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Real World casting call comes to Lulu’s in D.C.

At Lulu’s Club Mardi Gras in downtown Washington, D.C. last Saturday morning, approximately 700 people waited for hours in the spring sunshine in the hopes of securing a place on the 17th season of MTV’s “The Real World.”

News

Aid unattainable for graduate internationals

Federal financial support available only for domestic students

News

Swastika in Copley

A nine-square-foot swastika was discovered in Copley Hall Thursday night.

News

Catholic Hoyas on TV

Five Georgetown students discussed Catholicism with George Stephanopoulos Sunday on the ABC News program “This Week.”

News

Healy Lawn daze

Bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news and politics

Leisure

Georgetown University Grilling Competition

GUGS with George Foreman at Grilling Competition

Voices

Publicly resenting the past

For just under 10 minutes, I had read aloud an inflammatory valedictory address that berated my high school in front of a gathering of hundreds, with a line of administrators staring at my back.

Voices

Southern-style Trucker Christianity

My brother once told me that there are only three types of people who ride Amtrak trains to North Carolina: indigent college kids like me, Southern psychos and convicts.

Voices

Sibling rivalry: the cute blonde sister who gets everything

How your role in the family determines the person you become.

Voices

It’s springtime for Hitler … who knew he had a lisp?

If Adolf Hitler were gay, would he have acted or spoken any differently?

Leisure

Ballad of Jack and Rose: Day-Lewis avoids sleeping on the couch

Chances are that Daniel Day-Lewis (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) was in for the third-degree if he turned down a part in The Ballad of Jack and Rose, written and directed by Rebecca Miller, his wife and the daughter of acclaimed playwright Arthur Miller.

Leisure

Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit fun, syphilis-tinged

Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters and paintings rode the wave of change breaking in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.

Leisure

Cilantro: not just fake weed anymore

Walking down M Street, you might catch a glimpse of a small white sign advertising Cilantro, the only tapas bar in Georgetown.

Leisure

Baking School

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

Features

Fair Play or Foul Ball?

New stadium leaves residents crying foul while city leaders remain hopeful.

Sports

Hoyas unable to quell the Storm, swept by St. John’s

After scoring 27 runs in their previous two games, Georgetown’s baseball team was held in check by St. John’s this past weekend, getting swept in a three game series at home.

Sports

Hoyas climb the Mount, return victorious, 14-10

The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team extended their winning streak to three games with a victory over Mount St. Mary’s on Wednesday.

Sports

Track puts in solid performance at Duke, looking forward to Penn

Several members of the Hoyas squad put up qualifying times for the NCAA, IC4A, ECAC and Big East.

Sports

Tyson bites off more than he can chew

A lumbering, man-eating, ancient dinosaur is headed for our fair city of Washington, D.C.

Sports

Let them drink Cristal

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

For a country that has seen its share of fan-player incidents, even the Serm was mildly shocked upon witnessing the events of the second leg of AC Milan and Inter Milan’s Champion’s League soccer quarterfinal match.

Editorials

Junked Adjunct

Outraged students are now organizing and circulating petitions, but these groups should be reevaluating the target of their attention: the adjunct professor system.

Editorials

Pro-Life? Pro-Nuance.

The sad reality is that women are still harassed and raped in our society, choices still need to be made, and a society that respects life must also support decisions that are made for a good life.

Editorials

Planning for Success

Four years can change a lot in a relationship. In the relationship between the University and the Georgetown community, four years can mean a lawsuit, a court order and, last week, the approval of a plan that will move the relationship further down the road.

Editorials

By the Numbers

$25,000-$30,000 Cost of a new car for the Department of Public Safety $4,500-$7,000 Cost of a new “Chariot” Scooter for the Department of Public Safety Priceless Cost of seeing the... Read more