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Improved bookstore re-opens

The Georgetown University Bookstore reopened Monday in the space directly above its normal location after closing for three days to move the site of the store in order to continue... Read more

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ANC expresses concerns over bars

The local Advisory Neighborhood Commission voted seven to one against renewing a liquor license for a local bar, Rhino Bar and Pumphouse. The ANC also voted to continue probation of... Read more

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Constitutional review continues

A committee to evaluate the current student government constitution will finalize the structure and begin an evaluation and revision of financial provisions of the new student government constitution by the... Read more

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DuBose,Walsh elected next GUSA executives

Ryan DuBose (CAS ‘02) and Brian Walsh (CAS ‘02) won the positions of Georgetown University Student Association president and vice president for the 2001-2002 school year by a margin of... Read more

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Alumnus in fatal accident

A Georgetown graduate, Kevin C. Hurley (MSB ‘00) died in a car accident last Friday morning. The accident occured at approximately 2:15 a.m. on East Basin Drive, D.C. at the... Read more

Features

The never-ending reformation

It’s the graveyard shift, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Two sophomores sit on the floor in the living room of Village B 50. The light is just beginning to filter... Read more

Voices

They come from France …

Everyone, and I mean everyone, hates the people who come back from studying abroad convinced that they have “become” Spanish or have “discovered” that they were born with a French... Read more

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Welcome Back Jack

Georgetown has a lot of adjusting to do. With the Board of Directors’ decision to elect Senior Vice President John J. DeGioia the new president of Georgetown University, the biggest... Read more

Leisure

The artistic side to Evans

Jack Evans, political animal and focus of this week’s cover story, has wedged himself into the Leisure section via the passage of the “Anti-Graffiti Amendment Act,” which he introduced to... Read more

Sports

St. John’s turns over Georgetown

Given a chance to separate itself from the middle of the pack in the Big East conference, the men’s basketball team lost to St. John’s, 73-70, last night at Madison... Read more

Leisure

Sewervivor: outshit & outlast

I was sitting in my intern “office” one day at DC-101, “the only station that really rocks,” when my eyes met a most repulsive sight. Through the window, I spotted... Read more

Leisure

Mr. Tweedy goes to Washington

It seems like such a short time ago that country music was frightfully uncool. The commercialization of Nashville in the early to mid-1990s had left us with country “stars,” people... Read more

Leisure

The Voice Interview with Neil Halsted

The guy behind me in the ticket line pegged me for a journalist at first glance. “What outfit are you with?” he asked, and I, without hesitation, responded, “The Georgetown... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Get involved: Basketball and assassins! Argh! (or other pirate noise)

Sports

The Answer

Saturday afternoon, our rivals come to town. I’m trying as hard as I can to hate them, really hate them. I’m not quite there yet. I know this, because I... Read more

Sports

Sportsview

Dale Earnhardt died Sunday at the Daytona Motor Speedway coming off of the same Turn 4 that he’d handled so many times before. His black No. 3 stockcar, an image... Read more

Sports

Get over it

Just a brief question: Is anyone else fed up with this whole “Troy Murphy is such a goofy and clever guy” phenomenon? In the media over the past few weeks,... Read more

Sports

Seniors key Rutgers victory

The men’s basketball team ended a losing streak, secured a 20-win season, stabilized its confidence and tried out some new (well, kind of) strategies and tactics on its way to... Read more

Features

You don’t know Jack

City council member Jack Evans has his office in the fortress of city bureaucracy that sits at One Judiciary Square. From here he represents Ward 2, which includes all of... Read more

Editorials

Hail to the chief

The recent appointment of John J. DeGioia to the position of University President is encouraging. If Georgetown is serious about its mission to truly become one of the world’s foremost universities, it cannot simply be content with being the best Catholic school in America. DeGioia’s appointment offers a tentative sign that the Board of Directors understands that secularizing the University need not ruin its Jesuit identity.

Editorials

Give US A Break

Of the six tickets slated to run in the upcoming elections, we feel that the Bill Jarvis/Doug Herrema ticket comes closest to meeting our criteria for suitable executives. In relative terms, their platform is more evenly balanced between concrete proposals for improvement in student life and activities, measures for student government reform and a push for fuller representation of the student body by GUSA.

News

Constitutional Convention

A Constitutional Review Committee established by student government convened for the first time Monday. The committee was organized by Georgetown University Student Association President Tawan Davis (CAS ‘01) in response... Read more

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Burleith thief identified

Metropolitan Police have a suspect for several crimes committed in the area surrounding Georgetown throughout January, according to Metropolitan Police Officer Lt. Brian Bray. Metro has identified a suspect for... Read more

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Board approves fee

The Board of Directors approved a student activities fee at a meeting last week. The fee was proposed by the Georgetown University Student Association in order to increase funding for... Read more

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Metro speaks on underage drinking

Lt. Patrick Burke of the Metropolitan Police Department and Nicole Hughes, a local attorney, spoke to students at a meeting Tuesday regarding the repercussions of underage drinking. Burke presented a... Read more