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Backdoor Cuts: The Gun Show

As sports fans around the country groggily roused ourselves on January 1 and stared with bloodshot, hangover-glazed eyes into our Google Reader feeds, we were greeted by the seemingly sensationalized news of an alleged gun duel between all-star point guard Gilbert Arenas and injured reserve guard Javaris Crittenton in the Wizards’ locker room on December 21.

By Sean Quigley January 21, 2010

Obama celebrates MLK Day with GU

President Barack Obama commemorated the first Martin Luther King Day of his term by appearing as a surprise guest at Georgetown’s annual “Let Freedom Ring!” concert at the Kennedy Center this past Monday evening. The concert featured music by Georgetown’s “Let Freedom Ring!” gospel choir and Grammy-award winning artist India.Arie.

By Cole Stangler January 21, 2010

LGBTQ Center brings alumni back to the Hilltop

When Georgetown’s LGBTQ community won their decades-long battle for a resource center in fall 2007, the biggest beneficiaries were expected to be current LGBTQ students. But according to LGBTQ Resource Center Director Sivagami Subbaraman, even greater success has centered around alumni.

By Molly Redden January 21, 2010

Hoyas with Haitian ties reflect on future

Although Garvey Pierre (COL ’09) lost his sister in last week’s tragic earthquake in Haiti, he still has hope for his country. As a resident of Port-au-Prince, Haiti until he was 15-years-old, Pierre has found the international support in the days since the earthquake “overwhelming.”

By Satinder Kaur January 21, 2010

UIS: Wireless must wait

Village A, Village B, Harbin, New South, and Nevils will be the first residence halls to benefit from an expansion in wireless internet service, according to University officials.

By J. Galen Weber and Cole Stangler January 21, 2010

Features

A new Hoya Paranoia: the lady Hoyas’ transition game

Last Saturday afternoon in McDonough Arena, the Georgetown Chimes walked out to midcourt to belt out the National Anthem while the Georgetown women’s basketball team prepared to take on last year’s national runner-up, Louisville.

By Tom Bosco January 21, 2010

City on a Hill: Metro: a waste of space

“Location, location, location” is the first rule of real estate, and it’s hard to think of a better location than the land around a Metro station.

By Will Sommer January 21, 2010

Editorials

Residents’ demands must be reasonable

Anyone following ongoing discussions between neighbors and the University about Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan has heard the overwhelming negative response to the plan from the locals. While many of their specific criticisms of the plan may seem nitpicky or nonsensical, most students have been willing to admit that permanent residents deserve a say in the future of their neighborhood.

By the Editorial Board January 21, 2010

Editorials

D.C. makes the right move on bag tax

While Georgetown students were away on winter break, a new tax approved by the D.C. Council over the summer came into effect, levying five cents on every disposable bag. The Council should be commended for taking the lead on environmental issues with this progressive tax that will help reduce the overabundance of filmy plastic bags that so frequently end up on the sides of roads, in trees, and floating in lakes and rivers.

By the Editorial Board January 21, 2010

Editorials

Time for leadership change at Metro

Given the series of worker and passenger deaths, train crashes, and other mishaps marring John Catoe’s three year tenure as Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority General Manager, many Metro riders understandably saw his recently-announced resignation as cause for celebration. But as the WMATA Board of Directors moves to appoint his replacement, the need for urgent reform has not dissipated.

By the Editorial Board January 21, 2010

Please stop watching Two and a Half Men

If FX is willing to take a chance on animated spy parody Archer, I’m willing to try at least a few episodes. While its highly stylized animation may take some getting used to, the show plays like a smuttier Get Smart—the original series, not the Steve Carell abomination of an adapted movie.

By the Voice Staff January 21, 2010

Cera-iously twee

Nick is lonely, lovelorn, awkward, and very much a virgin. When his mother and her boyfriend take him on vacation, he falls desperately for Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), a girl who lives with her very Christian parents...

By Shira Hecht January 21, 2010

Real monsters of meta

The concept of art within art—like a painting of a painting—can often be difficult to grasp. It is not always easy to determine where the the art ends and the frame begins. In The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play...

By George D'Angelo January 21, 2010

Hoya bench needs to step up as season progresses

On January 17, the Georgetown men’s basketball suffered a demoralizing loss to a top-5 team on the road, just before an unrelenting stretch of four tough games in two weeks. After last Sunday’s loss to Villanova, that would be an apt description for the current season’s squad—just as easily as January 2009, when the Hoyas lost to Duke before dropping their next four games.

By Tim Shine January 21, 2010

Women swim strong, men take a dive

As the swimming and diving team returns to the Hilltop from winter break, one pre-break trend still looms large. With the Big East Championships looming less than a month away, the women’s team continues to excel, while the men still struggle to find their footing against difficult opponents.

By Nick Berti January 21, 2010

‘Roids are all the rage in the baseball world

The biggest sports story over Christmas break was hardly even news: Mark McGwire used steroids for most of his fifteen years of baseball-crushing. But the consequences of this admission are less readily apparent. McGwire had been left out of Major League Baseball’s prestigious Hall of Fame for suspected steroid use.

By Matthew Collins January 21, 2010

Critical Voices: Vampire Weekend, Contra

Vampire Weekend came out of nowhere in 2008, writing songs about the Oxford comma, ripping stylistic quirks from Paul Simon, and generating not only an astounding amount of hype, but also haters who found them too uninspiring...

By Justin Hunter Scott January 21, 2010

Critical Voices: Spoon, Transference

Seven LPs deep and one thing is abundantly clear: Spoon has the paradoxical gift of consistent inconsistency, a sense of “progression” without dilution. Transference, the Austin band’s fifth album in a decade, has the all the trimmings of a Spoon record...

By Daniel Cook January 21, 2010

Fast Break

The rule of thumb for the Hoyas this season: as Chris Wright goes, so goes Georgetown. Entering Wednesday night’s contest against Pittsburgh, the Hoyas were 12-0 when Wright scored in double figures, 1-3 when he didn’t. Against Pitt, Wright reached double figures.

By Tim Shine January 21, 2010

The arts at Georgetown: a work in progress

I almost didn’t come to Georgetown because I thought the arts program was so bad. In my family, art was more important than friends, schoolwork, and sometimes physical health. After I finished my freshman year of high school with a very strong GPA, my mother took me aside with a worried look and asked me, “But what are you doing to be creative?”

By Lillian Kaiser January 21, 2010

Bottom’s Up: Chuck the Chuck, cheapo

There’s nothing worse than being predictable. That’s why I shrink from serving Charles Shaw, or two-buck Chuck, as the bargain Trader Joe’s wine is affectionately known, at dinner these days. As tolerable and affordable—only $2.99 a bottle!—as the wine is...

By Sam Sweeney January 21, 2010

No end in sight for the floundering “War on Terror”

With General David Petraeus, the architect of the surge in Iraq, speaking in Gaston Hall today, questions about the rise of American militarism and misguided nation-building projects loom larger than ever. In replicating the Patraeus strategy in Afghanistan, Obama ignored the lessons of history, the advice of foreign policy experts, and the views of the many Americans and Afghans who are tired of war and foreign intervention. Instead, our president urged U.S. forces to intensify their efforts in Afghanistan as a necessary step in the vague and unending “War on Terror.”

By Cole Stangler January 21, 2010

The Sports Sermon

It is said that the grass is always greener on the other side. This tendency to always strive for something apparently better has created a destructive trend in the sporting world: successful college coaches leaving their posts for a shot with a professional franchise. College football coaches are most often guilty of this mistake, and recently, yet another has fallen victim.

By Adam Rosenfeld January 21, 2010