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Lessons in satire

In the wake of an article published in the Georgetown Heckler that prompted protests and accusations of racism this past December, Georgetown administrators are planning to hold a discussion about satire and civility. The upcoming event will include faculty members, at least one student, and an outside speaker.

By January 28, 2010

News

Philly P open late despite promise

Despite public promises from its owner to close at midnight, Philly Pizza and Grill has continued operating into the early morning on some nights. At a hearing on Jan. 12th the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment permitted Philly Pizza to remain open until the next hearing on Feb. 9 under a stay of enforcement, granted after the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs revoked Philly Pizza’s certificate of occupancy and charged that it’s violating its zoning agreement by acting as a fast-food establishment.

By January 28, 2010

News

DC inspects Georgetown landlords

Last week the District of Columbia’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs sent out letters to over 125 landlords operating in the neighborhoods surrounding Georgetown University who are suspected of operating without proper business licenses, notifying them that they will face legal consequences if they do not submit to inspections. Landlords will have until Feb. 5 to voluntarily apply for business licenses and undergo property inspections.

By January 28, 2010

News

Saxa Politica: A penchant for protests

The flurry of condemnation following the anti-war demonstration held during General David Petraeus’s speech last Thursday has made it one of the most notorious protests held at Georgetown in recent memory. A Jan. 22 editorial in The Hoya branded the protest as “an embarrassment to this University,” while the Georgetown University Student Association passed a resolution to condemn “the disrespectful and improper actions of the Georgetown students."

By January 28, 2010

Editorials

GU has wrong mindset on wireless

At a town hall meeting on the issue of wireless internet access, Associate Director of Academic and Information Services Donna White betrayed a disturbingly resigned attitude regarding the University’s investment in technological progress, declaring, “Georgetown is never going to be on the leading edge.”

By the January 28, 2010

Editorials

Keep Duke Ellington School in Georgetown

To anyone unfamiliar with the management style of D.C. Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee, The Washington Post’s report that her department had recently evaluated the cost of moving the Duke Ellington School of the Arts out of Georgetown would scarcely seem like a reason to panic.

By the January 28, 2010

Editorials

Obama must deliver on promises

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last night elicited both applause and laughter from both sides of the aisle. Despite the cheery atmosphere in the House chamber, the majority of Americans are still feeling the burn of an ongoing recession.

By the January 28, 2010

Features

The Marshall Plan: a charter across the Anacostia

Although some successful businesses have recently opened on the street, space on Anacostia’s Martin Luther King Avenue SE doesn’t exude status like a K or M Street address does. It’s in Ward 8, the city’s poorest ward. With 43 homicides in 2009, it is also the city’s most violent.

By January 28, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 1.28.2010 – “Gray Out”

 

By the January 28, 2010

Leisure

Archaeology photography: Can you dig it?

The Lucille and Richard Spagnuolo Gallery is trying to shed its perception as the odd room you might glance at while swiping your GoCard on the way into the LXR courtyard. The banners outside of Walsh announcing its new exhibition, The Creative Photograph in Archaeology, seem to herald the transformation of the space from an afterthought into a legitimate showcase of artistic works.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Lez’hur Ledger: Please don’t sue us, Scientologists

I need to work on my mind thrusts. Yesterday, I learned that the negativity in my life is the result of my weak dynamic thrusts, which are the product of my overly dominant reactive mind storing engrams.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Charles Darwin, devolved

“You’ve killed God, Sir.” When Thomas Huxley uses such grave terms to condemn the work of his fellow biologist Charles Darwin in Creation, director Jon Amiel sends a clear message to the audience: this Darwin biopic is rife with drama.

