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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 Brendan Baumgardner January 28, 2010

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 Samantha Thompson January 28, 2010

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 Tim Shine January 28, 2010

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 Leigh Finnegan January 28, 2010

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 Matthew Collins January 28, 2010

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 Marie Negrin January 28, 2010

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 Nick Berti January 28, 2010

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 Walker Loetscher January 28, 2010

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 Nico Dodd January 28, 2010

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 Kate Mays January 28, 2010

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 Tom Bosco January 28, 2010

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 Ryan Lundquist January 28, 2010

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 Daniel Cook January 28, 2010

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 Adam Rosenfeld January 28, 2010

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 Keenan Timko January 28, 2010

Logistical fault lines, too, run under Port-au-Prince

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince on January 12 affected three million people—killing over 100,000, about 80 percent of whom had to be buried in mass graves. Thousands still require medical attention, millions are homeless, and many lack necessities as basic as water and food.

By Colton Malkerson January 28, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 1.21.2010 Solution – “New Years Resolution”

By Cal Lee January 28, 2010

Monroe paces Hoyas in easy victory over Rutgers

Head coach John Thompson III wanted to get the ball into Greg Monroe’s hands right from the start. His star big man didn’t disappoint. Monroe hit his first 8 shots and scored 10 of Georgetown’s first 15 points as the No. 12 Hoyas (15-3, 6-2 Big East) easily dispatched Rutgers (9-10, 0-7 Big East) 88-63.

By Tim Shine January 23, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 1.21.2010 – “New Years Resolution”

By Cal Lee January 21, 2010

Page 13 Cartoons

Prophet

In the eternal darkness that is a winter midnight, I threw all my suspicions to the wind and consulted a false prophet. I’ve been lonely as of late, waiting for a knight—any knight—even one riding by in tarnished armor on a sickly nag, to stop for me. The mood was just right for me to be properly duped into thinking I was Venus.

By Anastasia Baran January 21, 2010