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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

City on a Hill: Make Noise

The City Council may curtail free speech rights by passing the “Noise Control Protection Amendment Act” on February 19th. And while I sympathize with those D.C. residents who can’t sleep past 8 a.m. or enjoy a peaceful evening at home due to neighborhood noise, the act—sponsored by councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6)—assaults the First Amendment and the Council should not pass it.

By Juliana Brint February 7, 2008

Georgetown library plans for renovation

The District of Columbia Public Library will announce the architect chosen to restore and renovate its Georgetown branch this afternoon, according to Archie Williams, an Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist for DCPL. The library building, located at 3260 R Street, was gutted by an accidental fire last spring.

By Ohm Gore February 7, 2008

GUSA race officially begins

“The main reason [I’m running] is [that] the same type of person wins every year,” Tom Karwacki (MSB ‘09) said, adding that he sees most past GUSA presidents as buttoned-down government majors with their sights set on the White House.

By Juliana Brint February 7, 2008

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days in the life

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, the latest success from Romania’s growing filmmaking community, is honest and brilliantly directed. The film recently opened in D.C. after winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or and garnering international praise for writer/director Cristian Mungiu’s nonjudgmental portrayal of a young woman seeking an illegal abortion with the help of a close friend.

By Sara Carothers February 7, 2008

High School Musical, the Musical!

I spent one week babysitting my cousins over winter break. And so, by no fault of my own, I just so happen to know every single word to the High School Musical soundtrack by heart. I even might have it on my iPod. Okay, okay—I just may be a secret HSM fanatic.

I love the utter corniness of Disney’s uber-simplistic version of high school, where the main characters don’t even kiss until the sequel. So when given the option to see High School Musical live, I hauled out to the National Theatre.

By Erin Espe February 7, 2008

Popped Culture: Romcoms and Reviews

It’s February, which means that, in addition to more sunlight and an influx of pink at CVS, we can expect lots and lots of bad movies. The beginning of the calendar year is the usual dumping ground for movies no one expects to be considered for Oscars: action movies too dull for the summer, comedies that have been “reshot” six or seven times, and a plethora of formulaic romantic comedies (romcoms, if you will), a genre that gets less respect than almost any other.

By Shira Hecht February 7, 2008

Talking vaginas in Poulton Hall

Giant, talking vaginas. It’s the image that comes to mind when one hears the title Vagina Monologues, and which the play’s opening line intentionally invokes. “My vagina’s pissed off,” the first actress declares, before explaining what her “vagina would say if it could.”

By Emily Forse February 7, 2008

Critical Voices: British Sea Power

Nationalist rockers British Sea Power return on February 12 with their third album, Do You Like Rock Music? Occasionally leaving behind some of the radio-friendliness of 2003’s Open Season in favor of their debut’s less nuanced—though arguably better—rock sound, the lads from Brighton, England hope your answer is yes. Although the band still fails to write great hooks consistently, the uptempo songs here are among their best to date.

By Justin Hunter Scott February 7, 2008

Vox Around the Blocks

Compiled by your lovely Leisure staff, this calender covers upcoming events in D.C. for the museum-goer and concert-goer alike.

By the Voice Staff February 7, 2008