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Crossword Solutions 09.02.09 “Zzz”

By Cal Lee September 3, 2009

News

Hoya independence delayed, again

Sanctions prompted by The Hoya’s 2009 April Fools issue have halted the paper’s two decade-long independence movement for at least another year, e-mails obtained from a former Hoya staffer confirm.... Read more

By Eric Pilch August 28, 2009

Sports

Studying abroad

When David Beckham joined the L.A. Galaxy in January 2007, soccer enthusiasts believed his arrival would be the catalyst for a renewed American interest in the sport. They also expected... Read more

By Walker Loetscher August 28, 2009

Sports

What Rocks: Victoria Sekely

  Most freshmen spend their summer before college preparing for school, but few must prepare like Victoria Sekely. The incoming tennis player spent her vacation playing on the Intercollegiate Tennis... Read more

By Tim Shine August 28, 2009

Sports

Men’s soccer looks to reload

Despite losing six seniors from last year’s squad (11-5-3)—including leading scorer Peter Grasso—men’s soccer head coach Brien Wiese is optimistic. “Last year, we were a bubble team, we didn’t take... Read more

By Victor Ho August 28, 2009

News

GU cashes in on stimulus

The lives of the mice used for scientific research at Georgetown may be short and often painful, but, thanks to the federal government, they’re about to get a little nicer. ... Read more

By Sam Sweeney August 28, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Georgetown’s Prodigal Son

This July, the Worldwide Leader in Sports descended on Georgetown to fete Alonzo Mourning, the Hoya basketball legend and recently retired NBA star. Mourning’s laudatory interview with ESPN’s Rick Reilly... Read more

By Tim Shine August 28, 2009

Sports

Women’s soccer relies on experience against tough schedule

The Georgetown women’s soccer team finished last season with its most conference wins in one season and an invitation to the Big East tournament for the fourth time in five... Read more

By Liz Kuebler August 28, 2009

News

This summer’s six biggest stories

2010 Campus Plan Every ten years, Georgetown must draw up a new campus plan and present it to the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment. The plan dictates how... Read more

By Juliana Brint August 28, 2009

News

Davis Center to see cafe

Students should expect a departure from Corp coffee shops’ standard fare of coffee and bagels with the opening of a new cafe in the Davis Center for the Performing Arts. ... Read more

By Lillian Kaiser August 28, 2009

News

City on a Hill: Fenty: Modern day Marion?

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is in trouble. An Examiner poll in early August found that only 30 percent of Washingtonians would definitely vote for him, and his attorney general and... Read more

By Will Sommer August 28, 2009

Features

Be Cool.

If you’re the kind of freshman that we once were, then by the time you read this, you’ll already have committed at least one faux pas that you’re desperately trying... Read more

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2009

Voices

Steel Butterflies and the Back to School Blues

I briefly considered retiring from my formal education a few days ago. It seemed to me that I had had enough—for real this time. The thought of going back to... Read more

By Sadaf Qureshi August 28, 2009

Voices

This Georgetown Life: Stories of College Infancy

I was awakened by a knock on my door around 10 a.m. on Homecoming Weekend my freshman year. At the door was a preppy, intoxicated senior followed by an apologetic,... Read more

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2009

Voices

10 Year Plan: Then and Now

On a Saturday morning in late May, a handful of Georgetown administrators gathered at the nearby Duke Ellington School for a five-hour sparring match with the neighbors. It was the... Read more

By Juliana Brint August 28, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

GUSA President: Open Letter to Incoming Students

When trying to define the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA), I have not found a succinct statement that adequately encompasses every aspect of this organization. In essence, GUSA consists of... Read more

By Calen Angert August 28, 2009

Leisure

Culottes for you Lots: School supplies

Some people follow football or the stock market or Congressional politics; I follow fashion. The colors, the shapes, the possibilities—fashion is creative expression for the artistically challenged. Like Legos, you... Read more

By Kathleen Simone August 28, 2009

Leisure

While we were out: a summer arts retrospective

The dark days of summer film Maybe it’s the desire to get out of the heat, or the fact that kids are busy not thinking about everything they learned in... Read more

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2009

Leisure

Hitler had it coming

Inglourious Basterds is more Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly than it is The Dirty Dozen or Guns of Navarone.  Don’t... Read more

By Chris Heller August 28, 2009

Leisure

So long, summer reruns

Following last year’s underwhelming crop of freshman TV series, nearly every network is looking to rebound in the ratings. A number of new and returning shows will be fighting to... Read more

By Dan Newman August 28, 2009

Leisure

Artistic Egg-cellence

Photographer William Eggleston captures typical Southern scenes in landscapes and social snapshots, but unexpectedly introduces an intimacy with the American South. Eggleston escapes a replication of the standard iconic imagery... Read more

By Julia Lovett August 28, 2009

Leisure

High Fidelity: The golden age

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the golden age of music consumption. Assuming you own a computer, have an Internet connection, and know how to use Google correctly (that’s right, Google,... Read more

By Daniel Cook August 28, 2009

Leisure

Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

“What came first, the chicken or the dickhead?” seems a rather odd question from an evolutionary standpoint, but from the mouth of the Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner, it seems fairly... Read more

By James McGrory August 28, 2009

Editorials

GU fumbles response to summer rape

On July 10, 2009, a Georgetown student was raped at her residence on the 3500 block of O Street, according to a report filed with the Metropolitan Police Department. Most of the student body, however, could be forgiven for not understanding the gravity of the event. Georgetown’s Department of Public Safety’s subsequent Public Safety Announcement, released five days later, described the incident as a “sexual assault,” a vague term whose varying degrees of seriousness can indicate anything from groping or fondling to rape.

By the Editorial Board August 28, 2009

Editorials

Work with the town, help the gown

Historically, Georgetown University’s ten-year plans have exacerbated the already-tense relationship between the school and its neighbors. This year, as the University looks to create and submit its plan for 2010-2020, is no different.

By the Editorial Board August 28, 2009