from students. That’s a far cry from the thousand-plus students who registered to vote in the 1996 ANC election.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

Danny Trejo: Mexican badass

In 1982, First Blood made its debut, the first of a parade of Rambo films that have become synonymous with gratuitous violence in our pop-culture lexicon. But do you know how many people were killed in First Blood? Just one.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

Critical Voices: Screaming Females, Castle Talk

What do you get when you put a charismatic female singer in front of a three-piece punk outfit that sounds like the bastard child of the Pixies and Blondie? The Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Well, sure. But also the New Brunswick, N.J.-based Screaming Females.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

Critical Voices: Helmet, Seeing Eye Dog

Helmet is a band that has always broken the rules. When it formed in 1989 in New York City, Helmet was heavy and dissonant enough to win the fickle approval of the metal and post-hardcore scene, yet melodic enough to fit in with Seattle’s grunge rockers.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

Literary Tools: Stranger than “faction”

Glenn Beck is a man of many talents. He draws millions of people to their radios every day. He gets millions more to tune into his Fox News show. And he wrote a terrible novel that hit the stands this July and immediately jumped to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List.

By September 9, 2010

Leisure

Suffer for Fashion: The many styles of leadership

Does the suit make the man, or does the man make the suit? When it comes to our world leaders, I’d like to think that they’re the ones making their clothes look good, but too often a statesman in the wrong ensemble leaves constituents holding their noses on both sides of the isle.

By September 9, 2010

Sports

Soccer opens season with a pair of big wins

After just one week of school, the Georgetown men’s soccer team faced the first of what will be many tests this season in a pair of games against stellar opponents. Fortunately for the Hoyas, in a pair of games against tough opponents, they passed with flying colors.

By September 9, 2010

Sports

The Sports Sermon: The rise and fall of a Trojan

On the night of Feb. 7, 2010, Reggie Bush stood on the field of the Sun Life Stadium in Miami a Super Bowl champion. The Saints had just won the game in one of the greatest comebacks this country has ever seen, and he had been around through it all.

By September 9, 2010

Sports

Hoyas beat Davidson to end streak

All things must come to an end, and for the Georgetown football team, that is a good thing. Over the weekend, the Hoyas snapped a 12-game losing streak that dated all the way back to Nov. 2008, defeating Davidson College 20-10 in their Saturday season opener.

By September 9, 2010

Sports

What Rocks: Camille Trujillo

The Georgetown women’s soccer team has stormed out of the gate this season, thanks in no small part to its stifling defense. But it is the Hoya offense, fronted by leading goal scorer Camille Trujillo, that is responsible for the team’s wide margins of victory.

By September 9, 2010

Sports

Backdoor Cuts: Hoyas lost on recruiting trail

Some believe that the early bird catches the worm, and others believe that the best is yet to come. For the Georgetown men’s basketball team, the latter had better be true. The Hoyas have zero commitments so far for the high school Class of 2011.

By September 9, 2010

News

Ex-Colombian President Uribe’s arrival to SFS sparks protests

“On what basis was this man appointed to Georgetown?” Mark Lance, director of Georgetown’s Peace Studies Program, asked the group of about fifty protestors and onlookers. “He’s not a scholar of anything. … This is a man who shows contempt for the very idea of human rights work.”

By September 9, 2010

News

GU conservatives shun activism, Tea Party

As the November midterm elections approach, conservatives, buttressed by the popularity of the Tea Party movement, have energy and momentum. Even though conservatism at Georgetown has increased its campus presence, conservatives at Georgetown have not adopted the populist energy, tone, and activist tendencies of the Tea Party movement.

By September 9, 2010

News

Jones and Savage vie for ANC seat

For the first time since 2004, Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission will see a competitive election. Jeffrey Jones and Michael Savage are both vying to be elected to the ANC 2E’s Single Member District 3 seat. Incumbent Commissioner Bill Skelsey said he was not surprised that the vacancy on the ANC has attracted multiple candidates. This is a contentious time for Georgetown politics.

By September 9, 2010

News

Group for elderly to launch

Georgetown Village, an age-in-place cooperative, is slated to launch in 2011, and aims to ease the burden of costly professional assistance for elderly residents facing chronic health problems or mobility issues. This plan is part of the recent nationwide growth in age-in-place cooperatives, which allow older residents to remain in their houses.

By September 9, 2010

News

City on a Hill: No more snow days for D.C.

Anyone who was in D.C. last February has memories of a carefree week filled with snowball fights, hot chocolate and an unexpected break from class. But that week, which you may fondly remember as “snowpocalypse,” also brought with it impassable roads, transportation failures, and the closure of the local and federal governments.

By September 9, 2010

Editorials

Where in the world is Jack DeGioia?

Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman holds regular, open office hours with undergraduates. When he walks around campus, DePaul University President Brian Casey greets most of the students he passes by first name. But at Georgetown, it is extremely rare to see President John DeGioia unless he is giving a guest speaker on campus a brief and formulaic introduction.

By the September 9, 2010

Editorials

Pushing campus toward green roofing

An environmentally friendly roofing method that is catching on across the nation should have Georgetown University thinking about using its many flat-topped roofs for more than parties and gravel. Green roofing, which retrofits existing roofs to support the growth of grasses and shrubs grown in sod over a waterproof membrane, carries with it serious environmental and financial benefits, making it well worth the University’s consideration.

By the September 9, 2010

Editorials

D.C. schools recieve much-needed cash

In late August, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that the District, along with nine states, had won the second round of the Race to the Top grant competition, earning $75 million to invest in D.C.’s dismal public school system. This is a huge victory for the District’s struggling public school system, which badly needs the funds, and more proof that Fenty has capably managed education reform over the last four years.

By the September 9, 2010

Voices

Prevent sexual assault by blaming the perpetrator

When we make jokes about “The Cuddler” or suggest that girls who wear “slutty” clothing should expect sexual assault, we are telling any rapists or would-be rapists in our midst that we don’t take these crimes seriously. When we imply that victims are responsible for preventing their own assaults, we give perpetrators the green light to keep assaulting.

By September 9, 2010