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No. 8 Hoyas thwart Hawks’ attempt to snatch game

As could be expected in their season opener, the Georgetown men’s basketball team looked a little rusty. Luckily for the Hoyas, their opponent was Hartford. The Hawks, despite playing above expectations, could not make up for what they lacked in talent in comparison to the No. 8 Hoyas, as Georgetown escaped with the 69-59 win at the Verizon Center.

Voices

The stairway down to heaven

I can jump off the 10th stair and land on my feet in my grandpa’s basement.

Voices

Grades schmades: why the GPA system stinks

Carrying On: A rotating column by Voice senior staffers

Voices

Turkey and tanning: Thanksgiving in July

My cousins were born and bred in Italy.

Voices

Tracking down the dream

It’s hard to know how to start an Op-Ed about streetcar tracks.

Editorials

Blue congress should end D.C.’s voting blues

No city appears poised to benefit more from the sudden collapse of the GOP’s hold on Congress in last week’s midterm elections than Washington, D.C. Newly empowered Democrats plan to... Read more

Editorials

MPD: Keep chompin’ on crime

The results are in: the installation of several dozen security cameras, draconian curfews and a drastic increase in the number of hours worked by police officers have reduced violent crime... Read more

Editorials

Ladies first, please, GU

Georgetown may have gone co-ed in 1969, but our faculty still has more testosterone than an East German swimmer. Less than a quarter of the full professors at Georgetown are... Read more

News

Saxa Politica: Beer ‘n votes

bi-weekly column on campus news and politics

News

GU’s intelligence dept.

In a move that is bound to bolster the stereotype of Georgetown as the school for the spies of tomorrow, the School of Foreign Service has created a professorship for the current year for the study of intelligence practice.

News

Jaw broken outside Lauinger

A Georgetown student suffered a broken jaw in a fight near Village A early Saturday morning. A second victim allegedly sustained lacerations to his back in the same on-campus attack.

News

Study abroad numbers down for spring

There has been a decline in participation in semester abroad programs since the University changed its tuition policy two years ago, according to the Office of International Programs.

Leisure

Sugartown: not as sweet as it sounds

The book’s theme is epitomized in the poem, whose namesake is the collection’s title—“Sugartown”: “and it’s nice, what it’s doing/what it’s done too/to that popsicle stick/it’s licking./But what it said earlier,/it hurt,/I can’t remember the words/exactly/but they hurt.”

Leisure

Chinese triathlon: three dishes, three restaurants, one winner

Branching out can be a tricky step when it comes to trying new delivery places. When it’s Chinese, perhaps the wiliest beast on the fast food delivery circuit, there’s reason to be suspect.

Leisure

Isis: _In the Absence of Truth_

Ever since heavy metal’s inception at the hands of four young men from Birmingham, that is to say Black Sabbath, the visionaries have pushed the genre’s boundaries. Isis have cemented their place among such visionary artists with the release of their latest album, In the Absence of Truth.

Leisure

Trail of Dead: So Divided

The Austin-based band brought post-punk to new musical and conceptual depths with their thought-provoking musical and lyrical mosaic Source Tags & Codes. But So Divided suggests that the band’s struggle to find new meaning in these depths has proved futile. The entire journey has left the group unsure of whether to continue searching or resign and conform to everything it used to love to hate.

Leisure

Joanna Newsom: Ys

It is difficult to write a review, in the conventional sense of the word, of Joanna Newsom’s sophomore release, Ys, because it’s unlike any other record you’ll hear this year, this decade, or perhaps even your life. At least until Ms. Newsom releases her third album, that is.

News

Schmitt fails in R.I.

Recent Georgetown graduate Patrick Schmitt (SFS ’06) lost his bid for a seat in Rhode Island’s State Senate Tuesday.

Leisure

Silver reflections of a District long past

Volkmar Wentzel’s camera captures stunning images of Washington: street lights glisten through the fog of late-night D.C. and reflect off the rain-slicked streets, giving familiar sights a mysterious quality.

News

Students going beyond the ballot box

For most Americans, Election Day meant nothing more than hitting the polls and waiting to see who would triumph. But for a small group of politically active students at Georgetown, Election Day was the climax of months spent phone banking, sign-blitzing and getting out the vote for campaigns from Virginia to Maryland and all the way out to Kentucky.

Leisure

GU alum writes, speaks

Author of the novel, “Last of the Red Hot Poppas”, Berry will be on campus Thursday to talk about the current situation in New Orleans after Katrina and reminisce about its past through his new book.

Leisure

Eurydice gets wet

When you walk into the Devine Theater in the Davis Performing Arts Center this week, the first thing you notice is the river in front of the stage. From the 12-foot scaffolding to the huge blue sheets that provide the backdrop, it is clear that this is a major production.