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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 Daniel Cook February 14, 2008

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 Ryan Maye Handy February 14, 2008

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 Katherine Norton February 14, 2008

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 Shira Hecht 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 Juliana Brint February 14, 2008

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 Dylan Richmond February 14, 2008

Promise for LGBTQ center

As part of the University’s ongoing LGBTQ Initiative, the working groups on resources and education presented their final reports and recommendations to University President John DeGioia last week. A full-time, fully-funded Resource Center remains the primary recommendation from the Working Group on Resources.

By John Cooke February 14, 2008

Condoleezza Rice Visits Gaston

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke about the need to recruit more American diplomats and strengthen the State Department on Tuesday in Gaston Hall. Rice emphasized the role institutions like Georgetown can play in the future of diplomacy.

By Yamini Kalidindi February 14, 2008

Union Jack: A bill every college kid can afford

Thanks to a bill passed by the House on Feb. 7, applying for and receiving financial aid could become a reality for more college students.

By Alison Crowley February 14, 2008

Stumping for GUSA change

“I would never whore myself out,” Tim Brown (COL ’09), one of the eight candidates for GUSA, said.

“That’s a campaign promise,” Brown added. “That might be my only campaign promise.”

By Kate Mays February 14, 2008

Rep. Ellison talks change

“I have one thing to tell you. Everything I say after this one thing is an elaboration on that one thing. Just one thing: the time is now,” Keith Ellison, the Democratic Congressman from Minnesota’s 5th district, told a diverse audience at Georgetown Law School’s Gewirz Student Center on Tuesday night. Ellison’s discussion about bringing change to American politics, titled “Our Time has Come,” was organized by several law center groups.

By Maddie Donnelly February 14, 2008

Two deans to leave by summer

Deans Jane McAuliffe and Elizabeth Andretta both announced plans to leave Georgetown this summer over the weekend. McAulifee, the Dean of Georgetown College, will become the next president of Bryn Mawr College, the school’s board trustees announced last Friday, and Andretta, Associate Dean and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the School of Foreign Service will serve as the faculty-in-residence at Georgetown’s Villa le Balze in Fiesole, Italy.

By Ohm Gore February 14, 2008

Ron Paul talks money and voting in Gaston Hall

Just days after scaling back his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex.) railed against the mainstream political establishment in Gaston Hall last night, advocating his libertarian philosophy of limited government and personal freedom.

By Sam Sweeney February 14, 2008

Corrections

GUSA correction

In “Williams and Kesten for GUSA” (Editorial, Feb. 14), Sean Hayes (MSB ‘10) and Andrew Madorsky (MSB ‘10) clarified that the proposed $5 admission to Midnight Madness would be voluntary... Read more

By Corrections February 14, 2008

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Sean Hayes and Andrew Madorsky

By Letter to the Editor February 14, 2008

I’ll just have a nosh of that lo mein

The first thing you should know about me is that I’m not really Jewish. Technically I’m Jewish. My parents are Jewish, we watch a lot of Seinfeld and I definitely prefer my bagels with a little shmear, but I was raised in a household where Yom Kippur—the Jewish day of atonement—didn’t exist until my dad went through his midlife crisis

By Andrew Gold February 7, 2008

The roommate, the boy, and the wardrobe

Fresh from the shower and clad only in a towel, I saw that one of my apartment-mates had opened her door, so I knew she was awake. I immediately walked into her room and, still dripping, launched into my interrogation. I had gone to bed before she came home, and all I knew was that there was a boy involved. She began her story as she tried to print a paper using my computer and her printer. After a few unsuccessful attempts, we migrated to my room to use my printer.

By Allie Reiner February 7, 2008

Editorials

Google e-mail plan won’t byte

For students dissatisfied with the unreliablity, sluggishness and 20 megabyte limit of Georgetown’s e-mail service, forwarding GUMail e-mails to a Gmail account has long been a better option. Georgetown should look into implementing Google’s education application, which would provide all the benefits of forwarding to Gmail on a school-wide scale, while saving the University time and money.

By the Editorial Board February 7, 2008

Editorials

School plan gets passing grade

Most people agree that Washington’s school system needs to be fixed, but they differ wildly on how to do it. Just ask Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty (D), Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, City Council members and community activists. They’ve been battling one another since November, when Fenty and Rhee proposed closing public schools.

By the Editorial Board February 7, 2008

Editorials

Permanent library long overdue

The D.C. government blamed a heat gun for the fire that burned down Georgetown’s public library last April. Ten months later, the neighborhood is lacking even an adequate interim branch and the reconstruction is so far behind that the project’s architect is only being announced today. In the District, slow-moving bureaucracy can be as dangerous to bibliophiles as heat guns. The District of Columbia Public Library system must open an interim library location as soon as possible and ensure that the permanent library is constructed on time.

By the Editorial Board February 7, 2008

Once more into the security breach

Like a whole bunch of Georgetown students and alums, I woke up last week to an unpleasant e-mail from Georgetown: my name and Social Security number “may have been exposed” after a University hard drive was stolen. More exasperated than angry—between Facebook, buying things on the internet and the U.S. government’s tendency to lose private information, my privacy is nil anyway—I had an advantage that most students didn’t: a pre-arranged chat with Vice President of Safety and Security, Rocco DelMonaco, Jr., scheduled for later that afternoon.

By Tim Fernholz February 7, 2008