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Dirty laundry, the whites

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

The Serm’s got a fever and the only prescription is … more basketball.

News

Students declare hunger strike for a living wage

Advisory Committee fails to reach decision on workers’ salaries

News

Students learn about life on the Mexican border

While some Georgetown students spent their spring break in exotic locations around the world and some stayed on campus to study for upcoming midterms, 12 Georgetown students had the opportunity to learn and travel with the Border Awareness Experience trip in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

News

A new field for Georgetown’s athletes

Construction begins on a multi-sport facility

News

Albright addresses relief

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed the role the United States must play to improve humanitarian aid worldwide in the Third Annual Fritz Institute Lecture on Humanitarian Relief yesterday morning in Gaston Hall.

News

Adopt-a-block in Georgetown

GUSA’s Community Relations Committee launched the Adopt-A-Block program Monday with an open house for students and neighborhood residents in its mission to improve student-resident relations.

News

Yates vs. Law

Saxa Politica

News

On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

Editorials

A higher standard

The days of the stereotypically stupid student athlete may be drawing to an end.

Editorials

The University sells out

Choosing to sell the Wormley school shows that this administration still hasn’t learned the lessons of Georgetown history.

Editorials

The Middle East: A hotbed of … democracy?

Could it be that democracy has finally arrived in Lebanon?

Voices

The “nonsense” of gay marriage

“In the beginning, God created them male and female, male and female he created them” speaks the book of Genesis, the oldest book of the Bible.

Voices

Doin’ it for your country

This piece’s original intention was to valiantly defend gay marriage. Then I realized that’s what its opponents are expecting.

Voices

What would you do if you were Pope?

“What would I do if I were pope?” It’s a question we’ve all wrestled with at one point or another.

Voices

How I told my parents I got married

My parents’ visit to meet my wife’s parents should have been simple enough. It might have been, too, except for one small fact: They didn’t know that she is my wife.

Leisure

Les Choristes: the Dead Poet’s Boys Choir

Writing a review of the new French film Les Choristes is a difficult task; not only can I not pronounce a single name, the movie also seems to have borrowed every character and plot twist from at least five previous, probably better films.

Leisure

Epileptic a shaky, uncontrollable read

For a respite from reality, few things beat a good comic book.

Leisure

Nobody Knows why this movie was made

As far as movie premises go, it’s hard to beat the ingenuity of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows.

Leisure

Bloc Party, Silent Alarm, Vice

Hipsters everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. Just as they’re getting bored with the dance-rock of Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party is ready to take its place.

Leisure

The Evens, The Evens, Dischord

I met rock star, record producer, label head and certifiable legend Ian MacKaye at a show once in an abandoned school in Northeast D.C. during the wee hours of the morning.

Leisure

Chevre et al

You Taste Like a Burger – rotating column about eating leisurely

Editorials

By the Numbers

76 percent Percentage of Americans who support the public display of the Ten Commandments. 35 percent Percentage of non-Christian Americans who believe Jesus was the son of God 4 percent... Read more

Editorials

Direct Quote

“Wisdom and Guidance Edition”