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University fails on affirmative action

Fact one: there’s a direct connection between that college degree we’re all struggling to earn and economic mobility. Fact two: economic mobility has stagnated in the last three decades, mainly because it is becoming increasingly difficult for poor minorities to obtain a higher education, according to a new Brookings Institution study. And fact three: a majority of black children born in the middleclass ended up with lower incomes as adults, and nearly half wind up in the lowest quintile of earners (only 16 percent of whites face the same fate).

By Tim Fernholz February 21, 2008

Dispatches from fractured Kenya

“My friend, how is your Valentine’s like? Here in Kenya it is exclusively a youth affair. The seniors dismiss it as merely foreign culture. Still, shops are still colored by red. I wish you were near! We would celebrate together! Keep good, my friend. Pray for us.”

By Molly Redden February 21, 2008

Dirty rotten scoundrels on the ‘Riviera’

“You were dealing with illegal drugs. Tell me, as a [former] police officer, how that isn’t being a drug dealer?”

By Dan Newman February 21, 2008

Obsession doesn’t culminate in face paint

I have never been to a Georgetown basketball game. Okay, you can stop throwing things at me now. I watch them on TV sometimes, and I stay vaguely aware of how we’re doing, much as I stay vaguely aware of how much money is on my GoCard. I don’t have season tickets, and I don’t want to go through the hassle of finding a ticket, getting up early, and taking some sort of bus to the Verizon Center. I relish brunches in a mostly empty Leo’s, and the quiet feel of the campus when all the action is elsewhere. I haven’t lost my voice yet, and I have never scrubbed blue facepaint out of my hair (or at least, never for basketball reasons.)

By Shira Hecht February 21, 2008

Going Bearcat hunting

Cincinnati basketball is less than three years removed from the ultra-intimidating, uber-athletic Bobby Huggins era. Since the current West Virginia coach’s forced resignation in 2005, the Bearcats have stepped out of the Conference USA stratosphere and into the Big East basement. The once-feared Bearcats have looked more like kittens in their first three seasons in the conference, and the Cincinnati sideline that was once stalked by the imposing Huggins is now occupied by the diminutive Mick Cronin.

By Anthony Francavilla February 21, 2008

What Rocks

Last weekend, the Georgetown softball team (3-7) traveled to Statesboro, Ga for the Georgia Southern Invitational tournament. While there, freshman Aimee Moffat hit the Hoyas’ first homerun of the season—a two-run homerun—in the bottom of the 7th inning during a Friday game against Drexel. Her two RBIs were the only Hoya runs in their 4-2 loss to the Dragons.

By Lynn Kirshbaum February 21, 2008

The Sports Sermon

Although the New Year’s resolution influx of Yates visitors has subsided, a new motivation is pushing numbers up at the gym. With spring break a week away and warm weather in mind, if not in sight, more people are trying to tone up what they let go during the winter months.

By Liz Kuebler February 21, 2008

$20 million gift to Muslim center questioned

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.) sent a letter last week asking Georgetown to explain a $20 million donation from a member of the Saudi royal family in 2005. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s donation to the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding has been used to fund the Center’s study of Islamic civilization, Muslim-Christian understanding, intercultural and interreligious dialogue and educational programs in these fields, according to University spokesperson Julie Green Bataille.

By Crystal Chung February 21, 2008

D.C. to fund another stadium?

With the new Washington Nationals’ stadium set to open next month, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) has proposed using its surplus revenues to construct another arena for the only remaining resident of the aging Robert F. Kennedy stadium, Major League Soccer’s D.C. United.

By Dylan Richmond February 21, 2008

NEWS HIT

Georgetown’s Board of Directors approved a 5.5 percent undergraduate tuition increase last week. Tuition for the 2008-2009 academic year will rise to $37,536, up from $35,568. The increase, which will... Read more

By Maddie Donnelly February 21, 2008

Hoya Hockey

While some Georgetown students may know the mall in Ballston, Virginia solely as the unofficial chain-restaurant capital of the world (in all seriousness, the food court is amazing), others come for the breakneck speed and devastating hits. I’m talking about action on the mall’s eighth and top floor. Here, in the Kettler Capitals Iceplex, Georgetown’s Club Ice Hockey team does battle.

By Tom Philipps February 21, 2008

Hoyas can’t slide by DePaul

The Hoya women’s basketball team did not come out strong against the DePaul Blue Demons. In the early minutes DePaul shot at a 69.2 percent clip, while the Hoyas managed to turn the ball over seven times, resulting in an early 25-8 Demon lead.

By Joseph Richman February 21, 2008

Shooting guns

Everyone knows there’s one primal, raucous, smoking-hot urge that every young adult yearns to satisfy—even at Georgetown, Jesuit institution that it is. It’s raw, it’s pulse-pounding and on President’s Day, along with five open-minded friends, I finally satisfied this visceral desire for the first time. I shot a gun.

By Phil Perry February 21, 2008

Features

Backcourt Backstory: Forming Freeman

Mike Jones is always on the lookout for fresh talent. As the boys’ basketball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School in nearby Hyattsville, Md.—one of the nation’s top high school basketball programs—he’s got to be.

About six years ago, when another DeMatha teacher told Jones about a twelve year-old on his son’s middle school team who was turning heads, Jones went to check the kid out.

By Sam Sweeney February 21, 2008

Campaigns end, GUSA voting begins

“If Georgetown tries to encroach on my rights, we’re going to rock it like a hurricane,” Tom Karwacki (MSB ’09), a Georgetown University Student Association presidential candidate, said as he tore off his shirt in the middle of the Hoya’s first GUSA presidential debate on Tuesday night. “Rock You Like a Hurricane” blared from a set of speakers amidst the 50-plus attendees in the audience. Karwacki and six other GUSA hopefuls answered questions from the Hoya, the Voice and the audience for an hour and a half.

By Brittany Keates February 21, 2008