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The pursuit of happiness

I have been told that January 22nd is the most depressing day of the year. Sunlight is scarce, Christmas bills are filling mailboxes and people are coming to the realization that their three weeks of New Years-inspired jogging and Pilates will not actually help them land a model, a professional football player or even a promotion. Forget April, Mr. Eliot; January appears to be the cruelest month.

By January 31, 2008

Voices

The faith-based fight against poverty

“Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness,” wrote the British essayist Samuel Johnson. “It certainly destroys liberty and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.” Johnson’s understanding of the threat that poverty posed to London in the 18th century holds no less true for Washington, D.C. in the 21st.

By January 31, 2008

Voices

The best part of waking up is a Murky cup

You may be sipping on your daily caramel macchiato as you read this. Or perhaps you are more of a “Beloved” fan. Either way, why the extra flavoring? Can’t you handle the taste of real coffee? Would you prefer to drink straight sugar? I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that it’s not you; it’s the coffee.

By January 31, 2008

Editorials

Bush still not keeping it real

President Bush spoke of “decisive days that lie ahead” in his final State of the Union Address Monday. Throughout the speech, though, he revealed his ignorance of the decisive days that have already passed. On matters of foreign, domestic and economic policy the president appeared dangerously out of touch with reality.

By the January 31, 2008

Editorials

The truth will set the Hoya free

Hoya staffers have lately been flooding basketball games, Red Square and Facebook with appeals to “Save the Hoya,” without specifying who the Hoya needs to be saved from. While the Hoya deserves support, the campaign is inaccurate at best and disingenuous at worst.

By the January 31, 2008

Editorials

Holding on to Jesuit identity

Georgetown doesn’t have a Jesuit President, and likely won’t in the future. We don’t, in fact, have very many Jesuits—only 34 working on campus, out of some 728 full-time faculty. It’s quite possible to go through four years here without taking a class with or even, if you make an effort, meeting a Jesuit. For many students, the most prominent reminder of our Jesuit identity is how often we’re told that we have one. So, what’s the use of our Jesuit heritage today? Should we cast our religious identity aside like so many other Universities and seek to become a Potomac Harvard? After weighing the costs and benefits, we can only say no. Jesuit we began, and Jesuit we should remain.

By the January 31, 2008

Crosswords

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By January 31, 2008

Sports

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hoyas barely swat away Mountaineers

West Virginia fans do not like Patrick Ewing Jr. Last year’s small scuffle with then-coach John Beilein earned the senior forward the chagrin of the Mountaineer Maniacs, but his game-ending, heartbreaking block on Saturday night placed the crown prince of Georgetown basketball somewhere between Satan and former football coach Rich Rodriguez in the current Morgantown lexicon of hatred.

By January 24, 2008

Crosswords

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By January 24, 2008

Page 13 Cartoons

The Elegance of Winter

It’s amazing how the winter can pick me apart, piece by piece. First the actual dream, then the hope, then the reason for hope, then the possibility for hope. It... Read more

By January 24, 2008

News

News Hits

The Hoya + GUSA Staff members of the Hoya will present their case for the paper’s independence and desire to keep its name at a GUSA Senate meeting this coming... Read more

By January 24, 2008

News

A dream of D.C. voting rights

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), the District of Columbia’s non-voting Representative in Congress, was honored by the University on Martin Luther King Jr. day for her continuous efforts for civil rights, and said that she will keep working until D.C. residents gain full representation in Congress

By January 24, 2008

News

LGBTQ: working it out

Based on recommendations by a working group formed in November to assess the efficacy of the University’s bias reporting system, Public Safety Alerts will undergo several changes in the spring semester. The alerts, which previously included only robberies and assaults, will now notify students of incidents of bias and will be available every day of the week

By January 24, 2008

News

City on a Hill: Farewell to cheating cabbies

The past few months have been quite an emotional rollercoaster for the District’s taxi riders—and the Taxicab Industry Group’s latest call for strikes ensures that it won’t end any time soon. With Mayor Adrian Fenty’s decision to switch to metered fares to be instituted April 6, the strike is largely for show. And what it shows is that the first priority for many cab drivers is preserving their ability to rip off their customers.

