Voices

Unmasking the Man at the DNC and RNC

About a month ago, I was staring into the barrel of a gun. I remember the nauseating feeling in my stomach—an intoxicating blend of extreme fear, shock and blinding anger. During my time spent protesting the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Denver, Colorado and St. Paul, Minnesota, I felt these emotions many times: fear because of the burning sensation as my body was coated in chemical spray; shock at seeing clouds of gas, tinted red by the lights, engulfing us as we ran, coughing and gagging: even terror at hearing the concussion grenades bursting over our heads, making us stumble amidst the whirlwind of chaos.

By Julia Shindel October 16, 2008

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The dearth of discussion about depression

The repercussions of depression are great for those who deal with it daily. Depression is more than just its physical symptoms.

Antidepressants can dramatically affect your social life at college; anyone who’s been on them knows that it’s not a good idea to drink while taking medication. Some would choose not to drink anyway, but being on medication means that you never get to make that choice.

By Rachel Chow October 16, 2008

Voices

Lessons from the tweenage wasteland

On the edge of the scene, I sympathized with the intimidated professionals and the weary grandmother, but part of me envied the energetic horde—social anxiety, overactive hormones, and all. Watching from the outside, I noticed the loss of my connection with their age group and I felt old. Unlike members of that raucous mob, I am no longer engaged in the exuberant assertion of my newly-discovered individuality. To wake up, I require two or more shots of espresso. I cannot imagine the preemptive wasting of energy on the doorstep of academia at the beginning of a day. I doubt any of the frightened, drowsy suits at the bus stop could either.

By Simone Popperl October 16, 2008

Voices

Technology & its discontents: it’s my life in a box

It’s hardly a new problem, this constant mediation of experience into information and information into broadcasts. We take pictures just to tag them, have exciting adventures that immediately become emails or blog notes, distill our day-to-day life into status updates and Twitter shout-outs. The Facebook profile box is just the latest way to process the world through processes. Rather than experience itself, we have the experiencing of the experiencing, thinking about how we’ll tell other people about what we’re doing right now. It’s a meta-existence—thinking about what we’re doing rather than doing it.

By Shira Hecht October 16, 2008

Leisure

Myth, Moonwalking, and the Mississippi

Black Theater Ensemble’s … And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi sounds like a bait-and-switch, drawing people in with a whimsical title that turns out to be a metaphor. But there really is a Jesus, and he does moonwalk the river in light-up Chuck Taylors. It doesn’t make much sense, but then again neither does the play. Luckily, both are worth seeing anyway.

By Will Sommer October 16, 2008

Features

Fall Fashion 2008

This fall, fashion takes its cue from the movies. Books like Brideshead Revisited and Atonement set the stage for the never-ending parade of hacking jackets, cocktail dresses and felted hats that marched out of movie screens, onto runways and into stores. High waists and sheer, fluttery sleeves abound, and it’s now possible to sit in class looking like you’re relaxing on some far off terrace, surrounded by Georgian columns with a gin fizz in your hand. This season, draw inspiration from those women from the 30s who rediscovered their waists after the flappers draped their curves away for a decade.

By Katherine Norton October 16, 2008

Leisure

Dessert it yourself — The New DIY

Although it’s already mid-October, I’ve declared this fall to be the Summer of George! Although the results were mixed for the oft-chunky George Costanza, my roommate Dan and I are all about gettin’ into being healthy and lovin’ love. The first step on our road to healthy living begins where any bildungsroman should, in the dessert aisle.

By Michael Keller October 16, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Dillinger Four, “C I V I L W A R”

Does anyone else miss socially aware pop-punk music? I’m not talking about Green Day and Sum 41’s gimmicky politico-punk balladry, but something more along the lines of what Dillinger Four perfected fourteen years ago. With a shallow catalog of only four full lengths to date, this long-lasting band has finally released its Chinese Democracy in CIVIL WAR, a record six years in the making.

By James McGrory October 16, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Gang Gang Dance, “Saint Dymphna”

Hundreds of avant-noise bands start their careers banging out a mind-numbing racket in their basements. But only a small handful emerge from that dank womb (still dripping with primordial ooze) to produce something as staggeringly beautiful and conceptually challenging as Gang Gang Dance’s Saint Dymphna.

By Traviss Cassidy October 16, 2008

Leisure

Granny chic

There’s a girl in my art history class who always looks so put together. She wears really great scarves, gold jewelry (nothing too flashy, always tastefully antiqued), cozy looking sweaters, and fabulous tortoiseshell glasses. Her look is very classic and very now, but there’s only one way I can think to describe it: grandma chic. She dresses like an old lady.

By Katherine Norton October 16, 2008

Leisure

Too many Lies in this Body

If you were hoping for Ridley Scott’s latest blockbuster to be in the same league as the director’s critically lauded Roman epoch, 2000’s Gladiator, prepare to be disappointed. Body of Lies is a middling action flick that, though well-made, falls short of Scott’s award-winning masterpiece.

By Eliott Grover October 16, 2008

Editorials

More Flex Dollars will set you free

There’s only one thing that Dining Services fears more than the norovirus: competition. When Georgetown introduced Flex Dollars, a program intended to give students choices beyond Leo’s for their meal plans, last year, they made it too small (a maximum of $100 per term) and too limited (just a number of venues on campus) to make a real difference. Over a year later, the program hasn’t gotten any better. It’s time for Georgetown to expand the Flex Dollars program so that the initiative finally lives up to its name and gives students real meal flexibility.

