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Hibbert, Hoyas dominate Blue Demons

After winning a pair of nail-biters, beating Duke by three points in regulation and surviving a double-overtime thriller to Notre Dame, the No. 17 Hoyas have reversed course and started to act like a nationally ranked team, burying opponents early and giving them no chance at victory.

Features

A new mold?

Considering the motivation behind Take Back Georgetown Day

It began last fall, when flyers started appearing around campus, the letters TBGD emblazoned across them. Take Back Georgetown Day was coming to Georgetown: speakers were announced, registration began and, in the weeks just before the conference, a resolution calling for “Academic Freedom” was introduced in the GUSA. Then, last Saturday, ready to take it back, the conservatives came to campus. In the process, they began a controversy over just what free speech means on campus – and then exacerbated it.

Leisure

The sole truth

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

Leisure

Prefuse 73, _Security Screenings_

Critical Voices

Leisure

Super chile bowl

Throwing a successful Super Bowl party is lots of fun and nearly effortless. Most people will simply be looking forward to drinking a ridiculous amount of beer and yelling obscenities at the television screen.

Leisure

Stop-animation, Charles Manson style

Before the opening credits even begin to roll, the words “YOU HAVE BAD TASTE” flash on screen. You have to respect a movie this honest.

Leisure

Brilliant sensations of color

If you’ve ever read “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats and wondered what the phrase “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” would look like in oil on canvas, look no further than Cézanne in Provence.

Voices

Matchbreaker, matchbreaker

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

Learning from lingerie

The most privileged buttocks and breasts from the Upper East Side to Battery Park shopped at La Petite Coquette. There, in that most expensive and luxurious lingerie boutique, I found my first employment in the City.

Voices

The postal servicing

Over the years, the family has seen Tom go through an array of women, each of whom has some hidden flaw. Recently, however, Tom announced that he had found a solution to this severe problem – a mail-order bride.

Voices

Is the theater really dead?

Assessing the impact of the Program in Performing Arts

News

Civil unions

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

News

Falcon Virgo

U.S. air forces conducted a series of low-flying defense exercises over Washington airspace early Tuesday morning.

News

STAND lies down

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur will hold a “die-in” today at 12:40 to raise awareness about the Sudanese genocide.

News

New chaplain joins Hilltop

Casimir Stroick joined the Georgetown community as Copley Hall’s new fourth-floor chaplain at the beginning of this semester.

News

Lively life conference

This past Sunday, a speaker at the Georgetown University Right to Life seventh Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life caused an unexpected stir among attendees with controversial rhetoric.

News

Striving to be NORML, not normal

After a dorm room discussion with friends over the war on drugs, Matt Huppert (CAS ‘08) decided to start Georgetown University’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

News

Orator against AIDS

UNAIDS Special Envoy shares his story

News

Whose sweat are you wearing?

Georgetown committee monitors workers’ rights

Voices

Catalonia: politics at half-mast

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

Language of Arabia

The only people who take early classes are crazy or have jobs. An additional category of “those who hate themselves” can be added for early Arabic classes. During the course of my 15 months or so of Arabic instruction, I’ve fallen into all three categories.

Voices

Escape: it’s not campy

As a current ESCAPE leader, I’ll admit we are aggressive, but I’m continuously reminded that there’s good reason for it.

Voices

Taking the college out of Georgetown

A surreal prelude to study abroad

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MCI: Stay Connected

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports