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GU to launch funding drive

Georgetown University’s largest fundraising campaign to date began in stealth. The mission for the drive was mapped out, top donors were quietly contacted, and, when enough commitments have been secured... Read more

By September 17, 2009

News

WMATA mulls fare increase

Facing an estimated $144 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2011, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Agency (WMATA) is considering a fare increase, as well as several other revenue-raising and... Read more

By September 17, 2009

News

Saxa Politica: GUSA: a leaner and meaner legislature

The Georgetown University Student Association is coming back to campus better, faster, and stronger than before. That was the message the student senate sent when it met for the first... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Gender-bending art

Within the stark walls of the Hillyer Art Space, a hole-in-the-wall exhibition site in Dupont Circle, Susan Serafin seeks to explore the small but significant moments where we judge and... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Lez’hur Ledger: Cupcake catastrophe

A Georgetown student in search of cupcakes has many pricey options. Georgetown Cupcake offers a cornucopia of cake and frosting choices, but at $2.75 each, satisfying a serious cupcake craving... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Spin some discs with D.C. record stores

With digital music players, streaming internet radio, and file sharing services, our generation has greater access to music than any before us. But even with the ability to hear millions... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Fight this Generation

As its title would suggest, Belarus Free Theatre’s production of Generation Jeans at the Davis Performing Arts Center puts all varieties of denim pants at the center of its story:... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

For your Information!

If you spend tireless nights fantasizing about what Matt Damon would look like if he put on some weight and grew a beefy moustache, you might want to sit down.... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Bottoms Up: New Student Dis-orientation

I went in to pick up my t-shirt and wristband last Thursday evening, anxious to start the most highly-anticipated week of a senior’s fall semester, Senior Dis-Orientation. A week of... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Low Fidelity: Clap your hands say what?

“What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet, perhaps referring to the linguistic restrictions in defining something. But who is this “Shakespeare” character anyway, and what does he... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices: Why? – Eskimo Snow

Why?, the indie/folk/hip-hop “project” of Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf, an Orthodox Jewish backpack rapper from suburban Ohio, makes music that is harder to describe than the man himself. The closest musical... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices: Girls – Album

San Francisco is a near-mythical place. Sure, part of that might its druggy reputation, and from the beat poets and hippies who once roamed the Haight-Ashbury—but, really, it’s about music.... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Leisure

Velociraptors at Verizon Center

We are a generation raised on dinosaurs. As current college students, we were the perfect age to be scared senseless by Jurassic Park years ago, and for those of us... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Sports

Time is running out for Georgetown football

A football game can often be decided by a team’s clock management, and Georgetown has certainly realized the importance of time this season.

By September 17, 2009

Sports

What Rocks: Mark Dennin

Any experienced cross-country coach knows that championships are won in June, July, and August—it’s the long, arduous summer training that benefits runners most. Sophomore Mark Dennin, a young harrier on the nationally-ranked Georgetown men’s cross country team, has clearly put on his fair share of summer mileage.

By September 17, 2009

Features

Playing hard on and off the field

Last Saturday night, dozens of freshmen packed into a house on 36th Street for the first of the many parties that the men’s rugby team will host this year. Within the house were friends of the team and about fifty energetic rugby players, especially boisterous after enjoying an afternoon of violent sport. The testosterone-laden hosts introduced their guests to rugby chants and traditions, in a scene probably resembling Animal House more than anything the freshmen had seen in their short time on the Hilltop. In the end, freshman likely came away with an impression that Georgetown’s rugby players are all play and no work.

By September 17, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Night lights

Last Saturday, Georgetown inaugurated a momentous new era for campus athletics, when the Hoya football team played its first game under the lights of Multi-Sport Field.

By September 17, 2009

Sports

Georgetown goalie is a keeper

Goalkeeper Jackie DesJardin’s stats speak for themselves. Last year she helped the Georgetown women’s soccer team set a single-season records for fewest goals allowed (14) and most shutouts (11). DesJardin is one shutout away from becoming Georgetown’s all-time winning goal keeper, and she is only halfway through her college career.

By September 17, 2009

Sports

Hoyas prep for Big East

The old saying “timing is everything” couldn’t ring more true for the Georgetown men’s soccer team (3-1-1). The Hoyas are on a roll right now as they look to kick off Big East play this weekend, traveling to New York to face St. John’s and Syracuse.

By September 17, 2009

Sports

Beauty vs. Beast

Monday night, Roger Federer’s five-year reign as U.S. Open champion came to a dramatic end, when the Swiss maestro was bested in a grueling five-set match by the Argentinian upstart... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

Hey, wanna make out? Oh … a handshake is cool too

Inhabiting a campus as culturally eclectic as Georgetown, I often find myself unsure of the proper way to greet someone. Should I give a hug, a kiss on the cheek,... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Voices

Let’s talk about sex (columns), baby

Am I really “insecure and therefore date a myriad of boys to fuel [my] self-esteem”? Am I engaging in “sloppy dance floor make-outs, desperate dating habits and countless relationships that... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Voices

Supernatural effect of a 13 year-old’s first album

Until I was thirteen, I never owned a CD. Or a cassette tape. Not even an old eight-track. The only vinyl in my life was a yellow rain coat. The... Read more

By September 17, 2009

Crosswords

Crossword Solutions 09.17.09 “Pardon the Interruption”

By September 17, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

Identity crisis? Hong Kong’s unique cultural fusion

When asked, I say that I am from Hong Kong. People always ask me why I don’t say that I am from China. Never have I denied that I am... Read more

By September 17, 2009