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The Sports Sermon

He stands at 6-foot-5 and 225 chiseled pounds with a white-bread face and golden hair. He is a red-shirt senior at USC, one of the greatest college football schools of all time. His name is Carson Palmer and in past years he would have been a top-5 draft choice with his pedigree.

Features

Documenting the D.C. go-go scene

Most Georgetown students come to the District?and leave?without ever knowing that go-go, a form of music that has united three generations of black Washingtonians, exists. If not for a chance exposure, Nick Shumaker (CAS ‘01), one of the creators of The Pocket, a documentary about D.

Editorials

Uproar in North Carolina

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was sued this summer for assigning 4,200 incoming first-years and transfers a book on the Koran as part of its First Year Book program, where students write an essay about a text and participate in a group discussion.

Editorials

Asking to be written off

To the majority of Americans, talk of Washington, D.C. politics conjures one name?Marion Barry?and that name represents almost comical levels of corruption and mismanagement, overshadowing sometimes-great accomplishments. These days, Barry has for the most part left public life in the city he ran for nearly two decades, but events this summer proved his specter remains in the worst ways.

Editorials

Gimme a U, gimme an I …

To most incoming first-years, the shiny new iMac computers in Sellinger lounge and on the lower floors of ICC represent one of the many novelties of university life. They inspire a vision of grandeur: They are part of an institution on the cutting edge of technology that constantly provides up-to-date means for carrying out a quest for knowledge.

Voices

An American renaissance

In light of the War on Terrorism and growing socio-political cynicism, it’s time for our nation to embark on a cultural and political renaissance to recapture the rich tapestry of human creativity within American society. The noble quest to elevate the public’s understanding and appreciation of its particular heritage is not novel.

Voices

Misleading the American public

Cut to an an 18-year-old girl with a pale complexion. She says, “I helped kill a judge.” Cut to a young dark-skinned girl aged no more than 15. She states: “I help blow up buildings.” Cut to yet another girl who looks about 20 years old. Very proudly and without any sign of remorse, she says, “My life, my body.

Voices

For your entertainment

“You have to promise me that you won’t get six more earrings, an eyebrow ring or anything like that,” the store manager of the f.y.e. chain music store at my local mall said as she was about to hire me for the summer. “Sure,” I said smiling, picturing Ozzy Osbourne’s gratuitously tattooed forearms.

Voices

Youth is wasted on me

To an objective onlooker, it would seem that I am turning into an old man. Don’t get me wrong, my wardrobe, in response to nearly eight weeks of indentured servitude in the foreign policy community, resembles that of a misguided eighth grader/rave hooligan (I don’t know which is worse).

News

Right to Respect

Citizen organizations of Georgetown, one. Georgetown students, zero.

The D.C. Court of Appeals’ June 20 decision to deny the University’s request for stay for portions of the University’s Ten-Year Plan comes as another victory for the non-student residents of the surrounding Georgetown community who view students as negative addition to the neighborhood.

Leisure

Brothers of invention

For those of us whose late-summer cultural highlight was the premiere of Blue Crush, it is none to soon to be back in the District. A good jumping-off point for live shows this fall will be next Wednesday, Aug. 28, at the 9:30 Club, when the Soledad Brothers open for Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions.

Leisure

Summer books gone wild!

Prague by Arthur Phillips Random House, $24.99 In his posthumously published memoirs of life in 1920s Paris, Hemingway wrote, “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death.

News

GU hosts summit on Afghanistan

Georgetown University played a significant role in U.S.-Afghan relations over the summer by hosting the Afghanistan-America Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction. Top Afghan and U.S. government officials as well as U.S. policymakers and experts convened for the first time in the United States on July 24 and 25 to discuss pressing issues facing Afghanistan’s new government.

News

GOCard replaces old student ID

Georgetown University is continuing the process of fully incorporating the GOCard, a new student identification card that offers more services than the former student ID.

The old IDs will not open any campus dorms in the near future, according to Margie Bryant of the Office of Auxillary Services, which is heading the GOCard program.

Leisure

RJD2’s Deadringer: Everyone loves it but us

So-called underground hip-hop has gotten big pushes from New York’s Definitive Jux records, the home of DJ and producer RJD2. RJ has done some great work in the past; his remix of “The F-Word” pushed the envelope of Harlem rap act Cannibal Ox’ murky, moody machine funk, while “June” brought heartbreaking guitar to what was possibly Copywrite’s only introspective moment on the mic, ever.

News

UIS brings wireless networking to campus

byUniversity Information Services has upgraded technology through the purchase and installation of new computers and wireless networking at various locations around campus.

Sellinger Lounge, the public areas of ICC, Lauinger library, St. Mary’s and Dahlgren library are now equipped with wireless networks accessible through an ethernet card.

News

Search continues for administrators

Over the summer, Vice President of Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez and other Student Affairs staff began the process of filling the newly-created position of the Special Assistant to the Vice President.

The position was created in March by Gonzalez with the specific purpose of having a hired administrator to deal with the issues of the University lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

News

D.C. Court of Appeals denies GU motion to stay

The D.C. Court of Appeals denied Georgetown University’s request for a stay regarding portions of the Board of Zoning and Adjustment’s conditions for the campus Ten-Year Plan.

Despite the June 20 ruling, both students and University neighbors are optimistic about progress that has been made in the past year and the future of community relations.

Leisure

Wilco: the band, the myth, the album

In the music business, a sure way to foster interest in an artist (and thus sell records) is to build a mythology?a drama to underscore, if not transcend, the music. Typically, the most expedient way to mythologize oneself is by dying?to which still-robust catalog sales for Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake and Lynyrd Skynyrd attest.

Sports

Two unsung Hoyas to watch this season

Many Hoya athletes were racking up medals, honors and accolades this summer, and they were not all basketball players. Some of Georgetown’s unheralded stars have been busy making names for themselves in the sports world outside Healy Gates. Here are two to watch in the coming months:

Nick Cook (CAS ‘04), Men’s Golf?On Aug.

Sports

Summer slam

As I marked the days off of my calendar until NFL training camp began, I took note of some significant events in the sporting world this past summer.

The Kings-Lakers Western Conference Finals was an insta-classic. Shaq once again proved that he’s the most dominant player in the NBA, even though he fouls at least three people just walking through the locker room.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

For about a decade now, we have continued to hear about Major League Baseball’s labor woes. It seems Baseball Commissioner/Antichrist Bud Selig’s sagging mug has been on the television weekly complaining that teams are losing money, contraction must occur and that the Expos are better off in Reykjavik than Montreal.

Sports

Joe Hoya, Senior

Warning: What you are about to read might sound like the sentimental ramblings of a college senior trying to hold on to his glory days as they slowly come to an end. But it’s not.

College is an awesome time and it goes by too quickly and as a senior you will sit wondering how you got to your final year without realizing where it all went.

Sports

Former Hoyas chase NFL dreams

When one thinks about Georgetown and major professional sports, the first league that comes to mind is the NBA. In the last 20 years, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo and Allen Iverson have graced the campus and then gone on to stardom in the pros.

Features

New in town?

You could have gone to that hippie school in the middle of Iowa, where they promise you’ll have breakfast, lunch and dinner with your professors seven days a week. You know the real reason they promise that?there isn’t a damn thing to do within 80 miles. So rest assured, you made the right choice.