By January 24, 2008

News

Metro slowdown

Major rehabilitation on Metro Center’s platform caused delays on the red, blue and orange Metro lines last weekend, tripping up students who attended Georgetown’s basketball games on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening at the Verizon Center. Trains travelling in both directions from the nearby Gallery Place-Chinatown Station were put on the same track, causing delays of half-an-hour or more.

By January 24, 2008

News

Hope you have the time of your pro-life

Members of Georgetown’s Right to Life organization joined as many as 200,000 other pro-life activists on a march from the National Mall to the Supreme Court Tuesday as participatants in the March for Life, an annual protest held on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion as a privacy issue.

By January 24, 2008

Features

Pluralism in action?

ROB HURTEKANT SFS ‘08 “It seems silly to even use the word ‘challenges,’” Rob Hurtekant (SFS ’08) said of his experiences in a wheelchair at Georgetown. Hurtekant, an African Studies... Read more

By the January 24, 2008

Sports

The Sports Sermon

With the second semester in full swing, the Georgetown football team is back into the off-season early-morning workouts. Getting up at the break of dawn is hard enough, but the facts the Hoyas must face every morning as they trek up to the varsity gym must hurt even more.

By January 24, 2008

Sports

Fear the ‘neers

With more than a third of the Big East Conference season behind us, it’s time to reflect on preseason expectations. Georgetown is right where they were expected to be at the top of the conference, but just below the Hoyas in the Big East standings sits what many would call a surprise team: the West Virginia Mountaineers.

By January 24, 2008

Sports

Kieraah Marlow

A positve outcome of the women’s basketball team’s 20-point loss to 17th-ranked Notre Dame last Saturday was the play of senior forward Kieraah Marlow. Marlow went 13-22 from the field and sank 8 of 9 free throws to amass 34 points in all, a career best and team best this season. Although such an outstanding performance failed to propel GU to a much-needed first Big East victory, it did emphatically exorcise a personal demon. Marlow, who entered the season as Georgetown’s thirteenth all-time career scoring leader board, followed the worst scoring performance of her career with her best.

By January 24, 2008

Sports

Yatesians

We’re now three weeks into the New Year, which means, for most of us, that we’re two weeks removed from breaking our New Year’s resolutions. It’s no fault of our own. It takes a special kind of person to stave off the cravings induced by Little Debby or L.C. from Laguna Beach—both evil temptresses in their own right.

By January 24, 2008

Sports

Hoyas tip off tennis season

With the basketball team receiving most of the hype on the Hilltop these days, the Georgetown tennis program is quietly getting into the swing of its spring season. The men got off to a quick start last Friday taking down East Carolina 3-1 and Longwood 3-0 at the VCU Men’s 4×1 Invitational in Richmond, Va.

By January 24, 2008

Sports

Women get first Big East win

Having dropped their last four contests going into Tuesday’s game, the Georgetown women’s basketball team was in a funk. In those four games, though, the team showed true determination and signs of life—most notably in their mere 10 point loss to the fifth ranked Scarlet Knights of Rutgers and senior forward Kieraah Marlow’s 34 point and 17 rebound tear against 16th-ranked Notre Dame. But Tuesday’s game against Seton Hall was a different story.

By January 24, 2008

Leisure

He’s Not There

By the time you read this Heath Ledger will have been dead for at least about 48 hours. Yet his death and his life have already been discussed, examined and analyzed, the analysis analyzed, a thousand theories raised and discarded and made into cover stories.

By January 24, 2008

Leisure

The Mars Volta, The Bedlam in Goliath

The Mars Volta, led by former At the Drive-In members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, have long been divisive in the critical world. Their spastic progressive rock has won them as many detractors as fans, and that’s not likely to change with their fourth album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Still, the album is an exciting development for the band’s sound, which is faster and more focused than on their previous albums.

By January 24, 2008