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Georgetown vs. William & Mary

The 68-53 final score does not adequately tell the story of what was a tough opening test for the fifth-ranked Georgetown basketball team.

By November 8, 2007

Sports

Big East players to watch

Top players in the Big East conference who aren’t Hoyas.

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Eyes on the Prize

The seniors of the Georgetown women’s basketball team look to leave their mark in the Big East.

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Big East games to watch

The most exciting match-ups in the upcoming season.

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Title Defense

A long-awaited return to the Final Four, the first 30-win season since 1985, and the first Big East Tournament Championship since 1989. If last year was any indication, John Thompson III’s Georgetown basketball reclamation project has been a success, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to the current Hoya coaches or players. Last year is right where it should be: in the past.

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Baby Coach

Don’t let the acoustics in McDonough Gymnasium fool you. The bouncing balls and squeaking sneakers are the sources of incessant echoing from Midnight Madness to March, but if you listen closely, there is a different sort of echo that is just as persistent in this bastion of ballers.

By November 6, 2007

Sports

This is why we’re hot

The following songs’ heavy baselines and lyrics are guaranteed to get you pumped-up while drinking at 10 a.m. before the game (as if you needed any help). They will also keep you going as you rush to the Verizon Center two hours early hoping to sit in the lower student section. Bump these tracks while you read the Voice’s basketball issue so you’ll know the words by game time this Saturday.

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Jack is in the house

“Jack’s already been walked [today], so he might not be that cooperative,” Walid Khalifeh (SFS ‘08), told me when we picked up Georgetown’s mascot from the lobby of the Jesuit residence. “As you might know, bulldogs are not the most energetic of dogs.”

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Finding fans among faculty

Marilyn McMorrow says she “doesn’t have an athletic bone in her body,” but describes watching the Georgetown basketball team as “ecstasy … you can be lifted out of your shoes.... Read more

By November 6, 2007

Sports

Hear Them Roar

The georgetown women’s basketball team is ready to make changes after last year’s disappointing season. Ranked last in the Big East by the coaches’ preseason poll, the Hoyas know that the only way to go is up.

By November 6, 2007

Voices

No refuge for former child soldiers

Walking to the market, an eleven-year-old boy is arrested by the National Patriotic Front of Liberia. They ask him to join their army and to kill a captured Armed Forces of Liberia. When he refuses, they threaten his life, forcing him to comply. The boy spends the next few years on the front lines, being threatened at knifepoint to kill other men and children. Such was the norm in Liberia during the late eighties and early nineties.

By November 1, 2007

Voices

Learning how to run like a queen

Thousands lined 17th street waiting for the race to start. Maybe it was the dazzling amount of glitter, sequins and rhinestones in one place, or maybe it was a mixture of our amazement and envy, but the drag queens were statuesque and awe inspiring.

By November 1, 2007

Voices

Ever try to write 50,000 words in 30 days?

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. During NaNo, as insiders call it, participants challenge themselves to pen a 50,000 word novel in the thirty days of November. Winners are novelists. Losers, well—nothing ventured, nothing gained.

By November 1, 2007

Voices

Carrying On

Spaniards have a phrase for people who don’t know how to cook: Ni puede freír un huevo. (he can’t even fry an egg). This is what my host mom, Concha, told me about my lack of skill in the culinary arts. Yet only a few weeks later, she wanted me to cook a family delicacy.

By November 1, 2007

Editorials

A B- in sustainability doesn’t cut it

Georgetown has reason be proud, but for a school marked by overachievers, there is still plenty of room for improvement.

By the November 1, 2007

Editorials

$10 million well spent on D.C. students

President John DeGioia should be commended for his recent success in landing the Institute for College Preparation (ICP) a cool $10 million grant from the Meyers Foundation.

By the November 1, 2007

Editorials

Doing our part for Iraqi refugees

While the government and all educational institutions must do their part, Georgetown—where Iraq war planners like former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and former CIA director George Tenet, have come to roost—owes a larger debt than most.

By the November 1, 2007

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By November 1, 2007

Sports

Sweet November for GU soccer

The Georgetown men’s soccer team is back in the playoffs after winning two matches in a row and four of five.

By November 1, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

We all know that U.S.-China relations are a tricky aspect of our nation’s foreign policy, which is why the Bush administration is rolling out the big guns for its latest efforts at diplomacy: Cal Ripken is taking a swing at things in Beijing (pun intended).

By November 1, 2007

Sports

What Rocks

Senior Melissa Grelli had an historic performance this past Saturday at the Big East Championship in Louisville, Ky.

By November 1, 2007

Sports

Road work

Marathoners are a different type of athlete, driven to take on a 26.2 mile run just for that inexplicable runner’s high.

By November 1, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Rather than accept the mounting specter of a multi-sport New England dynasty, sanity requires that I retreat to the comfort of my own imaginary sports Valhalla.

By November 1, 2007

Sports

XC makes waves in KY

A few days of rain left the ground at the E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, KY, a bit wet Saturday, but the flat course at the Big East Cross Country Championships provided few challenges for Georgetown’s runners, with senior Melissa Grelli’s first place finish providing the highlight of the weekend.

By November 1, 2007

Leisure

Fabulation nothing short of fabulous

For about an hour after “Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine” (it makes sense in the context of one of the play’s best moments, but damned if I’m actually going to write it out each time), I walked around in a kind of shocked appreciation, the stupor of being in the presence of something fleetingly, unevenly true. The production, under Isiah Wooden’s direction, has some problems, but the moments that work do so beautifully.

By November 1, 2007