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Time for ushering out a New Era

Most American sweatshops closed decades ago. Georgetown apparel manufacturer New Era, however, is keeping the tradition alive. Conditions at the company’s Alabama factory are abysmal, with union-busting that would embarrass Pinkerton. Georgetown’s contract with New Era will run out in June.

By the February 14, 2008

Editorials

Let students make the Deans list

Jane McAuliffe, the Dean of Georgetown College, deserves congratulations on her imminent ascension to the presidency of Bryn Mawr College. While Georgetown will be less without her, we should be mindful of the opportunity we have in filling her shoes: a new dean is a chance for new ideas, new energy and another step forward for the University. And, though it ought to go without saying, students need to be involved in the process of selecting McAuliffe’s successor.

By the February 14, 2008

Photography

The Big Picture

By February 14, 2008

News

On the Record

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the bestselling novels Prep and Man of My Dreams. She is currently working on her third novel, American Wife. Sittenfeld, who has been writing fiction ever since she could read and write attended Groton School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts. She graduated from Stanford University and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Sittenfeld will to speak at Georgetown University on February 19.

By February 14, 2008

Voices

A Valentine’s card to the little people

Sunday mornings are sacred. Whether you welcome the week with mass, mimosas or Meet the Press, those first few waking hours are universally recognized to be a precious time, and barring nuclear disaster or a major sporting event, one’s routine should not be disturbed. Last weekend, throwing caution and luxuriously slow-brewed cups of coffee to the wind, I determined that my civic duty to the voters of Montgomery County, Maryland was greater than my ritualistic weekly reading of Date Lab in the Sunday Post.

By February 14, 2008

Voices

Don’t mourn, organize: ten years of GU Solidarity

The Georgetown Solidarity Committee (GSC) is ten years old this year. We are officially a Georgetown tradition; we were invited to table on Copley Lawn during Traditions Day. We’ve done a lot in those ten years. I’m not going to list all of our accomplishments in this column—for that, go to www.georgetownsolidarity.org—but I will tell you why we’ve lasted so long, drawing enough students to our weekly meetings to become a lasting voice on campus.

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Page 13 Cartoons

Hillary Clinton for President

With the race for the Democratic nomination a virtual tie, Democratic voters need to think long and hard about who they want to be their nominee in the 2008 presidential election. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is both better qualified and better positioned than her Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), to be president of the United States.

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Page 13 Cartoons

Hoping for Obama in ’08

America is not as divided as the pundits would have us believe. Our perceived disagreement stems from a tendency to miss the forest for the trees. We get too bogged down in the minutiae of policy, and in the process we overlook the fact that regardless of ideology, we all yearn for a stronger and safer country that aspires to fulfill its fundamental ideals.

By February 14, 2008

Sports

Settling scores up north

When asked about the Georgetown/Syracuse rivalry, senior center Roy Hibbert recalled a story that former coach John Thompson, Jr. told him about its roots: in 1980, the Hoyas defeated the Orange to snap a 57-game home winning streak in the last ever game at Syracuse’s Manley Field House. Now, 28 years later, the rivalry is “part of the fabric of the Big East,” according to current coach John Thompson III.

By February 14, 2008

Sports

Fast Break

The Georgetown women’s basketball team came into their game against second ranked nationally Connecticut on a two game winning streak. The first win being over No. 22 Syracuse—the Hoyas’ first win over a ranked opponent in over four years. This momentum wasn’t enough to give the Hoyas another victory over a ranked team. Despite a hard fought first half, Georgetown was unable to contain the offensive barrage of the Huskies, falling 80-48.

By February 14, 2008

Sports

Bleeds of glory

A bloody trail twisted from one end of the rink to the visiting bench in the Buffalo Sabers’ HSBC Arena on Sunday night. But this macabre remnant was not nearly as disturbing as the sight of a dazed Richard Zednik leaning heavily on a teammate and clutching at his neck, which had just been cut open by the errant skate of another teammate, Ollie Jokinen. For the fans present, and even for those who watched in horror at the slow-motion replays that followed, it was one of the most terrifying sports accidents in recent memory. But for a recent Georgetown grad, Jokinen’s skate-blade may have sliced a little too close to home.

By February 14, 2008

Sports

Hoyas vs. Cardinals

In her fourth season as head women’s basketball coach, Terri Williams-Flournoy has made some giant strides with the program overshadowed by the Georgetown men’s basketball team. Williams-Flournoy led the team to a 10-3 record in the non-conference season, including winning streaks of five and three games. With one of the best defenses in the Big East, the Hoyas have beaten a ranked Syracuse team, lost by a mere 10 points to national powerhouse Rutgers and, despite a 3-7 Big East record, have been a thorn in the side of many of the league’s leaders.

