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Lez’hur Ledger: Valentine 3-D rips out one writer’s ‘Real-D’ heart

I hate horror movies. If you asked me to explain, I’d probably offer all kinds of reasoned explanations as to why most straight-up “horror” films are generally lacking any merit,... Read more

By Matthew Collins January 29, 2009

An animated Waltz through post-war trauma

Waltz with Bashir, an animated documentary, follows director Ari Folman’s poignant journey to retrieve his lost memories as an Israeli soldier during the Israel-Lebanon war of 1982. Folman brilliantly taps... Read more

By Madeline Reidy January 29, 2009

Darwin blooms

“Orchids Through Darwin’s Eyes,” the Smithsonian’s 15th Annual Orchid Exhibit, brings a fresh perspective to the horticulture of the most diverse flowering plants in the world. Their beauty and boundless... Read more

By James McGrory January 29, 2009

Something’s funny about The Foreigner

Tackling the Klu Klux Klan, marriage, manipulation of religion, and emotional insecurity is ambitious. Trying to make the audience laugh at the same time is an even greater undertaking. Though... Read more

By Rachel Sadon January 29, 2009

Books for the indigent

Now that everyone is poor, recessionistas have discovered something cheapskates have known about for a long time: libraries. Even Carrie Bradshaw saw fit to snuggle up with a library book... Read more

By Sarah Harman January 29, 2009

Drink to health

I had a Russian teacher in high school who told the class that in Russia, the fool proof home remedy for any ailment was a big ol’ shot of vodka.... Read more

By Kate Mays January 29, 2009

The outsider

The exhibition “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans” at the National Gallery couldn’t have come to D.C. at a more appropriate time. The Americans, one of the most important photography... Read more

By Madeline Reidy January 29, 2009

Critical Voices: Zion-I

Zion-I has always been one of the more schizophrenic California hip-hop groups, as their albums jump from Cali-hyphy style raps to self-righteous hip-hop ballads. On their newest effort, The Take... Read more

By Scott Munro January 29, 2009

Critical Voices: Telepathe

My first run-in (or rather, almost run-in) with Telepathe was this past fall, when they were part of the oddly assembled Mad Decent Tour (dance DJ Diplo, tropical noise-punksters Abe... Read more

By Matthew Collins January 29, 2009

Faculty clash over Gaza

Given Georgetown’s claim to housing the nation’s premier Arab studies program, the rising prominence of the Program for Jewish Civilization, and the highly politicized atmosphere of Washington, D.C., it’s no surprise that the conflict in Gaza has provoked a great deal of interest on campus.

By Eric Pilch January 29, 2009

GUSA election reform

Two years after it was last reformed, the system for electing the Georgetown University Student Association President is once again changing. The new system, devised by GUSA’s Ways and Means Committee, will no longer use the instant-runoff voting (IRV) system, which some blamed for the confusion in last year’s presidential election. Instead, GUSA will hold a primary election between all the candidates and then a run-off between the two candidates that receive the most votes in the primary.

By Lillian Kaiser January 29, 2009

Reconciling faith, LGBTQ Center

For Georgetown, which became the first Catholic college or university in the nation to have a LGBTQ Resource Center at the beginning of this year, reconciling a strong religious presence on campus with a burgeoning LGBTQ community has been a hot-button issue. Now, as the LGBTQ Resource Center enters its second semester, campus religious groups, with encouragement from University President John DeGioia, have begun to explore the ways they can work with the center.

By Juliana Brint January 29, 2009

Metro proposes service cuts

Facing a $1.3 billion budget shortfall and rising expenses, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has proposed cutting services to avoid raising fares.

By Sadaf Qureshi January 29, 2009

Neighbors want GUTS rerouted

Residents living along the Dupont Circle and Wisconsin Avenue GUTS bus routes are pushing for Georgetown to include a rerouting of buses in the University’s upcoming 10-year plan. Instead of using the Hospital parking lot as the departure point, they want to see the buses go through the Canal Road exit by 2010.

By Molly Redden January 29, 2009

Saxa Politica: Understaffed information services

Remember John Dewey’s groundbreaking decimal system? When it was introduced in 1876, the card catalogue revolutionized library organization and, by extension, research and education. But if you’ve used it in the past 10 years, odds are good it was the same way you might use an abacus—for laughs. The face of information dissemination and utilization is changing rapidly, and with it the way universities need to do business.

By John Lawless January 29, 2009

What Rocks? Victor Lopez-Cantera

The old adage says the harder you work, the luckier you get. If that is true, freshmen swimmer Victor Lopez-Cantera is very, very lucky. Lopez-Cantera swam his way past the competition for victories in the 100 and 200 meter butterfly in this past Saturday’s dual meet against St. Bonaventure Unive

By Tom Bosco January 29, 2009

Nothing but air

Spectators heard an unusual sound late in the second half of Georgetown’s 65-60 loss to Big East foe Seton Hall on Sunday. Clank. The sound of a DaJuan Summers’ three-point attempt thudding off the rim at the Prudential Center in New Jersey.

By Walker Loetscher January 29, 2009

The Sports Sermon: So long regular season

This Sunday, around 200 million people across the globe will sit back on their recliners and watch the Super Bowl, the self-proclaimed greatest sporting event in the world.

By Tom Bosco January 29, 2009

Bearcats maul reeling Hoyas in Big East battle

“We need to re-evaluate everything.”

By Tim Shine January 29, 2009