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JMU upsets Hoyas

Yesterday afternoon the sixteenth-ranked James Madison University Dukes upset the third-ranked Georgetown women’s lacrosse team in an overtime thriller.

Sports

Men’s tennis bounced at Big East Championship

The Georgetown men’s tennis team dropped their first two matches of the Big East Championship last Friday and Saturday to Notre Dame and St. John’s.

News

Catholics for Condoms: Religion and the AIDS Epidemic

John F. Galbraith will discuss the role of religion in the global fight against HIV/AIDS at the International Prayer for Peace Conference, hosted here at Georgetown.

News

STANDing against genocide

Student activists to congregate in D.C. on Sunday

Sports

Back on track on Senior Day

For the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team, Senior Day couldn’t have been any sweeter.

Editorials

No V.I.P. treatment in the club

As a Jesuit university dedicated to the development of the whole person, Georgetown has a duty to encourage athletic excellence at all levels and provide the resources all our teams need.

Editorials

Good men doing nothing

After three years of genocide in Darfur, the United States – once the moral leader of the world – hopes that someone, anyone, will deal with the crisis but us.

Sports

Joe Carter sucks

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

As students bask in the D.C. sun on Healy Lawn waiting for that final bell, talk of the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award heats up with the weather.

Sports

Loss ends season

The Georgetown women’s tennis team ended a rather disappointing regular season with a defeat at Holy Cross.

Sports

Mountaineers climb past GU

Coming off a three-game sweep of the Seton Hall Pirates, Georgetown’s baseball team dropped a 12-4 decision to Mt. St. Mary’s, falling to 17-20 for the year.

Sports

Hoyas’ win streak snapped

All good things must come to an end. The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team learned this lesson on Saturday at unranked Loyola.

Sports

Schuyler, Hoyas ride Cavaliers into the ground

The No. 3 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team came into their matchup yesterday well prepared at the Multi-Sport Field against No. 4 Virginia.

Features

Two Identities, Two Challenges

The faith and culture of Islam at Georgetown

Georgetown’s Muslim Chaplain, Imam Yahya Hendi, flourished his palm pilot, tapping away with a stylus. In his office, decorated with woven verses from the Qur’an and Muslim calligraphic art, the electric device seemed out of place while he discussed Islam’s relationship with the West. But soon tiny print appeared on the screen: the palm pilot contained the entirety of the Qu’ran and the Bible, completely indexed. Its tiny speakers even produce recitations of holy verse.

Editorials

In Bush’s own words, he should be fired

In 2004, President George W. Bush confirmed that he would follow through on his pledge to fire anyone in his administration who leaked classified information.

Editorials

Forget being Nationals, be fair to the locals

Since the Nationals’ arrival last spring, the newly dedicated fans of Washington baseball have found few opportunities to watch their beloved team on television.

Editorials

The definitive immigration solution

The immigration shouting match – er, debate – hit a new low last week when the Republican National Committee ran a series of television ads in Spanish accusing Democrats of supporting a bill to turn illegal immigration – currently a civil offense – into a felony punishable by jail time.

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Alexander Guney’s April 6 Voices piece “The fight outside the closet” represents a gross misunderstanding of the nature of stereotypes.

Voices

Sleeping around campus

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

No direction home

An immigrant seeks identity at La Marcha

Voices

Crossing the line

Should secularism be silent anywhere?

Leisure

Concert Calendar

April 20 – April 26

Leisure

Late-night munchies

Steak Out – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

Leisure

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

Tiina Nunnally is making a splash in Anglophone literary circles with her 2006 translation of Henning Mankell’s gripping novel Chronicler of the Winds.