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Runnin’ down a dream

I have been a Georgetown men’s basketball fan my whole life.

Sports

Hoyas drop two in a row to ND, UConn

After a three-game winning streak, the Georgetown women’s basketball team dropped two games this week, losing to No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 11 Connecticut.

Sports

Hoyas win third in a row against WVU, streak snapped at ND

Georgetown had its three-game conference win streak snapped Wednesday night as the men’s basketball team fell to host Notre Dame.

Editorials

Direct Quotes

“Softballs Edition”

Editorials

By the numbers

$53 Million Record amount spent by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business interest group, lobbying the government. $59.5 Million Campaign contributions by all Labor interest groups in 2004 $.37... Read more

Leisure

Indian Tacos

You Taste Like A Burger- a rotating column about eating leisurely

Leisure

Baby got Bak

Any certified Disney Classic in which a major character utters the line, “the fate of the village rests in your hands” had better have some major redeeming qualities.

Leisure

Getting Inside Deep Throat

Watching the new documentary Inside Deep Throat, I was struck by the idea that in the early ‘70s the best way to get into the legitimate film industry was through porn.

Leisure

Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive exhibit at the Hirshhorn

For Chinese-born “artistic engineer” Cai Guo-Qiang, an unrealized vision does not beget remorse, self-pity or disappointment.

Voices

Wounded animals and accordions? Must be the Metro.

Forget Sartre, Tocqueville and Napoleon. The Metro is what I have learned best while abroad in Paris.

Voices

Jumping from a plane … with my mother

My mother asked me to go skydiving with her in the beginning of August, and I suspect her decision to do this came as a bit of a surprise to the both of us.

Voices

Falling for a lazy, overweight, self-centered … cat?

Living with a cat that’s boss of the house, and knows it.

Voices

What is Georgetown’s Jesuit Identity?

Sinfully secular or stiflingly Catholic?

Editorials

Attention, Wal-Mart workers

Apparently, if your company is big enough and rich enough, you can get away with anything.

Editorials

Bad delivery

The Examiner’s selective delivery route is unfair and racist, and District residents should boycott the paper until this policy ends.

Editorials

Re-check, please?

In yet another example of administrative fiscal irresponsibility, Georgetown’s Board of Directors voted to increase tuition last Tuesday.

News

News Hits

Tsunami relief gala and Tajik Dips at Georgetown

News

Institutionalized Valentines?

Saxa Politica – Bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news and politics

News

GU student to be MTV-U Darfur correspondent

Nate Wright (CAS ‘06) will be one of three student correspondents for an MTV-U documentary on the Darfur region of Sudan, which has been ravished by genocide and internal ethnic divisions.

News

Students, staff differ on dining hall quality

A year and a half after Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall replaced New South Cafeteria as Georgetown’s main food venue, a striking difference of opinion remains between the administrators who manage the facility and the students who use it.

News

Sigma Phi Epsilon to reach Georgetown

On a campus where social fraternities are prohibited and banned from receiving University funding, the impending formation of a Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter is momentous.

News

Prospect Street fire caused by candle, cigarettes

New information has surfaced on the basement fire that destroyed 3318 Prospect St. last October and resulted in the death of Daniel Rigby (MSB ‘05).

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Mid-Season Swan Song (To the tune of The Game’s ‘Hate it or Love it’)

Sports

No-Fun-League

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports