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Take me back to the coke orgy!

Well, seniors, we’re almost there! I can’t believe it’s been four years already! Can you? Why, it seems like only yesterday that I was standing in a stuffy and humid New South dorm room, shaking hands with a complete stranger with whom I was about to spend the next nine months.

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Baby alien Spanish

Middle-child syndrome comes in handy when you are trying to learn another language. I, like the majority of middle children, am a true pacifist and do my best to avoid discord and maintain peace wherever the possibility of conflict is brewing. This serves me well in Chile, where it is much easier to agree with people than to engage in an idea battle when armed with the verbal equivalent of a sharp toothpick.

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More trite senior reflections

I am graduating in a little more than a month. Well, technically I need to pass one class that I am now enrolled in. The issue is not really in doubt though, because the only grade is a 25-page research paper at the end of the class. It is pretty hard to fail a paper?I hope.

Features

Look for the union label: Georgetown’s wage gap

by Jennifer Ernst and Ryan Michaels

They work more or less the same job. They work in more or less the same place, separated only by Red Square. And their qualifications certainly don’t seem too different. But Luis, a gentle, courteous native of Mexico City, is earning $4 less per hour than Marta, who has been working in housekeeping and custodial services since she arrived in the United States from Nicaragua 13 years ago.

Leisure

Up, up, and away

As seems to be regularly the case this time of year, musical offerings in the Washington area over the next week largely range from inanely innocuous (The Big Wu, Dave Matthews) to the inadvisably incessant (Ani DiFranco) and on to the irredeemably intolerable (Dashboard Confessional).

Leisure

Panic Room hits buttons

Ah, the lives of rich eccentrics! With plenty of expendable capital, they’re free to do such strange things as build secret steel-clad “panic rooms” designed to protect them just in case their Upper West Side “townstones” are ever invaded. Not only does this provide some measure of security to these senile financiers, but it also serves as a fantastically convenient plot device in the new movie Panic Room.

Leisure

They got wet: Mulleted madman pleases fans

An extreme close-up of a young man’s face with long dirty hair flowing past his shoulders and copious amounts of blood streaming down his face and neck: Such is the highly controversial album cover art, and image, of Andrew W.K., the newest rock shocker to appear on the pop scene.

Leisure

Obsession, madness and murder

The opening, pre-show minutes of A Devil Inside set a mood: Anonymous skyscrapers are silhouetted against a chartreuse sky. Actors playing the plain and the pathetic do stage business in a seedy laundromat. The jangling and discordant sounds of Miles Davis’ “Pharaoh’s Dance” fill the air.

Sports

Church of baseball

“I believe in the Church of Baseball. I’ve tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.”- Annie Savoy, Bull Durham.

To many people, Holy Week is the most important week of the year.

Sports

Women’s lax still undefeated; Baseball struggles

Women’s Lacrosse (8-0, 3-0 Big East)

The No. 1 Hoyas’ women’s lacrosse team continued to dominate this week, adding two victories to their perfect record. Last night at Ludwig Field in College Park, Md., Georgetown got its first-ever win over Maryland in 12 meetings between the two teams.

Sports

Dusseau leads Men’s Lacrosse to victory

Senior attack Steve Dusseau led the Georgetown lacrosse team to victory in a 13-7 win over Bucknel, and had a career-high nine goals in yesterday’s game. The Hoyas extended their opening winning streak to seven games, the longest in Georgetown history.

Last year Georgetown played Bucknell in Lewisberg, Pa.

Sports

I’m majoring in baggy shorts

First, let’s offer our kudos to the Maryland Terrapins on their first national championship.

Congratulations, you earned it. Hope you enjoyed your riots. They looked fun.

Now that that’s out of the way, it’s time for Georgetown University to start planning for some riots of our own, or rather, our second NCAA men’s basketball championship.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

We at the Sermon are huge fans of sports malcontents because they provide hilarious fodder for us on a weekly basis. It gets even better when sports fans contribute equally to the stupidity that we enjoy lampooning. For us, it doesn’t get much better than this past week.

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Speaking of pot pourri …

J-bo Anne?The past is almost done. The future is almost here. How very profound.?D-bo

Justain & A-bo Anne?Have fun in the Rock.?Love, the Trick.

Buy a sponge, bitch!

Ma, Pup, Shepp, X, Dan and Liz?here we go again!!!?noodle

Brian’s weekly “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue” Poem Roses are red, Violets are blue, My poems are usually better, but this one will have to do.

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Announcements

Upcoming Women’s Center Events: ? GU Women Authors Series: Dr. Marcia Morris, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, will discuss her new book, The Literature of Roguery in 17th and 18th Century Russia. Monday, April 8, 7 p.m. 327 Leavey. ? Telling Her Story: Dr.

Voices

Letter to the editor

I am writing this letter in response to the Mar. 21 article, “Finding a place in Asian-America” by Andrew Lin. In it, Lin derides the Asian-American youth scene in Los Angeles and describes his (unsuccessful) attempt to escape it by enrolling at Georgetown.

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Asking for a definition

Things couldn’t get much worse for the Catholic Church. In the past few years, a spate of scholarly books have taken the ecclesiastic hierarchy to task for its abominable treatment of European Jewry during the Holocaust; similar tomes have unraveled the manufactured mythology the Church used to quell critics past and present regarding its collaboration with Italian and German fascism.

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Alpha males, alpha problems

Spring Break at Georgetown always conjures up demons, and the most recent “week of vice” was certainly no exception. As of January, reports filtered in from Hoyas near and far who were planning strange and inadvisable outings. One small band apparently flocked to the Florida Everglades for the world crocodile wrestling championships, only to head on to the body-wrestling haven of Key West-Georgetown.

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Trials and tribulations in Chilean Patagonia

My friend Helen and I are studying abroad in Santiago, Chile. During Easter, we decided to visit the Torres del Paine national park, which includes the longest vertical drop in the world. The park is extremely remote, requiring a plane trip and four buses to arrive.

News

Crime rate in area surrounding University down

Crime is down significantly in the districts surrounding Georgetown University, Lt. Brian Bray of the Metropolitan Police Department said at the Advisory Neighborood Commission meeting on Tuesday.

According to Bray, crime has decreased by 22 percent for the past year in District 206 and 15 percent in District 205, which together cover the Georgetown and Burleith area.

News

MPD prepares for D.C. protests

The Metropolitan Police Department is cancelling all leave and days off for its officers between April 19 and 23 in preparation for the thousands of protestors expected to come to the District to protest the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank scheduled for those days.

News

Getting along … really

In recent years, students typically haven’t had their best college experiences dealing with the outside community.

Neighbors have railed against student underage drinking. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, a local political body responsible for making policy around Georgetown, has made a concerted effort over the past few years to stop the annual block party.

News

Sharpton: Lack of race in politics

The Reverend Al Sharpton assailed the Democratic and Republican parties for failing to address the issue of race in Americans politics. In an address to an enthusiastic crowd in Gaston Hall on March 25, Sharpton called for increased dialogue regarding the economic, social and political inequalities that continue to plague African-American communities today.

News

Panelists discuss U.S. image abroad

“Our overwhelming strength may be a cause for resentment, but it may also be a reason for other countries to want to be with us rather than against us,” said Marjorie Ransom, moderator and project director of the panel series entitled “Talking with the Islamic World: Is the Message Getting Through?” On Tuesday, panelists discussed U.