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Hitting the lanes

My older brother Eric graduated from Bowdoin College, which you’re probably not very familiar with because it’s in Maine. The people who go there have little interest in Model UN or many of the other endeavors that titillate more than a few Georgetown students. With what sort of intellectual extra-currics do they pad their resumes, you may ask? Bowling.

By Jeff Bakkensen October 2, 2008

Fast Break: Women’s volleyball

After last Sunday’s loss against Notre Dame—which snapped a five game home win streak—head coach Arlisa Williams’ squad is looking for redemption on Friday evening against West Virginia.

By Nicole Bush October 2, 2008

Fast Break: Women’s Soccer

After two shutout victories on the road this past weekend, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (8-0-2, 3-0-0 BE) returns home to host Syracuse on Friday and St. John’s on Sunday.

By Liz Kuebler October 2, 2008

No. 25 Hoyas face toughest challenge of the year

Last year, the Georgetown men’s soccer team was 2-7-0 heading into October. This season the Hoyas are entering their second full month of play with a record of 7-2-1. What’s different?

By Tim Shine October 2, 2008

Double duty for Etukeren, Georgetown defense

Some of the great defenses in football history—the New York Sack Exchange, the Steel Curtain—have one thing in common with the Georgetown Hoyas: a strong defensive line. A stagnant offense and porous secondary have negated the line’s effectiveness, but the unit remains the team’s strongest and the key to bouncing back against Colgate.

By Tom Bosco October 2, 2008

Sports Sermon: Taking back the Redskins

I broke up with the Redskins years ago. Where the team once held a stranglehold on professional football in my lexicon of favorite franchises, there is nothing but an empty void, creating in me the rare American sports fan that is indifferent towards the country’s most popular league. But now, I want them back. For fear of sounding like a fickle fan or worse, a bandwagon jumper, I feel like I should explain myself.

By Anthony Francavilla October 2, 2008

Photography

Is City Paper Dying or Just Growing Up slideshow

This slideshow accompanies “Is the City Paper Dying or Just Growing Up,” a cover story about changes at Washington’s City Paper.

By Will Sommer September 25, 2008

Features

Is the City Paper dying or just growing up?

“I see the City Paper a year from now as something that is very, very, very much a web machine,” Erik Wemple, editor of the Washington City Paper, said, sitting in his corner office above a side street in Adams Morgan. “[It] had to make a choice so it’s customizing its material for the web and then scrambling as best it can to push it into the paper.

“And if there’s a narrative out there,” he added, “if there’s a long cover story, it’s done on someone’s personal free time.”

Click here to view a slideshow which accompanies the story.

By Sam Sweeney September 25, 2008

Saxa Politica: ResLife: quit passing the hat

I am not going to pay my floor funds this year. I shouldn’t have to fork over $10 to $25 to pay for “community-building activities” that I probably won’t attend, nor should any other student.

By Kate Mays September 25, 2008

On the Record with Joe McCarthy

Four years ago, percussionist and Georgetown music professor Joe McCarthy formed the Caribbean Jazz Project, a Latin jazz band. Since its formation, the band has produced three albums and won local awards for their musicianship. Its latest record, Afro Bop Alliance, has earned the group its first Latin Grammy nomination. McCarthy also formed the World Percussion Ensemble and teaches an Afro-Cuban Percussion class at Georgetown.

By Molly Redden September 25, 2008

Language class enrollment on the rise

Some foreign language departments were forced to expand class size restrictions this fall after enrollment peaked in certain classes.

By Marie Negrin September 25, 2008

Inbox improvements: UIS upgrades email

Next month, University Information Services will conduct a major overhaul of Georgetown faculty and staff email services. Undergraduate, Law, and graduate student email accounts will remain unaffected.

By Lillian Kaiser September 25, 2008

Students’ ticket to ride

Someday, your trip to Adams-Morgan may cost less than the $1.85 it does now. District universities are in talks with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority to set up a program that would allow university students to ride the Metro at a discounted rate.

By Molly Redden September 25, 2008

GU weathers financial storm

With the credit market collapsing and the stock market unstable, Georgetown faces several financial uncertainties, including the prospect of diminishing returns on its already-small endowment.

By John Cooke September 25, 2008

The music that actually matters most

Some albums are so good you can’t stop listening to them. You listen and listen, memorize the ins and outs, and the music means so much to you—it is you—that when someone asks you what your favorite record is, there’s no hesitation in your answer.

By Justin Hunter Scott September 25, 2008

Semiconductor: wild!

The Hirshhorn’s new installation in its Blackbox exhibition space, “Semiconductor,” will simultaneously engage the left and right sides of your brain. Two English artists, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, comprise the artistic duo dubbed Semiconductor, which ignites artistic expression through self-described “digital noise and computer anarchy.”

By Julia Lovett September 25, 2008

Los Cuates: not the spice of life

Los Cuates isn’t a bad Mexican restaurant. But it’s just average, and in a city with so many options for dining out, average is worth about as much as Los Cuates’ barely-passable salsa.

By Will Sommer September 25, 2008

George de Forest Brush paints people and dreams

There are countless portrayals of the American Indian available to those who seek them. Less easy is the task of finding images of Native Americans that are unadulterated by centuries of stereotype. Luckily, the National Gallery of Art, in conjunction with the Seattle Art Museum, have compiled a small exhibit of images of American Indians by the painter George de Forest Brush, a late 19th century American artist who fell in love with “the noble savage.”

By Katherine Norton September 25, 2008

Go to Ghost Town

Ricky Gervais is not the typical romantic lead. His hair is floppy and unassuming, he is round around the edges, and his smile lacks natural charisma. Yet despite all this, in Ghost Town, you end up falling in love with him right along with Gwen (Téa Leoni). His hair and his mannerisms suddenly start to remind you of an adorably awkward puppy, and even the dentistry humor he spouts with a straight face and earnest eyes begins to warm the cockles of your heart.

By Vivian Chen September 25, 2008

Editorials

The oilman with the clean energy plan

What do you get when you cross a grizzled oilman with one of the most dire energy crises in America’s history? The answer may be surprising, at least for anyone not familiar with T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oilman who has been traveling the country in support of what he sees as the solution to America’s energy problem: the Pickens Plan. Speaking in Gaston Hall on Monday, Pickens laid out a clear strategy for reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil through natural gas and wind power. With oil prices showing no signs of decreasing, the U.S. needs to wean itself off foreign oil or face serious economic and environmental consequences. Pickens offers a clear way of doing this.

By the Editorial Board September 25, 2008