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Cat Power, _The Greatest_

Critical Voices

Leisure

No dress is an island

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about dressing leisurely

Editorials

Davis Center fails to play to students

The Royden B. Davis Performing Arts Center opened to great fanfare last semester after $30 million and a delay of several months. Students hoping to finally see their favorite student productions on a larger stage, however, are set for a sore disappointment.

Editorials

Residents give red light to SafeRides

The Department of Public Safety took strong action last semester to improve the University’s SafeRides program—but local residents have sought to turn this into yet another needless conflict between the University and the neighborhood.

Editorials

Always low prices, never responsibility

Last Thursday, the Maryland legislature overrode Governor Robert Ehlrich’s veto and passed a bill requiring Wal-Mart stores to offer affordable insurance to its estimated 17,000 employees, setting a precedent for other states.

News

Burleith bristles at SafeRides

Local residents express concern over additional shuttles

News

Student wins Dream scholarship

Georgetown student keeps Dr. King’s legacy alive

News

Prison for student protestor

A Georgetown student faces up to six months in federal prison for trespassing on a military base during a November protest in Georgia.

News

D.C. bans smoking

Georgetown restaurant managers remain unfazed after Mayor Anthony Williams signed the District of Columbia smoking ban earlier this month.

News

Diplomacy for democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice discussed the Bush administration’s transformational diplomacy initiative, the U.S. effort to help countries govern themselves democratically, yesterday in Georgetown’s O’Donovan Hall.

Sports

Hoyas elude Bulls’ angry charge

In the midst of the toughest part of their schedule, the Georgetown men’s basketball team eked out their third conference win against Big East newcomer South Florida in front of 5,071 fans at the MCI Center Tuesday night.

Sports

Friars go cold, Hoyas take advantage

Women’s basketball coach Terri Williams-Flourney and the Hoyas earned their first conference win of the season last Wednesday, defeating visiting Providence.

Sports

Sailor Honored

For the second time in his four years at Georgetown, senior Andrew Campbell was named U.S. Olympic Committee Male Sailing Athlete of the Year for 2005.

Sports

Life outside the lines

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Georgetown is not a football school, and with John Thompson III signing top high school recruits, it may stay that way.

News

Capital access

Union Jack – bi-weekly column on national politics

Editorials

Something queer afoot in the Vatican

This week, the Church released a document reinforcing its ban on ordaining homosexual priests, whether practicing or not, and those who condone homosexuality.

Editorials

A band-aid on a diversity head wound

When campus groups feel the need to contrive a special floor to create diversity, Georgetown’s homogeneity has clearly gone too far.

Editorials

High school athletes need to be schooled

There needs to be a closing of the “diploma mill” loophole and stiff penalties for schools that attempt to recruit such athletes.

Voices

Señoras y señores pasajeros

The culture clash of commuting

Leisure

He’s got a secret… lots of them.

Frank Warren’s Post Secret is not the typical blog of personal rants and essays.

Voices

Brace yourself for the real world

When I told my friend Marissa I had to go to the orthodontist, she laughed and replied, “I thought we grew out of that phase, like, 10 years ago.” For normal 21-year-olds, that may be true. I’m not so normal.

Voices

Inspiration for graduation

Tackling America’s teaching problem Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

Deliver me from Durham

I expected a weekend of mechanical bull riding and Civil War reenactments, but I wasn’t prepared for the cab ride from hell.