Archive

There’s no place like the dorms

Just two days ago, students returning to University housing for the spring semester were caught in the rush of last-minute details that inevitably occurs at this time every year, when there is less than a day to move in before the start of classes.

By the Editorial Board January 11, 2007

Making student loans easy

As part of its one hundred-hour legislative agenda, the newly elected Democratic majority aims to make college education more affordable.

By the Editorial Board January 11, 2007

Fenty’s school takeover

Mayor Adrian Fenty advanced a proposal last Wednesday to reorganize the District’s public school system and to place authority for all school decisions in the mayor’s office, according to his web site.

By John Lawless January 11, 2007

Tix in Gaston

For the majority of last semester, the Lecture Fund’s list of speakers included big names like former President Bill Clinton, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, and Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan. Students could brag to their friends at other schools that a president or NGO leader spoke at Georgetown every week.

By Will Sommer January 11, 2007

Wormley for sale

Encore Development will offer buyers the opportunity to purchase condominums in the historic Wormley School on Prospect St. at the end of this month.

By Michael Bruns January 11, 2007

Corp coffee shops clean up

The Corp coffee shops that Georgetown students know well are making numerous, large-scale changes to their service and products throughout the month of January to become better, more efficient Corp coffee shops.

By Kate Mays January 11, 2007

Metro fare may rise

Trips off campus could become more expensive next year under a proposal by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

By Mike Stewart January 11, 2007

DeGioia stands up for Early Action

President John J. DeGioia defended Georgetown’s decision to continue its non-binding Early Action policy in an interview yesterday, saying that only applicants who would be admitted during the regular decision process are admitted early.

By Ryan Maye Handy January 11, 2007

Kegs will stay on campus

After a semester’s worth of deliberation, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson decided not to ban kegs, although he will limit events to one keg each starting next fall.

By Michael Bruns January 11, 2007

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By Perry Collins December 7, 2006

Nooks and Cramming: Top 4 Places to Study for Finals

Love Café on U St. will satisfy your sweet tooth, while Busboys and Poets, another U St. hotspot, will bring out the creative genius in you.

By Madeline Reidy December 7, 2006

Mazel Tov: Jewish Filmfest

Still feeling guilty about seeing Borat? Counting down the days until you can bust out the menorah? Do you just want to stick it to Mel Gibson? For all those who wish Hanukkah could start just a little bit sooner, the Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center is presenting the 17th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival, which runs through Dec. 10.

By Andy Martell December 7, 2006

Veggie porn and human tofu

You Taste Like a Burger: a bi-weekly column about food

By Kathryn Brand December 7, 2006

Critical Voices: Ghostface Killah and The Clipse

Ghostface Killah, More Fish, and Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury

By Traviss Cassidy December 7, 2006

Diamond bleeds greed, blood

Charitable pretense can often spoil the integrity of such politically-charged films as Blood Diamond. I entered the theater with images in mind of Leonardo DiCaprio following the celebrity “trend” of performing seemingly vain acts of charity in Africa. However, upon viewing director Edward Zwick’s latest movie in all its graphic gore and compelling content, it appears that DiCaprio’s work may have been sincere after all.

By Kyle Fitzpatrick December 7, 2006

Apocalypto a simple, brutal romp

Apocalypto, Mel Gibson’s latest film, comes at perhaps the most tumultuous, contentious moment of his career. You wouldn’t know it from the movie’s posters and advertisements, though, where it is prominently referred to as “Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto.”

By Justin Hunter Scott December 7, 2006

Carrying On: From the sidelines: across the desert and far away

Last Thursday, during halftime of the Men’s basketball game against Oregon, ten individuals—men and women—filed onto the court. Some walked with a limp, some with a cane, all were veterans of the Iraq war. Most of them looked to be in their early 20s. I distinctly remember one of them, a young man with crutches and a missing leg.

By Austin Richardson December 7, 2006

Barackin’ in the free world

I worked in the Senate with Mercy, a tall, pretty senior from UMass who lived for movie stars. The interns had a game inspired by Kevin Bacon’s six degrees of separation in which we’d name an actor and a movie as dissimilar as possible (try James Dean and National Treasure) and Mercy would have to connect them from memory. After two weeks of the game, it was Mercy: 46, interns: 0.

By Sam Sweeney December 7, 2006

Negating affirmative action

Last Monday night I felt like the white kid from a black school in a white state sitting in a room full of black students at a white university. Issues of race, usually lurking in the unspeakable shadows, were then front and center in a panel discussion that dealt with whether the historically ivory tower of academics would be able to keep embracing students of color through affirmative action in the future, a possibility that I, apparently alone in my stand, look at with dismay. I see a legitimate alternative: class-based affirmative action, unfairly discounted by backward-looking ideology at American universities.

By Ryan Callahan December 7, 2006

Georgetown can’t handle the truth

After half a semester of backyard noise, late night weekend parties and one living room rock concert, an anonymous neighbor complained about a radio station event at my house to the University as well as the police in the early hours of Sunday, Oct. 12. Two days later, my housemates and I trudged into the Office of Off Campus Student Life to meet with Chuck VanSant about the incident, and were summarily punished for our honesty.

By Chris Norton December 7, 2006

War, hugh, what is it good for?

Last week, campus religious groups united to memorialize the massive loss of life that has flowed from the U.S. invasion of Iraq. They covered Copley lawn with red flags, each symbolizing 100 Iraq War casualties. The flags were so numerous that the lawn became practically unusable, and the statement was impossible to overlook. Such demonstrations are encouraging, but they do not occur frequently enough.

By the Editorial Board December 7, 2006

And now, our feature presentation

Far too frequently, it is not the professor so much as the students who are acually teaching the material. You are forced to listen to the student who happens to be doing a “class presentation” that day.

By the Editorial Board December 7, 2006