Voices

Ballin’ on a budget at G’town

April is the cruelest month. Just ask anyone rushing to finish those tax forms. While university undergrads are spared the brunt of this burden (possibly the best perk of not having any real career to speak of), April brings its own annoyance to many of us in the collegiate crowd: it’s when Georgetown wants those financial aid forms.

By Marco Cerna April 19, 2007

Voices

Carrying on: Shock and awe in French “porn”

I fancy myself an intellectual, the equally passionate and jaded American youth born of a hodgepodge of F. Scott and Zelda, Stephen King and Thomas Jefferson. I am supposedly above the WASP prudery of my elders and my peers who, I can’t help but assume, take little interest in anything but investment banking. Nothing shocks me. I look at sex and violence with a critical eye, and if I can’t find a deeper meaning, I generally keep it to myself.

By Perry Collins April 19, 2007

Voices

Nothing but a pack of foma

Kurt Vonnegut was a writer engaged in the business of time. He was fascinated with humans’ harnessing of the natural world and their resulting alienation. He wrote stories entrenched in waves of political consciousness, telling tales of world destruction by an incidental afterthought as simple, at times, as the pushing of a button that could unleash the atom bomb.

By Lauren Gaskill April 19, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Thanks Tony: Imus should go

Thank you to Anthony Francavilla for his timely piece on Don Imus’ recent blunder. (“The Sports Sermon,” Sports, April 12, 2007)

By Letter to the Editor April 19, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Georgetown more diverse than Howard

The implication in the April 12 editorial that Howard University is a much more diverse campus than Georgetown is unfortunately not based in reality.

By Letter to the Editor April 19, 2007

Corrections

Student’s school and year mis-identified

In “Basketball graduation rate criticized” (News, April 12, 2007) Cliff Goldstein’s year and school were identified as COL ‘09. He is, in fact, SFS ‘08.

By Corrections April 19, 2007

Editorials

Remembering 33 students

Around midday on Monday, students in the ICC began to overhear trickles of news reports from people who had checked their e-mail or caught CNN.

By the Editorial Board April 19, 2007

Editorials

Choose life—without abstinence

A Bush administration study released last week reminded us, once again, that science has proven that abstinence-only education policies don’t work.

By the Editorial Board April 19, 2007

Editorials

Relay for Life races against cancer

It’s Georgetown’s first year participating in Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society’s annual fundraiser, but students here have made a splash.

By the Editorial Board April 19, 2007

Leisure

Translations gives off good vibrations

“Translations,” written by Brian Fiel and directed by JoJo Ruf (Col ‘08), is a solid tale of Irish identity with a little bit of fun and a great deal of soliloquy. It is the first student production to be staged in the Davis Center since it was built last year.

By Ryan Maye Handy April 19, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: The Field

Axel Willner, Stockholm native and sole member of electronic outfit The Field, has a gift for making the most out of the least. His recently released debut, From Here We Go Sublime, deftly exploits the hypnotic potential of musical repetition with little more than a few looping samples and austere techno beats. Though the album’s lack of variation is an acquired taste, each track is pure bliss for the patient of ear.

By Traviss Cassidy April 19, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: Arctic Monkeys

Who the fuck are Arctic Monkeys was hardly an appropriate name for the Arctic Monkeys’ 2006 EP. Soon after the Monkeys gatecrashed the British and world charts with their first album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, they become an overnight success.

By Anastasia Stepanova April 19, 2007

Leisure

GU Music Program takes off

On March 22, 2002, several members of the GU Orchestra gathered together in the main hall of the Leavey Center to protest the inadequacies of Georgetown’s music program. As part of a larger effort to garner support for GU music, the sit-in functioned as a way for students to cite the space problems of the department and obtain signatures for a petition to President DeGoia. Instead of wielding picket-signs and yelping raucous chants, however, the quartet opted to perform selected pieces of Mozart for students and faculty passing through the building.