By January 28, 2010

Sports

JTIII will look for big three to step up against Duke

In head coach John Thompson III’s six seasons at Georgetown, the Duke Blue Devils have emerged as the Hoyas’ preeminent non-conference rival. The budding feud dates back to Thompson’s first meeting with the Blue Devils in 2006, when an unranked Georgetown squad toppled then-No. 1 Duke, announcing their return to the national scene. Two subsequent meetings resulted in Hoya losses, including a 76-67 defeat in Durham last season that kicked off an epic collapse.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Extra-bore-dinary

As an intergalactic smuggler-cum-fighter pilot and a whip-wielding explorer, Harrison Ford cemented his status as the biggest badass of modern cinema decades ago.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Critical Voices: Surfer Blood, Astro Coast

Surfer Blood sounds too “indie” to fill the Strokes’ shoes—that’s a spot best left for Free Energy—but they could be the Shins for a new generation.

By January 28, 2010

Voices

Coffee break: Bringing addiction to a grinding halt

My freshman fall semester was spent in line at MUG and Uncommon Grounds deciding which drink to try. The delicious-sounding names of the drinks made them that much more enticing—who wouldn’t want to quench her thirst with a drink called “The Anarchist,” “The Yankee Buster,” or “The Peter Cottontail”?

By January 28, 2010

Sports

Hoyas can’t finish

It’s not about how you start; it’s about how you finish. This clichéd adage has certainly proven to be true for the Georgetown’s women’s basketball team this past week. Last Saturday, the Hoyas finished strong as they held off a second half surge from DePaul for a 74-65 victory, an exception to Georgetown’s season-long difficulty with closing, which finally caught up with them last night against Marquette.

By January 28, 2010

Sports

Backdoor Cuts: Tenacious D

Rewind to March 31, 1984. The city is Seattle, Washington. It’s halftime of a very important basketball game. A Final Four game. And we are losing. Yes—we, as in the Georgetown Hoyas Men’s Basketball team—trail the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 29-22. Patrick Ewing hangs his head in the locker room, lamenting first-half foul trouble. (Big) John Thompson wipes sweat from his brow with that white towel he always drapes over his shoulder. This was supposed to be our year.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Critical Voices: Kanye West, Storytellers

Kanye West’s episode of Storytellers originally aired in February 2008, immediately following an embarrassing time in his career.

By January 28, 2010

Voices

The secret life of an Am-Stud Major

Much to the dismay of my father, a computer scientist, all three of his children pursued majors in the humanities. When my twin brother shared with us that the engineering and pre —med majors at Johns Hopkins, who make up roughly 75 percent of the undergraduate class, call history classes and the like “arts-and–crafts time,” my dad chortled in tacit agreement.

By January 28, 2010

Sports

Hoyas own the high seas

The Georgetown Sailing team is off to a great start in 2010 after one its most successful winter breaks in history. Over the weekend of January 2, the team took home first place in a 26-team field at the Rose Bowl Regatta, a feat never accomplished by Georgetown. In addition, two members of the team were named to the 2010 U.S. Sailing Development Team.

By January 28, 2010

Voices

Lessons learned between a rock and a hard place

I’d been living by the motto “work smarter, not harder” for a long time. Why walk across the Key Bridge, for example, when you could stand outside the Southwest Quad and catch a GUTS bus that’ll get you to Rosslyn at the same time? But as I reflected on the old sermon I realized that the point of the priest’s story was that the existence of a shortcut isn’t always enough to make taking that shortcut worthwhile.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Yr Blues: DJing is a game of fundamentals

“Do you have any Taylor Swift?!” It’s a daunting question for a bearded 22-year-old, especially when shouted in the dark, point blank, while DJing a Georgetown party.

By January 28, 2010

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s the perfect end to a treacherous, long, and hard-fought season. A week after the biggest game of the year, the NFL’s top players and coaches throw on their board shorts, toss a lei around their necks, and head down to Hawaii.

By January 28, 2010

Leisure

Suffer for Fashion: Fashion abroad, at home

When my buddy Ben came back from his study abroad program in Egypt, he presented me with a traditional Egyptian dishdasha that he bought for me in Alexandria.

By January 28, 2010