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OIP Director to leave Georgetown for CIEE

After spending the past four years at Georgetown as the Director of International Programs and leading a multi-university research project to measure the effects of study abroad on students, Dr. Michael Vande Berg will leave Georgetown in April.

News

PhD in Liberal Studies

Georgetown’s new Doctor of Liberal Studies program, a PhD degree, will accept the first 10 students ever to pursue such a degree in North America beginning in fall 2005.

News

Saddam’s chief of protocol

“It was really the republic of fear. If you whispered, just whispered, something against the regime, you were finished.”

News

Death by committee

City on a Hill: A bi-weekly column on D.C. news and politics

Voices

Do we make peace or just build fences?

When my older sister and I planned our trip to Ireland this past winter break, we couldn’t understand why our parents expressed reservations about our destination, telling us that as Catholics we would feel like second-class citizens there.

Voices

I’m so glad you asked that question!

Hunter S. Thompson did not possess all of the qualities that make a good journalist. But today’s media can learn a lot from him in at least one respect. Thompson was part of a dying breed of reporters who relished his antagonistic relationship with the political establishment, and he was never subtle.

Voices

It’s time Georgetown

Queers at Georgetown need a safe haven. It seems only natural that we would be tolerant of race, ethnicity, gender and religion. Why not sexual orientation as well?

Voices

Have sex, just not safe sex

The fact that Georgetown University would sell you the KY but not the condom makes me rethink the traditional sex debate on our campus. Sex is not taboo at Georgetown; safe sex is.

Editorials

Boxed out

Better hope you don’t get mugged anytime soon: that emergency phone you’re running to probably won’t be working because, after months of delay, the campus emergency phone system remains mostly inoperable.

Editorials

Gays and Guns do not an argument make

On Monday, the war for America’s hearts and minds over the issue of Social Security privatization began with a small Internet ad. On the left, a picture of a soldier is emblazoned with a red “x;” to the right a gay couple kissing is endorsed by a green check.

Editorials

One toke over the line

We’re going to miss you, Hunter S. Thompson.

Leisure

Born into Brothels, given a camera

In the world of filmmaking, reality is often distorted beyond recognition. And so, for truth, we turn to documentaries.

Leisure

Rembrandt-mania at the National Gallery

Rembrandt Van Rijn, a Dutch painter of the Baroque era, is best known for his ten-foot wide guild commissions featuring notable members of Amsterdam society.

Leisure

Tapioca Tea

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

Leisure

Groundbreaking Arabic play

This Week on the Hilltop – Part 1

Leisure

Donn B. Murphy One Acts

This Week on the Hilltop – Part 2

Leisure

Groove Theory shake it

This Week on the Hilltop – Part 3

Leisure

Living Wage takes on acting

This Week on the Hilltop – Part 4

Sports

Hoyas caught in Red Storm in second straight loss

The Hoyas’ tournament bandwagon lost some steam Sunday afternoon as the men’s basketball team was manhandled by host St. John’s.

Sports

So many sports, so few pages …

Baseball & Women’s Basketball

Sports

Tourney Update

Within a week, Georgetown dropped from 36th to 51st in the Ratings Percentage Index.

Sports

Slam-dud contest

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Barry Bonds came out swinging, and mostly missing, on Tuesday in his first media appearance since steroids rocked the off-season.

Editorials

By the numbers

80 percent Percentage of Major League Baseball players who use steroids, according to former player Jose Canseco. 5 percent Percentage of MLB players who use steroids, according to MLB. 50... Read more

Editorials

Direct Quotes

“Cognitive Dissonance Edition”