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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

Never stop exploring the world outside the classroom

We worry an awful lot about our school’s image. You hear concern among students when they talk about friends at Harvard or Yale (the unspoken question being, how do we compare?). You see it in administrative reports when we compare our grade inflation to Princeton’s. You may, in fact, have just read it in several columns recently published in the Voice and the Hoya. As Fr. James Schall sees it, we focus too much on careers and extracurricular activities and appreciate the “life of the mind” too little.

By Tyler Stone February 7, 2008

Breaking the Cardinal rule

Junior guard Jessie Sapp says he will be ready when the sixth-ranked Hoyas (19-2, 9-1 BE) travel to Freedom Hall in Louisville on Saturday to take on the Cardinals (17-6, 7-3 BE).

By Anthony Francavilla February 7, 2008

What Rocks

Before last week, junior Andrew Bumbalough had never competed in the indoor mile run as a Georgetown athlete. Fortunately, he didn’t let that stop him from giving it a go at Saturday’s Giegengack Invitational at Yale University, where he ran the mile in 3:58.46 to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 14. Even though he hadn’t run the event competitively since high school, he wasn’t surprised by his success.

By Justin Hunter Scott February 7, 2008

The Sports Sermon

Between the looming shadow of the basketball team and the gloom of their own losses, the swim team is traditionally overlooked on campus. Lately, though, the team is achieving outstanding results. While the team earned its first win just two weeks ago—at their 9th meet and second-to-last regular season contest—individual swimmers have been posting success from the start.

By Liz Kuebler February 7, 2008

Bryon Jansen

You know you’ve made a big shot when you’re still smiling about it three days later.

Judging from the grin that six-foot-six-inch Bryon Jansen—a junior walk-on in his first year as a part of the No. 6-ranked basketball team in the country— wore during a media opportunity last weekend, he was pleased to record his first-ever points as a Hoya.

By Phil Perry February 7, 2008

Unnoticed win

It had been two years since I’d attended a Georgetown women’s basketball game. Back during the 2005-2006 season, I watched every game from the press table as I covered the team for these pages. That year, after a back-and-forth start in the win and loss columns, the losses came in bunches in a 3-13 conference campaign.

By Mike Kuebler February 7, 2008

Features

What Fine Dining’s All About

Nathan Beauchamp and I are in the offices above the 1789 Restaurant, and I’m getting nervous. He, meanwhile, is cool as ice water, and opening up a little more as... Read more

By Mike Stewart February 7, 2008

School closure list revised

Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee revised their list of D.C. public schools that will close by the end of this year last Friday. Six of the 23 schools originally slated for closure were removed from the list, and four new ones were added. Rhee revised the list after numerous protests and boycotts from activists, parents and students.

By Crystal Chung February 7, 2008

Solidarity, NAACP call out hat makers

Goergetown Solidarity Committee, in conjunction with the local head of the NAACP, called on Georgetown University to terminate its contract with New Era Cap, which produces caps for universities across the country, in addition to being the exclusive producer of Major League Baseball caps, on Tuesday. Solidarity’s demand followed the NAACP’s release of a report in which approximately 50 anonymous employees filed allegations of racial and sexual discrimination at New Era’s plant in Mobile, Alabama.

By Molly Redden February 7, 2008