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Olympian levels of bad behavior

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

News

GUSA election set to repeat

Assembly pushes constitutional limits in certification vote

News

Wages and unions: Living Wage revival

Georgetown officials met with the Living Wage Coalition Wednesday and announced they are not blocking subcontracted workers’ rights to unionize. The decision lifts a perceived hurdle to the organization of labor at Georgetown.

News

Legal challenges in the Big Easy

A group of Georgetown Law Center students will travel to the Big Easy next week to provide legal support and clean-up aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

News

Georgetown’s black heritage

Tuesday evening, Carroll Gibbs, lecturer and author of Black Georgetown Remembered, took a retrospective look at the Georgetown community’s black heritage.

News

News Hit

Hip-hop is about to invade one of America’s most traditional institutions: the Smithsonian.

News

The negotiator

Union Jack – bi-weekly column on national news and politics

Editorials

GUSA hits reset button on election

On Tuesday night, the GUSA Assembly voted not to certify the results of last month’s presidential election. Instead, the assembly agreed to move towards a new election for the organization’s executives.

Editorials

Tuition hike info needs to be public

The recent decision to increase undergraduate tuition by six percent has sparked student indignation and anger.

Editorials

Minutemen launch an attack on reason

A controversial group opposed to illegal immigration, originally founded in Northern Virginia, crossed over the border this past week to protest government-funded day-laborer centers in Montgomery County, Md.

Leisure

Sugimoto illuminates the District

Containing roughly 120 of Sugimoto’s black-and-white photographs, the retrospective exhibit at the Hirshhorn is a significant, detailed overview of the artist’s career.

Leisure

“The Lights” shines with optimism, humanity

Grey’s image-laden prophesy provides the basis of Theatre SÜndenfall’s latest opus, “The Lights are going out all over Europe: A Danse Macabre,” a play that recounts the crisis of 1914 in Europe that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Leisure

Drunk pop rock

Georgetown singers and musicians got a chance to strut their stuff in front of a packed crowd at the 31st annual Cabaret concert, held at LuLu’s Mardi Gras Club last Thursday and Friday, to benefit the D.C Schools Project.

Leisure

Heaven on M St.

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

Leisure

Mogwai, _Mr. Beast_

Critical Voices

Sports

Seniors bid farewell, beat Orangemen to pulp

There are few things better than knocking off the nation’s No. 1 team, but in the world of Hoya basketball, beating archrival Syracuse is of even greater significance.

Sports

Bulls trample Senior Night

Mathematically eliminated from the Big East Tournament after this past Saturday’s loss at Villanova, the Georgetown women’s basketball team could have thrown in the towel Tuesday night in their season finale.

Sports

Hoyas drop home opener 10-4

The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team, ranked seventh in the nation, fell to No. 3 Maryland last Saturday in the season opener.

Sports

New Mens Soccer Coach

Georgetown athletic director Bernard Muir announced yesterday that Brian Wiese will take over as the new head coach of the men’s soccer team. Wiese hails from Notre Dame, where he was the associate Head Coach.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s that time of year again. It’s the time when baseball’s deities report to their jobs 20 pounds overweight, 20 days late or both, with no repercussions. Ah, spring training.

Sports

Thank You

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Leisure

Da-da-Da-da-Da-da-Da-da-Da-da-Da-da

What is Dada? A nonsensical collection of sounds? A word in German, French or Romanian? Or an avant-garde art movement? The extensive new Dada Exhibition at the National Gallery attempts to provide an answer.

Leisure

Beware of the card-carrying vampires

Vampires and sundry supernatural evils populate Moscow in the movie Night Watch, and it is they, not nuclear weapons, that could bring about the apocalypse.

Leisure

Paul Mooney asks, “Ain’t white folks funny?”

Last Friday night, Paul Mooney brought his scathing brand of racial commentary to a packed crowd at the 9:30 Club.