By February 14, 2008

Sports

What Rocks

Make no mistakes; Brendan Cannon is a consistent offensive powerhouse for the preseason fourth-ranked Georgetown men’s lacrosse team. Last year he led the team in goals, assists and points, and the coaches of the East Coast Athletic Conference voted him the favorite to win the conference’s Offensive Player of the Year award.

By February 14, 2008

Sports

The Sports Sermon

The Georgetown’s men’s basketball team is currently ranked eighth in national polls and holds the top spot in the Big East, the league judged by many as the fiercest in college basketball. In postseason projections, the Hoyas are seen as contenders for in the final rounds. These facts warrant respect, but some have argued that Georgetown’s recent games have not mirrored the play expected of a team of their status.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Recognize! what what?

Recognize!, the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibit about hip-hop culture, is slightly self-admonishing, born of a desire to recognize the movement’s work as “museum-worthy.” Doing a bit of sampling of its own, the Portrait Gallery chose a photographer, a painter, a poet, a video artist and two graffiti artists to showcase different aspects of hip-hop. Forgoing its usual strategy of sticking to retrospectives, the Smithsonian museum has produced an awkward first foray into current culture. Although the exhibit feels disjointed and insufficient at times, most of its pieces are unique and worth seeing.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Nanking: documenting “the forgotten Holocaust” in China

Nanking sheds light on this forgotten event in history, but this is not to say that it explains the underlying reasons for the massacre. It is a testament to the strength of the film that viewers are left wondering how teenagers buy into a mentality so perverse that it permits rape of twelve-year-old girls for sport, how officers can place bets on how many people their swords can cut down, or how a small group of noble men and women can still feel like failures after saving tens of thousands of people. The film contains equal parts human depravity and human courage, and manages to show how intricately the two are linked.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Bon Iver

There are some albums that would have been impossible without just the right recording environment. Example: Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers), which owes much of its grit to the grimy gutters of Staten Island where six of the nine Wu Tang Clansmen honed their craft. Likewise, For Emma, Forever Ago, folk artist Justin Vernon’s debut as Bon Iver, owes its gorgeously sylvan vibe to the hibernating Wisconsin woods where Vernon wrote and recorded most of these songs.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Mountain Goats

Who’s responsible for the state of the Mountain Goats in Heretic Pride? Overproduced and with lyrics that would make high schoolers at a Battle of the Bands blush, this once-fantastic band has released a lamentable album, and someone must be to blame.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Critical Voices: Strangefolk

Strangefolk, British psychedelic outfit Kula Shaker’s first album in eight years, is a tight set of tracks that works best when striking at the heart of the classic rock tradition.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Forte: An open letter to Apple

The bottom line is that between the iPod, iTunes and the Apple image, you’ve made being alone awfully convenient, even attractive. If the streak continues, maybe we can expect streaming concert footage on iTunes and albums made entirely with GarageBand.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

SBF, seeking love and redemption

“In the Blood,” staged by the Black Theater Ensemble and written by Susan-Lori Parks, is a dark tale of a woman whose poverty and sexual prowess have given her five bastard children and a life of perpetual social exclusion. The story is loosely based on Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”—although the only vestiges of that archetypal classic are Hester La Negrita (the heroine) and an abundance of A’s (the only letter that Hester can read or write).

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Culottes for you lots: Pretty in pink

When it comes to dressing up for the holidays, Valentine’s Day is notoriously short-changed. We get to wear pretty hats for Easter and little black dresses for New Years, but the idea of dressing up for Valentine’s Day seems, to many, a decidedly tacky thing to do. Mention anything about a Valentine’s Day outfit, and two visions come to mind: the middle-aged elementary school teacher in a voluminous cardigan covered in sequin hearts, and her polar opposite, the lingerie model in a trashy see-through teddy and crotchless panties. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

By February 14, 2008

Leisure

Finding Love, Etcetera

This Valentine’s Day, why not expand your cultural horizons? The Davis Center is putting on “Love, Etcetera,” a stupendous dance show by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange based on the work of those two classic romantic Wills, Shakespeare and Nelson. A surprising pairing, but as Artistic Director Peter DiMuro explains, “their works are about human foibles, and they’re great storytellers.”

By February 14, 2008

Features

Cura Personalis in Reverse Overdrive

When Adam Briscoe came to Georgetown in 2003, he took on the ambitious courseload typical of many SFS students, “Chinese and all that.” During high school he had been informally diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder by his psychiatrist, but chose to forego expensive and time-consuming diagnostic testing. Instead, he developed coping mechanisms to help him succeed academically. But by the end of his freshman year, he had “hit it like a brick wall” and was asked to withdraw from the University.

By February 14, 2008

News

Getting out the vote in D.C.

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night could keep devoted followers of democratic presidential candidates Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) from stumping for their candidates during Tuesday’s Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia primary elections. Students did everything from canvassing neighborhoods throughout D.C. to standing outside precincts encouraging people to vote.

By February 14, 2008