By the Editorial Board October 16, 2008

Editorials

Use it (a U-lock) or lose it (your bike)

Like an ill-fitting brassiere, Georgetown has had trouble keeping its racks in order—bike racks, that is. While the bike storage areas are centrally located, bike thieves have had no problem pilfering student owned transportation of late. At least 16 students have reported stolen bicycles to DPS this semester. Though this number isn’t staggering, it is significant enough to merit attention. There is good news though: it isn’t that difficult to keep your bike chained to the rack.

By the Editorial Board October 16, 2008

Editorials

Employees of the Corp gotta get paid

Flexible hours, great parties, opportunities for advancement, a tight community of coworkers: what’s not to like about working for Students of Georgetown? Their wages. Entry-level Corp employees earn a meager $7.55 per hour—D.C. minimum wage. That’s fine for some students, but too low for others struggling to pay their tuition and living expenses. While the Corp embodies their mission of “Students serving students” in nearly everything they do, they should make paying their employees a decent wage a priority in addition to their outside philanthropic endeavors.

By the Editorial Board October 16, 2008

Sports

The Sports Sermon: New look Hoyas

When asked at last Tuesday’s Media Day about the most important thing he learned from former Hoya guard Jon Wallace during his freshman year at Georgetown, Chris Wright responded humorously.

By Anthony Francavilla October 16, 2008

Sports

Bison back for rematch

Start spreading the news. The Georgetown Hoyas and the Bucknell Bison, the Patriot League’s traditional cellar dwellers, will meet this Saturday for a game which could decide who is at the bottom of the league’s standings at the end of the season.

By Tom Bosco October 16, 2008

Sports

Hudson scores two in victory, ties team record

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (10-1-2, 5-1-1 BE) needed a two-goal performance from junior forward Toni Marie Hudson on Tuesday afternoon to turn a sluggish start against Syracuse (4-8-2, 1-5-1 BE) into a big 3-1 win.

By Liz Kuebler October 16, 2008

Sports

Fast Break: Men’s soccer routed by crosstown rivals

The No. RV/25 Hoyas (7-3-3, 2-2-3 BE) suffered an unexpected setback on Tuesday afternoon, falling to American University (5-5-2) 4-1.

By Anthony Francavilla October 16, 2008

Sports

UFL: The all-convict league

Adam Jones, we hardly knew ye. Just six weeks into his second chance with the Dallas Cowboys, the artist formerly known as Pacman has been suspended for at least four games after drunkenly brawling with a bodyguard inside a Dallas hotel on October 8. With twelve incidents of arrest or police questioning since being drafted 2005, it seems unlikely that Jones will be given a third chance. Team owners are, after all, businessmen, and no matter how good Jones is—although his performance this year has been mediocre at best in one of the league’s worst secondaries—his antics off the field are beginning to overshadow his actions on it.

By Jeff Bakkensen October 16, 2008

Sports

Wankers beware Georgetown soccer’s biggest fan

When senior Matt Hare shouts out, “How long’s it been?” the crowd knows how to respond. But when he begins to chant “Super Hoyas” or asks his mother “What should I be?” (see lyrics), the soccer fans gathered to watch the Georgetown men take on UConn are a bit quieter. That’s not a problem, because Hare and his small but raucous band of supporters will continue the cheer with plenty of volume. Standing at the front of the bleachers, leaning out over the Hoyas’ bench, they make sure that everyone in the stands and on the field hears their songs.

By Tim Shine October 16, 2008

Features

Art for the People

If it weren’t for the orange and black signs hanging outside, the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC) would be virtually invisible. A solitary door squashed between a junk shop and a pizza place opens to reveal stairs that lead to a shoebox of a gallery and, behind it, a pin box of a theater, which collectively comprise the District’s self-proclaimed “hub of alternative activity.”

DCAC, a non-profit gallery, theater, and educational center for artists and aspiring artists, bears all the characteristics of a makeshift, underground movement. One must venture outside in order to enter the theater, which used to be a garage. Meanwhile, the 750-square-foot gallery’s whitewashed walls reflect the open-ended, artist-centered vision that DCAC’s founder, Herb White (SFS `57), strived for from the time he founded the Center in 1989 until his death in June 2007.

By Chelsea Paige October 9, 2008

Leisure

40 pictures of D.C.

The exhibit currently on display in the gallery, 20/40, is designed to highlight twenty DC photographers in anticipation of FotoWeekDC, a celebration of photography that will take place November 15-22.

Each of the 20 photographers shown in the exhibit has contributed two pieces, for a total of 40 photographs on display (hence 20/40). The subject matter of the photos vary dramatically, from streetlamps in a deserted parking lot to people rowing in boats down a river in Vietnam.

By Elena Solli October 9, 2008

Leisure

Hot live drinks!

Cracked hands, cracked leaves, and now a cracked economy; this autumn is off to a particularly rough start. Add to that the stresses of midterms and a mysterious viral outbreak, and one will come to the rapid conclusion that most Georgetown students could use a little liquid relief—and I ain’t talking about Pepto Bismol. While revenge and fruit salad should be served cold year-round, fall is the perfect season to sample some piping hot potables.

By admin October 9, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Department of Eagles, “In Ear Park”

In Ear Park, the second effort from Brooklyn duo Department of Eagles, is everything you could hope for from a sophomore album: it’s dense, engaging, and (most importantly) an improvement... Read more

By Daniel Cook October 9, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Deerhoof, “Offend Maggie”

Deerhoof has long straddled the line between experimentalism and straightforward pop, and their latest release is no exception—Offend Maggie finds them gravitating toward their pop side with an undeniable oomph.... Read more

By Justin Hunter Scott October 9, 2008