Archive

On the record: Dick Gregory

If you look at the new stats that came out on OD deaths and they break them down, they’re led by white women, white teenagers, and white Southerners. That’s the problem.

By Alison Crowley September 27, 2007

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Four weeks into the season, a lot of things are becoming clear in college football. Notre Dame is finally feeling the pain of being the most overrated program in the nation for the past few years. USC is scary good. Louisville can score a lot, but so can their opponents. Ohio State reloads instead of rebuilding.

By Mike Kuebler September 27, 2007

Anchors away

With the first month of the season drawing to a close, the Georgetown sailing team is already claiming it’s spot at the top of the heap.

By Liz Kuebler September 27, 2007

The Sports Sermon

In second grade, sometime between being deemed “of an age of reason” by the Roman Catholic Church and finally shaking off that pesky imaginary friend, I came into baseball consciousness.

By admin September 27, 2007

Homecoming preview

This Saturday, the two teams entering the Multi-Sport Field will be working to shake off their hangover from last week’s play. Both Cornell (1-1) and Georgetown (0-4) gave up more than 50 points in their lopsided losses to Yale and Holy Cross, respectively.

By Phil Perry September 27, 2007

Eastern Promises bares heart, soul and Viggo

A man getting a haircut has his throat slit and a teenager hemorrhages as she gives birth. While the first five minutes of the film are intense, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises is to Russian mob movies what Wes Anderson’s Royal Tenenbaums is to the family comedy: the emphasis is on character development, not genre tropes.

By Tae Jung Choi September 27, 2007

Echoes from the Melting Pot reverberates

Next week, Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center will host two interactive installations, an unprecedented event for the venue. From the British Council U.S. comes the Black Atlantic Project (BAP), an experimental musical collaboration that evolved from seven British and American musician poets who sampled and re-mixed each others works to create a trans-Atlantic hip-hop conversation.

By Sara Carothers September 27, 2007

Read Me

If you look at the website for the National Book Festival, you may be confused as to what the goal is. Language about “our country, its citizens and its libraries” and Laura Bush as the “hostess” are worrisome signs for those of us who like their entertainment and politics separate.

By Shira Hecht September 27, 2007

Critical Voices: Stars, In Our Bedroom After the War

Every time I pick up a Stars album, I’m reminded of the astronomy course I took last year. Like the rare cosmic event of a supernova, Stars albums start out in a flash of superabundant energy, dynamic lyricism and creativity. Then they die.

By Keenan Timko September 27, 2007

Critical Voices: Bruce Springsteen, Magic

After five years of anticipation, Bruce Springsteen has finally reunited with the E Street Band.

By Eddie Walsh September 27, 2007

Critical Voices: Iron & Wine, The Shepherd’s Dog

Sam Beam is one of those rare artists who have yet to make a career misstep. From his 2002 debut The Creek Drank the Cradle to 2005’s Calexico collaboration In the Reins, the Floridian consistently delivers tender folk reveries straight from his pastoral heart. Better-known as Iron & Wine, Beam first entered the public eye with his cover of “Such Great Heights” for the 2004 film Garden State and has remained a college crowd staple henceforth.

By Daniel Cook September 27, 2007

Deadbeats

Seeing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ shook me to the core of my being and left me feeling helpless in my mortality. It wasn’t the movie, though, that so moved me.

By Traviss Cassidy September 27, 2007

DPS to be armed in next year

The Department of Public Safety plans to arm its officers with maces and batons, University President John DeGioia said at a faculty town hall meeting on Tuesday.

By Crystal Chung September 27, 2007

GU vs. Pope

The Vatican investigation of Georgetown theology professor Fr. Peter Phan’s writings regarding Catholic primacy over other religions is not the first time that Georgetown has come in contact with controversy from the Vatican.

By Elena Solli September 27, 2007

Darnall-cohol

Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission will discuss a liquor license for the new Darnall restaurant at a meeting October 2nd.

By Will Sommer September 27, 2007

Cancer Schmancer: Fran Drescher speaks out

No Laughing Matter: “I swear I got in the stirrups more times than Roy Rogers,” Fran Drescher said as keynote speaker on Tuesday at the School of Nursing and Health... Read more

By Dominique Barron September 27, 2007

Chartering D.C.’s Catholic kids

The Archbishop of Washington proposed the conversion of eight Catholic elementary schools in the District into charter schools under the administration of the D.C. Charter School Board in an announcement September 8th.

By Louisa Aviles September 27, 2007

Turkish speech canceled

Georgetown’s Woodstock Theological Center postponed a speech by Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan of the Armenian Church in Turkey because of security concerns, according to one of the event’s co-sponsors.

By Will Sommer September 27, 2007

Saxa Politica: Running your GUTS out

GUTS bus service on weekend nights will resume on this weekend. Though the extended bus is much needed, it is still not enough to connect Georgetown students to the city.

By Dylan Richmond September 27, 2007

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By Cal Lee September 27, 2007