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Zesty family life in the Rockies

I spent this past spring break skiing with my friend Colin’s family in Denver. I thought that everyone in Colorado would be horrifically toned, occupying all their time skiing, with super reinforced ice axe straps on everything from their underwear to their book bags. I nervously prepared myself for the trip by assembling a stylish ski ensemble and watching as much of Jackson, Wyo.’s neo-ski cinema that Netflix would send me.

By March 15, 2007

Voices

A $350 problem in Phnom Penh

It’s the cardinal rule of traveling: never store your valuables anywhere except your front pant pocket. What’s more, the Lonely Planet guide for our host country of Cambodia explicitly warned us against the insecurity of backpacker guesthouses. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when my Swedish roommates jostled me awake and asked if I, too, was missing money. As soon as I discovered my missing cash, I knew it was gone and would never come home. We had broken the rule and our disregard had cost us $350.

By March 15, 2007

Voices

Carrying on: The tale of the enchanted rock

Sometime during my first year in the Boy Scouts, I went on a hike and never came back. I wasn’t alone; perhaps five other kids and an adult scoutmaster set off with me early that morning. It was meant to be a five-miler and we were supposed to be back by lunchtime. I wasn’t found until one in the morning.

By March 15, 2007

News

D.C. court says gun ban unconstitutional

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled last Friday that the D.C. gun restrictions are unconstitutional, overruling a previous decision by D.C. District Court.

By March 15, 2007

News

“Rodent activity” at Johnny Rockets

A silver-framed plaque hanging on the wall at the Johnny Rockets on M Street boasts, “Clean as a whistle. Just look at this … Notice how cleanliness predominates.” But on Feb. 27, a few days before Georgetown students went on spring break, this same restaurant was forced by D.C.’s Department of Health to close due to “gross unsanitary conditions” according to the DOH’s inspection report.

By March 15, 2007

News

Howard faculty call on pres. to resign

Citing fiscal and academic incompetence, Howard University’s Faculty Senate voted last week to send a letter to the University’s Board of Trustees calling on President H. Patrick Swygert to resign.

By March 15, 2007

News

Alt-break: students volunteer

Up at 5:30 a.m. and at breakfast by 6:00 a.m., a few crew members leave the table early to collect their tools: scrapers, sanders, hammers, crowbars, studded gloves and dusk masks. Ready to tear up flooring, rip down insulation and sheetrock, remove window frames and knock down ceilings, Georgetown’s Hurricane Emergency Relief Effort team is ready for spring break, as narrated by trip leader Clint Morrison (COL `09).

By March 15, 2007

News

CPS class finally meets

Six Georgetown students and one professor spent spring break in Doha, Qatar, as part of a special Comparative Political Systems class that meets in both D.C. and SFS-Qatar.

By March 15, 2007

Editorials

Unstrand spring breakers

Returning to the Hilltop from spring break, students get off the Rosslyn Metro stop and gather at the GUTS bus station a block away.

By the March 15, 2007

Editorials

Don’t shoot down District’s gun ban

In 1976, the District of Columbia passed one of the nation’s strictest gun laws, prohibiting handguns and severely restricting rifles and shotguns.

By the March 15, 2007

Editorials

Adios, Mr. Gonzalez

In early December, seven United States Attorneys were dismissed from their jobs.

By the March 15, 2007

News

Nobel Peace Prize winner in Gaston

2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed Yunus called for more socially-responsible businesses yesterday in Gaston Hall.

By March 15, 2007

News

Library makeover

A $3.3 million redesign and restoration of the Georgetown Neighborhood Library on the corner of Wisconsin Ave and R St. began yesterday.

By March 15, 2007

News

DPS prep follows campus assaults

A number of recent assaults on campus, including an incident in Henle Village over spring break, have caused the University’s public safety officials to take steps to improve security.

By March 15, 2007

News

300 MBA applicants accidentally waitlisted

Applying to graduate school became even more stressful for over 300 applicants to the McDonough School of Business’s MBA program last Thursday when an incorrect e-mail told them they were waitlisted.

By March 15, 2007

News

Lights out in ICC

The University embarked on a $116,000 project last week to install occupancy sensors in classrooms and conference rooms in buildings across the Georgetown campus.

By March 15, 2007

Features

Meet Joe Hoya

“What are you going to call the story? How about, ‘Who is Fritz Brogan?’ People on campus sometimes wonder who I am—I look like I’m 40.”

Francis ‘Fritz’ Brogan III (CAS ’07) does not look 40. He looks a youthful 30. Brogan is 22, but has an older face and thinning hair, but before you notice Fritz’s age, you register how big Fritz is—6 feet 6 inches, 275 pounds, a looming figure. And as you’re noticing how big he is, his hand—adorned with a half-dollar sized monogram ring—is engulfing yours in a strangely loose shake, gripping, grinning and greeting.

By March 15, 2007

News

Saxa Politica: University must let DPS keep campus safe

When a Department of Public Safety officer was knocked unconscious in a fight last September, Georgetown students were reminded that DPS does more than just check IDs in Lauinger and bust parties. Now that the University’s contract with DPS is being renegotiated, though, it seems like the administration takes DPS for granted.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

The best German film since Run Lola Run

The opening scene of The Lives of Others is austere and deadpan, an appropriate introduction to a film set in communist East Berlin. In a sterile classroom, secret police lieutenant Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) instructs students in the merciless process of interrogation, emphasizing that only the guilty shed tears.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Gray Matters? More like gay matters

Gray Matters is like its star, Heather Graham—bubbly, nice to look at, but a bit lacking in depth and substance. It’s the story of a young single professional in Manhattan, named Gray, only in this hackneyed plot the twist is that Gray falls for her brother’s girl.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices

Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices

LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Goes Down Easy

Black and Tan

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Events calendar: get your spring on

What’s on when

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Black and white and pop all over

Beach Boy Brian Wilson once claimed he was making “teenage symphonies to God.” Wilson knew, perhaps better than any musician of his time, that a great pop song can be deeply spiritual, each melody crafted as an offering to some unknown musical deity.

By March 15, 2007