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Darn-all the bathrooms

I am a simple man. Although I have the relative good fortune of living in the wealthiest state in the world and occupy a position of seemingly infinite upward mobility, my needs and desires are few. I have no use for the highly coveted bling- bling of Lexuses, flashy jewelry, high-powered video game machines or even fine dining at the District’s various five-star restaurants, though my financial station and societal privilege may one day entitle me to these things.

Voices

Ode to life

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think I don’t have her. To feel that I’ve lost her. To hear the immense night, more immense without her. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. What does it matter that my love couldn’t keep her. The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

Features

The future of music is now

A young woman with short, dyed-red hair, dressed stylishly with a hint of thrift-store nonchalance, stands confidently behind the podium among Gaston Hall’s stained-glass-and-oak-paneled grandeur. Names of great thinkers are etched on the wall behind her, and a herd of dark-suited lawyers, powerful businessmen and curious musicians sit in front of her.

Sports

NY in 2012

As I sat up in my room last night, watching the final election returns come in, realizing that our country is falling apart and that I will now have to face the first years of my post-graduate life in a conservative and semi-fascist state, I began to think to myself what positives there are for a liberal New Yorker who will return home permanently for the first time in four years this May.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s about that time in the NFL season. Names of quarterbacks become as familiar as Chapter 3, Monetary Policy, that you forgot to read for your Econ midterm tomorrow. Instead of the normal names?Stewart, Warner and Fieldler?we’re stuck with Tommy “XFL MVP” Maddox, the spicy Sage Rosenfels and the pseudo-dirty Marc Bulger.

Sports

Paulus solidifies QB position for Hoyas

Since peewee football, senior quarterback/punter David Paulus has spent countless hours on the gridiron. Now as the starting quarterback for the Georgetown Hoyas, he has led the team to its first ever Patriot League win, a 32-31 victory over Bucknell on Oct.

Sports

Hoyas throw down the iron curtain on Latvia

On Friday night, the men’s basketball team participated in its first live action of the season in an exhibition game versus the Latvia Select Team at McDonough Arena. The Hoyas shrugged off some initial rust, and by ten minutes into the game they had a comfortable 44-17 lead.

Sports

Men’s soccer battles back; women hope for NCAA

The Georgetown men’s soccer improved its Big East standing to fifth place by tying No. 1 ranked St. John’s 0-0 in a hard-fought, two-overtime battle Saturday on North Kehoe Field and defeating West Virginia 1-0 on Monday at Morgantown, W. Va.

News

Students ‘Take Back the Night’

This year’s Take Back the Night, a week-long event protesting gender violence, is expected to be a success due to a revised mission and University-wide support, according to Co-Chair of Take Back the Night Olive Goh. Support from 28 clubs and organizations as well as funding from 20 University departments reflect the widespread concern for gender-based violence on campus, she said.

News

24-hour guard proposals finalized

In a Security Committee meeting on Tuesday, students and administrators discussed a proposal to post 24-hour guards in campus dorms. Under the proposal, students would continue to work as guards during the day while professional guards would work between 12 a.

News

Nasr speaks on Islam, Christianity

George Washington University professor Seyyed Hussein Nasr spoke to an ICC Auditorium packed with both students and faculty to mark the commencement of Ramadan on Tuesday night. With an emphasis on spirituality, Nasr’s speech aimed to bridge the Muslim and Christian communities by showing the many similarities between the two religions.

News

Do they want a change?

They’re coming back again. Of the seven D.C. Mayoral and City Council offices up for grabs this past Tuesday, incumbents reclaimed all of them with overwhelming majorities. Voter turnout, however, was barely 35 percent, according to the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.

News

Honor Council changes poli

The Georgetown Honor Council has announced a new policy designed to expedite the adjudication process for students accused of an Honor System violation. Students who admit responsibility for their actions will now be able to bypass the normal hearing process and receive a recommended sanction directly.

News

Disabled students seek changes

by Chris Jarosch

Due to concerns about campus accessibility, five physically disabled students met with administrators last Friday. Coordinator of Disabled Student Services Jane Holahan documented the discussion between the students and Richard P. Payant, director of University Facilities.

News

Missing copies of The Academy returned

Hundreds of copies of The Georgetown Academy that were missing as of Sunday were found Wednesday afternoon in the Student Activities Commission office.

The Academy distributed extra copies of last May’s issue to first-year dorms on Sunday and subsequently reported hundreds missing from Village C West.

News

One of three student candidates elected to ANC

Only one of the three student candidates from Georgetown was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission on Tuesday. Mike Glick (CAS ‘05), who ran unopposed in the all student District 4, received all 77 votes cast for the ANC in that district.

In District 2, Eric Lashner (CAS ‘05) received 150 votes, 34.

Leisure

Comic relief

Calvin & Hobbes is lost in comic rerun without any chance of revival. Peanuts died with creator Charles Schultz. It’s doubtful that anyone really even reads Family Circus anymore, or if anyone ever did. The state of current comic syndication is pretty stagnant, save for a few Mutts ‘toons every now and then.

Leisure

‘Cope’-ing with success

Whether or not you’ve heard of Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, it’s likely that you will hear a lot of him in the coming months. The D.C. native’s new self-titled album has been acclaimed by the Washington Post, Rolling Stone and many others. Cope’s video for the song “If There’s Love” off his album has been in heavy rotation on M2 and is featured on the network’s new compilation.

Leisure

With New Day, Gray’s soul tires out

The year 2000 was replete with heartwarming success stories of musical perseverance: Eminem, the Faint and Radiohead all broke big after long paying their dues outside of the top 40. The real winners of that year, however, were Moby and David Gray. Both stories had a touch of romance, desperation and American (er, Irish) spirit to them, as each artist broke through, neither relying on the strength of an edgy new sound nor the wake of industry buzz and beginners luck.

Leisure

Frida keeps its plot in the gutter

Frida Kahlo was a lover, not an artist. On occasion, between bisexual liaisons and frequent battles with her unfaithful husband, she painted. This is what Julie Taymor leads audiences to believe in her new film Frida. The long-awaited biopic is a kitchen sink of non-discrimination, focusing on everything except that which is most important—the paintings.

Editorials

Metrobusted

It’s dark, cold and raining, and you are in downtown D.C. All you want to do is get back to Georgetown, but there’s no way you’re walking more than 30 blocks in weather like this. The solution? Take the bus. Although this may seem like a straightforward process, a recent survey of bus service shows that riding the Metrobus isn’t all that easy, or even that safe.

Editorials

Justice for all … even snipers

The arrest of sniper suspects John Muhammed and John Malvo at first seemed to have ended the story of violence that gripped the D.C. area for over three weeks. However, the suspects have now been linked to other crimes across the nation, leading the Justice Department to debate where the two men should first be tried.

Editorials

Hope you like dorms, kids

Starting next year, there will be no more sophomore apartment lottery, no more exiled first-years will be holed up on the first floor of Darnall, and seniors will be partying it up in Village B.

Last week, the Office of Housing and Conference Services informed undergraduates that it can now guarantee four years of on-campus housing to all interested students.

Voices

The forgotten people

The Palestinian-Israeli crisis is arguably the most divisive, hotly contested conflict of the last half-century. Centered on land sacred to Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the conflict has immense political and religious consequences and interests at stake.

Voices

The struggle for art in a corporate world

Langa is a black township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Driving into the township, coming off the exit ramp from the N2, you are greeted by a sign. A large billboard advertising Coca-Cola (certainly not a unique image in the iconographic landscape of South Africa) underlines the phrase “Welcome to Langa.