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Bright Eyes, Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

Critical Voices: Bright Eyes Edition

Editorials

Oh, SNAP! Metro takes over

Georgetown established the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program with the intention of providing an intermediary between students and the Metropolitan Police Department.

Editorials

Criminal negligence

Crime has become more visible at Georgetown and it’s time for students to stand up and do something about it.

Editorials

Making the police obey the law

There’s a simple rule to police brutality, well illustrated by the case of Rodney King: video cameras can both punish unwarranted police violence and act as a deterrent.

Editorials

By the numbers

$21,500 Amount the Bush Administration paid columnist Maggie Gallagher to promote marriage policies. $241,000 Amount the Bush Administration paid columnist Armstrong Williams to promote education policies. $0 Amount the Bush... Read more

Editorials

Direct quote

The practically fine words edition

Voices

From virgin to snob in one week

When boxed wine just won’t do

Voices

Ruby red slippers won’t cut it Ruby red slippers won’t cut it Ruby red slippers won’t cut it

It turns out there is no place like home … and that’s not always a good thing

Voices

When mentoring gets too close for comfort

Carrying On- a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

Pomegranates, mangoes and a train of thought

I could eat 100 kiwis a day, but they would always be green. With envy, for they know of my love for mangoes.

Sports

ROY! ROY, ROY, ROY!: Hibbert dunk sinks Irish to bottom of bottle

Tuesday night’s solid win over St. John’s was a critical victory for the Georgetown men’s basketball team, which is looking more likely to be around come March.

Sports

Good Woods

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Numerous Philly haters have approached the Serminator after the Eagles herded, corralled and branded Michael Vick and the Falcons on Sunday.

Features

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Georgetown has experienced a rash of crime over the last few months. Is this indicative of a broader trend?

News

Metro Police to tackle terrorism prevention

Local businesses, institutions to participate in Operation TIPP

News

Students can no longer profit from meal plans

Dining Services learns to hinder meal plan manipulation

News

Bush dissenters protest second inauguration

“Counter-inaugural” events attended by thousands

News

Asian Studies, STIA hold forum on tsunami impact

With 280,000 confirmed dead on two continents and in 11 countries, the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on Dec. 26 has left the region with the possibility of unforetold socioeconomic, political and environmental ramifications.

News

Roe v. Wade ignored

The 32nd anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade passed Georgetown quietly by on Jan. 22.

News

Jewish-Catholic relations

In a Marc Chagall painting discussed during Professor Jeremy Cohen’s lecture, “Contemplating the Cross: Jews React to the Crucifixion, from the Gospels to Gibson,” burning Jewish villages and Jews fleeing persecution surround the image of Jesus Christ hanging on a white cross.

News

College awards faculty

Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences presented awards to three professors at the annual Georgetown College Faculty Convocation held in McNeir Auditorium on Tuesday.

Dean Jane McAuliffe gave the Award for Excellence in Teaching to History Professor Carol Ann Benedict, Chemistry Professor Angel C.

Editorials

India on … $40,000 a year?

The Office of International Programs (OIP) has found a way to squeeze every last penny it can out of Georgetown students.

Editorials

Asking and Telling in Arabic

At a time when the U.S. direly needs to communicate in the Middle East, it’s time to choose between discrimination and safeguarding that nation.

Editorials

Taking security seriously (for once)

There’s something surprisingly encouraging about hearing that the Department of Defense has been scoping out possible WMD sites in Iran.