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After hours: some things should stay at the office

My office at the Democratic Party of Georgia is smaller than a Village A bedroom and I share it with three other researchers. I drew the short straw and was stuck with the desk that blocked the doorway into the room. Everyday coworkers have to decide whether to give me the crotch or the ass as they brush the back of my head on their way in and out of the room.

Voices

Yo’ momma (and yo’ daddy too)

After dropping my oldest brother off at college, my mother proceeded to cry the entire ride home, silently sniffling as she navigated her way through Ohio cornfields in her red Suburban. Ten years later, after emptying the same, slightly beleaguered car, I stood facing my parents on Healy Lawn.

Voices

Peace in the Middle East?

Israel’s recent war with Hezbollah left the Middle East and the world less safe and derailed a Middle East peace process that had been, for once, looking more hopeful than not.

Sports

Hoya football gets new leader in Coach Kelly

Georgetown’s football team is coming into the 2006 season with a new leader and a new attitude. Coach Kevin Kelly will be at the helm with headphones on and clipboard in hand coaching this team towards what he hopes to be their first winning season since joining the Patriot League in 2000.

Sports

Coach Wiese ready to kick it around with men’s soccer

Motivated? Check. Loves the university? Check. Winning pedigree? Check. When you’re Georgetown Director of Athletics Bernard Muir, you can’t help but think you have tabbed the perfect man to fill the shoes of the Hoyas’ winningest men’s soccer coach in school history. For the first time in 22 years, a new field general will be roaming the sideline, as Brian Wiese was named the 13th head coach in 52 seasons of men’s soccer on the Hilltop on March 1.

Sports

Women’s soccer ranked 5th in BE

If last Saturday’s exhibition game against William and Mary is any indication of things to come, the Georgetown women’s soccer team can look forward to a strong season. Despite a scoreless tie, junior goalkeeper Jade Higgins believes the shutout is a good sign.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Ever wonder what it would be like to be the best at what you do? It has to be a great feeling, a feeling Tiger Woods is extremely familiar with. Woods is not only the best golfer, but the best athlete ever.

Sports

The other football

Putting from the Rough—a weekly take on sports

Sports

FAST BREAK

Hoyas ranked 10th by NCSA

News

Thieves raid Wisconsin jeweler

A Georgetown jewelry store was robbed Sunday afternoon in a violent heist that left one of the shop’s owners critically wounded and launched a district-wide search for the trio of suspects..

News

Georgetown in the eyes of the law

The Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission has requested that 13 security cameras be placed at various locations in and around the West Georgetown and Burleith neighborhoods.

News

D.C. youths versus mayor

More than 70 Washington, D.C. youths gathered downtown yesterday morning to protest emergency laws that they say unfairly penalize them for the city’s recent rise in crime.

News

A hospital for S.E.?

City on a Hill: bi-weekly column on D. C. news and politics

News

NEWS HIT: Lombardi gets cash

Lombardi gets cash

Leisure

Nat’l Lampoon meets Nietzsche

Suicide, heroin, child beauty pageants: these are not typically the subjects of a “feel good” film, but, this is the perfect way to sum up Little Miss Sunshine.

Leisure

A “blovel” concept for a book

There’s nothing funny about being locked in a room full of documents for six weeks, trying to find a single e-mail…especially not when it’s your future. But the dark shadow of the future proves no match for Jeremy Blachman, whose twisted peek into the futures of all of us law school-aspiring undergrads never loses the bitingly humorous edge that drives it.

Leisure

Critical Voices: Lambchop’s Damaged and The Roots’ Game Theory

Lambchop, Damaged, Merge Records & The Roots, Game Theory, Def Jam Records

Leisure

Tropicália: Brazilian politics without the oppressive aftertaste

Dead Beats: a tri-weekly column bringing indie music to the masses

Features

Eating Out: Where To Go on a Date in D.C.

Venturing beyond Georgetown’s front gates can be a daunting experience for newcomers to the Hilltop. If you’re looking for a night out on the town with new friends, visiting parents or a hot date, here are some surefire culinary hits.

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

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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.

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.

Sports

Back on track on Senior Day

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

News

STANDing against genocide

Student activists to congregate in D.C. on Sunday