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Hurricane Georgetown

Saxa Politica – bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news

News

Ailing parents go national

Ailing Mothers and Fathers began as a support network for about twenty Georgetown students with sick or deceased parents.

News

The monk on Prospect St.

Overworked students find solace in meditation

News

Ride safe on the Metro this month

Metro riders will soon be ready for anything.

News

Ministry partners with nat’l org.

An Israeli band and platters of pastrami sandwiches celebrated the merger of Georgetown University’s Campus Ministry with the Jewish students’ foundation Hillel at a picnic Wednesday evening.

Features

D.C. Responds

A city known for its extensive emergency preparations, the District is no stranger to disaster-and no slouch about responding to it.

Features

Hilltop beckons displaced students

Not more than three days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, students from New Orleans, other parts of Louisiana and Mississippi had set up a table in Red Square to raise money for hurricane victims.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s a shame when someone who is 42 years old is told that they are washed up, that they can’t hack it anymore and that they must give up all that they know to young men who were waddling around in diapers when they dominated the field.

Sports

When the Saints go marching out

Hittin’ the back nine – A weekly take on sports

Sports

Hoyas score 19 unanswered in comeback win

On Saturday the Hoya football team reaped the benefits of last year’s growing pains with their first Patriot League win in over a year. But now it’s a new year and a new team.

Sports

Follow the leader: GU hires new AD

Georgetown University answered one man’s dream when it hired Bernard Muir as its 10th athletic director on June 9.

Editorials

A failure to communicate

Seeing the havoc and pain caused by questionable emergency preparedness and response planning in New Orleans should spur the Georgetown community to examine the efficacy of the university’s own emergency management plan.

Editorials

Incompetence during a crisis

Scattered among the wrecked homes and lives in Hurricane Katrina’s wake is an additional casualty: Faith in the administration of the federal government.

Editorials

Poorly timed responses

Georgetown University and its student body seem to be doing all they can to help the victims of what may become the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

Features

The Displaced Arrive

Georgetown and D.C. respond to Hurricane Katrina

Voices

Meditations on a Friday Afternoon

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior

Voices

Playing Favorites

Teaching swimming and learning about autism

Voices

Theyre tryin to wash us away

Remembering the intact culture of a city in ruin

Leisure

Iron & Wine and Calexico, In the Reins

Critical Voices

Leisure

Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow

Critical Voices

Leisure

Creaming your jeans

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

Leisure

Summer Movie Roundup

Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Aristocrats, Broken Flowers, and Murderball

Leisure

Sex, lies and gardening

The subject matter is all too familiar to us here at Georgetown: a young British couple moves to Africa.

News

Season opener

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

News

Welcome to Qatar

President John DeGioia gave a long-distance welcome to the newest class in the School of Foreign Service on Saturday. The 26 students of the Qatar campus’ first incoming class hail from Bangladesh to the Philippines, as well as parts of the Middle East.