Archive

Students’ inboxes far too eventful

If the University thinks its students have time to read the numerous broadcast e-mails they send out for announcements and events, they should think again. The meager 20 megabyte inboxes... Read more

By the Editorial Board April 23, 2009

Basketball adds two

Thirteen points, eleven assists, ten blocks, and fifteen rebounds in one game is what the basketball world calls a quadruple double—one of the sport’s rarest feats. Jerrelle Benimon, a 6’8” power forward from Fauquier High School in Warrenton, Virginia, accumulated those statistics. Benimon is the newest addition to the Hoyas men’s basketball team.

By Tom Bosco April 23, 2009

Time to take pollution down to zero

In 1989, broadcast television behemoth Ted Turner created Captain Planet, a cartoon character whose mission was to make the world eco-friendly by influencing young people with his mantra, “The power... Read more

By the Editorial Board April 23, 2009

Lax lessons

Lacrosse is a foreign concept to me. I grew up in the bucolic, mountainous wasteland of western North Carolina, where the idea of “sports” starts with football in the fall and ends with basketball in the winter. The warmer months are reserved exclusively for fishing and NASCAR. In my neck of the woods, lacrosse wasn’t just un-American, like soccer, tennis, or socialism—it didn’t even exist.

By Sean Quigley April 23, 2009

Squabbling Saps GUSA Confidence

Late last night, GUSA finally passed the Fall 2009 budget for all student funding boards on campus. The budget was approved in late February and has been stalling in the... Read more

By the Editorial Board April 23, 2009

Ming finds cosmic harmony in space

The Air and Space Museum is fancy. Really fancy. The exhibits light up and elaborate spaceship parts hang from the ceiling. The escalators aren’t hidden off to the side because... Read more

By Matthew Collins April 16, 2009

Fire-crotched and shit-stained monsters in Tokyo!

Japan is a crazy place. Forget all the ridiculous stuff you’ve read on the internet; if Tokyo! is to be believed, the land of the rising sun is full of... Read more

By Cyrus Bordbar April 16, 2009

Hannah Montana and the search for self

There are plenty of places most college students would rather be than in a movie theater filled with screaming, pre-teen girls—such as the ninth circle of Hell. If you have... Read more

By Chris Heller April 16, 2009

Finding closure

Contrary to what Tom Petty may have said, ending is actually the hardest part. The past few weeks have seen quite a few shows bid adieu to audiences—some in their... Read more

By Dan Newman April 16, 2009

The Fab Four

Few bands have had their music and legacy commercialized, merchandized, and downright exploited by money-snatching opportunists as the Beatles have. Sure, the Fab Four are undoubtedly one of the most... Read more

By Chelsea Paige April 16, 2009

Cactus and Pretzel in stereo

If Serge Gainsbourg and Nena (of “99 Luftballons” fame) had a love child, and he grew up as latchkey kid in 1980s Berlin, there’s a good chance that kid would... Read more

By Sarah Harman April 16, 2009

Let’s celebrate the Earth!

Perhaps the only bright side to the degradation of the Earth’s atmosphere—besides, of course, a prolonged but double-edged tanning season—is the on-the-rise holiday known as Earth Day. Unlike St. Patrick’s... Read more

By Madeline Reidy April 16, 2009

Critical Voices: Doves

Four years after their last release, Britpop outfit Doves revisit familiar territory with a renewed sense of urgency on Kingdom of Rust. Coldplay-esque grandiosity paired with New Order electronics remains the... Read more

By Austin Rood April 16, 2009

Critical Voices: Death Cab For Cutie

One aspect of The Open Door EP that Death Cab for Cutie definitely got right was that none of its songs would have fit well on the band’s latest full-length, Narrow Stairs.... Read more

By Daniel Cook April 16, 2009

Critical Voices: Art Brut

Where Art Brut fits in, exactly, is a bit hard to pin down. They’re not quite the post-punk revivalist sort—we fell in love with them for their wit before their... Read more

By Matthew Collins April 16, 2009

News

Obama details economic plans in Gaston

President Barack Obama came to Georgetown Tuesday morning to deliver an address on the state of the economy and his administration’s economic initiatives. Although the event was only announced a day before, Gaston Hall, which has a capacity of 743, was packed with Georgetown students and staff, local activists, and prominent Washingtonians.

By Juliana Brint April 16, 2009

Features

To Catch the Wind: Georgetown Sailing Tacks and Jibes

Mike Callahan (SFS ’97) will never forget his first sailing practice at Georgetown-not that he especially wants to remember it. Over Labor Day weekend of 1993, Callahan-a talented skipper who... Read more

By Tom Bosco April 16, 2009

News

The Hoya commits to reform

In response to strident reactions to their April Fools’ issue, members of The Hoya staff voted Wednesday night to approve all four of the recommendations their Board of Directors laid out this Tuesday. The recommendations are intended to alter their office culture and improve the paper’s communication with the larger campus community.

By Molly Redden April 16, 2009

GU athletes bring their passion to the schools

The life of a college athlete can be hectic, to say the least. With practice and games, not to mention a full schedule of classes, athletes can hardly be blamed for not finding the time to get out into the community.

By Tom Bosco April 16, 2009

Obama lays a foundation in Gaston

In the most closely watched macroeconomics lecture in the school’s history, President Barack Obama spoke on campus Tuesday to defend the first three months of his administration’s economic policy and... Read more

By the Editorial Board April 16, 2009

Censorship unacceptable on campus

Though it carried a warning that the reader should “chill out” and take the articles lightly, The Hoya’s April Fools’ issue has provoked a wave of criticism by Georgetown students... Read more

By the Editorial Board April 16, 2009

Let D.C. gays walk down the aisle

Headlines around the country last week heralded actions taken by the state supreme court of Iowa and the Vermont state legislature that legalized same-sex marriages. Though its actions received less... Read more

By the Editorial Board April 16, 2009

The Sports Sermon: Sorry Mom, baseball is on

My life as I know it is officially over. Recently, after haggling, begging, and cajoling, I finally convinced my sainted mother to buy me MLBtv. Little did she know, my educational downfall would begin as soon as I clicked the “submit payment” button on the Web site.

By Tom Bosco April 16, 2009