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The Sports Sermon

You may not have heard of Mary Ellen Clark. During the 1990s, she was one of the premier Olympic divers in the United States, and I—for no apparent reason outside her ability to kick a lot of post-communist posteriors and emerge from the water looking like she’d spent the day in an Icelandic spa—idolized her.

Sports

West coast cred, east coast waters

Impressively tall in his Canadian Henle polo shirt and loafers, newly appointed Head Women’s Crew Coach Glenn Putyrae looks every inch the rower.

Editorials

Sex, lies, and the Republican Party

If the GOP weren’t so steadfast about condemning homosexuality, Craig would have been able to express his sexuality in an appropriate and lawful way, instead of covertly propositioning a plainclothes police officer.

Editorials

You are not connected to the internet

Georgetown may be famous for its networking potential, but unfortunately for Hoyas, our wireless internet network is nothing to brag about.

Editorials

Disappointing in any language

The recent changes to the SFS language proficiency requirement threaten to produce less-prepared graduates and eventually damage the SFS’ top-notch reputation.

Page 13 Cartoons

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Part 1

All the scuzzlecrafts were out and about. The view through our man’s windshield showed the completeness of the system as he went flying from level to level of the city, drooping, soaring, twisting and canoozling (if he had ever chosen to be daring). The skyscape was never as beautiful as it was at rush hour. The sleepy sun was almost beneath the ocean and darting wizzerskids alongside leviathan autowoofs rose above its electric amber glow casting shadows on the clouds above. The skyfull of shiny cylinders shooting below mulberry and barley colored clouds, going to and fro all in a hurry to get home before . . .

Corrections

Party misquote, etc.

In “Little reason given for new party rules,” (News, August 24), the Voice mischaracterized statements by Jon Gryskiewicz (COL ‘08). Gryskiewicz did not imply, as we paraphrased, that he would... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Brady Quinn’s new hazing-induced haircut isn’t the only piece of titillating news on sports fans’ minds in my hometown.

Sports

Football and fish: that’s what Finland does

Senior quarterback Matt Bassuener can normally set his schedule by the sun. Sunrise: hit the weights for a good lift and dissect defenses on tape during a team meeting before... Read more

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

With the first pick of the 1999 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns selected Tim Couch, a quarterback from the University of Kentucky.

Sports

Georgetown sailing: no scurvy here

Contact with Georgetown’s various athletes is an inevitable occurrence. There is seldom a day when one can’t hear or see the football team practicing on Harbin Field or watch one... Read more

News

Saxa Politica: Frosh can’t handle the truth

First impressions are everything. Each year, the orientation advisers are tasked with shaping the first impressions of hundreds of new Georgetown students.

News

Meal plans now more Flex-ible

Almost a year after the Corp sponsored a petition for its services to be included in the University meal plan, Georgetown Dining Services will allow purchases at multiple campus locations under the new Flex Dollars program.

News

Two years later, Georgetown remembers Katrina

While Amelia Colomb (COL ’09) and her family were arriving for New Student Orientation two years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit her home on the West Bank in New Orleans, gutted her father’s psychiatry office and shut down the hospital in which her mother worked as an emergency medicine physician.

News

GU may lose grant funds

Georgetown could lose millions of dollars in federal financial aid if the Bush administration succeeds in cutting a major federal aid program.

Leisure

Deadbeats

Rewind your memories to July 31, 2004. Modest Mouse’s “Float On” was sailing along at number one on Billboard’s U.S. Modern Rock Track chart, and Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” was on its way to number three. Fast forward to August 21, 2007. Vice Records released This Is Next: Indie’s Biggest Hits Volume 1, an indie-rock compilation designed to “reach beyond the core album consumer and toward the casual buyer.” Is this the death of indie rock as we know it?

Leisure

Sounds of Summer ‘07

The Voice Leisure team enjoys spreading the word on its favorite new albums. Unfortunately, we didn’t have that pleasure this summer, so here’s the best of what we missed.

News

City sues over library fire

The District of Columbia is seeking $13 million in damages from the contractor whothe District claims is responsible for the blaze that ravaged the historic Georgetown Neighborhood Branch Library last April.

News

Emergency text service unreliable, company says

The text messaging component of Georgetown’s new emergency notification system is unreliable, an executive for the company providing the service admitted Wednesday.

Voices

The Deepest Aftershock

Information spread early after an disaster is usually wrong. When my Mom received the first phone call about the quake, she was told that the epicenter had been in Ancash, Peru—my parents’ home region, and the center of a 1970 quake. That information wasn’t right; the quake hit hundreds of miles south. But with that one wrong word, a lifetime of mental scars were reopened.

Leisure

Chu-less and hungry

Every year when students return to Georgetown, they are surprised to find a few welcome changes around campus, like the school-spirited crosswalk added on 37th and N Street and the new carpeting in Sellinger Lounge. The closing of Chu’s Café is an adjustment students will not enjoy making.

Voices

Tea Time with the Turkish Police

Sitting in a Turkish police station next to an accused criminal is not how I expected to spend my Thursday night. Even less did I expect the night to end with a pratical joke played on me by the Turkish police.

Leisure

Lezhur Ledger: The Awkward Ship Sails

On a campus of over 6,000 undergrads, packed like collar-popping sardines in a can, I had never felt more alone. I had been living at Georgetown for little more than a day and wishing my parents would leave and take me back with them, or at least just leave already.

Voices

Talk It Out

If you’re not unhappy with the new party regulations, you should be—even if you don’t drink. They represent a betrayal of Georgetown’s tradition of consulting with students before making policy changes.