By Daniel Cook April 19, 2007

Leisure

GEMA opens doors

As the Music Department increases its offerings within the classroom, the program continues to find outside support from the Georgetown Entertainment Media Alliance (GEMA). Founded by Gemstar-TV Guide CEO Rich Battista, GEMA acts as a network for GU alums involved in the entertainment industry, sporting contacts from ABC, AOL, DreamWorks and other mainstream conglomerates.

By Daniel Cook April 19, 2007

Leisure

Goes down easy: a rotating biweekly column about drinking

Living in Washington, D.C. for four years and never sampling its Ethiopian food and drink is like living in New York and never having a knish, or calling yourself a native of Kansas City without ever tasting the barbecue. It stinks of laziness, timidity orshy;—worse—plain naiveté.

By Chris Stanton April 19, 2007

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By Perry Collins April 19, 2007

Features

Stop Requested?

Darrel Evans’ nightly tour of two D.C. universities begins late on Thursday evening when he swings his bus past the corner of P Street and Wisconsin Ave. There he picks up a loquacious Howard University student named Takeisha Carr (HWD ‘09), then rumbles down the uneven pavement towards Dupont Circle. The evening glow of orange street lamps reveals a cross-section of Northwest: of quaint Dupont row-house mansions and ugly lots on 7th Street, the beautiful but barred front doors in the Shaw neighborhood and finally, the looming brick complex of Howard University.

By Chris Stanton April 12, 2007

Leisure

From Australia with Love of Diagrams

Antonia Sellbach pulls her bleached bangs behind her ear and leans out past the edge of the sofa. It’s a Thursday night at the 9:30 Club, and her Melbourne, Australia-based band Love of Diagrams has just wrapped up a 45 minute opening set for Ted Leo, punk rock local hero and elder statesman. His set is being recorded for NPR’s All Songs Considered live series, but she’s upstairs in the dressing room, doing something relatively new for the band—talking to the press.

By Chris Norton April 12, 2007

Leisure

Grindhouse: yummy, bloody, puss-filled fun

Sporting tight leather booty shorts, soaked in blood and roaring at 9,000 RPM, ‘70s exploitation films appeal to humanity’s basest of desires and all the better for it. With Grindhouse, a double feature ode to trash cinema complete with fake (and hilarious) movie trailers, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez try to rekindle America’s passion for the drive-in experience, missing reels and all.

By Traviss Cassidy April 12, 2007

Sports

Rugby club’s brotherly scrum

It’s the closest thing Georgetown has to a fraternity.

By Kathryn Brand April 12, 2007

Sports

Sports Sermon

In 1983, ABC sports commentator Howard Cosell shocked the country during a Monday Night Football telecast when he referred to an African American player as a “little monkey.” Cosell had used the phrase before to refer to both white and black players who were smaller and quicker than others, but the backlash from this particular broadcast caused Cosell to resign from his position. Nearly a quarter-century later, controversial sports commentary has once again hit the news. But this most recent comment, made by radio personality Don Imus, has a much clearer intention than Cosell’s slip-up.

By Anthony Francavilla April 12, 2007

Sports

Baseball road woes continues

After dropping a three-game set to Big East opponent Seton Hall, Georgetown baseball (12-21) suffered another setback against George Mason on Wednesday. This loss marked the Hoyas second defeat to the Patriots in just five games. Since the April 3 loss to George Mason, Georgetown has dropped five straight while being outscored by opponents 31-15.

By Daniel Eden April 12, 2007

Sports

Hoyas dominate Mt. St. Mary’s

The fifth-ranked Georgetown Men’s Lacrosse team traveled to Maryland and defeated Mount St. Mary’s 11-4 on Tuesday afternoon.

By David Dietz April 12, 2007

Sports

Pay the man

Some have forgotten, others weren’t even here. But, as a senior, I remember all too well the humiliating loss to Duke and the last second heart-breaker against Syracuse during my freshman year.

By Dante Randazzo April 12, 2007

News

The Governator gets green in Gaston

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the challenges faced by the environmental movement to the struggles of bodybuilders when he spoke to a packed house of amused students in Gaston Hall yesterday, declaring that the environmental movement is now at a “tipping point.”

By Kate Mays April 12, 2007