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Baseball proposal forces D.C. government into extra innings

The debate over the plan to bring baseball to D.C. has culminated in a conflict over public financing after a series of sudden counter-proposals within the city council.

By the November 11, 2004

News

Differences persist over worker benefits

Cecilia Villatoro moved to the United States from El Salvador seven years ago. Six of those years she has spent in the Leavey Center of Georgetown University as a P & R Enterprises employee.

By the November 11, 2004

News

GUSA tables changes to troubled bylaws

Tuesday night, the Georgetown University Student Association considered a resolution which would streamline its electoral bylaws in order to prevent a repeat of last year’s election controversy involving campaign fines and disqualifications.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Correspondence

Letters to the Editor

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Correspondence

Asses in elephant skin In the aftermath of Bush’s reelection, I thought I’d offer a little advice to melancholy D.C. from faraway Texas. Don’t despair!?Too many people in this country need you right now.?They need your progressive commitment to healthcare, workers’ rights and the minimum wage.

By the November 11, 2004

Sports

The Sports Sermon

We at the Serm always did like the off season better. So does swimmer Michael Phelps, who was recently arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

By November 11, 2004

Sports

Just gimmie the damn microphone

It seems like all the media likes to talk about is Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens.

By the November 11, 2004

Sports

Hoya Blue looks to make more fans out of student body

Responding to the need to get students excited about Georgetown’s sports teams, Hoya Blue, a student booster organization, was founded five years ago.

By the November 11, 2004

Sports

Da’ Scoop; A recap of the week’s events

With the fall sports season coming to a close and the winter season approaching its going to be a busy few weeks in Georgetown sports.

By the November 11, 2004

Sports

Men’s soccer rolls into semi-finals, eye Big East title

The Georgetown men’s soccer team heads into Friday’s Big East semifinal looking to repeat its last performance against Seton Hall.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

2.38 million Number of Halo 2 X-Box video games sold in the United States and Canada in the first 24 hours it was on the market. $125 million Revenue earned... Read more

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Agenda bender

President George W. Bush, safely ensconced in office, is preparing to lay out his second term agenda, one most likely to be radically conservative.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Something rotten in the state of Jersey

New Jersey Democratic governor Jim McGreevey will resign on Monday in the wake of a sex scandal that erupted this summer and exposed his homosexuality to the public.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Our lavender nation

In the days following the election, we all saw maps of the United States with each state colored the way its Electoral votes were cast: red for Bush or blue for Kerry

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

Better than Marriage

A column in the Oct. 31 edition of the New York Times by music critic Kelefah Sanneh has been the subject of great debate among music critics for its attack on “rockists,” or those who have a bias towards rock over other forms of popular music.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

Resfest shorts spread digital love to D.C.

Resfest 2004, a visual and aural field day, shakes you like a Six Flags roller coaster for the eyes and ears.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

New Yorker comes to visit subscribers

Print reporters do not often have the opportunity to bask in the glow of an adoring public.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

Graphic novel Persepolis 2 puts the “see” in Farsi

It seems counterintuitive that Persepolis 2, a comic book originally published in France and written by someone born in the Axis of Evil, could win mainstream popularity and conspicuous Barnes and Noble displays.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

The Love of the Nightingale is a brutal love

Using silence onstage, particularly the silencing of women, The Love of the Nightingale initiates dialogue offstage.

By the November 11, 2004

Voices

Tales from a Kerry supporter in France

I have had the unique pleasure of being a French major during George W. Bush’s reign.

By the November 11, 2004

Voices

The six stages of Bush-based blues

Nauseous, short of breath and a little dizzy, I jumped out of bed and e-mailed a Canadian I’d met while traveling in Europe this past summer.

By the November 11, 2004

Voices

Does anyone else feel a draft in here?

I’m not worried about being drafted. I’m confident that if there is a draft and my number is called, I will be laughed out of the boardroom once they see the results of my physical examination.

By the November 11, 2004

Features

Finding Common Ground

The four-block radius in which Friedman lives-between Prospect and O streets and 33rd and 35th streets-has epitomized University-resident relations in the past year.

By the November 4, 2004

News

Students let loose pies in Red Square

Escape Coordinator Samantha Buchan and Chaz Perin (CAS ‘05) receive a pair of pies in the face as part of the A-E-Pie Throw, sponsored Wed. by AEPi, GU Black House,... Read more

By the November 4, 2004

Leisure

Avedon’s “Democracy”

“I’ve worked out of a series of ‘no’s’,” photographer Richard Avedon once said.

By the November 4, 2004