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Russ Feingold right to call for censure

As the only senator who voted against the USA Patriot Act in the days after Sept. 11, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wi.) has a history of being a Congressional underdog. On... Read more

Editorials

It is time to start asking and telling

Not even the combined power of three-dozen law schools can force the government to give up discrimination against homosexuals.

Sports

Thank You

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

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

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

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

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

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.

Leisure

Mogwai, _Mr. Beast_

Critical Voices

Leisure

Heaven on M St.

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

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

“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

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.

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.

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

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.

News

The negotiator

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

News

News Hit

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

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

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

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

GUSA election set to repeat

Assembly pushes constitutional limits in certification vote

Voices

Olympian levels of bad behavior

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

Suitcase schlep

Don’t believe a word of it. Studying abroad is not about cultural experience, learning a new language or seeing the world. Studying abroad is about two suitcases.